52003
double down
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
- double-down
[Verb]
double down (third-person singular simple present doubles down, present participle doubling down or (nonstandard) double downing, simple past and past participle doubled down or (nonstandard) double downed)
1.(gambling, intransitive) To double one's wager, particularly, the name of a specific doubling bet allowed in blackjack.
2.1999, Frederick Barthelme, Steven Barthelme, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, →ISBN, page 66:
He'd bet three thousand and double down to six thousand, all of it hanging on the turn of the next card.
3.(figurative, by extension, intransitive, or transitive with on) To significantly increase a risk, investment, or other commitment; to respond to a challenge (e.g. to an opinion) by reinforcing or extending one's position rather than moderating it.
4.2007 April 12, Peter Beinart, “The Kosovo Conundrum”, in Time:
Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama all want to get out of Iraq. They all want to double down in Afghanistan.
5.2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian[1]:
While 007 has been on extended annual leave as a result of Daniel Craig’s cold feet, Taron Egerton’s thoroughly less urbane secret agent Eggsy Unwin has managed to thoroughly outdo him, with Matthew Vaughn’s sequel to his hit 2015 comedy-thriller doubling down on the qualities that marked its predecessor out from the superspy pack: more star-filled, more gleefully grisly, and reaching new heights of skyscraping silliness.
6.2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents[2]:
[Tucker] Carlson, in his keynote, doubled down on Trump’s recent attacks on Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar.
7.2019 October 12, Jason Koebler, “Blizzard Doubles Down, Says It Will Continue to Silence Players on 'Official Channels'”, in Vice[3]:
[Entertainment Company] Blizzard Doubles Down, Says It Will Continue to Silence Players on 'Official Channels'.
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double-down
[[English]]
[Verb]
double-down (third-person singular simple present doubles-down, present participle doubling-down, simple past and past participle doubled-down)
1.Alternative form of double down
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churn
[[English]]
ipa :/tʃɜːn/[Anagrams]
- UNHCR, runch
[Etymology]
Noun from Middle English chyrne, cherne, kyrne ( > Scots kirn), from Old English ċyrn, ċyrin, ċirin (“churn”), from Proto-Germanic *kirnijǭ (“churn”); verb from Middle English chyrnen from Old English ċernan, from Proto-Germanic *kirnijaną (“to churn, stir”), of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne, Dutch karn, Walloon serene, German Karn, Kirne, Norwegian Bokmål kjerne, Danish kærne, Swedish kärna, Icelandic kirna.
[Further reading]
- churn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
churn (countable and uncountable, plural churns)
1.A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
a butter churn
2.A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
3.1951 October, “The Why and the Wherefore: Milk Platform at Beccles”, in Railway Magazine, page 717:
As the ends of the up and down platforms are not opposite each other, it is not possible to provide the ordinary type of barrow crossing, and the full churns were too heavy to be man-handled up and down the stairs of the footbridge.
4.1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 155:
In the old days, milk trains consisted entirely of vans loaded with ten-gallon churns. When filled, these churns weigh 130 lb. each and their manipulation is an art. [...] Like the tank wagons, the churns are dairy property, but farmers often have other ideas, and find their own uses for them—it has not been unknown for dairy inspectors to find missing churns tucked away in an unsuspected corner of a farmhouse, filled to the brim with banknotes!
5.Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
6.(telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
7.(telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
8.Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
9.2007, Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions, page 102:
I wished my brain would shut up and knew that soon I'd have to start tidying, but first I needed to rest, so I tried to quell the pointless churn behind my eyes and kept on trying (in a minute) until Vicky came back home.
10.2023 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea Champions League exit: Where do 'disjointed, broken' Blues go from here?”, in BBC Sport[2]:
Getting the right manager has just been made more difficult by not having Champions League to offer. There will also be a huge churn of players after the lavish, unrewarding outlay this season.
11.(historical) The last grain cut at harvest; kern.
[Verb]
churn (third-person singular simple present churns, present participle churning, simple past and past participle churned)
1.(transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
Now the cream is churned to make butter.
no-churn ice cream
2.1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses:
Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
3.(transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
4.2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times[1]:
The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge.
5.(intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
I was so nervous that my stomach was churning.
6.(of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
7.(informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
8.(US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
9.(finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
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churn out
[[English]]
[Verb]
churn out (third-person singular simple present churns out, present participle churning out, simple past and past participle churned out)
1.(transitive, informal) To produce a large quantity of (something) rapidly and easily.
Barbara Cartland was renowned for her ability to churn out romantic novels.
2.1972 May, B. J. Mason, “Black Cinema Expo ’72”, in Ebony, volume 27, number 7, page 160:
Stan Myles adds that the Griffiths are still among us, too—still grinding out their fears and fantasies in the guise of “relevant” flicks, most of which turn out to be variations on the same old theme […] writers still churn out quick-buck distortions of the truth; but issues are avoided like the plague; white filmsters—in a frenzy of self-abasement, perhaps—have succeeded only in being more subtle instead of less racist; and even some black filmsters—in a rush for questionable glory—have created one-dimensional portraits of their people.
3.2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1-0 Bolton”, in BBC:
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.
4.2013 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. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
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churning
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- runching
[Noun]
churning (plural churnings)
1.The act by which something is churned.
2.The quantity of butter prepared (by churning) at one time.
[Verb]
churning
1.present participle and gerund of churn
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prop
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɒp/[Anagrams]
- Ropp
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English proppe (“a prop, support, support for a vine or plant”), from Middle Dutch proppe (“support, support for a vine, stopper for a bottle”). Compare Middle Low German proppe (“plug, stopper”), German Pfropfen (“plug”), Danish prop (“plug, stopper”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Also, is the rugby sense from this etymology, from the other, or from a third?”)
[Etymology 2]
Clipping of property.
[Etymology 3]
Clipping of propeller.
[Etymology 4]
Clipping of proposition.
[Etymology 5]
Clipping of propellant.
[Etymology 7]
Clipping of propagation.
[Etymology 8]
Clipping of testosterone propionate.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[ˈpɾɔp][Adverb]
prop
1.(especially after "a") near, nearby
2.(followed by "de") near to
3.(followed by "de") about, around, roughly
[Etymology]
Inherited from Old Catalan prop, from Latin prope.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/prɔp/[Noun]
prop f or m (plural proppen, diminutive propje n)
1.A swab, plug made of paper, cloth, slime or some other suitable material.
2.A piece of paper or similar which has been crumpled into a ball-like shape, usually though not necessarily with the intent of throwing it away. → A wad of paper. Usually used in the diminutive form propje. Often the material is assumed to be paper or unimportant, but it can be specified: propje papier (paper), propje plastic (plastic), propje huishoudfolie (household plastic foil), propje aluminiumfolie (aluminium foil), propje keukenpapier (kitchen paper), propje toiletpapier (toilet paper), propje gekleurd papier (coloured paper), propje crêpepapier (crepe paper) and so on.
3.An embolism. Often used in the diminutive form propje. The substance of the embolism can be indicated: bloedpropje (blood clot), vetpropje (fatty substance), cholesterolpropje (cholesterol). Note however that the last two terms are also used as derogatory words for someone who eats too much, especially fatty food.
[Verb]
prop
1.inflection of proppen:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈprɔp][Etymology 1]
From Dutch prop.
[Etymology 2]
From English prop (“property”), or a clipping of properti.
[Further reading]
- “prop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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prop up
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌpɹɒp ˈʌp/[Anagrams]
- upprop
[Synonyms]
- shore up
[Verb]
prop up (third-person singular simple present props up, present participle propping up, simple past and past participle propped up)
1.(transitive) To support with, or as if with, a prop.
2.December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine[1]:
A $465 million federal loan in 2010 helped prop up Tesla at a crucial juncture, and its customers have benefitted from hefty tax incentives.
3.(transitive, idiomatic) To be at the bottom of (a league).
4.26 March 2014, Jamie Jackson, “Fans' revolt leaves David Moyes dead man walking at Manchester United”, in The Guardian[2]:
Under Moyes, United have fewer home points (21) than Norwich City and Hull City, with their count of 18 goals the same as Fulham and Cardiff City, who prop up the table.
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glut
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡlʌt/[Etymology]
From Middle English glotien, from Old French gloter, glotir (compare French engloutir (“to devour”), glouton (“glutton”)), from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“I swallow”). Akin to Russian глотать (glotatʹ, “to swallow”).[1]
[Noun]
glut (plural gluts)
1.An excess, too much.
Synonyms: excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus
Antonyms: lack, shortage
a glut of the market
2.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
3.2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.
4.2020 April 23, Aarian Marshall, “Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk, Even as People Go Hungry”, in Wired[2]:
“The glut is getting bigger every day, and now you’re starting to have to compete more on price,” says Jim Mikesell, Dog Star’s CEO. The company is looking into other uses for its crop.
5.That which is swallowed.
6.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 588–589:
And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]
7.Something that fills up an opening.
Synonym: clog
8.A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
9.(mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.[2]
10.(bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.[3]
11.(architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
12.A block used for a fulcrum.
13.The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
14.(Britain, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
15.2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal[3]:
Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.
[References]
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “glut”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. ^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881), “Glut”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.
3. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Glut”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “glut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
[Verb]
glut (third-person singular simple present gluts, present participle glutting, simple past and past participle glutted)
1.(transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
to glut one's appetite
2.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 iii:
Come Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwords
That thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood.
3.1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., “Preface”, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page ix:
[T]he realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
4.(transitive, economics) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
5.(intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
6.1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 42:
And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ɡlut/[Etymology 1]
Learned borrowing from Latin glūten. Doublet of gluten and glutyna.
[Etymology 2]
Inherited from Old Polish glót. Compare German Gelöte.
[Further reading]
- glut in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- glut in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “glut”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
[[Volapük]]
ipa :/ɡlut/[Etymology]
Borrowed from German Glut.
[Noun]
glut (nominative plural gluts)
1.glow
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Glut
[[German]]
ipa :/ɡluːt/[Etymology]
From Middle High German gluot, from Old High German gluot, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz. Cognates include English gleed, Dutch gloed, Icelandic glóð, Swedish glöd.[1]
[Further reading]
- “Glut” in Duden online
- “Glut” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
Glut f (genitive Glut, plural Gluten)
1.great heat from (or as if from) something that glows
Die Männer schwitzen in der Glut der Abendsonne.
The men are sweating in the heat of the evening sun.
2.embers, a quantity of glowing coals
Ein Würstchen ist vom Rost in die Glut gefallen.
A sausage has fallen from the gridiron into the hot coals.
[References]
1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Glut”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
[[Pennsylvania German]]
[Etymology]
Compare German Glut, Dutch gloed.
[Noun]
Glut f (plural Glude)
1.glow
2.heat
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doublé
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Lobedu, bouled, dobule
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French doublé.
[Noun]
doublé (plural doublés)
1.(fencing) A compound attack that deceives the opponent's attempted circular parry.
[[French]]
[Further reading]
- “doublé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
doublé m (plural doublés)
1.double, brace, pair
2.(billiards) double
3.(fencing) doublé
[Participle]
doublé (feminine doublée, masculine plural doublés, feminine plural doublées)
1.past participle of doubler
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Double
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Lobedu, bouled, dobule
[Noun]
the Double (plural Doubles)
1.(US, motor racing) Collectively, both the Indianapolis 500, a day race, and the Coca-Cola 600, an evening race, both of which are run on Memorial Day weekend Sunday. Used concerning racers who (wish[/ed/ing] to) participat[e/ed/ing] in both events, typically using a private jet to travel between Indianapolis, Indiana, after the 500 and Charlotte, North Carolina, to get to the 600.
[Proper noun]
Double (plural Doubles)
1.A surname.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈduːbəl/[Etymology]
19th century, from French double.
[Further reading]
- “Doublé, Doublee” in Duden online
- “Double” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
Double n (strong, genitive Doubles or Double, plural Doubles or Double)
1.(film) stand-in, double (actor who shoots certain scenes for another)
Sie wird in allen Nacktszenen von einem Double vertreten.
A double stands in for her in all nude scenes.
2.lookalike, double (artist or agent who resembles and imitates a famous person)
Synonyms: Doppelgänger, Ebenbild
Er arbeitet als Michael-Jackson-Double. ― He works as a Michael Jackson lookalike.
Der Präsident hat mehrere Double. ― The president has several doubles.
3.(sports) double (the winning of two (national) competitions in one year, especially league and cup)
Meister sind sie schon. Wenn sie jetzt noch den Pokal gewinnen, haben sie das Double.
(please add an English translation of this usage example)
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propped
[[English]]
[Verb]
propped
1.simple past and past participle of prop
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PROP
[[English]]
[Noun]
PROP (uncountable)
1.(organic chemistry) Abbreviation of propylthiouracil.
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morning
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɔːnɪŋ/[Anagrams]
- norming
[Etymology]
From Middle English morwenyng, from morwen + -ing. By surface analysis, morn + ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe).
[Interjection]
morning
1.A greeting said in the morning; shortening of good morning.
[Noun]
English Wikipedia has an article on:morningWikipedia morning (plural mornings)
1.The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon. [from 13th c.]
I'll see you tomorrow morning.
I'm working in the morning, so let's meet in the afternoon.
2.1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, volume 1, pages 284–5:
Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
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:
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
4.1988 October 11, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
Sheesh, it's two in the morning. Why do kids always have to feel sick at two in the morning?
5.(figurative) The early part of anything. [from 16th c.]
6.(obsolete) That part of the day from dawn until the main meal (typically in late afternoon). [18th–19th c.]
7.1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 101:
Celestina […] retired to her own room, leaving her friend to the pleasing and important occupation of the toilet, in which half of what is now called morning, was usually passed by Matilda.
8.1813, Jane Austen, letter, 26 October:
We breakfasted before nine, and do not dine till half-past six on the occasion, so I hope we three shall have a long morning enough.
9.(chiefly Scotland) The first alcoholic drink of the day; a morning draught. [from 18th c.]
[Synonyms]
- (time from dawn to noon): forenoon; yeender (dialect); see also Thesaurus:morning
- (time from midnight to noon): a.m.; forenoon; yeender (dialect)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Noun]
morning m (definite singular morningen, indefinite plural morninger, definite plural morningene)
1.alternative spelling of morgning
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/²moː.ɳɪŋ/[Noun]
morning m (definite singular morningen, indefinite plural morningar, definite plural morningane)
1.alternative spelling of morgning
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funnel
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfʌnəl/[Etymology 1]
From Middle English funell, fonel, probably through Old French *founel (compare Middle French fonel, Old Occitan fonilh, enfounilh), from Latin fundibulum, infundibulum (“funnel”), from infundere (“to pour in”);in (“in”) + fundere (“to pour”); compare Breton founilh (“funnel”), Welsh ffynel (“air hole, chimney”). See fuse.
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protective
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɛtɛktɪv/[Adjective]
protective (comparative more protective, superlative most protective)
1.Serving or intended to protect.
The fighter dropped into a protective stance.
The castle's moat served a protective function.
2.2004, Mickey Baskett, Fabulous Painted Furniture, page 13:
Pour a solvent such as paint thinner, mineral spirits, or a liquid sandpaper product in a metal can or enamel bowl. Wear protective gloves.
3.Wishing to protect; defensive of somebody or something.
Mother bears are famously protective of their cubs.
[Etymology]
protect + -ive
[Noun]
protective (plural protectives)
1.(Britain) Something that protects.
2.A condom.
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appeal
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈpiːl/[Etymology 1]
From Middle English apel, appel (“formal accusation brought in court; a challenge to trial by combat; an appeal to a higher court or authority; plea (for mercy, protection, etc.); pealing (of bells)”) [and other forms],[1] from Old French apel (“a call”) (modern French appel (“a call; an appeal”)), from apeler (“to call; to call out”),[2] from Latin appellāre (“to address as, call by name; to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”), alternative form adpellāre, from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at; to”)) + pellere (“to drive, impel, push; to hurl, propel; to banish, expel; to eject, thrust out”) + -āre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to approach”), from *pel- (“to beat; to drive; to push”). Doublet of appel.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English apelen, appelen (“to accuse; to make a formal charge before a court, etc., impeach; to challenge to trial by combat; to apply to a higher court or authority for review of a decision; to call upon for a decision, favour, help, etc.; to call by a name”) [and other forms],[3] from Old French apeler (“to call; to call out”);[4] see further at etymology 1.
[Further reading]
- appeal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- appeal (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “appeal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “appeal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[References]
1. ^ “ap(p)ēl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2. ^ “appeal, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1885; “appeal, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
3. ^ “ap(p)ēlen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
4. ^ Compare “appeal, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1885; “appeal, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/apˈpil/[Anagrams]
- papale
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English appeal.
[Noun]
appeal
1.appeal (power to attract or interest)
2.sex appeal
[References]
1. ^ appeal in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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Magnificent Seven
[[English]]
[Noun]
the Magnificent Seven pl (plural only)
1.Alternative letter-case form of magnificent seven
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magnificent
[[English]]
ipa :/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/[Adjective]
magnificent (comparative more magnificent, superlative most magnificent)
1.Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
2.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
3.1995, “One Small Step”, in Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal[1], retrieved 2023-05-03:
Armstrong: "Isn't that something! Magnificent sight out here."
Aldrin: "Magnificent desolation."
4.Grand or noble in action.
5.Exceptional for its kind.
6.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
7.2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1-6 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
Substitute Edin Dzeko scrambled in a fourth and the magnificent David Silva ran clear to add another, before the Bosnian striker inflicted the final wound seconds from the end.
[Etymology]
From Middle English magnificent, from Middle French magnificent, from Latin magnificentior, comparative of magnificus (“great in deeds or sentiment, noble, splendid, etc.”), from magnus (“great”) + -ficēns, a form of -ficiēns, the regular form, in compounds, of faciēns, a participle of facere (“to do”).
[Further reading]
- “magnificent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “magnificent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “magnificent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
magnificent
1.third-person plural present active subjunctive of magnificō
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swelled
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈswɛld/[Anagrams]
- Wedells
[Verb]
swelled
1.simple past and past participle of swell
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52023
swell
[[English]]
ipa :/swɛl/[Anagrams]
- Wells, wells
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English swellen, from Old English swellan (“to swell”), from Proto-West Germanic *swellan, from Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian swälle (“to swell”), West Frisian swolle (“to swell”), Dutch zwellen (“to swell”), Low German swellen (“to swell”), German schwellen (“to swell”), Swedish svälla (“to swell”), Icelandic svella. The adjective may derive from the noun.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English swelle, from the verb swellen (modern swell).
[Etymology 3]
From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
From Old English swellan.
[Etymology 2]
From the verb swellen.
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English swell.
[Noun]
swell m (plural swells)
1.(surfing) swell (series of waves)
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Ranks
[[German]]
[Noun]
Ranks
1.genitive singular of Rank
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rank
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
rank
1.(mathematics) The symbol for rank.
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹæŋk/[Alternative forms]
- ranck (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- ARNK, Karn, karn, knar, kran, nark
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English rank (“strong, proud”), from Old English ranc (“proud, haughty, arrogant, insolent, forward, overbearing, showy, ostentatious, splendid, bold, valiant, noble, brave, strong, full-grown, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“straight, direct”). Cognate with Dutch rank (“slender, slim”), Low German rank (“slender, projecting, lank”), Danish rank (“straight, erect, slender”), Swedish rank (“slender, shaky, wonky”), Icelandic rakkur (“straight, slender, bold, valiant”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”).Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). Doublet of ring and rink.
[References]
- “rank”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “rank”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/rɑŋk/[Anagrams]
- karn
[Etymology 1]
From Middle Dutch ranc, from Old Dutch *ranc, from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz.[1]
[Etymology 2]
From Middle Dutch ranc, ranke, from Old Dutch *rank, from Frankish hranca.
[References]
1. ^ J. de Vries & F. de Tollenaere, "Etymologisch Woordenboek", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, 1986 (14de druk)
[[German]]
ipa :/ʁaŋk/[Adjective]
rank (strong nominative masculine singular ranker, comparative ranker, superlative am ranksten)
1.(poetic, dated, except in the phrase rank und schlank) lithe, lissome
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle Low German rank, ranc, from Old Saxon *rank, from Proto-West Germanic *rank.
[Further reading]
- “rank” in Duden online
- “rank” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Verb]
rank
1.singular imperative of ranken
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Rank
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
Rank
1.A surname.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈʁaŋk/[Etymology]
From Middle High German ranc (“a quick turning movement”), from Old High German *rank, from Proto-Germanic *wrankiz (“a turn, twisting”). Cognate with English wrench.
[Further reading]
- “Rank” in Duden online
- “Rank” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
Rank m (strong, genitive Rankes or Ranks, plural Ränke)
1.(dated, formal, in the plural) plot, machination, intrigue
Synonyms: Intrigen, Machenschaften
2.1776, Jacob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Die Soldaten[1]:
Er hat den Kopf immer voll Intrigen und Ränken, und meint, andere Leute können ebensowenig darohne leben, als er.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
3.1803, Friedrich Schiller, Louis-Benoît Picard, Der Parasit, oder die Kunst, sein Glück zu machen[2]:
Weg mit diesem Stolz! Es ist Schwachheit, es ist Vorurtheil!—Wie? Wollen wir warten, bis die Redlichkeit die Welt regiert—da würden wir lange warten müssen. Alles schmiedet Ränke!
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
4.(obsolete outside Switzerland) bend, curve (of a path, road, etc.)
Synonyms: Wegbiegung, Kurve
5.(Switzerland) trick, ruse
Synonyms: Trick, Kniff
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/ʀɑŋk/[Etymology]
From Old High German ring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.
[Noun]
Rank m (plural Réng, diminutive Réngelchen)
1.ring (annular object)
2.ring (jewellery)
[[Plautdietsch]]
[Noun]
Rank f (plural Ranke)
1.creeper
2.ivy
3.tendril
4.climbing plant
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binge
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪnd͡ʒ/[Anagrams]
- Bengi, begin, being, beïng
[Etymology]
From Leicestershire and Northamptonshire dialect, binge (“to soak”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal English beene and beam (“to cure leakage in a tub or barrel by soaking, thereby causing the wood to swell”).
[Further reading]
- binge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
binge (plural binges)
1.A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.
2.(by extension) A compressed period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show.
[References]
- Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary[2], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 269
[Synonyms]
- (period of excessive consumption, especially of alcohol): bender, jag, spree, toot, debauch
[Verb]
binge (third-person singular simple present binges, present participle binging or bingeing, simple past and past participle binged)
1.To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
I binged on ice cream.
2.2017 January 12, Arwa Mahdawi, “Generation treat yo' self: the problem with 'self-care'”, in The Guardian[1]:
It’s nice to think that our bubble baths and personal time might have a larger political purpose (“Um, Foucault! I’m not just bingeing Netflix – I’m engaging in Platonic political philosophy in order to better serve others!”), but more often than not, our acts of self-care are simply acts of privilege.
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
binge c
1.(partitioned off) storage area, container
2.(slang) bed
3.pile (of goods, usually grains)
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never
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈnɛv.ə(ɹ)/[Adverb]
never (not comparable)
1.At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.
2.1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 4:
Why should I love this Gentleman? Tis odds / He never will affect me;
3.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
4.1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XXI: A New Departure in Flavorings,
"I never thought you were so fond of Mr. Phillips that you'd require two handkerchiefs to dry your tears just because he was going away," said Marilla.
5.1919, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health: Sensible Rules for the Nurse:
Never speak of the symptoms of your patient in his presence, unless questioned by the doctor, whose orders you are always to obey implicitly.
6.1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal[1], New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 95:
"You don't believe the Soviet Union is going to reduce its defense budget, do you?" Boggs asked.
Premier Chou didn't wait for the translator to finish. "Never, never, never," he replied in perfect English.
I finally finished, and I never want to do that again.
I repeated the test a hundred times, and never saw a positive result.
I will never tell.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:never
7.Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously.
8.1601 November 30, Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I's Farewell Speech:
There is no jewel, be it of never so rich a price, which I set before this jewel: I mean your love.
9.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
"He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!--so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!"
10.1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XIII: The Delights of Anticipation,
I never saw such an infatuated man.
11.(colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely).
The police say I stole the car, but I never did it.
You said you were going to mow the lawn today. – I never!
12.1905, E. W. Horning, A Thief in the Night:
"You're never going to break in?"
"This instant, if you'll, help me; in five or ten minutes, if you won't."
[Alternative forms]
- neuer (obsolete)
- ne'er, neva, nev'r, nevah, nevuh
[Anagrams]
- Verne, erven, nerve
[Antonyms]
- all the time
- always
- consistently
- constantly
- continually
- continuously
- ever
[Etymology]
From Middle English nevere, navere, nævere, from Old English nǣfre (“never”), equivalent to ne + ever.
[Interjection]
never
1.A statement of defiance
[[Latvian]]
[Verb]
never
1.inflection of nevērt:
1.second/third-person singular present indicative
2.third-person plural present indicative
3.second-person singular imperative(with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of nevērt(with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of nevērt
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology 1]
From Old Norse næfr.
[References]
- “never” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
From Old Norse næfr.
[Noun]
never f (definite singular nevra, indefinite plural nevrar or nevrer, definite plural nevrane or nevrene)
1.birchbark
[References]
- “never” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Romansch]]
[Verb]
never
1.(Sutsilvan) Alternative form of naiver (“to snow”)
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oligarch
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑləɡɑɹk/[Etymology]
From French oligarque, olygarche, from Late Latin oligarcha, from Ancient Greek ὀλιγάρχης (oligárkhēs). By surface analysis, olig- (“few”) + -arch (“ruler, leader”).
[Further reading]
- oligarch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
oligarch (plural oligarchs)
1.A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country.
2.A very wealthy business owner who wields political power.
Synonyms: plutocrat, tycoonocrat
3.1908, Jack London, chapter 17, in The Iron Heel[1], New York: The Macmillan Company, page 251:
Millions of people were starving, while the oligarchs and their supporters were surfeiting on the surplus.
4.2005, Bill Clinton, My Life[2], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 49:
Economic disaster loomed, as the rotting remains of the Soviet economy were exposed to free-market reforms, which brought inflation and the sale of state-owned assets at low prices to a new class of ultra-rich businessmen called "oligarchs," who made America's robber barons of the late nineteenth century look like Puritan preachers.
5.2005 December 23, Judy Dempsey, “Ukraine's dance of the oligarchs”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
But then, this is Ukraine. Since the country won its independence in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Parliament has become dominated by the oligarchs - enormously wealthy industrial managers who have interests in steel, iron, coal, the media and soccer clubs.
6.2006, Anders Åslund, Michael McFaul, Revolution in Orange, →ISBN, page 10:
Ukraine's oligarchs emerged in parallel to Russia's, who have been more closely studied, and they were quite similar.
7.2010, Max Lenderman, Brand New World: How Paupers, Pirates, and Oligarchs are Reshaping Business, Collins, →ISBN, page 19:
The astronomical sales of the tome have proven once and for all that for teen girls and young women in Russia, the allure of marrying an oligarch is many times more powerful than acquiring fame or intellectual status.
8.2016 February 4, “Mega-rich homes tour puts spotlight on London's oligarchs”, in The Guardian[4], retrieved 2022-03-08:
Borisovich said he also wanted to highlight how a group of “enablers”, such as lawyers, accountants, and bankers, were helping oligarchs launder their “ill-gotten gains” by investing the cash in prime London mansions.
9.2016 December 6, Francis Fukuyama, “The Dangers of Disruption”, in The New York Times[5]:
He will be an oligarch in the Russian mold: a rich man who used his wealth to gain political power and who would use political power to enrich himself once in office.
10.2021 October 3, “Revealed: ‘anti-oligarch’ Ukrainian president’s offshore connections”, in The Guardian[6], retrieved 2022-03-08:
On the campaign trail, Zelenskiy pledged to clean up Ukraine’s oligarch-dominated ruling system.
11.2023 October 28, Simon Kuper, “How to be an oligarch”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
Lingelbach told me that Elon Musk went from tycoon to oligarch when he bought Twitter last year. The social media company, now renamed X, shapes opinion on events from Ukraine to Israel—often by platforming falsehoods.
12.(cosmogony) A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion.
13.2016, Michael A. Seeds, Dana Backman, Foundations of Astronomy, Enhanced:
In the inner Solar System, only the asteroid Ceres was able to grow fast enough to become a dwarf planet, but in the outer Solar System huge numbers of icy bodies formed, ranging from pebbles to the oligarchs now recognized as dwarf planets.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌoː.liˈɣɑrx/[Etymology]
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀλιγάρχης (oligárkhēs). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Noun]
oligarch m (plural oligarchen, diminutive oligarchje n)
1.An oligarch (member of an oligarchy). [from late 18th c.]
2.A plutocrat, an oligarch, especially in relation to the former Eastern Bloc. [from late 20th c.]
Synonym: plutocraat
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52030
seized
[[English]]
ipa :/siːzd/[Anagrams]
- Diezes
[Verb]
seized
1.simple past and past participle of seize
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52031
seize
[[English]]
ipa :/siːz/[Etymology]
Earlier seise, from Middle English seisen, sesen, saisen, from Old French seisir (“to take possession of; invest (person, court)”), from Early Medieval Latin sacīre (“to lay claim to, appropriate”) (8th century) in the phrase ad propriam sacire, from Old Low Frankish *sakjan (“to sue, bring legal action”), from Proto-Germanic *sakjaną, *sakōną (compare Old English sacian (“to strive, brawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *sakaną (compare Old Saxon sakan (“to accuse”), Old High German sahhan (“to bicker, quarrel, rebuke”), Old English sacan (“to quarrel, claim by law, accuse”).[1] Cognate to sake and Latin sagio (“to perceive acutely”).
[References]
1. ^ C.T. Onions, ed., Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "seize" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 807.
- “seize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “seize”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
[Verb]
seize (third-person singular simple present seizes, present participle seizing, simple past and past participle seized)
1.(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
Synonyms: clasp, grasp, grip; see also Thesaurus:grasp
2.(transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
Synonym: jump on
3.(transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
Synonyms: arrogate, commandeer, confiscate
to seize smuggled goods
to seize a ship after libeling
4.(transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
5.2010, Antonio Saggio, A Secret van Gogh: His Motif and Motives, →ISBN, page 11:
This sensation of an object becoming alive is a characteristic that, I believe, seizes all viewers of a van Gogh. The Bible goes beyond being a simple still-life object to become a living thing, an expression of strength, an existence that emanates from itself, beyond the painting surface to participate in our very lives.
a panic seized the crowd
a fever seized him
6.(transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
7.(transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
to seize two fish-hooks back to back
to seize or stop one rope on to another
8.(transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
9.(intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
10.1830, Robert Southey, Bunyan, page 21:
The text which had seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength abode upon him for more than a year.
to seize on the neck of a horse
11.(intransitive) To have a seizure.
12.2012, Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician:
Nearing what she thought was a climax, he started seizing and fell off her. Later, realizing he was dead, she became alarmed and dragged the body to his vehicle to make it look like he had died in his truck.
13.(intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
Rust caused the engine to seize, never to run again.
14.(UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
15.(law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
This Court will remain seized of this matter.
16.(transitive, intransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
17.2012, Martha Holmberg, Modern Sauces: More Than 150 Recipes for Every Cook, Every Day, page 235:
Chocolate seizes if a small amount of water (or watery liquid such as brandy) finds its way into the chocolate while it is melting. […] If chocolate seizes, it will look grainy and matte rather than glossy and smooth.
[[French]]
ipa :/sɛz/[Etymology]
Inherited from Middle French seze, from Old French seize, seze, from Latin sēdecim.
[Further reading]
- “seize”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Numeral]
seize (invariable)
1.sixteen
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
From Old French seize, from Latin sēdecim.
[Numeral]
seize
1.(Jersey, Guernsey) sixteen
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inspecting
[[English]]
[Noun]
inspecting (plural inspectings)
1.An act of inspection.
2.2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition, page 194:
Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
[Verb]
inspecting
1.present participle and gerund of inspect
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52033
inspect
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈspɛkt/[Alternative forms]
- enspect (rare)
[Anagrams]
- incepts, pectins, peincts
[Etymology]
From Latin inspectum, past participle of inspicere (“to look into”), from in (“in”) + specere (“to look at”), equivalent to in- + -spect.
[Synonyms]
- (to examine critically or carefully): See Thesaurus:examine
[Verb]
inspect (third-person singular simple present inspects, present participle inspecting, simple past and past participle inspected)
1.To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
Inspect the system for leaks.
2.To view and examine officially.
The general inspected the troops and their barracks.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
‘ […] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.
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52035
kid
[[English]]
ipa :/kɪd/[Anagrams]
- IDK, idk
[Etymology 1]
A goat kid.From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.Sense of child since 1590s as cant, since 1840s in informal use.[1][2]
[Etymology 2]
Compare Welsh cidysen.
[Further reading]
- kid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “kid”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. ^ Francis Grose (1785) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, page 98: “KID, a child.”
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
From Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål kid, English kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.
[Noun]
kid n (singular definite kiddet, plural indefinite kid)
1.A young goat.
[[French]]
ipa :/kid/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English kid.
[Noun]
kid m (plural kids)
1.(colloquial) kid
Synonyms: gamin, gosse, (regional) minot
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈkid][Etymology]
ki (“who”) + -d (“your, of yours”, possessive suffix)
[Pronoun]
kid
1.second-person singular single-possession possessive of ki
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/çidː/[Etymology]
From Danish kid. Doublet of kje (“goatling”) from Norwegian kje.
[Noun]
kid n (definite singular kidet, indefinite plural kid, definite plural kida or kidene)
1.the meat of a goatling
[References]
- “kid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
kìd n (definite singular kìdet, indefinite plural kìd, definite plural kìdi)
1.(pre-1917) alternative form of kje
[[Sikaritai]]
[Further reading]
- Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)
[Noun]
kid
1.banana
[[Sumerian]]
[Romanization]
kid
1.Romanization of 𒆤 (kid)
[[Swedish]]
ipa :-iːd[Etymology]
From Old Swedish kiþ, from Old Norse kið, from Proto-Germanic *kidją‚ from Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ-.
[Noun]
kid n
1.a young deer
[[Volapük]]
[Noun]
kid (nominative plural kids)
1.kiss
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Kidd
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
Kidd (plural Kidds)
1.A surname.
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Kid
[[German]]
ipa :/kɪt/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English kid.
[Further reading]
- “Kid” in Duden online
- “Kid” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
Kid n (strong, genitive Kids, plural Kids)
1.(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) kid
2.2021 March 22, Andrian Kreye, quoting Mathias Modica, “Jazzkolumne: Kosmopolitenklänge von Mathias Modica”, in Süddeutsche Zeitung[1]:
In Neukölln aber, wo er wohnt, seit er aus Marseille nach Deutschland gezogen ist, "da gibt es um mich herum lauter Jazzclubs, vor denen die Kids mit den Nike Caps und den Balenciaga-Schuhen stehen". Auch weil beim Techno eher die 45-jährigen herumhängen.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
[[Swedish]]
[Symbol]
Kid
1.(SAB) history of Genoa
Holonym: Ki
Coordinate terms: Ki.3, Ki.4, Ki.5, Ki.6, Kid, Kie, Kif, Kig, Kih, Kij, Kik, Kil, Kiv, Kix, Kiy
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versatility
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌvəɹsəˈtɪlɪti/[Etymology]
versatile + -ity
[Noun]
versatility (usually uncountable, plural versatilities)
1.The property of being versatile or having many different abilities.
Synonyms: versatileness (less common); flexibility
2.1749, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son 1749
Those are the sort of women who polish a young man the most, and who give him that habit of complaisance, and that flexibility and versatility of manners which prove of great use to him with men, and in the course of business.
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remnant
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛmnənt/[Adjective]
remnant (not comparable)
1.(archaic) Still left; remaining.
2.1639, Thomas Fuller, “Lewis the Ninth Setteth Forward against the Turks; the Occasion of His Journey, and His Attendants”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 187:
[H]is vow was made in his ſickneſſe, whileſt reaſon was ſcarce as yet in the peaceable poſſeſſion of his mind, becauſe of the remnant dregs of his diſeaſe: […]
3.1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 461:
It bid Her feel / No future Pain for Me; but inſtant wed / A Lover more proportion'd to her Bed; / And quiet dedicate her remnant Life / To the juſt duties of an humble Wife.
[Alternative forms]
- remnaunt (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- manrent
[Etymology]
From Middle English, contraction of remenant, from Anglo-Norman remanant, present participle of remaindre, from Latin remaneō.
[Further reading]
- “remnant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “remnant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “remnant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
remnant (plural remnants)
1.The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 10:20–23:
20 ¶ And it shal come to passe in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Iacob, shall no more againe stay vpon him that smote them: but shall stay vpon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel in trueth.
21 The remnant shall returne, euen the remnant of Iacob, vnto the mightie God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall returne: the consumption decreed shall ouerflow with righteousnesse.
3.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 267:
Even while within sight of persons of the prevailing faith, there were individuals bold enough, by folding their arms and bending their head, to give distant and silent intimation that they recognized sister Magdalen, and honoured alike her person and her purpose. She failed not to notice to her grandson these marks of honour and respect which from time to time she received. “You see,” she said, “my son, that the enemies have been unable altogether to suppress the good spirit, or to root out the true seed. Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.”
4.The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.
Usually not enough to make an entire project by itself, remnants of several fabrics can be used to make quilts.
5.An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
[Synonyms]
- (small remaining portion): relic, residue, remainder, lave; See also Thesaurus:remainder
- (unsold end of piece goods): remains
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blow
[[English]]
ipa :/bləʊ/[Anagrams]
- bowl
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English blo, bloo, from Old English blāw (“blue”), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue, grey, black”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with Latin flavus (“yellow”). Doublet of blue.
[Etymology 3]
From Middle English blowe, blaw, northern variant of blēwe, from Proto-Germanic *blewwaną (“to beat”) (compare Old Norse blegði (“wedge”), German einbläuen, Middle Dutch blouwen). Related to block.
[Etymology 4]
From Middle English blowen, from Old English blōwan, from Proto-Germanic *blōaną (compare Dutch bloeien, German blühen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (compare Latin florēre (“to bloom”)).
[Further reading]
- Jonathon Green (2024), “blow n.3”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/blɔu̯/[Etymology 1]
From blowen.
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blow up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Publow, upblow
[Etymology]
From Middle English blow up, blowe up, dissimilated forms of earlier Middle English upblowen (> English upblow), equivalent to blow + up. Compare West Frisian opblaze (“to blow up, inflate”), Dutch opblazen (“to blow up, inflate”), German aufblähen and aufblasen (“to blow up, inflate”), Swedish blåsa upp (“to blow up, inflate”), Icelandic blása upp (“to blow up, inflate”), Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌱𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌰𐌽 (ufblēsan, “to blow or puff up”).
[Verb]
blow up (third-person singular simple present blows up, present participle blowing up, simple past blew up, past participle blown up)
1.(literally, transitive) To blow something upward.
See if you can blow the bubbles up the staircase.
2.(intransitive) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?
3.1961 January, “Talking of Trains: The Severn Bridge disaster”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 3, 5:
In dense fog at about 10.25 p.m. on the night of October 25, two tank barges carrying petroleum [...] missed the entrance to the docks at Sharpness and were carried up the River Severn by the incoming tide. They collided with one of the piers of the Severn Bridge, carrying the Berkeley Road-Lydney branch of the Western Region, and as a result of the collision both tankers blew up.
4.(transitive) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived.
More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines.
5.1947 January and February, Gerald Druce (Jun.), “A Journey on the "Slovak Arrow"”, in Railway Magazine, page 16:
Temporary bridges are now common in Moravia and Slovakia as so many permanent structures were blown up during the last phase of the war.
6.2023 May 17, Paul Clifton, “Building bridges to Ukraine...”, in RAIL, number 983, page 31:
"But we wanted to be more ambitious. We had established contacts with the Ukrainian railways, and they had all sorts of needs. Bridges blown up by the Russians, but also bridges blown up by themselves in tactical battlefield operations."
7.(transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or using an air pump.
For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed.
8.(transitive) To enlarge or zoom in.
Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces.
9.(intransitive) To fail disastrously.
10.2002, Joan Barfoot, Critical injuries, page 118:
So I wish you luck, but don't come crying to me when it blows up in your face.
11.(slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
This album is about to blow up; they’re being promoted on MTV.
12.1999, Eminem, My Name Is (song)
You know you blew up when the women rush your stands
And try to touch your hands like some screaming Usher fans […]
13.(slang) To suddenly get very angry.
Dad blew up at me when I told him I was pregnant.
14.(slang, intransitive) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
15.(transitive, dated) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.
to blow someone up with flattery
16.1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
blown up with high conceits engendering pride
17.(transitive, dated) To excite.
to blow up a contention
18.(transitive, dated) To scold violently.
19.1807, The Port Folio, page 313:
[…] did not choose to comply with her wishes. Upon which Mrs. Basset, in the language of the Old Bailey, nabbed the rust; insisted upon some liquor, would not quit the house without it, and began to blow up the hostess and blast the rose.
20.1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 13, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II:
#*: I have blown him up well — nobody can say I wink at what he does.
21.(sports) To blow the whistle.
22.(cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
23.(slang, transitive) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, etc., often exasperating the recipient.
24.2007, “Fucc & Git Up”, in DZ (lyrics), Sleepless City Livin, performed by DZ ft. Gangsta Nutt, from 1:59:
I am the man
So I’m sitting in the VIP
with my mains
We twisted up some Crip
but I am ready to dip
to the telly with my relly
cuz these fuckin git up chicks keep blowin up my celly.
aːm ðə meɪ̯n
soʊ̯ aːm sɪtɪn ɪn ðə vɪp
wɪθ maː meɪ̯ns
wiː twɪstəd ʌp sʊm kɹɪp
bʌt aːm ɹɛdi tu dɪp
tʊ ðə tɛli wɪθ maː ɹɛli
kʌz ðiːz fʌkɪn gɪt ʌp t͡ʃɪks kiːp blowɪn ʌp maː sɛli
25.2009, RM Johnson, Why Men Fear Marriage: The Surprising Truth Behind Why So Many Men Can't Commit, →ISBN:
Don't let them sabotage a possible good thing by blowing up your phone while you're in the middle of a hot date with nonsense like, “Jason keeps asking for a Popsicle before bed. Do you think it's okay that I give him one?”
26.2011, Jaime Reed, Living Violet, →ISBN, page 67:
Dad sure knew how to kill a mood. He had blown up my phone all day, ensuring that I didn't back out of our agreement.
27.2012, Chris Hicks, Ebony Chronicles of Elevation, volume 1, →ISBN, page 181:
Not knowing the whereabouts of his daughter, Tavon blew up her phone without once getting a response.
28.2013, Michelle McKinney Hammond, The Real Deal on Love and Men, →ISBN:
He has never officially said that we are in a relationship, but he blows up my phone night and day, always wanting to know where I am.
29.2014 September 11, Alexis Petridis, quoting Kelly Brook, “A freedom fighter for our time: Kelly Brook will not be silenced over Danny Cipriani”, in The Guardian[1]:
“Danny Cipriani is blowing up my phone saying: ‘I’m going to sue you’,” she said, shortly before announcing her willingness to go to prison over the issue.
30.2015, Kacey Musgraves, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
They're blowing up our phones, asking where we are / Just say we're almost there; we ain't even in the car
31.(slang, intransitive) Receiving a large number of calls or notifications to the point of making the device effectively unusable.
32.1992, Ice Cube (lyrics and music), “It Was A Good Day”, in The Predator:
Halfway home, and my pager's still blowin' up
33.(slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.
Don't go in there...I really blew it up.
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blow-up
[[English]]
[Adjective]
blow-up (not comparable)
1.Inflatable; able to be blown up.
The kids played with a blow-up sea-monster in the pool.
[Anagrams]
- Publow, upblow
[Etymology]
Deverbal from blow up.
[Noun]
blow-up (plural blow-ups)
1.(informal) An explosion (physical or emotional).
I heard Jen's blow-up from the next room.
2.2023 November 25, Richard Waters, John Thornhill, “Tech's philosophical rift over AI”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
How OpenAI resolves the blow-up at its highest levels may help show how well its competitors, in the race for human-level AI, can be expected to handle the deep contradictions in their work between progress and safety.
3.(informal) An enlargement (e.g. of a photograph).
Make a blow-up of the chart so we have more room to draw on it.
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blew
[[English]]
ipa :/bl(j)uː/[Adjective]
blew (comparative more blew, superlative most blew)
1.Obsolete form of blue.
[Noun]
blew (countable and uncountable, plural blews)
1.Obsolete form of blue.
[Verb]
blew
1.simple past of blow
2.(now colloquial) past participle of blow
[[Cornish]]
[Etymology]
Cognate with Breton blev and Welsh blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”).[1] Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).[2]
[Noun]
blew f (singulative blewen)
1.hair
[References]
1. ^ Language. (1931). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 239
2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “838”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838
[Synonyms]
- gols
[[Middle English]]
[Adjective]
blew
1.Alternative form of blewe
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ˈbleːu̯/[Etymology]
From Middle Welsh blew; cognate with Breton blev and Cornish blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”).[1] Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).[2]
[Mutation]
[Noun]
blew m (collective, singulative blewyn)
1.hair, hairs
Synonym: gwallt
2.bristles
Synonym: gwrych
3.fur
Synonyms: ffwr, manflew
4.blades of grass
Synonyms: blew cae, blew glas
5.fishbones
[References]
1. ^ Language. (1931). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 239
2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “838”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838
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Blow
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- bowl
[Proper noun]
Blow (plural Blows)
1.A surname.
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taking
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈteɪkɪŋ/[Adjective]
taking (comparative more taking, superlative most taking)
1.Alluring; attractive.
2.1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC, book, page 128:
[…] a Proteus-Devil appeared unto him, changing into Shapes, but fixing himself at last into the form of a Fair Woman. Strange, that Satan (so subtil in making his Temptations most taking) should preferre this form […]
The spelling has been modernized.
3.1793, Charles Dibdin, chapter 9, in The Younger Brother[1], volume 2, London: for the author, page 263:
His speech from the hustings was very original, and therefore very taking.
4.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native[2], Book 3, Chapter 1:
“Yes, Paris must be a taking place,” said Humphrey. “Grand shop-winders, trumpets, and drums; and here be we out of doors in all winds and weathers—”
5.1909, Frank Sidgwick, Love and battles, page 291:
The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady. A young lady. A very taking young lady. She called him uncle. But walked away in another direction as his cab started. The porter's eye was beginning to twinkle; […]
6.(obsolete) Infectious; contagious.
7.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall
On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,
You taking airs, with lameness!
8.1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The False One[3], act IV, scene 3:
Come not near me,
For I am yet too taking for your company.
[Noun]
taking (countable and uncountable, plural takings)
1.The act by which something is taken.
2.1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 27, in Lord Jim[4], Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 290:
At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting.
3.2010, Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements, page 75:
Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.
4.(uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
5.(uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
6.1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene III:
What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?
7.1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, vol. 2, ch. 16, p. 321:
"[...] at last, he proceeded from staring to touching; he put out his hand and stroked one curl, as gently as if it were a bird. He might have stuck a knife into her neck, she started round in such a taking.
"'Get away, this moment! How dare you touch me? Why are you stopping there?' she cried, in a tone of disgust. [...]
8.1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 30, in Far from the Madding Crowd[5]:
“And, dear miss, you won’t harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o’ your takings.”
9.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 102:
‘Poor soul - she was quite in a taking. You see, she’d opened the door to the next compartment by mistake.’
10.1970, Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave[6], New York: Fawcett Crest, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 26:
“[...] there’ll be a beating for someone, by my reckoning, if he’s not there by the time the King’s looking round for him. He’s been in a rare taking since the outriders came in, that I can tell you.”
11.(in the plural) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
Synonyms: income, receipts
Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week.
Count the shop's takings.
12.1929, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in A Room of One’s Own[7], London: The Hogarth Press, published 1931, page 60:
[...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens.
13.1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:
According to T. B. Sands in his history of the M.S.W.J.R. (Oakwood Press: 8s 6d) Fay at first had to await cash takings from stations before he could pay his staff; [...].
14.1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 12, in A Fine Balance[8], Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, pages 554–555:
The child was not returned to the mother. [...] strangers giving him suck found it easier to display the utter despair in their faces that made for successful begging, whereas if [the mother] had had the pleasure of clasping her little son to her bosom all day, it would have been impossible to keep a spark of joy, however tiny, out of her eyes, which would have adversely affected the takings.
[Verb]
taking
1.present participle and gerund of take
2.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈtakiŋ/[Noun]
taking (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜃᜒᜅ᜔)
1.(Taal Batangas) boy
Synonyms: totoy, toto, tuto, itoy
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Tak
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- ATK, KAT, Kat, TKA, kat
[Etymology 2]
From Thai ตาก (dtàak).English Wikipedia has an article on:Tak ProvinceWikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:TakWikipedia
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in for it
[[English]]
[Adjective]
in for it (not comparable)
1.(idiomatic) Irrevocably committed to something.
2.(idiomatic) In trouble.
3.1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:
"You sure did [hit someone with the snowball]," added Teeter, stiffling a laugh. "And of all persons in the school but Professor Rodd. Oh my! Oh wow! You're in for it now! He won't do a thing to you fellows! Look at his hat! Here he comes!"
[References]
- “in for it”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[See also]
- for it
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provision
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/[Etymology]
From Middle English provisioun, from Old French provisïon, from Latin prōvīsiō (“preparation, foresight”), from prōvidēre (“provide”).
[Noun]
provision (countable and uncountable, plural provisions)
1.An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
2.1631, Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], page 17, →OCLC:
[H]e hath preſerued all points of Humanity, in taking Order, and making Proviſion for the Releefe of Strangers diſtreſſed; whereof you have taſted.
3.1674, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 307:
[Noah] Began to build a Veſſel of huge bulk, / Meaſur'd by Cubit, length, and breadth, and highth, / Smeared round with Pitch, and in the ſide a dore, / Contriv'd, and of proviſions laid in large / For Man and Beaſt: [...]
4.1728 [1721 March 17], William Betagh, A Voyage Round the World. Being an Account of a Remarkable Enterprize, Begun In the Year 1719, chiefly to cruiſe on the Spaniards in the great South Ocean. Relating the True hiſtorical Facts of that whole Affair: Teſtifyd by many imployd therein; and confirmd by Authorities from the Owners.[1], London: T. Combes, →OCLC, page 151:
We have an infirm ſhip's company, and but five months proviſion, which muſt ſerve us to China unleſs we get a ſupply at Guam.
5.The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
6.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
Fiue dayes we do allot thee for prouision,
To shield thee from disasters of the world,
7.Money set aside for a future event.
8.(accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.
We increased our provision for bad debts on credit sales going into the recession.
9.
10.(law) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
Synonyms: condition, stipulation
An arrest shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
11.2024 March 12, ETSC, ETSC[2]:
Almost half of MEPs wanted to remove the new provisions' to expand the use of megatrucks but an amendment to do that failed to pass by just six votes.
12.(Roman Catholicism) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
13.(Britain, historical) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
14.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
a papal provision
[Synonyms]
- supply
- victual
[Verb]
provision (third-person singular simple present provisions, present participle provisioning, simple past and past participle provisioned)
1.(transitive) To supply with provisions.
to provision an army
2.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.
3.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 85:
An emancipated slave must be provisioned by the master.
4.(transitive, computing) To supply (a user) with an account, resources, etc. so that they can use a system; to install the necessary software on a bare-bones system so it can be used for a specific purpose.
Antonym: deprovision
5.2023, Kenneth Hess, Practical Linux System Administration[3], O'Reilly, →ISBN:
A solution is to provision new systems on a private network where they can receive updates, patches, and secure configurations from an internal repository before being placed into a production network.
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
provision
1.genitive singular of provisio
[[French]]
ipa :/pʁɔ.vi.zjɔ̃/[Anagrams]
- poivrions
[Etymology]
From Latin prōvīsiōnem (“preparation, foresight”), from prōvidēre (“provide”).
[Further reading]
- “provision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
provision f (plural provisions)
1.provision
[[Louisiana Creole]]
[Etymology]
From French provision (“provision”).
[Noun]
provision
1.provision
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
provision
1.Alternative form of provisioun
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alter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɔːl.tə/[Anagrams]
- Alert, alert, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar
[Etymology 1]
From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter.
[Etymology 2]
Probably from alter ego.
[See also]
- alter kaker
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈald̥ɐ][Etymology]
From Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, from Late Latin altare (“altar”). Cognate with English altar and German Altar.
[Noun]
alter n (singular definite altret or alteret, plural indefinite altre)
1.(religion) altar, a table or a platform for making sacrifices.
2.(Christianity) altar, the ritual space of a Christian church.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈʔaltɐ/[Adjective]
alter
1.inflection of alt:
1.strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
2.strong genitive/dative feminine singular
3.strong genitive plural
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈalt̪ɛr][Etymology]
From English alter, from Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterare (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”).
[Further reading]
- “alter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Verb]
alter
1.to alter, to tailor clothes to make them fit.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈal.ter/[Adjective]
alter (feminine altera, neuter alterum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal)
1.the other, the second
2.the one...the other (alter...alter)
3.Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 17:
De re frumentaria Boios atque Aeduos adhortari non destitit; quorum alteri, [...] non multum adiuvabant, alteri non magnis facultatibus, [...] celeriter quod habuerunt consumpserunt
He never ceased to urge the Boii and Aedui for supplies; of whom the one (Aedui) [...] did not help much, the others (Boii) as their resources was not great, [...] quickly consumed what they had
[Etymology]
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂élteros (“the other of two”). Akin to alius. Compare with ulter.
[Further reading]
- “alter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- one or two days: unus et alter dies
- one, two, several days had passed, intervened: dies unus, alter, plures intercesserant
[References]
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1444: “l'altro raccoglie” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 76: “aux autres” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “alter”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 353
[[Lombard]]
[Adjective]
alter
1.other
[Etymology]
Akin to Italian altro, from Latin alter.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Alternative forms]
- altar
[Noun]
alter n (definite singular alteret, indefinite plural alter, definite plural altera)
1.an altar
[[Old High German]]
[Adjective]
altēr
1.strong masculine nominative singular of alt
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Alter
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈaltər/[Etymology 1]
From Middle High German alter, from Old High German altar, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą. Cognate with German Low German Oller.
[Etymology 2]
Nominalization of adjective alt.
[Further reading]
- “Alter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Alter” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Alter” in Duden online
- “Alter” in Duden online
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :[ˈɑl.tɐ][Etymology]
From German Alter n. The masculine gender, though existing dialectally in German, is probably triggered by French âge.
[Noun]
Alter m (plural Alteren)
1.age
2.old age
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transpire
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹænˈspaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
- earprints, pretrains, terrapins
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French transpirer, from Medieval Latin transpirare (“to breathe through”), from Latin trans (“across”) spirare (“to breathe”). The sense “to become known” is also present in French, while the sense “to happen” is not; the latter probably developed in English from the former.
[Further reading]
- “transpire”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
transpire (third-person singular simple present transpires, present participle transpiring, simple past and past participle transpired)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.). [from 16th c.]
2.(obsolete, intransitive) To perspire. [17th–19th c.]
Synonym: sweat
3.(botany, intransitive) Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata. [from 17th c.]
4.(intransitive) To become known; to escape from secrecy. [from 18th c.]
Synonym: come to light
It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer.
5.1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque:
The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travellers.
6.1839, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register of World Events:
Hubert then recommends M. Leproux to be punctual to meet him at the rendezvous agreed on between them, where a third individual, whose name did not transpire, was to join them.
7.(loosely, intransitive) To happen, take place. [from 18th c.]
Synonyms: come about, come to pass, occur; see also Thesaurus:happen
8.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 166:
Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired.
9.2018 September 21, Mark Rice-Oxley, “Don't mention the R-word”, in The Guardian[1]:
But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
- reprisant
- respirant
- sprintera
[Verb]
transpire
1.inflection of transpirer:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
transpire
1.inflection of transpirar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
transpire
1.inflection of transpirar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[tranˈspire][Verb]
transpire
1.third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of transpira
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
transpire
1.inflection of transpirar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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bottom
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɒtəm/[Adjective]
bottom (not comparable)
1.The lowest or last place or position.
Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
2.(transgender) Relating to the genitals.
bottom dysphoria
bottom surgery
[Alternative forms]
- botton (dialectal)
[Antonyms]
- (lowest part): top
- (BDSM): top, dom
- (LGBT): top
[Etymology]
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”), Persian ⁧بن⁩ (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the verb “to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.
[Noun]
bottom (countable and uncountable, plural bottoms)
1.The lowest part of anything.
2.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
barrels with the bottoms knocked out
3.#* 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 19, in Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
a great ship's kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out
4.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
At the bottom of the staircase I stood and stared at the worn steps, and Ayesha, turning, saw me.
5.1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:
No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.
1.A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
Coordinate term: top
There's a hole in her pyjama bottoms.
2.Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
a soda and a bottom of brandyThe far end of somewhere.
There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.
I walked to the bottom of the street.(uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
lack bottom(dated, uncountable) Power of endurance.
- 2017, Les Savage, The Teton Bunch: A Western Trio:
This was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his kind of trails needed a horse with bottom, and a line-back like this one never wore out.The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.(now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.
- 1812, Amos Stoddard, Sketches of Louisiana:
the bottoms and the high grounds(usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.(euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- 1986 April 10, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
Calvin, if you shoot that paper clip at me, I'll get your bottom hauled to the principal's office so fast you'll think you were in a time warp!!
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks(often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian[1]:
In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.An abyss.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode
The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...](nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- 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]:
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
- November 8, 1773, [first name not given] Bancroft, in Boston Post-Boy
Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- 1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califia, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 6:
Since what I wanted to do was be a bottom, a masochist, I had to learn that you could do it and be safe, that you could do it and not sign your life away, that you could do it by agreement, and that it was still fun.
1.(broadly, by extension) A submissive partner in a sexual relationship.(LGBT slang) A man, trans woman, or other person with a penis, who prefers the receptive role in anal sex.
James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.
Synonym: catcher, pathic
Antonym: top(particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
Hypernym: flavor A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.(heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 207:
Edward Hoby of Bisham in Berkshire, Esq; Or, a Fess, Sable, between three Hobby-Hawks, proper; otherwise, Azure, three Bottoms in Fess, Gules.
- 1866, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ... Eighteenth edition. Revised and corrected by J. R. Planché, page 99:
BOTTOM, a trundle or quill of gold thread. See TRUNDLE. Argent three bottoms, in fess gules, the thread or; name, Hoby, of Badland.
- 1873, Henry Sydney Grazebrook, The Heraldry of Worcestershire, page 285:
[...] three “bottoms or clewes” (elsewhere called “spindles” or “fusils upon slippers”) in fesse gules threaded or, for Badlond;(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
[Synonyms]
- (lowest part): base
- (buttocks, British, euphemistic): sit upon, derriere, 🍑
- (LGBT): catcher
- (BDSM): sub, submissive
[Verb]
bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed)
1.(transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]
to bottom a chair
2.(transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
3.Dirge of the Drinker, in 1866, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art (page 645)
We shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy, / Large supplies of soda water, tumblers bottomed well with brandy, […]
4.(obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.]
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 III, scene ii]:
As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.
6.(transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. [from 17th c.]
7.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
But an absurd opinion concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.
8.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
9.2001, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, p.59:
Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
10.(transitive, chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. [from 18th c.]
11.1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:
My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.
12.(obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.]
13.'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms.
14.(mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
15.(transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
16.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 21:
Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.
17.To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
18.2004, John J. Murphy, Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships, page 119:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.
19.(BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. [from 20th c.]
20.(gay slang, intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex. [from 20th c.]
21.2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 301:
Daw hadn’t bottomed in a long time. He hadn’t had sex in a year.
The only time I ever bottomed in my life, my sphincter was pierced.
[[French]]
ipa :/bɔ.tɔm/[Adjective]
bottom (plural bottoms)
1.(LGBT, slang) bottom (passive in role)
Synonym: passif
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English bottom.
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
bottom (invariable, not comparable)
1.Only used in quark bottom
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English bottom.
[Noun]
bottom m (plural bottons)
1.bottom quark (quark)
[[Yola]]
[Noun]
bottom
1.Alternative form of bothom
[References]
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 135
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disruptor
[[English]]
[Etymology]
disrupt + -or
[Noun]
disruptor (plural disruptors)
1.Alternative spelling of disrupter
[[Ido]]
[Verb]
disruptor
1.future infinitive of disruptar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/disrubˈtoɾ/[Noun]
disruptor m (plural disruptores)
1.disrupter
2.2015 September 20, “La ropa usada se cotiza”, in El País[1]:
Por eso no es casualidad que entre los asesores de esta compañía se encuentre Brian Swette, que fue director de Operaciones de eBay. Reed Hastings, fundador del videoclub online Netflix, considerado uno de los grandes disruptores de la era digital, es otro de los asesores de ThredUP. Highland Capital, Trinity Ventures, Redpoint Venture y Highland Capital Partners olieron hace tiempo el dinero.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
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subsequence
[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
From subsequent.
[Etymology 2]
sub- + sequenceEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:subsequenceWikipedia
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