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without
[[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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warrant
[[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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[[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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war-torn
[[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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war economy
[[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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wartorn
[[English]]
[Adjective]
wartorn (comparative more wartorn, superlative most wartorn)
1.Alternative form of war-torn
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war
[[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, (...)
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
[[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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War
[[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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WAR
[[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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maneuver
[[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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walky-talky
[[English]]
[Noun]
walky-talky (plural walky-talkies)walky-talky
1.Alternative form of walkie-talkie
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talky
[[English]]
[Adjective]
talky (comparative talkier, superlative talkiest)
1.(of a person) Talkative or loquacious
2.(of a book etc.) Containing a great deal of dialogue or talking in general
3.2007 April 24, Allan Kozinn, “Music of the Spheres and the Pain of Earthly Matters”, in New York Times[1]:
It was a pleasant enough presentation, if talkier than strictly necessary.
[Anagrams]
- Tylka
[Etymology]
talk + -y
[See also]
- talkie
- talky-talky
- Thesaurus:talkative
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walkie-talkie
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- walkie talkie
- walky-talky
[Etymology]
From walking + talking.
[Noun]
walkie-talkie (plural walkie-talkies)walkie-talkie
1.A portable, bidirectional radio transceiver, usually one of a pair.
2.1962 July, “The Irish Scene”, in Modern Railways, page 11:
It is intended to equip the yard foremen and shunters with "walkie-talkie" apparatus to keep them in close touch with the control office.
3.2009, L. K. Bandyopadhyay, S. K. Chaulya, P. K. Mishra, Wireless Communication in Underground Mines: RFID-based Sensor Networking, Springer,, →ISBN:
A walkie-talkie is a handheld, portable, two-way radio transceiver. It includes a half-duplex channel (only one radio transmits at a time, though any number can listen) and a push-to-talk switch that starts transmission.
4.(rare) A walk and talk.
5.1947, Nero Wolfe, Too Many Women: A Nero Wolfe Novel:
It could be that her walkie-talkie with Naylor had concerned a private matter not connected with what was about to happen to him, ...
6.1993, B. Kaye Olson, Energy Secrets for Tired Mothers on the Run, Health Communications,, →ISBN, page 153:
Go on a walkie-talkie. Everyone goes on a 15-minute brisk walk and talks about their day.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/vɔːrkitɔːrki/[Etymology]
From English walkie-talkie, from walk and talk.
[Noun]
walkie-talkie c (singular definite walkie-talkien, plural indefinite walkie-talkier)
1.walkie-talkie
[Synonyms]
- walkie
[[French]]
ipa :/wɔ.ki.tɔ.ki/[Etymology]
From English walkie-talkie.
[Further reading]
- “walkie-talkie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)
1.(Canada, obsolete) walkie-talkie
[[Galician]]
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.
[Noun]
walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)
1.walkie-talkie
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈwɔ.ki ˈtɔ.ki/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.
[Noun]
walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)
1.walkie-talkie (portable communication radio)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.
[Noun]
walkie-talkie n (plural walkie-talkie)
1.walkie-talkie
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˌwoki ˈtoki/[Alternative forms]
- walkie talkie
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.
[Further reading]
- “walkie-talkie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)
1.walkie-talkie
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directly
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈɹɛk(t)li/[Adverb]
directly (comparative more directly, superlative most directly)
1.In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
He drove directly to the office, and didn't stop off at the petrol station.
2.1855, William Wells Brown, Sketches of Places and People Abroad, page 255:
On arriving at the doors, and entering a long, capacious passage, our eyes became quite dazzled by the gleams of colored light which shone upon them, both directly and reflectedly.
3.2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 46:
It is more difficult to directly compare train operations and maintenance, given how fragmented the non-infrastructure segments of the industry are today.
4.In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary but by direct means.
I'm sick of asking you to fire him; I'll just do it directly.
5.Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
I'm going to tell Natalie directly that I love her.
To put it more directly: he's not 'made redundant' but sacked.
6.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
"Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite. In one tweet, Mujtahidd directly challenged Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Fahd about his political history: "Did you resign or were you forced to resign from your post as head of the diwan [office] of the council of ministers?"
7.Exactly; just; at the shortest possible distance.
It's directly across the street.
8.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
9.Straightforwardly; honestly.
He told me directly that he'd cheated on me, and how sorry he was for it.
10.(dated) Immediately.
11.(chiefly dated or dialect, including Midlands, Cornwall, Southern US) Soon; next; in due time; as soon as it becomes convenient.
We'll go to the store directly, but first I need to finish sweeping.
[Anagrams]
- tridecyl
[Antonyms]
- circuitously
- indirectly
- (soon, next): later
[Conjunction]
directly
1.(chiefly British) As soon as; immediately (elliptical for directly that/as/when)
2.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 725:
Tenderly, reluctantly, he took his leave of her, promising that he would contact her directly he got back, perhaps in ten days or so.
3.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 463:
He is to go to Calais, directly this is over, to replace Lord Berners as governor [...].
[Etymology]
direct + -ly.
[Synonyms]
- (in a straight line or course): straightwise, undeviatingly
- (without circumlocution or ambiguity): bluntly, clearly, downrightly, unambiguously; see also Thesaurus:explicitly
- (exactly, just): accurately, dead, precisely, slap bang; see also Thesaurus:exactly
- (straightforwardly, honestly): frankly, truthfully
- (immediately): forthwith, now, tout de suite; see also Thesaurus:immediately
- (soon, next): betimes, presently, shortly; see also Thesaurus:soon
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TO
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
TO
1.(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Tonga.
Synonym: TON (alpha-3)
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- OT, ot-
[Noun]
TO (plural TOs)
1.(sports) Initialism of time-out.
2.(sports) Initialism of turnover.
[Proper noun]
TO
1.(informal) Abbreviation of Toronto.
[[Indonesian]]
[Etymology]
Initialism of target operasi (literally “operation target”).
[Noun]
TO
1.(slang, internet prostitution) female prostitute
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dicate
[[Ido]]
ipa :/diˈt͡sate/[Verb]
dicate
1.adverbial present passive participle of dicar
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
dicāte
1.vocative masculine singular of dicātus
[Verb]
dicāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of dicō
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dictate
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin dictātus, perfect passive participle of dictō (“pronounce or declare repeatedly; dictate”), frequentative of dīcō (“say, speak”).
[Noun]
dictate (plural dictates)
1.An order or command.
I must obey the dictates of my conscience.
[Verb]
dictate (third-person singular simple present dictates, present participle dictating, simple past and past participle dictated)
1.To order, command, control.
2.2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 409:
Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
3.To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.
4.To determine or decisively affect.
5.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 151:
He had offered, and been refused! There was that in her own nature, which sympathised with the pride, for such she held to be the motive, dictating the refusal.
6.1961 December, “The Channel Tunnel—a realistic proposal”, in Trains Illustrated, page 723:
Geology dictates the approximate location of the tunnel.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/dikˈtaː.te/[Participle]
dictāte
1.vocative masculine singular of dictātus
[Verb]
dictāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of dictō
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
dictate
1.second-person singular voseo imperative of dictar combined with te
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secure
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈkjʊə(ɹ)/[Adjective]
secure (comparative securer or more secure, superlative securest or most secure)
1.Free from attack or danger; protected.
2.2020 March, Joshua Leifer, “Led Astray”, in The Baffler[1], number 50:
The vast majority of American Jews not only greatly dislike President Trump but also believe he has made them less safe: according to a May 2019 poll, nearly three-quarters of Jewish voters believe American Jews are less secure under Trump than they were before, 71 percent disapprove of Trump’s overall job performance, and nearly 60 percent believe that he bears at least some responsibility for the synagogue shootings carried out by white nationalists in Pittsburgh and Poway.
3.Free from the danger of theft; safe.
4.Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
5.Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
6.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
7.1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
No sooner were we up there, than the old woman dragged the ladder, by which we had ascended, away with a chuckle, as if she was now secure that we could do no mischief, and sat herself down again once more, to doze and await her master's return.
8.Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
9.Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
10.Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
secure of a welcome
11.1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
12.(obsolete) Overconfident; incautious; careless.
13.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
They were secure where they ought to have been wary, and timorous where they might well have been secure.
14.Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
Just when victory seemed secure, they let it slip from their grasp.
[Alternative forms]
- secuer (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- Creuse, Rescue, cereus, ceruse, cursee, recuse, rescue, secuer
[Antonyms]
- insecure
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin securus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from se- (“without”) + cura (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).
[Further reading]
- “secure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “secure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Verb]
secure (third-person singular simple present secures, present participle securing, simple past and past participle secured)
1.To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
2.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
3.To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage
4.1831, Thomas Dick, The Philosophy of Religion:
It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
5.To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
6.1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
All springs for the engine and tender are of the laminated type with plates of carbon steel, which are secured in the spring buckles by a vertical centre rivet.
7.To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
to secure an estate
8.2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”, in The Guardian:
With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
9.1911, Flight, page 766:
[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress.
10.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
11.(transitive, obsolete) To plight or pledge.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/seˈku.re/[Adjective]
secure
1.feminine plural of securo
[Anagrams]
- uscere
[[Latin]]
ipa :/seˈkuː.re/[Etymology 2]
securus + -ē
[References]
- “secure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “secure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- secure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
[[Romanian]]
[Alternative forms]
- săcure — archaic
[Etymology]
Inherited from Latin secūris, secūrem. Compare Italian scure.
[Noun]
secure f (plural securi)
1.axe, hatchet
2.battle axe, halberd
[Synonyms]
- topor
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overturn
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtɜː(ɹ)n/[Anagrams]
- turn over, turnover
[Etymology]
From Middle English overturnen, equivalent to over- + turn. Compare also Middle English overterven (“to overturn”), see terve.
[Noun]
overturn (plural overturns)
1.A turning over or upside-down; inversion.
2.The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.
[Verb]
overturn (third-person singular simple present overturns, present participle overturning, simple past and past participle overturned)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
2.1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232:
About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.
3.2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33:
We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.
4.(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
5.(law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
6.2023 January 22, Matthew Weaver, “Ghislaine Maxwell calls Prince Andrew photo with Virginia Giuffre ‘a fake’”, in The Guardian[1]:
In a report for the Sun on Sunday, Barak claimed that Andrew is consulting lawyers about overturning that settlement.
7.(transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
8.2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian[2]:
There were so many heroes for Leicester on an evening when they played with tremendous courage and belief to overturn the 2-1 deficit from the first leg, yet it was hard to look beyond Kasper Schmeichel for the game’s outstanding performer.
9.2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport[3]:
Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure
10.(intransitive) Of a body of water: to undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
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forensic
[[English]]
ipa :/fəˈɹɛn.zɪk/[Adjective]
forensic (not comparable)
1.Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
2.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian[1]:
In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.
3.1996 June 8, Bill Clinton, Weekly Presidential radio Address:
Fire investigators […] and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites [the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing], interviewing witnesses, and following leads.
4.(dated) Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law.
5.1885, Isaac N. Arnold, “Chapter VIII”, in The Life of Abraham Lincoln:
It [the judiciary] had been the forum before which the highest forensic discussions had been held, […]
6.(archaic) Relating to, or used in, debate or argument.
7.1851, Edward Shepherd Creasy, “Chapter V”, in The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World:
Varus trusted implicitly […] to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.
[Alternative forms]
- forensick (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- conifers, fir-cones, forinsec, fornices, inforces
[Etymology]
From Latin forēnsis (“of the forum, public”), from forum (“forum, marketplace”).
[Synonyms]
- (Related or appropriate for a court of law): legal
- (Related or used in debate and argumentation): rhetorical
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jolt
[[English]]
ipa :/d͡ʒɒlt/[Etymology]
Perhaps from Middle English jollen (“to stagger, knock, batter”), itself perhaps a variant of Middle English chollen (“to strike, juggle, do tricks”).
[Noun]
jolt (plural jolts)
1.An act of jolting.
2.A surprise or shock.
3.(slang) A long prison sentence.[1]
4.1949, American Journal of Correction[1], page 24:
Just sit down and look around for a while. Notice your cell, John. Take a good look at it, because it is going to be your home for the next ten years. Sure! You have just gotten a ten-year "jolt," John; so settle down and be a good prisoner.
5.1958, Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side, page 312:
But blow wise to this, buddy, blow wise to this: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Never let nobody talk you into shaking another man's jolt. And never you cop another man's plea. I've tried 'em all and I know. They don't work.
6.1994, Eric Cummins, The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement[2], page 30:
After three "jolts" in prison, three separate periods of incarceration, Braly decided to try his hand at writing.
7.1998, H. Bruce Franklin, editor, Prison Writing in 20th-Century America[3]:
"How long did she do after I left the joint" / "About a year or so. They wanted to parole her. […] " Mae wrinkled her forehead. “It's hard to figure out, sometimes.” Again she frowned heavily. “I don't give a damn myself—I'm a thief, and nothing they can ever do will hurt me. But Mrs. Loring, now, she was different. That jolt did hurt her bad. […] "
8.(slang) A narcotic injection.
[References]
1. ^ Eric Partridge (1949), “jolt”, in A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co., page 371
[Verb]
jolt (third-person singular simple present jolts, present participle jolting, simple past and past participle jolted)
1.(transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.
2.(transitive) To knock sharply
3.(transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
I jolted her out of complacency.
4.(transitive) To shock emotionally.
Her untimely death jolted us all.
5.(intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
The car jolted along the stony path.
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perception
[[English]]
ipa :/pəˈsɛpʃn̩/[Anagrams]
- preception
[Etymology]
From Middle English percepcioun, from Middle French percepcion, from Latin perceptiō (“a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension”), from perceptus (“perceived, observed”), perfect passive participle of percipiō (“I perceive, observe”); see perceive.
[Noun]
perception (countable and uncountable, plural perceptions)
1.The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
2.Conscious understanding of something.
have perception of time
3.Vision (ability) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
4.Acuity
[Synonyms]
- ken
[[French]]
ipa :/pɛʁ.sɛp.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin perceptiōnem.
[Further reading]
- perception on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
[Noun]
perception f (plural perceptions)
1.collection (of taxes, fares, etc.)
2.perception (clarification of this definition is needed)
[References]
- “perception”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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trial
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹaɪəl/[Anagrams]
- TRALI, Trail, irtal, litra, trail
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try.
[Etymology 2]
From Latin tri- (stem of trēs (“three”)) + -al, on the pattern of dual.
[See also]
- (grammatical numbers) grammatical number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, quintal, paucal, plural (Category: en:Grammar)
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English trial.
[Noun]
trial m (plural trials, diminutive trialtje n)
1.Cross with small but sturdy and very versatile motorcycles, cars or bicycles
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- altri, latri, tarli
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English trial.
[Noun]
trial m (invariable)
1.(sports) trials (motorcycle etc.)
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
trier (“to try such as in a court of law”) + -al.
[Noun]
trial oblique singular, m (oblique plural triaus or triax or trials, nominative singular triaus or triax or trials, nominative plural trial)
1.trial (legal procedure)
[References]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (trial)
-
- trial on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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disastrous
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈzɑːstɹəs/[Adjective]
disastrous (comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)
1.Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
2.Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
[Alternative forms]
- disastress (obsolete)
[Antonyms]
- auspicious
- fortunate
[Etymology]
From French désastreux, from Middle French desastre (“disaster”) (modern désastre), from Italian disastro, itself from dis- (“away, without”) (from Latin) + astro (“star, planet”) (from astrum (“star, celestial body”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ástron)). By surface analysis, disaster + -ous.
[Synonyms]
- (calamitous): cataclysmic, catastrophic
- (ill-omened): ill-boding, inauspicious, sinister
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headline
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈhɛd.laɪn/[Etymology]
From head + line.
[Noun]
headline (plural headlines)
1.(journalism) The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.
Synonym: hed
The headline on today's newspaper reads "John Doe Wins Wood-Splitting Competition."
2.2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
3.(printing, dated) The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page.
4.(entertainment) The top-billed attraction.
Synonym: headliner
5.(nautical) A headrope.
[Verb]
headline (third-person singular simple present headlines, present participle headlining, simple past and past participle headlined)
1.To give a headline to a page or section of a text.
2.(transitive, intransitive, entertainment) To present as the main attraction; to have top billing, to be the main attraction.
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contingency
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈtɪnd͡ʒənsi/[Etymology]
contingent + -cy (16th century).
[Noun]
contingency (countable and uncountable, plural contingencies)
1.(uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance. [from 1560s]
Synonyms: possibility, unpredictability; see also Thesaurus:option
Antonyms: inevitability, impossibility
2.(countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses. [from 1610s]
3.1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 29:
There was also the imperative necessity of creating a reserve fund for unforeseen contingencies, and the question ever present was how was money to be found.
4.2011 April 30, United States Strategic Command, CONPLAN 8888-11 "COUNTER-ZOMBIE DOMINANCE"[1] (PDF), archived from the original on 15 March 2023, SITUATION:
In light of the inherent survival threat posed by zombies and absent specified guidance for detailed planning to address such a contingency, USSTRATCOM has taken the initiative to develop a JOPES Level 3 plan (CONPLAN) consistent with guidance derived from other specified planning efforts to ensure U.S. and Allied freedom of action from zombie domination.
5.(finance, countable) An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
6.(logic, countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
Coordinate terms: contradiction, tautology
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prominent
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɑmɪnənt/[Adjective]
prominent (comparative more prominent, superlative most prominent)
1.standing out, or projecting; jutting; protuberant
Synonyms: extuberant, outstanding
The bird was perching on the prominent ledge at the top of the rocks
2.likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous
Synonyms: attention-grabbing, eye-catching, flashy
Place the slogan in a more prominent positions.
3.eminent; distinguished above others
Synonyms: eminent, forestanding, noteworthy; see also Thesaurus:notable
prominent members of the press
[Etymology]
From obsolete French prominent (compare proéminent), from Latin prōminēns, present active participle of prōmineō (“jut out, to project”), from prō (“before, forward”) + mineō (in compounds, “jut, project”).
[Further reading]
- “prominent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “prominent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “prominent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
prominent (plural prominents)
1.Any of various moths having a conspicuous projection on the inner margin of the wings.
Synonyms: notodontid, prominent moth
2.(historical) In Nazi concentration camps, an inmate entrusted with minor supervisory duties and rewarded with perquisites.
3.2019, Leona Toker, Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps, page 234:
[…] dynamics that replaced the erstwhile condemnation of all or most of the prominents in the camps by a more nuanced understanding.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[pɾu.miˈnen][Adjective]
prominent m or f (masculine and feminine plural prominents)
1.prominent
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin prōminentem.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɛnt[Adjective]
prominent (comparative prominenter, superlative prominentst)
1.prominent
[[German]]
ipa :[pʁomiˈnɛnt][Adjective]
prominent (strong nominative masculine singular prominenter, comparative prominenter, superlative am prominentesten)
1.prominent
[Etymology]
From Latin prōminēns.
[Further reading]
- “prominent” in Duden online
- “prominent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈproː.mi.nent/[Verb]
prōminent
1.third-person plural present active indicative of prōmineō
[[Polish]]
ipa :/prɔˈmi.nɛnt/[Further reading]
- prominent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- prominent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
prominent m pers
1.eminent person; distinguished above others; VIP
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Office
[[German]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English office.
[Noun]
Office n (strong, genitive Offices or Office, plural Offices)
1.(informal) office
Synonym: Büro
2.2017 October 19, Kemi Fatoba, “Wo hast du deinen exotischen Teint her?”, in ZEITOnline[1]:
Ab und zu werde ich gefragt, wie es ist, die einzige schwarze Person im Office zu sein, und die Antwort ist: Es kann sehr schnell unangenehm werden.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
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shore up
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃɔːɹ‿ʌp/[Anagrams]
- Orpheus, uphroes, upshore
[Etymology]
From shore (“to provide with support”) + up. Shore is derived from Late Middle English shoren (“to prop, to support”) [and other forms],[1][2] from shore (“a prop, a support”) [and other forms],[3] + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs);[4] while shore (noun) is from Middle Dutch schore, schare (“a prop, a stay”) (modern Dutch schoor), and Middle Low German schōre, schāre (“a prop, a stay; barrier; stockade”) (compare Old Norse skorða (“a prop, a stay”) (Norwegian skor, skorda)); further etymology unknown.[5]
[Further reading]
- shoring on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
1. ^ “shōren, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2. ^ Compare “shore, v.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “shore2, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
3. ^ “shōre, n.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
4. ^ “-en, suf.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
5. ^ “shore, n.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “shore2, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
shore up (third-person singular simple present shores up, present participle shoring up, simple past and past participle shored up)
1.(transitive, often figuratively) To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure).
Synonyms: (rare) embolster, prop up, underfoot, undergird, underpin, underprop, underset
They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.
He needed something bold and dramatic to shore up his failing candidacy.
I shored up a geranium with earth after it had flopped over.
2.1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXII, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, pages 233–234:
This answer fell just at the right time and just in the right place, to save the poor unstable young man from changing his political complexion once more. He had been on the point of beginning to totter again, but this prop shored him up and kept him from floundering back into democracy and re-renouncing aristocracy.
3.2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 – 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport[1], archived from the original on 30 August 2021:
[Harry] Redknapp was determined to secure victory and sent on Younes Kaboul and star playmaker Luka Modric to shore things up.
4.2018, Marcus Chown, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand […] [2], Michael O'Mara Books, →ISBN:
However, in 1998, the Argentinean-American physicist Juan Maldacena published a paper that shored up the idea that we live in a ‘holographic universe’ and set the world of physics alight.
5.2022 October 19, “Suella Braverman forced to resign as UK home secretary”, in The Guardian[3]:
[Liz Truss] had cleared her diary and called off a planned visit amid desperate attempts to shore up her premiership, before speaking to Braverman at a meeting in the House of Commons, sources said.
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Shore
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- H-O-R-S-E, H.O.R.S.E., HORSE, Horse, RSeOH, Rohes, hoers, horse, hoser, shero, shoer
[Etymology]
- As an English surname, from the noun shore.
- As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Schorr, Szor, Schauer.
[Further reading]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shore”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
[Proper noun]
Shore
1.A topographic surname from Middle English.
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stem
[[English]]
ipa :/stɛm/[Anagrams]
- EMTs, Mets, Smet, TEMs, mets
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English stemmen, a borrowing from Old Norse stemma (“to stop, stem, dam”) (whence Danish stemme/stæmme (“to stem, dam up”)), from Proto-Germanic *stammijaną. Cognate with German stemmen, Middle Dutch stemmen, stempen. Compare stammer.
[Etymology 4]
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
[Etymology 5]
Blend of stud + femme
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/stɛm/[Etymology 1]
From Dutch stem, from Middle Dutch stemme, from Old Dutch *stemma, from Proto-Germanic *stebnō, *stamnijō.
[Etymology 2]
From Dutch stemmen.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/stɛm/[Anagrams]
- mest, mets
[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch stemme, from Old Dutch *stemma, from Proto-Germanic *stebnō, *stamnijō. Under influence of Latin vox (“voice, word”), it acquired the now obsolete sense of “word”.
[Noun]
stem f (plural stemmen, diminutive stemmetje n)
1.voice, sound made by the mouth using airflow
2.the ability to speak
Zij is haar stem kwijt. ― She’s lost her voice.
3.vote
4.(obsolete) word
5.(phonetics) voice, property formed by vibration of the vocal cords
[Verb]
stem
1.inflection of stemmen:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈstem][Etymology]
From English stem, from Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”).
[Further reading]
- “stem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
stem (first-person possessive stemku, second-person possessive stemmu, third-person possessive stemnya)
1.(nautical) stem: the vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/stem/[Verb]
stem
1.first-person singular present active subjunctive of stō
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Verb]
stem
1.imperative of stemme
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Verb]
stem
1.imperative of stemme
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
From English stamp.
[Noun]
stem
1.stamp
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rush
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹʌʃ/[Anagrams]
- Hurs, RHUs, Suhr
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English risshe, rusch, risch, from Old English rysċ, rysċe, risċ, risċe, from a merger of Proto-West Germanic *riskijā, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)resg- (“to weave”) and Proto-West Germanic *ruskijā, borrowed from Latin rūscum (“butcher's broom”), of unknown origin + *-jā (animal and plant suffix). Cognates include West Frisian risk, Dutch rus (“bulrush”), Norwegian Bokmål rusk, dialectal Norwegian ryskje (“hair-grass”). Further cognates include Russian розга (rozga).[1]
[Etymology 2]
Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”).Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).etymology noteAn alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English rouschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rūschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.
[Further reading]
- Juncaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Rush_(football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
1. ^ Dybo, Vladimir (2002), “Balto-Slavic Accentology and Winter's Law”, in Studia Linguarum (in English), volume 3, Moscow, page 482 of 295–515
[See also]
- rushes
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁœʃ/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English rush.
[Further reading]
- “rush”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
rush m (plural rushs)
1.rush (in sport)
2.(cinematography) rushes
3.(video games) rush
4.(Quebec) rush (hurried state)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From English rush.
[Noun]
rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha or rushene)
1.a rush (Etymology 2)
[References]
- “rush” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “rush” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
From English rush.
[Noun]
rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha)
1.a rush (Etymology 2)
[References]
- “rush” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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youth
[[English]]
ipa :/juːθ/[Alternative forms]
- yought, youthe (both obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- Tuohy
[Etymology]
From Middle English youthe, youghte, ȝouþe, from Old English ġeoguþ (“the state of being young; youth”), from Proto-West Germanic *juwunþa, from Proto-Germanic *jugunþō, *jugunþiz (“youth”), corresponding to young + -th. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Juugd, West Frisian jeugd, Dutch jeugd, German Low German Jöögd, German Jugend.
[Further reading]
- youth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- youth on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
[Noun]
youth (countable and uncountable, plural youths)
1.(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
2.1910, Emerson Hough, “The Purchase Price”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
3.1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins:
Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.
Synonyms: juvenility, youngness, (archaic) youngth, youthfulness
Antonyms: age, dotage, old age, senility
Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.
4.(uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.
Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.
I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.
5.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 49:
I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.
6.2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:
Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
7.(countable) A young person.
Synonyms: adolescent, child, kid, lad, teen, teenager, youngster
Antonyms: adult, grown-up
There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.
8.(countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
Synonyms: boy, young man
9.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, pages 274–275:
[…] and then a youth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.
10.(uncountable, used with a plural or singular verb) Young persons, collectively.
Synonyms: adolescents, kids, teenagers, teens, young people, youngsters
[References]
- “youth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- youth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “youth”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
youth
1.(Late Middle English) Alternative form of youthe
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STEM
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- EMTs, Mets, Smet, TEMs, mets
[Noun]
STEM (countable and uncountable, plural STEMs)
1.(countable) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope.
2.(uncountable) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
3.2012 March 22nd, David Blockley, Engineering: A Very Short Introduction (309), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, chapter 1: “From idea to reality”, page 14:
Although these six classifications of the scope and responsibility and specific engineering expertise are interesting and useful, they come from within engineering itself and they don’t help us to disentangle STEM.
4.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 10:
Table 7 shows that in general, the STEM subjects share more phrases with each other, while the opposite is true for the humanities subjects.
[References]
- Scanning transmission electron microscopy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Shanghai
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/[Alternative forms]
- (obsolete) Shang-hai, Shanghae, Shang-hae, Shanhae, Chang-hai
[Etymology]
c. 1840, likely from an English-derived romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of Chinese 上海 (Shànghǎi), reinforced by Wade-Giles, postal romanization, and Hanyu Pinyin.[1]
[Further reading]
- Shanghai at Google Ngram Viewer
- “shanghai, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- “shanghai, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- “shanghai”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “shanghai”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “shanghai”, in Collins English Dictionary..
- "shanghai" in Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, 1908.
[Noun]
Shanghai (plural Shanghais)
1.Alternative letter-case form of shanghai in its various senses derived from the Chinese city.
[Proper noun]
Shanghai
1.
2.A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.
3.1840 September 12, “IX.—From Shanghai to Pekin.”, in The Penny Magazine[2], number 542, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, →OCLC, page 358, column 2:
SHANGHAI (the emporium of Nanking) is the first town of any importance on the coast of Kiangnan province. […] If, however, these difficulties were surmounted, and suitable precautions taken against existing dangers, the embouchure of this river would be one of the most eligible points for the establishment of British commerce in the whole empire. Be this as it may, however, certain it is that even now Shanghai carries on the greatest native trade of any port on the coast. […]
The city of Shanghai is built on the left bank, some distance from the mouth. It is laid out with sufficient elegance, and numerous temples.
4.1951, Herbert Hoover, “Engineering in China—1899–1902”, in The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920[3], New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:
In January 1901, we reached Japan where Mrs. Hoover remained for the winter while I went to Shanghai in search of a method of reaching North China. The Port of Taku being frozen and there being then no railway connection between Shanghai and the north, all communication had been suspended for the winter.
5.1999, “Shanghai”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition (Atlas), Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 411, column 1:
By the year 2000, Shanghai is scheduled to become an international center of commerce and finance; economic strategists predict that by 2010 the city will have become the world's largest trading center. This "secret capital" of China has set some ambitious goals for itself. The population is proudly celebrating their collective "coming out," and business is booming.
6.2024 January 17, Nicoco Chan, “Some Shanghai singles struggle to get married as economy slows”, in Reuters[4], archived from the original on 21 January 2024, China[5]:
Victor Li is determined to get married soon, but like many other young Chinese grappling with an uncertain economic outlook, the well-heeled Shanghai entrepreneur isn't sure he can afford to.
"It's very expensive for us to get married, especially in a big city like Shanghai," the 32-year-old said, as he took a break from a ticketed networking event for wealthier, top university-educated singles at an upmarket Shanghai jazz bar.
7.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shanghai.
8.A major international port including the eastern coast of Shanghai Municipality and the northeastern islands of Zhejiang Province.
[References]
1. ^ “Languages Other than English”, in The Chicago Manual of Style[1], Seventeenth edition, University of Chicago Press, 2017, →DOI, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 652: “Wade-Giles Postal atlas Pinyin Shang-hai Shanghai Shanghai”
[Synonyms]
- (dated) Paris of the East
[[German]]
[Proper noun]
Shanghai n (proper noun, strong, genitive Shanghais)
1.Alternative spelling of Schanghai
[[Ido]]
[Etymology]
From Mandarin 上海 (Shànghǎi, literally “Upon-the-Sea”).Ido Wikipedia has an article on:ShanghaiWikipedia io
[Proper noun]
Shanghai
1.Shanghai (a major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ʃanˈɡaj/[Alternative forms]
- Sciangai
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Mandarin 上海 (Shànghǎi, literally “Upon-the-Sea”).
[Proper noun]
Shanghai ?
1.Shanghai (a major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China)
[[Occitan]]
[Alternative forms]
- Shangai (Gascony)
[Proper noun]
Shanghai ?
1.Shanghai (a major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China)
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
Shanghai f
1.Alternative spelling of Xangai; Shanghai (a major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China)
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Shenzhen
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌʃɛnˈd͡ʒɛn/[Alternative forms]
- (from Wade–Giles) Shen-chen
[Etymology]
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 深圳 (Shēnzhèn), from 深 (shēn, “deep”) + 圳 (zhèn, “irrigation ditch”).
[Proper noun]
Shenzhen
1.A major subprovincial city in Guangdong, in southeastern China.
2.Encyclopædia Britannica
In 1979 Shenzhen was a small border city of some 30,000 inhabitants that served as a customs stop into mainland China from Hong Kong.
3.2006 November 8, China Daily:
Shenzhen municipal government will give top priority to developing its modern logistics and finance sectors and building the industries into the city's pillar sectors in the following years.
4.2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China[1], New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
Over the next two years, China set up four “special economic zones” as testing grounds for free-enterprise practices like foreign investment and tax incentives. The largest zone was Shenzhen, about fifty miles south of Dongguan, which quickly became a symbol of a freewheeling China always open for business. Shenzhen was a planned showcase city, willed into being by leaders in Beijing and supported by government ministries and the companies under them.
5.2009, Lanqing Li, “The Birth of Special Economic Zones”, in Ling Yuan, Zhang Siying, transl., Breaking Through: The Birth of China's Opening-Up Policy[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122:
The tiny 0.8-square-kilometer Luohu District was where the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone really got off to a good start.
6.2021 June 21, Keith Bradsher, “Chinese port difficulties amid a Covid outbreak further snarl global trade.”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-21, Business[4]:
The blockage of the Suez Canal in March? No, there is another disruption in global shipping. This time, the problem lies in Shenzhen, a sprawling metropolis adjacent to Hong Kong in southeastern China.
7.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shenzhen.
[Synonyms]
- (from Cantonese) Shumchun, Shum-chun, Shamchun, Sham Chun
[[Portuguese]]
[Proper noun]
Shenzhen
1.Shenzhen (a major subprovincial city in Guangdong, in southeastern China)
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Panama
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpæn.ə.mɑː/[Alternative forms]
- Panamá
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish Panamá, of unknown origin. Probably from a Chibchan language such as Kuna, or another indigenous language of the region (such as Cueva, barely attested and now extinct).This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Further reading]
- Panama on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
Panama (plural Panamas)
1.A Panama hat.
[Proper noun]
Panama
1.A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Panama.
[See also]
- (countries of Central America) country of Central America; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Proper noun]
Panama
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Central Nahuatl]]
[Proper noun]
Panama
1.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈpanama][Further reading]
- Panama in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
- Panama in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- Panama in Internetová jazyková příručka
[Proper noun]
Panama f (related adjective panamský, demonym Panaman or Panamec)
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Dutch]]
[Proper noun]
Panama n
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Estonian]]
ipa :/ˈpɑnɑmɑ/[Proper noun]
Panama (genitive Panama, partitive Panamat)
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈpɑnɑmɑ/[Etymology]
From Spanish Panamá.
[Proper noun]
Panama
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[German]]
[Proper noun]
Panama n (proper noun, genitive Panamas or (optionally with an article) Panama)
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈpɒnɒmɒ][Proper noun]
Panama
1.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Irish]]
[Further reading]
- Entries containing “Panama” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “Panama” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
[Mutation]
[Proper noun]
Panama m (genitive Phanama)
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
3.Panama City (the capital and largest city of Panama)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈpa.na.ma/[Alternative forms]
- Panamà
[Proper noun]
Panama f
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Latin]]
[Proper noun]
Panama f sg (genitive Panamae); first declension
1.
2.(New Latin) Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Latvian]]
[Proper noun]
Panama f (4th declension)
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Lithuanian]]
[Proper noun]
Panama f
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Proper noun]
Panama
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[See also]
- panamaner
- panamansk
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Proper noun]
Panama
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[See also]
- panaman, panamanar
- panamansk
[[Polish]]
ipa :/paˈna.ma/[Further reading]
- Panama in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Proper noun]
Panama f
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
3.
4.Panama City (the capital and largest city of Panama)
[[Rarotongan]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English Panama and Spanish Panama.
[Proper noun]
Panama
1.Panama (a country in Central America, North America)
[References]
“Panama” in Cook Islands Languages, 2016.
[[Romanian]]
[Further reading]
- Panama in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
[Proper noun]
Panama f
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/pǎnama/[Proper noun]
Pànama f (Cyrillic spelling Па̀нама)
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Slovak]]
ipa :[ˈpanama][Proper noun]
Panama f (genitive singular Panamy, declension pattern of žena)
1.Panama (a country in Central America)
[References]
- “Panama”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
[[Swedish]]
[Proper noun]
Panama n (genitive Panamas)
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/panaˈma/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Spanish Panamá (“Panama”).
[Proper noun]
Panamá or Pánamá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈᜋ)
1.Panama (a country in Central America)
[[Turkish]]
[Proper noun]
Panama
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
[See also]
- (countries of Central America) Orta Amerika ülkesi; Belize, Kosta Rika, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nikaragua, Panama
[[Uzbek]]
[Proper noun]
Panama
1.
2.Panama (a country in Central America)
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Panama Canal
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
Panama Canal
1.A major man-made canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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plotted
[[English]]
[Verb]
plotted
1.simple past and past participle of plot
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plot
[[English]]
ipa :/plɒt/[Anagrams]
- OLTP, PTOL, lopt, polt
[Etymology]
From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃 (plats, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of the "secret plan" sense.
[Noun]
plot (plural plots)
1.(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [from 1640s]
Synonym: storyline
2.c. 1725, Alexander Pope, View of the Epic Poem:
If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.
3.An area or land used for building on or planting on. [from 1550s]
Synonym: parcel
4.A grave.
He's buried in the family plot.
5.A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
6.2017, Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units, page 32:
I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.
7.
8. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]
Synonyms: conspiracy, scheme
The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.
9.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
I have o'erheard a plot of death.
10.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
11.Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
12.a. 1669, John Denham, On Mr Thomas Killigrew's Return from Venice, and Mr William Murrey's from Scotland:
a man of much plot
13.Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
14.1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:
And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
15.A plan; a purpose.
16.1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
17.(fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of characters involved in a story (originating from ironic juxtaposition with the original meaning, "course of the story").
I'm not sure what's happening in that show, I mainly watch it for the plot.
[Synonyms]
- (contrive): becast
- (conceive a crime, etc): scheme
- (an area of land): lot
[Verb]
plot (third-person singular simple present plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
They had plotted a robbery.
They were plotting against the king.
2.(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
They plotted the number of edits per day.
3.(transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
Every five minutes they plotted their position.
4.1602, Richard Carew, Survey on Cornwall:
This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
[[Albanian]]
[Adverb]
plót
1.fully, to full capacity, to the brim
Synonym: mbushur
Antonyms: bosh, zbrazët
me gojën plot ― with one's mouth full
Dhoma ishte plot. ― The house was full.
2.full, cramped (of people, things, etc.)
Synonym: mbushur
Kopshti ishte plot me lule. ― The garden was full of flowers.
3.a lot, much
Synonyms: shumë, mjaft
4.with everything, lacking nothing. complete, full
5.with a full, complete view
Është hëna plot. ― It's a full moon.
6.(colloquial) successfully
Synonym: në shenjë
Antonym: bosh
7.full of. followed by an indefinite form
Synonyms: tërë, gjithë
plot gëzim ― full of joy
8.exactly, precisely
Synonyms: pikërisht, tamam
plot dy orë ― exactly two hours
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁tós (“full”),[1][2][3] from the root *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Compare Sanskrit प्रात (prātá), Latin com-plētus.
[Further reading]
- “plot”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
[References]
1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891), “pľot”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 345
2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “pel-, pelə-, pēl-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 799
3. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “plotë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 335
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈplot][Etymology]
Inherited from Old Czech plot, from Proto-Slavic *plotъ.
[Further reading]
- plot in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- plot in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- plot in Internetová jazyková příručka
[Noun]
plot m inan
1.fence
dřevěný plot ― wooden fence
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɔt[Verb]
plot
1.inflection of plotten:
1.first/second/third-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[French]]
ipa :/plo/[Further reading]
- “plot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
plot m (plural plots)
1.traffic cone
2.cone used in slalom
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ˈplɔt̚/[Etymology]
From Dutch plot, from English plot, from Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin.
[Further reading]
- “plot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
plot (first-person possessive plotku, second-person possessive plotmu, third-person possessive plotnya)
1.(art, literature) plot, storyline: the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
Synonyms: alur, alur cerita, jalan cerita
[[Luxembourgish]]
[Verb]
plot
1.third-person singular present indicative of ploen
2.second-person plural present indicative of ploen
3.second-person plural imperative of ploen
[[Polish]]
ipa :/plɔt/[Noun]
plot f
1.genitive plural of plota
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plotъ.
[Further reading]
- “plot” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- “plot” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[Noun]
plȏt m (Cyrillic spelling пло̑т)
1.fence
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
plot m (plural plots)
1.(story-telling) plot
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[[English]]
ipa :/kɔːt/[Anagrams]
- Crout, Curto, Turco, Turco-, crout
[Etymology]
From Middle English court, from Old French cort, curt, from Latin cōrtem (accusative of cōrs), ultimately from cohors. Doublet of cohort.A court (def. 4.2) assembled to hear the testimony of Charles Lindbergh. The room is also a court (def. 4.1).Professional tennis players playing on a tennis court (def. 5) in New Delhi, India
[Further reading]
English Wikipedia has an article on:Court (disambiguation)Wikipedia
- court on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
court (plural courts)
1.An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
The girls were playing in the court.
2.1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Palace of Art”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza XXX, page 77:
All round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters, branched like mighty woods, / Echoing all night to that sonorous flow / Of spouted fountain floods.
3.1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court.
1.(Australia, US) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
2.(Hong Kong, only used in names) A housing estate under the House Ownership Scheme.
3.(Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.(social) Royal society.
1.The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
The noblemen visited the queen in her court.
2.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
This our court, infected with their manners, / Shows like a riotous inn.
3.The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
The queen and her court traveled to the city to welcome back the soldiers.
4.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.
5.1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove.
6.Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
7.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
The princesses […] held their court within the fortress.Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
No solace could her paramour entreat / Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance.
- 1667 April 28 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 18 April 1667]”, 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 went to make court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle at their house in Clerkenwell.(law) The administration of law.
1.The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
Many famous criminals have been put on trial in this court.
2.The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
The court started proceedings at 11 o'clock.
3.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
4.1985, “Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)”, in Justice Canada[1], retrieved 1 March 2020:
536(2.1). ... You have the option to elect to be tried by a provincial court judge without a jury; or you may elect to be tried by a judge without a jury; or you may elect to be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury.
5.An organization for the administration of law, consisting of a body of judges with a certain jurisdiction along with its administrative apparatus.
Each province in Canada has three courts: a provincial court, a superior court, and a court of appeals.
6.(often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
7.2017 May 5, Kevin R. Aalto, “Gordon v. Canada, 2017 FC 454”, in CanLII[2], retrieved 23 February 2020:
A case conference in person was convened.... To emphasize that it was a Court proceeding the Court was gowned.
8.2018 August 17, M.F. McParland, “R. v. Carlson, 2018 BCPC 209”, in CanLII[3], retrieved 1 March 2020:
[5]... defence alleges there is a reasonable apprehension of bias based on the cumulative effect of several issues including the following: (1) The Court was “crying” during the victim impact statement; (2) The Court laughed or “scoffed” when defence stated its sentencing position; ...(6) The Court’s tone, facial expression and demeanor throughout the proceedings...
9.The session of a judicial assembly.
The court is now in session.
10.2023 February 16, WCCO Staff, “Julissa Thaler sentenced to life in prison for murdering 6-year-old son, Eli Hart”, in cbsnews.com[4]:
On Thursday morning, a Hennepin County judge formally sentenced Julissa Thaler to the life sentence for Eli Hart's murder. […] After court, family said their focus now turns to fundraising a playground in Mound in Eli Hart's honor […]
11.Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.(sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
The local sports club has six tennis courts and two squash courts.
The shuttlecock landed outside the court.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
1.one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
2.2010, Cara Marcus, Faulkner Hospital:
The photograph at left captures a great serve by Dr. Sadowsky, who will never forget one of Bobby Riggs's serves, which had such a great spin that it landed in his court and bounced back to the other side of the net before he had a chance to return it.(ornithology) A space prepared and decorated by certain bird species in which to advertise themselves for a mate.
The male Wilson's bird of paradise clears an area of rainforest to create a court in which to perform an elaborate mating dance.
[Verb]
court (third-person singular simple present courts, present participle courting, simple past and past participle courted)
1.(transitive) To seek to achieve or win.
He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.
2.1800, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of The Reign of Philip The Second, King of Spain, volume 3:
On the contrary, they employed the brief respite that was left them in fortifying one another's courage, and in bearing testimony to the truth in so earnest a manner that they might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
3.1821, Thomas De Quincey, “To the Reader”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:
Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard […]
4.(transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
He courted controversy with his frank speeches.
5.1964 April, “Automatic Signalling Problems in an Emergency”, in Modern Railways, page 273:
It is not unknown for hot axleboxes to fail completely and for wagons to become derailed as a result. Surely it is courting disaster to allow a train to proceed for up to seven miles with a defective vehicle before it can be brought to a halt?
6.(transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
7.c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act 1, scene 1:
If either of you both love Katharina […] / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
8.(transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.
The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance.
9.(transitive) To attempt to attract.
10.1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 24, in The History of England: From the Accession of James II, volume 5:
By one person, however, Portland was still assiduously courted, and that person was the king.
11.(transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
Synonyms: charm, entrance; see also Thesaurus:allure
12.a. 1835, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter:
[…] a well-worn pathway courted us / To one green wicket in a privet hedge […]
13.1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
It is a grim, grey old town, standing on bleak, precipitous cliffs that court every passing hurricane, […]
14.(transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
15.(intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
Synonyms: romance, solicit; see also Thesaurus:woo
She's had a few beaus come courting.
16.(intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.
In this season, you can see many animals courting.
[[French]]
ipa :/kuʁ/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Old French curt, from Latin curtus.
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Etymology 3]
Borrowed from English court.
[Further reading]
- “court”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/kuːrt/[Alternative forms]
- cort, corte, cortt, courte, curt, curth
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Old French cort, curt, from Latin cōrs, contraction of cohors, cohortem.
[Noun]
court (plural courtes)
1.A courtyard; an enclosed space.
2.A grand residence, especially that of a ruler or noble.
3.The household or retinue of a ruler; a ruler's court.
4.A (royal) assembly; a deliberative body.
5.A court of law; the body which administers justice:
1.A court building; the place where justice is administered.
2.A session of a judicial assembly.
3.(rare) A legal action.
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
From Old French cort, curt, etc.
[Noun]
court f (plural cours)
1.court (of law)
2.court (of a palace, etc.)
3.1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac:
quant il les eut faictes si les scella & les bailla a la damoiselle pour porter l'andemain a court
when he had written them [the letters] he then sealed them and entrusted them to the lady to take them tomorrow to the court
[References]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (court, supplement)
[[Norman]]
[Adjective]
court m
1.(Jersey) short
[Etymology]
From Old French curt, from Latin curtus (“shortened, short”).
[[Walloon]]
ipa :/kuːʀ/[Adjective]
court m (feminine singular courte, masculine plural courts, feminine plural courtes, feminine plural (before noun) courtès)
1.short
[Etymology]
From Old French curt, from Latin curtus.
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District
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
the District
1.(with determiner, informal) The District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States.
2.(with determiner, mostly local usage) Any of numerous governmental districts.
3.(rail transport) The District Line of the London Underground, originally known as the District Railway.
4.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 60:
The District seems complacently salubrious. It is green on the Tube map, an inoffensive colour. It has not one but two bridge crossings of the Thames, which seems greedy when you think that no other [underground] line has even one.
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