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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]
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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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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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51798
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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51800
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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beta
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbiːtə/[Adjective]
beta (not comparable)
1.Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
2.Designates the second in an order of precedence.
3.(computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
4.(of a person, object or action) Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
[Anagrams]
- Bate, Teba, abet, bate, beat
[Etymology]
From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.
[Noun]
beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)
1.The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
2.(education, rare) An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha.
3.1957, R. Avery, “This Week’s Competition”, in Time & Tide[1], volume 38, number 1, page 184:
But let me tell you happy extroverts that only Vera Telfer and H. A. C. Evans got even an alpha minus; only T. E. Hendrie got a beta plus […]
4.1964, Randolph Churchill, The Fight for the Tory Leadership: A Contemporary Chronicle[2], page 49:
Mr Taylor would hardly give a beta minus to one of his history students […]
5.1979, Angus MacVicar, Silver in My Sporran: Confessions of a Writing Man[3], page 76:
The English class was for me delightful. My essays, still written under the influence of Kubla Khan, nearly always got a beta plus.
6.(finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
7.2001, Cheng-Few Lee, editor, Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, volume 8, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 143:
An inspection of the results indicate that Property Trusts is the lowest risk industry with a long-run beta of 0.4520 while Gold is the highest risk industry with a long-run beta of 1.5229.
8.(computing, video games)
1.
2. (uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.
3.(countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
4.2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans, page 107:
He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.
5.2007, Mark Summerfield, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming[4], Pearson Education, →ISBN:
We will assume you got the .tgz version—later 2.x series versions such as 2.5.2 or 2.6.0 should be okay, provided they are production releases (not alphas, betas, or release candidates).
6.2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica[5]:
Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.
7.(proscribed, uncountable) Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.
beta levels, beta characters, beta items in a video game(climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.(physics) A beta particle or beta ray.(aviation) Sideslip angle.(aviation) The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.Alternative spelling of betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)(slang, manosphere, masculism) Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.
- 2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory[6], Harlequin, published 2006, →ISBN:
“I guess in your psychological language of alpha males and beta males, I would be firmly in the camp that prefers the more laid-back betas,” she took a deep breath, “like your father.”
- 2010, L. A. Banks, “Dog Tired (of the Drama!)”, in Kevin J. Anderson, editor, Blood Lite II: Overbite, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 121:
“They want sexy, virile alpha males, yes? But that doesn't come with sensitive and loyal and all of that. That's a beta. A frickin' collie, Lola. […]
- 2010, Terry Spear, Wolf Fever, Sourcebooks Casablanca, published 2010, →ISBN, page 24:
She'd always had a thing for alpha males. Not that she had any intention of being bossed around, even if one had her best interests at heart. Her fascination with alphas was that they were a challenge. Betas didn't hold much of an appeal.
- 2015, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy:
When they ride the cock carousel in preference to the responsible betas that they find so boring, well, we guess that they pay.
- 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die[7]:
News of Harper-Mercer's murder spree, which killed ten, prompted speculation on neoreactionary forums that the long-awaited “beta uprising” of virginal shut-ins had begun. Not quite. But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a large audience of Americans finally saw the real beta uprising in the violent Nazi rally that shut the city down(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
- 2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 317:
Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).
- 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 99:
In ASD, the beta also functions as a contrast, as Yuri is assumed to be a beta before his first heat reveals his omega status.
- 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 119:
Betas are usually second in command to the reigning alpha, and omegas belong to the lowest caste of the social hierarchy.
[Verb]
beta (third-person singular simple present betas, present participle betaing, simple past and past participle betaed)
1.(computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
2.(chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.
3.1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative [8]
My thanks to Heather; who read it and betaed it. Thank you.
4.2000, Elizabeth Durack, quoted in Angelina I. Karpovich, “The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities” (essay), in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (editors), Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, McFarland (2006), →ISBN, page 180,
Beta’ing is time-consuming, so asking a lot of people to give you a detailed analysis isn’t the most polite thing to do.
5.2002, Jane Davitt, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative [9]
The next part is written and beta'd (thanks, Jen!), ready to go but <shuffles feet> I haven't even started what should be the final part yet.
6.2002, Karmen Ghia, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated [10]
I had the honor of betaing this story and as I was doing the first read through I had the odd, but lovely, experience when a story suspends the reader in its own rhythm and flow, its own reality.
[[Ambonese Malay]]
[Etymology]
From Classical Malay ⁧بيتا⁩ (beta, “I”).
[Pronoun]
beta
1.I first-person singular pronoun
[References]
- D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia[11], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
[[Asturian]]
[Etymology]
From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[Noun]
beta f (plural betes)
1.beta (Greek letter)
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[ˈbɛ.tə][Etymology 1]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[Etymology 2]
Borrowed from Occitan beta.
[Further reading]
- “beta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[[Czech]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[Noun]
beta n or f
1.beta (Greek letter)
[[Faroese]]
ipa :/ˈpeːʰta/[Etymology]
From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).
[Noun]
beta n (genitive singular beta, plural betu)
1.beta (Greek letter)
[[Galician]]
[Etymology]
From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[Noun]
beta m (plural betas)
1.beta (Greek letter)
[[Icelandic]]
[Noun]
beta n (genitive singular beta, no plural)
1.beta (Greek letter)
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/be.ta/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Malay beta, probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ita (“we”).
[Etymology 2]
From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[Etymology 3]
Borrowed from Munda
[Further reading]
- “beta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈbɛ.ta/[Anagrams]
- beat, tabe
[Etymology 1]
Italian Wikipedia has an article on:betaWikipedia itFrom Latin bēta, from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[Etymology 2]
From Latin bēta (“beet”), from Celtic.
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
beta
1.Rōmaji transcription of ベタ
[[Latin]]
[Etymology 1]
Said by some sources to be of Celtic origin,[1][2] but no obvious Celtic cognates exist. Also compared are blitum (“spinach”), meta (“conic heap of stones”) (compared to the root's spindle form), and less likely, sense 2, with the seed vessel resembling the letter.
[Etymology 2]
From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[References]
- “beta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “beta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- beta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- Berti-Pichat (1866)
- Baxter (1837)
- Poiret (1827)
- von Lippmann (1925)
- Geschwind & Sellier (1902)
- Pabst (1887)
- Becker-Dillengen (1928)
- Biancardi, Panella & Lewellen (2011): Beta maritima: The Origin of Beets
1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “beet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[[Malay]]
ipa :/betə/[Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
beta (Jawi spelling ⁧بيتا⁩, plural beta-beta, informal 1st possessive betaku, 2nd possessive betamu, 3rd possessive betanya)
1.beta (second letter of the Greek alphabet)
[Pronoun]
beta (Jawi spelling ⁧بيتا⁩)
1.(royal) I, me, my (exclusive use in royalty, subject is either king or queen)
[[Old Irish]]
ipa :/ˈbʲeda/[Alternative forms]
- bete
[Verb]
beta
1.third-person plural present subjunctive relative of is
2.c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207b11
Cit comṡuidigthi la Grécu ní écen dúnni beta comṡuidigthi linn.
Although they are compounds in Greek (lit. “with the Greeks”), it is not necessary for us that they be compounds in our language (lit. “with us”).
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈbɛ.ta/[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta), from Phoenician ⁧𐤁⁩ (b /bēt/).
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
- beta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- beta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈbɛ.tɐ/[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from Latin beta, from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French bêta.
[Noun]
beta m (plural beta)
1.beta (Greek letter)
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/bêta/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[Noun]
bȅta f (Cyrillic spelling бе̏та)
1.beta, the Greek letter, Β, β
[[Slovak]]
ipa :[ˈbeta][Etymology]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[Noun]
beta f (genitive singular bety, nominative plural bety, genitive plural biet, declension pattern of žena) OR
beta n
1.beta (Greek letter)
[References]
- “beta”, 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
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈbeta/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta) ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).
[Further reading]
- “beta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
beta f (plural betas)
1.beta; the Greek letter Β, β
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/bɛˈtɑː/[Etymology 1]
Latin bēta, from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
[Etymology 2]
Ultimately from Latin bēta (“beet”).
[Etymology 3]
bete + -a
[Etymology 4]
Clipping of betaga; be- + ta. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Beta
[[Translingual]]
[Etymology]
Latin beta (“beet”)
[Proper noun]
Beta f
1.A taxonomic genus within the family Amaranthaceae – beets.
2.A taxonomic genus within the family Acrididae – now Philbostroma, certain grasshoppers.
[References]
beets
- Beta (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Beta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Beta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Beta at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Beta at Encyclopedia of Life
- Beta at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Beta at Germplasm Resources Information Network
- Beta at Tropicos
- Beta at USDA Plants database
- Beta at World Register of Marine Species
- Beta at The Plant Listgrasshoppers
- Philbostroma at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Philbostroma at Encyclopedia of Life
[See also]
- Betta
- betacyanin
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Bate, Teba, abet, bate, beat
[Proper noun]
Beta
1.Betamax.
2.2011, Anthony Q. Artis, The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide:
The digital revolution is changing these rules, but as of this writing, generally you submit your music video to the network for review on Beta tape.
[[German]]
[Further reading]
- “Beta” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Beta” in Duden online
[Noun]
Beta n (strong, genitive Betas or Beta, plural Betas)
1.beta (Greek letter)
[[Malay]]
[Pronoun]
Beta (Jawi spelling ⁧بيتا⁩)
1.A pronoun which is used by Malay royal sovereigns to refer to themselves.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Hungarian Béta.
[Proper noun]
Beta f
1.A village in Mugeni, Harghita, Romania
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[[English]]
ipa :/kəʊˈhiː.sɪv/[Adjective]
cohesive (comparative more cohesive, superlative most cohesive)
1.Having cohesion.
2.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
Our object is to unite all the manifestations of the New Era into one cohesive whole—New Thought, Christian Science, Theosophy, Vedanta, Bahaism, and the other sparks from the one New Light.
3.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman[1]:
Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.
4.2017 April 13, Molly Worthen, “The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
“It was presented as a cohesive worldview that you could maintain if you studied the Bible,” she told me. “Part of that was that climate change isn’t real, that evolution is a myth made up by scientists who hate God, and capitalism is God’s ideal for society.”
[Alternative forms]
- cohæsive (obsolete, rare)
[Anagrams]
- ice shove
[Etymology]
From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.
[Noun]
cohesive (plural cohesives)
1.A substance that provides cohesion
2.2001, Doris Banowsky Arrington, Home is Where the Art Is[3], →ISBN:
The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.
3.2012, Lens Diseases—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2012 Edition[4], →ISBN:
Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.
4.(linguistics) A device used to establish cohesion within a text
5.1988, Michael R. Walrod, Normative Discourse and Persuasion: An Analysis of Gaʹdang ...[5]:
The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.
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storyboarding
[[English]]
[Verb]
storyboarding
1.present participle and gerund of storyboard
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defy
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈfaɪ/[Anagrams]
- yfed
[Etymology]
From Old French desfier, from Vulgar Latin *disfidare (“renounce one's faith”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + fidus (“faithful”). Meaning shifted in the 14th century from "be disloyal" to "challenge". Contrast confide, fidelity, faith.
[Noun]
defy (plural defies)
1.(obsolete) A challenge.
2.1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
And, safe intrench'd within, her foes without defies
[Verb]
defy (third-person singular simple present defies, present participle defying, simple past and past participle defied)
1.(transitive) To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).
to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion
2.1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:
I once again / Defie thee to the trial of mortal fight.
3.1900, Edith King Hall, Adventures in Toyland Chapter 6:
"So you actually think yours is good-looking?" sneered the Baker. "Why, I could make a better-looking one out of a piece of dough."
"I defy you to," the Hansom-driver replied. "A face like mine is not easily copied. Nor am I the only person of that opinion. All the ladies think that I am beautiful. And of course I go by what they think."
4.(transitive) To refuse to obey.
If you defy your teacher you may end up in detention.
5.2005, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address - 19 March 2005:
Before coalition forces arrived, Iraq was ruled by a dictatorship that murdered its own citizens, threatened its neighbors, and defied the world.
6.2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
7.To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.
8.1955, anonymous author, The Urantia Book, Paper 41:
By tossing this nineteenth electron back and forth between its own orbit and that of its lost companion more than twenty-five thousand times a second, a mutilated stone atom is able partially to defy gravity and thus successfully to ride the emerging streams of light and energy, the sunbeams, to liberty and adventure.
9.2013, Jeré Longman, “W.N.B.A. Hopes Griner Can Change Perceptions, as Well as Game Itself”, in New York Times:
“To be determined,” Kane said, “is whether Griner and her towering skill and engaging personality will defy the odds and attract corporate sponsors as part of widespread public acceptance four decades after passage of the gender-equity legislation known as Title IX.”
10.(transitive, obsolete) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
11.1603-1625, Beaumont and Fletcher
For thee I have defied my constant mistress.
12.c. 1605 (first performance; published 1608), Thomas Middleton, “A Trick to Catch the Old One”, in A[rthur] H[enry] Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton […] (The English Dramatists), volume II, London: John C. Nimmo […], published 1885, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 352:
Dear perfum'd jackets, pennyless breeches; / Dutch flapdragons, healths in urine; / Drabs that keep a man too sure in: / I do defy you all. / Lend me each honest hand, for here I rise / A reclaim'd man, loathing the general vice.
The spelling has been modernized.
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muzzle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmʌzəl/[Etymology]
From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin mūsus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau. Displaced native Middle English kevel from Old English cæfl (“gag, bit, muzzle”), see English cavel.
[Noun]
muzzle (plural muzzles)
1.The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
Synonym: snout
2.1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egotist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 10:
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, […]
3.(slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.
4.
5. A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
6.
7. (firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
Coordinate term: breech
8.(chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
Synonym: bridle
9.(obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
[References]
- “muzzle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “muzzle”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
[Verb]
muzzle (third-person singular simple present muzzles, present participle muzzling, simple past and past participle muzzled)
1.(transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 25:4:
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
3.(transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.
4.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
5.(transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
6.(transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
7.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes
8.(intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
9.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
The Bear comes directly up to him, Muzzles and Smells to him.
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optical
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɒptɪkəl/[Adjective]
optical (comparative more optical, superlative most optical)
1.Of, or relating to sight; visual.
Strabismus is an optical defect.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
2.Designed to assist or enhance sight
A microscope is an optical instrument.
3.Of, or relating to optics.
Refraction is an optical effect.
4.Of, or relating to visible light.
Optical telescopes don't work when it is cloudy.
5.Incorporating light-sensitive devices.
An optical switch opens the door automatically.
[Anagrams]
- Capitol, capitol, coalpit, lipcoat, pit coal, topical
[Etymology]
optic + -al
[Noun]
optical (plural opticals)
1.(film) Any special effect requiring laboratory work on the film.
2.1976 August 14, Gary Jane Hoisington, “Locker Room As The Site Of Religious Ecstasy”, in Gay Community Journal, volume 4, number 7, page 9:
It is a glossy film with gross, opulent opticals and little comic, or any, relief; it has the jaundiced complexion of an early 60s underground film, which it is; it is ponderous, Wagnerian, and feels about five hours long (its running time is about an hour).
3.2006, David K. Irving, Peter W. Rea, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, page 294:
If you plan to output back to film, opticals and effects can be shot on film or generated by computer and then transferred to film.
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not
[[English]]
ipa :/nɒt/[Adverb]
not (not comparable)
1.Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
2.1973 November 17, Richard Milhous Nixon, Orlando press conference:
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
3.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 59:
The sound of Abba singing 'Dancing Queen' had started up in a room the other side of the court. Adrian slammed the window shut.
‘That'll teach you to throw things out of the window,’ said Gary.
‘It'll teach me not to throw things out of the window.’
4.1998 January 26, William Jefferson Clinton, White House press conference:
I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
5.2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
Oh, Pete. This is not the gym. — That’s right, Anna. This is the mailroom.
6.
Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
7.To no degree.
That is not red; it's green.
It's not you, it's me.
8.(litotes) Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement.
That day was not the best day of my life. (meaning the day was bad or awful)
It was not my favorite movie of all time. (meaning the speaker dislikes or strongly dislikes the movie)
In the not too distant future my view on the matter might be not a million miles away from yours.
[Anagrams]
- -ton, NTO, ONT, Ont, Ont., TNO, TON, on't, ton
[Conjunction]
not
1.And not.
I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
[Etymology]
From Middle English not, nat, variant of noght, naht (“not, nothing”), from Old English *nōht, nāht (“nought, nothing”), short for nōwiht, nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “not anything”), corresponding to ne (“not”) + ōwiht, āwiht (“anything”), corresponding to ā (“ever, always”) + wiht (“thing, creature”).Cognate with Scots nat, naucht (“not”), Saterland Frisian nit (“not”), West Frisian net (“not”), Dutch niet (“not”), German nicht (“not”). Compare nought, naught and aught. More at no, wight, whit.Alternatively, from Middle English ne (“not”) or none + oughte (“ought, should”), with the latter reinforcing the former.
[Interjection]
not!
1.
2. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. [chiefly 1990s]
I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney … not!
Sure, you’re perfect the way you are … not!
3.1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:
You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles. You butter-finger, can't you stop anything?
4.1949, E.E 'Doc' Smith, chapter XIV, in Skylark of Valeron, London: Panther, published 1974, page 134:
"See?" "Uh-huh! Clear and lucid to the point of limpidity - 'not."
5.2006 May 2, Steve Goldfarb, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated[1] (Usenet):
Because, of course, sympathy is finite -- and if you use it up on the wrong person then you won't have any left. Not.
[Noun]
not (plural nots)
1.Alternative letter-case form of NOT
[References]
- “not”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[See also]
- if
- then
- else
- and
- or
- true
- false
[Synonyms]
- bender, I don't think
[[Albanian]]
[Etymology]
From notoj.
[Noun]
not m
1.swim
[[Ambonese Malay]]
[Etymology]
Probably borrowed from Dutch uitnodiging.
[Noun]
not
1.invitation
Beta dapat not par pigi makang patiti.
I received an invitation for dinner.
[References]
- D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia[2], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
[Verb]
not
1.to invite
[[Aromanian]]
[Etymology 1]
From Greek νότος (nótos).
[Etymology 3]
From anot (“to swim”). Compare Italian nuoto, Portuguese nado.
[[Danish]]
[Etymology 1]
From German Nut.
[Etymology 2]
Danish Wikipedia has an article on:Not (fiskeri)Wikipedia daFrom Norwegian not.
[Etymology 3]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[German]]
ipa :/noːt/[Adverb]
not
1.Only used in nottun
[[Icelandic]]
ipa :/nɔːt/[Noun]
not n pl (plurale tantum)
1.use
[Synonyms]
- (use): gagn, notkun
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :/ˈnɔt/[Etymology]
From Dutch noot, from Middle Dutch note, from Old French note, from Latin nota. Doublet of nota.
[Further reading]
- “not” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
not
1.(music) note, a character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
Synonym: titi nada
[[Luxembourgish]]
[Adjective]
not
1.strong/weak nominative/accusative neuter singular of no
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/nɔt/[Etymology 1]
Reduction of nought (from Old English nāwiht, nōwiht).
[Etymology 2]
From Old English nāt, first and third person singular of nitan, equivalent to ne + woot and ne + witen.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/nuːt/[Alternative forms]
- nót (alternative spelling of etymology 1 and 2)
[Anagrams]
- nót, nòt, ton, tòn
[Etymology 1]
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:notfiskeWikipedia nnei ringnotFrom Old Norse nót, from Proto-Germanic *nōtō (“net; seine”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle Low German.
[Etymology 3]
From Old Norse hnot.
[References]
- “not” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old English]]
ipa :/not/[Alternative forms]
- nōt
[Etymology]
From Latin nota.
[Noun]
not m (nominative plural notas)
1.a sign; mark; a mark made on an object
[[Old Swedish]]
ipa :/noːt/[Etymology]
From Old Norse nót, from Proto-Germanic *nōtō.
[Noun]
nōt f
1.net, seine
[[Romansch]]
[Alternative forms]
- notg (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
[Etymology]
From Latin noctem, accusative of nox, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.
[Noun]
not f (plural nots)
1.(Puter, Vallader) night
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/n̪ˠɔht̪/[Noun]
not m (genitive singular not, plural notaichean)
1.Alternative form of nota
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ˈnuːt/[Anagrams]
- ont, ton
[Etymology 1]
From Old French note (noun), noter (verb), both from Latin nota.
[Etymology 2]
Related to nät (“net”).
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Etymology]
From English North.
[Noun]
not
1.North
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/ˈnot/[Etymology]
From French note.
[Noun]
not (definite accusative notu, plural notlar)
1.a short message; note
Not: Seni seviyorum. ― PS: I love you.
2.grade, score
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/nɔt/[Mutation]
[Noun]
not
1.Nasal mutation of dot.
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not least
[[English]]
[Adverb]
not least (not comparable)
1.Especially; particularly.
His experiences debating made him a more articulate communicator, not least because the topics were often controversial.
For a variety of reasons, not least because it is quite cheap.
[Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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accommodate
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/[Adjective]
accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)
1.(obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
2.a. 1671, John Tillotson, Sermons Preach’d Upon Several Occaſions, London: A.M., page 181:
God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of Worſhip, and to impoſe it upon them as that which was moſt proper and agreeable to him ; but that he condeſcended to it, as moſt accommodate to their preſent ſtate and inclination.
[Antonyms]
- discommodate (obsolete)
[Etymology]
1530s, from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com- + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).
[Further reading]
- “accommodate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “accommodate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Verb]
accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)
1.(transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit
to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
2.1712 June 29 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 18, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 475; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 15:
IT is an old Obſervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate themſelves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Counſels to his Inclinations, and adviſe him to ſuch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ſet upon.
The spelling has been modernized.
3.(transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
Synonym: reconcile
to accommodate differences
4.(transitive) To provide housing for.
to accommodate an old friend for a week
5.To provide sufficient space for
6.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:
My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned.
7.(transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
to accommodate a friend with a loan
8.(transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
Synonym: oblige
9.(transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
to accommodate prophecy to events
10.(transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
11.(transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
This venue accommodates three hundred people.
12.(intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
13.(intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
[[Latin]]
[Adverb]
accommodātē (comparative accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē)
1.suitably
[References]
- “accommodate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “accommodate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accommodate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a persuasive speaker: accommodate ad persuadendum dicere
[[Scots]]
ipa :[əˈkɔmədet][References]
- Eagle, Andy, de. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
[Verb]
accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodatin, simple past accomodatit, past participle accommodat)
1.accommodate
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false
[[English]]
ipa :/fɔːls/[Adjective]
false (comparative falser, superlative falsest)
1.Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
2.1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217, column 2:
Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
3.Based on factually incorrect premises.
false legislation, false punishment
4.Spurious, artificial.
false teeth
5.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Silverside”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 300:
At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
6.(logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
7.Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
a false witness
8.Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises
9.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 52, line 25:
I to my ſelf was falſe, e’re thou to me, […]
10.1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 7:
She had been in Baton Rouge but a little over two weeks, when suddenly his letters ceased. She awaited in anxious suspense a whole week — no letter. Another week dragged heavily, and her anxiety became a terrible fear. Was he sick and unable to write — was he dead — or, still more terrible thought, had he proved false?
11.Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar
12.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 54, page 170:
So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift, / Whoſe falſe foundacion waues haue waſht away, […]
13.Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
14.Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
false scorpion (an arachnid)
false killer whale (a dolphin)
false powderpost beetles (members of Bostrichidae not in Lyctinae)
15.(music) Out of tune.
[Adverb]
false (comparative more false, superlative most false)
1.In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
2.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 17, column 2:
Sweet Lord, you play me falſe.
[Anagrams]
- A.S.L.E.F., Leafs, alefs, fasel, feals, fleas, leafs, lefsa
[Antonyms]
- (untrue): real, true
[Etymology]
From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux.The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).
[Noun]
false (plural falses)
1.One of two options on a true-or-false test, that not representing true.
The student received a failing grade for circling every true and false on her quiz.
[Synonyms]
- lease
- See also Thesaurus:false
[Verb]
false (third-person singular simple present falses, present participle falsing, simple past and past participle falsed)
1.(electronics, telecommunications, of a decoder) To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
2.(obsolete) To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).
3.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
And he that could with giftes and promiſes,
Inueigle him that lead a thouſand horſe,
And make him falſe his faith vnto his King,
Will quickly win ſuch as be like himſelfe.
4.(obsolete) To counterfeit, to forge.
5.(obsolete) To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
false
1.inflection of falsar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈfal.se/[Adjective]
false f pl
1.feminine plural of falso
[[Latin]]
[Adverb]
falsē (comparative falsius, superlative falsissimē)
1.falsely, mistakenly
Synonym: falsō
[Noun]
false
1.vocative singular of falsus
[References]
- “false”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- false in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- false in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
false
1.inflection of falsar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
false
1.inflection of falsar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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pragmatism
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹæɡmətɪzəm/[Antonyms]
- idealism
- contemplation
[Etymology]
From Ancient Greek stem of πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “act”) + -ism.
[Noun]
pragmatism (countable and uncountable, plural pragmatisms)
1.The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals.
2.(politics) The theory that political problems should be met with practical solutions rather than ideological ones.
3.(philosophy) The idea that beliefs are identified with the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs with success of those actions in securing a believer's goals; the doctrine that ideas must be looked at in terms of their practical effects and consequences.
4.1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society, published 2008, page 378:
Our conception of these practical consequences is for us the whole of our conception of the object [...] This is the principle of Peirce, the principle of pragmatism.
5.The habit of interfering in other people's affairs; meddlesomeness.
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French pragmatisme.
[Noun]
pragmatism n (uncountable)
1.pragmatism
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turn heads
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- headturns, unthreads, untrashed
[See also]
- head-turning
- turn someone's head
[Verb]
turn heads (third-person singular simple present turns heads, present participle turning heads, simple past and past participle turned heads)
1.(idiomatic) To garner a considerable amount of attention.
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take it in stride
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- take something in one's stride
[Verb]
take something in stride (third-person singular simple present takes something in stride, present participle taking something in stride, simple past took something in stride, past participle taken something in stride)
1.(idiomatic, US) To cope with something unfortunate without much effort; to accept or manage difficulties well.
He took it in stride when they attempted to ostracize him.
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undermine
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌʌn.dəˈmaɪn/[Antonyms]
- undergird
[Etymology]
From under- + mine.
[Further reading]
- “undermine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “undermine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “undermine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “undermine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
undermine (third-person singular simple present undermines, present participle undermining, simple past and past participle undermined)
1.To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap. [from 14th c.]
2.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 312:
Martin, for instance, had on one occasion undermined a tree sacred to old gods, then stood in the path of its fall, but forced it to fall elsewhere by making the sign of the Cross.
3.(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage. [from 15th c.]
The war efforts were undermined by the constant bickering between the allies.
4.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
The growing use of social media to spread anger and dissent in the Arab world has been hailed by western governments as one of the chief justifications for a completely unfettered internet. The US is reportedly funding the secret rollout of technology in Iran in an effort to undermine internet censors in the country.
5.2022 January 26, “Network News: DfT awaits verdict on COVID 'partygate' scandal”, in RAIL, number 949, page 6:
The 'partygate' controversy has played a major part in undermining the credibility of Boris Johnson and his Government and has led to calls from senior MPs for him to resign.
6.To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water.
7.2020 August 26, “Network News: Major flood damage severs key Edinburgh-Glasgow rail artery”, in Rail, page 21:
Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.
8.(philosophy) To regard an object as the sum of the parts that compose it, in object-oriented ontology.
Coordinate term: overmine
9.2022, Nicholas Gayle, Conrad and the Being of the World, page 25:
We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it.
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conspicuous
[[English]]
ipa :/kənˈspɪk.ju.əs/[Adjective]
conspicuous (comparative more conspicuous, superlative most conspicuous)
1.Obvious or easy to notice.
He was conspicuous by his absence.
2.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled![1]:
“No, don't,” replied the superintendent; “in fact, I'd rather you made yourself conspicuous elsewhere. Go down to the landing stage and cross to New Brighton or Wallasey—doesn't matter which—and come back. No doubt you will be seen, and reported to have gone across.”
3.1964 April, “Letters: Rethinking emergency procedures”, in Modern Railways, page 274:
[...] 1. Handsignalmen, where needed, ought to wear a conspicuous orange/yellow cape (like many road workmen) to draw attention to them.
4.Noticeable or attracting attention, especially if unattractive.
He had a conspicuous lump on his forehead.
5.1969, Saul Bellow, Mr Sammler's Planet, Penguin Books Ltd, page 6:
For his height he had a small face. The combination made him conspicuous.
[Antonyms]
- (all): inconspicuous
[Etymology]
From Latin conspicuus (“visible, striking”), from cōnspicere (“to notice”), from con- (“with, together”) + specere (“to look at”).
[Further reading]
- w:Conspicuous consumption
- w:Conspicuous leisure
- “conspicuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “conspicuous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “conspicuous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Synonyms]
- (easy to notice): observable, perceivable; see also Thesaurus:perceptible
- (attracting attention): flashy, prominent
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pristine
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɪstiːn/[Anagrams]
- Petrinis, spiriten
[Etymology 1]
From Middle French pristin, borrowed from Latin prīstinus.
[Etymology 2]
From Ancient Greek πρίστης (prístēs, “a saw, one that saws”).
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈpri.sti.ne/[Adjective]
pristine
1.feminine plural of pristino
[Anagrams]
- pentirsi, respinti, rispenti, rispinte
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈpriːs.ti.ne/[Adjective]
prīstine
1.vocative masculine singular of prīstinus
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past
[[English]]
ipa :/pɑːst/[Adjective]
past (comparative more past, superlative most past)
1.Having already happened; in the past; finished. [from 14th c.]
past glories
2.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
3.(postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago. [from 15th c.]
4.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 538:
That had been, what, three years past?
5.2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 20:
Some four decades past, as a boy, I had a chance encounter and conversation with the late W.A. Poucher [...].
6.Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous. [from 15th c.]
during the past year
7.2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in The Guardian[1]:
Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure. It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.
8.(grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state. [from 18th c.]
past tense
[Adverb]
past (comparative more past, superlative most past)
1.In a direction that passes.
Synonym: by
I watched him walk past
[Anagrams]
- APTS, APTs, ATSP, PATs, PSAT, PTAs, PTSA, Pats, TAPs, TPAs, Taps, ap'ts, apts, pats, spat, stap, taps
[Etymology]
From Middle English, past participle of passen (“to pass, to go by”), whence Modern English pass.
[Noun]
past (plural pasts)
1.The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past
2.1830, Daniel Webster, a speech
The past, at least, is secure.
3.1860, Richard Chenevix Trench, On the English Language, Past and Present:
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed.
4.2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
The Mesozoic landscape of southeastern Utah can tell us much about the past, and it's one of the most intriguing and beautiful landscapes on Earth.
5.(grammar) The past tense.
[Preposition]
past
1.Beyond in place or quantity
the room past mine
count past twenty
2.(time) Any number of minutes after the last hour
What's the time? - It's now quarter past twelve midday (or 12.15pm).
Antonym: to
3.2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport[2]:
But they were stunned when Glen Johnson's error let in Peter Odemwingie to fire past Pepe Reina on 75 minutes.
4.No longer capable of.
I'm past caring what he thinks of me.
5.Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
6.Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
Ignore them, we'll play past them.
Please don't drive past the fruit stand, I want to stop there.
[Related terms]
- a hair past a freckle
- blow past
- breeze past
- brush past
- by-past
- file past
- first past the post
- fly-past
- get past
- get past oneself
- ghost from one's past
- go past
- half past
- half-past-six
- let past
- live in the past
- look past
- look past the end of one's nose
- look past the tip of one's nose
- march past
- march-past
- non-past
- past exonerative
- past historic tense
- past imperfect tense
- past it
- past iterative
- past-life
- past life
- past-master
- past master
- past mistress
- past one's prime
- past paper
- past participial
- past perfect continuous
- past perfect progressive
- past-posting
- push past
- put it past
- put one past
- put past
- reach past
- run past, runpast
- see past the tip of one's nose
- sell past the close
- simple-past
- slip one past
- smuggle past
- sneak past
- talk past
- the mill cannot grind with water that is past
- tick past
- unsorted (terms derived from any part of speech, should be placed in the relevant section)
- whistle past the graveyard
[Synonyms]
- (period of time that has already happened): foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past
- (having already happened): bygone, foregone; see also Thesaurus:past
- (having just gone by): foregone, preceding, used-to-be; see also Thesaurus:former
[Verb]
past
1.(obsolete) simple past and past participle of pass
2.1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil:
Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈpast][Anagrams]
- spát
- psát
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pastь,
[Further reading]
- past in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- past in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- past in Internetová jazyková příručka
[Noun]
past f
1.trap (a device designed to catch and sometimes kill animals)
past na myši ― mousetrap
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɑst[Anagrams]
- spat, stap, taps
[Verb]
past
1.inflection of passen:
1.second/third-person singular present indicative
2.(archaic) plural imperative
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
From Old French past, from Latin pastus (“pasture”).
[Noun]
past m (plural pasts)
1.food, meal
2.1537, Giles du Guez, quoting John Palsgrave (c. 1485–1554), An Introductorie for to lerne to speke Frenche trewly :
Verité est le past de l'ame.
Truth is the food of the soul.
3.1583, Claude Gruget, Diverses leçons :
Il dit aussi que les choux mangez avant le past gardent d'enyvrer.
He also says that cabbage, when eaten before a meal, reduces how much one gets drunk.
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
- paist, pest, pas
[Etymology]
From Latin pastus (“pasture”), probably influenced by paste (“dough, pastry”).
[Noun]
past oblique singular, m (nominative singular past)
1.food, meal
2.ca. 1268, Étienne Boileau (ca. 1210–1270), Livre des métiers :
Por son abuvrement et por son past.
For him to drink and for his food.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/past/[Noun]
past f
1.genitive plural of pasta
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/páːst/[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pastь.
[Further reading]
- “past”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
[Noun]
pȃst f
1.trap
[Verb]
pȃst
1.supine of pásti
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fairness
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɛəɹ.nəs/[Anagrams]
- Serafins, sanserif
[Etymology]
From Middle English fairness, fæȝernesse, from Old English fæġernes (“fairness; beauty; pleasantness”), equivalent to fair + -ness. Cognate with Old High German fagarnessi (“fairness”).
[Noun]
fairness (countable and uncountable, plural fairnesses)
1.The property of being fair or equitable.
Some questioned the fairness of the new laws.
2.2024 January 28, Charles Hugh Smith, Our Tax System Is an Unfair Mess: Here's How to Fix It[1]:
The reason why fairness in taxation matters is institutionalized unfairness rots society from the inside, and the social order and economy eventually collapse.
3.(archaic or literary) The property of being fair or beautiful.
Synonyms: fairhood, beauty
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irregular
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə/[Adjective]
irregular (comparative more irregular, superlative most irregular)
1.nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations
2.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 33:
‘ “It would be most irregular Grandpa!” says Miss Cecily frowning and tapping her foot. “Well, we’re a pretty irregular family so that’s neither here nor there,” says the old man, impish like. [...] ’
3.rough (of a surface)
4.without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity
5.1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
6.2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, pages 47–48:
Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
7.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
8.2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:
The improvements will be most keenly felt across Lincolnshire, where current irregular service patterns are more a function of operational convenience than passenger demand.
9.(geometry, of a polygon) not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal
10.(geometry, of a polyhedron) whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other)
11.(grammar, of a word) not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language
"Calves", "cacti", and "children" are irregular plurals.
I hate learning all the irregular conjugations in French.
[Antonyms]
- regular
[Etymology]
From Middle English irreguler, from Old French irreguler, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin irrēgulāris, from in- + regularis, equivalent to ir- + regular.
[Noun]
irregular (plural irregulars)
1.A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics.
2.One who does not regularly attend a venue.
3.2015, Brian Cook, Hands Across The Sea, page 190:
There's one neighborhood tavern where the regulars and irregulars go after a hard day to unlax and rewind, throw back a few, and just hang out - you know the one.
[Synonyms]
- (nonstandard): abnormal, singular; see also Thesaurus:strange
- (rough): coarse, salebrous; see also Thesaurus:rough
- (without uniformity): unstable, unsteady; see also Thesaurus:unsteady
- (not following the regular patterns of inflection): heteroclite
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[i.rə.ɣuˈlar][Adjective]
irregular m or f (masculine and feminine plural irregulars)
1.irregular
Antonym: regular
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Late Latin irrēgulāris.
[Further reading]
- “irregular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “irregular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “irregular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “irregular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Galician]]
ipa :[ireɣuˈlaɾ][Adjective]
irregular m or f (plural irregulares)
1.irregular
Antonym: regular
[Etymology]
Attested since circa 1300. Borrowed from Late Latin irrēgulāris.
[Further reading]
- “irregular” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
[References]
- “yrregular” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “yrregular” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “irregular” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “irregular” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/i.ʁe.ɡuˈlaʁ/[Adjective]
irregular m or f (plural irregulares)
1.irregular; nonstandard
2.(grammar) irregular (not following an inflectional paradigm)
[Antonyms]
- regular
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Late Latin irrēgulāris.
[Further reading]
- “irregular” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ireɡuˈlaɾ/[Adjective]
irregular m or f (masculine and feminine plural irregulares)
1.irregular, uneven, erratic, haphazard
2.patchy, spotty, jagged, ragged
3.fitful
4.(grammar) (of a verb etc.) irregular
Antonym: regular
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Late Latin irrēgulāris.
[Further reading]
- “irregular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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deadly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɛd.li/[Adjective]
deadly (comparative deadlier or more deadly, superlative deadliest or most deadly)
1.(obsolete, rare) Subject to death; mortal.
2.1541, Rychard [W]hitforde, [D]yuers holy inſtrucyons and teachynges very neceſſarye for the helth of mannes ſoule […] [1], London: [W]yllyam Myddylton, page 36:
[…] he ſuffred hym ſelfe to be made mortall and dedly, that innocent & gyltles in hym ſelfe: he myght be ſlayne & deye for the gylty man.
3.1545, [T]woo fruitfull and godly praiers[2], London: Rycharde Lante and Rycharde Bankes, page 36:
❧ That when the iournay / of this dedly life / My ſely ghoſte / hath finiſhed and thence […]
4.1845, Phillip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem[3], Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, page 270:
And next we find / Ourselves in Heaven. Even man's deadly life / Can be there, by God's leave.
5.Causing death; lethal.
6.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
7.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 177:
[…] others search for new and deadlier gases, or for soluble poisons capable of being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents […]
8.Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
deadly enemies
9.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 269, column 1:
[…] diſmount thy tucke, be yare in thy preparation, for thy aſſaylant is quick, skilfull and deadly.
10.Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
11.1858, “Woolwich Arsenal”, in The Living Age, volume 57, page 201:
Its deadly aim at vast distances, which condition of the mechanical power brought has made it the dread of the sepoys, who term it "the gun that kills without making any sound," contrasts strangely with the performances of Brown Bess of old, which at any range beyond a hundred yards was so uncertain in its aim that it has been calculated that the soldier shot away the weight in lead of every man that he hit.
12.1859, Iowa Instructor - Volume 1, page 110:
For him the gibbet shall be built; For him the stake prepared: Him shall the scorn and wrath of men Pursue with deadly aim ; And malice, envy, spite and lies, Shall desecrate his name.
13.1869, George Swann, The Autumn Wreath: A Selection of Original Poetry, page 92:
Slaves have been freed, religious tests revoked, Bread tax abolished, and free trade secured, Reform twice carried, franchise much enlarged, With deadly aim to crush foul bribery, And promise given of yet better things.
14.1888, Annual Session of the Baptist Congress for the Discussion of Current Questions, page 188:
Possibly some have thought that we were going to make war on some favorite doctrine or political dogma; that we had set brethren to whetting their sword, and drawing their bow for deadly aim at precious truth; as the wicked Haman had secured a decree that all the Jews should be killed.
15.2006, Gene Del Vecchio, The Sword of Anton, page 51:
The Elf turned and with deadly accuracy shot an arrow where his nose pointed him. The shaft sliced through the air, pierced the tall grass, and struck the Dwarf's shoes one hundred yards out . . . but the Dwarf was not in them!
16.2015, Melody Anne, Her Unexpected Hero, page 288:
Was that really her mom grabbing a large Nerf gun from some sort of side holster and aiming it straight at Camden's head? Yes, it was. And the woman was blessed with deadly accuracy.
17.2015, Henry Fairlie, The Seven Deadly Sins Today:
There is a wealth of common sense and humanity in that, and perhaps the most unexpected element in the idea of the Seven Deadly Sins is that, although it points with deadly accuracy to our capacity for evil, it also leaves us with a vivid and strong sense of what it means to be human.
18.(informal) Very boring.
19.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, […]!”
20.2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:
Now, at school, I was forced to sit in classes, to take notes and exams, to use textbooks that were flat, impersonal, deadly.
21.2009, Gay Lumsden, Donald Lumsden, Carolyn Wiethoff, Communicating in Groups and Teams: Sharing Leadership, page 324:
Students, of course, know the difference between a deadly lecture and a stimulating one. An excellent lecturer who maintains a high level of interaction with the audience stimulates thinking and learning.
22.(informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
[Adverb]
deadly (comparative more deadly, superlative most deadly)
1.(obsolete) Fatally, mortally.
2.1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Our affections are tranſported beyond our ſelues”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 7:
[P]erceiving himſelfe deadly wounded by a ſhot received in his body, being by his men perſwaded to come off and retire himſelfe from out the throng, anſwered, he would not now ſo neere his end, beginne to turne his face from his enemie […]
3.In a way which suggests death.
Her face suddenly became deadly white.
4.Extremely, incredibly.
5.1669, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, “Tryphon, A Tragedy”, in Two New Tragedies: The Black Prince, and Tryphon […] [4], page iv:
Though deadly weary, till ſpectators do / At once part and call them good boys too […]
6.1750 [1712], John Arbuthnot, “The Hiſtory of John Bull (chapter XVIII)”, in The Hiſtory of John Bull and Poems on ſeveral Occaſions […] [5], page 113:
John had got an impreſſion that Lewis was ſo deadly cunning a man, that he was afraid to venture himſelf alone with him.
[Etymology]
From Middle English dedly, dedlych, dedlich, from Old English dēadlīċ (adjective); corresponding to dead + -ly. Cognate with Dutch dodelijk, German tödlich.The adverb is from Middle English dedliche, from Old English dēadlīċe (adverb), from the adjective.
[Related terms]
- dead
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