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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. (...)"
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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.
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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.
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7.1667, Handtvesten, privilegien, willekeuren ende ordonnantien der Stadt Enchuysen, page 345:
De Schutters van de respective Steden, werden geauctoriseert, alle de Fuycken, buyten de benoemde Warren in de Wateringh staende, te mogen visiteren, of de selve keur mogen houden ofte niet, (...)
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[[Dutch Low Saxon]]
[Adjective]
war
1.(in some dialects) true
[Alternative forms]
- (Low Prussian) wahr
[Etymology]
From Low German wahr, from Middle Low German wâr, from Old Saxon wār. Cognate to German wahr.
[[Elfdalian]]
[Adverb]
war
1.where, in what place
[Etymology]
From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar. Cognate with Swedish var.
[[German]]
ipa :/vaːɐ̯/[Verb]
war
1.first-person singular preterite of sein
2.1788, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont[2], archived from the original on 26 September 2009, (English translation):
Ich hätte ihn heiraten können, und glaube, ich war nie in ihn verliebt.
I could have married him; yet I believe I was never really in love with him.
3.third-person singular preterite of sein
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/vaːr/[Alternative forms]
- wor
[Verb]
war
1.first-person singular preterite indicative of sinn
2.third-person singular preterite indicative of sinn
[[Mokilese]]
[Noun]
war (indefinite warpas, definite warwa)
1.canoe
2.(by extension) vehicle
[[Mpur]]
[Noun]
war
1.water
[References]
- A Sketch of Mpur, in Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (2002)
[[Northern Kurdish]]
[[Old English]]
ipa :/wɑːr/[Descendants]
- Middle English: wor.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title]{cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title="uncertain"]{font-size:.7em;vertical-align:super}
- English: ware
-
[Etymology]
From Proto-West Germanic *wair, related to *wīraz.
[Noun]
wār n
1.seaweed
2.sand
[References]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wár”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[[Old Gutnish]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Norse ᚹᚨᛊ (was), from Proto-Germanic *was, first/third-person singular indicative past of *wesaną.
[Verb]
war
1.first/third-person singular indicative past of wara
[[Old High German]]
[Adjective]
wār
1.true
[Etymology]
From Proto-West Germanic *wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz, whence also Old English wǣr, Old Norse værr.
[[Old Polish]]
ipa :/var/[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vȃrъ (“boiling; boiling liquid”). By surface analysis, deverbal from wrzeć or warzyć. First attested in 1499.
[Noun]
war m ?
1.boiling water
2.1874 [1499], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące, volume XVIII, number 622:
Tako ony rzeczy parzyl od syebye, yako pssy z kuchnyey parzą varem
[Tako ony rzeczy parzył od siebie, jako psy z kuchniej parzą warem]
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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]
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[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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court
[[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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fort
[[English]]
ipa :/fɔɹt/[Anagrams]
- frot
[Etymology]
From Middle English fort, from Middle French fort (“strong”) (adjective use is from Old French). Doublet of fortis and forte.
[Noun]
fort (plural forts)
1.A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
2.Any permanent army post.
3.(historical) An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
4.A structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.
Synonym: den
The kids built a fort out of chairs and pillows.
[Synonyms]
- (fortified defensive structure): bastion, bulwark, bunker, castle, citadel, donjon, fortification, fortress, foxhole, keep, motte and bailey, rampart, stronghold
- (permanent army post): air base, armory, arsenal, base, camp, headquarters, supply depot, watchtower
[Verb]
fort (third-person singular simple present forts, present participle forting, simple past and past participle forted)
1.To create a fort, fortifications, a strong point, or a redoubt.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[ˈfɔrt][Adjective]
fort (feminine forta, masculine plural forts, feminine plural fortes)
1.strong (forceful, powerful)
Antonyms: feble, dèbil
2.strong (durable, resistant)
3.strong (potent, having a high degree of intensity)
[Adverb]
fort
1.strongly
[Etymology]
Inherited from Latin fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).
[Further reading]
- “fort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fort”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “fort” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Interjection]
fort
1.expresses approval of a punishment or misfortune suffered by another
[Noun]
fort m (plural forts, feminine forta)
1.a strong person
2.strength (the strongest part of something)
3.a fort or other defensive construction
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
fort n (singular definite fortet, plural indefinite forter)
1.fort
[References]
- “fort” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/fɔrt/[Anagrams]
- trof
[Noun]
fort n (plural forten, diminutive fortje n)
1.castle
2.fort
[[French]]
ipa :/fɔːʁ/[Adjective]
fort (feminine forte, masculine plural forts, feminine plural fortes)
1.strong; powerful
Arnie est fort. ― Arnie is strong.
hommes forts ― strong men
2.(transitive with en) (informal) skilled, proficient, successful, sometimes translated "good" (often used in reference to academic subjects)
Je suis fort en anglais ― I am good at English
3.(transitive with de) who can count on
fort d’une solide expérience ― based on solid experience
[Adverb]
fort
1.strongly
2.much, a lot
3.2001, Le Funambule, →ISBN, page 141:
Alors on ferme les yeux, on a fort envie de quelque chose et on se l’offre.
So we close our eyes, we really fancy something and we're going to take it.
4.(when preceding certain adjectives and adverbs) very (intensifier)
Je lui parle fort souvent. ― I speak with her very often.
[Antonyms]
- faible
[Etymology]
Inherited from Old French fort, from Latin fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).
[Further reading]
- “fort”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
fort m (plural forts)
1.a fort
[Synonyms]
- ferme
- grand
- gros
- robuste
[[German]]
ipa :[fɔɐ̯t][Adverb]
fort
1.away
2.gone
3.going on, continuing
[Etymology]
From Middle High German vort, Old High German forth, Proto-Germanic *furþą, compare English forth, Dutch voort.
[Further reading]
- “fort” in Duden online
- “fort” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[[Lombard]]
[Adjective]
fort
1.strong
[Etymology]
Akin to Italian forte and French fort, from Latin fortis.
[[Middle French]]
[Adjective]
fort m (feminine singular forte, masculine plural fors, feminine plural fortes)
1.strong
[Etymology]
From Old French fort.
[[Norman]]
[Adjective]
fort m
1.strong
[Etymology]
From Old French fort, from Latin fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-.
[Noun]
fort m (plural forts)
1.(Jersey, Guernsey, military, etc.) fort
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/fuʈ/[Etymology 1]
From Middle Low German vort.
[Etymology 2]
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:fortWikipedia noFrom French fort.
[References]
- “fort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/furt/[Etymology 1]
From Middle Low German vort.
[Etymology 2]
From French fort.
[References]
- “fort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old Dutch]]
[Adverb]
fort
1.away
[[Old French]]
ipa :/ˈfɔɾt/[Adjective]
fort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fort or forte)
1.strong
2.late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 354, lines 67–70:
La nef ert fort e belle e grande,
bone cum cele k'ert markande.
De plusurs mers chargee esteit,
en Engleterre curre devait.
The ship was strong and beautiful and big,
good like a merchant's ship
loaded with lots of different type of merchandise
ready to set sail to England.
[Adverb]
fort
1.strongly
[Etymology]
From Latin fortis.
[[Old Irish]]
[Pronoun]
fort
1.second-person singular of for
on you
[[Polish]]
ipa :/fɔrt/[Etymology]
Ultimately from Latin fortis.
[Further reading]
- fort in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- fort in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
fort m inan
1.fortress (fortified place)
Synonyms: barbakan, koszary, twierdza
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French fort.
[Noun]
fort n (plural forturi)
1.fort, fortification
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ˈfʊʈ/[Etymology 1]
Attested since 1609 according to Nationalencyklopedins Ordbok, from Middle Low German fôrt (“away, further, forward”), which is used adverbially (forts) with the same meaning in Low German. Related to för (“fore”), före (“before”) and forsla (“transport, carry, haul”).
[Etymology 2]
Attested since 1651 according to Nationalencyklopedins Ordbok. From French fort.
[References]
- fort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- fort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- fort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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community
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈmjuː.nɪ.ti/[Antonyms]
- anticommunity
- noncommunity
[Etymology]
From Late Middle English communite,[1] borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”),[2] from commūnis (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (“suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being”)). Commūnis is derived from con- (“prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects”) (from cum (“with”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“along, at, next to, with”)) + mūnus (“employment, office, service; burden, duty, obligation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to change, exchange”)). Ostensibly equivalent to commune + -ity. Doublet of communitas.
[Further reading]
- community on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- community (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Community (Wales) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
community (countable and uncountable, plural communities)
1.(countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
2.1586, Giraldus Cambrensis [i.e., Gerald of Wales], “The Irish Historie Composed and Written by Giraldus Cambrensis, [… ]”, in Iohn Hooker alias Vowell [i.e., John Hooker], transl., The Second Volume of Chronicles: […] , [s.l.]: [s.n.], →OCLC:
[W]e are not borne to our ſelues alone, but the prince, the countrie, the parents, freends, wiues, children and familie, euerie of them doo claime an intereſt in vs, and to euerie of them we muſt be beneficiall: otherwiſe we doo degenerate from that communitie and ſocietie, which by ſuch offices by vs is to be conſtrued, & doo become moſt vnprofitable: […]
3.1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, being a Portion of The Recluse; a Poem, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, book the fourth (Despondency Corrected), page 161:
Nor wanting here, to entertain the thought, / Creatures, that in communities exist, / Less, at might seem, for general guardianship / Or through dependance upon mutual aid, / Than by participation of delight / And a strict love of fellowship, combined.
4.1827, Henry Hallam, “On the English Constitution from Henry VII to Mary”, in The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II, volume I, Paris: Printed for L. Baudry, at the English, Italian, German and Spanish Library, No. 9, rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré; Lefèvre, bookseller, No. 8, rue de l'Éperon, →OCLC, page 17:
Henry VII obtained from his first parliament a grant of tonnage and poundage during life, according to several precedents of former reigns. But when general subsidies were granted, the same people […] twice broke out into dangerous rebellions; and as these, however arising from such immediate discontent, were yet connected a good deal with the opinion of Henry's usurpation, and the claims of a pretender, it was a necessary policy to avoid too frequent imposition of burdens upon the poorer classes of the community.
5.1891 March 15, Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, in Oscar Wilde, William Morris, W[illiam] C[harles] Owen, The Soul of Man under Socialism, The Socialist Ideal—Art and The Coming Solidarity (The Humboldt Library of Science; no. 147), New York, N.Y.: The Humboldt Publishing Company, 28 Lafayette Place, →OCLC, pages 14–15:
As one reads history—not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time—one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment, than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
6.2005, Craig Dykstra, “Growing in Faith”, in Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices, 2nd edition, Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 40:
The process of coming to faith and growing in the life of faith is fundamentally a process of participation. […] The Presbyterian Confession of 1967 says that "the new life takes shape in a community in which [human beings] know that God loves and accepts them in spite of what they are." In words that capture an older language, God uses the community of faith as "means of grace."
7.2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 16 November 2016, page 19:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
8.(countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
9.1999, “Fourteenth Century: Before and After”, in Therese Boos Dykeman, editor, The Neglected Canon: Nine Women Philosophers: First to the Twentieth Century, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 73:
The Beguines, an uncloistered religiously inspired woman's movement began about the year 1210 in Liége, Belgium. Generally the Beguines lived in community or in small cottages behind a wall. At times threatened as heretics, they were finally disbanded by the Reformation.
10.(countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
11.1949, G[eorge] E[velyn] Hutchinson, E[dward] S[mith] Deevey, Jr., “Ecological Studies on Populations”, in George S. Avery, Jr., editor, Survey of Biological Progress, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, page 325:
Synecology has for the objects of its study, not individual organisms but biological communities, which are groups of organisms living in a given space, the properties of which space select a certain assemblage of organisms of definite autecological characteristics. Such communities are moreover not merely collections of organisms of restricted autecology, but tend to become organized by the biotic relationships that exist beteen the various individuals comprising the community.
12.(countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
13.2015, Sandy Baldwin, “I Read My Spam”, in The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature (International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics; 9), New York, N.Y., London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, section VI, page 89:
Spam texts are encoded but no decryption is possible. There is no plaintext message. I find them wonderful, and read them as poetics, as odd fragments generative of narrtives and scenography. I find the process of their production wonderful as well. The texts are written to elude community standards and means of censorship, and at the same time to enter and impose themselves into the standards and means for the community to read itself.
14.2015, Aaron M. Duncan, “Shifting the Scene to Cyberspace: Internet Poker and the Rise of Tom Dwan”, in Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN:
Online gaming communities develop their own language, history, routines, and relationships. The online poker community is no different, developing its own culture distinct from the traditional poker community. One asp[ect that differentiates internet poker from other online gaming communities is the presence of money, creating what [Edward] Castronova et al. (2009) refer to as a virtual economic system complete with its own rules and forces.
15.(uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
16.2006, James G[eorge] Samra, “The Role of the Local Community in the Maturation Process”, in Being Conformed to Christ in Community: A Study of Maturity, Maturation and the Local Church in the Undisputed Pauline Epistles (Library of New Testament Studies; 320), paperback edition, London, New York, N.Y.: T&T Clark, published 2008, →ISBN, section 6.1 (Introduction), page 133:
We hope to demonstrate that Paul understood the local community to be the sphere in which and the means through which the five components of the maturation process were facilitated, thus concluding that Paul expected believers to be confirmed to Christ in community.
17.2018, Bronwyn T. Williams, “A Sense of Where You Are: Literacy, Place, and Mobility”, in Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency: Composing Identities, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 128:
Writing groups and community writing spaces can provide that vitally important space for writing as well as potential benefits of support and accountability if people have the chance to talk about writing. Even if all that happens, however, is that people have a space to write in community with each other, the result is usually that writing becomes contagious.
18.(countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
a community of goods
19.1689, [John Locke], “Of Adam’s Title to Sovereignty by Donation, Gen[esis] 1.28”, in Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government, London: Printed for Awnsham Churchill, at the Black Swan in Ave-Mary-Lane, by Amen-Corner, published 1690, →OCLC; republished London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1698, →OCLC, page 39:
To conclude, this Text is ſo far from proving Adam Sole Proprietor, that on the contrary, it is a Confirmation of the Original Community of all Things amongſt the Sons of Men, which appearing from this Donation of God, as well as other places of Scripture; the Sovraignty of Adam, built upon his Private Dominion, muſt fall, not having any Foundation to ſupport it.
20.1819 October 9, [Washington Irving], “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. III. The Wife.”, in The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, etc., volume III, number 142, London: Printed by William Pople, No. 67, Chancery Lane; published for the proprietors, at the Literary Gazette office, Strand; sold also by Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; John Cumming, Dublin; and all other booksellers, newsmen, &c., →OCLC, page 649, column 1:
Besides, you are depriving yourself of the comforts of her sympathy; and not merely that, but also endangering the only bond that can keep hearts together—an unreserved community of thought and feeling.
21.(uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
22.1797, John Wilde, Sequel to an Address to the Lately Formed Society of the Friends of the People, Edinburgh: Printed for Peter Hill; and T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, London, →OCLC, page 1:
We are now in the ninth year of the anarchy of France. […] A diſpoſition to peace has been diſplayed, without conſideration of the royal family of France. The natural horror at the effuſion of blood cannot be too ſtrong, and might of itſelf perſuade us to any ſort of peace; but it is a great queſtion, whether in this we ſhould loſe our natural horror at crime. Peace with France cannot be friendſhip with France. There can be no community between us and them, unleſs by allying ourſelves with murder, and ſanctioning and ſharing in the pillage of thieves.
23.1864, Herbert Spencer, “Growth”, in The Principles of Biology (A System of Synthetic Philosophy; II), volume I, London, Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 14, Henrietta Steet, Covent Garden, London; and 20, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh, →OCLC, part II (The Inductions of Biology), § 43, pages 107–108:
The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth, is, however, most clearly seen on observing that they both result in the same way. The segregation of different kinds of detritus from each other, as well as from the water carrying them, and their aggregation into distinct strata, is but an instance of a universl tendency towards the union of like units and the parting of unlike units […].
24.(uncountable, obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
25.c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
So when he had occaſion to be ſeene, / He was but as the Cuckoe is in Iune, / Heard, not regarded: Seene, but with ſuch eie / As ſicke and blunted with communitie, / Affoord no extraordinary gaze.
26.(Wales, countable) A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England.
[References]
- “community”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- community in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "community" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 75.
- “community”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
1. ^ “commū̆nitẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 November 2017.
2. ^ “community, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈkɔˈmjunɪti/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English community.
[Noun]
community f or m (plural community's)
1.community, particularly a virtual community or a group of people sharing common interests
[Synonyms]
- gemeenschap
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bombshell
[[English]]
[Etymology]
bomb + shell
[Noun]
bombshell (plural bombshells)
1.A bomb or artillery shell designed to explode on impact.
2.(figurative) Something that is very surprising, shocking, amazing or sensational.
3.2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
Singer and Jeffreys had focused their attention on cancer risk, but the bombshell of the report was the danger to children.
4.(by extension) Someone who is very attractive; a sex symbol.
Diana Dors, the 1950s blonde bombshell
5.2021 May 4, Ruth La Ferla, “On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
The singer once identified by her shock of green hair has gone blonde and full bombshell, swapping her trademark sweats for a style more domme than deb: pink Gucci corset and skirt over Agent Provocateur skivvies, accessorized with latex gloves and leggings.
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Get
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- GTE, TGE, teg
[Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
Get (plural Gets)
1.A member of the Getae.
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come as no surprise
[[English]]
[Further reading]
- “come as no surprise”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
[Verb]
come as no surprise (third-person singular simple present comes as no surprise, present participle coming as no surprise, simple past came as no surprise, past participle come as no surprise)
1.(set phrase) To not be surprising; to be expected.
2.2021, Jones v. Mississippi (U.S. Supreme Court No. 18–1259), Justice Kavanaugh:
Given those two points, it comes as no surprise that Miller declined to characterize permanent incorrigibility as such an eligibility criterion.
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turn around
[[English]]
[Noun]
turn around (countable and uncountable, plural turn arounds)
1.Alternative spelling of turnaround
[References]
- “turn around”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Verb]
turn around (third-person singular simple present turns around, present participle turning around, simple past and past participle turned around)
1.(ergative) To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.
At the end of the road, we turned around and walked back to the hotel.
The world turns around once every twenty-four hours.
Turn around once or twice so I can see your new dress.
A wheel turns around on an axle.
If you kids don't cut it out I will turn this car around!
2.1756 November, Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber, editors, The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer[1], volume 25, page 517:
...and called him his father; this overpowered the brave man's heart, and obliged him to turn around, to prevent the tears that stood ready to gush from his eyes.
3.(transitive, figurative) To change drastically in a fundamental way, often for the better; to change to the opposite (opinion or position).
She turned her position around and now she is in favor of the merger.
4.2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
5.(transitive, business, management, sports) To reverse an expected outcome (of a game, etc.), usually from a losing outcome to a winning one; to return (a business, department, etc.) to effectiveness, profitability, etc.
The new management team has really turned the company around 180 degrees, and they expect a good profit next year.
The team really turned it around in the second half for a great win.
They were way ahead but the game turned around on them and they lost 4–3.
6.2011 February 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 2-1 Everton”, in BBC:
It took changes from Wenger and a rare defensive lapse from Everton before Arsenal finally turned the game around with two goals in the space of five minutes.
7.2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times[2]:
Pollard, who went into the semifinals with an unsatisfactory 63% return from the kicking tee, turned it around splendidly against Wales and he continued that form despite missing his first attempt in the final.
8.(transitive, espionage) To convert (an agent) to work for one's own side.
9.2014, Joseph DiMona, To the Eagle's Nest:
Some months ago, the Captain had come to the FBI with a story that he had been contacted by Soviet agents, and the FBI had “turned him around” and used him to plant false and specially made up classified material of no importance on the Soviets.
10.(intransitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To suddenly change or reverse one's opinion, point of view, stated position, behaviour, etc.
You can't just turn around and say that it was all my fault.
11.(transitive, idiomatic, of an idea) To consider from a different viewpoint.
Let's turn that around and look at it from another angle.
12.(transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) (often with a unit of time) To produce; to output; to generate.
We can turn around 500 units by next week.
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turn-around
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Deverbal from turn around.
[Noun]
turn-around (plural turn-arounds)
1.Alternative spelling of turnaround
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tur
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
tur
1.(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Turkish.
[[English]]
ipa :/tʊə/[Anagrams]
- RTU, URT, UTR, rut
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Russian тур (tur). Doublet of steer and Taurus.
[Noun]
tur (plural turs)
1.Either of two species of wild goat native to Caucasus, West Caucasian tur Capra caucasica or East Caucasian tur Capra cylindricornis.
2.2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 90:
Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur.
[[Balinese]]
[Romanization]
tur
1.Romanization of ᬢᬸᬃ
2.Romanization of ᬢᬹᬃ
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈtur][Etymology]
Inherited from Old Czech tur, from Proto-Slavic *tȗrъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *taurás, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.
[Further reading]
- tur in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- tur in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
[Noun]
tur m anim
1.bovine
[[Danish]]
ipa :/tuːr/[Etymology]
Borrowed from French tour (“go, turn”).
[Noun]
tur c (singular definite turen, plural indefinite ture)
1.turn
Det er din tur.
It is your turn.
2.(graph theory) trail
3.walk, stroll
4.outing, excursion
5.trip, tour, flight
6.ride, drive, run
[Verb]
tur
1.imperative of ture
[[Irish]]
ipa :/t̪ˠʊɾˠ/[Adjective]
tur (genitive singular feminine tuire, plural tura, comparative tuire)
1.dry (of food)
[Etymology]
From Old Irish tur,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
[Further reading]
- “tur”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “tur”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 766
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tur”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
[Mutation]
[References]
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1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 tur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
[[Latvian]]
ipa :[tùɾ][Etymology 1]
Traditionally, tur is derived from kur (“where”) by analogy with pairs like kas (“who, what”) : tas (“that”), kā (“how”) : tā (“thus, like that”). A more recent suggestion is that tur may come from Proto-Baltic *tur, from the zero grade *tr̥ of Proto-Indo-European *ter-, the source of several nouns, adverbs or prepositions meaning “through,” “across,” “away”: German durch (“through”) (compare Old High German duruh, from *tr̥-kʷe), Breton treu (“beyond”), dre (“through”) (*tre), Latin trāns (“over, across, beyond”). The meaning in Latvian would have been changed to “there” under the influence of kur.[1]
[Etymology 2]
See turēt
[References]
1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “tur”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
[[Lower Sorbian]]
ipa :/tur/[Etymology]
From Proto-Slavic *tȗrъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *taurás, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.
[Noun]
tur m animal
1.aurochs (Bos primigenius)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French tour.
[Noun]
tur m (definite singular turen, indefinite plural turer, definite plural turene)
1.a walk
2.a trip, journey
3.a tour
4.a turn (in rotation)
Det er din tur. ― It's your turn.
[References]
- “tur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French tour.
[Noun]
tur m (definite singular turen, indefinite plural turar, definite plural turane)
1.a walk
2.a trip, journey
3.a tour
4.a turn (in rotation)
[References]
- “tur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
From Latin turris.
[Noun]
tur oblique singular, f (oblique plural turs, nominative singular tur, nominative plural turs)
1.Alternative form of tor
[[Oroqen]]
[Noun]
tur
1.land, earth
[[Papiamentu]]
[Adverb]
tur
1.all
2.every
[Etymology]
From Portuguese tudo and Spanish todo and Kabuverdianu tudu.
[Pronoun]
tur
1.everything
[[Polish]]
ipa :/tur/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Old Polish tur.
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
- tur in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tur in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from French tour.
[Etymology 2]
Unknown. Probably borrowed from Serbo-Croatian tur. Other less likely theories suggest a link with stur, or Latin thylacus, from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos).
[[Romansch]]
[Alternative forms]
- tuor (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader)
- tor (Surmiran)
[Etymology]
From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).
[Noun]
tur m (plural turs) (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan)
1.tower
2.(chess) rook
[See also]
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/tûːr/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tȗrъ from Proto-Balto-Slavic *taurás, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.
[Etymology 2]
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ⁧اوتورمق⁩ (oturmak, “to sit”).
[References]
- “tur” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- “tur” in Hrvatski jezični portal
[[Slovak]]
ipa :/ˈtur/[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tȗrъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *taurás, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.
[Noun]
tur m inan (genitive singular tura, nominative plural tury, genitive plural turov, declension pattern of dub)
1.aurochs
2.Bos
[References]
- “tur”, 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
[[Sumerian]]
[Romanization]
tur
1.Romanization of 𒌉 (tur)
[[Sundanese]]
[Conjunction]
tur
1.and
2.as well as
3.furthermore
4.while in fact
[[Swedish]]
ipa :-ʉːr[Anagrams]
- Rut
[Antonyms]
- (luck): otur
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French tour, used in Swedish since 1639 in the sense of a journey, since 1679 in the sense of a sequence of events (to take turns), since 1809 in the sense of luck (events that luckily go your way).
[Noun]
tur c
1.a tour; a journey through a building, estate, country etc.
John tog en tur med bilen för att titta på hela stan innan han bestämde sig för att bosätta sig i just den stadsdelen.
John took a tour in the car to look at the whole city before he decided to settle in that particular neighborhood.
1.a bus or train service on a specific line, which leaves at a specific time
De drog in de två sista turerna på söndagskvällarna eftersom ändå ingen åkte med bussen vid den tiden.
They canceled the last two journeys on Sunday afternoons, as nobody took the bus at that time anyway.
2.a dance; an instance of dancing
Vi tog två turer på dansgolvet innan vi gick hem.
We danced two dances before we went home.
3.a figure in a dance
I square dance ropas turerna ut.
In square dance, the figures are called.a turn; the chance to use an item shared in sequence with others
Nu har du fått ha den jättelänge, så nu är det min tur.
Now you've had it for a really long time, now it's my turn.
Det är din tur.
It's your move.(uncountable) luck
Du måste ha väldig tur om du ska vinna lotterier.
You've got to have a lot of luck if you're to win the lottery.
[References]
- tur in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tur in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tur in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[[Wolof]]
[Noun]
tur
1.full name
2.reputation
[References]
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 256
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TUR
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
TUR
1.(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Turkey.
Synonym: TR (alpha-2)
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Tür
[[German]]
ipa :/tyːr/[Alternative forms]
- Thür, Thüre (obsolete)
- Türe (dated, regional)
[Etymology]
From Middle High German, from Old High German turi, from Proto-West Germanic *dur. Compare English door.
[Further reading]
- “Tür” in Duden online
- “Tür” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Tür on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
[Noun]
Tür f (genitive Tür, plural Türen, diminutive Türchen n or Türlein n)
1.door (rigid plane on a hinge)
Die Tür ist aus Eichenholz. ― The door is made of oak wood.
Kannst du bitte die Tür zumachen?! ― Can you please shut the door?!
Hast du schon an die Tür geklopft? ― Have you knocked on the door yet?
Plötzlich klopfte es an der (also: die) Tür. ― Suddenly someone knocked at the door.
2.door; doorway (passage that can be blocked with such a plane)
Er stand in der Tür. ― He was standing in the door[way].
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51797
address
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈdɹɛs/[Etymology]
From Middle English adressen (“to raise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from a- (from Latin ad (“to”)) + drecier (modern French dresser (“to straighten, arrange”)), from Vulgar Latin *dīrectiō, from Latin dīrēctus (“straight or right”), from the verb dīrigō, itself from regō (“to govern, to rule”). Cognate with Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”).
[Noun]
address (plural addresses)
1.Direction.
1.(obsolete) Guidance; help. [15th–17th c.]
2.(chiefly in the plural, now archaic) A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance. [from 16th c.]
3.1723, Richard Steele, The Lover and Reader, page 115:
[H]e was thus agreeable, and I neither insensible of his Perfections, nor displeased at his Addresses to me […] .
4.A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style. [from 16th c.]
a man of pleasing or insinuating address
5.A formal approach to a sovereign, especially an official appeal or petition; later (specifically) a response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament. [from 17th c.]
6.
7. An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this. [from 17th c.]
8.1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section VII:
Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer.
9.1889, Margaret Oliphant, The Portrait:
I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address.
10.
11. A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter. [from 17th c.]
12.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
The President's address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
13.(by extension) The property itself. [from 19th c.]
I went to his address but there was nobody there.
14.(computing) A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory; a string of characters identifying a location on the internet or other network; sometimes (specifically) an e-mail address. [from 20th c.]
The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address.Preparation.
1.(now rare) Preparedness for some task; resourcefulness; skill, ability. [from 16th c.]
2.1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i:
This is one bad effect of a good Character—it invites applications from the unfortunate and there needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of Benevolence without incurring the expence.—
3.1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 129:
The warmth of Father Pedro's constitution had formerly drawn him into some scrapes from which it required all his address to disengage himself, and rendered him exceedingly cautious ever after.
4.1813, “Customs, Manners, and present Appearance of Constantinople”, in The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1812, page 179:
At their turning-lathes, they employ their toes to guide the chisel; and, in these pedipulations, shew to Europeans a diverting degree of address.
5.(obsolete) The act of getting ready; preparation. [17th–18th c.]
6.1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:
But now again she makes address to speak.
7.(golf, Scotland) The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging. [from 19th c.][1]
[References]
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 “address, v., n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
[Verb]
address (third-person singular simple present addresses, present participle addressing, simple past and past participle addressed or (obsolete) addrest)
1.(intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
2.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
Let us address to tend on Hector's heels.
3.(intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.
4.1697, Virgil, “Virgil’s Æneis, Book VII”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 402:
Young Turnus to the Beaubteous Maid addreſs’d.
5.(transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
6.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
And this good knight his way with me addrest.
7.(transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
8.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14:
His foe was soone addrest.
9.1697, Virgil, “Virgil’s Æneis, Book X”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 517:
Then Turnus, from his chariot, leaping light, Addreſs’d himſelf on foot to ſingle fight.
10.1649, Jeremy Taylor, The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution:
The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming.
11.(transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
12.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 6, 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:
These men addressed themselves to the task.
13.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
[…] good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
14.(reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
15.1701, Thomas Brown, Laconics, or New Maxims of State and Conversation, London: Thomas Hodgson, section 76, p. 103,[1]
In the Reign of King Charles the Second, a certain Worthy Divine at Whitehall, thus Address’d himself to the Auditory at the conclusion of his Sermon.
16.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Emperor of Lilliput, Attended by Several of the Nobility, Come to See the Author in His Confinement. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 30:
There were ſeveral of his Prieſts and Lawyers preſent, (as I conjectured by their habits) who were commanded to addreſs themſelves to me, and I ſpoke to them in as many Languages as I had the leaſt ſmattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spaniſh, Italian, and Lingua Franca; but all to no purpoſe.
17.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 11, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
He addressed himself directly to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation […]
18.1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order[2], Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., p. 66, Article V, Section 34:
When any member is about to speak in debate, he shall rise and respectfully address himself to “Mr. Chairman.”
19.(transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
Synonyms: beclothe, dight, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe
20.1566–67, John Jewel, “The Defence of the Apology”, in The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, volume 4, Cambridge: University of Cambridge, published 1845, page 651:
Likewise Vincentius, and Petrus de Natalibus, and others your writers and recorders of fables could have told you that Tecla sometime addressed herself in man's apparel, and, had she not been forbidden by St Paul, would have followed him in company as a man.
21.(Discuss(+) this sense) (transitive) To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).
22.1697, Virgil, “Dedication [of the Æneis]”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page [187]:
though the young Heroe had addreſs’d his Prayers to him for his aſſiſtance
He addressed some portions of his remarks to his supporters, some to his opponents.
23.(transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.
24.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 2:
Are not your orders to address the senate?
25.1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 3:
The representatives of the nation in parliament, and the privy council, address the king
26.1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
Rimmer paused for no discernible reason, then yelled, equally inexplicably: 'Shut up!', wheeled round 180º, and appeared to be addressing a dartboard.
27.2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] Children address teachers by their first names. Even 15-year-olds do no more than 30 minutes' homework a night.
28.(transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
He addressed a letter.
29.(transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
Synonyms: romance, put the moves on; see also Thesaurus:woo
30.(transitive) To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
31.(transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.
32.1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
He stepped away from the sink, put up the toilet ring (Vi complained bitterly if he forgot to put it down when he was through, but never seemed to feel any pressing need to put it back up when she was), and addressed the John.
33.2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
34.(transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
35.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:
"By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety. "This remains a big issue for us and without some form of censorship purely focusing on [violent videos], I'm not sure how we can address it."
36.2020 December 2, Mark Phillips, “Rebuilding Rail in the 2020s”, in Rail, page 46:
Formerly [sic: Formally] known as the Rail Safety and Standards Board, the not-for-profit organisation's remit includes managing and developing Railway Group Standards on behalf of the rail industry, leading the development of long-term safety strategy, and supporting cross-industry groups that address major areas of safety risk.
37.(transitive, computing) To refer to a location in computer memory.
38.(transitive, golf, Scotland) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).[1]
[[Scots]]
ipa :/ˈadrɛs/[Noun]
address (plural addresses)
1.an address
[References]
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
[Verb]
address (third-person singular simple present addresses, present participle addressin, simple past addressed, past participle addressed)
1.to address
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dismissal
[[English]]
ipa :[dɪsˈmɪsəɫ][Etymology]
From dismiss + -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.
[Noun]
dismissal (countable and uncountable, plural dismissals)
1.The act of sending someone away.
2.
3.Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
4.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
5.A written or spoken statement of such an act.
6.Release from confinement; liberation.
7.Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
8.(law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
9.(cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
10.(Christianity) The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.
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51799
counteroffensive
[[English]]
[Adjective]
counteroffensive (comparative more counteroffensive, superlative most counteroffensive)
1.US spelling of counter-offensive
[Etymology]
counter- + offensive
[Noun]
counteroffensive (plural counteroffensives)
1.US spelling of counter-offensive
2.2022 September 11, Yuras Karmanau, “Ukraine pushes major counteroffensive as war marks 200 days”, in AP News[1], archived from the original on 11 September 2022:
As the war slogs on, a growing flow of Western weapons over the summer is now playing a key role in the counteroffensive, helping Ukraine significantly boost its precision strike capability.
Since the counteroffensive began, Ukraine said, its forces have reclaimed more than 30 settlements in the Kharkiv region.
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myriad
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɪɹi.æd/[Adjective]
myriad (not comparable)
1.(modifying a singular noun) Multifaceted, having innumerable elements [from 18th c.]
2.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 131:
one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].
3.2011 April 6–19, Kara Krekeler, "Researchers at Washington U. have 'itch' to cure problem", West End Word, 40 (7), p. 8:
"As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad."
4.(modifying a plural noun) Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous [from 18th c.]
Earth hosts myriad animals.
5.2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 September 2013:
Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
[Etymology]
From French myriade, from Late Latin mȳriadem (accusative of mȳrias), from Ancient Greek μυριάς (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from μυρίος (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”).
[Noun]
myriad (plural myriads)
1.(historical) Ten thousand; 10,000 [from 16th c.]
2.A countless number or multitude (of specified things) [from 16th c.]
Earth hosts a myriad of animals.
3.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 622–624:
O Myriads of immortal Spirits, O Powers / Matchleſs, but with th' Almighty, and that ſtrife / Was not inglorious, though th' event was dire,
4.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 239:
A myriad of beginnings to her intended discourse darted into her mind; but, as is usual in such cases, she chose the one the very worst suited to her purpose. "I never intend to marry," said she, in a faltering voice.
5.1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, / And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, / I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, […]
6.1914, Henry Graham Dakyns, Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Book I:
How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation ...
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
myriad c
1.a myriad
[References]
- myriad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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waitlist
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- wait-list
[Etymology]
wait + list
[Noun]
waitlist (plural waitlists)
1.A waiting list.
2.2008 May 9, Tamar Lewin, “Top Colleges Dig Deeper in Wait Lists for Students”, in New York Times[1]:
We’ve already had kids get off waitlists at N.Y.U., B.U., Fairfield and Quinnipiac.”
[Verb]
waitlist (third-person singular simple present waitlists, present participle waitlisting, simple past and past participle waitlisted)
1.(transitive) To place on a waiting list.
2.2009 August 30, “A Long Road to Television”, in New York Times[2]:
I applied to M.I.T. I had an admission interview with Roger Borovoy, an alumnus, and was waitlisted.
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