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[[English]]
ipa :/məˈt͡ʃʊəɹəti/[Antonyms]
- naïveté
- immaturity
[Etymology]
From Middle English maturitee, maturyte, from Old French maturité, from Latin mātūritātem. By surface analysis, mature + -ity.
[Noun]
maturity (countable and uncountable, plural maturities)
1.The state of being mature, ready or ripe; the prime state of productibility and self expression.
Some foods and drinks, like wine, only reach their full taste at maturity, which literally comes at a price.
The ability to take responsibility is a sign of maturity.
2.When bodily growth has completed and/or reproduction can begin.
The entire tank of guppies was in their maturity and ready to mate.
Some insect species reach sexual maturity well before their own bodily maturity
3.(countable, finance, insurance) The state of a debt obligation at the end of the term of maturation thereof, once all interest and any applicable fees have accrued to the principal.
4.(countable, finance, insurance) Date when payment is due.
The note was cashed at maturity.
[Synonyms]
- matureness
- ripeness
- adulthood
- (finance) due date
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rout
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹaʊt/[Anagrams]
- Tour, tour, trou
[Etymology 1]
The noun is derived from Middle English rout, route (“group of people associated with one another, company; entourage, retinue; army; group of soldiers; group of pirates; large number of people, crowd; throng; group of disreputable people, mob; riot; group of animals; group of objects; proper condition or manner”) [and other forms],[1] from Anglo-Norman route, rute, Middle French rote, route, Old French rote, route, rute (“group of people, company; group of armed people; group of criminals; group of cattle”) (modern French route (obsolete)), from Latin rupta (compare Late Latin ruta, rutta (“group of marauders; riot; unlawful assembly”)), the feminine of ruptus (“broken; burst, ruptured”), the perfect passive participle of rumpō (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”),[2] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break; to tear (up)”). The English word is a doublet of route.The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to assemble, congregate; of animals: to herd together; to regroup, make a stand against; to be riotous, to riot”) [and other forms],[3] from rout, route (noun); see above.[4]
[Etymology 2]
The noun is derived from Middle French route (“military defeat; retreat”), from rout, archaic past participle of Middle French, Old French rompre (“to break; to break up, disperse”) (modern French rompre (“to break, snap; to break up (with someone)”)),[5] from Latin rumpere, the present active infinitive of rumpō (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”); see further at etymology 1.The verb is derived from the noun.[6]
[Etymology 3]
The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to snore; to grunt, snort; to sleep; to dwell; to settle permanently”), [and other forms], from Old English hrūtan (“to snore; to make a noise”),[7] from Proto-West Germanic *hrūtan (“to snore”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to snore”), from *hruttōną (“to snore; to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor-, *kr- (“to croak, crow”), *krut- (“to snore; to roar”), probably ultimately imitative.The English word is cognate with Icelandic rjóta, hrjóta (“to snore; to rattle, roar”), rauta (“to roar”), Middle Dutch ruyten (“to make a noise; to chatter, chirp”), Middle High German rūssen, rūzen (“to make a noise; to buzz; to rattle; to snore”), Norwegian Nynorsk ruta (“to make a loud noise; to roar, rumble”), Swedish ryta (“to bellow, roar; to scream or shout angrily”).[8][9] Compare Old English rēotan, *hrēotan (“to make a noise; to make a noise in grief, lament, wail; to shed tears, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *reutaną; see further at etymology 4.[8]The noun is derived from the verb. It is cognate with Southern Norwegian rut (“loud noise, din, roar”).[10]
[Etymology 4]
The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to cry out, bellow, roar”) [and other forms],[11] from Old Norse rauta (“to roar”), from Proto-Germanic *reutaną (“to cry, wail”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *HrewdH- (“to weep”), probably imitative. The English word is cognate with Danish ryde (“to low, moo”), Latin rudere, rūdere (“to bray; to cry”), Lithuanian raudóti (“to wail; to lament; to sob”), Norwegian raute (“to bellow; to low, moo”), Old Church Slavonic рꙑдати (rydati, “to wail, weep”), Old High German riozan (“to roar; to wail”) (Middle High German riezen (“to wail”)), Old Norse rjóta (“to roar”), Old Swedish riuta, ryta (“to howl, wail; to roar”) (modern Swedish ruta, ryta (“to howl; to roar”) (regional)), Old Swedish röta (“to bellow, roar”) (modern Swedish rauta, råta, rota, röta (“to bellow, roar”) (regional)), Sanskrit रुद् (rud, “to cry, wail, weep; to howl, roar; to bewail, deplore, lament”).[12]The noun is derived from the verb, or from a noun derived from Old Norse rauta (“to roar”) (see above).[13]
[Etymology 5]
A variant of wrout,[14] itself a variant of wroot (“to search or root in the ground”) (obsolete), from Middle English wroten (“to search or root in the ground; of a person: to dig earth; of a worm: to slither, wriggle; to corrode; of a worm: to irritate by biting the skin; to destroy (a fortification) by digging or mining”) [and other forms] (whence root), from Old English wrōtan (“to root up or rummage with the snout”).[15] from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig with the nose or snout, to root”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“a root”).
[Etymology 6]
Possibly a variant of root (“to dig or pull out by the roots; to abolish, exterminate, root out”), from Middle English wroten; see further at etymology 5. Some recent uses are difficult to tell apart from rout (“of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to search for and find (something)”).[16]
[Etymology 7]
The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to move quickly, rush; of waters: to churn, surge; to drag, pull; to throw; to agitate, shake; to beat, strike;”) [and other forms], from Old English hrūtan,[17] from or cognate with Old Norse hrjóta (“to be flung; to fall; to fly”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall; to fly; to move quickly”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kreu- (“to fall, plunge; to rush; to topple”).The English word is cognate with Middle High German rûzen (“to move quickly, storm”), and is also related to Old English hrēosan (“to fall; to collapse; to rush”).[18]The noun is derived from Middle English rout, route (“a blow; suffering, woe (?); a jerk, sharp pull”) [and other forms], from routen; see above.[19]
[Etymology 8]
A brant or brent goose (Branta bernicla), formerly known in Scotland as a rout.Uncertain; either imitative of the bird’s call, or possibly from Icelandic hrota (“brant; brent goose”), also probably imitative though perhaps influenced by hrot (“a snore; act of snoring”), from hrjóta (“to snore”), from Old Norse hrjóta (“to snore”),[20] from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną (“to snore”); see further at etymology 3.
[Further reading]
- rout (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- router (woodworking) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
1. ^ “rǒut(e, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2. ^ Compare “rout, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011; “rout1, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
3. ^ “rǒuten, v.(7)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
4. ^ “† rout, v.6”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.
5. ^ “rout, n.6”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011; “rout1, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
6. ^ “rout, v.11”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011; “rout1, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
7. ^ “rǒuten, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007 (compare route (“snoring”) which is derived from the verb; see “rǒute, n.(4)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007); “rǒuten, v.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
8.↑ 8.0 8.1 Compare “rout, v.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
9. ^ “rout, v.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.
10. ^ “rout, n.4”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.
11. ^ “routen, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
12. ^ Compare “rout, v.4”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.
13. ^ “rout, n.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.
14. ^ “rout, v.9”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011; “rout2, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
15. ^ “wrọ̄ten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007; “wrout, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1928; “† wroot, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1928.
16. ^ “rout, v.10”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.
17. ^ “rǒuten, v.(4)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
18. ^ Compare “† rout, v.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.
19. ^ “rǒut(e, n.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007; compare “† rout, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.
20. ^ “† rout, n.5”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.
[[Alemannic German]]
[Adjective]
rout
1.(Carcoforo) red
[Alternative forms]
- rot, ruat, ròt, röts
[Etymology]
From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud.Cognate with German rot, Dutch rood, English red, West Frisian read, Danish rød.
[References]
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/reu̯t/[Adjective]
rout (masculine rouden, neuter rout, comparative méi rout, superlative am routsten)
1.red
[Etymology]
From Middle High German and Old High German rōt, from Proto-West Germanic *raud.
[See also]
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dash
[[English]]
ipa :/dæʃ/[Anagrams]
- ADHs, SAHD, Sadh, Shad, dahs, shad
[Etymology]
From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.
[Interjection]
dash
1.(euphemistic) Damn!
[Noun]
dash (plural dashes)
1.(typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
1.(computing) A hyphen or minus sign.(by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.A short run, flight.
When the feds came they did the dash.A rushing or violent onset.
- 1987, Archie Randolph Ammons, “Coming Round”, in Robert Pack, Jay Parini, editors, Introspections: American poets on one of their own poems, Hanover and London: University Press of New England for Middlebury College Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 18:
The oar squeaks,
a dash sound like
moon-hustle on the river:Violent strike; a whack.
- 2018 January 24, “Irrelevant Things”, performed by C1 from LTH:
They say that I’m way too cold, I never get tired of rappin
My word is bang where I come from
Watch be one work is magic
Do it and dash it
Smile on MAT
No way this peng one acting
Who got whacked and who got slapped
And who got spared by dashesA small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
Add a dash of vinegar.(figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.
There is a dash of craziness in his personality.Ostentatious vigor.
Aren't we full of dash this morning?A dashboard.
- 1955 October 19, Rex Stout, The Next Witness, Three Witnesses, 94 Bantam, →ISBN, page 31:
The dash clock said 2:38 when […] I turned off a dirt road […] .(Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- 1992, George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed, page 44:
The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
- 2006, Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950, page 99:
Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law […]
- 2008, Lizzie Williams, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide, page 84:
The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.(dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
- 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter VI, serialized in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118
Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.
Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
- 1884, Lord Robert Gower, My Reminiscences, reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", The Christian Union, (29) 22, (May 29, 1884) p. 524
Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?(Internet, informal) The dashboard of a Tumblr user.
- 2018, anonymous, quoted in Mélanie Bourdaa, "'May We Meet Again': Social Bonds, Activities, and Identities in the #Clexa Fandom", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 392:
-i hope you find at least one thing on your dash that will make you laugh today.
- 2018, "notthesameknowledge", quoted in Randall Lake, Recovering Argument, unnumbered page:
i cannot tell you how happy it makes me when i see my dash filled with selfies from other folks who look like me.
- 2018, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie, Alphas Like Us, unnumbered page:
“You wanna know what else is all over my dash? Gifs of you and your boyfriend."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dash.
[See also]
- hyphen
- minus sign
[Verb]
dash (third-person singular simple present dashes, present participle dashing, simple past and past participle dashed)
1.(intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
He dashed across the field.
2.1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670:
As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.
3.(intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
I have to dash now. See you soon.
4.(transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
5.1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau and William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 14:
There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
6.1897, Bram Stoker, chapter XXI, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.
7.1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC:
Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
8.(transitive) To throw violently.
The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
9.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], paragraph 792, →OCLC:
If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
10.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XV, page 24:
The rooks are blown about the skies;
The forest crack’d, the waters curl’d,
The cattle huddled on the lea;
And wildly dash’d on tower and tree
The sunbeam strikes along the world: […]
11.2018 January 24, “Irrelevant Things”, performed by C1 from LTH:
They say that I’m way too cold, I never get tired of rappin / My word is bang where I come from / Watch be one work is magic / Do it and dash it / Smile on MAT / No way this peng one acting / Who got whacked and who got slapped / And who got spared by dashes
12.(transitive, intransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.
13.1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall.
14.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXIV, page 41:
The very source and fount of Day
Is dash’d with wandering isles of night.
15.1712 January 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, December 31, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 262; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 305:
[W]hen I draw any faulty character, I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it, and take care to dash it with such particular circumstances as may prevent all such ill-natured applications.
The spelling has been modernized.
16.(transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
to dash wine with water
17.(transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
18.2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 – 1 Arsenal”, in BBC[2]:
Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.
19.(transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
20.(transitive, usually with down or off) To complete hastily.
He dashed down his eggs.
She dashed off her homework.
21.(transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
22.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter I, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
"Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
23.2003, Robert Andrews, A Murder of Promise, page 198:
Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table.
24.(transitive, dated, euphemistic) Damn (in forming oaths).
Dash his impudence! Who is that scoundrel?
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
Potentially from Early Proto-Albanian *dauša, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰows-o-s (compare English deer, Lithuanian daũsos (“upper air; heaven”)).[1]
[Noun]
dash m (plural desh, definite dashi, definite plural deshtë)
1.ram (male sheep)
[References]
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1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 14
[[Eastern Ojibwa]]
[Adverb]
dash
1.so, and
[References]
Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 143
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From English dash.
[Noun]
dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dasher, definite plural dashene)
1.a dash (small amount)
2.short for dashbord.
[References]
- “dash” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
From English dash.
[Noun]
dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dashar, definite plural dashane)
1.a dash (small amount)
2.short for dashbord.
[References]
- “dash” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Ojibwe]]
ipa :/ˈdaʃ/[Adverb]
dash
1.and, and then, then
Bijiinag ninga-ozhi'aa a'aw bakwezhigan. Mii dash onadinag.
I'll make the bread later and then knead it.
2.but
[Alternative forms]
- idash
- -sh
[References]
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/dash-adv-conj
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dashed
[[English]]
ipa :/dæʃt/[Adjective]
dashed (comparative more dashed, superlative most dashed)
1.(of a line) Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
2.(Britain, dated, informal, euphemistic) Damned.
It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.
3.1824 May 15, “Kiddywinkle History, No. II”, in Blackwood's Magazine, page 540:
I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf.
4.1939, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 8, in Uncle Fred in the Springtime:
I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff.dashed (not comparable)
1.Synonym of damned (“godforsaken”)
[Anagrams]
- shaded
[See also]
- dotted
[Synonyms]
- (line): broken
- (damned): darned (especially US)
[Verb]
dashed
1.past participle of dash
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Dash
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- ADHs, SAHD, Sadh, Shad, dahs, shad
[Etymology]
Old English de + Old English æsc "(residing) near an ash tree".
[Proper noun]
Dash
1.A topographic surname.
2.(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
From dash (“ram”), possibly related to the Illyrian *Dasius.
[Proper noun]
Dash m
1.a male given name
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DASH
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
DASH
1.(international standards) Unofficial non-ISO 4217 currency code for the cryptocurrency Dash.
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
DASH
1.(web development, video) Acronym of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP.
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struggling
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstɹʌɡl̩ɪŋ/[Noun]
struggling (plural strugglings)
1.The act of one who struggles.
2.1848, Orville Dewey, Discourses on the Nature of Religion:
All the strugglings of genius in thee, have never equalled the strugglings of virtue in him.
[Verb]
struggling
1.present participle and gerund of struggle
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tanked
[[English]]
[Adjective]
tanked (comparative more tanked, superlative most tanked)
1.(slang) Drunk.
2.1996, Mark Irwin, Quick, Now, Always: Poems, BOA Editions, Ltd., →ISBN, page 56:
And at a bar in Dolores I met a lady, a very tanked lady, who introduced herself as Miss E. X. Love. How delicious the lies we told!
3.2018, Phillip Anthony Sainz-Hall, From The Bullet To The Bible: A Gangsters Tale, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN:
[…] and mingled some and then he started buying shots. We did a lot or at least I did. We got into a serious conversation about my troubles. I told him the whole story. After getting very tanked I realized the place had become empty.
[Anagrams]
- detank
[Synonyms]
- tanked up
- See also Thesaurus:drunk
[Verb]
tanked
1.simple past and past participle of tank
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tank
[[English]]
ipa :/tæŋk/[Anagrams]
- Kant
[Etymology 1]
From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī) or Marathi टाकी (ṭākī). Compare the Arabic verb ⁧اِسْتَنْقَعَ⁩ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.
[Etymology 3]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[[Alemannic German]]
[Interjection]
tank
1.(Gressoney) thank you
[References]
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
[Synonyms]
- dankche
- fergälts Got
- merci
- vrattrus Got
- wol vergelzgott
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Etymology]
Internationalism. From English tank, from Portuguese tanque, from Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī), from Marathi टाकी (ṭākī), ultimately from Sanskrit तडग (taḍaga, “pond”).
[Further reading]
- “tank” in Obastan.com.
[Noun]
tank (definite accusative tankı, plural tanklar)
1.tank
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈtaŋk][Further reading]
- tank in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- tank in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
tank m inan
1.tank, armor
[[Danish]]
ipa :/tanˀk/[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from English tank.
[Etymology 2]
Borrowed from English tank (but later than the previous word).
[Etymology 3]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/tɑŋk/[Anagrams]
- kant
[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from English tank.
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[French]]
ipa :/tɑ̃k/[Etymology]
Orthographic borrowing from English tank.
[Further reading]
- “tank”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
tank m (plural tanks)
1.tank (military vehicle)
Synonyms: char, char d’assaut, char de combat
2.(Canada) tank (container)
Synonym: réservoir
[[German]]
ipa :/taŋk/[Verb]
tank
1.singular imperative of tanken
2.(colloquial) first-person singular present of tanken
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈtɒŋk][Etymology]
Borrowed from English tank.[1]
[Further reading]
- tank in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[Noun]
tank (plural tankok)
1.tank (a closed container for liquids or gases)
2.tank, fuel tank (the fuel reservoir of a vehicle)
Synonym: üzemanyagtartály
3.(military) tank, armoured fighting vehicle (military fighting vehicle)
Synonyms: harckocsi, páncélkocsi, páncélos
4.(photography) developing tank (a closed container used for developing film in a daylight environment)
Synonym: előhívó tank
[References]
1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ˈtɛŋk/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch tank, from English tank, from Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī) or Marathi टाकी (ṭākī), from Sanskrit तडग (taḍaga, “pond”). Doublet of tangki.
[Further reading]
- “tank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
tank (first-person possessive tankku, second-person possessive tankmu, third-person possessive tanknya)
1.tank, an armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
[Synonyms]
- kereta kebal (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈtɛnk/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English tank.
[Noun]
tank m (invariable)
1.tank (military and container)
[References]
1. ^ tank in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Anagrams]
- kant
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English tank.
[Noun]
tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tanker, definite plural tankene)
1.a tank (container, as below)
2.(military, nonstandard since 2005) a tank (armoured fighting vehicle) (form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tanks)
Synonym: stridsvogn
[References]
- “tank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/tank/[Anagrams]
- kant
[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from English tank.
[References]
- “tank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
- kant
[Noun]
tank c
1.tank (container for liquids)
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/ˈtɑŋk/[Etymology]
From English tank.
[Noun]
tank (definite accusative tankı, plural tanklar)
1.tank
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rough
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹʌf/[Adjective]
rough (comparative rougher, superlative roughest)
1.Not smooth; uneven.
2.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
The rock was one of those tremendously solid brown, or rather black, rocks which emerge from the sand like something primitive. Rough with crinkled limpet shells and sparsely strewn with locks of dry seaweed, a small boy has to stretch his legs far apart, and indeed to feel rather heroic, before he gets to the top.
3.Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
a rough estimate
a rough sketch of a building
a rough plan
4.Turbulent.
rough sea
5.1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter XII, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume I, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:
With my mother's permission and blessings, I set off exultantly for Bombay, leaving my wife with a baby of a few months. But on arrival there, friends told my brother that the Indian Ocean was rough in June and July, and as this was my first voyage, I should not be allowed to sail until November.
6.Difficult; trying.
Being a teenager nowadays can be rough.
7.Crude; unrefined.
His manners are a bit rough, but he means well.
8.Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
9.Violent; not careful or subtle.
This box has been through some rough handling.
10.Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
a rough tone
a rough voice
11.1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W. Lewis […], published 1711, →OCLC:
But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song, / And smooth or rough, with them
12.(of a gem) Not polished; uncut.
a rough diamond
13.Harsh-tasting.
rough wine
14.(chiefly UK, colloquial, slang) Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
15.(chiefly UK, colloquial, slang) Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
[Adverb]
rough (comparative more rough, superlative most rough)
1.In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
2.1826, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 93:
I will warrant they prove such roaring boys as I knew when I served under Lumford and Goring, [...] —sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. Ah! those merry days are gone.
[Alternative forms]
- ruff (colloquial)
[Antonyms]
- smooth
[Etymology]
From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz. Cognate with Scots ruch, rouch (“rough”), Saterland Frisian ruuch, rouch (“rough”), West Frisian rûch (“rough”), Low German ruuch (“rough”), Dutch ruig (“rough”), German rau(h) (“rough”), Danish ru (“uneven on the surface, "rough", "rugged"”).
[Noun]
rough (plural roughs)
1.The unmowed part of a golf course.
2.A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
3.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 124:
In Wellington Street my brother met a couple of sturdy roughs, who had just rushed out of Fleet Street with still wet newspapers and staring placards. "Dreadful catastrophe!" they bawled one to the other down Wellington Street. "Fighting at Weybridge!"
4.(cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
5.The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
6.A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
7.(obsolete) Boisterous weather.
8.1633, Phineas Fletcher, Eclog 1. Amyntas:
In calms you fish; in roughs use songs and dances.
9.A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
[Verb]
rough (third-person singular simple present roughs, present participle roughing, simple past and past participle roughed)
1.To create in an approximate form.
Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.
2.(boxing, wrestling, intransitive) To break the rules by being excessively violent.
3.1938, California. State Athletic Commission, Rules, Regulations and Law Regulating Boxing and Wrestling (page 42)
[…] roughing is not a part of the sport, and will not be tolerated. Referees will not permit unfair practices that may cause injury to a contestant, and are held strictly responsible for enforcing these rules.
4.(ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
5.To render rough; to roughen.
6.To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
7.1802, Charles James, A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary:
To Rough Horses, a word in familiar use among the dragoons to signify the act of breaking in horses, so as to adapt them to military purposes.
8.To endure primitive conditions.
to rough it
9.1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 280:
“ […] Oh, but my husband is never so happy as when he is travelling. He likes roughing it. . . . My husband. . . . My husband. . . .”
10.2013, Anne-Marie K. Kittiphanh, If Life Gave Me LEMONS, I Would Turn It into HONEY, →ISBN:
I was able to help Trudy set up camp and everything else, of course there are different ways to camp the usual comfortable way or roughed we of course roughed it and I did my best to keep warm.
11.(transitive) To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
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diplomatic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌdɪpləˈmætɪk/[Adjective]
diplomatic (comparative more diplomatic, superlative most diplomatic)
1.Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries.
She spent thirty years working for Canada's diplomatic service.
Albania immediately severed diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.
2.2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian[1]:
Born in 1950 towards the end of the Stalin era to diplomatic parents, he was educated at the elite Russian Institute of International Relations before ascending to become Russia’s envoy at the UN, where for a decade he lived through the trauma of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
3.Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments.
Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.
4.Describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus.
5.Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic.
[Alternative forms]
- diplomatical (dated)
- diplomatick (obsolete)
[Etymology]
From French diplomatique, equal to diplomat + -ic.
[Noun]
diplomatic (uncountable)
1.The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
2.1983, Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, Studies in English legal history, page 151:
In its broadest aspect, the subject-matter of diplomatic is the relation between documents and facts.
[[Ladin]]
[Adjective]
diplomatic m pl
1.plural of diplomatich
[[Occitan]]
[Adjective]
diplomatic m (feminine singular diplomatica, masculine plural diplomatics, feminine plural diplomaticas)
1.diplomatic
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
diplomatic m or n (feminine singular diplomatică, masculine plural diplomatici, feminine and neuter plural diplomatice)
1.diplomatic
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French diplomatique, from Latin diplomaticus.
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holdout
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- outhold
[Etymology]
Deverbal from hold out.
[Noun]
holdout (plural holdouts)
1.One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned.
2.2007 November 4, Randall Stross, “Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly”, in New York Times[1]:
If Facebook chooses to remain a holdout, it will not be as the head of a countercoalition but as a cranky recluse.
3.2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club[2]:
One of Otto’s first moves after Viserys’ death is to make the lords and ladies of the Red Keep bend the knee to Aegon. The two holdouts are swiftly carted away by the guards, while the third, Rhaenyra’s faithful Lord Caswell (Paul Hickey), reluctantly kneels.
4.(card games) A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted.
5.1897, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's Complete Hoyle, page 195:
He is probably working a vest or sleeve hold-out. Some clumsy or audacious sharpers will go so far as to hold out cards in their lap, or stick them in a "bug" under the table.
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
holdout m (plural holdouts)
1.(baseball) holdout
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circulating
[[English]]
[Adjective]
circulating
1.Moving about freely.
He glanced at the slowly circulating guests.
2.An institution lending from its collection, especially of books, on condition of membership.
circulating library
[Verb]
circulating
1.present participle and gerund of circulate
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deduplicated
[[English]]
[Verb]
deduplicated
1.simple past and past participle of deduplicate
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charging
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɪŋ/[Noun]
charging (countable and uncountable, plural chargings)
1.(countable) An act or process of charging (as of a battery).
2.(uncountable, basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
Smith is called for charging, and the Nimrods will get the ball.
[Verb]
charging
1.present participle and gerund of charge
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ship
[[English]]
ipa :/ʃɪp/[Anagrams]
- HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, pish
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English ship, schip, from Old English sċip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą, from Proto-Indo-European *skēyb-, *skib-. More at shift.cognatesCognate with West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, German Schiff, Yiddish ⁧שיף⁩ (shif), Danish skib, Norwegian skip, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian škibît (“to cut, lop”), Ancient Greek σκάφη (skáphē, “light boat, skiff”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-Germanic *skipōną, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship”).
[Etymology 3]
Clipping of relationship.
[Further reading]
- Shipping (fandom) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[French]]
ipa :/ʃip/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English ship.
[Noun]
ship m (plural ships)
1.(fandom slang) ship
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
ship
1.Alternative form of schip
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈʃi.pi/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English ship, clipping of relationship.
[Noun]
ship m (plural ships)
1.(Brazil, fandom slang) ship (a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional)
[[Spanish]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English ship.
[Noun]
ship m (plural ships)
1.(fandom slang) ship
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[sip̚˧˦][Etymology]
Clipping of English shipping.
[Verb]
ship
1.to ship (goods to customers), to make a delivery
Synonym: giao
2.2018, MediaZ, Instagram: Giải pháp xây dựng thương hiệu và bán hàng, NXB Thế giới, page 116:
Một số trang thường sử dụng từ "Miễn phí" trong hồ sơ của họ, có thể là miễn phí ship hàng, tư vấn miễn phí…
Some pages tend to use the word "Free" in their files, which can mean free delivery of goods, free advice, etc.
3.2020, Nguyễn Chu Nam Phương, Numagician: Đánh thức phù thủy trí nhớ trong bạn, NXB Đà Nẵng:
Hình dung tôi ra bưu điện, thì thấy họ mới nâng cấp dịch vụ, cho vịt Donald đi ship hàng.
Imagine I go to the post office and see they just upgraded their services and allow Donald Duck to send goods.
4.2021, Lam Huynh, Nhân sinh cảm ngộ, tập 3:
Ban đầu, cô đã giúp bạn của mình mua hàng miễn phí và cô cũng trả hộ tiền ship nhiều lần.
At first, she helped her friend buy goods for free and many times she also paid the delivery fee for him.
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recipient
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/[Adjective]
recipient (not comparable)
1.receiving
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō (“to receive”).
[Noun]
recipient (plural recipients)
1.One who receives.
Synonym: addressee
the recipient of money or goods
My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.
2.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:
And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.
3.(medicine) An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.
4.(chemistry) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
[See also]
- Category:Alambics on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[rə.si.piˈen][Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin recipientem.
[Noun]
recipient m (plural recipients)
1.recipient, container
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
recipient
1.third-person plural future active indicative of recipiō
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French récipient.
[Noun]
recipient n (plural recipiente)
1.container
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awe-inspiring
[[English]]
[Adjective]
awe-inspiring (comparative more awe-inspiring, superlative most awe-inspiring)
1.Inspiring awe; awesome.
The Taj Mahal is an awe-inspiring sight.
2.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
Across the far end of the cavern, with a grinding and crashing noise - a noise so dreadful and awe-inspiring that we all trembled, and Job actually sank to his knees - there flamed out an awful cloud or pillar of fire, like a rainbow many-coloured, and like the lightning bright.
[Verb]
awe-inspiring
1.present participle and gerund of awe-inspire
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awe
[[English]]
ipa :/ɔː/[Anagrams]
- AEW, EAW, WAE, WEA, eaw, wae
[Etymology]
From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
[Noun]
awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)
1.A feeling of fear and reverence.
2.2012 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.
3.A feeling of amazement.
4.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
5.(archaic) Power to inspire awe.
[Synonyms]
- (inspire reverence): enthral, enthrall; overwhelm
[Verb]
awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)
1.(transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
2.1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[2]:
That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
3.(transitive) To control by inspiring dread.
[[Anyi]]
[Noun]
awe
1.rice
mɩn nin a tʋn awe.
My mother prepared rice.
[[Baoule]]
[Noun]
awe
1.hunger
[[Gun]]
ipa :/à.wè/[Adjective]
àwè
1.two
[Etymology]
From Proto-Gbe *-ve or Proto-Gbe *-we. Cognates include Fon àwè, Saxwe Gbe owè, Adja eve, Ewe eve
[Numeral]
àwè
1.two
[[Maori]]
[Noun]
awe
1.soot
2.white feather
[[Mapudungun]]
[Adverb]
awe (Raguileo spelling)
1.quickly, promptly.
2.soon
[References]
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
[Synonyms]
- arol
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈaɣ̞ə/[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égʰos. Doublet of eye.
[[Papiamentu]]
[Alternative forms]
- awé (alternative spelling)
[Etymology]
From Portuguese hoje and Spanish hoy and Kabuverdianu ochi.
[Pronoun]
awe
1.today
[[Swahili]]
[Verb]
awe
1.inflection of -wa:
1.third-person singular subjunctive affirmative
2.m-wa class subject inflected singular subjunctive affirmative
[[Tabaru]]
ipa :[ˈa.we][Noun]
awe
1.a thread
[References]
- Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics
[[Tooro]]
ipa :/áːwe/[Pronoun]
-awe (declinable)
1.your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)
[References]
- Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary[3] (in English), Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 418-419
[[Western Arrernte]]
ipa :/awə/[Interjection]
awe
1.yes
[[Yoruba]]
ipa :/à.wé/[Noun]
àwé
1.friend
Synonyms: ọ̀rẹ́, olùkù
2.an unknown person
Táni àwé yẹn? ― Who is that unknown person?
[References]
- Aremo, Bolaji (2012) How Yoruba and Igbo Became Different Languages[4], Scribo Publications, →ISBN
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respite
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛˌspaɪt/[Anagrams]
- speerit, spreite
[Etymology]
From Anglo-Norman and Old French respit (“rest”), from Latin respectus. Doublet of respect.
[Noun]
respite (countable and uncountable, plural respites)
1.A brief interval of rest or relief.
2.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
I crave but four day's respite.
3.1668, John Denham, “The Passion of Dido for Æneas”, in Poems and Translations with the Sophy[1], page 136:
Some pause and respite only I require.
4.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
5.2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader's Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times[2], retrieved 29 May 2013:
Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
6.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 17:27 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[3], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
The American escort carriers reach the first in a series of rain squalls, and Japanese fire drops off significantly, as their optical systems are unable to see through the rain. At this point in time, almost any other major navy would simply have used their radar to keep spotting and firing, as Duke of York had done to Scharnhorst almost a year ago and as the battleships of the Seventh Fleet had done to the Yamashiro mere hours earlier. But, since only one ship in the Center Force has gunnery radar, the American ships gain some respite.
7.(law) A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
8.1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter vii, leaf 404v:
Thenne spake sir gawayn and sayd my lord Arthur I wold counceylle yow not to be ouer hasty but that ye wold putte it in respyte this Iugement of my lady the quene for many causes.
"Then spake Sir Gawaine, and said: My lord Arthur, I would counsel you not to be over-hasty, but that ye would put it in respite, this judgment of my lady the queen, for many causes."
9.(law) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
10.(musical theatre) A short period of spoken dialogue in an otherwise sung-through musical.
[Synonyms]
- (brief interval): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
[Verb]
respite (third-person singular simple present respites, present participle respiting, simple past and past participle respited)
1.(transitive) To delay or postpone (an event).
2.(transitive) To allow (a person) extra time to fulfil some obligation.
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Boeing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈboʊ.ɪŋ/[Anagrams]
- big one, biogen
[Etymology]
Anglicized spelling of the German surname Böing.
[Noun]
Boeing (plural Boeings)
1.(aviation) An aircraft produced by the Boeing company.
The airline's fleet were all Boeings, without a single Airbus.
[Proper noun]
Boeing
1.A surname from German.
2.(aviation) A popular American aerospace company known for their successful commercial aircraft.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈbɔj̃ɡ/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English Boeing.
[Noun]
Boeing m (plural Boeings)
1.(aviation) an aeroplane produced by Boeing
[Proper noun]
Boeing f
1.(aviation) Boeing (an American aerospace company)
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rarely
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛːli/[Adverb]
rarely (comparative rarelier or more rarely, superlative rareliest or most rarely)
1.Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often. [from 16th c.]
We rarely go to the theatre.
Rarely do you ever find an eagle this far up the river.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rarely
2.Unusually well; excellently. [from 16th c.]
3.To a rare degree; very. [from 16th c.]
4.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 32, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
others speake very honourably of his life and death, and in all other circumstances declare him to have beene a most excellent and rarely virtuous man.
[Anagrams]
- rearly
[Antonyms]
- frequently, usually, often
[Etymology]
From rare + -ly.
[References]
- “rarely”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “rarely”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
- barely
- hardly
- infrequently
- once in a while
- seldom
- sporadically
- scarcely
- Thesaurus:rarely
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volunteer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌvɒl(ə)nˈtɪə/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French voluntaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, voluntary”); or from voluntary + -eer.
[Noun]
volunteer (plural volunteers)
1.One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
The volunteers at the nature reserve meet up ever other Sunday to help its upkeep.
2.(military) One who enters into military service voluntarily (but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers), as opposed to a conscript.
3.(military) A voluntary member of the organized militia of a country, as distinguished from a regular or member of the standing army.
4.2007 April 30, Edward M. Coffman, The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 16:
That summer and fall the Army organized twenty-five regiments of volunteers, including two black regiments, which would have all-black captains and lieutenants. All officers were to be selected from regulars and volunteers who had distinguished themselves […]
5.(law) A person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
6.(botany, agriculture) A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
7.A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
[References]
- “volunteer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Verb]
volunteer (third-person singular simple present volunteers, present participle volunteering, simple past and past participle volunteered)
1.(intransitive) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
2.(transitive, intransitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
to volunteer for doing the dishes
3.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
Miranda: No good. Both routes are blocked. See these doors? The only way past is to get someone to open them from the other side.
Shepard: It's not a fortress; there's got to be something. Here, maybe we can send someone in through this ventilation shaft.
Jacob: Practically a suicide mission. I volunteer.
Miranda: I appreciate the thought, Jacob, but you couldn't shut down the security systems in time. We need to send a tech expert.
4.(transitive) To offer, usually unprompted.
to volunteer an explanation
5.(transitive, informal) To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.
6.(intransitive, botany) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
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dairy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛə.ɹi/[Adjective]
dairy (not comparable)
1.Referring to products produced from milk.
1.(specifically) Referring to products produced from animal milk as opposed to non-milk substitutes.
Is this milk dairy or soy?Referring to the milk production and processing industries.(Britain) On food labelling, containing fats only from dairy sources (e.g. dairy ice cream).
[Anagrams]
- diary, riyad, yaird
[Etymology]
Origin 1250–1300 (Middle English daierie and other forms), from dey (“dairymaid”) + -ery.
[Noun]
dairy (countable and uncountable, plural dairies)
1.A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese.
Go and fetch the butter from the dairy.
2.A dairy farm.
3.A shop selling dairy products.
Can you go and buy some yoghurt and blue cheese from the dairy?
Synonym: milkhouse
Synonym: milkery (rare)
4.(New Zealand) A corner store, superette or minimart.
5.(slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
6.2011, Kate Moore, To Seduce an Angel:
Her dairies as Wallop had called them were on display, or at least as much of them as she and Ruth could not contrive to cover.
7.(uncountable) (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
8.2023 May 14, Alix Strauss, “How the Head of a Filmmaking Center Spends His Sundays”, in The New York Times[1]:
My routine changed in February because I stopped alcohol, caffeine and dairy. Normally, I would have drunk a strong beer before I went to bed and made an espresso in the morning. It’s boring now but healthier.
[References]
- “dairy”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- (woman's breast): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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analysis
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈnælɪsɪs/[Antonyms]
- synthesis
[Etymology]
From Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “I unravel, investigate”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “thoroughly”) + λύω (lúō, “I loosen”).
[Noun]
analysis (countable and uncountable, plural analyses)
1.(countable) Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory etc.).
comparative analysis
2.2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
3.2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:
Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis. By not considering the potential for these cities to grow, both on their own merits and in response to London's limitations, he failed to future-proof these types of service, limiting them in favour of long-distance services.
4.(countable) The result of such a process.
5.1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 214:
Thus, in a sequence such as [French English teacher], since English is closer to
the Head Noun teacher, it must be a Complement; and since French is further
away from teacher, it must be an Attribute. Hence, we correctly predict that
the only possible interpretation for [a French English teacher] is ‘a person who
teaches English who is Frenchʼ. So our analysis not only has semantic plausi-
bility; but in addition it has independent syntactic support.
6.(uncountable, mathematics) A broad field of study in modern mathematics (often mentioned alongside algebra) which developed out of the calculus, concerned with the behavior of functions, sequences, series, limits, metric spaces, measures and more.
Synonym: mathematical analysis
7.2014, Lara Alcock, How to Think about Analysis, Oxford University Press:
8.(countable, logic) Proof by deduction from known truths.
9.(countable, chemistry) The process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts, or the result of this process.
10.(uncountable, music) The analytical study of melodies, harmonies, sequences, repetitions, variations, quotations, juxtapositions, and surprises.
11.(countable, psychology) Psychoanalysis.
[See also]
- List of terms used in mathematical analysis
[[Latin]]
ipa :/aˈna.ly.sis/[Etymology]
From Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “I unravel, investigate”), from ἀνά (aná, “on, up”) + λύω (lúō, “I loosen”).
[Noun]
Latin Wikipedia has an article on:analysisWikipedia laanalysis f (genitive analysis or analyseōs or analysios); third declension
1.(Medieval Latin, mathematics) analysis
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resemble
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈzɛmb(ə)l/[Etymology]
From Anglo-Norman, Old French resembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”). By surface analysis, re- + semble.
[Synonyms]
- mirror
- duplicate
- look like
[Verb]
resemble (third-person singular simple present resembles, present participle resembling, simple past and past participle resembled)
1.(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
The twins resemble each other.
2.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
We will resemble you in that.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
4.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230b:
But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
5.(transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
6.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
7.(obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.
8.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:
They can so well resemble mans speech.
9.(obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
10.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
And ſince we all haue ſuckt one wholſome aire,
And with the ſame proportion of Elements,
Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled,
Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]
11.1881, Horace Bushnell, Building Eras in Religion:
they resemble themselves to the swans
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
resemble
1.inflection of resemblar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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Brood
[[German Low German]]
[Noun]
Brood n (plural Bröö)
1.(Westphalian, Hamburgisch) Alternative form of Broot (“bread”)
2.1992, Elisabeth Piirainen, Wilhelm Elling, editors, Wörterbuch der westmünsterländischen Mundart:
Brood un Botter kann de wenn', Tabak un Fuusel mott de wenn'
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
[[Saterland Frisian]]
ipa :/broːd/[Etymology]
From Old Frisian brād, from Proto-West Germanic *braud.
[Noun]
Brood n (plural Brode)
1.bread
[References]
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “Brood”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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brood
[[English]]
ipa :/bɹuːd/[Adjective]
brood (not comparable)
1.(of animals) Kept or reared for breeding.
brood ducks
a brood mare
[Anagrams]
- Dobro, boord, dobro, droob
[Etymology]
From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
[Further reading]
- Brood (honey bee) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
brood (countable and uncountable, plural broods)
1.The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 13:34:
As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
3.(uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
4.(countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
5.(countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
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 III, scene ii]:
Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.
7.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 243:
Garland Green, the tenth in a brood of eleven, was born on June 24, 1942, in Dunleath, Mississippi.
8.That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
9.1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2:
[…] flocks of the airy brood,
Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]
10.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 19”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]
11.Parentage.
12.(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
[Verb]
brood (third-person singular simple present broods, present participle brooding, simple past and past participle brooded)
1.(transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
2.(transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
3.(intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
4.1833, Alfred Tennyson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood
5.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
6.1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XI.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, pages 256–257:
But Claggart's was no vulgar form of the passion. Nor, as directed toward Billy Budd, did it partake of that streak of apprehensive jealousy that marred Saul's visage perturbedly brooding on the comely young David. Claggart's envy struck deeper.
7.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:
And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
8.(intransitive) To be bred.
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/brʊət/[Etymology]
From Dutch brood, from Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *brōd, from Proto-Germanic *braudą.
[Noun]
brood (plural brode)
1.(countable) A loaf of bread.
2.(uncountable) bread.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/broːt/[Anagrams]
- boord
[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *brōd, from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą.
[Noun]
Gesneden wittebrood
Sliced white breadbrood n (plural broden, diminutive broodje n)
1.(uncountable) Bread.
2.(countable) A loaf of bread.
3.(countable, by extension) A similar bakery product or other baked dish.
4.(uncountable, metonymically) Someone's livelihood.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/brɔːd/[Adjective]
brood
1.
2. broad
[Alternative forms]
- brod, brode
[Etymology]
From Old English brād, from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.
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broo
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- -boro, Boro, OBOR, boor, boro, boro-, robo, robo-
[Noun]
broo (uncountable)
1.(Scotland) broth
2.a. 19th century, unknown author, An We're a'Noddin
The cats love milk, and the dogs love broo,
The lads love lasses, and the lasses love lads too.
[[Scots]]
[Etymology 1]
Probably from Old French breu.
[Etymology 2]
Old English bru.
[Etymology 3]
Representing a Glaswegian pronunciation of (Employment) Bureau.
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another
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈnʌð.ə(ɹ)/[Alternative forms]
- anoda (Jamaican English)
- anotha, anotha' (AAVE- eye dialect)
- nother (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- on Earth, on earth
[Determiner]
another
1.One more/further, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.
2.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
3.2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
4.Not the same; different.
Do you know another way to do this job?
5.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
6.1979, Micheal Ende, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53:
But that is another story and will be told another time.
7.2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
8.Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else.
He has never known another like her.
[Etymology]
From Middle English another, equivalent to an + other.
[Pronoun]
another
1.An additional one of the same kind.
This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another?
There is one sterling and here is another
2.One that is different from the current one.
I saw one movie, but I think I will see another.
3.One of a group of things of the same kind.
His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.
[References]
1. ^ Brians, Paul (2016-05-19), “a whole ’nother. Common Errors in English Usage and More”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], Washington State University, retrieved 2019-12-30: “It is one thing to use the expression “a whole ’nother” as a consciously slangy phrase suggesting rustic charm and a completely different matter to use it mistakenly.”
- “another”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[[Middle English]]
[Alternative forms]
- anoþer, a noþer
[Etymology]
Compound of an + other, appearing as a single word starting from the 13th or 14th century.
[Pronoun]
another
1.another
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑːf.tə(ɹ)/[Adjective]
after
1.(dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
2.1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 72:
I did verily believe in my own mind, that I couldn't fight in that way at all; but my after experience convinced me that this was all a notion.
3.1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:
The amends he had made in after life were lost sight of in the dramatic glare of the original act.
4.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
In the old days, […] he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
5.(nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship.
The after gun is mounted aft.
The after gun is abaft the forward gun.
6.1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
Caspian led them down a ladder into the after hatch.
[Adverb]
after (not comparable)
1.Behind; later in time; following.
I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
They lived happily ever after.
I might come next month, or the month after.
2.On the result of. Often used with verbs related to cleaning.
I'm tired of picking up after you. Why can't you clean your own messes?
[Anagrams]
- aftre, frate, freat, freta, rafte, trafe
[Conjunction]
after
1.Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
I went home after we had decided to call it a day.
2.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
3.1991, Donald "Shadow" Rimgale (character), Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft
So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
4.2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
[Etymology]
From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
[Preposition]
after
1.Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
We had a few beers after the game.
The time is quarter after eight.
The Cold War began shortly after WWII.
After you with the salt/paper.
I told her to shut the door after her.
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
3.2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
After early sparring, Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.
4.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
1.(in reduplicative expressions) Repeatedly, seemingly in a sequence without end.
day after day, time after time, mile after mile, beer after beer, smile after smileBehind.
He will leave a trail of destruction after him.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.In pursuit of, seeking.
He's after a job; run after him; inquire after her health.In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
We named him after his grandfather; a painting after Leonardo da Vinci.
- 1735, The Sportsman's Dictionary:
Work your horse in a calade, after the Italian way; ride him straight, and then you make good use of the calade.Next in importance or rank.
The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince.As a result of.
After your bad behaviour, you will be punished.In spite of.
After all that has happened, he is still my friend.
I can't believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino!(Ireland, Newfoundland, usually preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door.
- 1875, Patrick Kennedy, Evenings in the Duffrey, page 283:
He was after walking on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday before, all the way from the County Limerick, where his brother, Father John, has a parish; and you may believe, the poor man was tired
- 1906, Lady Gregory, “A Miracle Play”, in The Shanachie, volume 1:
Mother: Let him get away out of this now, himself and his share of songs. Look at the way he has your bib destroyed that I was after washing in the morning!
- 2004, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea[1], page 40:
When I woke up it was black-dark and the music was after stopping. I could taste the bread I was after eating in the dream, as sweet and luscious as any I ever knew
- 2004, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Great Milk Train Robbery:
He asked directions to the dairy those milk cans had shown up late at. Corrigan pointed back the way he'd come and explained, “You'd have been after riding past their loading platform because they don't have their sign overlooking where the train would be after stopping.
- 2008, M. P. Shiel, The Black Box, page 45:
"Yes. And where were you when the flood broke loose?" / "I would be most of the way to the Old House then. O'Loughlin was after running in wild to tell me he was hearing the Banshee out at The Old House, […] ."(dated) According to an author or text.Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
to look after workmen; to enquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness(obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
- a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value.
[References]
- Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 2, page 88.
- 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
- “after”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Related terms]
- abaft
- aft
- eft
[Synonyms]
- post
[[German]]
[Etymology]
From Middle High German after, from Old High German after.
[Preposition]
after (governs the dative)
1.(chiefly Early New High German) after
2.1853, Gustav Eduard Benseler, Geschichte Freibergs und seines Bergbaues. Erste Abtheilung, Freiberg, page 251:
Nun fragte der Forderer weiter an: wer irgend einen von ihnen after dem Tage hause oder hofe, d. h. zu Hause oder Hofe beherberge, wie der ihm zu Rechte bestanden sein. [...] Auf die fernere Frage des Forderers: ob er ihrer einen after dem Tage ansichtig werde, wie oder mit wem er sie aufhalten sollte, erklärte man ihm […]
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[[Middle Dutch]]
[Adverb]
after
1.(Holland) Alternative form of achter
[Preposition]
after
1.(Holland) Alternative form of achter
[[Middle High German]]
[Etymology]
From Old High German after.
[Preposition]
after (+ dative)
1.after
[[Old High German]]
ipa :/ˈaf.ter/[Adverb]
after
1.behind
2.after
3.back
[Alternative forms]
- aftar, efter
[Etymology]
From Proto-Germanic *after, whence also Old English æfter, Old Norse aptr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epótero- (“further behind, further away”), comparative form of *apo- (“off, behind”).
[Preposition]
after (+ dative)
1.after
after zweim tagon
after two days
2.according to, in
after antreitu
in order
[References]
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈaf.tɛr/[Etymology]
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from after-party.
[Further reading]
- after in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- after at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
[Noun]
after m inan
1.(slang) after-party
Synonyms: afterek, afterka, afterparty
Antonyms: bifor, biforek, biforka
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈaf.teʁ/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English after[-party].
[Noun]
after m (plural afters)
1.(informal) after-party
2.(informal) late-night bar
[[Proto-Norse]]
[Romanization]
after
1.Romanization of ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ
[[Scots]]
ipa :/ˈafən/[References]
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈafteɾ/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English after[-party].
[Noun]
after m (plural afters)
1.after-party
2.late-night bar
[[West Frisian]]
[Preposition]
after
1.Alternative form of achter
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[[English]]
ipa :/wɪθˈaʊt/[Adverb]
without (not comparable)
1.(archaic or literary) Outside, externally. This is still used in the names of some civil parishes in England, e.g. St Cuthbert Without.
2.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
Macbeth: There's blood upon your face
Murderer: 'tis Banquo's then
Macbeth: 'tis better thee without then he within.
3.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 18:
And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will.
4.1900, Ernest Dowson, Benedictio Domini, lines 13–14:
Strange silence here: without, the sounding street
Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire
5.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, Norton, published 2005, page 1100:
I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without.
6.2016, Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, Death's End, Tor, translation of 死神永生, →ISBN, page 236:
The feeling seemed to come not from without, but from within each body, as though every person had become a vibrating string.
7.2019 December 8, Supergirl (TV series), season 5, episode 8, "Crisis on Infinite Earths":
Brainiac: This earthquake is quite literally worldwide.
Alex Danvers: But the seismic activity [isn't] coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.
8.Lacking something.
Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.
9.2022 September 11, Scott McDonald, quoting President Volodymyr Zelensky, “Cold, Hunger and Darkness in Ukraine 'Not as Terrible' as Russia: Zelensky”, in Newsweek[1], archived from the original on 12 September 2022[2]:
"Read lips: Without gas or without you? Without you. Without light or without you? Without you. Without water or without you? Without you. Without food or without you? Without you.
"Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as terrible and deadly for us as your "friendship and brotherhood."
10.(euphemistic) In prostitution: without a condom being worn.
11.2012, Maxim Jakubowski, The Best British Crime Omnibus:
“What's within reason?” “Hand-job, blow-job, full sex — straight, full service. Greek, maybe, if you're not too big. Golden shower, if you like, but not reverse. No hardsports. And absolutely nothing without.”
[Alternative forms]
- withoute (archaic); wythoute, wythowt (obsolete), wythowte (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- outwith
[Antonyms]
- (outside): within
- (not having): with, having, characteristic of, endowed with
[Conjunction]
without
1.(archaic or dialectal) Unless, except (introducing a clause).
2.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter I, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 1:
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.
3.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
‘Why,’ he blurted, ‘because they say I've no right to come up like this—without we mean to marry—’
2006, p.264
[Etymology]
From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”); equivalent to with- + out. Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”).
[Preposition]
without
1.(archaic or literary) Outside of, beyond.
Antonym: within
2.1697, 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:
Without the gate / Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.
3.1640, William Lithgow, “The Sixt Part”, in The Totall Diſcourſe, Of the rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the moſt famous Kingdomes in Europe, Aſia, and Affrica […], London: I. Okes, page 249:
From thence we came without the Eaſtern gate, (ſtanding on a low Banke, called the daughter of Syon, that over-toppeth the valley of Iehoſaphat,) unto an immoveable ſtone, upon the which they ſaid St. Stephen was ſtoned to death, the firſt Martyr of the Chriſtian faith; and the faithfull fore-runner of many noble followers.
4.c. 1689, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth:
Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.
5.1835, William Beckford, Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal, volume 1, page 13:
[…] though it was pitch-dark, and we were obliged to be escorted by grooms and groomlings with candles and lanterns; a very necessary precaution, as the winds blew not more violently without the house than within.
6.Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
Antonym: with
It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat.
7.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
8.1968 December 8, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder (lyrics and music), “I’d Be a Fool Right Now”, in For Once in My Life, performed by Stevie Wonder:
One day my dreams were surely dying, dying, dying baby
Just like a flower without rain
9.1967, Paul McCartney (writer), The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Life goes on within you and without you.
10.2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema.
11.Not doing or not having done something.
He likes to eat everything without sharing.
He shot without warning anyone.
12.1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
13.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
[Synonyms]
- lacking, outwith, with no, -less, w/o, sans, -free
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈwɒɹənt/[Etymology]
A warrant (noun sense 1) issued on September 1, 1980, by the New York Army National Guard appointing someone as a sergeantThe noun is derived from Middle English warant (“protector; guard, shield, protection”), from Anglo-Norman warrant, Old Northern French warant, warand, a variant of Old French guarant, garant, garand (“assurance, guarantee; authorization, permission; protector; protection, safety”) (modern French garant),[1] from Frankish *warand, present participle of *warjan (“to fend off; to stop, thwart”). The word is cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”).The verb is derived from Middle English warrant, waranten (“to give protection; to protect, shield; to assure, pledge, promise; to guarantee”), from Anglo-Norman warantir, warandir, warentir, and Old Northern French warandir, warantir, variant forms of Old French guarantir (“to protect”) (modern French garantir),[2] a Romance formation from the noun guarant: see above.
[Further reading]
- warrant (finance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- warrant (law) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- warrant (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
warrant (countable and uncountable, plural warrants)
1.Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
2.2007, Gill Perry, “Notes”, in Spectacular Flirtations: Viewing the Actress in British Art and Theatre, 1768–1820, New Haven, Conn., London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, →ISBN, footnote 15, page 205, column 2:
Two years after the first appearance on the London stage by an English actress, a royal warrant of 1660 decreed that women rather than boys were to play all female roles.
3.(countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
a warrant of authenticity; a warrant for success
4.1801, Thomas Scott, “Section II. Scriptural Proofs, that the Sinner Wants No Warrant for Believing in Christ, Except the Word of God.”, in The Warrant and Nature of Faith in Christ Considered, with Some Reference to the Various Controversies on that Subject, 2nd revised edition, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire: Printed by J. Seeley, sold by L. B. Seeley, […], →OCLC, page 23:
The brazen serpent, lifted up in the centre of Israel's camp, with the publick declaration of its use, was a sufficient warrant to every man, when bitten by a fiery serpent, to look unto it. But [...] if any looked without at all expecting a cure according to the word of the Lord, they must have perished; not for want of a warrant to believe; but because they did not submit to the wisdom and authority of God, or rely on his faithfulness and mercy, in this appointed way of preservation.
5.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 163:
"None. But," said Francesca, hesitatingly, "will not Lord Avonleigh need some warrant for the truth of this history?"
6.1987, Garry Wills, Newsweek, volume 110, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 1:
He almost gives his failings as a warrant for his greatness.
7.(countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
8.1535–1536, “Chapter XI. An Acte Conc̉nynge Clerkes of the Signet and Privie Seale. [27 Henry VIII., c. 11]”, in The Statutes, revised edition, volumes I (Henry III. to James II. A.D. 1235–6 – 1685), London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, published 1870, →OCLC, page 458:
And also be in enactid by the auctorite aforseid that no manꝰ [man's] clerke or clerkes or other parsone or parsones do wryte or make any maner of wryting warraunt or warrauntes, upon any maner gyfte or graunte made by the Kynges Highnes or by any other his Gracys offycers as aforsaide, [...]
9.1553 September 24, “State Papers in the Reign of Queen Mary”, in Samuel Haynes, editor, A Collection of State Papers, Relating to Affairs in the Reigns of King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, from the Year 1542 to 1570. […], London: Printed by William Bowyer, published 1740, →OCLC, page 187:
A Warraunt to Sir Edmond Peckham Knight, for twenty Pounds to be delivered to Fraunces Pitche, being ſent with Lettres to the Quene's Ambaſſador reſydent with the Frenche King.
10.(finance, countable) An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.
11.1896, William A. Reid, “General Power to Incur Pecuniary Liability—Public Corporations”, in A Treatise on the Law Pertaining to Corporate Finance […] In Two Volumes, volume I, Albany, N.Y.: H. B. Parsons, law publisher, →OCLC, § 12, page 18:
But they [police juries] have no power to [...] issue promissory notes or warrants to cover funds which may be set aside for this purpose in future taxation without express authority from the supreme political power of the state.
12.2015, Chris O’Malley, “Masters of the Market: 1979–1984”, in Bonds without Borders: A History of the Eurobond Market, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 76:
The first Eurobond offering was for Crédit National who issued $50m 13.75% five-year notes with six-month warrants to purchase the same principal amount of 13.75% ten-year bonds. The cum-warrant price of the note quickly rose to 105.5% in a rising market, yet the warrants alone were quoted at $15.
13.(law, countable) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
an arrest warrant issued by the court
14.1913 October 11, “The Bomb-making Charge. An Important Discussion.”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette: The Weekly Edition of the North-China Daily News, volume CIX (New Series), number 2409, Shanghai: Printed and published at the offices of the North-China Daily News & Herald, Ld., →OCLC, pages 113–114:
Mr. Musso said he desired to make an application at this stage on behalf of the accused, namely, that he be discharged on the ground that he was improperly held in custody, there being no warrant issued by the Court and no counter-signature to any warrant by the Senior-Consul. At the last hearing the fact was disclosed that the accused was arrested without a warrant.
15.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
Avina: Former Spectre agent Saren Arterius is nearing the vicinity of the Council Camber.
Avina: A warrant has been issued for his arrest, though Citadel Security is unable to respond at this time.
16.(military, countable) Short for warrant officer.
17.2006, David R. Welsh, “Warrant Officer Associations over the Years: Chief Warrant Officers & Warrant Officers Association U.S. Coast Guard: 1919–Present”, in The Legacy of Leadership as a Warrant Officer, Nashville, Tenn., Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 40:
[Dave T.] Daniels also stated that many supported the idea of an officers indoctrination course, with the aim of preparing warrants for broader responsibility.
1.(countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
2.1854, “The Old Sailor” [pseudonym; Matthew Henry Barker], “Harry Bartlett”, in Floating Remembrances and Sketches of a Sea Life, London: Whittaker and Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Dearden, →OCLC, page 86:
Several days passed away, and at length down came an order for [Harry] Bartlett to go on shore and take up his warrant for a sloop of war that was then round at Plymouth, to which place he was to make all haste to join. […] "Well, my man," said Sir Joseph [Sydney Yorke], in his usual deliberative manner, "and so it has pleased the powers aloft to reward your deserts, and you are now a warrant officer."(New Zealand, road transport, countable) A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
- 1968 October 22, Norman Eric Kirk, “Appropriation Bill—Estimates”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): Second Session, Thirty-fifth Parliament: House of Representatives, volume 357, Wellington: A. R. Shearer, government printer, published 1969, →OCLC, page 2502:
Some years ago he had bought a motor vehicle with a warrant issued the same day only to find that the hand brake was not functioning properly and only one brake drum had any lining on it. He had recently heard of a similar case of a vehicle which had been issued with a warrant by the Christchurch City Council testing station, and the purchaser had to pay $60 to have the hand brake and hydraulic brake equipment fixed and the brakes relined.
- 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 55:
She had inherited from Rufus a 1994 Nissan Vanette that routinely failed its warrant and was always breaking down;(obsolete, countable) A defender, a protector.
- [1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum secūdum”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book X, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaves 207, verso – 208, recto; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, pages 414–415:
And whanne I ſawe her makynge ſuche dole / I asked her who ſlewe her lorde ¶ Syre ſhe ſaid the falſest knyght of the world now lyuyng and he is the mooſt vylayne that euer man herd ſpeke of / and his name is ſir Breuſe ſaunce pyte / thenne for pyte I made the damoyſel to lepe on her palfroy / and I promyſed her to be her waraunt / and to helpe her to entyere her lord
(please add an English translation of this quotation)](mining, uncountable) Underclay in a coal mine.
Synonym: warren earth
[References]
1. ^ “warant, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 May 2018.
2. ^ “warenten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 May 2018; compare “warantīen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 May 2018.
[Verb]
warrant (third-person singular simple present warrants, present participle warranting, simple past and past participle warranted)
1.(transitive, obsolete) To protect, keep safe (from danger).
2.1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Constancie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 21:
[A]ll honeſt meanes for a man to warrant him-ſelfe from euills, are not onely tolerable, but commendable.
3.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:
I'le warrant him for drowning, though the Ship were no ſtronger then a Nutt-ſhell, and as leaky as an vnſtanched wench.
4.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 306:
A spell which will warrant its employer against all risk of being shot.
5.(transitive, obsolete) To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something).
6.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Diet Rectified in Substance”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 1, subsection 1, page 200:
Crato in a conſultation of his for a noble patient, tels him plainly, that if his Highneſſe will keepe but a good diet, hee will warrant him his former health.
7.1855, [Isaac Ridler Butts], “[Marine Insurance.] Chapter II.”, in The Merchant’s, Shipmaster’s and Mate’s Manual, […], Boston, Mass.: Published by Isaac R. Butts, […], →OCLC, page 63:
The warranty that a ship shall sail on a given day must be strictly performed. Thus, if a ship, warranted to sail on or before a particular day, be prevented from sailing on that day by an embargo, the warranty is not complied with.
8.1871, Donald Kennedy, “The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age [advertisement]”, in Kennedy on Diseases of the Skin, 2nd edition, Roxbury, Mass.: Donald Kennedy, →OCLC:
One or two bottles are warranted to cure all humor in the eyes. Two bottles are warranted to cure running of the ears, and blotches among the hair.
9.(transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
10.1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:
Tuc[ca]. [...] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: [...]
11.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125:
The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. [...] His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.
12.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 2:
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; [...]
13.(transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.
That tree is going to fall, I’ll warrant.
14.1822, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 98–99:
"I warrant you," said Chiffinch the female, nodding, but rather to her own figure reflected from a mirror, than to her politic husband, "I warrant you we will find means of occupying him that will sufficiently fill up his time."
15.(transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
I am warranted to search these premises fully.
16.1852–1855, Thomas Wright, chapter XII, in The History of Scotland; from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, volume II, London, New York, N.Y.: Printed and published by the London Printing and Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 645, column 1:
[S]ince by our commission we are not warranted to treat but with the noblemen named by his majesty with the advice of the peers, and are particularly warranted to make exception against the earl of Traquair, for his malversation in the matter of the assembly and parliament, [...]
17.(transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.
Circumstances arose that warranted the use of lethal force.
18.1903 September 23, “Notes from the United States”, in W[illiam] H[enry] Maw, J[ames] Dredge [Jr.], editors, Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal, London: Offices for advertisements and publication—35 & 36, Bedford Street, Strand, W.C., published 2 October 1903, →OCLC, page 456, column 3:
A strong pressure was brought by consumers to this end; but neither the combinations nor the independent interests have felt that the pressure was sufficiently strong in warranting them in making a cut.
19.1905 April 15, J. W. Midgley, “Private Cars. Why Private Car Lines were Overlooked—Thorough Investigation of Abuses Authorized. Circular Letter No. 38”, in The Railway and Engineering Review, volume XLV, number 15, Chicago, Ill.: Published [by Railway Review, Inc.] at 1305 Manhattan Building, →OCLC, page 265, column 3:
The fact, however, that astonishment has been expressed at the clamor described, warrants a review of incidents which precipitated the events referred to.
[[French]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English warrant.
[Further reading]
- “warrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
warrant m (plural warrants)
1.(finance) warrant
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈwɔr.rant/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English warrant.
[Noun]
warrant m (invariable)
1.warrant (document or certificate)
[References]
1. ^ warrant in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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unclassified
[[English]]
[Adjective]
unclassified (comparative more unclassified, superlative most unclassified)
1.Not classified
[Etymology]
un- + classified
[Verb]
unclassified
1.simple past and past participle of unclassify
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measles
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmizəlz/[Alternative forms]
- measle, the measles
[Anagrams]
- Maleses, Saleems, almesse
[Etymology 1]
Either from Middle Dutch masels (“blood blisters, measels”) or Middle Low German maselen (“red blemishes, measels”), both from Old High German masala (“blood blister, phlegmon”). Doublet of measlings. Cognate with mazer & mase and Middle Low German masele & māsel. Influenced in pronunciation and some senses by mesel (“leprous, leper”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”).
[References]
- “measles, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- “measle, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- “† mesel, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
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measle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmiːzəl/[Anagrams]
- Saleem
[Etymology]
From Middle English mesel, from Old French mesel (“leprous”), from Latin misellus (“wretched", "unfortunate”), diminutive of miser (“wretched, sick”), of unknown ultimate origin.
[Noun]
measle (plural measles)
1.A red spot of the kind that appears on the skin of someone suffering from measles.
2.A tapeworm larva.
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while
[[English]]
ipa :/ʍaɪl/[Antonyms]
- (uncertain long period): bit
[Conjunction]
while
1.During the same time that.
He was sleeping while I was singing.
Driving while intoxicated is against the law.
2.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
While the powwow was going on the big woman came back again. She was consider'ble rumpled and scratched up, but there was fire in her eye.
3.1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25:
While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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.
6. Although.
This case, while interesting, is a bit frustrating.
While I would love to help, I am very busy at the moment.
7.2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 September 2013:
While Britain’s recession has been deep and unforgiving, in London it has been relatively shallow.
8.(Northern England, Scotland) Until.
I'll wait while you've finished painting.
9.1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English[1], volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490:
To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
10.As long as.
While you're at school you may live at home.
11.1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
Use your memory; you will sensibly experience a gradual improvement, while you take care not to load it to excess.
12.(media, public policy) Used to denote an individual experiencing racial profiling when performing a seemingly benign activity.
He was detained for four hours at the store yesterday. His crime? Shopping while black.
13.2016 November 7, Michael T. Luongo, “Traveling While Muslim Complicates Air Travel”, in The New York Times[2]:
Ms. Syed, along with many of her American Muslim friends and Islamic-rights advocates, is all too familiar with what many refer to as the stigma of traveling while Muslim.
14.2019 March 8, Tom Perkins, “'Gardening while black': lawsuit targets white accusers over 'outrageous' claims”, in The Guardian[3]:
He added that the case took an emotional toll and left him humiliated by the accusations when, in fact, all he had been doing was "gardening while black".
[Etymology]
From Middle English whyle, from Old English hwīl, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīlu, from Proto-Germanic *hwīlō (compare Dutch wijl, Low German Wiel, German Weile, Danish hvile (“rest”), Norwegian Bokmål hvile (“rest”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Cognate with Albanian sillë (“breakfast”), Latin tranquillus, Sanskrit चिर (cirá), Persian ⁧شاد⁩ (šâd).
[Noun]
while (plural (archaic or informal) whiles)
1.An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.
He lectured for quite a long while.
It’s a long while since anyone lived there, so it’s a ruin now.
2.1857, Charles Kingsley, [Letters and Memories]:
Do the good that's nearest Though it's dull at whiles.
3.1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 22, in Kidnapped, page 158:
There are whiles […] when ye are altogether too canny and Whiggish to be company for a gentleman like me.
4.2017, Anne Thériault, “The Monster Book of Questions and Answers”, in Kelly Jensen, editor, Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World, Algonquin Young Readers, page 27:
Things were pretty dark for a while — several whiles, actually.
1.(US) an uncertain long period of time
2.(Philippines) an uncertain short moment
[Preposition]
while
1.(Northern England, Scotland) Until.
2.c. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
I may be conveyed into your chamber; I'll lie under your bed while midnight.
[References]
- “while”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “while”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
- spell; see also Thesaurus:uncertain period
- (during the same time that): whilst; see also Thesaurus:while
- (although): as much as; see also Thesaurus:even though
- (until): till; see also Thesaurus:until
- (as long as): provided that, providing, so long as
- (loiter): see also Thesaurus:loiter
[Verb]
while (third-person singular simple present whiles, present participle whiling, simple past and past participle whiled)
1.(transitive, now only in combination with away; see also while away) To pass (time) idly.
Synonyms: idle, laze, lounge
I whiled away the hours whilst waiting for him to arrive
2.1839, Robert Folkestone Williams, The Youth of Shakespeare[4], page 184:
Some were whiling the time by admiring the figures on the cloth of tissue.
3.1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Student’s Tale. The Falcon of Ser Federigo.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 35:
Here in seclusion, as a widow may, / The lovely lady whiled the hours away, […]
4.2018, Shukla Lal, Floating Logs:
As if she was just whiling her time with them until his arrival.
5.(transitive) To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.
6.1588, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes:
They whiled them with such answere as suted to their purposes, and long adoe was made in weaving and unweaving Penelopes web, till the Spanish Armada was upon the Coast, and the very Ordnance proclaimed in their eares a surcease from further illusions.
7.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 130:
He sat her on the corner of the carpenter's bench, and parried or diverted her questions about her father, and the desirability of wakening him by handing her the long curled shavings; and when these palled, he whiled her on by the impossible task of teaching him her version of the 'Three Golden Balls' a blank-verse poem, but rhythmically intoned, which he had taught her.
8.2010, Dr Rudolf Steiner, Truth-Wrought-Words:
In other worlds I whiled me now Through many a dark night long.
9.2018, Michael Joyce, Yada:
Like a good father, he whiled him with stories about the past of his nation and discussed in detail the intricacies of his profession, teaching the child secrets of the craft that had been passed from generation to generation.
10.(intransitive, archaic) To elapse, to pass.
11.1764, Mrs. Gunning (Susannah), Family Pictures, a Novel. Containing Curious and Interesting Memoirs of Several Persons of Fashion in W-----re, page 115:
The tedious hours whiled slowly on, 'till the succeeding afternoon, when the expected carriage made its appearance much sooner than they had promised themselves.
12.1901, Thomas Hardy, “A Man”, in Poems of the Past and the Present:
Years whiled. He aged, sank, sickened; and was not: / And it was said, 'A man intractable / And curst is gone.'
13.Alternative spelling or misspelling of wile.
14.1842, “Letters from Italy: No. 1 —Nice”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 19, page 47:
There it lies before me sparkling in the sun, whiling me as it often does from my pen or book to gaze upon its loveliness.
15.1860, The Knickerbacker - Volume 56, page 593:
Perhaps the coziness of his seat, and the absence of the sun's rays from the side of the house where he was seated, had some agency in whiling him into a delicious sleep;
16.1880, Ann Bagwill Cuming, Night Thoughts and Day Dreams, page 10:
Upon the shelf before me stands, The Book that lured to distant Lands, That prompt my boyish wish to roam, And whiled me from my childhood's home.
17.1900, Christian Work: Illustrated Family Newspaper - Volume 68, page 38:
“Do not let us go near them," he says in a cajoling, low voice to Bertha, whiling her away into the sun and the flowers;
18.2020, George Payne Rainsford James, Agincourt: A Romance:
He whiled him on to speak farther; but the same cloud was still upon Sir Henry Dacre's mind.
[[Yola]]
[Etymology]
From Middle English whyle, from Old English hwīl, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīlu.
[Noun]
while
1.while
2.1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
A while agone.
A while ago.
3.1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 9-11:
Yn ercha an aul o' while yt beeth wi gleezom o' core th' oure eyen dwytheth apan ye Vigere o'dicke Zouvereine, Wilyame ee Vourthe,
In each and every condition it is with joy of heart that our eyes rest upon the representative of that Sovereign, William IV.,
[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 22
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funding
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfʌndɪŋ/[Noun]
English Wikipedia has an article on:fundingWikipedia funding (countable and uncountable, plural fundings)
1.The action of the verb fund.
2.2021 May 5, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Heathrow Western Rail Access scheme 'on hold'”, in RAIL, number 930, page 26:
However the collapse in demand for rail and air travel caused by the pandemic has had a knock-on effect for the project's funding.
3.Money provided as funds.
The council is providing funding to the church to repair the roof.
4.2013, Brian Nelson, Law and Ethics in Global Business:
Second, a bank can commit to provide a maximum amount of money (e.g., $US1,000,000) in one or more fundings over a set period of time (e.g., one year). Such credit facilities are called “lines of credit.”
[Verb]
funding
1.present participle and gerund of fund
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allegations
[[English]]
[Noun]
allegations
1.plural of allegation
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allegation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French allégation, from Latin allegatio, from allegare. See allege.
[Noun]
English Wikipedia has an article on:allegationWikipedia allegation (plural allegations)
1.An assertion, especially an accusation, not necessarily based on facts.
She put forth several allegations regarding her partner in hopes of discrediting his actions.
2.2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian[1]:
Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."
3.2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman[2]:
A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal."
4.The act of alleging.
[Synonyms]
- accusation
- assertion
- censure
- charge
- crimination
- impeachment
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agency
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.si/[Anagrams]
- Cagney, gynæc-
[Etymology]
From Medieval Latin agentia, from Latin agēns (present participle of agere (“to act”)), agentis (cognate with French agence, see also agent).
[Further reading]
- “agency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- agency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- agency (sociology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- agency (philosophy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- law of agency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- moral agency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- structure and agency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
agency (countable and uncountable, plural agencies)
1.The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
Synonyms: action, activity, operation
2.1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:
A few advances there are in the following papers tending to assert the superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world.
3.2018, Morris Zelditch, Status, Power, and Legitimacy, page 65:
Because structure in this argument means institutions— pregiven norms, values, beliefs, and practices— it is open-textured, incomplete, cannot guarantee its own applications, therefore, all behavior is action, has agency (Garfinkel 1964; Strauss et al. 1963).
4.(sociology, philosophy, psychology) The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
Coordinate terms: free will, structure
moral agency
individual agency
5.2001, Todd McGowan, The Feminine "No!", SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 105:
Formally, capitalism performs its fundamental gesture—reappropriation without transformation. This bears on the question of subjective agency because this “reappropriation without transformation” is exactly what agency seeks to avoid; such a process indicates, in fact, that one's agency has failed, that one really had no agency in the first place.
6.2012, Edmund V. Sullivan, A Critical Psychology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 75:
Strictly speaking, at the level of personal agency one could say that power is a condition where one is “enabled.” I would contend that this is a condition of personal agency.
7.2013, Andy Clark, Julian Kiverstein, Tillmann Vierkant, Decomposing the Will, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 112:
The feeling of being in control of one's body should involve the sense of body-ownership, plus an additional sense of agency.
8.A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
Synonyms: instrumentality, means
9.The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
authority of agency
10.An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
Synonym: management
Hyponyms: advertising agency, dating agency, employment agency, escort agency, introduction agency, modelling agency, news agency, press agency, relief agency, syndication agency, travel agency
11.2012, Simon Toms, The Impact of the UK Temporary Employment Industry in Assisting Agency Workers since the Year 2000, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 277:
As an employment agency you have a responsibility to supply work to the individual agency worker, as well as a service to the client.
12.A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
Hyponyms: antitrust agency, intelligence agency, space agency
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Central Intelligence Agency
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diverted
[[English]]
ipa :/daɪˈvɜːtəd/[Adjective]
diverted (not comparable)
1.that has been subject to diversion
[Verb]
diverted
1.simple past and past participle of divert
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divert
[[English]]
ipa :/daɪˈvɜːt/[Anagrams]
- verdit
[Etymology]
From Middle English diverten, Old French divertir (“to turn or go different ways, part, separate, divert”), from Latin di- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
[Synonyms]
- (to lead away from a course): offlead
[Verb]
divert (third-person singular simple present diverts, present participle diverting, simple past and past participle diverted)
1.(transitive) To turn aside from a course.
The workers diverted the stream away from the road.
2.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:
Many of the remaining trains have been retimed and where possible freight trains have also been diverted to alternative routes.
3.(transitive) To distract.
Don't let him divert your attention; keep your eye on the ball.
4.[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:
that crude apple that diverted Eve
5.(transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
6.1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated:
We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy.
7.(obsolete, intransitive) To turn aside; to digress.
8.1641 September 7 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 28 August 1641]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
I diverted to see one of the prince's palaces.
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
war-torn (comparative more war-torn, superlative most war-torn)
1.Extensively damaged as a result of war.
Synonym: war-ravaged
2.2021 August 11, Richard Foster, “A century of railway politics”, in RAIL, number 937, page 42:
The new government also had big plans for rejuvenating Britain's war-torn economy.
3.2023 January 30, Mei-chu Huang, Jonathan Chin, “Clinic raises money for Ukraine”, in Taipei Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 January 2023, Taiwan News, page 3[2]:
A traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Changhua County has raised NT$555,000 in a two-day campaign drive to buy medical supplies, humanitarian aid materials and an ambulance for war-torn Ukraine.
[Alternative forms]
- war torn, wartorn
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[[English]]
[Noun]
war economy (plural war economies)
1.A country's economy that has been reorganized to optimally support the war effort.
Synonym: wartime economy
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
wartorn (comparative more wartorn, superlative most wartorn)
1.Alternative form of war-torn
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[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
war
1.(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Waray.
[[English]]
ipa :/wɔː/[Alternative forms]
- warre (obsolete)
- warr (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- RAW, RWA, Rwa, WRA, raw
[Antonyms]
- peace
[Etymology]
From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Old Northern French werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period.Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”),Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.
[Noun]
war (countable and uncountable, plural wars)
1.(uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
holy war; just war; civil war
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:10:
Come on, let vs deale wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to passe that when there falleth out any warre, they ioyne also vnto our enemies, and fight against vs, and so get them vp out of the land.
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 13:7:
And when yee shall heare of warres, and rumors of warres, be yee not troubled: For such things must needs be, but the end shall not be yet.
4.1854, Prince George, letter to his wife from Crimea:
War is indeed a fearful thing and the more I see it the more dreadful it appears.
5.1864 Sept. 12, William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to the mayor of Atlanta & al.:
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out... You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.
6.1879 June 19, William Tecumseh Sherman, speech to the Michigan Military Academy:
I've been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It's entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is hell!
7.1907, Edward Porter Alexander, Military Memoirs of a Confederate, page 302:
Here Lee and Longstreet stood during most of the fighting [at Fredericksburg], and it is told that, on one of the Federal repulses from Marye's Hill, Lee put his hand upon Longstreet's arm and said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it."
8.1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, chapter 17, in My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC:
Nobody can deny that war is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.
9.1935, Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket, page 1 & 7:
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.
10.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III:
War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual.
11.1944 June 27, Herbert Hoover, speech to the Republican National Convention:
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
12.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 3:
From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
13.1969, “War”, in Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong (lyrics), War & Peace, performed by Edwin Starr:
War, huh, Good God, y'all!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing...
14.1997, Ron Perlman, Fallout:
War. War never changes. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower. But war never changes.
15.2013 July 20, "Old Soldiers?", The Economist, Vol. 408, No. 8845:
Edward Wilson, the inventor of the field of sociobiology, once wrote that "war is embedded in our very nature". This is a belief commonly held not just by sociobiologists but also by anthropologists and other students of human behaviour. They base it not only on the propensity of modern man to go to war with his neighbours (and, indeed, with people halfway around the world, given the chance) but also on observations of the way those who still live a pre-agricultural "hunter-gatherer" life behave... Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine... One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries... Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
16.(countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
17.1865, Herman Melville, The Surrender at Appomattox:
All human tribes glad token see
In the close of the wars of Grant and Lee.
18.1999 Nov. 8, Bill Clinton, speech at Georgetown University:
A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war.
a war of succession... a war of attrition... the Cold War... World War III...
19.(countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
20.2001 Sept. 20, George W. Bush, speech before Congress:
Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.
21.2021 Sept. 8, Seth G. Jones, quoted in Chris Moody, "Twenty Years after 9/11, Did US Win Its ‘War on Terror’?" Al-Jazeera:
"...These wars are not going away. This is at least a generational struggle."
the Great Emu War... the Global War on Terrorism...
22.(countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly
1.(chiefly US) Campaigns against various social problems.
2.1906, William James, The Moral Equivalent of War:
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party... Ask all our millions, north and south, whether they would vote now (were such a thing possible) to have our war for the Union expunged from history... and probably hardly a handful of eccentrics would say yes. Those ancestors, those efforts, those memories and legends, ar the most ideal part of what we now own together, a sacred spiritual possession worth more than all the blood poured out. Yet ask those same people whether they would be willing, in cold blood, to start another civil war now to gain another similar possession, and not one man or woman would vote for the proposition.
the War on Poverty... the War on Drugs... the War on Christmas...
3.(business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
price wars... Cola Wars... format wars...
4.(crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
turf war... gang war... Castellammarese War...
5.(Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
flame war... edit war...(obsolete, uncountable) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma. […]”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 245:
The God of Love himſelf inhabits there,
With all his rage, and dread, and grief, and care,
His complement of ſtores, and total war...(obsolete) Armed forces.
- 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:
On thir imbattelld ranks the Waves return,
And overwhelm thir Warr (uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
- 2004, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven:
We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.
[Synonyms]
- go to war, wage war, fight
[Verb]
war (third-person singular simple present wars, present participle warring, simple past and past participle warred)
1.(intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
2.1595, Samuel Daniel, The First Four Books of the Civil Wars:
...to war the Scot, and borders to defend...
3.1611, King James Bible, Book of Numbers, 31:7:
And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males
4.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 77:
Once more vnto the Breach,
Deare friends, once more...
Be Coppy now to men of groſſer blood,
And teach them how to Warre.
5.1882, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 14, in Cashel Byron's Profession:
This vein of reflection, warring with his inner knowledge that he had been driven by fear and hatred . . ., produced an exhausting whirl in his thoughts.
6.1973, Stevie Wonder (lyrics and music), “Higher Ground”, in Innervisions:
People keep on learning
Soldiers keep on warring
World keep on turning
'Cause it won't be too long
7.1979 April 28, Gerry McNamara, “Life for Art's Sake”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
In a paradox, language wars against the world.
8.(transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
9.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:18, column 2:
[…], that thou by them mighteſt warre a good warfare, […].
[[Ambonese Malay]]
[Etymology]
Unknown. Perhaps from Dutch vermogen or Portuguese saber.
[References]
- D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia[1], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
[Verb]
war
1.to be able to, can
Beta war kami iskola dia pung ana sampe masu kaskola tinggi.
I am able to send their children to our high school.
[[Breton]]
[Preposition]
war
1.on, over
war ar sizhun ― during the week
[[Chuukese]]
[Verb]
war
1.to arrive
[[Cornish]]
[Preposition]
war
1.on, upon
[[Dusner]]
[Noun]
war
1.(fresh) water
[References]
- D. C. Kamholz, Austronesians in Papua (2014, Berkeley)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ʋɑr/[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch werre, warre (“confusion, disarray, conflict”), from Old Dutch *werra, from Proto-West Germanic *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).
[Noun]
war f (plural warren, diminutive warretje n)
1.confusion, disarray
2.2016 March 15, Josien Wolthuizen, Hanneloes Pen, “Man doodgestoken in fietsenwinkel Nieuw-West”, in Het Parool:
Volgens een bovenbuurvrouw kwamen hulpdiensten rond 12 uur 's middags naar de fietsenwinkel. "Ik had geen idee wat er aan de hand was. Maar de zoon van de eigenaar kwam eraan en was helemaal in de war. (...)"
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
3.tangle, mess
4.2016 January 29, “Wist je dat papierklemmen je leven veel gemakkelijker kunnen maken?”, in Het Laatste Nieuws:
Van statief voor je smartphone tot instrument om oortjes uit de war te houden, tot zelfs een portefeuille. De mogelijkheden met papierklemmen zijn eindeloos, maar de Japanner Venlee geeft je alvast 15 lifehacks.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
5.an elevated area on the floor of a body of water, a kind of contraption for luring and catching fish, where nets and fykes could be installed
6.1949, G. Karsten, “Eenvorme, Informe, Yefforme”, in De Speelwagen, 10, no. 4: 307:
Welnu, deze stoepen of warren bevonden zich aan de walkant en niet midden in het water.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
7.1667, Handtvesten, privilegien, willekeuren ende ordonnantien der Stadt Enchuysen, page 345:
De Schutters van de respective Steden, werden geauctoriseert, alle de Fuycken, buyten de benoemde Warren in de Wateringh staende, te mogen visiteren, of de selve keur mogen houden ofte niet, (...)
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[[Dutch Low Saxon]]
[Adjective]
war
1.(in some dialects) true
[Alternative forms]
- (Low Prussian) wahr
[Etymology]
From Low German wahr, from Middle Low German wâr, from Old Saxon wār. Cognate to German wahr.
[[Elfdalian]]
[Adverb]
war
1.where, in what place
[Etymology]
From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar. Cognate with Swedish var.
[[German]]
ipa :/vaːɐ̯/[Verb]
war
1.first-person singular preterite of sein
2.1788, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont[2], archived from the original on 26 September 2009, (English translation):
Ich hätte ihn heiraten können, und glaube, ich war nie in ihn verliebt.
I could have married him; yet I believe I was never really in love with him.
3.third-person singular preterite of sein
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/vaːr/[Alternative forms]
- wor
[Verb]
war
1.first-person singular preterite indicative of sinn
2.third-person singular preterite indicative of sinn
[[Mokilese]]
[Noun]
war (indefinite warpas, definite warwa)
1.canoe
2.(by extension) vehicle
[[Mpur]]
[Noun]
war
1.water
[References]
- A Sketch of Mpur, in Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (2002)
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[[Old English]]
ipa :/wɑːr/[Descendants]
- Middle English: wor.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title]{cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title="uncertain"]{font-size:.7em;vertical-align:super}
- English: ware
-
[Etymology]
From Proto-West Germanic *wair, related to *wīraz.
[Noun]
wār n
1.seaweed
2.sand
[References]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wár”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[[Old Gutnish]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Norse ᚹᚨᛊ (was), from Proto-Germanic *was, first/third-person singular indicative past of *wesaną.
[Verb]
war
1.first/third-person singular indicative past of wara
[[Old High German]]
[Adjective]
wār
1.true
[Etymology]
From Proto-West Germanic *wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz, whence also Old English wǣr, Old Norse værr.
[[Old Polish]]
ipa :/var/[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vȃrъ (“boiling; boiling liquid”). By surface analysis, deverbal from wrzeć or warzyć. First attested in 1499.
[Noun]
war m ?
1.boiling water
2.1874 [1499], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące, volume XVIII, number 622:
Tako ony rzeczy parzyl od syebye, yako pssy z kuchnyey parzą varem
[Tako ony rzeczy parzył od siebie, jako psy z kuchniej parzą warem]
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
3.batch of a beer
4.1856-1870 [1499], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki, volume IX, number 1251:
Post sex annos debet... Stanislao... per sexagenam soluere de censv et eciam per tenam siliqui a qualibet ceruisia al. warv
[Post sex annos debet... Stanislao... per sexagenam soluere de censv et eciam per tenam siliqui a qualibet ceruisia al. waru]
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
[References]
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “war”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
[[Old Saxon]]
[Adjective]
wār
1.true
[Etymology]
From Proto-West Germanic *wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/var/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Old Polish war. By surface analysis, deverbal from wrzeć or warzyć.
[Etymology 2]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vȃrъ (“heat”).
[Etymology 3]
Borrowed from English var.
[Further reading]
- war in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- war in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[[Scots]]
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English were, weren, from Old English wǣre, wǣron, wǣren, from Proto-Germanic *wēz-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English werre, from Old Northern French, ultimately a Frankish loan.
[References]
- “war” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
[[Somali]]
[Noun]
war ?
1.news
Wax war miyaa hey-sa? ― Do you have some news?
[[Tocharian B]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Tocharian *wär (whence Tocharian A wär), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”) through a regular (endocentric) thematicization via *udrom.
[Noun]
war ?
1.water
[[Yola]]
ipa :/wɔː/[Alternative forms]
- ware
[Etymology]
From Middle English were, from Old English wǣre.
[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 32
[Verb]
war
1.were
2.1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 32:
A war cowdealeen wi ooree.
They were scolding with one another.
3.1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:
Trippeathès an brand-eyrons war ee-brougkt to a big breal.
[Trippets and brandirons were brought to the large fire.]
4.1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:
Baakhooses an lauckès war aul ee a zweal.
[Ovens and locks were all in the swale.]
5.1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:
Tibbès an crockès wee drink war ee-felt.
[Tubs and crocks were filled with drink.]
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- RAW, RWA, Rwa, WRA, raw
[Proper noun]
War
1.Preceded by the: designating a particularly notable war.
1.(obsolete) World War I.
2.1939 October 30, “Paintings by Adolf Hitler”, in Life, volume 7, number 18, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:
Through much of the War, Hitler carried his painter's kit, did water colors of War-ruined buildings.
3.(chiefly Britain, informal) World War II.The personification of war, often depicted in armour and riding a red horse; the red rider.A city in West Virginia, United States.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ʋɑr/[Etymology]
First attested as werum in 1433. Borrowed from West Frisian It War, derived in turn from Old Frisian were (“plot of land, landed property”), later reinterpreted to West Frisian war (“low-lying grassland”).
[Proper noun]
War n
1.A hamlet in Waadhoeke, Friesland, Netherlands.
[References]
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- RAW, RWA, Rwa, WRA, raw
[Noun]
WAR (uncountable)
1.(computing) Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.
2.(sports) Acronym of wins above replacement.
[Proper noun]
WAR
1.Initialism of White Aryan Resistance.
2.(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Web application archive (a Java archive file)
3.(military, historical) Initialism of Winchester Automatic Rifle.
[References]
- WAR on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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[[English]]
ipa :/məˈnuːvɚ/[Alternative forms]
- manoeuvre (Commonwealth, Irish)
- maneuvre, manoeuver (nonstandard), manœuver (obsolete)
- manœuvre (British)
[Anagrams]
- maneuvre
[Etymology]
From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, maneuver”) and manouvrer (“to maneuver”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labor”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk. The verb is a doublet of the verb manure.
[Noun]
maneuver (plural maneuvers) (American spelling)
1.(military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units. [from 18th c.]
The army was on maneuvers.
Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.
2.Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem. [from 18th c.]
3.1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.v.7:
“This,” cried he, “is a manœuvre I have been some time expecting: but Mr. Harrel, though artful and selfish, is by no means deep.”
4.A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity. [from 18th c.]
5.(medicine) A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments. [from 18th c.]
The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo.
6.A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle. [from 18th c.]
Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.
[Verb]
maneuver (third-person singular simple present maneuvers, present participle maneuvering, simple past and past participle maneuvered) (American spelling)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
2.(figurative, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
3.(figurative, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts
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[[English]]
[Noun]
walky-talky (plural walky-talkies)walky-talky
1.Alternative form of walkie-talkie
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