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51810 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&#x3b; it has the jaundiced complexion of an early 60s underground film, which it is&#x3b; 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. 0 0 2010/12/07 16:35 2024/03/05 10:27
51811 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&#x3b; 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. 0 0 2008/12/15 19:18 2024/03/05 10:37 TaN
51812 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.) 0 0 2022/01/27 17:01 2024/03/05 10:37 TaN
51813 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 &#x3b; 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&#x3b; 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 0 0 2009/05/08 18:49 2024/03/05 10:37 TaN
51815 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b;  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&#x3b;  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 0 0 2009/01/10 16:50 2024/03/05 10:39 TaN
51816 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 0 0 2024/03/05 10:43 TaN
51817 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. 0 0 2024/03/05 10:43 TaN
51819 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. 0 0 2024/03/05 10:45 TaN
51820 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. 0 0 2018/02/24 14:57 2024/03/05 10:49 TaN
51821 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&#x3b; “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 0 0 2009/04/03 16:01 2024/03/05 10:49 TaN
51823 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 0 0 2009/09/14 23:18 2024/03/05 15:24 TaN
51824 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 0 0 2008/12/10 17:46 2024/03/05 16:10 TaN
51825 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 0 0 2024/03/05 16:26 TaN
51827 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 0 0 2024/03/05 22:55 TaN
51828 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&#x3b; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them. 7.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym&#x3b; 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&#x3b; For him the stake prepared: Him shall the scorn and wrath of men Pursue with deadly aim &#x3b; 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&#x3b; that we had set brethren to whetting their sword, and drawing their bow for deadly aim at precious truth&#x3b; 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 0 0 2010/01/05 17:29 2024/03/05 22:56
51829 choke [[English]] ipa :/t͡ʃəʊk/[Etymology 1] From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke. [Etymology 2] The choke of an artichokeBack-formation from artichoke. [[French]] ipa :/tʃok/[Verb] choke 1.inflection of choker: 1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive 2.second-person singular imperative [[Hawaiian Creole]] ipa :/t͡ʃok/[Etymology] From English choke. [Pronoun] choke 1.a lot, many Get choke food ova hea. There’s lots of food over here. [[Middle English]] [Noun] choke 1.Alternative form of cheke 0 0 2010/06/02 00:12 2024/03/05 22:56
51830 choke off [[English]] [Verb] choke off (third-person singular simple present chokes off, present participle choking off, simple past and past participle choked off) 1.(idiomatic, transitive) To get rid of, cause to come to an end. 2.To stop a person in the execution of a purpose. to choke off a speaker by uproar 3.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC: "It was a discreditable business. There were one or two folk who were inclined to take him seriously, but he soon choked them off." "How?" "Well, by his insufferable rudeness and impossible behavior." 0 0 2023/03/07 09:25 2024/03/05 22:56 TaN
51831 choking [[English]] ipa :/ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ/[Anagrams] - Hocking, hocking [Noun] choking (countable and uncountable, plural chokings) 1.The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly. 2.1988, American Academy of Pediatrics, Policy Reference Guide, page 150: In the last 6 years, there has been a great effort to educate the public concerning the prevention of choking due to accidental aspiration of foods or small objects by children. 3.1998, Christina Elston, Safe and Secure: The Loving Parent's Guide to Child Safety, page 248: The study found that 29 percent of nonfood-related chokings were caused by latex balloons. 4.2001, Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-care, page 4: Choking occurs when the respiratory passage in the throat or windpipe is blocked. 5.The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breath. 6.1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, page 98: Putting the latter on her head and the former on the table, the old woman, after telling Oliver that she had come to sit up with him, drew her chair close to the fire and went off into a series of short naps, chequered at frequent intervals with sundry tumblings forward, and divers moans and chokings. 7.1848, William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Domett Stone, The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences, page 40: The chokings, which now always succeed every epileptic sleep, are violent beyond description, and last a long time. 8.1853, The Zoist, page 127: "I applied,” says he in his first memoir, “a large plate of copper upon the pit of the stomach and a ring of the same metal around each limb: and in three or four minutes the chokings, palpitations, and vomitings ceased. 9.The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation. 10.1966, Reports of Cases in Law and Equity Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, page 933: She tells of many chokings and blows inflicted by the defendant, and says her health was thereby affected and, presumably, her life endangered. 11.1972, Burton M. Atkins, Henry R. Glick, Prisons, Protest, and Politics, page 52: This particular man was a small, wiry , athletic Negro who had confessed to many chokings and rapings of young women. 12.2016, California. Supreme Court. Records and Briefs: Judges should not decide which police chokings are acceptable, and which are not, based on Orwellian newspeak. [Verb] choking 1.present participle and gerund of choke 0 0 2023/03/07 09:25 2024/03/05 22:56 TaN
51832 anticipated [[English]] [Adjective] anticipated (comparative more anticipated, superlative most anticipated) 1.expected to arrive; scheduled [Verb] anticipated 1.simple past and past participle of anticipate 0 0 2022/03/15 13:00 2024/03/05 22:57 TaN
51833 anticipate [[English]] ipa :/ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/[Etymology] From Latin anticipātus, perfect passive participle of anticipāre (“anticipate”); from ante (“before”), + capere (“take”). See capable. [Verb] anticipate (third-person singular simple present anticipates, present participle anticipating, simple past and past participle anticipated) 1.(transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action. 2.c. 1824 (written, published in 1891) Robert Hall, Fragment on Popery When two parties, each formidable for their numbers, and the weight of their influence and property, are animated by an equal degree of zeal, it is natural to anticipate the final success of that which possesses the most inherent strength. 3.1849–1861, 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: He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Synonym: preclude 4.to take up or introduce (something) prematurely. The advocate plans to anticipate a part of her argument. 5.to know of (something) before it happens; to expect. to anticipate the pleasures of a visit to anticipate the evils of life Please anticipate a journey of an hour from your house to the airport 6.1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 31, in The Dust of Conflict‎[1]: The task was more to Appleby's liking than the one he had anticipated, and it was necessary, since the smaller merchants in Cuba and also in parts of Peninsular Spain have no great confidence in bankers, and prefer a packet of golden onzas or a bag of pesetas to the best accredited cheque. 7.2011 October 2, Jonathan Jurejko, “Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎[2]: But surely they did not anticipate the ease with which their team raced into an almost impregnable half-time lead. Synonyms: expect, foretaste, foresee 8.to eagerly wait for (something) Little Johnny started to anticipate the arrival of Santa Claus a week before Christmas. Synonym: look forward to [[Esperanto]] ipa :/antit͡siˈpate/[Verb] anticipate 1.present adverbial passive participle of anticipi [[Ido]] ipa :/antit͡siˈpate/[Verb] anticipate 1.adverbial present passive participle of anticipar [[Italian]] [[Latin]] ipa :/an.ti.kiˈpaː.te/[Verb] anticipāte 1.second-person plural present active imperative of anticipō [[Spanish]] [Verb] anticipate 1.second-person singular voseo imperative of anticipar combined with te 0 0 2009/05/26 15:17 2024/03/05 22:57 TaN
51834 offensive [[English]] ipa :/əˈfɛnsɪv/[Adjective] offensive (comparative more offensive, superlative most offensive) 1.Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation. Antonym: inoffensive Some people find pornography offensive. An offensive smell. 2.2016 September 12, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Political Incorrectness Is Just a Strategy”, in Time‎[1]: A survey at Yale University had 63% of students wanting professors to issue “trigger warnings” before saying anything that some might find offensive or could cause painful emotions. 3.Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive. Antonym: defensive The army's offensive capabilities. An offensive weapon. 4.2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6: In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way. 5.(sports) Having to do with play directed at scoring. The offensive coordinator is responsible for ordering all rushing plays. [Alternative forms] - offencive (obsolete) [Etymology] From Middle French offensif, from offendre + -if by analogy with défensif. Offendre is from Latin offendere (“to offend”); see offend. [Further reading] - “offensive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “offensive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [Noun] offensive (countable and uncountable, plural offensives) 1.(countable, military) An attack. The Marines today launched a major offensive. 2.1939 January, Lin Yu, “The "China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine‎[2], volume XXXVI, number 1, →OCLC, page 121: In Central Hupeh, the Japanese launched another offensive from the Kingshan region, but instead of moving southwestward to cooperate with another column of theirs to capture Shasi, this column swerved to the northwest and succeeded in capturing Chunghsiang on the Han River. 3.(uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack. He took the offensive in the press, accusing his opponent of corruption. [Synonyms] - aggressive - invidious (Intending to cause envious offense) [[Danish]] [Adjective] offensive 1.plural and definite singular attributive of offensiv [[French]] ipa :/ɔ.fɑ̃.siv/[Etymology 1] First attested 1417; formed from offense, from Latin offēnsare (“to strike against”). [Etymology 2] See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [Further reading] - “offensive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [[German]] [Adjective] offensive 1.inflection of offensiv: 1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular 2.strong nominative/accusative plural 3.weak nominative all-gender singular 4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular [[Italian]] ipa :/of.fenˈsi.ve/[Adjective] offensive 1.feminine plural of offensivo [Noun] offensive f 1.plural of offensiva [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Adjective] offensive 1.definite singular/plural of offensiv [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Adjective] offensive 1.definite singular/plural of offensiv [[Swedish]] [Adjective] offensive 1.definite natural masculine singular of offensiv 0 0 2010/01/08 15:52 2024/03/05 22:57
51836 home [[English]] ipa :/(h)əʊm/[Adjective] home (not comparable) 1.Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign. [from 13th c.] home manufactures home comforts 2.(now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed. [from 17th c.] a home truth 3.(obsolete) Personal, intimate. [17th–19th c.] 4.1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 91: I hardly knew what I answered him, but, by degrees I tranquillised, as I found he forbore distressing me any further, by such Home strokes […]. 5.(sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). [from 19th c.] Antonyms: away, road, visitor the home end, home advantage, home supporters [Adverb] home (not comparable) 1.To one's home. 1.To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location. go home come home carry someone home 2.1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches‎[4]: He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia." 3.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16: Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. 4.To one's place of birth. 5.To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length. She drove the nail home ram a cartridge home 6.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]: Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home: […] 7.1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda: Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers. Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe. 8.(Internet) To the home page. Click here to go home.At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home. - 1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I'm certainly not the type to sit home waiting up for hubbie every night. Everyone's gone to watch the game&#x3b; there's nobody home. I'm home!To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly. - 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral, I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms. - 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC: How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, […] - 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC: Her treatment of you, you say, does no credit either to her education or fine sense. Very home put, truly!(UK, soccer) into the goal - 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February, Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.(nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position sails sheeted home [Anagrams] - Mohe, hemo- [Etymology] From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-.cognatesGermanic cognates: see *haimaz.Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan ⁧𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈⁩ (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)). [Further reading] - home on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] home (plural homes) 1.A dwelling. 1.One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family. 2.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John xx:[10], folio clj, recto: And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home. 3.1808, John Dryden, edited by Walter Scott, The Works of John Dryden: Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life&#x3b; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife. 4.1822, John Howard Payne, Home! Sweet Home!: Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home. 5.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 132: If we now say that "woman's place is in the home," it is not because men put her there, but because the home became the capitol of women's mysteries. 6.2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28: Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge. 7.The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian. 8.2004, Jean Harrison, Home: The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated. Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city. 9.The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. 10.1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan‎[1], canto III: He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home&#x3b; […] 11.A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there. It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home 12.A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum. a home for outcasts a home for the blind a veterans' home Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home. 13.(by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. 14.1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5: […] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […] 15.(by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc. 16.2007 January 10, Leslie Feinberg, “1976 WWP pamphlet found answers in Marxism”, in Workers World‎[2]: The rights of modern transsexual women and men to live in the sex that is "home".One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. - 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches‎[3]: Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home. - 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC: So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city&#x3b; the city of one's dreams. - 1980, Peter Allen, song, I Still Call Australia Home: I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. the home of the pine - 1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ẛucceẛs of Her Majeẛty's Arms, 1706, as republished in 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets: […] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […] - 1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H.: Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there. - 2013 September 7, “Nodding acquaintance”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852: Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.A focus point. 1.(board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal. The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home. 2.(baseball) Home plate. 3.(lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player. 4.(Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage. 5.(music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.(computing) Clipping of home directory. [References] - “home”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - home in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018. - “home”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [Synonyms] - (one’s own dwelling place): tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence - ((baseball) home plate): home base - (to home): homeward [Verb] home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed) 1.(of animals, transitive) To return to its owner. The dog homed. 2.(always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something. The missile was able to home in on the target. 3.2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist: Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug. [[Asturian]] [Etymology] From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ. [Noun] home m (plural homes) 1.man L'home equí ye'l fíu la María ― This man here is María's son 2.person 3.husband [Synonyms] - (person): persona - (husband): esposu, maríu [[Catalan]] ipa :[ˈɔ.mə][Antonyms] woman - donawife - cònjuge - costella (figuratively) - dona - esposa - muller [Etymology] Inherited from Old Catalan home~hom, from Latin hominem (“human”, noun). [Further reading] - “home” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “home”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024 - “home” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “home” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Interjection] home 1.A term of address for a man conveying annoyance, impatience, surprise, disagreement, etc. Home, no sigues bèstia! ― Dude, don't be stupid! [Noun] home m (plural homes or hòmens) 1.man 2.husband Synonyms: cònjuge, espòs, marit [[Classical Nahuatl]] [Numeral] ho̊me 1.(Codex Magliabechiano) Obsolete spelling of ōme [[Esperanto]] [Adverb] home 1.humanly; in a human fashion [Etymology] From homo. [[Finnish]] ipa :/ˈhomeˣ/[Anagrams] - hemo [Etymology] From Proto-Finnic *homëh, from earlier *šomeš, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swammaz or earlier Pre-Germanic. Cognate to Karelian homeh, Veps homeh. [Further reading] - “home”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[5] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02 [Noun] Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:homeWikipedia fihome 1.mildew, mold Tämä leipä on homeessa. This bread is moldy (literally, “This bread is in mold.”) [[Galician]] ipa :[ˈɔ.mɪ][Alternative forms] - homem (reintegrationist) [Etymology] From Old Galician-Portuguese ome, omẽe, from Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ. [Interjection] home 1.man! (expresses surprise, or mild annoyance) -Es o campión do mundo? Contento? -Home!... ― -You're the champion of the world? Are you happy? -Man!... [Of course I'm happy, what kind of question is this?] [Noun] home m (plural homes) 1.human; person Unha sebe tres anos dura&#x3b; un can tres sebes&#x3b; unha mula tres cans&#x3b; un home tres mulas (proverb) A hedge lasts three years; a dog three hedges; a mule three dogs; a person three mules 2.mankind O home chegou á Lúa en 1969 ― Mankind arrived to the Moon in 1969 3.man (adult male) Home casado muller é (proverb) ― The Married man is a woman 4.male human Home pequeno fol de veleno (proverb) ― Small man, skin [bag] of venom 5.husband Éste é o meu home, Xaquín ― This is my husband, Joachim [References] - “home” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022. - “home” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018. - “home” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013. - “home” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG. - “home” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. - “home” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014). [See also] - persoa [[Ingrian]] ipa :/ˈhome/[Etymology] From Proto-Finnic *homëh. Cognates include Finnish home and Veps homeh. [Noun] home 1.mould [References] - Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 67 [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈom/[Anagrams] - ohmè [Etymology] Borrowed from English home. [Noun] home f (invariable) 1.(computing) home (initial position of various computing objects) [References] 1. ^ home in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication 2. ^ home video in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI) [[Leonese]] [Etymology] From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ. [Further reading] - AEDLL [Noun] home m (plural homes) 1.man [[Macanese]] ipa :/ˈɔme/[Alternative forms] - hóme, hómi [Etymology] From Portuguese home, denasalized variant of homem. [Noun] home (plural home-home) 1.man home-home di hoze ― men nowadays [References] - https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm [[Middle English]] [[Mirandese]] [Antonyms] - mulhier [Etymology] From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ. [Noun] home m (plural homes) 1.man 2.husband [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Verb] home (present tense homar, past tense homa, past participle homa, passive infinitive homast, present participle homande, imperative home/hom) 1.alternative form of homa (non-standard since 2012) [[Old French]] ipa :/ˈu.mə/[Alternative forms] see hom for alternative nominative singular forms - homme - honme - hume - onme - ume [Etymology] From Vulgar Latin *(h)omne, Latin hominem, accusative singular of homō. The nominative form hom, om, on, hon derives from the Latin nominative homō. [Noun] home oblique singular, m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home) 1.man (male adult human being) 2.man (mankind; Homo sapiens) 3.c. 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, line 476: O HOM de sancte vie, entent que signefie O MAN of sacred life, listen to what this means 4.vassal; manservant [References] - Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme) - Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme, supplement) - - home on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub - Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “homo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 455 (contains a reference to the nominative singular forms hom, huem and om) [[Old Galician-Portuguese]] [Noun] home m 1.Alternative form of ome [[Old Occitan]] [Noun] home m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home) 1.Alternative form of ome [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈõ.mi/[Etymology] Denasalization of homem. [Noun] home m (plural homes) 1.(nonstandard) Alternative form of homem 0 0 2009/02/25 22:18 2024/03/05 22:58
51837 off [[English]] ipa :/ɒf/[Adjective] off (comparative more off, superlative most off) 1.Inoperative, disabled. Antonym: on All the lights are off. 2.Cancelled; not happening. The party's off because the hostess is sick. 3.Not fitted; not being worn. Your feet will feel better once those tight boots are off. The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off. 4.Rancid, rotten, gone bad. Antonym: fresh This milk is off! 5.(by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent. 6.Less than normal, in temperament or in result. sales are off this quarter 7.Inappropriate; untoward. I felt that his comments were a bit off. 8.(in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced. Our family used to be well off; now we're very badly off. How are you off for milk? Shall I get you some more from the shop? 9.2008, Kiron K. Skinner with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Serhiy Kudelia, The Strategy of Campaigning: 'Are you better off now than you were four years ago?' With that pointed question, Ronald Reagan defined the 1980 presidential election as a 92 referendum on Jimmy Carter's economic policies 10.Started on the way. off to see the wizard And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose. 11.1922, James Joyce, chapter V, in Ulysses‎[1]: —Hello, Bloom. Where are you off to? —Hello, M’Coy. Nowhere in particular. 12.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019: "But I'm off, Mr. Malone. We sit once a week and have done for four years without a break. Eight o'clock Thursdays." 13.1990, Peter Pinney, The glass cannon: a Bougainville diary, 1944-45: Let them glimpse a green man coming at them with intent, and they're off like a bride's nighty. Even after capture some of them will seize every attempt to suicide — they just can't live with the tremendous loss of face. 14.Far; off to the side. He took me down the corridor and into an off room. the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse 15.1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 151: He came in, took a look and squinched down into a chair in an off corner and didn’t open his mouth. 16. 17.Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent. He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics&#x3b; the off season 18.(in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities. 19.Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu) — I'll have the chicken please. — Sorry, chicken's off today. 20.(Britain, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left). 21.1963, Jack Schaefer, Monte Walsh, page 174: The man and the horse came closer and were Sonny Jacobs of the Diamond Six and a smallish neat sorrel definitely favouring its off forefoot. The off front wheel came loose. Antonyms: near, nigh 22.(cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman. Antonyms: on, leg [Adverb] off (not comparable) 1.In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point. 2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46: No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness. 3.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC: So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city&#x3b; the city of one's dreams. He drove off in a cloud of smoke. 4.Into a state of non-operation or non-existence. Please switch off the light when you leave. The dinosaurs died off long ago. 5.So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated. He bit off the end of the carrot. Some branches were sawn off. 6.2010, Jo Whittemore, Front Page Face-Off, page 113: The space had been sectioned off with colorful plastic shelves so that her textbooks rested on the bottom and her binders and personal effects lay across the middle. 7.(theater) Offstage. noises off 8.Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase. [Alternative forms] - (US regional, English regional, Scottish) offn [Anagrams] - FFO [Antonyms] - in - on  - on [Etymology] From Middle English of, from Old English of, af, æf (“from, off, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“from, off, back”). Doublet of of.CognatesCognate with Scots of, af (“off, away”), West Frisian af, ôf (“off, away”), Dutch af (“off, from”), German Low German of (“off, from”), German ab (“off, from”), Danish af (“of, off”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish av (“of, off”), Icelandic af (“of, off”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of, from”); and with Latin ab (“of, from, by”), Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “from”), and others. [Further reading] - “off”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. [Noun] off (uncountable) 1.(usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point. He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off. 2.2022 December 1, “2023 Royal Ascot suit ... are you ready for the off?”, in anthonyformalwear.co.uk‎[3], archived from the original on 24 January 2022: 2023 Royal Ascot suit ... are you ready for the off?(title) [Preposition] off 1.Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon. He's off the roof now. I took it off the table. Keep off the grass. 2.Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to. The phone is off the hook The coat fell off the peg. He was thrown off the team for cheating. We've been off the grid for three days now. We're off their radar. He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone. 3.Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via. His office is off this corridor on the right. We're just off the main road. Look! There's a UFO off our left wing! 4.Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland. The island is 23 miles off the cape. 5.Removed or subtracted from. There's 20% off the list price. 6.No longer wanting or taking. He's been off his feed since Tuesday. He's off his meds again. 7.(colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of. He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him. 8.Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering. Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972 samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000 I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off. [References] - off on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Synonyms] - away - out  [Verb] off (third-person singular simple present offs, present participle offing, simple past and past participle offed) 1.(transitive, slang) To kill. 2.2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian‎[2]: Most sorely missed is the relationship between Eggsy and Colin Firth’s delightfully avuncular mentor figure Harry Hart, who was offed, seemingly definitively with a bullet to the brain towards its end. 3.(transitive, Singapore, Philippines, Nigeria) To switch off. Can you off the light? [[Central Franconian]] ipa :/ɔf/[Etymology 1] Chiefly through German oft, from Middle High German ofte, from Old High German ofta, from Proto-Germanic *ufta. [[Chinese]] ipa :/ɔː[Etymology] From English off. [Verb] off 1.(Hong Kong Cantonese, intransitive) to have day off 2.(Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive) to switch off; to turn off [[German]] [Adjective] off (indeclinable, predicative only) 1.(Internet slang, especially video games) Clipping of offline. Coordinate term: on ich muss gleich off gehen i have to log off in a sec [[Limburgish]] ipa :/ɔf/[Conjunction] off (Eupen) 1.(coordinating) or 2.(subordinating) Introduces an indirect question, a doubt. if, whether. 3.(off ... off) either ... or [Etymology] From Old Limburgish ova, from Proto-Germanic *jabai. [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈof/[Adjective] off (invariable) 1.off-screen 2.(theater) off-Broadway; minor-league; small-time [Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English off. [Further reading] - “off”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 0 0 2012/05/04 18:29 2024/03/05 22:58
51838 private [[English]] ipa :/ˈpɹaɪ.vɪt/[Adjective] private (comparative more private, superlative most private) 1.Belonging or pertaining to an individual person, group of people, or entity that is not the state. In some countries, healthcare is provided by both the government and private companies. 2.2013 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. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. 3.Relating to an individual or group of individuals outside of their official roles; often, sensitive or personal. This book is her private journal. 4.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 78: It was a very private thing, they felt, and not to be tossed indiscriminately about. 5.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. 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. 6.Not publicly known or divulged; secret, confidential; (of a message) intended only for a specific person or group. The identity of the beneficiaries of the trust is private. 7.2021 December 12, John L. Allen Jr., “In Vatican’s clumsy stab at censorship, the massage becomes the message”, in Crux: The key point in the original article was that the relationship with the woman, named “Colette,” came to light because Aupetit had sent a private letter meant for her to his secretary instead. 8.Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded; not publicly accessible. Can we go somewhere more private? 9.1887, George H. Devol, Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi, page 58: I invited him to take breakfast with me&#x3b; he accepted the invitation, and told me he would tell me about himself when we were in a more private place. 10.Not in governmental office or employment. Military secrets should not be entrusted to unreliable private individuals. 11.Secretive; reserved. He is a very private person. 12.(finance) Not traded by the public. private equity 13.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. 14.Of a room in a medical facility, not shared with another patient. 15.(UK, of schools) Financially reliant on fees rather than government funding. 16.(not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses. Antonyms: public, published 17.(philosophy) Of the mind or language, not in principle experienceable, knowable, or understandable by others. [Antonyms] - (generally): public [Derived terms] Terms derived from the adjective or noun private - buck private - in private - privacy - private area - private bank - private banking - private benefits - private bill - private branch exchange - private candidate - private car - private cost - private detective - private dick - private docent - private enterprise - private enterprise number - private equity - private-eye - private eye - private first class - private good - private international law - private investigator - private investment banker - private joke - private judgment - private key - private language - private language argument - private language problem - private language thesis - private law - private life - private limited liability company - private means - private member's bill - private message - private military contractor - private notice question - private parts - private property - private property anarchism - private school - private sector - private-sector - private ship - private shop - private siding - private stock - Private Use Area - private-use character - private-wire house - public-private partnership - public private partnership - virtual private network - virtual private server  [Etymology] From Latin prīvātus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive”), from prīvus (“private, one's own, peculiar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine. Doublet of privy. [Noun] private (plural privates) 1.A soldier of the lowest rank in the army. 2.A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care. 3.1973, Health/PAC Bulletin, numbers 48-67, page 2: In the cities and towns of California, privates are pressuring county governments to close or reduce in size their hospitals and to pay private hospitals for the care of low-income patients. Thus everything is stacked against public hospitals. 4.1993, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, The implementation of employer sanctions: Hearings: Because you are already moving people with the limitations of what we did in 1982 on the capping of Medicare, you are finding out that the privates are picking up that slack, […] 5.(euphemistic, in the plural) The genitals. 6.(obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. 7.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]: The Count Meloone, a Noble Lord of France, Whose priuate with me of the Dolphines loue, s much more generall, then these lines import. 8.(obsolete) Personal interest; particular business. 9.1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify |act=I to V): Nor must I be unmindful of my private. 10.(obsolete) Privacy; retirement. 11.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 268, column 1: Go off, I diſcard you: let me enioy my priuate: go off. 12.(obsolete) One not invested with a public office. 13.1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 85, column 1: And what haue Kings, that Priuates haue not too, […] 14.(usually in the plural) A private lesson. If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates. [References] - “private”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - private in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018. - "private" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 242. - “private”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [Synonyms] - (genitals): bits, private parts [Verb] private (third-person singular simple present privates, present participle privating, simple past and past participle privated) 1.(Internet, transitive) To make something hidden from the public (without deleting it permanently). 2.2016 May 25, Geoff Weiss, “H3h3Productions Sued For Copyright Infringement By MattHossZone, Spotlighting Fraught Issue Of Fair Use”, in Tubefilter‎[1]: During these negotiations, however, the Kleins say that Hosseinzadeh issued a copyright takedown for the video — even after it had already been privated. 3.2017 May 15, Rebecka Schumann, “Shay Carl’s Cam Girl Goes After Another Famous Man On YouTube”, in International Business Times‎[2]: Shay has also since briefly returned to social media, making a quick post on Instagram. His account was privated following his scandal in February and his Twitter remains inactive. 4.2022 January 28, Jared Moore, “Hitman 3: Steam Owners Will Get Free Upgrades to Make Up for Shaky Launch”, in IGN‎[3]: "[…] IOI had no part in privating the subreddit, this was entirely the decision of the moderators, and we are just fellow fans like you who volunteer our time to help out," a moderator wrote. 5.2022 February 18, Sonja Smith-Yang, “I went viral on TikTok and it wasn’t what I expected”, in The Independent‎[4]: “Must be hard being a one-hit wonder,” a follower negged me once. “Actually, yes,” I joked in a now-privated video response. “Thank you for noticing.” [[Esperanto]] [Adverb] private 1.privately [Etymology] From privata (“private”) +‎ -e (adverbial ending). [[German]] ipa :-aːtə[Adjective] private 1.inflection of privat: 1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular 2.strong nominative/accusative plural 3.weak nominative all-gender singular 4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular [[Italian]] [Adjective] private 1.feminine plural of privato [Anagrams] - prative [Verb] private 1.inflection of privare: 1.feminine plural past participle 2.second-person plural present indicative 3.second-person plural imperative [[Latin]] [Verb] prīvāte 1.second-person plural present active imperative of prīvō [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Adjective] private 1.definite singular of privat 2.plural of privat [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Adjective] private 1.definite singular of privat 2.plural of privat [[Spanish]] [Verb] private 1.second-person singular voseo imperative of privar combined with te [[Swedish]] [Adjective] private 1.definite natural masculine singular of privat 0 0 2009/05/28 20:20 2024/03/05 23:01 TaN
51839 reapply [[English]] ipa :-aɪ[Etymology] re- +‎ apply [Verb] reapply (third-person singular simple present reapplies, present participle reapplying, simple past and past participle reapplied) 1.To apply again. 2.2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 26: In March 2008, the name was reapplied incorrectly as County of Durham, but this was also removed by February 2009. 0 0 2024/03/05 23:01 TaN
51840 Japan [[English]] ipa :/j/[Alternative forms] - Giapan (obsolete) - Japonia (obsolete) - Japon (obsolete) [Etymology] First attested in English as Giapan in Richard Willes's 1577 The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies (cited in Peter C. Mancall's Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery, pp. 156–57), translating a 19 February 1565 letter of the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis as "Of the Ilande of Giapan".Borrowed from Portuguese Japão with possible influence from Dutch Japan, both from either or both: - Malay Jepun, from Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún), from Middle Chinese 日本 (ȵiɪt̚ puənX, “sun origin”). - Indonesian Malay Jepang, from Teochew 日本 (Ji̍k-púng), from Middle Chinese 日本 (ȵiɪt̚ puənX, “sun origin”).With /j/ readings, such as Iaponia / Japonia or Japon / Iapon from Cantonese 日本 (jat6 bun2), also from Middle Chinese 日本 (ȵiɪt̚ puənX, “sun origin”). Compare also modern Mandarin 日本 (Rìběn), Japanese 日本(にっぽ​ん) (Nippo​n) / 日本(にほ​ん) (Niho​n), Korean 일본 (Ilbon) (日本), Vietnamese Nhật Bản (日本).The earliest form of Japan in Europe was Marco Polo's Cipangu, from some form of synonymous Sinitic 日本國／日本国 (Rìběnguó, “nation of Japan”). [Further reading] - Japan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Japan on Wikiquote.Wikiquote - Japan on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage - Category:Japan on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons [Proper noun] Japan 1. 2.A country and archipelago in East Asia Synonyms: Jap., Jpn., Land of the Rising Sun, Japonia, Nihon, Nippon, Yamato, State of Japan 3.1889 Jan., Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying: An Observation", The Nineteenth Century: Vivian: If you set a picture by Hokusai, or Hokkei, or any of the great native painters, beside a real Japanese gentleman or lady, you will see that there is not the slightest resemblance between them. The actual people who live in Japan are not unlike the general run of English people; that is to say, they are extremely commonplace, and have nothing curious or extraordinary about them. In fact the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people... if you desire to see a Japanese effect, you will not behave like a tourist and go to Tokio. On the contrary, you will stay at home and steep yourself in the work of certain Japanese artists, and then, when you have absorbed the spirit of their style, and caught their imaginative manner of vision, you will go some afternoon and sit in the Park or stroll down Piccadilly, and if you cannot see an absolutely Japanese effect there, you will not see it anywhere. 4.1985 February, Steve Jobs, interview with David Sheff, Playboy: Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor... That strategy works only when what they’re working with isn’t changing very much—the stereo industry and the automobile industry are two examples. When the target is moving quickly, they find it very difficult... 5.2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1: Nolan: You do know Japan have expressed concern? Douglas: What, the whole country? Nolan: No, not the whole... Mr Yamamoto. Douglas: He's important, isn't he? Nolan: He's the major shareholder. [See also] - 🗾 - Appendix:Countries of the world - (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen - (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi [[Afrikaans]] [Etymology] From Dutch Japan, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本. [Proper noun] Japan 1.Japan (a country in East Asia; capital: Tokio) [[Danish]] [Etymology] From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本. [Proper noun] Japan 1.Japan (An island nation in the Pacific Ocean) [[Dutch]] ipa :/jaːˈpɑn/[Etymology] From either or both: - Malay Jepun, from Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún), from Middle Chinese 日本 (ȵiɪt̚ puənX, “sun origin”). - Indonesian Malay Jepang, from Teochew 日本 (Ji̍k-púng), from Middle Chinese 日本 (ȵiɪt̚ puənX, “sun origin”). [Proper noun] Japan n 1.Japan [[Faroese]] ipa :/ˈjaːpan/[Etymology] From Danish Japan, from Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本. [Proper noun] Japan 1.Japan (a country in East Asia) [[German]] ipa :/ˈjaːpan/[Etymology] From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本. [Further reading] - “Japan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache - “Japan” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon - “Japan” in Duden online - Japan on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de [Proper noun] Japan n (proper noun, genitive Japans or (optionally with an article) Japan) 1.Japan (a country in East Asia) Synonym: Land der aufgehenden Sonne [See also] - Japaner - Japanisch - japanisch [[Hausa]] ipa :/(d)ʒà.pân/[Etymology] From English Japan. [Proper noun] Jàpân f 1.Japan (a country in Asia) [[Icelandic]] ipa :/ˈjaːpʰan/[Etymology] From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本. [Proper noun] Japan n 1.Japan Ég fer til Japans. I'm going to Japan. Hvar er Japan staðsett á kortinu? Where is Japan located on the map? [See also] - Japani - japanska [[Japanese]] [Romanization] Japan 1.Rōmaji transcription of ジャパン [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Etymology] From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本. [Proper noun] Japan 1.Japan [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Etymology] From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本. [Proper noun] Japan 1.Japan [[Serbo-Croatian]] ipa :/jǎpaːn/[Etymology] From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本. [Proper noun] Jàpān m (Cyrillic spelling Ја̀па̄н) 1.Japan [[Swahili]] [Proper noun] Japan 1.Alternative form of Japani [[Swedish]] ipa :/¹jɑːpan/[Etymology] From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本. [Proper noun] Japan n (genitive Japans) 1.Japan 0 0 2009/01/10 03:59 2024/03/05 23:02 TaN
51841 shipbuilding [[English]] [Alternative forms] - ship-building [Etymology] ship +‎ building [Noun] shipbuilding (plural shipbuildings) 1.(uncountable, nautical) The construction of ships. 2.A construction of a ship. 0 0 2024/03/05 23:02 TaN
51842 prolific [[English]] ipa :/pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/[Adjective] prolific (comparative more prolific, superlative most prolific) 1.Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc. 2.Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance 3.2007, Ted Jones, The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, page 58: However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide. 4.2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian‎[1]: The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years. 5.(botany) Of a flower: from which another flower is produced. [Alternative forms] - prolifick (obsolete) [Etymology] 1640–1650: from French prolifique, from Latin proles (“offspring”) and facere (“to make”). [References] - “prolific”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. [Synonyms] - fertile - (producing offspring or fruit in abundance): fecund - (producing results or works in abundance): See also Thesaurus:productive [[Romanian]] [Adjective] prolific m or n (feminine singular prolifică, masculine plural prolifici, feminine and neuter plural prolifice) 1.prolific [Etymology] Borrowed from French prolifique. 0 0 2009/09/14 12:49 2024/03/05 23:02 TaN
51843 once [[English]] ipa :/wʌn(t)s/[Anagrams] - Coen, Cone, Econ., Noce, ceno-, coen-, cone, cœn-, econ, econ. [Etymology 1] From Middle English ones, from Old English ānes, a remodelling (after ān (“one”)) of ǣnes, itself an extension of ǣne (“once”) with the genitival suffix -es. Compare Old Saxon ēnes (“once”), Old High German eines, einēst (“once”), modern German einst (“once”). More at one (including regarding the development of the pronunciation) and -s. [[Asturian]] [Etymology] From Latin ūndecim. [Numeral] once (indeclinable) 1.eleven [[French]] ipa :/ɔ̃s/[Anagrams] - cône, noce [Etymology 1] Inherited from Latin uncia. [Etymology 2] From a rebracketing of Old French lonce which became l'once (la + once), itself from Vulgar Latin *luncea, from Latin lynx, ultimately from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), or possibly borrowed from Italian lonza. [Further reading] - “once”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [[Friulian]] [Etymology] From Latin uncia. [Noun] once f (plural oncis) 1.ounce [[Galician]] ipa :/onθɪ/[Etymology] From Old Galician-Portuguese onze, from Latin ūndecim. [Numeral] once (indeclinable) 1.eleven [[Italian]] [Anagrams] - Ceno, Noce, ceno, ceno-, cenò, noce, ocne [Noun] once f 1.plural of oncia [[Middle English]] [Adverb] once 1.Alternative form of ones [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈonθe/[Alternative forms] - onze (obsolete) [Etymology 1] Inherited from Old Spanish onze, ondze, from Latin ūndecim. [Etymology 2] Snacks were typically taken at 11 am. [Further reading] - “once”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 0 0 2012/01/08 21:48 2024/03/05 23:02
51844 shipyard [[English]] [Etymology] English Wikipedia has an article on:shipyardWikipedia ship +‎ yard [Noun] shipyard (plural shipyards) 1.A place where ships are built and repaired. 0 0 2024/03/05 23:03 TaN
51845 shriveled [[English]] [Adjective] shriveled (comparative more shriveled, superlative most shriveled) (American spelling) 1.Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant. A prune is a shriveled plum. 2.Collapsed in size. (Can we add an example for this sense?) [Alternative forms] - shrivelled (UK) [Verb] shriveled 1.(American spelling) simple past and past participle of shrivel 0 0 2024/03/05 23:03 TaN
51846 shrivel [[English]] ipa :/ˈʃɹɪvəl/[Etymology] First recorded as shriveled (“shrivelled”), probably of North Germanic origin related to dialectal Swedish skryvla (“to wrinkle, shrivel”); perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną (“to shrivel, shrink”) or *skrimpaną (“to shrink”).[1] [References] 1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “shrivel”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [Verb] shrivel (third-person singular simple present shrivels, present participle (UK) shrivelling or (US) shriveling, simple past and past participle (UK) shrivelled or (US) shriveled) 1.(intransitive) To collapse inward; to crumble. The plant shrivelled from lack of water. 2.(intransitive) To become wrinkled. His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long. 3.(transitive) To draw into wrinkles. The hot sun shrivelled the leaves. 0 0 2010/06/25 11:21 2024/03/05 23:03
51847 next [[English]] ipa :/nɛkst/[Adjective] next (not comparable) 1.Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining. The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring. She lives a mile or two away, in the next village. 2.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC: Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. 1.(obsolete) Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time. 2.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals): A prophet I, Madam&#x3b; and I speak the truth the next way: […] 3.1777, Francis Quarles, Emblems Divine and Moral: Together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man, page 152, epigram 2: The road to resolution, lies by doubt: "The next way home's the farthest way about."Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order. Please turn to the next page. On Wednesday next, I'm going to Spain. the next chapter&#x3b; the next week&#x3b; the Sunday next before Easter The man was driven by his love for money and his desire to become the next Bill Gates. - 1945, Yank: the army weekly‎[1], volume 4, page 96: " […] You patriotic?" / "I guess so, as much as the next guy," I said, wondering how the hell I could shake him.(chiefly law) Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.) next friend - 1628, Coke, On Littleton (10. a. 10. b. §2), quoted in 1890, John Bethell Uhle, Current Comment and Legal Miscellany, page 250: And if a man purchase land in fee simple and die without issue, he which is his next cousin collaterall of the whole blood, how farre so ever he be from him in degree, (de quel pluis long degree qu'il soit), may inherite and have the land ... - 1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]: De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602: Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue&#x3b; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ... - 1874, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, page 23: If it be a property, it is a new species, unknown to the civil law, the common law, and the statute law&#x3b; there is no medium, it must be, if it goes to her next kin, because it is absolute property in her. There can be no distribution of personal property ... [Adverb] next (not comparable) 1.In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following. They live in the next closest house. It's the next best thing to ice cream. 1.(conjunctive) So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned. First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint.On the first subsequent occasion. Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next? When we next meet, you'll be married. [Alternative forms] - neest (dialectal) - neist (Scotland) - nex (archaic) - nex' (dialectal) [Antonyms] - previous - previously [Determiner] next 1.Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one. Next week would be a good time to meet. I'll know better next time. 2.(of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) in the future. The party is next Tuesday; that is, not tomorrow, but eight days from now. When you say next Thursday, do you mean Thursday this week or Thursday next week? [Etymology] From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh, near”), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh +‎ -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian ⁧نزد⁩ (nazd, “near, with”). [Noun] next (uncountable) 1.The one that follows after this one. Next, please, don't hold up the queue! One moment she was there, the next she wasn't. The week after next 2.2007, Steve Cohen, Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN): There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next. [Preposition] next 1.(obsolete or poetic) On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to. 2.1660, James Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: […] By the Labours, and Lucubrations of James Howell‎[2], page 117: D is so dainty a letter, that she admits no other consonant next her but R: […] 3.1822, The Pamphleteer, page 118: All persons, in walking the streets, whose right sides are next the wall, are intitled to take the wall. 4.1900, The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices, translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2: The fact that the line cannot be original is patent from the fact that Aias in the rest of the Iliad is not encamped next the Athenians […] . 5.1986, University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies, Bwletin Y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd - Volume 33‎[3], page 413: Photographs indicate that the southern terminals of the ditch system next the west gate may be in echelon, whilst those marginal to the east gate may be slightly inturned. [Synonyms] - (nearest in order): See also Thesaurus:former or Thesaurus:subsequent [[Northern Kurdish]] ipa :/nɛxt/[Noun] next m 1.A bride price (among Kurds, customarily given to the family of the bride by the family of the groom) [Synonyms] - qelen 0 0 2010/05/20 11:50 2024/03/05 23:04
51848 next to nothing [[English]] [Pronoun] next to nothing 1.Very little. I got it for next to nothing in the January sales. He pretends to be knowledgeable, but actually he knows next to nothing. [See also] - for a song 0 0 2023/09/01 09:47 2024/03/05 23:04 TaN
51849 next to [[English]] [Adverb] next to 1.Almost; nearly, well-nigh. It is next to impossible to get him to admit it, but he writes very well. The job paid next to nothing. 2.1885, Richard Watson Dixon, History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction, page 465: The Puritans who groaned under it, and so bitterly resisted when it was administered at the hands of bishops, forgot, or never knew, that it was invented, or next to invented, by the episcopal founder of Nonconformity. [Anagrams] - texton [Preposition] next to 1.Beside, alongside, by, adjacent to, or near. Would you mind if I sit next to you? Cleanliness is next to godliness. 2.Immediately after, in choice or consideration; aside from. 3.2006, Steve Cox, Jim Terry, One Fine Stooge: Larry Fine's Frizzy Life in Pictures : an Authorized Biography, Cumberland House Publishing, →ISBN, page 59: The living room was the main gathering spot in Fine Manor, and next to that the most used room was the dining room, where, on Sunday nights, Larry and Mabel hosted card games, penny-ante poker nights, and even bingo nights... 4.2016, Jill Shalvis, The Bachelor's Bed, Harlequin, →ISBN: “Next to you, I'm all Lani has,” she confided. “But you knew that already, too, right?” He should have. That message came loud and clear. “She loves flowers, did you know that?” Jennie asked. 5.Compared to, in comparison with. 6.2002, Michael Hettich, Greatest hits, 1987-2001, Pudding House Publications, →ISBN, page 5: This last he explained to me once, though the explanation didn't matter much, not next to the feeling of those low hairy clouds and the sea bashing itself against the shore. The explanation, in fact, made the poem less wonderful, ... 7.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. [References] - “next to”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. 0 0 2018/09/05 09:28 2024/03/05 23:04 TaN
51850 woolly [[English]] ipa :/ˈwʊli/[Alternative forms] - wooly (chiefly used in the US, but less common than woolly even there) [Etymology 1] From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool +‎ -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”). [Etymology 2] From woolly back. 0 0 2024/03/06 11:22 TaN
51851 woolly mammoth [[English]] [Noun] woolly mammoth (plural woolly mammoths) 1.A very hairy mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, widespread in colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene period. 2.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 204: The ice age was nearly two million years old by the time the woolly mammoth evolved. 0 0 2024/03/06 11:22 TaN
51852 trotting [[English]] ipa :/ˈtɹɒtɪŋ/[Adjective] trotting (not comparable) 1.Of an animal that trots. Not all horses are trotting horses. [Noun] trotting (plural trottings) 1.The action of the verb trot. Trotting along the avenue was relaxing. 2.The sport of harness racing. [Verb] trotting 1.present participle and gerund of trot 0 0 2024/03/06 11:22 TaN
51853 trot [[English]] ipa :/tɹɑt/[Anagrams] - -tort, ROTT, Rott, TRTO, tort [Etymology 1] From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of tread. [Etymology 2] Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre. [References] 1.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “Trot”, entry in 2008, Anatolij Simonovič Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction, page 208. [[Catalan]] ipa :[ˈtɾɔt][Etymology] Deverbal from trotar. [Further reading] - “trot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “trot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Noun] trot m (plural trots) 1.trot (gait) [[French]] ipa :/tʁo/[Anagrams] - tort [Etymology] Inherited from Old French trot, troter, from Medieval Latin trottare, of Germanic origin. [Further reading] - “trot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] trot m (plural trots) 1.trot [[Scots]] ipa :[trɔt][Etymology] From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). [Noun] trot (plural trots) 1.a short, quick pace 2.the fall, angle, or run on a drain [Verb] trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trottin, simple past trottit, past participle trottit) 1.to move at a quick steady pace 2.to flow rapidly and noisily, purl, ripple (of water) [[Slovene]] ipa :/tróːt/[Etymology] From Proto-Slavic *trǫtъ. [Further reading] - “trot”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran [Noun] trọ̑t m anim 1.drone (male bee) [[Torres Strait Creole]] [Etymology] From English throat. [Noun] trot 1.throat 0 0 2013/04/25 16:08 2024/03/06 11:22
51854 Trot [[English]] [Anagrams] - -tort, ROTT, Rott, TRTO, tort [Etymology] Clipping. [Noun] Trot (plural Trots) 1.(slang, derogatory) A Trotskyist. 2.2001 October 3, Matthew Tempest, “New Labour's power-dressed future”, in The Guardian‎[1]: Loyal to a tee, he is still at a loss to understand the failure of the Frank Dobson candidacy in the London mayoral contest, and abandoned constituency meetings after a couple of events because they were "too dominated by Trots". 3.2008, Cherie Blair, Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street: We believed that the Trots represented a mad, extreme form of Labour that was never going to do anything for anybody, yet we felt strongly that nothing would be achieved by jumping ship and defecting to the SDP. [Synonyms] - Trotskyite 0 0 2024/03/06 11:22 TaN
51855 meadow [[English]] ipa :/ˈmɛd.əʊ/[Etymology] From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-.See also West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”); also Welsh medi, Latin metere, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “reaping”). More at mow. [Noun] meadow (plural meadows) 1.A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay. 2.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage&#x3b; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, […]. 3.1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict: […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […] 4.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind: Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us. 5.Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea. the salt meadows near Newark Bay 6.2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59: European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River. [Synonyms] - lea/leigh 0 0 2024/03/06 11:22 TaN
51856 swoop [[English]] ipa :/w/[Etymology] From Middle English swopen, from Old English swāpan (“to sweep”). See also sweep, which was probably the basis for analogical restoration of /w/ in this word. [Noun] swoop (plural swoops) 1.An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward. The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu 2.1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit: One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop. 3.A sudden act of seizing. 4.1612, John Webster, The White Devil: Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. 5.(music) A quick passage from one note to the next. 6.2008, Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies, page 281: Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops. [References] 1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 7.31, page 212. [See also] - one fell swoop [Verb] swoop (third-person singular simple present swoops, present participle swooping, simple past and past participle swooped) 1.(intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive. The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish. 2.(intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something. The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone. 3.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC: There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards. 4.2022 January 12, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Scotland”, in RAIL, number 948, page 19: Bridge of Weir: Protection of the site of the former Kilmacolm branch station (closed on January 3 1983) has been lifted, and developers have swooped in with plans for new housing. 5.(transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing. 6.Quoted in 1971, The Scriblerian (volumes 4-5, page 2) And his Eagles, which can with the same ease as a kite swoops a chicken, snatch up a strong built Chamber of wood 12 foot square, & well crampt & fortified with Iron, with all its furniture, & a man besides, & carry it to the Clouds? 7.(transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. 8.1661, Joseph Glanvill, “An Apology for Philosophy”, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Vanity of Dogmatizing […] (Series III: Philosophy; 6), New York, N.Y.: For the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1931, →OCLC, page 247: Thus the Phyſitian looks with another Eye on the Medicinal hearb, then the grazing Oxe, which ſwoops it in with the common graſs: […] 9.1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada: And now at last you come to swoop it all. 10.(intransitive) To pass with pomp; to sweep. 11.1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC, page 6: Proude Tamer swoopes along, with such a lustie traine / As fits so brave a flood two Countries that divides: […] 12.(Britain, prison slang) To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes. 13.1989, Michael Bettsworth, Marking Time: A Prison Memoir, page 32: He was forever diving into dustbins or swooping on to the ground for cigarette ends. 14.2015, Noel 'Razor' Smith, The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang: Swooping is picking up discarded cigarette butts from the exercise yard and anywhere else they can be found. 0 0 2022/02/27 18:40 2024/03/06 11:22 TaN
51857 seasoned [[English]] ipa :/ˈsiːzənd/[Adjective] seasoned (comparative more seasoned, superlative most seasoned) 1.Experienced, especially in terms of a profession or a hobby a seasoned traveller a seasoned player a seasoned actor 2.2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎[1]: With only two fit centre-backs available, Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp employed young midfielder Jake Livermore at the back alongside Sebastien Bassong but Spurs struggled against a seasoned Champions League outfit, who beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp in 2009-10 and continually worked their way between the home defence to create some golden opportunities. 3.2013, Zed A. Shaw, Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code, →ISBN, page 2: While you do these exercises, typing each one in, you will make mistakes. It’s inevitable&#x3b; even seasoned programmers make a few. 4.2023 November 1, Nick Brodrick talks to Jason Cocker, “A station that "oozes" customer service...”, in RAIL, number 995, page 52: "Commuters know where they're going, they grab a coffee, know which platform, which part of the train - they're pretty seasoned. 5.Of a food, often a liquid: containing seasonings 6.1994, Leonard Jacobs, Cooking with Seitan: The Complete Vegetarian "wheat-meat" Cookbook, Penguin, →ISBN, page 28: Pan-simmer baked seitan cutlets in Basic Broth (page 20) or other seasoned stock for 15 minutes. 7.1996, Joan S. Todd, “Beyond Bread”, in Indianapolis Monthly, page 199: Delicious, fresh bread — especially a killer herb-seasoned loaf — and a stellar creamy dill dressing elevate Brother Juniper's sandwiches beyond the routine. 8.2013, Hallee Bridgeman, Hallee the Homemaker™, Fifty Shades of Gravy A Christian gets Saucy!: A Cookbook and a Parody, House of Bread Books™, →ISBN, page 10: A good definition for broth would be “seasoned stock.” With the possible addition of salt and other seasonings, fats, or thickening agents, broth is tasty and satisfying. 9.2013, Jam Sanitchat, The Everything Thai Cookbook: Includes Red Curry with Pork and Pineapple, Green Papaya Salad, Salty and Sweet Chicken, Three-Flavored Fish, Coconut Rice, and Hundreds More!, F+W Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 137: Since these noodles are dried, they are often served with a side of seasoned stock. [Anagrams] - adenoses [Verb] seasoned 1.simple past and past participle of season 0 0 2009/05/27 13:42 2024/03/06 11:23 TaN
51858 season [[English]] ipa :/ˈsiː.zən/[Anagrams] - Easons, naoses, ossean [Etymology 1] From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)). [Etymology 2] From French assaisonner. [[Middle English]] [Noun] season 1.Alternative form of sesoun 2.1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Launcelot and Guinevere]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 449, recto: IN Maẏ whan eúý harte floryſhyth́ ⁊ burgruyth́ for as the ſeaſon ys luſty to be holde and comfortable ſo man and woman reioyſyth and gladith of ſom[er] cõmynge wt his freyſhe floures IN May, when every heart flourisheth and burgeneth; for as the season is lusty to behold, and comfortable, so man and woman rejoice and be glad of summer coming with his fresh flowers. 0 0 2010/04/01 18:58 2024/03/06 11:23 TaN
51861 replenish [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪˈplɛn.ɪʃ/[Antonyms] - deplete [Etymology] From Middle English replenisshen, borrowed from Old French repleniss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of replenir, from re- + plenir, from plein, from Latin plenus. [References] - “replenish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “replenish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. [Verb] replenish (third-person singular simple present replenishes, present participle replenishing, simple past and past participle replenished) 1.(transitive) To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity to. It's a popular product, and they have to replenish their stock of it frequently. 2.(transitive, archaic) To fill up; to complete; to supply fully. 3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 1:28: […] and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth […] 4.(transitive, obsolete) To finish; to complete; to perfect. 5.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]: We smothered the most replenished sweet work of nature. 0 0 2012/02/09 19:03 2024/03/06 11:29
51862 sweeping [[English]] ipa :/ˈswiːpɪŋ/[Adjective] sweeping (comparative more sweeping, superlative most sweeping) 1.Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things. The government will bring in sweeping changes to the income tax system. He loves making sweeping statements without the slightest evidence. 2.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7: We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station. 3.2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 June 2013: By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.” 4.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3: The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done! 5.Completely overwhelming. He claimed a sweeping victory. [Anagrams] - weepings [Noun] sweeping (countable and uncountable, plural sweepings) 1.(countable) An instance of sweeping. The sidewalk needed a sweeping every morning. 2.(uncountable) The activity of sweeping. Sweeping took all morning. The sidewalk needed sweeping every morning. [Synonyms] - (wide; broad): across-the-board; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive or Thesaurus:generic [Verb] sweeping 1.present participle and gerund of sweep 0 0 2012/12/19 05:20 2024/03/06 13:06
51863 sweep [[English]] ipa :/swiːp/[Anagrams] - weeps [Etymology] From Middle English swepen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaipijan (unattested in Old English), from Proto-Germanic *swaipijaną. Cognate with Early Modern West Frisian swiepe (“whip, cleanse, sweep”), from Old Frisian swēpa, suepa (“sweep”). See also swoop. [Noun] sweep (plural sweeps) 1.A single action of sweeping. Give the front steps a quick sweep to get rid of those fallen leaves. 2.The person who steers a dragon boat. 3.A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew. 4.A chimney sweep. 5.1961 February, Balmore [pseudonym], “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112: He was, perhaps, the English railwayman's conception of the French mécanicien - short and broad, black as a sweep even before we left Calais (but no blacker than I was on arrival at Paris) and wearing goggles and his uniform cap back to front. 6.A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices). 7.(cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat. Bradman attempted a sweep, but in fact top edged the ball to the wicket keeper 8.A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins. Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup. 9.A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland. 10.(aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage. The MiG-17's inner wing has 45 degrees of sweep. 11.(martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs. 12.Violent and general destruction. the sweep of an epidemic disease 13.(metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding. 14.(card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table. 15.The compass of any turning body or of any motion. the sweep of a door&#x3b; the sweep of the eye 16.Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line. 17.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC: the road which makes a small sweep 18.A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them. 19.(rowing) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side. I am primarily a sweep rower. 20.(refining, obsolete) The almond furnace. 21.A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water. 22.Any of the blades of a windmill. 23.(in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc. 24.Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae). 25.1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 28: Octopus clambered about from hole to hole and startled sweep blurred away as we passed. 26.An expanse or a swath, a strip of land. 27.1998, George B. Schaller, Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe‎[1], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21: The Himalaya guards the southern rim of the plateau in one continuous sweep of 2250 km, each end marked by a massive mountain, Nanga Parbat on the Indus in the west and Namjagbarwa at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the east. [References] - “sweep”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “sweep”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. [Verb] a man sweeping (1)sweep (third-person singular simple present sweeps, present participle sweeping, simple past and past participle swept) 1.(transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney 2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 14:23: I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. 3.(intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. The wind sweeps across the plain. The offended countess swept out of the ballroom. 4.2005, Lesley Brown, Sophist, translation of original by Plato, page 236d: [H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent? 5.(transitive) To search (a place) methodically. 6.(intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly. 7.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9: Drifting thus, we made fast time down the bank through Cove Bay, and at 72 m.p.h. came sweeping round the curve past Girdleness light house, and so to the first sight of Aberdeen itself. 8.2011 February 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 2-1 Everton”, in BBC: Everton took that disputed lead in a moment that caused anger to sweep around the Emirates. 9.(cricket) To play a sweep shot. 10.(curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less. 11.(transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom. 12.(sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series. 13.(sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series. 14.(military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines. The channel was swept twice before the battlefleet proceeded through it. 15.(transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly. She swept the peelings off the table onto the floor. The wind sweeps the snow from the hills. The flooded river swept away the wooden dam. 16.2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6: In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way. 17.To brush against or over; to rub lightly along. 18.1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC: Their long descending train, / With rubies edg'd and sapphires, swept the plain. 19.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas. 20.To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion. 21.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]: And like a peacock sweep along his tail. 22.To strike with a long stroke. 23.1687 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia’s Day”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, canto I, page 371: Deſcend ye nine! deſcend and ſing&#x3b; / The breathing inſtruments inſpire, / VVake into voice each ſilent ſtring, / And ſvveep the ſounding lyre! 24.(rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side. 25.(nautical) To draw or drag something over. to sweep the bottom of a river with a net 26.To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation. to sweep the heavens with a telescope 27.(Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug. [[Afrikaans]] ipa :/svɪə̯p/[Etymology] From Dutch zweep, from Middle Dutch swepe. [Noun] sweep (plural swepe, diminutive swepie) 1.A whip. [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈswip/[Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English sweep. [Noun] sweep m (plural sweeps) 1.(electric guitar) sweep (arpeggio played with a single movement of the picking hand) 0 0 2010/06/02 00:13 2024/03/06 13:07
51864 plummet [[English]] ipa :/ˈplʌmɪt/[Antonyms] - (to drop swiftly): ascend, rise, rocket, soar, skyrocket [Etymology] From Middle English plommet (“ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line”), recorded since 1382, from Old French plommet or plomet, the diminutive of plom, plum (“lead, sounding lead”), from Latin plumbum (“lead”). The verb is first recorded in 1626, originally meaning “to fathom, take soundings", from the noun. [Noun] plummet (plural plummets) 1.(archaic, nautical) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line. 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 III, scene iii], page 13, column 2: I'le ſeeke him deeper than ere plummet ſounded, / And with him there lye mudded. 3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 28:17: Iudgement also will I lay to the line, and righteousnesse to the plummet: and the haile shall sweepe away the refuge of lyes, and the waters shall ouerflow the hiding place. 4.1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC: Each long black hair upon his head hung down as straight as any plummet line&#x3b; […] 5.1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC: And love was the plummet dropped down into the deeps of him where like had never gone. 6.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan‎[1], A. C. McClurg, →OCLC: He told her then of his life since he had returned to the jungle—of how he had dropped like a plummet from a civilized Parisian to a savage Waziri warrior, and from there back to the brute that he had been raised. 7.(archaic) Hence, any weight. 8.1945, Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe, The World Publishing Company, page 93: His parachute was shot half away, and if he'd jumped he would have fallen like a plummet. 9.(archaic) A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines). 10.A violent or dramatic fall. 11.(figuratively) A decline; a fall; a drop. 12.2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎[2]: Yet another seriously under-par performance is unlikely to provide any real answers to their remarkable plummet in form - but it proves they can at least churn out a much-needed result. [References] - Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “plummet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [See also] - plumb - plumb line [Synonyms] - (to drop swiftly): dive, drop, fall [Verb] plummet (third-person singular simple present plummets, present participle plummeting or plummetting, simple past and past participle plummeted or plummetted) 1.(intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly. After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth. 2.2022 October 4, Kate Conger, Lauren Hirsch, “Elon Musk Suggests Buying Twitter at His Original Price”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN: Some speculated Twitter’s stock would plummet, while another said the company would not have to be owned by “a moron,” using an expletive to refer to Mr. Musk. 3.2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “No Marston Vale line trains... and no one in charge seems to 'give a damn'”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46: Passenger numbers had been rising sharply. But the replacement of the services by buses, which take far longer because of the number of stations in out-of-the-way villages on the route, will ensure they plummet again. 0 0 2009/09/11 15:10 2024/03/06 13:12 TaN
51865 sleeping [[English]] ipa :/ˈsliːpɪŋ/[Adjective] sleeping (not comparable) 1.Asleep. 2.2013 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. 3.Used for sleep; used to produce sleep. [Anagrams] - peelings, speeling [Derived terms] Terms derived from all parts of speech - African sleeping sickness - born sleeping - co-sleeping - let sleeping dogs lie - let the sleeping dogs lie - sleeping at the switch - sleeping bag - sleeping barber problem - Sleeping Beauty - sleeping beauty - sleeping car - sleeping dictionary - sleeping dragon - sleeping draught - sleeping giant - sleeping giant - sleeping hours - sleeping language - sleeping lions - sleeping mat - sleeping mat - sleeping pad - sleeping partner - sleeping pill - sleeping policeman - sleeping quarters - sleeping room - sleeping sickness - sleeping table - sleeping tablet  [Noun] sleeping (countable and uncountable, plural sleepings) 1.The state of being asleep, or an instance of this. 2.c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, section I: And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye. 3.1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, page 144: […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings. [Verb] sleeping 1.present participle and gerund of sleep 2.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC: ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’ [[French]] [Further reading] - “sleeping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] sleeping m (plural sleepings) 1.sleeping car Synonym: wagon-lit 0 0 2024/03/06 13:26 TaN
51867 redeem [[English]] ipa :/ɹɪˈdiːm/[Anagrams] - deemer, reemed [Antonyms] - abandon [Etymology] Recorded since c.1425, from Middle English redemen, modified from Old French redimer, from Latin redimō (“release; obviate; atone for”), itself from re- (“back; again”) + emō (“buy; gain, take, procure”). [Synonyms] - (recover ownership): buy back, repurchase [Verb] redeem (third-person singular simple present redeems, present participle redeeming, simple past and past participle redeemed) 1.(transitive) To recover ownership of something by buying it back. 2.(transitive) To liberate by payment of a ransom. 3.(transitive) To set free by force. 4.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 III, scene ii: Your Highneſſe needs not doubt but in ſhort time, He will with Tamburlaines deſtruction Redeeme you from this deadly ſeruitude. 5.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 6:6: Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments ... 6.(transitive) To save, rescue 7.(transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame 8.(transitive) To expiate, atone (for) 9.(transitive, finance) To convert (some bond or security) into cash 10.(transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences). 11.(transitive) To repair, restore 12.(transitive) To reform, change (for the better) 13.(transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something. 14.(transitive, archaic) To reclaim [[Galician]] [Verb] redeem 1.(reintegrationist norm) inflection of redar: 1.third-person plural present subjunctive 2.third-person plural imperative [[Portuguese]] [Verb] redeem 1.inflection of redar: 1.third-person plural present subjunctive 2.third-person plural imperative 0 0 2009/12/28 12:33 2024/03/06 21:10 TaN
51868 smoke [[English]] ipa :/sməʊk/[Alternative forms] - smoak (obsolete) [Anagrams] - Mesko, mokes [Etymology 1] From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), dialectal German Schmauch (“smoke”). [Etymology 2] From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, from Proto-Germanic *smukōną (“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukaną (“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg- (“to smoke”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smookje (“to smoke”), West Frisian smoke (“to smoke”), Dutch smoken (“to smoke”), Low German smöken (“to smoke”), German Low German smoken (“to smoke”). Related also to Old English smēocan (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), Bavarian schmuckelen (“to smell bad, reek”). [See also] - bogue - cigar - cigarette - hypercapnia - reek - pipe - smudge pot - tobacco - typhus - Appendix:Colors [[Middle English]] ipa :/ˈsmɔːk(ə)/[Alternative forms] - smok, smoc [Etymology] From Old English smoca, from Proto-Germanic *smukô (“smoke, nebulous air”). [Noun] smoke (plural smokes or smokkes) 1.smoke 0 0 2024/03/07 12:15 TaN

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