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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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; 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; the next week; 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; 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; 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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; 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
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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.
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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; 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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; 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; / 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)
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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; […]
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.
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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
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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
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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
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homomorphic
[[English]]
[Adjective]
homomorphic (comparative more homomorphic, superlative most homomorphic)
1.(algebra) Of or pertaining to homomorphism; having a homomorphism.
2.1993, A. Wayne Wymore, Model-Based Systems Engineering, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 182:
If it is necessary or desirable to preserve input or output port structure in homomorphic images, one must insist on a special case of homomorphism.
3.2016, Giulia Traverso, Denise Demirel, Johannes Buchmann, Homomorphic Signature Schemes: A Survey, Springer, →ISBN, page 11:
In this chapter two types of signature schemes satisfying homomorphic properties are presented. In the first section a description of the homomorphic signature schemes suitable in the single-user scenario is provided.
[Etymology]
homo- + -morphic
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elude
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈljuːd/[Anagrams]
- Deuel
[Etymology]
From Latin ēlūdō (“evade, elude”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + lūdō (“play; trick”).
[Verb]
elude (third-person singular simple present eludes, present participle eluding, simple past and past participle eluded)
1.(transitive) To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using cunning or skill.
2.1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 26:
Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.
3.1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 516:
The line continued in operation until about 1908, but the precise date of closure has eluded research.
4.2021 May 29, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 0-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport[1]:
It leaves City still searching for the Champions League, the trophy that has always eluded them
5.(transitive) To shake off (a pursuer); to give someone the slip.
6.2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian[2]:
Podolski gave Walcott a chance to further embellish Arsenal's first-half performance when he eluded James Perch and slipped the ball through to the striker.
7.(transitive) To escape being understandable to; to be incomprehensible to.
I get algebra, but calculus eludes me.
8.(transitive) To escape someone's memory, to slip someone's mind.
The solution of that brainteaser eludes me and the name of the author eludes my memory too.
[[Estonian]]
[Noun]
elude
1.genitive plural of elu
[[Italian]]
ipa :/eˈlu.de/[Anagrams]
- edule
[Verb]
elude
1.third-person singular present indicative of eludere
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
ēlūde
1.second-person singular present active imperative of ēlūdō
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
elude
1.inflection of eludir:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/eˈlude/[Verb]
elude
1.inflection of eludir:
1.third-person singular present indicative
2.second-person singular imperative
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[[English]]
ipa :/məˈlɪʃəs/[Adjective]
malicious (comparative more malicious, superlative most malicious)
1.Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.
Synonym: malevolent
He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
2.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.
[Alternative forms]
- malitious (obsolete)
[Etymology]
From Middle English malicious, from Old French malicios, from Latin malitiōsus, from malitia (“malice”), from malus (“bad”). Displaced native Old English yfelwillende.
[Synonyms]
- malevolent
- evil
- See also Thesaurus:evil
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chip
[[English]]
ipa :/t͡ʃɪp/[Etymology 1]
From Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”), whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”) and Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”), ultimately from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”), is a different, unrelated word.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
[Further reading]
- Jonathon Green (2024), “chip v.3”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
[See also]
- chip chip cheerio (probably not etymologically related)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/tʃɪp/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English chip.
[Noun]
chip m (plural chips, diminutive chipje n)
1.(electronics, computing) A chip (one-piece circuit or hybrid device containing a circuit and another device).
[[Galician]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English chip.
[Further reading]
- “chip” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
[Noun]
chip m (plural chips)
1.chip (circuit)
[[Hokkien]]
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈt͡ʃip][Etymology]
Borrowed from English chip.
[Noun]
chip
1.Superseded spelling of csip.[1]
[References]
1. ^ Section 203 in A magyar helyesírás szabályai, 12. kiadás (’The Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2015. →ISBN
[[Irish]]
ipa :/çɪpʲ/[Noun]
chip m
1.Lenited form of cip.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃip/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English chip.
[Noun]
chip m (invariable)
1.chip (small electronic component)
[References]
1. ^ chip in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Middle English]]
[[Polish]]
ipa :/t͡ʂip/[Alternative forms]
- czip
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English chip, from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp, from Old English *ċippian, from Proto-Germanic *kipp-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb-.
[Further reading]
- chip in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- chip in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
chip m inan
1.(electronics) chip (integrated circuit)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈʃi.pi/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English chip.
[Noun]
chip m (plural chips) (proscribed, unadapted spelling)
1.Alternative form of chipe
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/kip/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Hungarian kép (“image”).
[Noun]
chip n (plural chipuri)
1.face, likeness
Synonym: față f
2.2003, “Dragostea din tei [Love from the lindens]”, performed by O-Zone [O-Zone]:
Chipul tău și dragostea din tei
Mi-amintesc de ochii tăi.
Your face and the love from the linden
Remind me of your eyes.
3.picture, image
Synonym: imagine f
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃip/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English chip.
[Further reading]
- “chip”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
chip m (plural chips)
1.chip (circuit)
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when
[[English]]
ipa :/ʍɛn/[Adverb]
when (not comparable)
1.(interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
When will they arrive?
Do you know when they arrived?
I don't know when they arrived.
When they arrived is unknown.
2.1834, Samuel Kirkham, English Grammar in Familiar Lectures, page 117:
What words are used as interrogative pronouns? — Give examples.
When are the words, what, which, and that, called adj. pron.?
When are they called interrogative pronominal adjectives?
3.At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
He's mister high and mighty now, but I remember him when.
4.(relative) At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
That was the day when the Twin Towers fell.
5.1897 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, pages 58–59:
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
6.(fused relative) The time at, on or during which.
I recall when they were called the Greys.
Next year is when we elect a new mayor.
7.(informal, in definitions or explanations) A circumstance or situation in which.
Love is when you can't get enough of someone.
8.(interrogative, Internet slang, often humorous) Used after a noun or noun phrase in isolation to express impatience with an anticipated future event. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
The site's all bugged. Fix when?
Tank class buff when?
My fridge even restocks itself these days. Glorious AI overlords when?
9.2020 December 4, u/Woebn, “Why did Treant fell in love with Aiushtha?”, in Reddit[1], r/DotA2, archived from the original on 22 January 2024:
New patch when??
10.2023 November 13, u/f4c1r, “Regions of Europe according to a Dutch map”, in Reddit[2], r/europe, archived from the original on 22 January 2024:
Iran EU when? lol
11.2023 November 18, u/waiting4singularity, “Valve marks Half-Life's 25th anniversary with game update and documentary”, in Reddit[3], r/gamernews, archived from the original on 22 January 2024:
obligatory hl3 when? yea yea i know, likely never.
12.2024 January 17, u/JabberwockyNZ, “14.2 Patch Preview”, in Reddit[4], r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 22 January 2024:
Bard and eve nerf when
[Alternative forms]
- wen (eye dialect)
[Anagrams]
- hewn
[Conjunction]
when
1.At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
Pavlov's dogs salivate when [i.e. at any and every time that] they hear a bell.
When [i.e. at any and every time that] he speaks to her, he is always polite.
Put your pencil down when [i.e. as soon as, at the moment that] the timer goes off.
A player wins when [as soon as, or at any time that, if] she has four cards of the same suit.
A student is disqualified when [as soon as, if] they cheat.
2.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, “Accessary After the Fact”, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC, page 48:
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
3.2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it.
4.During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
They dream when [i.e. during the time that] they sleep.
I'm happiest when [during the time that, or at any time that] I’m working.
It was raining when I came yesterday.
The game is over when the referee says it is.
Be careful when crossing the street.
When (you are) angry, count to ten before speaking or acting.
5.2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
The Baggies had offered little threat until the 28th minute, but when their first chance came it was a clear one.
6.At what time; at which time.
I am here till Friday, when [i.e. at which time] I leave for Senegal.
I was just walking down the street, when [i.e. at which time] all of a sudden it started to rain.
7.1839, John Donne, The Works of John Donne: Sermons, Letters, Poems, page 310:
I am at London only to provide for Monday, when I shall use that favour which my Lady Bedford hath afforded me, of giving her name to my daughter; which I mention to you, […]
8.1929, Donald John Munro, The Roaring Forties and After, page 38:
He sat at the door of his kitchen watching, and seeing there was nothing else for it we buckled to and soon had the job done; when we were admitted to the kitchen and given a really good meal.
9.Since; given the fact that; considering that.
I don't see the point of putting up Christmas decorations when I am the only person who is going to see them.
10.Whereas; although; at the same time as; in spite of the fact that.
You're picking at your scabs when you should be letting them heal.
He keeps changing things when the existing system works perfectly well.
11.c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 53:
Oh age! / Where only wealthy men are counted happy: / How ſhall I pleaſe thee? how deſerve thy ſmiles? / When I am only rich in miſery?
[Derived terms]
from all parts of speech
- as and when
- ask how high when someone says jump
- back when
- burn that bridge when one comes to it
- buy when it snows and sell when it goes
- cross that bridge when one comes to it
- cross that bridge when one gets there
- cross that bridge when one gets to it
- hit someone when they are down
- if and when
- I know it when I see it
- kick a dog when it's down
- kick someone when they are down
- know someone when
- know when to fold 'em
- needs must when the devil drives
- see you when I see you
- since when
- strike someone when they are down
- time flies when you're having fun
- way back when
- when Adam was an oakum boy
- when Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard
- when all is said
- when all is said and done
- when as
- when heck freezes over
- when Hell freezes over
- when in Rome
- when is closing time
- when it came to
- when it comes to
- when it's at home
- when one least expects it
- when one's ship comes in
- when pigs can fly
- when pigs fly
- when push comes to shove
- when the balloon goes up
- when the cat's away
- when the cat's away the mice play
- when the cat's away the mice will play
- when the chips are down
- when the time comes
- when two Sundays come together
- when two Sundays meet
- whenwe
- why buy a book when you can join a library
- why buy a book when you can join the library
- why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free
- you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire
- you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire
- zig when one should zag
[Etymology]
From Middle English when(ne), whanne, from Old English hwonne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannē, from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“at what time, when”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis (interrogative base).Cognate with Dutch wanneer (“when”) and wen (“when, if”), Low German wannehr (“when”), wann (“when”) and wenn (“if, when”), German wann (“when”) and wenn (“when, if”), Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌽 (ƕan, “when, how”), Latin quandō (“when”). More at who.Interjection sense: a playful misunderstanding of "say when" (i.e. say something / speak up when you want me to stop) as "say [the word] when".
[Interjection]
when
1.(often humorous) That's enough: a command asking someone to stop adding something, especially an ingredient or portion of food or drink; used in, or as if in, literal response to 'Say when'.
2.2004, Andy Husbands, Joe Yonan, The Fearless Chef: Innovative Recipes from the Edge of American Cuisine, page 83:
When we go out to a restaurant, we're the guys who never say "when" when the waiter is grinding fresh pepper on our salads.
3.2009, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 111:
He keeps the bottle in the top bureau drawer; he takes it out, and two glasses, and pours. Say when.
When, please.
4.2011, Fritz Allhoff, Dave Monroe, Porn - Philosophy for Everyone: How to Think With Kink:
Producers have the power to say "when" when the actress involved is too stressed to continue. That's responsible filmmaking.
5.(obsolete) Expressing impatience.
Coordinate term: what
6.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 221, column 2:
Why when I ſay? […] Off with my boots, you rogues: you villaines, when? […] Out you rogue […]
7.1600, [Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye, Anthony Munday, Robert Wilson], The First Part of the True and Honorable Historie, of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the Good Lord Cobham. […][5], London: […] [V[alentine] S[immes]] for Thomas Pauier, […], →OCLC:
Set parſon, ſet, the dice die in my hand: / VVhen parſon, vvhen! vvhat can ye finde no more?
8.c. 1615 (date written), Tho[mas] Middleton, “More Dissemblers besides Women. A Comedy”, in Two New Playes. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1657, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 66:
VVhy vvhen? begin Sir: I muſt ſtay your leiſure.
[Noun]
when (plural whens)
1.The time at which something happens.
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
2.2008, Paolo Aite, Lanscapes of the Psyche, Ipoc Press, →ISBN, page 151:
For the moment, suffice it to say that the stories told through the whens and hows of building a scene differentiate individual desires and needs more clearly than shared speech was up to then able to communicate.
[Pronoun]
when
1.(interrogative) What time; which time.
Since when do I need your permission?
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 i], page 18, column 2:
[...] ſhortly [...] I'le reſolue you [...] / Theſe happend accidents: till when, be cheerefull [...]
3.1831 (published), John Davies, Orchestra Or, a Poem of Dancing, in Robert Southey, Select Works of the British Poets: From Chaucer to Jonson, with Biographical Sketches, page 706:
Homer, to whom the Muses did carouse
A great deep cup with heav'nly nectar fill'd,
The greatest, deepest cup in Jove's great house,
(For Jove himself had so expressly will'd)
He drank off all, nor let one drop be spill'd;
Since when, his brain that had before been dry,
Became the well-spring of all poetry.
4.1833, William Potts Dewees, A Treatise on the Diseases of Females, page 495::
[This] we imagined might have been owing to some accidental condition of the system, or perhaps idiosyncracy; this led us to a second trial, but we experienced the same inconveniences, since when, we have altogether abandoned their use.
5.2012, Emile Letournel, Robert Judet, Fractures of the Acetabulum, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 385:
So we combined the Kocher-Langenbeck and iliofemoral approach until 1965, since when we have combined the ilioinguinal and Kocher-Langenbeck approaches.
[References]
- “when”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “when”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
- (as soon as): as soon as, immediately, once
- (every time that): whenever
- (during the time that): while, whilst; see also Thesaurus:while
- (at any time that): whenever
- (at which time):
- (given the fact that): given that, seeing that; see also Thesaurus:because
- (in spite of the fact that): but, where, whereas
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cut
[[English]]
ipa :/kʌt/[Adjective]
cut (comparative more cut, superlative most cut)
1.(participial adjective) Having been cut.
2.1958 November 7 [1956], Excerpts from "Economic Geography of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region"[3], United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 58:
The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone. […] The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.
3.Reduced.
The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
4.(of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
5.(Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
6.(bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
7.1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?
8.2010, Bill Geiger, “6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks”, in Reps!, 17:106:
That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
9.(informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
10.(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt. [from 20th c.]
11.1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 41:
‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’
12.
13. (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.[1]
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
14.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 51, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
I was dev’lish cut—uncommon—been dining with some chaps at Greenwich.
[Anagrams]
- TCU, TUC, UCT, UTC
[Etymology]
From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse kytja, kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”).Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide.Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.
[Interjection]
cut!
1.(film and television) An instruction to cease recording.
Antonym: action
[Noun]
cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)A cut (graph theory sense) in a graph with five vertices, which partitioned it into two subgroups (one with white vertices and another with black vertices).
1.The act of cutting.
He made a fine cut with his sword.
2.The result of cutting.
a smooth or clear cut
3.
4. An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
Look at this cut on my finger!
5.A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
a cut for a railroad
6.1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
which great cut or ditch Sesostris […] purposed to have made a great deale wider and deeper.
1.An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.A share or portion of profits.
The bank robbers disbanded after everyone got their cut of the money.
- 2022 April 6, Andrew R. Chow, “Inside Epic's Unreal Engine 5”, in Time[4]:
Starting today, UE5 is free to download and use, with Epic taking a 5% cut on products created with it only after they earn over $1 million in gross revenue.A decrease.
Antonym: hike (used in same contexts); increase
The boss took a 5% pay cut.(cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.(cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.(sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.(golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.(especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.(film) A particular version or edit of a film.
the director's cut(card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.(card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.The manner or style in which a garment or an article of clothing is fashioned.
I like the cut of that suit.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
with eyes severe and beard of formal cutA slab or slice, especially of meat.
That’s our finest cut of meat.
- 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Amidst Cross-Purposes”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 110:
Cope pushed away his coffee-cup and asked the young Greek for a cut of pie.(fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- 1819, Washington Irving, (Rip Van Winkle)::
Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
- 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
After several experiences like this, I began to entertain a sort of respect for Kooloo, as quite a man of the world. In good sooth, he turned out to be one; in one week's time giving me the cut direct, and lounging by without even nodding. He must have taken me for part of the landscape.An unkind act; a cruelty.(slang) An insult
- 1966-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
We got out & there was a group of boppers, bout 25 of 'm in a group. They started yellin cuts, "queer" seemed to be the favorite they all began chanting it. "Hey, yer not gonna serve those queers, are ya Howie?"A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
- 1975, Billboard, volume 87, number 24, page 50:
Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer).(archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.A haircut.(graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.(Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.(rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
a book illustrated with fine cuts(obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
- 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen.”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, page 436, column 2:
He's buy me a whit Cut, forth for to ride(slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.A skein of yarn.
- 1632, North Riding Record:
Two women for stealing 30 cuttes of linen yarn.(slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
Synonym: mix
Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.(fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.(bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass. (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- 1992 September 22, Da Lench Mob (lyrics and music), “Guerillas in tha Mist” (track 6), in Guerillas in tha Mist[5]:
I'm laying in a cut 'bout to shoot me a mutt
- 2008 March 9, David Simon, “-30-”, in The Wire, season 5, episode 10 (television production), spoken by Slim Charles (Anwan Glover), via HBO:
You don't mind me askin', why you want to sell? I mean, even from inside here, you can take a slice for just layin' in the cut.
- 2010 April 14, Wiz Khalifa, “In the Cut”, in Kush & Orange Juice[6]:
In the cut, in the cut, rolling doobies up
- 2012, Honey Cocaine, In The Cut:
Bitch I'm out, catch me chillin' in the cut. Me and my homies swag it out in the cut. It's a party going down in the cut.
- 2016, Drake (lyrics and music), “Summer Sixteen"”:
Famous as fuck, but I’m still in the cut when they round up the troops.
- 2021, Redferrin, "Stuck":
She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah.
- 2023 January 9th, Santana Hannah, in JOLLY, "Brits try REAL Southern Fried Chicken for the first time!", YouTube, 11:27:
We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut.(petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
[References]
1. ^ “Cut” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary […], 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 137.
[See also]
- nut-cut (probably etymologically unrelated?)
[Synonyms]
- See Thesaurus:cut
[Verb]
cut (third-person singular simple present cuts, present participle cutting, simple past cut or (nonstandard) cutted, past participle cut or (archaic) cutten)
1.(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
1.To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
2.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
3.To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
Would you please cut the cake?
4.1725, Homer, “Book III”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, / With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.
5.2012 May 8, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook[1], Random House, →ISBN, page 79:
First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
6.To form or shape by cutting.
I have three diamonds to cut today.
7.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster
8.1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
loopholes cut through thickest shade
9.(slang) To wound with a knife.
10.1990, Stephen Dobyns, The house on Alexandrine:
We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.
11.(intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
12.(transitive, intransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
13.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
14.To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
Sarcasm cuts to the quick.
15.1829, Elijah Hoole, Personal Narrative of a Mission to the South of India, from 1820 to 1828:
she feared she should laugh to hear an European preach in Tamul , but on the contrary , was cut to the heart by what she heard
16.To castrate or geld.
to cut a horse
17.To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.(intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., chapter XI, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Deacon's Masterpiece:
The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;(transitive, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
1.To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
Travis was cut from the team.
2.To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
3.To reduce, especially intentionally.
They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
4.2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.
5.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
The principle of prioritising longer-distance trains by cutting services to wayside stations (often leading directly to their closure) is not new.
6.To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
7.1833, Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in America:
An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.(transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
Synonym: spear
After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
- 1903, Samuel Barber, The Way of All Flesh chapter 73:
At first it had been very painful to him to meet any of his old friends, [...] but this soon passed; either they cut him, or he cut them; it was not nice being cut for the first time or two, but after that, it became rather pleasant than not [...] The ordeal is a painful one, but if a man's moral and intellectual constitution are naturally sound, there is nothing which will give him so much strength of character as having been well cut.
- 1973, Gore Vidal, Burr :
The ordinary people greet him (Aaron Burr) warmly while the respectable folk tend to cut him dead.
- 27 September 2013, Kane, Kathryn, The Regency Redingote Blog The Cut: The Ultimate & Final Social Weapon:
The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register for 1798 included an explanation by a reader of how the cut was carried out in his college days in a lengthy letter to the editor, signed by the pseudonym "Ansonius." In his rambling letter, Ansonius noted that when he was at college, " … if a man passed an old acquaintance wittingly, without recognizing him, he was said— ‘To cut him.’" Ansonius then went on to explain the performance of the cut and noted that for a time the term "to spear" was used instead of to cut. However, that term did not remain long in use, and this act was generally known as "the cut" ever after.(intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.(transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.(transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.(intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
- 2010 June 8, guy & rOdd, “Brevity”, in gocomics.com[2]:
Excuse me, do you mind if I cut?!(intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
This road cuts right through downtown.
- 2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in Guardian Online:
Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them.
- 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.(transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it. (Can we add an example for this sense?)(transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.(intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.(transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
If you cut then I'll deal. (transitive, slang) To make, to negotiate, to conclude.
I'll cut a check for you.
I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.
to cut a deal, to cut deals
to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal(transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.
The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.
Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine.(transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC:
Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.(transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
Synonym: cut out
The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise.
Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!(transitive) To renounce or give up.
Synonym: cut out(sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined. (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
Coordinate term: bulkTo perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
to cut a caper
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
'Choke, chicken, there's more a-hatching,' said Miss Mag, in a sort of aside, and cutting a flic-flac with a merry devilish laugh, and a wink to Puddock.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/kʰɐt̚⁵/[Etymology]
From English cut.
[References]
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
[Verb]
cut (Hong Kong Cantonese)
1.to cut; to incise; to divide
cut開嚿牛扒／cut开嚿牛扒 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 hoi1 gau6 ngau4 paa4-2 [Jyutping] ― to cut a steak into pieces
2.to cut; to reduce
cut budget [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 bat1 zik4 [Jyutping] ― to reduce allocated budget
3.to enter a queue at the wrong place; to switch directions suddenly
cut線／cut线 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 sin3 [Jyutping] ― to change lanes when driving
4.to terminate; to end; to sever
cut線／cut线 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 sin3 [Jyutping] ― to end a call
cut單／cut单 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 daan1 [Jyutping] ― to terminate an order
cut咗張卡佢／cut咗张卡佢 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 zo2 zoeng1 kaat1 keoi5 [Jyutping] ― to cancel a credit card
[[Irish]]
[Further reading]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cut”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
[Mutation]
[Noun]
cut m (genitive singular cuit, nominative plural cuit)
1.Cois Fharraige form of cat (“cat”)
[[Kiput]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-North Sarawak *likud, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *likud.
[Noun]
cut
1.back (the rear of body)
[[Lower Sorbian]]
ipa :/t͡sut/[Verb]
cut
1.supine of cuś
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/kɨ̞t/[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from Middle English [Term?], from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”).
[Etymology 2]
From English kite.
[Mutation]
[References]
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cut”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- callup
[Anagrams]
- upcall
[Etymology]
Deverbal from call up.
[Noun]
call-up (plural call-ups)
1.An order to report for military service.
2.2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Fly-half Aaron Cruden hyper-extended his knee horribly in contact and was carried off the pitch, forcing Graham Henry to bring on Donald - a man who was fishing for whitebait a fortnight ago before injuries to Dan Carter and Colin Slade triggered his emergency call-up.
3.2015, Charles H. Harris, Louis R. Sadler, The Great Call-Up, page 6:
In addition, the call-up placed an enormous strain on the nation's railroads, suddenly faced with having to provide hundreds of trains to rush guardsmen to the border.
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- upcall
[See also]
- commandeer
[Verb]
call up (third-person singular simple present calls up, present participle calling up, simple past and past participle called up)
1.(transitive) To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
2.1976 April 17, A. Nolder Gay, “The View from the Closet”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
I remember looking in the card catalogue of the main Public Library under "Homosexuality" and not daring to call up the books because "they" might think I was one.
3.2017 July 27, Tony Leondis, “The Emoji Movie is Inside Out crossed with a Sony commercial and dunked in toxic ooze”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
The Emoji Movie takes place in “Textopolis,” where emojis maintain their assigned expression with no deviation, waiting to be called up for their on-screen appearance as needed.
4.(transitive) To summon (someone) to report for military service.
5.2022 March 4, John Branch, “He Won an Olympic Silver for Ukraine. Now He’s Hiding in a Kyiv Garage.”, in The New York Times[2]:
“I don’t know if I’ll go to war or not, I don’t know what process the guys who are being called up are going through,” he wrote. “At the moment, our army is fully coping with the offensives of Russian soldiers and equipment.”
6.(transitive) To select e.g. to a sports squad.
Dean Ashton was called up to the England squad for the first time.
7.(transitive, idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
Synonym: ring up
8.1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 25:
You take that book Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham, though. I read it last summer. It’s a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn’t want to call Somerset Maugham up. I don’t know. He just isn't the kind of a guy I'd want to call up, that's all.
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- upcall
[Etymology]
Deverbal from call up.
[Noun]
callup (plural callups)
1.Alternative spelling of call-up
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[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- -clinal, clinal, incall
[Verb]
call in (third-person singular simple present calls in, present participle calling in, simple past and past participle called in)
1.(intransitive, copulative) To communicate with a base etc, by telephone.
I was too unwell to work yesterday so I called in sick.
2.(transitive) To report; communicate (a message) by telephone or similar.
The hoaxer called in a bomb threat.
3.(intransitive) To pay a short visit.
Synonyms: pop in, call on
I'll call in this afternoon to pick up my prescription.
4.
5. (transitive) To summon someone, especially for help or advice.
Synonym: summon
Coordinate terms: call over, call up, call down, send in
The government called in the army to deal with the riots.
6.1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
By the latter part of 1848, the throne of Hudson the Railway King who had been called in in 1845 as a superman to save the Eastern Counties Railway, was tottering to its fall, [...].
7.(transitive) To withdraw something from sale or circulation.
Synonym: recall
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[[English]]
[Adjective]
call-in (not comparable)
1.(of a TV or radio programme) In which members of the public telephone the studio and talk live to the presenter.
Synonym: dial-in
[Anagrams]
- -clinal, clinal, incall
[Etymology]
Deverbal from call in.
[Noun]
call-in (plural call-ins)
1.A TV or radio programme allowing members of the public to telephone the studio and talk live to the presenter.
2.A telephone call of this kind.
3.A caller who makes such a call.
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[[English]]
ipa :/kɔːl/[Etymology]
Woman making a telephone call (1964).Call of the osprey (bird).From Middle English callen, from Old English ceallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gelH-.Cognate with Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”), Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”), obsolete German kallen (“to call”), Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”), Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”), Danish kalde (“to call, name”), Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”), Welsh galw (“to call, demand”), Polish głos (“voice”), Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”), Russian голос (golos, “voice”), Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).
[Noun]
call (countable and uncountable, plural calls)
1.A telephone conversation; a phone call.
I received several phone calls today.
I received several calls today.
2.An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
I made a call to Jim, but he didn't answer.
3.A short visit, usually for social purposes.
I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
4.1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, pages 13–14:
He [...] ſeldom waits, / Dependent on the baker's punctual call, / To hear his creaking panniers at the door, / Angry and ſad and his laſt cruſt conſumed.
5.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 149:
Podson stayed till after five, though he handsomely apologized for outstaying a call. "The fact is, I never think of the time, when I get talking to a really intelligent woman...'
6.(nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
The ship made a call at Southampton.
7.A cry or shout.
He heard a call from the other side of the room.
8.A decision or judgement.
That was a good call.
9.The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
10.A beckoning or summoning.
I had to yield to the call of the wild.
11.1711 October 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, September 27, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 181; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 440:
Dependance is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity, than any other motive whatsoever.
The spelling has been modernized.
12.1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXIII, in Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay), editor, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume V, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 117:
But they had hoped that, when peace had been restored, when no call of duty required him [William III of England] to cross the sea, he would generally, during the summer and autumn, reside in his fair palaces and parks on the banks of the Thames, [...]
13.2007, Latina, volume 11, page 101:
We actually have a call tomorrow, which is a Sunday, right after my bridal shower. I have to make enchiladas for 10 people!
14.The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
The Prime Minister has the call.
I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business.
15.(finance) Short for call option.
16.(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
17.(cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
18.(uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
19.1978, Alan E. Nourse, The Practice[4], Harper & Row, →ISBN:
page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.”
page 56: “ […] I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”
20.2007, William D. Bailey, You Will Never Run out of Jesus, CrossHouse Publishing,, →ISBN:
page 29: I took general-surgery call at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical call, which was gladly given away by the older staff members: […] . You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical call.
page 206: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.
21.2008, Jamal M. Bullocks et al., Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques, Thieme, →ISBN, page ix:
We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.
22.2009, Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, page 171:
The columns in the second rectangle show fewer hours, but part of that is due to the fact that there's a division between a work call and a show call.
23.(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
24.A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
25.
26. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
27.A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
28.(nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
29.A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
30.An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
31.(archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
32.(US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
33.(informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
34.2015 March 3, Lyda Longa, “Internet hookups mean fewer prostitutes on Daytona’s streets, police say”, in The Daytona Beach News-Journal[5], Daytona Beach, Fla.:
"They have a little network of women that watch out for each other," Morford said. That means that if one prostitute doesn't come back after going out on a call – whether it's an Internet prostitute or a streetwalker – and the other women can't get hold of her, they get scared, close up shop and won't work, Morford said.
35.(law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
36.2020 October 28, Master K.E. Jolley, “Korlyakov v. Riesz, 2020 ONSC 6622”, in CanLII[6], retrieved 19 June 2021:
The work was done by two lawyers, one a 1983 call and the other a 2010 call.
37.(in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
There's no call for that kind of bad language!
38.1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words, page 11:
CALL 2 need for. "There worn't noa call for nowt o't'soart."
[Synonyms]
- (cry or shout): holler, yell; see also Thesaurus:shout
- (contact by telephone): drop a line, ring, get on the horn, give someone a ring, give someone a bell; see also Thesaurus:telephone
- (rouse from sleep): wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken
- (name or refer to): designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
- (predict): augur, foretell; see also Thesaurus:predict
- (cue sports): name, nominate; see also Thesaurus:specify
[Verb]
call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or (archaic) call'd)
1.To use one's voice.
1.(intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
That person is hurt; call for help!
2.1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 128:
So they called for Rooms; and he ſhewed them one for Christiana and her Children and Mercy, and another for Mr. Great-heart and the old Gentleman.
3.(intransitive) To cry or shout.
4.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
If you heare a child crie in the night you must call to the nurſe and bid her ſtil it.
5.1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Alphabet was Made”, in Just So Stories: For Little Children, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 169:
For far—oh, very far behind, / So far she cannot call to him, / Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him!
6.(transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
to call the roll of a military company
7.1714, J[ohn] Gay, “Saturday; or, The Flights”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […], →OCLC, page 56, lines 47–50:
Not ballad-ſinger plac'd above the croud, / Sings with a note ſo ſhrilling ſweet and loud, / Nor pariſh clerk who calls the pſalm ſo clear, / Like Bowzybeus ſooths th' attentive ear.
8.(transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.
Why don’t you call me in the morning?
Why don’t you call tomorrow?
9.(transitive) To declare in advance.
The captains call the coin toss.
10.To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
11.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 376, column 2:
Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: / And if thou canſt awake by foure o'th'clock, / I prythee call me: Sleepe hath ceiz'd me wholly.
12.To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
After the third massive failure, John called the whole initiative.
13.(transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
14.1997, Saxophone Journal:
They called I Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what?
15.2002, Ken Vail, Duke's Diary:
Jeff Castleman and Rufus Jones were in position when they went out, and he immediately called Satin Doll.
16.2015, Clyde E. B. Bernhardt, I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 98:
I thought he forgot all about it, but late in the set he called St. Louis Blues.(heading, intransitive) To visit.
1.To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
We could always call on a friend.
The engineer called round whilst you were away.
2.a. 1700, William Temple, “Of Health and Long-life”, in Miscellanea. The Third Part. [...], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke, […], published 1701, →OCLC, page 127:
[...] He ordered Her to call at His Houſe once a Week, which She did for ſome Time; after which He heard no more of Her.
3.1897 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 58:
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
4.To stop at a station or port.
This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington.
Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour.
5.To come to pass; to afflict.
6.1968 December 8, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder (lyrics and music), “I’d Be a Fool Right Now”, in For Once in My Life, performed by Stevie Wonder:
They say your love will surely fade girl / When things go wrong and trouble callsTo name, identify or describe.
1.(ditransitive) To name or refer to.
Why don’t we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al.
2.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
I don't know how you and the 'head,' as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a 'livery' again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.
3.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, “The Shadow of the Bat”, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 6:
The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
4.2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three–what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
5.(in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
I’m called John.
A very tall building is called a skyscraper.
6.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
7.(transitive) To predict.
He called twelve of the last three recessions.
8.To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
They call the distance ten miles.
That's enough work. Let's call it a day and go home.
9.1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy:
The whole army is called 700,000 men
10.(transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
11.1997, Joanni Nelson Horchler, Robin Rice Morris, The SIDS Survival Guide: Information and Comfort for Grieving Family and Friends and Professionals who Seek to Help Them, page 33:
“Let’s call it. Time of death, 08:45.” The respiratory therapist stopped bagging. The doctor stopped CPR. There was no heartbeat on the monitor. Michael was dead.
12.2012, Marcy O. Diehl, Medical Transcription: Techniques and Procedures (Seventh Edition), page 127:
EXAMPLES: Time of death was called at 16:34(Incorrect). Time of death was called at 1634 p.m.(Incorrect). Time of death was called at 1634 hours(Correct). NOTE: Military (or 24-hour) time is not used with a.m, p.m, or o’clock. It is frequently used to state birth and death times, as well as time of day in autopsy protocols. It is customary to write the word hours after the figures.
13.2015, Tracey Cleantis, The Next Happy: Let Go of the Life You Planned and Find a New Way Forward[1]:
If you are staring your dream in the face and seeing that it is time to quit, I urge you to call the time of death right now. You can sit here with this book in your hand and do it, or climb to a mountaintop and shout it, or write it on a message in a bottle and throw it out to sea. However you do it, do it. I can guarantee that there is life on the other side of the impossible. And naming the time of death is an important process in moving on, letting go, and getting to the other side.
14.(transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
I call bullshit.
She called foul on their scheme.
15.2008, PC Magazine[2]:
Having been around the block a few times, I immediately called "shenanigans” on it, but even so, I was taken aback.
16.(obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
17.c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 22, column 2:
This ſpeech calls him Spaniard, being nothing but / A large inventory of his own commendations.(heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
1.(cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
2.(baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
3.(intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise or fold.
4.(intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
I’ll call your 300, and raise to 600!
5.(transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
My partner called two spades.(transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
He felt called to help the old man.(transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 29:
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
The basis for his conclusion was called into doubt(transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
I call the comfy chair!
- 1998, “The Trouble with Trillions”, in The Simpsons[3], season 9:
Mr. Burns: Any of these islands would make a fine new country. / Homer: I call president! / Mr. Burns: Vice president! / Smithers: [groans](transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.(transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.(transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
A recursive function is one that calls itself.(Yorkshire) To scold.
- 1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words, page 11:
CALL 1 scold"(sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
The goal was called offside.(cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
Every shot must be called.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[ˈkaʎ][Etymology 1]
Inherited from Latin callis (“alley, narrow street, passageway”). Compare Spanish calle (“street”).
[Etymology 2]
Inherited from Latin callum.
[Etymology 3]
Borrowed from Hebrew ⁧קָהָל⁩ (qahál, “assembly, synagogue”).
[Further reading]
- “call” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “call”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “call” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/kʰɔː[Derived terms]
- call台
- call機／call机
- call鐘／call钟
[Etymology]
From English call.
[Noun]
call
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) radio call; phone call (Classifier: 個／个 c)
2.(Hong Kong Cantonese) summoning of people
[References]
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
[Verb]
call
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to call (with mobile phones, pagers, beepers, etc.)
call車／call车 [Cantonese] ― ko1 ce1 [Jyutping] ― to call a vehicle, especially a taxi or a van
2.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to summon people
[[Irish]]
ipa :/kal̪ˠ/[Etymology 1]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Further reading]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “call”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “call” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “call” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79
[Mutation]
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/kʰaul̪ˠ/[Mutation]
[Noun]
call m (genitive singular calla, plural callaidhean)
1.verbal noun of caill
2.loss
3.waste
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/kaɬ/[Adjective]
call (feminine singular call, plural call, equative called, comparative callach, superlative callaf)
1.wise, sensible, rational
Synonyms: doeth, deallus
[Etymology]
Possible borrowing from Latin callidus (“wise, clever; cunning”) (and if so, doublet of caled (“hard”)).
[Further reading]
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “call”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[Mutation]
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[[English]]
[Etymology]
- As an Irish surname, shortened from McCall.
- As an English surname, from the noun caul (“kind of headdress or cap”).
- Also as an English surname, from Middle English calwe (“bald”).
- Also as an English surname, from a Middle English derivative of Latin caulae (“sheepfold”).
- As a Catalan surname, from the noun call (“narrow track”), from Latin callis (“path”). Compare Calle.
- As a German surname, Americanized from Koll, Goll.
[Proper noun]
Call
1.A surname.
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[[English]]
[Noun]
CALL (uncountable)
1.Initialism of computer-assisted language learning.
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up and
[[English]]
[Adverb]
up and (not comparable)
1.(colloquial) Abruptly; unexpectedly.
Halfway through the performance he just up and left.
2.1932, Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road, page 168:
I knowed then why she up and went there, because Ada told me.
3.1968, Jerry Jeff Walker (lyrics and music), “Mr. Bojangles”:
The dog up and died, he up and died
And after twenty years he still grieves
4.1990, Archie Weller, “Johnny Blue”, in Going Home: Stories, page 41:
When he saw me hand and face, he up and goes for the head's office before I can say 'struth' and, by the time I can get after him, it's too late.
5.2001, Charles G. Roland, Long Night's Journey into Day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941 ..., page 193:
a friend of mine who, within ten days, said 'I've had enough of this' and he just up and died. It seemed he wished himself to die.
[Anagrams]
- Pandu
[Etymology]
Unknown. Possibly from get up and. Possibly a dialect use of up (verb).
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[[English]]
ipa :/ʌps/[Anagrams]
- 'sup, PSU, PUS, PUs, SUP, Sup., USP, psu, pus, sup, sup.
[[Danish]]
[Interjection]
ups
1.oops
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[ups][Etymology]
Borrowed from English oops, reinforced by English borrowings in various languages; compare Danish ups, Dutch oeps, Finnish ups, French oups, German ups, Polish ups, Russian упс (ups) etc.
[Interjection]
ups
1.oops
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈups/[Etymology]
Variant of hups.
[Further reading]
- “ups”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
[Interjection]
ups
1.oops
[Synonyms]
- upsis
- upsista
[[German]]
[Interjection]
ups
1.oops
Synonyms: huch, hoppla
[[Norwegian]]
[Interjection]
ups
1.oops
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ups/[Etymology]
Onomatopoeic.
[Further reading]
- ups in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Interjection]
ups
1.oops!
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈups/[Interjection]
ups
1.oops
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English oops.
[Interjection]
ups
1.oops
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈubs/[Interjection]
ups
1.oops
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blueprint
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbluːˌpɹɪnt/[Alternative forms]
- blue print, blue-print
[Etymology]
blue + printIntroduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.
[Noun]
blueprint (plural blueprints)
1.A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
2.A print produced with this process.
3.(architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
4.(informal, by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
5.2018, Jhariah Clare (lyrics and music), “City of Ashes”, in The Great Tale of How I Ruined it All:
Ain't got no blueprint, just a purpose and a wrecking ball!
6.2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport strategy”, in Rail, page 56:
This demonstrated serious intent, and the result is a report that should be a blueprint for subsequent assessments when road schemes are being put forward.
[Synonyms]
- (paper-based technical drawing): cyanotype, schematic
- (detailed technical drawing): schematic
- (informal): road map, schematic, plan, layout
[Verb]
blueprint (third-person singular simple present blueprints, present participle blueprinting, simple past and past participle blueprinted)
1.To make a blueprint for.
The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.
2.To make a detailed operational plan for.
They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.
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[[English]]
ipa :/kæp/[Alternative forms]
- (a lie or exaggeration): 🧢
[Anagrams]
- ACP, APC, CPA, PAC, PAc, PCA, Pac, Pac.
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.
[Etymology 2]
From capitalization, by shortening.
[Etymology 3]
From capital, by shortening.
[Etymology 4]
From capacitor, by shortening.
[Etymology 5]
Shortening of capture.
[Etymology 6]
Clipping of capsule
[Etymology 7]
Shortening of capitalist.
[Etymology 8]
Shortening of capillary.
[Etymology 9]
Scots [Term?], probably from Old English copp (“a cup”).
[[Aromanian]]
[Etymology]
From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput. Plural form capiti from Latin capita. Compare Romanian cap.
[Noun]
cap n (plural capiti/capite)
1.head
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[ˈkap][Etymology 1]
Inherited from Vulgar Latin capus (“head, chief”), from Latin caput (“head, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput. Compare Occitan cap. Compare also French personne (which can mean either "person" or "nobody").
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
- “cap” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cap”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cap” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cap” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/kʰɛːp̚⁵/[Etymology 1]
From English cap.
[Etymology 2]
Clipping of English capture.
[Etymology 3]
Clipping of English capacitor.
[See also]
- 反cap
[[French]]
ipa :/kap/[Anagrams]
- PAC
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Occitan cap, from Latin caput. Doublet of chef.
[Further reading]
- “cap”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
cap m (plural caps)
1.(geography) cape
2.(archaic) head
3.(nautical) heading
4.(figuratively) goal, direction, course
Synonym: cible
cap stratégique ― strategic course
5.(Quebec, geography) cap (summit of a mountain)
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈt͡ʃap][Etymology 1]
- Ultimately from Indo-Aryan. Compare Hindi छाप (chāp), Gujarati છાપ (chāp), Bengali ছাপ (chap), English chop all meaning stamp, seal.
- Probably become Chinese 劄 (zhá, “letter, brief note”) through phono-semantic matching.
[Etymology 2]
Onomatopoeic.
[Further reading]
- “cap” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[[Javanese]]
[Noun]
cap
1.seal, stamp
[[Lashi]]
ipa :/t͡ʃap/[Classifier]
cap
1.Classifier for fruit.
[[Malay]]
ipa :[ˈt͡ʃap][Etymology]
From English chop (“An official stamp or seal, as in China and India”), from Indo-Aryan, either Hindi छाप (chāp), Gujarati છાપ (chāp), Bengali ছাপ (chap) all meaning stamp, seal. Doublet of cop.
[Noun]
cap
1.seal; stamp
2.brand
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
cap
1.Alternative form of cappe
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Old Occitan cap.
[Noun]
cap m (plural caps)
1.head
2.1369-1400, Jean Froissart, Chroniques
Armez de pié en cap
Armed from head to toe
[[Occitan]]
ipa :/kap/[Etymology]
From Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.
[Noun]
cap m (plural caps)
1.head (the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs)
2.leader, chief, mastermind
3.cape, headland
[[Polish]]
ipa :/t͡sap/[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from Romanian țap, possibly from Albanian cjap.
[Etymology 2]
Onomatopoeic.
[Etymology 3]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
- cap in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cap in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/ˈkap/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput. Plural form capete from Latin capita. Compare the doublet șef, borrowed from French.
[Etymology 2]
Borrowed from French cap.
[[Slovak]]
ipa :[t͡sap][Further reading]
- “cap”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
[Noun]
cap m anim (genitive singular capa, nominative plural capy, genitive plural capov, feminine koza), declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural
1.a male goat, he-goat, billygoat
[[Tyap]]
ipa :/tʃɑ́p/[Noun]
cap
1.fur
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɜːmɔɪl/[Etymology]
Unknown. First recorded in 1520. Perhaps from Old French tremouille (“the hopper of a mill”).
[Further reading]
- “turmoil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “turmoil”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “turmoil”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “turmoil”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Noun]
turmoil (usually uncountable, plural turmoils)
1.A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
2.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.
3.2024 January 14, Charles Hugh Smith, Self-Reliance, Taoism and the Warring States[1]:
The Taoists developed their philosophy during an extended era of turmoil known as the Warring States period of Chinese history.
4.Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.
5.c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, / A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
6.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
[Synonyms]
- chaos, disorder
[Verb]
turmoil (third-person singular simple present turmoils, present participle turmoiling, simple past and past participle turmoiled)
1.(obsolete, intransitive) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
2.1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
some notable sophister lies sweating and turmoiling under the inevitable and merciless delimmas of Socrates
3.(obsolete, transitive) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
4.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.
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commandeer
[[English]]
ipa :/kɒmənˈdɪə(ɹ)/[Etymology]
Late 19th century. From Dutch commanderen (“to command”), partially through its descendant, Afrikaans kommandeer (“to command”). Ultimately from French commander, from Old French comander, from Latin commendare. Doublet of command.
[See also]
- appropriate
- call up
[Verb]
commandeer (third-person singular simple present commandeers, present participle commandeering, simple past and past participle commandeered)
1.(transitive) To seize for military use.
2.(transitive) To force into military service.
3.(transitive) To take arbitrarily or by force.
4.(transitive, by extension) To take or use for some purpose (not necessarily arbitrarily or by force).
5.2007 February 5, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Feb 5, 2007:
"We're stuck taking the bus to school tomorrow, aren't we?" "...Yeah. Moperville South doesn't give bus service out here, so Ellen's commandeering my car."
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undisclosed
[[English]]
[Adjective]
undisclosed (not comparable)
1.Not disclosed; kept secret.
2.1958 November 13, “Formosa ‘Battle Line’ Named After Gen. B. O. Davis”, in Jet[1], volume XV, number 2, Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, Foreign News, page 17:
The line beyond which American pilots do not fly in the troubled Formosa Strait area is called the “Davis Line” in honor of Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., former commander of the 13th Provisional Air Force, stationed on Formosa[.] The mythical line is an undisclosed number of miles off the coast of Red China.
3.2020 April 8, “Network News: News in Brief”, in Rail, page 24:
Transport software company Tracsis has acquired smart ticketing provider iBlocks for an undisclosed sum.
[Etymology]
un- + disclosed
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LLC
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- CLL, LCL
[Further reading]
- LLC on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
LLC (plural LLCs)
1.(business, law, US) Initialism of Limited Liability Company.
2.(computer networking) Initialism of Logical Link Control. (one of the two functions of a NIC.)
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outlier
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈaʊtˌlaɪə(ɹ)/[Antonyms]
- inlier
[Etymology]
From outlie + -er.
[Noun]
outlier (plural outliers)
1.A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
2.2023 November 1, Paul Clifton, “One account for the UK railway”, in RAIL, number 995, page 47:
Observing as an outlier from Scotland, Hynes sums up the industry problem: "The conversation we've had for this article is really about creating an environment in which better decisions can be taken, isn't it?
3.An exception.
4.(geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
5.(statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.
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distinctive
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/[Adjective]
distinctive (comparative more distinctive, superlative most distinctive)
1.Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
a product in distinctive packaging
2.1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses, Folio V:
Our Apparell was giuen vs as a signe distinctiue to discern betwixt sex and sex.
3.(rare) Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
4.1650, Thomas Browne, chapter 3, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 75:
[…] more judicious and distinctive heads...
5.Characteristic, typical.
his distinctive bass voice
6.1856, John Ruskin, Modern Painters […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part IV (Of Many Things), page 293:
Wordsworth's distinctive work was a war with pomp and pretence, and a display of the majesty of simple feelings and humble hearts.
7.(rare) Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
8.1867, Samuel Smiles, chapter XVII, in The Huguenots, page 432:
The refugees... at length ceased to exist as a distinctive body among the people.
9.(Hebrew grammar, of accents) Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
10.1874, Andrew Bruce Davidson, Introductory Hebrew Grammar, page 27:
These are the main distinctive accents, and by stopping at them... the reader will do justice to the sense.
11.(linguistics, of sounds) Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
12.1927, L. Bloomfield et al., Language, number 3, page 129:
Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them.
[Etymology]
From Latin distinctus, perfect passive participle of distinguere (“to push apart, to divide”), + -ive (forming adjectives signifying relation or tendency to). Cognate with French distinctif and Medieval Latin distinctivus.
[Noun]
distinctive (plural distinctives)
1.A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
2.1816, Maurice Keatinge, Travels through France and Spain to Morocco, volume I, page 189:
...the red umbrella, the distinctive of royalty here...
3.(Hebrew grammar) A distinctive accent.
4.1874, Andrew Bruce Davidson, Introductory Hebrew Grammar, page 27:
A distinctive of less power than Zakeph is Ṭiphḥâ.
5.(theology) A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
6.1979, Theron F. Schlabach, “Gospel versus Gospel”, in Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, page 154:
Mennonites could go forth somewhat detached from the chauvinism of Western culture—but not so from the Mennonite distinctives.
[References]
- “distinctive”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1896.
- “distinctive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “distinctive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[[French]]
ipa :/dis.tɛ̃k.tiv/[Adjective]
distinctive
1.feminine singular of distinctif
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convene
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒn.viːn/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, convenire (“come together”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.
[Synonyms]
- meet
- assemble
- congregate
- collect
- unite
- summon
- convoke
[Verb]
convene (third-person singular simple present convenes, present participle convening, simple past and past participle convened)
1.(intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
2.1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.
3.(intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
4.1670, Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Death of King James:
The Parliament of Scotland now convened.
5.1727, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.
6.
7.(transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
8.(transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
9.(transitive, with "on" or "upon") To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.
To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.
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call for
[[English]]
[Verb]
call for (third-person singular simple present calls for, present participle calling for, simple past and past participle called for)
1.To shout out in order to summon (a person).
I leant out of the back door and called for Lucy.
2.To ask for in a loud voice.
We finished the main course in short order and called for more wine.
3.(figuratively) To request, demand.
The government has called for an end to hostilities in the region.
4.2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 June 2013:
In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.
5.2017 May 31, Don Baker, Franklin Rausch, Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea[1], page 93:
In fact, he had called for the execution of Yun Chich'ung and Kwon Sangyon in 1791.
6.To necessitate, demand; to make appropriate
This situation calls for a high degree of courage.
7.2000, Yarong Jiang, David Ashley, Mao's Children in the New China: Voices From the Red Guard Generation[2], page 165:
This called for an immediate response. A factory-wide meeting was called, and the head of the Workers' Rebellion Organization announced that a "counter-revolutionary clique" was on the loose.
8.2017 April 25, Sarah Peis, Some Call It Love[3]:
I wasn't usually a big drinker but extenuating circumstances this week called for it.
9.To stop at a place and ask for (someone).
I'll call for you just after midday.
10.(US, informal) To anticipate, predict.
The forecast calls for rain.
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alleviate
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈli.vi.eɪt/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Late Latin alleviatus, past participle of alleviāre (“to lighten; to alleviate”)
[Verb]
alleviate (third-person singular simple present alleviates, present participle alleviating, simple past and past participle alleviated)
1.(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.
Synonyms: address, allay, ameliorate, assuage, ease, mitigate, quell, relieve
Antonym: aggravate
alleviate his pain
Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- alleatevi
[Verb]
alleviate
1.second-person plural present subjunctive of allevare
2.inflection of alleviare:
1.second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person plural imperativefeminine plural of alleviato
[[Latin]]
[Participle]
alleviāte
1.vocative masculine singular of alleviātus
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