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51460 every [[English]] ipa :/ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi/[Alternative forms] - ev'ry, ev’ry (poetic) - euery (obsolete) - e'ry (colloquial) [Anagrams] - veery, verye, y'ever [Antonyms] - no - none [Determiner] every 1.All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception. Every person in the room stood and cheered. 2.1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. 3.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness&#x3b; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands. 4.2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth. 5.Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing. We stopped for refreshments every ten miles. The alarm is going off every few minutes. Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue. The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc. Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit&#x3b; that is, ten per cent of soldiers were killed. 6.(with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something. We wish you every happiness in the future. I have every confidence in him. There is every reason why we should not go. The police will make every effort to trace the missing girl. [Etymology] Inherited from Middle English every, everich, eaver-euch, averiche, aver alche, ever ælche, from Old English ǣfre ǣlċ, ǣfre ǣġhwelċ (“each and every”), equivalent to ever +‎ each and/or ever +‎ which. [See also] - all - each - Thesaurus:quantifier [Synonyms] - each [[Middle English]] [Adjective] every 1.Alternative form of everich 2.1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer&#x3b; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto: Whan that Auerill wt his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath ꝑced to the roote / And bathed euery veyne in swich lycour / Of which v̄tu engendred is the flour […] When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in fluid such that / with its power, the flower is made […] 0 0 2009/02/03 14:07 2024/02/20 18:04
51461 hype [[English]] ipa :/haɪp/[Etymology 1] Clipping of hyperbole. [Further reading] - hype (marketing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Jonathon Green (2024), “hype n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Jonathon Green (2024), “hype n.2”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Jonathon Green (2024), “hype v.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Jonathon Green (2024), “hype adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang [[Finnish]] ipa :/ˈhype/[Etymology] From English hype. [Further reading] - “hype”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02 [Noun] hype 1.(colloquial or jargon) hype [[Old English]] ipa :/ˈxy.pe/[Etymology] From Proto-West Germanic *hupi. [Noun] hype m 1.hip [[Polish]] ipa :/xajp/[Alternative forms] - hajp (adapted) [Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English hype. [Further reading] - hype in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Noun] hype m inan 1.(slang, marketing) hype [+ na (accusative) = for what] [+ wokół (genitive) = around/surrounding what] Coordinate term: moda [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈʁajp/[Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English hype. [Noun] hype m or f (plural hypes) 1.(colloquial) hype (exaggerated excitement or enthusiasm around something) 0 0 2010/02/09 10:37 2024/02/20 18:05 TaN
51462 option [[English]] ipa :/ˈɒpʃən/[Anagrams] - potion [Etymology] From French option, from Latin optiō (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“I choose, select”). Equivalent to opt +‎ -ion. [Further reading] - “option”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “option”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [Noun] option (plural options) 1.One of a set of choices that can be made. [from 19th c.] 2.2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎[1]: Luiz struggled with the movement of Helguson in the box, as he collected a long ball and the Spaniard barged him over, leaving referee Chris Foy little option but to point to the spot. 3.2012 January, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist‎[2], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 8 January 2012, page 74: Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control. 4.The freedom or right to choose. 5.(finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile. [from mid-18th c.] 6.(law, uncountable) The acquiring or retention of a nationality through personal choice as a right, bypassing selective legal mechanisms for naturalization, especially in cases where a territory is transferred or passed on from one state to another. 7.1928, Appeal to the Noble English Nation by the Committee of the Defenders of the Rights of Palestinian Arab Emigrants to the Palestinian Citizenship, page 10: At that time every emigrant who was made aware of such a notification submitted his application for option to the British Consuls within the period prescribed. 8.1998, Venice Commission, Consequences of State Succession for Nationality, →ISBN, page 45: A right of option, mostly in favour of the nationality of the predecessor State, has been accorded in most cases of partial State succession, either by treaty or by domestic legislation. 9.2012, Oliver W. Vonk, Dual Nationality in the European Union: A Study on Changing Norms […], →ISBN, page 243, note 154: This group constitutes around 9 percent of the total number of acquisitions of Dutch nationality through option. [Synonyms] - alternative - choice - possibility - See also Thesaurus:option [Verb] option (third-person singular simple present options, present participle optioning, simple past and past participle optioned) 1.To purchase an option on something. [from 20th c.] The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it. 2.(computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option. 3.1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy: The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing. [[Finnish]] [Anagrams] - opinto, opinto- [Noun] option 1.genitive singular of optio [[French]] ipa :/ɔp.sjɔ̃/[Etymology] Borrowed from Latin optiōnem (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“to choose, select”). [Further reading] - “option”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] option f (plural options) 1.option 0 0 2009/02/03 14:39 2024/02/20 18:06
51463 crop [[English]] ipa :/kɹɒp/[Anagrams] - COPR, CPOR, Copr., Corp, Corp., RCPO, corp, corp., proc [Etymology 1] From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). CognatesCognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Icelandic kroppur (“a hunch on the body”). Related to crap, doublet of group and croup. [Etymology 2] From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Old English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1. [Further reading] - “crop”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - “crop”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - crop (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - crop (implement) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - cropping (image) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [References] 1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Crop”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC. 0 0 2010/09/29 16:34 2024/02/20 18:07
51464 executive [[English]] ipa :/ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɪv/[Adjective] executive (comparative more executive, superlative most executive) 1.Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect. 2.Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc. executive act an executive officer executive government 3.Exclusive. an executive bathroom [Alternative forms] - exe., exec., execu. [Derived terms] - account executive - chief executive - chief executive officer, CEO - compact executive car - corporate executive - executive agreement - executive ball clicker - executive box - executive branch - executive class - executive committee - executive contour - executive decision - executive director - executive ego function - executive fallout - executive function - executively - executive mansion - executive officer - executive order - executive privilege - executive produce - executive-produce - executive producer - executive summary - executive toy - non-executive, nonexecutive  [Etymology] From Middle French executif, from Latin executivus. [Noun] executive (plural executives) 1.A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority. 2.The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state. 3.(computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor. 4.1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft executive was developed providing automatic failure detection and recovery […] 0 0 2009/06/01 13:26 2024/02/20 18:07 TaN
51465 executive order [[English]] [Noun] executive order (plural executive orders) 1.(law, chiefly US) An ordinance issued on the authority of the head of the executive branch of government. [References] - “executive order”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. - “executive order”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. - "order" at Law.com Dictionary [See also] - order-in-council - presidential memoranda 0 0 2021/07/13 08:08 2024/02/20 18:07 TaN
51468 oversee [[English]] ipa :/əʊvə(ɹ)siː/[Anagrams] - see over [Etymology] From Middle English overseen, ouverseen, from Old English ofersēon (“to observe, oversee; to overlook, neglect”), equivalent to over- +‎ see. [See also] - overlook - overwatch [Verb] oversee (third-person singular simple present oversees, present participle overseeing, simple past oversaw, past participle overseen) (transitive) 1.(literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle. 2.(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group. Synonym: superintend It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds. 3.2022 February 9, Tom Allett, “The BTP's eyes and ears in the air”, in RAIL, number 950, page 50: Based at BTP's London headquarters, Russell's team of three full-timers in the drone unit are responsible for overseeing the safety of drones in support of police officers. 4.To inspect, examine Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers. 5.(obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore. 6.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away&#x3b; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee. 7.To observe secretly or unintentionally. 0 0 2012/05/30 21:49 2024/02/20 18:08 TaN
51469 have [[English]] ipa :/hæv/[Anagrams] - evah [Etymology 1] From Middle English haven, from Old English habban (“to have”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have”), durative of *habjaną (“to lift, take up”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, present tense of *keh₂p- (“to take, seize, catch”). Related to heave.Since there is no common Indo-European root for a transitive possessive verb have (notice that Latin habeō is not etymologically related to English have), Proto-Indo-European probably lacked the have structure. Instead, the third person forms of be were used, with the possessor in dative case, compare Latin mihi est / sunt, literally to me is / are.[2]cognatesCognate with Saterland Frisian hääbe (“to have”), West Frisian hawwe (“to have”), Dutch hebben (“to have”), Afrikaans hê (“to have”), Low German hebben, hewwen (“to have”), German haben (“to have”), Danish have (“to have”), Swedish hava (“to have”), Norwegian Nynorsk ha (“to have”), Icelandic hafa (“to have”), Albanian kap (“I grab, catch, grip”),[3][4] Latin capiō (“take”, verb), Russian хапать (xapatʹ, “to seize”). [Etymology 2] From have on (“to deceive”). [[Danish]] ipa :/ˈhaːvə/[Etymology 1] From Old Norse hagi, from Proto-Germanic *hagô, cognate with Norwegian hage, Swedish hage, English haw, German Hag, Dutch haag. [Etymology 2] From Old Norse hafa (“to have, wear, carry”), from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, hold”), cognate with English have, German haben. The Germanic words are from Proto-Indo-European *kap- and are not related to Latin habeō. [Etymology 3] See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[Dutch]] [Etymology] From Middle Dutch have, derived from the verb hebben (“to have”). [Noun] have f (plural haven) 1.property, possession [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈha.u̯e/[Interjection] have 1.Alternative spelling of ave (“hail!”) [[Middle English]] [Verb] have 1.Alternative form of haven (“to have”) [[Norman]] [Etymology] Borrowed from Old Norse háfr (“net”), from Proto-Germanic *hēb-, *hēf-, an ablaut form of *hafjaną (“to have; take; catch”). Related to English dialectal haaf (“a pock-net”). [Noun] have f (plural haves) 1.(Jersey) shrimp net [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Alternative forms] - hava (a and split infinitives) - ha [Etymology] From Old Norse hafa, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have”), durative of Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift, take up”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, seize, catch”). [Verb] have (present tense hev, past tense havde, past participle havt, passive infinitive havast, present participle havande, imperative hav) 1.(pre-2012) alternative form of ha [[Swedish]] [Etymology] Likely unadapted borrowing from Danish have. [Noun] have c 1.(obsolete Halland dialect) Synonym of hage (“pasture”) [[Tarantino]] [Verb] have 1.third-person singular present indicative of avere [[Yola]] [References] - Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 102 [Verb] have 1.Alternative form of ha 2.1867, “THE BRIDE'S PORTION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 102: A portion ich gae her, was (it's now ich have ee-tolth) The portion I gave her was (it's now I have told) 3.1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 102: Neen chickès have hea ee-left vatherless. Nine chickens has he left fatherless. 0 0 2009/01/10 03:45 2024/02/20 18:09 TaN
51470 behind [[English]] ipa :/bɪˈhaɪnd/[Adjective] behind (comparative more behind or (rare or nonstandard) behinder, superlative most behind or (rare or nonstandard) behindest) 1.Not advanced to the required or expected degree; overdue or in arrears. I'm very behind in my schedule. My employer is two paychecks behind on paying my salary. 2.(of a watch or clock) Slow. My watch is behind by four minutes. [Adverb] behind (comparative more behind or (rare or nonstandard) behinder, superlative most behind or (rare or nonstandard) behindest) 1.At or in the rear or back part of something. The water flows out through the pipe, and the sediment collects behind. 2.In a rearward direction. We ran and ran, without once looking behind. 3.So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc. The slower runners were left a long way behind. In the cricket match, England finished a long way behind. The worst thing about autumn is that winter follows behind. 4.1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: I shall not lag behind. 5.So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist. I couldn't be bothered to carry the ironing board, so I left it behind. He stayed behind after the war. He left behind a legacy of death and sorrow. The island was inundated by the sea, leaving not a trace behind. 6.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]: Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind. 7.Backward in time or order of succession; past. 8.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 3:13: […] forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before 9.Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage. 10.1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 68: ‘After the performance was over I went behind, and spoke to her.’ 11.(archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. 12.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 4, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 16: We cannot be sure that there is no evidence behind. [Alternative forms] - ahind (dialect) - behine (archaic, AAVE) [Etymology] From Middle English behinde, behinden, from Old English behindan (“on the back side of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihindan, *bihindini (“on the back side of, in the rear of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bi- + *hindō (“the hind side, back part”), equivalent to be- +‎ hind. Compare Old Saxon bihindan (“behind”, adverb), Middle High German behinter (“behind; back”). [Noun] behind (plural behinds) 1.The rear, back-end. This part fits under the behind of the vehicle. She sneaked up on me from behind. 2.(informal) The buttocks, bottom, butt. I was stung on the behind by a wasp. 3.2010, Mary Roach, “One Furry Step for Mankind: The Strange Careers of Ham and Enos”, in Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 158: "So the catheter didn't have anything to do with keeping him from touching himself?" I don't usually go in for euphemisms, but Fineg is a man who says "behind", as in "I have a picture where he bit me in the behind." The catheter, it turns out, was in the chimp's femoral artery (to monitor blood pressure), not his urethra. 4.2011 December 12, Alyssa Newcomb, “Sit, Stay, Aim, Fire. Dog Shoots Another Hunter”, in ABC News‎[2], archived from the original on 25 October 2021: "The dog got excited, was jumping around inside the boat and then it jumped on the gun. It went off, shooting the [decoy setter] in the buttocks," Box Elder County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Kevin Potter told the Salt Lake Tribune. Twenty-seven rounds of birdshot were removed from the man's behind after the accident. 5.(Australian rules football) A one-point score. 6.1880, “The Opening Ball”, in G. Lehmann, editor, Comic Australian Verse, 1975, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, published 1985, →ISBN: A roar from ten thousand throats go up, For we've kicked another behind. 7.(baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher. 8.In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal). [Preposition] behind 1.At or to the back or far side of. The children were hiding behind the wall. The sun went behind the clouds. Look behind you! 2.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage&#x3b; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them. 3.2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements. Synonyms: (US) in back of, to the rear of, (Chester) a-back Antonym: in front of 1.(figuratively) Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise). Behind the smile was a cruel intention. 2.(figuratively) In the past, from the viewpoint of. All my problems are behind me.Less forward or advanced than; after. Antonym: ahead of 1.After in physical progress or distance. Smith finished the race a lap behind the others. 2.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island: About the center, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed — I tethered by my rope […]. 3.After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to. I'm ranked sixth in the French class, behind five other pupils. In the cricket match, England are 120 runs behind India. 4.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 11:5: For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 5.After in time. London is nine hours behind Tokyo.Responsible for, being the creator or controller of. Who is behind these terrorist attacks? Mr Jones was the man behind the redevelopment plan. - 2023, Ian Miller, OutKick‎[1]: Bud Light replaces Marketing VP behind Dylan Mulvaney partnership.Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of. What is behind this unexpected decision?In support of. The republicans are fully behind their candidate.(sometimes regarded as nonstandard, US, informal) Following, subsequent to; as a result or consequence of. - 2012, DeShawn Dorsey, Longsuffering Through Emotional Wounds, page 40: He was like, 'Fuck the police! Fuck you! You know who I am, you gonna quit playing with me, bitch.' I'm like let's go. 'Cause I wasn't trying to go to jail behind that shit. [References] - “behind”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “behind”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8 [Related terms] - hind - hiney 0 0 2009/02/25 22:17 2024/02/20 18:09
51473 right [[English]] ipa :/ˈɹaɪt/[Alternative forms] - ryght (obsolete) - reight (Yorkshire, eye dialect) - rite (informal) [Anagrams] - girth, grith [Etymology 1] From Middle English right, from Old English riht (“right,” also the word for “straight” and “direct”), from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“having moved in a straight line”), from *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct”). An Indo-European past participle, it became a Germanic adjective which has been used also as a noun since the common Germanic period. Cognate with West Frisian rjocht, Dutch recht, German recht and Recht, Swedish rätt and rät, Danish ret, Norwegian Bokmål rett, Norwegian Nynorsk rett, and Icelandic rétt. The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ὀρεκτός (orektós) and Latin rēctus; Albanian drejt was borrowed from Latin. [Etymology 2] From Middle English right, righte, from Old English rihte, rehte (“right; rightly; due; directly; straight”), from Proto-Germanic *rehta, from *rehtaz (“right; straight”). [Etymology 3] From Middle English right, righte, reght, reghte, riȝt, riȝte, from Old English riht, reht, ġeriht (“that which is right, just, or proper; a right; due; law; canon; rule; direction; justice; equity; standard”), from Proto-West Germanic *reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtą (“a right”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵt- (“to straighten; direct”). Cognate with Dutch recht (“a right; privilege”), German Recht (“a right”), Danish ret (“a right”). [Etymology 4] From Middle English righten, reghten, riȝten, from Old English rihtan, ġerihtan (“to straighten, judge, set upright, set right”), from Proto-West Germanic *rihtijan, from Proto-Germanic *rihtijaną (“to straighten; rectify; judge”). [Further reading] - “right”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - “right”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [[Middle English]] ipa :/rixt/[Adjective] right (plural and weak singular righte, comparative rightre, superlative rightest) 1.Straight; not crooked or bent. 2.On the or at the right (as opposed to left) 3.Morally or legally correct or justified. 4.Real, genuine, authentic, true. 5.Natural, undisturbed. [Alternative forms] - reȝt, riȝte, riȝt, ryȝt, ryght, righte, riht [Etymology] From Old English riht. [Noun] right (plural rightes) 1.A good deed; a right action. 2.A just or equitable action. 3.A law, ruling, judgement or rule. 4.A right, entitlement or privilege. 5.Truth, correctness. 6.right (direction; as opposed to the left) [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈrait/[Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English right fielder. [Noun] right m (plural rights) 1.(baseball) right fielder 0 0 2010/03/12 16:03 2024/02/20 18:09 TaN
51474 forensics [[English]] ipa :/fəˈɹɛn.zɪks/[Noun] forensics (uncountable) 1.the study of formal debate; rhetoric 2.forensic science 0 0 2018/12/12 09:26 2024/02/20 18:10 TaN
51475 digital forensics [[English]] [Noun] digital forensics (uncountable) 1.(forensics) The analysis of digital media to detect forgery or manipulation. 0 0 2024/02/20 18:10 TaN
51477 space [[English]] ipa :/speɪs/[Anagrams] - -scape, EAPCs, EPACs, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, scape [Etymology] From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas et al., and spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”). [Noun] space (countable and uncountable, plural spaces) 1.(heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise. 1.Distance between things. [from 14thc.] Synonyms: break, gap; see also Thesaurus:interspace 2.c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 347, column 2: But neere him, thy Angell / Becomes a feare: as being o're-powr'd, therefore / Make ſpace enough betweene you. 3.2001 November 3, Sam Wollaston, “Russian around”, in The Guardian‎[1]: Which means that for every car there was 10 years ago, there are now 40. Which means - and this is my own, not totally scientific, calculation - that the space between cars on the roads in 1991 was roughly 39 car lengths, because today there is no space at all. 4.Physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something). [from 14thc.] Synonyms: area, volume 5.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 364, column 1: O God, I could be bounded in a nutſhell, and / count my ſelfe a King of infinite ſpace&#x3b; were it not that / I haue bad dreames. 6.2007 May 12, Dominic Bradbury, “Lost and found - an artist's voyage from city to country”, in The Guardian‎[2]: They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working. 7.Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this. [from 17thc.] 8.1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, section II: Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply. 9.1880 August, Popular Science: These are not questions which can be decided by reference to our space intuitions, for our intuitions are confined to Euclidean space, and even there are insufficient, approximative. 10.2007 April 15, Anushka Asthana, David Smith, The Observer: The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time. 11.The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. [from 17thc.] Synonym: outer space the first man in space 12.1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 86–90: How firſt began this Heav'n which we behold / Diſtant ſo high, with moving Fires adornd / Innumerable, and this which yeelds or fills / All ſpace, the ambient Aire wide interfus'd / Imbracing round this florid Earth, […] 13.1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC: After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition. 14.2010 August 9, Stephen Hawking, quotee, “Stephen Hawking: mankind must colonise space or die out”, in The Guardian‎[3]: The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today. 15.The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom. [from 20thc.] 16.1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only: Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space. 17.2008, Jimmy Treigle, Walking on Water: "I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not&#x3b; but right now I need my space."(heading) Of time. 1.(now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. [from 14thc.] Synonyms: leisure time, spare time 2.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 245, column 2: Come on, thou are granted ſpace. 3.1793, Henry Boyd, “The Royal Message”, in Poems‎[4], Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, page 408: In two days hence / The Judge of life and death aſcends his ſeat. / —This will afford him ſpace to reach the camp […]. 4.A specific (specified) period of time. [from 14thc.] Synonyms: duration, span; see also Thesaurus:period 5.1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey: I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child. 6.2007 October 20, Andy Bull, “We wozn't robbed!”, in The Guardian‎[5]: The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so. 7.2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport: But their lead lasted just 10 minutes before Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe both headed home in the space of two minutes to wrestle back control. 8.An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while. [from 15thc.] Synonyms: spell, while; see also Thesaurus:uncertain period 9.1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “(please specify the page)”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1979, →ISBN: Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.(heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise. 1.A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. [from 14thc.] 2.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either. 3.2000, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender: The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard. 4.2012 July 16, Charlotte Higgins, “Tate Modern unlocks Tanks – and introduces live art into mainstream”, in The Guardian‎[6]: Converted from vast chambers beneath the old Bankside Power Station which once held a million gallons of oil, the new public areas consist of two large circular spaces for performances and film installations, plus a warren of smaller rooms. 5.(music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. [from 15thc.] 6.1849, Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, translated by John Pyke Hullah, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing: The note next above Sol is La&#x3b; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space&#x3b; Si, on the 3rd line, &c. 7.1990, Sammy Nzioki, Music Time: The lines and spaces of the staff are named according to the first seven letters of the alphabet, that is, A B C D E F G. 8.A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap. [from 16thc.] Synonyms: blank, gap, (graphic design) whitespace 9.1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation: According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words). 10.2005, Dr BR Kishore, Dynamic Business Letter Writing: It should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items. 11.(letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad). [from 17thc.] Synonyms: quad, quadrat 12.1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing.‎[7], volume 2, pages 240–1: If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thruſts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing thoſe Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space&#x3b; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ſtand Looſe in the Form&#x3b; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little&#x3b; which bowing makes the Letters on each ſide of the Space keep their parallel diſtance&#x3b; for by its Spring it thruſts the Letters that were cloſed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no cloſing. 13.1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, page 110: Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces. 14.2005, Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd edition, page 91: Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines. 15.A gap; an empty place. [from 17thc.] 16.2004, Harry M Benshoff, editor, Queer Cinéma: Mainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir. 17.2009, Barbara L. Lev, From Pink to Green: A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be. 18.(geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates. 19.(countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space). [from 20thc.] Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory. 20.(countable, figuratively) A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour. innovation in the browser space 21.2019, Ryan Derousseau, The Everything Guide to Investing in Cryptocurrency […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 269: CNBC has shown a greater commitment to the crypto space than most other mainstream outlets, providing daily updates on bitcoin or other very large cryptocurrencies. 22.2020, Alexia Moncrieff, Expertise, Authority and Control, Cambridge University Press, page 187: [T]hey became responsible for managing aspects of civilian labour in the medical space, and their roles were contrasted with those of the female physiotherapists in the hospital. 23.Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room. 24.2007, Jacob van Kokswijk, Digital Ego: Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Identity, page 88: Communication in Internet chat spaces allows participants to communicate so freely in the relative safety of anonymity that they forget their privacy. [Verb] space (third-person singular simple present spaces, present participle spacing, simple past and past participle spaced) 1.(obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander. 2.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii: But she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space. 3.(transitive) To set some distance apart. Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill. The cities are evenly spaced. 4.To insert or utilise spaces in a written text. This paragraph seems badly spaced. 5.To space out (become distracted, lose focus). 6.(transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit. The captain spaced the traitors. 7.1952, Robert A. Heinlein, The Rolling Stones: Sound effect of blow with blunt instrument, groan, and the unmistakable cycling of an air lock—Castor: "Sorry, folks. My assistant has just spaced Mr. Rudolf. […] " 8.1995, J. Michael Straczynski, And Now for a Word (Babylon 5), season 2, episode 15, spoken by Dr. Stephen Franklin (Richard Biggs): A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will. 9.(intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space. 10.1947 January, Bernard I. Kahn, “Command”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 38, number 5: He well remembered, when he was a junior officer, how the sight of a well dressed, impeccably neat commanding officer, no matter how long they had been spacing, maintained the enthusiasm, confidence and morale of the officers and men. [[Old French]] [Noun] space oblique singular, m (oblique plural spaces, nominative singular spaces, nominative plural space) 1.Alternative form of espace 0 0 2021/06/22 22:08 2024/02/20 18:11 TaN
51478 space out [[English]] [Anagrams] - outpaces, paces out, saucepot [Verb] space out (third-person singular simple present spaces out, present participle spacing out, simple past and past participle spaced out) 1.(transitive) To position (objects, people etc.) at regular intervals with a calculated space between them. 2.2022 October 5, Lauren Harby, “What We Know About Celine Dion's Health Battle”, in The List‎[1]: Dion's first Las Vegas residency […] went on from 2003 to 2007, with a total of 714 shows […] [Her] second residency was more spaced out, with 427 shows. This allowed Dion to tour internationally during the pockets of time when she wasn't performing in Vegas. 3.(intransitive, idiomatic) To become distracted or disoriented; to lose attention or focus. Synonyms: daydream, tune out, zone out 4.1999, Mike Judge, Office Space (motion picture), spoken by Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston): Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. 0 0 2024/02/20 18:11 TaN
51480 fall back on [[English]] [Verb] fall back on (third-person singular simple present falls back on, present participle falling back on, simple past fell back on, past participle fallen back on) 1.(transitive) To turn to as a substitute; to rely on as a backup. 2.2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club‎[1]: Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating. 3.1907, Bertrand W Sinclair, Raw Gold: So I fell back on the simple methods of the plainsman and Indian and jogged along on their trail. 0 0 2024/02/20 18:12 TaN
51481 fall back [[English]] [Anagrams] - backfall [See also] - fall back, fall edge - fall back on, fall back upon - spring forward, fall back [Synonyms] - (retreat): ebb, ebb away, recede, retreat [Verb] fall back (third-person singular simple present falls back, present participle falling back, simple past fell back, past participle fallen back) 1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall,‎ back. 2.To retreat. 3.To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose. 4.To turn the clocks back for daylight saving time. 0 0 2021/04/23 10:02 2024/02/20 18:12 TaN
51482 fall-back [[English]] [Anagrams] - backfall [Noun] fall-back (plural fall-backs) 1.Alternative form of fallback 0 0 2021/04/23 10:02 2024/02/20 18:12 TaN
51483 to-fall [[English]] [Anagrams] - fall to [Noun] to-fall (plural to-falls) 1.Alternative form of tofall [References] - “to-fall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. 0 0 2021/12/07 11:44 2024/02/20 18:12 TaN
51484 fall on [[English]] [Anagrams] - lolfan, onfall [Verb] fall on (third-person singular simple present falls on, present participle falling on, simple past fell on, past participle fallen on) 1.To experience; to suffer; to fall upon. With the rise of the Internet, some media fell on hard times. 2.2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3: Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake!) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government. 3.To be assigned to; to acquire a new responsibility, duty or burden. This decision is important, and it falls on you to make it. 4.(of a holiday or event) To occur on a particular day. The first day of spring this year will fall on a Tuesday. 5.Of the eyes or gaze: to alight upon. 0 0 2021/10/06 12:57 2024/02/20 18:12 TaN
51485 Fall [[English]] [Proper noun] the Fall 1.(theology) The sudden fall of humanity into a state of sin, as brought about by the transgression of Adam and Eve. [from 14th c.]Fall (plural Falls) 1.A surname. [[East Central German]] [Etymology] Compare German Fell. [Further reading] - 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40: [Noun] Fall n 1.(Erzgebirgisch) fur, pelt 2.(Erzgebirgisch) hide [[German]] ipa :/fal/[Etymology 1] From Middle High German val, from Old High German fal, from Proto-West Germanic *fall. Cognate with Dutch val, English fall. The sense “case” in all its shapes is a calque of Latin casus. [Etymology 2] Borrowed from Low German [Term?]. [Further reading] - “Fall, stürzen, hinfallen, Sache” in Duden online - “Fall, Tau, Seil” in Duden online - “Fall” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [[Luxembourgish]] ipa :/fal/[Etymology] From Old High German val. [Noun] Fall m (plural Fäll) 1.case, situation, circumstance [[Pennsylvania German]] [Etymology 1] From Middle High German val, from Old High German fal, from Proto-West Germanic *fall. Compare German Fall, Dutch geval. [Etymology 2] Compare German Falle, Dutch val. 0 0 2009/04/03 13:17 2024/02/20 18:12 TaN
51486 cookery [[English]] ipa :/ˈkʊkəɹi/[Etymology 1] From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook +‎ -ery. 0 0 2024/02/20 18:13 TaN
51487 Taylor [[English]] ipa :/ˈteɪlɚ/[Etymology] From tailor. [Proper noun] Taylor (plural Taylors) 1.An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a tailor. 2.A unisex given name transferred from the surname. 3.2001, Paul Theroux, Hotel Honolulu, page 206: "I wanted to call her Taylor, but my husband said no," Sweetie was telling one of the Christmas party guests. "Taylor means a tailor," I said. "It seems inauspicious. Like calling her Cobbler." "That's a kind of drink," said Nani. 4.(rare) A surname from Irish [in turn originating as an occupation], an anglicization of Táilliúir (“tailor”).Taylor 1.A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; named for architect Florence Mary Taylor. 2.A district municipality in Peace River Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; named for trapper Herbert Taylor. 3.A locale in the United States: 1.A town in Geneva County and Houston County, Alabama; named for an early settler family. 2.A town in Navajo County, Arizona; named for John Taylor, 3rd President of the LDS Church. 3.A minor city in Columbia County, Arkansas. 4.An unincorporated community in Union Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. 5.An unincorporated community in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. 6.An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland. 7.A city in Wayne County, Michigan; named for Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States. 8.A town in Lafayette County, Mississippi; named for early settler John Taylor. 9.A village, the county seat of Loup County, Nebraska; named for early settler Ed Taylor. 10.A town in Cortland County, New York; named for Zachary Taylor. 11.A minor city in Stark County, North Dakota; named for railroad official David R. Taylor. 12.An unincorporated community in Beckham County, Oklahoma; named for postmaster Jeremiah H. Taylor. 13.An unincorporated community in Cotton County, Oklahoma; named for local merchant John Taylor. 14.A borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. 15.A city in Williamson County, Texas; named for railroad official Edward Moses Taylor. 16.An unincorporated community in Weber County, Utah. 17.A ghost town in King County, Washington. 18.An unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia. 19.A village in Jackson County, Wisconsin. 20.A census-designated place in Lincoln County, Wyoming. 21.A number of townships in the United States, listed under Taylor Township. [Synonyms] - (surname meaning "tailor"): Snyder [[French]] ipa :/tɛj.lɔʁ/[Etymology] Borrowed from English Taylor. [Proper noun] Taylor m or f 1.a surname from English 2.a unisex given name from English, of modern usage 0 0 2024/02/20 18:13 TaN
51488 Common [[English]] [Etymology 1] Probably a variant of Cumming or a reduced form of McCommon. [Further reading] - Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Common”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 358. 0 0 2021/08/06 09:18 2024/02/20 18:14 TaN
51489 boundless [[English]] [Adjective] boundless (comparative more boundless, superlative most boundless) 1.Without bounds, unbounded. 2.1785, William Cowper, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper […] To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 221351486; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787, OCLC 23630717, page 87: 'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop. [Antonyms] - limited [Etymology] bound +‎ -less [Synonyms] - bottomless, extentless, limitless, unbottomed, unbounded; see also Thesaurus:infinite 0 0 2016/05/06 11:51 2024/02/20 18:17
51490 instilled [[English]] [Anagrams] - tellinids [Verb] instilled 1.simple past and past participle of instill 0 0 2012/10/21 15:28 2024/02/20 18:17
51491 instill [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈstɪl/[Alternative forms] - (UK) instil [Etymology] Borrowed from Latin instillō. [Verb] instill (third-person singular simple present instills, present participle instilling, simple past and past participle instilled) 1.To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature. It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age. 2.To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop. 0 0 2009/07/14 19:13 2024/02/20 18:17 TaN
51492 instil [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈstɪl/[Anagrams] - inlist [Verb] instil (third-person singular simple present instils, present participle instilling, simple past and past participle instilled) 1.Australia, Ireland, and UK standard spelling of instill. 2.1922, Edward Frederic Benson, Miss Mapp, page 70: her only real object in this call had been to instil a general uneasiness into Diva’s mind about the coal strike 3.2020 October 21, “Network News: Labour reiterates demand for full public ownership”, in Rail, page 7: "If we do not instil public confidence in the system, I fear the public will lose confidence and even fewer people will travel by rail." 0 0 2012/10/21 15:28 2024/02/20 18:17
51493 avenue [[English]] ipa :/ˈæv.əˌnjuː/[Etymology] Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”). [Noun] avenue (plural avenues) 1.A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction. 2.2009, Carrie Frasure, Arizona Off the Beaten Path®: A Guide to Unique Places, →ISBN, page 111: Finding an address east to west is fairly simple . The numbering begins at Central Avenue and moves logically and predictably either west through the avenues or east through the streets, so you know that 2400 East Camelback is at Twenty-Fourth Street or 4300 West Indian School is at Forty-Third Avenue . 3.2011, Time Out Los Angeles, →ISBN, page 78: Boulevards typically (but not exclusively) go east to west&#x3b; avenues usually run north to south. 4.2014, Adrienne Onofri, Walking Queens, →ISBN: The City of New York implemented a unified street grid in Queens: Numbered avenues run east–west&#x3b; numbered streets run north–south. 5.A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit. 6.The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. 7.1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict‎[1]: They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall. 8.A method or means by which something may be accomplished. There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem. 9.1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser: As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot. 10.2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport‎[2]: Alexis Sanchez hit the crossbar for Barcelona early on and Pedro hit the post in the dying seconds - while Cole cleared off the line from Cesc Fabregas. Goalkeeper Petr Cech also saved well from Messi and Carles Puyol as Pep Guardiola's team tried every avenue in an attempt to break Chelsea down. 11.2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 78: One avenue being explored is the Esk Valley line's community rail designation status, to see if standards more appropriate to a main line railway can be challenged with a view to facilitating low-cost operation of a rural branch. [Synonyms] - (broad street): drive, boulevard - (broad street): av., av, ave., ave (abbreviation) [[Danish]] ipa :/avəny/[Etymology] Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”). [Noun] avenue c (singular definite avenuen, plural indefinite avenuer) 1.avenue [References] - “avenue” in Den Danske Ordbog [[French]] ipa :/av.ny/[Adjective] avenue 1.feminine singular of avenu [Etymology] From Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin advenīre (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”). [Further reading] - “avenue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] avenue f (plural avenues) 1.avenue (broad street, especially bordered with trees) 2.(specifically) a radial avenue (an avenue radiating from a central point, especially bordered with trees) 3.(dated) avenue (principal walk or approach to a house or other building) 4.(figuratively) avenue (means by which something may be accomplished) [[Romanian]] [Etymology] Borrowed from French avenue. [Noun] avenue f (uncountable) 1.avenue [References] - avenue in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN 0 0 2024/02/20 18:18 TaN
51494 every other [[English]] [Adjective] every other 1.All except for some previously mentioned set. Two of the bolts were loose, but every other bolt I checked was fine. 2.Every second/two; each alternate; the second of each pair in turn. Every other person in the line wore a pink bowtie. Although I work from home, I visit the office for a meeting every other day. [Synonyms] - every second 0 0 2021/03/23 21:47 2024/02/20 18:19 TaN
51496 interrogate [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈtɛɹ.ə.ɡeɪt/[Etymology] Learned borrowing from Latin interrogātus. [Further reading] - “interrogate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “interrogate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. [Verb] interrogate (third-person singular simple present interrogates, present participle interrogating, simple past and past participle interrogated) 1.(transitive) to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go. 2.(transitive, computing) to query; to request information from. to interrogate a database 3.(transitive, literary) to examine critically. 4.2015, Rita Kiki Edozie, Curtis Stokes, Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies, Michigan State University Press: Griffin's approach allows her to reveal Billie Holiday's resilient strength of character and to interrogate the racism she endured, which was as tragic as her personal mistakes. [[Italian]] [Anagrams] - integratore, reintegrato [[Latin]] [Verb] interrogāte 1.second-person plural present active imperative of interrogō [[Spanish]] [Verb] interrogate 1.second-person singular voseo imperative of interrogar combined with te 0 0 2012/07/04 05:02 2024/02/20 18:23
51497 articulate [[English]] ipa :/ɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪk.jʊ.lət/[Etymology 1] Borrowed from Latin articulātus (“distinct, articulated, jointed”). [Etymology 2] From the adjective. [Further reading] - “articulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “articulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [[Latin]] [References] - “articulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - articulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette [Verb] articulāte 1.second-person plural present active imperative of articulō [[Spanish]] [Verb] articulate 1.second-person singular voseo imperative of articular combined with te 0 0 2010/03/30 10:31 2024/02/20 18:24 TaN
51498 outpace [[English]] ipa :-eɪs[Anagrams] - pace out [Etymology] From out- +‎ pace. [Verb] outpace (third-person singular simple present outpaces, present participle outpacing, simple past and past participle outpaced) 1.(transitive) To go faster than; to exceed the pace of. The youngster outpaced his grandfather and ran on ahead. 2.2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport‎[1]: Walters outpaced Raio Piiroja from a long ball forward and curled a powerful shot over the crossbar from a tight angle in the 33rd minute. 0 0 2012/09/30 09:57 2024/02/20 18:24
51499 discrete [[English]] ipa :/dɪˈskɹiːt/[Anagrams] - desertic, discreet [Etymology 1] From Old French discret, from Latin discrētus, past participle of discernō (“divide”), from dis- + cernō (“sift”). Doublet of discreet. [[Italian]] ipa :/diˈskre.te/[Adjective] discrete 1.feminine plural of discreto [Anagrams] - credesti [References] 1. ^ discreto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI) [[Latin]] [Participle] discrēte 1.vocative masculine singular of discrētus [[Romanian]] ipa :[disˈkre.te][Adjective] discrete 1.indefinite feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of discret 0 0 2021/11/18 10:35 2024/02/20 18:28 TaN
51500 deficit [[English]] ipa :/ˈdɛfɪsɪt/[Antonyms] - surplus [Etymology] From French déficit, from Latin dēficit. [Further reading] - deficit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] deficit (plural deficits) 1.Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack. The crop output this year has been comparatively small, owing to the deficit in rainfall. 2.A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue. 3.1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220: Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy&#x3b; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them. 4.1996 August 4, “It's Time for a Reality Check on the Deficit”, in Contra Costa Times, Contra Costa, CA: But Wall Street, which has a case of deficit-attention disorder, is no longer focused on a balanced budget. "The bond market only worries about one thing at [a time.] 5.2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 September 2013: Economically, too, London is startlingly different. The capital, unlike the country as a whole, has no budget deficit: London’s public spending matches the taxes paid in the city. The average Londoner contributes 70 percent more to Britain’s national income than people in the rest of the country. [References] - “deficit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. [Synonyms] - fiscal deficit, shortfall [[Czech]] ipa :[ˈdɛfɪt͡sɪt][Further reading] - deficit in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957 - deficit in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989 [Noun] deficit m inan 1.deficit [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈdɛ.fi.t͡ʃit/[Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English deficit. [Noun] deficit m (invariable) 1.(economics, medicine) deficit [[Latin]] [Verb] dēficit 1.third-person singular present active indicative of dēficiō [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈdɛ.fi.si.t͡ʃi/[Noun] deficit m (plural deficits) 1.Alternative form of déficit [[Romanian]] [Etymology] Borrowed from French déficit. [Noun] deficit n (plural deficite) 1.deficit [[Serbo-Croatian]] [Noun] dȅficit m (Cyrillic spelling де̏фицит) 1.deficit (financial) 0 0 2013/02/17 14:19 2024/02/20 18:28
51501 déficit [[French]] ipa :/de.fi.sit/[Etymology] From Latin dēficit. [Further reading] - “déficit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] déficit m (plural déficits) 1.(finance) deficit 2.(commerce) shortage (in weight) 3.deficiency [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈdɛ.fi.sit/[Alternative forms] - deficit [Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from Latin dēficit. [Noun] déficit m (plural déficits) 1.(chiefly Brazil) deficit Synonym: défice Antonym: superávit [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈdefiθit/[Antonyms] - superávit [Etymology] From Latin dēficit. [Further reading] - “déficit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] déficit m (plural déficits) 1.deficit 2.shortage 0 0 2013/02/17 14:19 2024/02/20 18:28
51502 imperative [[English]] ipa :/ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/[Adjective] imperative (comparative more imperative, superlative most imperative) 1.Essential; crucial; extremely important. That you come here right now is imperative. 2.1941 May, “Jubilee of the City Tube”, in Railway Magazine, page 224: Meantime, alterations at King William Street had become imperative, and by December 22, 1895, the station had been remodelled, as at Stockwell, to provide an island platform with lines each side, and a scissors crossing. 3.2019, Con Man Games, SmashGames, quoting Felix, Kindergarten 2, SmashGames: Give this document to Ozzy. It's imperative that he reads and understands it. Got it? 4.(grammar) Of, or relating to the imperative mood. 5.(computing theory) Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables. Antonym: functional 6.Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive. imperative orders 7.1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volumes (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC: The suits of kings are imperative. [Alternative forms] - imp., imper. (abbreviation, grammar) [Etymology] Borrowed from Latin imperātīvus. [Noun] imperative (countable and uncountable, plural imperatives) 1.(uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive. Synonym: imperative mood Coordinate terms: assertoric, interrogative The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative. 2.(countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood. 3.(countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative. Visiting Berlin is an imperative. 4.2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R19: Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility. 5.2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76: The new imperative for investment is the Government's objective to secure carbon-neutral transport emissions by 2040. [References] - “imperative”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. [See also] - jussive - volitive  [Synonyms] - required [[Italian]] [Adjective] imperative f pl 1.feminine plural of imperativo [Anagrams] - impervietà, riempivate [[Latin]] [Adverb] imperātīvē (not comparable) 1.In an imperative manner, imperatively. [Alternative forms] - inperātīvē [Etymology] From imperātīvus (“commanded”), from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (form of in) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”). [References] - “imperative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - imperative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette [[Romanian]] ipa :[imperaˈtive][Noun] imperative n pl 1.indefinite plural of imperativ 0 0 2017/03/13 11:23 2024/02/20 18:29 TaN
51504 inspire [[English]] ipa :/ɪn.ˈspaɪɹ/[Anagrams] - spinier [Antonyms] - (inhale): expire [Etymology] From Middle English inspiren, enspiren, from Old French inspirer, variant of espirer, from Latin īnspīrāre, present active infinitive of īnspīrō (“inspire”), itself a loan-translation of Biblical Ancient Greek πνέω (pnéō, “breathe”), from in + spīrō (“breathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Displaced native Old English onbryrdan (literally “to prick in”). [Synonyms] - beghast [Verb] inspire (third-person singular simple present inspires, present participle inspiring, simple past and past participle inspired) 1.(transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration. 2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Wisdom 15:11: He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul. 3.c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals): Dawning day new comfort hath inspired. 4.2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 2, page 172: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals. 5.(transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to. Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue. The captain's speech was aimed to inspire her team to victory in the final. 6.1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC: Erato, thy poet's mind inspire, / And fill his soul with thy celestial fire. 7.(intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale. 8.1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions: By means of those sulfurous coal smokes the lungs are as it were stifled and extremely oppressed, whereby they are forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty. 9.To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing. 10.(archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate. 11.1687 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia’s Day”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, canto I, page 371: Deſcend ye nine! deſcend and ſing&#x3b; / The breathing inſtruments inſpire, / VVake into voice each ſilent ſtring, / And ſvveep the ſounding lyre! 12.(transitive) To spread rumour indirectly. [[Asturian]] [Verb] inspire 1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive of inspirar [[French]] [Verb] inspire 1.inflection of inspirer: 1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive 2.second-person singular imperative [[Portuguese]] [Verb] inspire 1.inflection of inspirar: 1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive 2.third-person singular imperative [[Romanian]] ipa :[inˈspire][Verb] inspire 1.third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of inspira [[Spanish]] [Verb] inspire 1.inflection of inspirar: 1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive 2.third-person singular imperative 0 0 2022/11/11 08:10 2024/02/20 18:29 TaN
51505 tackling [[English]] [Noun] tackling (plural tacklings) 1.The process by which something is tackled or dealt with. 2.1915, Ford Madox Ford, When Blood is Their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture: His struggle with the Church ended in his voyage to Canossa&#x3b; his tacklings of the problems of industrialism may be said to have reached their high-water mark when, thirty years before this country even approached the problem, […] 3.(nautical) The tackle of a vessel. 4.The harness for drawing a carriage. [Verb] tackling 1.present participle and gerund of tackle 0 0 2022/03/03 10:50 2024/02/20 18:31 TaN
51506 concern [[English]] ipa :/kənˈsɝn/[Etymology] Borrowed from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concernō, concernere (“I distinguish, have respect to”), from Latin concernō (“I mix, sift, or mingle together, as in a sieve”), combined form of con- + cernō (“distinguish”). [Noun] concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns) 1.That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. Synonym: interest Antonym: unconcern Mark’s health was of great concern to Connie. 2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC: We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. 3.2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport: Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier’s team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals. 4.The placement of interest or worry on a subject. Most people in Australia have no concern for the recent events in London. 5.A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about the document. 6.The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person. Judy's eyes filled with concern as she listened to the news report. 7.1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict‎[1]: Appleby […] rose from his seat when Morales came in. He shook hands urbanely, unbuckled his sword, and laid his kepi on the table, and then sat down with an expression of concern in his olive face which Appleby fancied was assumed. 8. 9. A business, firm or enterprise; a company. The employees’ attitude is really hurting the concern. a going concern 10.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198: Then I remembered there was a big concern, a Company for trade on that river. 11.2001 November 18, Fouad Ajami, “What the Muslim World Is Watching”, in The New York Times‎[2], retrieved 26 July 2014: Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern, Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC’s insistence on editorial independence. 12.(programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program. 13.2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148: At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern. [Synonyms] - (to be of importance to): See also Thesaurus:pertain [Verb] concern (third-person singular simple present concerns, present participle concerning, simple past and past participle concerned) 1.(transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. 2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts xxviii:31: Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. 3.1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation: our wars with France have always affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those we have had with any other nation 4.1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy: ignorant, so far as the usual instruction was concerned 5.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym&#x3b; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC: As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could. 6.(transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest. A good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. 7.a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended: They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour. 8.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court: It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]” 9.(transitive) To make somebody worried. I’m concerned that she’s becoming an alcoholic. [[Chinese]] ipa :/kʰɔːn²² sœːn[Etymology] From English concern. [Noun] concern 1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) concern (clarification of this definition is needed) [Synonyms] - 關心／关心 (guānxīn) [Verb] concern 1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to be concerned about 2.2022, 王晉熙, 粵語忌諱現象的語言學研究, page 155: 呢個都有啲世代之爭嘅，我覺得老人家就唔係個個都concern，後生更加唔會啦，可能真係好老嗰啲先會。 [Hong Kong Cantonese, trad.] 呢个都有啲世代之争嘅，我觉得老人家就唔系个个都concern，后生更加唔会啦，可能真系好老嗰啲先会。 [Hong Kong Cantonese, simp.] ni1 go3 dou1 jau5 di1 sai3 doi6 zi1 zang1 ge3, ngo5 gok3 dak1 lou5 jan4 gaa1 zau6 m4 hai6 go3 go3 dou1 kon6 soen1, hau6 saang1 gang3 gaa1 m4 wui5 laa1, ho2 nang4 zan1 hai6 hou2 lou5 go2 di1 sin1 wui5. [Jyutping] (please add an English translation of this quotation) [[Dutch]] ipa :/kɔnˈsʏrn/[Etymology] Borrowed from English concern. [Noun] concern n (plural concerns, diminutive concerntje n) 1.company, business, concern [[Romanian]] [Etymology] Borrowed from English concern. [Noun] concern n (plural concerne) 1.concern (organization) 0 0 2009/02/27 00:31 2024/02/20 18:31
51508 Sachtler [[German]] [Proper noun] Sachtler m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Sachtlers or (with an article) Sachtler, feminine genitive Sachtler, plural Sachtlers or Sachtler) 1.a surname 0 0 2024/02/20 18:46 TaN
51509 fluid [[English]] ipa :/ˈfluːɪd/[Adjective] fluid (comparative more fluid, superlative most fluid) 1.(not comparable) Of or relating to fluid. 2.In a state of flux; subject to change. 3.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month. 4.Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion. 5.(of an asset) Convertible into cash. 6.(rare) Genderfluid. 7.2017, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor (→ISBN), page 274 (the genderfluid character Alex Fierro is speaking): “Oh, Loki made sure of that. My mortal parents blamed him for the way I was, for being fluid.” 8.2021 April 24, Adrian Horton, “‘The uprisings opened up the door’: the TV cop shows confronting a harmful legacy”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN: As do renewals in genres such as romcoms and teen movies, which have updated sexist, heteronormative tropes to reflect audiences’ fluid, inclusive, queer realities. [Etymology] From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus (“flowing; fluid”), from Latin fluō (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell; surge; overflow; run”). Akin to Ancient Greek φλύειν (phlúein, “to swell; overflow”). Not related to English flow, which is a native, inherited word from *plew-. [Further reading] - “fluid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “fluid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “fluid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. [Noun] English Wikipedia has an article on:fluidWikipedia fluid (countable and uncountable, plural fluids) 1.Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma. 2.2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114: An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes. 3.A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas). 4.1992, Christopher G. Morris, Academic Press, Christopher W. Morris, Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 854: fluid inclusion Petrology, a tiny fluid- or gas-filled cavity in an igneous rock. 1-100 micrometers in diameter, formed by the entrapment of a fluid, typically that from which the rock crystallized. 5.1995, David Kemper, Michael Piller, “Time and Again”, in Star Trek: Voyager, season 1, episode 4, spoken by The Doctor and Kes (Robert Picardo and Jennifer Lien): The Doctor: Get a good night's sleep and drink plenty of fluids. / Kes: Fluids? / The Doctor: Everybody should drink plenty of fluids. 6.2006, Jörg Fitter, Thomas Gutberlet, Neutron Scattering in Biology: Techniques and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 236: For studying interfaces between solid and another solid, fluid, or gas, a sample can be oriented with its reflecting surface(s) vertical (and with the scattering plane, as defined by nominal incident and reflected wavevectors, horizontal). 7.2011, Andrew T Raftery, Michael S. Delbridge, Marcus J. D. Wagstaff, Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery, International Edition E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 11: Tenderness: is the lump tender? Composition: is the mass solid, fluid or gas? 8.2012, Will Pettijohn P.E.C., Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck's guide to the Universe, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23: The choke manifold then expels the fluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line. The panic line will then either send the fluid or gas to the reserve pit or a flare stack or flare tank. 9.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fluid. 10.(specifically, medicine, colloquial, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids. [References] 1. ^ “Fluid” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 245. [Related terms] - fluctuate - fluctuation - fluency - fluent - flux - fluidal - fluidic - fluidics - fluidify - fluidise - fluidize - fluidity - fluidous - semifluid [Synonyms] - (of or relating to fluid): fluidical, liquid; see also Thesaurus:fluidic - (subject to change): unstable, variable; see also Thesaurus:changeable - (moving smoothly): fluent, fluxive; see also Thesaurus:flowing or Thesaurus:runny [[Catalan]] ipa :[ˈflujt][Adjective] fluid (feminine fluida, masculine plural fluids, feminine plural fluides) 1.fluid Synonym: fluent 2.(figurative) fluid, fluent, smooth estil fluid ― fluid style [Etymology] Borrowed from Latin fluidus. [Further reading] - “fluid” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “fluid”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024 - “fluid” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “fluid” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Noun] fluid m (plural fluids) 1.fluid [[German]] [Adjective] fluid (strong nominative masculine singular fluider, not comparable) 1.fluid Synonym: flüssig 2.2021 April 13, Stefan Reinecke, “Debatte um Normalität: Das Normale ist flüssig geworden”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎[3], →ISSN: Normalität ist nichts Statisches mehr, sie ist mobil, fluide, dehnbar. Wir brauchen sie, aber ohne Ausrufezeichen. Wahrscheinlich ist sie nur als Zwiespältigkeit zu haben. (please add an English translation of this quotation) [Further reading] - “fluid” in Duden online - “fluid” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Noun] fluid n (definite singular fluidet, indefinite plural fluid or fluider, definite plural fluida or fluidene) 1.a fluid [References] - “fluid” in The Bokmål Dictionary. [Synonyms] - væske [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Noun] fluid n (definite singular fluidet, indefinite plural fluid, definite plural fluida) 1.a fluid [References] - “fluid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [Synonyms] - væske [[Romanian]] [Adjective] fluid m or n (feminine singular fluidă, masculine plural fluizi, feminine and neuter plural fluide) 1.fluid [Etymology] Borrowed from French fluide, from Latin fluidus. [[Serbo-Croatian]] ipa :/flûiːd/[Noun] flȕīd m (Cyrillic spelling флу̏ӣд) 1.fluid [[Spanish]] [Verb] fluid 1.second-person plural imperative of fluir 0 0 2012/01/30 15:44 2024/02/20 18:46
51510 aim [[English]] ipa :/eɪm/[Anagrams] - AMI, I am, I'm a, I'm a', I'm'a, I'm-a, I'ma, IAM, Ima, Ima', MAI, MIA, Mai, Mia, i'm'a, i'ma, ima, mai, mia [Etymology 1] The verb is from Middle English amen, aimen, eimen (“to guess at, to estimate, to aim”), borrowed from Old French esmer, aesmer, asmer, from Latin ad- plus aestimare (“to estimate”), the compound perhaps being originally formed in Medieval Latin (adaestimare), perhaps in Old French.The noun is from Middle English ame, from Old French aesme, esme. [Further reading] - “aim”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “aim”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [[Blackfoot]] [Final] aim 1.control, influence; see ohkottaimm [References] - Donald G. Frantz; Norma J. Russel (1989) Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes, 3rd edition, University of Toronto Press, published 2017 [[Estonian]] [Etymology] Of Finnic origin. Cognate to Finnish aimottaa. [Noun] aim (genitive aimu, partitive aimu) 1.sense, idea of something, feeling Pole aimugi. I have no idea. [[Mandarin]] [Romanization] aim 1.Nonstandard spelling of áim. [[Scots]] ipa :/ei̯m/[Etymology] Derived from Old Norse eimr (“vapour, steam”). [Noun] aim (plural aims) 1.(Caithness) A hot glow, a blast of hot air [References] - “aim, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries. [[West Makian]] ipa :/ˈa.im/[Noun] aim 1.name [References] - Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[2], Pacific linguistics (as aym) [[Yola]] ipa :/iːm/[Etymology] From Middle English ayme, from Old French aesme, esme. [Noun] aim 1.intent 2.1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 84: Chote well aar aim was t'yie ouz n'eer a blowe. I saw (well) their intent was to give us ne'er a stroke. [References] - Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 84 0 0 2017/07/04 01:21 2024/02/20 18:49
51511 range [[English]] ipa :/ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/[Anagrams] - Agner, Negar, Regan, anger, areng, grane, regna, renga [Etymology] From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”). [Further reading] - “range”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “range”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “range”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - “range”, in Collins English Dictionary. - “range”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. - “range”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. - “range”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present. [Noun] range (plural ranges) 1.A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. 2.A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates. 3.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 281: Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright&#x3b; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde. 4.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[A Supplement of Fables […].] Fab[le] CCCCXXXVIII. A Fool and a Hot Iron.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 415: There was juſt ſuch another Innocent as this, in my Fathers Family : He did the Courſe Work in the Kitchin, and was bid at his firſt Coming to take off the Range, and let down the Cynders before he went to Bed. 5.Selection, array. We sell a wide range of cars. 6.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎[1]: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. 7.2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements. 8.An area for practicing shooting at targets. 9.An area for military training or equipment testing. Synonyms: base, training area, training ground 10.The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event. Synonyms: distance, radius We could see the ship at a range of five miles. One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash. 11.The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.). This missile's range is 500 kilometres. 12.The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling. This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres. 13.An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land. 14.1970, James Taylor (lyrics and music), “Sweet Baby James”, in Sweet Baby James, →OCLC: There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions 15.The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope. 16.1661, John Fell, The Life of The most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr H. Hammond, 2nd edition, London: J. Flesher, published 1662, page 99: As to acquir’d habits and abilities in Learning, his Writings having given the World ſufficient account of them, there remains onely to obſerve, that the range and compaſs of his knowledge fill’d the whole Circle of the Arts, and reach’d thoſe ſeverals which ſingle do exact an entire man unto themſelves, and full age. 17.1711 December 22, Joseph Addison, “The Spectator”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, volume III, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1721, page 255: For we may further obſerve that men of the greateſt abilities are moſt fired with ambition : and that, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the leaſt actuated by it &#x3b; whether it be that a man’s ſenſe of his own incapacities makes him deſpair of coming at fame, or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his intereſt or convenience, or that Providence, in the very frame of his ſoul, would not ſubject him to ſuch a paſſion as would be uſeleſs to the world, and a torment to himſelf. 18.1733–34, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, London: J. and P. Knapton, published 1748, epistle I, lines 207–210, page 29: Far as Creation’s ample range extends, / The ſcale of Senſual, Mental pow’rs aſcends : / Mark how it mounts, to Man’s imperial race, / From the green myriads in the peopled graſs ! 19.(mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain. Antonym: domain 20.(statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample. 21.(sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover. Jones has good range for a big man. 22.(music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce. Synonym: compass 23.(ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found. 24.(programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator. std::for_each  calls the given function on each value in the input range. 25.An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class. 26.a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC: The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature. 27.(obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung. 28.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC: the first range of that ladder 29.(obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal. 30.A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition. 31.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC: , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins" He may take a range all the world over. 32.(US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart. 33.The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way. By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor. By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his acting range. [Verb] range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged) 1.(intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.] 2.(transitive) To rove over or through. to range the fields 3.1713, John Gay, Rural Sports: Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake. 4.(obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th–19th c.] 5.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC: The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents. 6.(transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.] 7.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick&#x3b; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC: At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside. 8.1910, Saki [pseudonym&#x3b; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Bag”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 76: In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date. 9.(intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range. The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10. 10.2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184: In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron. 11.2023 November 1, Robert Drysdale, “Leven is nearly back on track...”, in RAIL, number 995, page 58: The 2025 timetable would feature two trains per hour, alternately routed via Kirkcaldy (with 11 intermediate stops) and Dunfermline (14 stops), with journey times ranging between 65 and 81 minutes. 12.(transitive) To classify. to range plants and animals in genera and species 13.1785, William Coxe, Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, page 129: The coins are ranged into nine classes. 14.2013, Hubert Kals, Fred van Houten, Integration of Process Knowledge into Design Support, page 378: All requirements could be ranged into the classes. 15.(intransitive) To form a line or a row. The front of a house ranges with the street. 16.1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night: The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs. 17.(intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank. 18.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]: And range with humble livers in content. 19.(transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order. 20.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Bible Maccabees/#12 2 Maccabees:12–20: Maccabeus ranged his army by hands. 21.1740, George Turnbull, The Principles of Moral Philosophy, page 77: Were this dependence of the body and mind more studied, and its effects collected and ranged into proper order&#x3b; no doubt, we would be able to form a better judgment of it, and see further into the good purposes to which it serves&#x3b; 22.(transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc. 23.1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], 10th edition, London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC: It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society. 24.(biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region. The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay. 25.(military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target. 26.To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near. to range the coast 27.(baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play. 28.2009, Jason Aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, →ISBN, page 250: Willie, playing in left-center, raced toward a ball no human had any business getting a glove to. Mays ranged to his left, searching, digging in, pouring on the speed, as the crowd screamed its anticipation of a triple.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:range. [[Estonian]] [Adjective] range (genitive range, partitive ranget, comparative rangem, superlative kõige rangem) 1.strict [Etymology] Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century. [[Finnish]] ipa :/ˈrɑŋːe/[Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English range. [Noun] range 1.(golf) range, shooting range (place to practice shooting) Synonyms: harjoittelualue, harjoitusalue [[French]] [Anagrams] - nager, régna [Verb] range 1.inflection of ranger: 1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive 2.second-person singular imperative [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Adjective] range 1.definite singular of rang 2.plural of rang [Anagrams] - ganer, garen, genar, grena, ragen, ragne, regna, renga [Etymology] From the adjective rang and vrang. [Noun] range f (definite singular ranga, indefinite plural ranger, definite plural rangene) 1.the inside of a piece of clothing, but worn inside-out Antonym: rette 2.the trachea, due to it being the wrong pipe, as opposed to the oesophagus, when eating [References] - “range” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [Verb] range (present tense rangar, past tense ranga, past participle ranga, passive infinitive rangast, present participle rangande, imperative range/rang) 1.(transitive) to turn inside-out (e.g. a piece of clothing) [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈʁɐ̃.ʒi/[Verb] range 1.inflection of ranger: 1.third-person singular present indicative 2.second-person singular imperativeinflection of rangir: 1.third-person singular present indicative 2.second-person singular imperative 0 0 2009/11/15 21:47 2024/02/20 18:51
51512 knock [[English]] ipa :/nɒk/[Etymology] From Middle English knokken, from Old English cnocian, ġecnocian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną (“to knock”), a suffixed form of *knu-, *knew- (“to pound on, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew-, *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up, concentrate”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German knochen (“to hit”), Old English cnuian, cnuwian (“to pound, knock”), Old Norse knoka (compare Danish knuge (“to squeeze”), Swedish knocka (“to hug”)). [Further reading] - Jonathon Green (2024), “knock v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang - [Francis Grose] (1785), “Knock”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC: “to knock a woman, to have carnal knowledge of her”. [Noun] knock (countable and uncountable, plural knocks) 1.An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood. I heard a knock on my door. 2.A sharp impact. He took a knock on the head. 3.(figuratively) A criticism. 4.2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph‎[1]: Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home. 5.(figuratively) A blow or setback. 6.1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: "Come on!" cried Mr. Beaver, who was almost dancing with delight. "Come and see! This is a nasty knock for the Witch! It looks as if her power was already crumbling." 7.(automotive, uncountable) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it. 8.(cricket) A batsman's innings. He played a slow but sure knock of 35. 9.(cycling, uncountable) Synonym of hunger knock [Verb] knock (third-person singular simple present knocks, present participle knocking, simple past and past participle knocked) 1.(intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood. Knock on the door and find out if they’re home. 2.1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC, page 3: Then ſaid Evangeliſt, Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto: ſo ſhalt thou ſee the Gate&#x3b; at which, when thou knockeſt, it ſhall be told thee what thou ſhalt do. 3.(transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door. 4.c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]: Master, knock the door hard. 5.(transitive, colloquial, originally US) To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. 6.1910, O. Henry [pseudonym&#x3b; William Sydney Porter], “The Thing's the Play”, in Strictly Business‎[2]: And my friend, the reporter, could see nothing funny in this! Sent out on an assignment to write up a roaring, hilarious, brilliant joshing story of—but I will not knock a brother—let us go on with the story. 7.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 148: A Judge must be respected, / A Judge you mustn't knock / Or else you'll be detected / And shoved into the dock. 8.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books, published 2014, page 386: “And what do you care when some folks start knocking you? It’s a sign you getting some place.” 9.1980 November 27, “Inclusive”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN: The pious have sometimes knocked the day [Thanksgiving] for its laughter, its late sleeping, its overeating. 10.(transitive, soccer) To kick a ball towards another player; to pass. 11.2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 – 1 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport‎[4]: Despite enjoying more than their fair share of possession the visitors did not look like creating anything, with their lack of a killer ball painfully obvious as they harmlessly knocked the ball around outside the home side's box without ever looking like they would hurt them. 12.(transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause. 13.(transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact. I knocked against the table and bruised my leg. I accidentally knocked my drink off the bar. 14.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., →OCLC: "The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go." 15.(transitive, slang) To have sex with. Synonyms: knock off; see also Thesaurus:copulate with 16.(transitive, slang) To prosecute under the law; to arrest, imprison, etc. 17.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 134: The cops had busted us for selling hot designer bags up on Utica Avenue for some cat who figured we was too young to get knocked if we got caught, but two fat white po-pos said fuck how young we was, and threw us in a cell for damn near three days until they could contact Noojie to come get us out. 18.(intransitive, card games, rummy) To end play by declaring one's hand to have under a certain amount of deadwood. [[Yola]] [Noun] knock 1.Alternative form of knaugh [References] - Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136 0 0 2021/08/02 18:58 2024/02/20 18:52 TaN
51513 knock off [[English]] [Etymology] In the verb sense of stopping work, said to be from the practice aboard slave galleys to have a man beat time for the rowers by knocking on a block or drum; when he stopped, the rowers could rest. [Noun] knock off (plural knock offs) 1.Alternative form of knockoff [Verb] knock off (third-person singular simple present knocks off, present participle knocking off, simple past and past participle knocked off) 1.(intransitive, slang) To halt one's work or other activity. I think I'll knock off for the evening and go to bed. Synonyms: call it a day, call it a night, down tools 2.(transitive, slang) To kill. The mobsters hired the guy to knock off their enemies. Synonyms: bump off, do away with, whack; see also Thesaurus:kill 1.(sports, by extension) To defeat. The Hammers knocked off Arsenal on the strength of a 78th-minute tally from Jarrod Bowen.(transitive) To remove, as a discount or estimate. They agreed to knock off 20% of the price. Synonyms: deduct, take off; see also Thesaurus:remove(transitive, slang) To rob. They decided to knock off a liquor store downtown. Synonyms: mill, burgle; see also Thesaurus:steal(transitive) To make a copy of, as of a design. They send people to the shows in Milan for "ideas", which means knocking off the designs they guess would sell. Synonyms: plagiarize, rip off(transitive) To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.(transitive, slang) To have sex with. - 1965, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land: I took her down to Basin Street and to a movie, then took her to my room and knocked her off. Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with(transitive, informal) To accomplish hastily. I knocked off a couple of quick sketches before the design meeting. Synonym: knock outTo remove by hitting (something, someone) He was knocked off his bike. - 1943 May and June, “Notes and News: Effective Locomotive "Ack-Ack" Fire”, in Railway Magazine, page 180: It now appears that the locomotive did not blow up, as was commonly stated at the time, but that the aeroplane flew so low as to come into contact with the dome of the engine, knocking it off. It was the combination of the impact and the uprush of steam that so disturbed the equilibrium of the raider as to cause it to crash. 0 0 2024/02/20 18:52 TaN
51514 knock-off [[English]] [Noun] knock-off (plural knock-offs) 1.Alternative spelling of knockoff 0 0 2024/02/20 18:52 TaN
51515 Knock [[English]] [Etymology] (Ireland, Scotland, Cumbria) from Irish cnoc and Scottish Gaelic cnoc [Further reading] - Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Knock”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 324. [Proper noun] Knock 1.A suburb and ward in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 2.A townland in Drumcliff civil parish, County Clare, Ireland. 3.A town and civil parish of County Mayo, Ireland, location of the Knock Shrine. 4.A settlement in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5552). [1] 5.A village on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4931). 6.A village in Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY6827). 7.A surname. [References] 1. ^ OS: Moray 0 0 2021/07/31 10:30 2024/02/20 18:52 TaN
51516 groundbreaking [[English]] ipa :/ˈɡɹaʊndbɹeɪkɪŋ/[Adjective] groundbreaking (comparative more groundbreaking, superlative most groundbreaking) 1.Innovative; new, different; doing something that has never been done before. The latest model includes several groundbreaking features and improvements. [Etymology] From ground +‎ breaking, in reference to the practice of breaking ground at the beginning of a new building or construction. [Noun] groundbreaking (countable and uncountable, plural groundbreakings) 1.The point at which construction begins, by digging into the ground. 2.A ceremony to mark the beginning of construction. [See also] - break ground - cutting edge 0 0 2018/09/26 09:23 2024/02/20 18:57 TaN
51517 invaluable [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈvæljuəbl̩/[Adjective] invaluable (comparative more invaluable, superlative most invaluable) 1.Having great or incalculable value. Synonyms: valuable, precious, crucial 2.1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice: You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!—always wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody! If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable&#x3b; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hearing the very best performers. 3.1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, page 181: Colonel Cathcart bewailed the miserable fate that had given him for an invaluable assistant someone as common as Colonel Korn. It was degrading to have to to depend so thoroughly on a person who had been educated at a state university. 4.(obsolete) Not valuable; worthless. 5.1640, Treaty of Ripon: The money I have received is so invaluable a sum that I have forborne as yet to pay it in, and am heartily sorry that I cannot better advance His Majesty's service. 6.1866, Thomas Wright, The Intellectual Observer: It would be an interesting, and far from an invaluable labour, to trace the history of the murrains, or cattle diseases of former days, and there causes and effects. [Etymology] in- +‎ valuable (compare priceless). [[Spanish]] ipa :/imbaˈlwable/[Adjective] invaluable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invaluables) 1.invaluable, priceless Synonym: invalorable [Further reading] - “invaluable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 0 0 2021/04/21 09:22 2024/02/20 18:57 TaN
51518 most [[English]] ipa :/ˈməʊst/[Anagrams] - MOTs, MTSO, TMOs, Toms, mots, smot, toms [Etymology 1] From Middle English most, moste, from Old English mǣst, māst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Scots mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Dutch meest (“most”), German meist (“most”), Danish and Swedish mest (“most”), Icelandic mestur (“most”). [Etymology 2] Reduction of almost. [References] - “most”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. [See also] - Thesaurus:quantifier [[Catalan]] ipa :[ˈmost][Etymology] Inherited from Latin mustum. [Further reading] - “most” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “most”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024 - “most” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “most” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Noun] most m (plural mosts or mostos) 1.must (fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented) [[Czech]] ipa :[ˈmost][Etymology] Inherited from Old Czech most, from Proto-Slavic *mostъ (“bridge”). [Further reading] - most in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957 - most in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989 - most in Internetová jazyková příručka [Noun] most m inan 1.bridge [[Dutch]] ipa :/mɔst/[Etymology] From Latin mustum. [Noun] most m (uncountable, diminutive mostje n) 1.must (unfermented or partially fermented mashed grapes or rarely other fruits, an early stage in the production of wine) [[Friulian]] [Etymology] From Latin mustum. [Noun] most m (plural mosts) 1.must (unfermented grape juice or wine) [[Hungarian]] ipa :[ˈmoʃt][Adverb] most 1.now [Etymology] From the earlier ma (“now”), which in modern Hungarian means “today” + -st. For the suffix, compare valamelyest.[1] [Further reading] - most in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN [References] 1. ^ most in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.) [[Lower Sorbian]] [Noun] most m (diminutive mosćik) 1.Superseded spelling of móst. [[Middle English]] [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Etymology] From Middle Low German most, must, from Latin mustum. [Noun] most m (definite singular mosten, indefinite plural moster, definite plural mostene) 1.must, (unfermented) fruit juice, particularly grape juice [References] - “most” in The Bokmål Dictionary. - “most” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB). [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Etymology] From Middle Low German most, must, from Latin mustum. [Noun] most m (definite singular mosten, indefinite plural mostar, definite plural mostane) 1.must, (unfermented) fruit juice, particularly grape juice [References] - “most” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Old High German]] [Etymology] From Proto-West Germanic *must. [Noun] most m 1.must [[Polish]] ipa :/mɔst/[Etymology] Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȍstъ (“bridge”). [Further reading] - most in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - most in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Noun] most m inan (diminutive mościk, augmentative mościsko) 1.bridge (building over a river or valley) [[Serbo-Croatian]] ipa :/môːst/[Etymology] Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mostъ (“bridge”). [Noun] mȏst m (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ст) 1.bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide) [[Slovak]] ipa :[mɔst][Etymology] Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mostъ (“bridge”). [Further reading] - “most”, 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 [Noun] most m inan (genitive singular mosta, nominative plural mosty, genitive plural mostov, declension pattern of dub) 1.bridge [[Slovene]] ipa :/móːst/[Etymology] From Proto-Slavic *mostъ (“bridge”). [Further reading] - “most”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran [Noun] mọ̑st m inan 1.bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide) [[Volapük]] [Noun] most (nominative plural mosts) 1.monster 0 0 2010/04/10 13:13 2024/02/20 19:03
51519 surgical [[English]] ipa :/ˈsɜːd͡ʒɪkəl/[Adjective] surgical (comparative more surgical, superlative most surgical) 1.Of, relating to, used in, or resulting from surgery. 2.2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 April 2013, page 200: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads. 3.(figuratively) Precise or very accurate. The building was destroyed with a surgical air-strike. 4.(figuratively) Excruciatingly or wearyingly drawn-out [Etymology] From Middle English cirurgical, borrowed from Middle French cirurgical, from Medieval Latin cirurgicālis, ultimately from Ancient Greek χειρουργία (kheirourgía), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Replaced Old English Old English læċe (“doctor, physician”). 0 0 2009/04/28 10:29 2024/02/20 20:31 TaN

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