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shrinkflation
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Blend of shrink + inflation. Popularized by economist Pippa Malmgren.[1]
[Noun]
shrinkflation (uncountable)
1.(economics, informal, neologism) The practice of making products smaller while continuing to market them at the same price.
2.2016, Andy Dawson, Get in the Sea!: An Apoplectic Guide to Modern Life, page 106:
Chocolate bars are just the thin end of the wedge, though, and shrinkflation is happening in products right across the board.
3.2021, Rosalind Masterson, Nichola Phillips, David Pickton, Marketing: An Introduction, page 489:
According to the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), shrinkflation most commonly affects food, drink and household products such as toilet rolls, nappies, tissues and washing-up liquid.
4.2022 May 18, Caitlin Cassidy, “Shrinkflation bites: popular food brands quietly downsize while charging same price or more”, in The Guardian[2]:
Major cereal brand Kelloggs has also been accused of shrinkflation. Since 2019, the company had moved from selling 670 gram Crunchy Nut boxes for $6 to selling 640 gram boxes at $9 a pop, Choice found.
5.2023 September 14, “Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands”, in The Guardian[3], sourced from Reuters, →ISSN:
Consumer groups say shrinkflation is a widespread practice, which supermarkets like Carrefour are also guilty of in their own-label products.
[References]
1. ^ “That Shrinking Feeling”, in Merriam-Webster[1], 2022
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unmoor
[[English]]
[Etymology]
un- + moor
[Verb]
unmoor (third-person singular simple present unmoors, present participle unmooring, simple past and past participle unmoored)
1.(transitive) To unfix or unsecure (a moored boat).
2.2007 August 2, Ellen Barry, “U.S. Halts Heating Oil Deliveries by Two Companies Accused of Swindling”, in New York Times[1]:
“It would’ve taken him a half-hour to unmoor the boat.”
3.(transitive, figurative) To set free or loose.
4.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 93:
When oblivion finally unmoors us.
5.(intransitive) To weigh anchor.
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souring
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- nigrous, rousing, rugosin
[Noun]
souring (countable and uncountable, plural sourings)
1.The process by which something is made, or becomes, sour; acidification.
2.The process by which fabric is soured, washing out the lime by means of acid.
3.(dated) Any sour apple.
4.(dated) Vinegar.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 “souring”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
[Verb]
souring
1.present participle and gerund of sour
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rendezvous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/[Alternative forms]
- randezvous (archaic)
- rendez-vous
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.
[Noun]
rendezvous (plural rendezvous or (rare) rendezvouses)
1.A meeting or date.
I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.
2.1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:
The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
3.1984, Ric Ocasek, “You Might Think”, in Heartbeat City[1], performed by The Cars:
You might think it's foolish / This chancy rendezvous / (You might think) You might think I'm crazy / (All I want) All I want is you
4.An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
5.A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
6.1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
7.(military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
8.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
9.(astronautics) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
10.(obsolete) A retreat or refuge.
11.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
A rendeuous, a home to fly unto
[See also]
- rendez-vous for French definition, spelling, and pronunciation
[Synonyms]
- (military): RV (abbreviation)
[Verb]
rendezvous (third-person singular simple present rendezvouses or rendezvous, present participle rendezvousing, simple past and past participle rendezvoused)
1.(intransitive) To meet at an agreed time and place.
Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
2.1760–1765, Tobias Smollett, The History of England[2], volume 2:
At Boston in New England, they were joined by two regiments of provincials; and about four thousand men, consisting of American planters, Palatines, and Indians, rendezvoused at Albany, in order to march by land into Canada, while the fleet sailed up the river of that name.
3.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 392:
In the entrance-hall, a surprising number of opera-goers have already rendezvoused.
4.2024 February 16, Minju Pak, “Ode to a Punk Rock ‘Sex God’”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
They saw each other four times after that, rendezvousing at New York locations reflecting their own tastes. For him, the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill; for her, the Standard and Ludlow hotels.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈrandɛvuː][Alternative forms]
- rendez-vous
[Further reading]
- rendezvous in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
[Noun]
rendezvous n (indeclinable)
1.date, appointment (meeting with a lover or potential lover)
Synonym: rande
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French rendez-vous.
[Noun]
rendezvous n (singular definite rendezvouset or rendezvous'et, plural indefinite rendezvouser or rendezvous'er)
1.rendezvous
[Synonyms]
- stævnemøde
- date
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put by
[[English]]
[Etymology]
From put + by.
[Synonyms]
- (save): save, put away, set aside, put aside, lay aside, lay by, lay up, See Thesaurus:accumulate
- (remove,reject): put away, set aside, put aside, lay aside
- (do without notice): sneak past, get past
[Verb]
put by (third-person singular simple present puts by, present participle putting by, simple past and past participle put by)
1.(transitive) To store, or place in reserve; to save (money, etc.) for later use.
Coordinate terms: lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put aside, put away, save, store, store away, store up
Our family has been putting food by for generations.
I have put by a few hundred pounds for a rainy day.
2.(transitive) To remove (something) from the present context and into its proper place; (figurative) to reject or disregard.
When the lesson was finished, she put by her books and papers.
3.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 320:
For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl:
4.1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC:
I refolded and put by his letter and the draft for the fifty pounds,
5.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
When I came first to Caulds I sought to prevail upon him to accept the eldership, but he aye put me by, and when I heard his tale I saw that he had done wisely.
6.(ditransitive) To perform an action without attracting the attention of.
I managed to put that transaction by accounts payable.
7.(intransitive) Of a ship: to be run aground intentionally to avoid a collision
The Bow Spring put by to avoid colliding with the Manzanillo II.
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markedly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑːkɪdli/[Adverb]
markedly (comparative more markedly, superlative most markedly)
1.In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously.
Being markedly different as a teenager can get you taunted; as an adult it can make you famous.
2.1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 838:
Nearer the coast, the land becomes markedly more marshy, with long, winding channels striking inland from the sea, making access to some of the waterside villages rather difficult.
[Alternative forms]
- markèdly
[Etymology]
marked + -ly
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cost
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒst/[Anagrams]
- C.O.T.S., COTS, CSTO, CTOs, OCTS, OSTC, Scot, Scot., TOCs, cots, scot
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.
[Etymology 3]
From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“to enjoy, taste”).Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.
[Etymology 4]
From Middle English coste, from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[ˈkɔst][Etymology 1]
Deverbal from costar.
[Etymology 2]
From Latin costum.
[Further reading]
- “cost” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “cost”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cost” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[[Manx]]
[Noun]
cost m (genitive singular cost, plural costyn)
1.charge (monetary)
[[Old English]]
ipa :/kost/[Adjective]
cost
1.chosen, choice
2.tried, proven; excellent
[Etymology]
From Proto-Germanic *kust-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”).Akin to Old Saxon kostōn (“to try, tempt”), Old High German kostōn (“to taste, test, try by tasting”) (German kosten), Icelandic kosta (“to try, tempt”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (kustus, “test”), Old English cystan (“to spend, get the value of, procure”), Old English cyst (“proof, test, trial; choice”), ċēosan (“to choose”).
[Noun]
cost m
1.option, choice; possibility
2.condition, manner, way
þæs costes þe ― on the condition that
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
From Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“I stand firm (at a price)”).
[Noun]
cost oblique singular, m (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular coz or cotz, nominative plural cost)
1.cost; financial outlay
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[kost][Etymology 2]
Back-formation from costa
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/koːsd/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English cost.
[Further reading]
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cost”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[Mutation]
[Noun]
cost m or f (plural costau)
1.cost
2.expense
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52080
cost up
[[English]]
[Verb]
cost up (third-person singular simple present costs up, present participle costing up, simple past and past participle costed up)
1.(transitive) to calculate the costs of something.
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catch
[[English]]
ipa :/kæt͡ʃ/[Antonyms]
- drop, release
[Etymology]
From Middle English cacchen, from Anglo-Norman cachier, variant of Old French chacier, from Late Latin captiāre, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere. Akin to Modern French chasser (from Old French chacier) and Spanish cazar, and thus a doublet of chase. Displaced Middle English fangen ("to catch"; > Modern English fang (verb)), from Old English fōn (“to seize, take”); Middle English lacchen ("to catch" and heavily displaced Modern English latch), from Old English læċċan.The verb became irregular, possibly under the influence of the semantically similar latch (from Old English læċċan) whose past tense was lahte, lauhte, laught (Old English læhte) until becoming regularised in Modern English.
[Noun]
catch (countable and uncountable, plural catches)
1.(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.
2.(countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
The player made an impressive catch.
Nice catch!
3.(countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
Good catch. I never would have remembered that.
4.2008, John I. Carney, Soapstone, page 74:
"In that case," said Jeff, "I just thought of something else we need." He walked over to one of the stations that was selling household goods and bought a can opener.
"Nice catch," said Lucy.
5.(uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
The kids love to play catch.
6.(countable) Something which is captured or caught.
The fishermen took pictures of their catch.
The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.
7.(countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
Did you see his latest catch?
He's a good catch.
8.2014 July 10, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 561 - A Catch:
"Aaaugh! Just once, I wish I could be considered a catch by men younger than fifty..."
9.
10. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.
11.(countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.
12.(countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch?
Be careful, that's a catch question.
13.(countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.
14.(countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
15.1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion[1], page 266:
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
16.1872, Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook, page 90:
"'Fair Enslaver!'" cried Mr. Enderby. "You must know 'Fair Enslaver:' there is not a sweeter catch than that. Come, Miss Ibbotson, begin; your sister will follow, and I—"
But it so happened that Miss Ibbotson had never heard 'Fair Enslaver.'
17.(obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
18.1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I Section 3:
You lie at the catch again: this is not for edification.
19.1655, 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:
The common and the canon law […] lie at catch, and wait advantages one against another.
The spelling has been modernized.
20.(countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
21.1905, Eighth Biennial Report of the Board of Horticulture of the State of Oregon[2], page 204:
There was a good catch of rye and a good fall growth.
22.(obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
23.1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 158:
Fourteene miles Northward from the river Powhatan, is the river Pamaunke, which is navigable 60 or 70 myles, but with Catches and small Barkes 30 or 40 myles farther.
24.(countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
25.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch / You taught me but while-ere?
26.1966, Allen Tate, T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work[3], page 76:
One night, I remember, we sang a catch, written (words and music) by Orlo Williams, for three voices.
27.(countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
28.2003, Robert Hugh Benson, Come Rack! Come Rope![4], page 268:
The phrase repeated itself like the catch of a song.
29.
30. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
31.1997 May 10, Henry Blofeld, “Cricket: Rose and Burns revive Somerset”, in The Independent[5]:
It was he who removed Peter Bowler with the help of a good catch at third slip.
32.(countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
33.1894 September 16, “To Meet Lord Hawke's Team”, in The New York Times[6], page 21:
[…] in the field he is all activity, covers an immense amount of ground, and is a sure catch.
34.(countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
35.1935 June 7, Robert F. Kelley, “California Crews Impress at Debut”, in The New York Times[7], page 29:
They are sitting up straighter, breaking their arms at the catch and getting on a terrific amount of power at the catch with each stroke.
36.(countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
37.2006, Mitsugu Sakihara et al., Okinawan-English Wordbook[8], →ISBN:
The glottal stop or glottal catch is the sound used in English in the informal words uh-huh 'yes' and uh-uh 'no'.
38.Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
39.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
, Introduction
the way it has been writ in, by catches, and many long intervals of interruption
40.A slight remembrance; a trace.
41.1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
We retain a catch of those pretty stories.
[References]
1. ^ Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828. byu.edu.
2. ^ Kenyon & Knott, A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English. archive.org
3. ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 5, page 25.
[Synonyms]
- (act of capturing): seizure, capture, collar, snatch
- (the act of catching a ball): grasp, snatch
- (act of noticing): observation
- (a find): prize, find; conquest, beau
- (quantity captured): haul, take
- (stopping mechanism): stop, chock; clasp, hasp, latch
- (hidden difficulty): snag, problem; trick, gimmick, hitch
- (fragment of music): snatch, fragment; snippet, bit
- (refrain): chorus, refrain, burden
- (seize in motion): fang, snatch, grab
- (capture prey): capture, take; snare, hook
- (be hit): take, get
[Verb]
catch (third-person singular simple present catches, present participle catching, simple past and past participle caught)
1.(heading) To capture, overtake.
1.(transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). [from 13thc.]
I hope I catch a fish.
He ran but we caught him at the exit.
The police caught the robber at a nearby casino.
2.(transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive. [from 14thc.]
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 12:13:
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
4.(transitive, figuratively, dated) To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
5.1933, Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers[9], page 108:
The public […] said that Miss Bogardus was a suffragist because she had never caught a man; that she wanted something, but it wasn't the vote.
6.2006, Michael Collier, Georgia Machemer, Medea[10], page 23:
As for Aspasia, concubinage with Pericles brought her as much honor as she could hope to claim in Athens. […] from the moment she caught her man, this influential, unconventional woman became a lightning rod […].
7.(transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc. [from 16thc.]
If he catches you on the chin, you'll be on the mat.
8.2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
The visitors started brightly and had an early chance when Valencia's experienced captain David Albeda gifted the ball to Fernando Torres, but the striker was caught by defender Adil Rami as he threatened to shoot.
9.(transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for. [from 17thc.]
If you leave now you might catch him.
I would love to have dinner but I have to catch a plane.
10.2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Did anyone catch the Charlie Rose the evening before last. Did you catch it? No, nothing?
11.2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian[11]:
For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream. […] But it was all over in time for my daughter to catch the Nigeria v Argentina World Cup game that evening, during which she seemed to reckon everything was miles offside.
12.(transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something). [from 17thc.]
He was caught on video robbing the bank.
He was caught in the act of stealing a biscuit.
13.1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 5:
Once he caught me gazing lingeringly and eagerly at him. He turned round with that mocking air he assumed when he wanted to hide his feelings.
14.
15. (transitive) To travel by means of. [from 19thc.]
catch the bus
16.1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273:
The glare, the flies, while they waited, and he and the stationmaster put their heads together over the time-table, trying to find this other train, which, of course, they wouldn't catch.
17.1987, A.J. Quinnell, In the Name of the Father[12], page 111:
After about a kilometer I caught a taxi to Santa Croce.
18.(transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.) [from 19thc.]
19.2002, Orpha Caton, Shadow on the Creek[13], pages 102–103:
Had Nancy got caught with a child? If so she would destroy her parent's dreams for her.(heading) To seize hold of.
1.(transitive, dated) To grab, seize, take hold of. [from 13thc.]
I caught her by the arm and turned her to face me.
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Her aged Nourse, whose name was Glaucè hight, / Feeling her leape out of her loathed nest, / Betwixt her feeble armes her quickly keight […]
3.(transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep. [from 14thc.]
I have to stop for a moment and catch my breath
I caught some Z's on the train.
4.(transitive) To grip or entangle. [from 17thc.]
My leg was caught in a tree-root.
5.(intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
Be careful your dress doesn't catch on that knob.
His voice caught when he came to his father's name.
6.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
7.(intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
Push it in until it catches.
The engine finally caught and roared to life.
8.(transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
I caught my heel on the threshold.
9.(intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at). [from 17thc.]
He caught at the railing as he fell.
10.(transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to. [from 18thc.]
The fire spread slowly until it caught the eaves of the barn.
11.(transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke. [from 19thc.]
12.1906, Arthur W. Stevens, Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep[14], page 63:
Stop gathering, in that gradual fashion, and catch the water sharply and decisively.
13.(intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots. [from 19thc.]
The seeds caught and grew.
14.(transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
15.2001, John Lull, Sea Kayaking Safety & Rescue[15], page 203:
If you are surfing a wave through the rocks, make sure you have a clear route before catching the wave.
16.(transitive, computing) To handle an exception. [from 20thc.]
When the program catches an exception, this is recorded in the log file.(heading) To intercept.
1.(transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium). [from 16thc.]
I will throw you the ball, and you catch it.
Watch me catch this raisin in my mouth.
2.(transitive, now rare) To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs. [from 16thc.]
3.1811, [Jane Austen], “18”, in Sense and Sensibility […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself, […].
4.(transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce. [from 18thc.]
Townsend hit 29 before he was caught by Wilson.
5.(transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher. [from 19thc.]
He caught the last three innings.(heading) To receive (by being in the way).
1.(transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.). [from 13thc.]
You're going to catch a beating if they find out.
2.(transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure. [from 13thc.]
The sunlight caught the leaves and the trees turned to gold.
Her hair was caught by the light breeze.
3.(transitive) To become infected by (an illness). [from 16thc.]
Everyone seems to be catching the flu this week.
4.(intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
5.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 5:
Does the sedition catch from man to man?
6.1817, Mary Martha Sherwood, Stories Explanatory of the Church Catechism:
He accosted Mrs. Browne very civilly, told her his wife was very ill, and said he was sadly troubled to get a white woman to nurse her: "For," said he, "Mrs. Simpson has set it abroad that her fever is catching."
7.(transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.). [from 18thc.]
The bucket catches water from the downspout.
The trees caught quickly in the dry wind.
8.2003, Jerry Dennis, The Living Great Lakes[16], page 63:
the sails caught and filled, and the boat jumped to life beneath us.
9.(transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection. [from 16thc.]
She finally caught the mood of the occasion.
And the next thing I knew, I had caught feelings for her.
10.(transitive) To be hit by something.
He caught a bullet in the back of the head last year.
11.(intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
12.1877, Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, page 135:
The nets caught well, and Mr. Deeley reported it the best fishing ground he ever tried.
13.(intransitive) To get pregnant.
Well, if you didn't catch this time, we'll have more fun trying again until you do.(heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
1.(transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. [from 16thc.]
Did you catch his name?
Did you catch the way she looked at him?
2.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
3.(transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment). [from 20thc.]
I have some free time tonight so I think I'll catch a movie.
4.(transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully. [from 17thc.]
You've really caught his determination in this sketch.(heading) To seize attention, interest.
1.(transitive) To charm or entrance. [from 14thc.]
2.2004, Catherine Asaro, The Moon's Shadow[17], page 40:
No, a far more natural beauty caught him.
3.(transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense). [from 17thc.]
He managed to catch her attention.
The enormous scarf did catch my eye.
[[French]]
ipa :/katʃ/[Etymology]
Derived from English catch-as-catch-can (a style of wrestling now known as catch wrestling). Cognate with French chasser (“to hunt”).
[Further reading]
- “catch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
catch m (uncountable)
1.wrestling; professional wrestling
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sour
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsaʊə/[Adjective]
sour (comparative sourer, superlative sourest)
1.Tasting of acidity.
Lemons have a sour taste.
2.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, 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 […], →OCLC:
All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
3.2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, “The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel”, in Wired:
A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
4.Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
5.Tasting or smelling rancid.
His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
6.(of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
He gave me a sour look.
7.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
He was a scholar […] / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
8.Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
sour land
a sour marsh
9.Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
sour gas smells like rotten eggs
10.Unfortunate or unfavorable.
11.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity
12.2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport[1]:
The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.
13.(music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
14.2010, Aniruddh D. Patel, Music, Language, and the Brain, page 201:
Unlike what the name implies, there is nothing inherently wrong with a sour note: It is perfectly well-tuned note that would sound normal in another context (and which presumably would not sound sour to someone unfamiliar with tonal music).
[Alternative forms]
- sower, sowre (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- Ruso, ours
[Antonyms]
- (soil, petroleum): sweet
[Etymology]
From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sur, French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”),Polish ser (“cheese”),Czech sýr (“cheese”),Slovak syr (“cheese”),Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”),Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”),Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”).
[Noun]
sour (countable and uncountable, plural sours)
1.The sensation of a sour taste.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
2.A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
3.(by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
4.A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
5.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
For many Years of Sorrow can dispense;
A Dram of Sweet is worth a Pound of Sour
6.The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
[Verb]
sour (third-person singular simple present sours, present participle souring, simple past and past participle soured)
1.(transitive) To make sour.
Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
2.(intransitive) To become sour.
3.1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing my Poems:
So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
4.(transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
5.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
6.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
7.(intransitive) To become disenchanted.
We broke up after our relationship soured.
8.(transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
9.1832, Joseph Harrison, Sir Joseph Paxton, The Horticultural Register, page 396:
stagnant water , which tends to sour the soil
10.To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
11.(transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
[[French]]
[Adjective]
sour (feminine soure, masculine plural sours, feminine plural soures)
1.(nonstandard) Alternative form of sûr
[Preposition]
sour
1.(nonstandard) Alternative form of sur
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/suːr/[Etymology 1]
From Old English sūr.
[Etymology 2]
From Old French essorer.
[[Romansch]]
[Alternative forms]
- sora (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
[Etymology]
From Latin soror.
[Noun]
sour f (plural sours)
1.(Puter, Vallader) sister
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Soure
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈso(w).ɾi/[Proper noun]
Soure
1.A town and municipality of the district of Coimbra, Portugal
2.A parish of Soure municipality, district of Coimbra, Portugal
3.A city in Pará, Brazil
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Gaza
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɑːzə/[Etymology]
From Latin Gaza, from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from the Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה (ʿAzzā).
[Proper noun]
Gaza
1.The capital of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, in the Levant.
2.A governorate of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, around the city.
3.Ellipsis of Gaza Strip, a region of Palestine, a north–south strip of land bordering the Mediterranean and the Sinai Peninsula at the southwestern end of the Levant.
4.Ellipsis of Wadi Gaza, a wadi and valley in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, in the Levant.
[Synonyms]
- (city): Gaza City
[[Catalan]]
[Proper noun]
Gaza f
1.Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈɡaza][Further reading]
- Gaza in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
[Proper noun]
Gaza f (related adjective gazský, demonym Gazan)
1.Gaza
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈɣaː.zaː/[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch gaza, from Latin Gaza, from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from Biblical Hebrew עזה (`aza).
[Proper noun]
Gaza f
1.Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)
2.Short for Gazastrook.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɡa.za/[Etymology]
From Latin Gaza.
[Proper noun]
Gaza f
1.Gaza
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈɡaz.za/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה ('Áza).
[Proper noun]
Gaza f sg (genitive Gazae); first declension
1.Gaza (the capital of the Gaza Strip, Palestine)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈɡa.za/[Etymology]
Learned borrowing from Latin Gaza.
[Further reading]
- Gaza in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Gaza in PWN's encyclopedia
[Proper noun]
Gaza f (related adjective gazański)
1.Gaza, Gaza City (the capital city of Gaza Strip)
2.Gaza, Gaza Strip (an exclave of Palestine)
Synonym: Strefa Gazy
3.Gaza (a province of Mozambique)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈɡa.zɐ/[Proper noun]
Gaza
1.Gaza (a city in Palestine)
2.A province of Mozambique
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Proper noun]
Gáza f (Cyrillic spelling Га́за)
1.Gaza (a city in Palestine)
[See also]
- Pojas Gaze
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈɡaθa/[Proper noun]
Gaza ?
1.Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)
[[Swahili]]
[Proper noun]
Gaza
1.Gaza
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Gaza Strip
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɡɑːzə ˈstɹɪp/[Proper noun]
Gaza Strip
1.A region of Palestine, Levant, between Egypt and Israel: A small area of land on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a Palestinian territory bordered by Egypt and Israel.
Synonyms: Gaza, (informal) the Strip
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Strip
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips
[Proper noun]
The Strip
1.(informal) Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”).
2.(informal) Ellipsis of Las Vegas Strip (“Las Vegas, Nevada, USA”). (Vegas Strip)
3.(informal) Ellipsis of Sunset Strip (“Los Angeles, California, USA”).
4.(informal) Ellipsis of Strip District (“Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA”).
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strip
[[English]]
ipa :/stɹɪp/[Anagrams]
- TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips
[Etymology 1]
From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).[1]
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).
[Further reading]
- strip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
-
- Strip in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɪp[Etymology]
From English strip.
[Noun]
strip m (plural strips, diminutive stripje n)
1.strip (long thin piece)
2.comic (a cartoon story)
[Synonyms]
- (strip): strook
- (comic): beeldverhaal
[Verb]
strip
1.inflection of strippen:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[French]]
[Further reading]
- “strip”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
strip m (plural strips)
1.striptease
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English strip, or a clipping of striptease.
[Noun]
strip m (plural strips)
1.Synonym of striptease
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/strîp/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English strip.
[Noun]
strȉp m (Cyrillic spelling стри̏п)
1.comic (a cartoon story)
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enclave
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛnkleɪv/[Anagrams]
- Valence, valence
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.
[Noun]
enclave (plural enclaves)
1.A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
The republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.
The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood.
2.A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
3.2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times[1]:
What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
4.(computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
5.2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245:
When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.
[References]
- (group set off from a larger population by a characteristic): Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life - Page 74by Robert Neelly Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton, Richard Madsen - 1996
[Verb]
enclave (third-person singular simple present enclaves, present participle enclaving, simple past and past participle enclaved)
1.(transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌɑŋˈklaː.və/[Etymology]
Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave.
[Noun]
enclave f (plural enclaves, diminutive enclaafje n or enclavetje n)
1.enclave
[[French]]
ipa :/ɑ̃.klav/[Anagrams]
- valence, Valence
[Etymology]
From enclaver.
[Further reading]
- “enclave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
enclave f (plural enclaves)
1.enclave
2.(field hockey or ice hockey) the slot
[[Italian]]
ipa :/enˈkla.ve/[Noun]
enclave f (plural enclavi) (Often invariant)
1.enclave
[References]
1. ^ enclave in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ẽˈkla.vi/[Alternative forms]
- encrave
[Noun]
enclave m (plural enclaves)
1.(geography) enclave (region completely surrounded by another)
2.(geology) an intrusive rock
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/enˈklabe/[Etymology 1]
Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:enclaveWikipedia esBorrowed from French enclave.
[Further reading]
- “enclave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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insecurity
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin īnsēcūritās. By surface analysis, insecure + -ity.
[Noun]
insecurity (countable and uncountable, plural insecurities)
1.A lack of security; uncertainty.
Synonym: insecureness
Antonym: security
2.2020 July 1, Paul Stephen, “Mental health in the workplace”, in Rail, page 51:
They are also more likely to be on freelance or short-term contracts, which can contribute to feelings of financial insecurity and therefore a greater tendency for people to attend work even they are unwell.
1.A lack of confidence in oneself.
Synonyms: insecureness, self-doubt
Antonyms: security, self-assurance, self-confidence
2.The state of being subject to danger (physical, economic, or otherwise).
economic insecurity
Synonyms: exposure, insecureness, precariousness, precarity, vulnerability
Antonyms: safety, security
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foo
[[English]]
ipa :/fuː/[Anagrams]
- oof
[Etymology 1]
From Mandarin 府 (fǔ).
[Etymology 2]
foo is presumably based on the fu character (fú, 福)English Wikipedia has an article on:fooWikipedia From Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, “Jupiter”) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip,[1][2][3] whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s.Popularized in computing contexts by the Tech Model Railroad Club's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Hindu chant om mani padme hum,[1] possibly under the influence of WWII military slang FUBAR, which had been repopularized by Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
[Etymology 3]
A minced form of fuck.
[References]
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003), “foo”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.
2. ^ "The History of Bill Holman", Smokey-Stover.com, Smokey Stover LLC – article by nephew of Bill Holman
3. ^ "Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion"
- rfc:3092, Etymology of "Foo", Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
[See also]
Multiword terms containing "foo" (probably unrelated to the above etymologies)
- foo dog
- foo fighter
- foo-foo
- foo-foo band
- foo-foo juice
- foo lion
- foo young
- foo yung
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
From the oblique stem of Old English ġefāh.
[Etymology 2]
From Old English fā, variant of fāh.
[[Murui Huitoto]]
ipa :[ˈɸɔː][Adverb]
foo
1.in, inside
[Alternative forms]
- fo
[References]
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 91
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 145
[[Tetum]]
[Verb]
foo
1.to stink
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war-ravaged
[[English]]
[Adjective]
war-ravaged (comparative more war-ravaged, superlative most war-ravaged)
1.Synonym of war-torn.
2.1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 63:
The "Liberation" Locomotive. Reprinted from The Railway Gazette, June 28, 1946. […] This detailed description of the 2-8-0 locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for service in the war-ravaged countries of Europe is a record of one of the most remarkable examples of determined co-operative effort in the field of locomotive construction.
[References]
- “war-ravaged”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
[See also]
- Swedish krigshärjad
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efficiency
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈfɪʃn̩si/[Etymology]
From Latin efficientia.
[Noun]
efficiency (countable and uncountable, plural efficiencies)
1.The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
Antonyms: inefficiency, wastefulness
The efficiency of the planning department is deplorable.
2.1951 October, H. A. Vallance, “Across Denmark by Lyntog”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:
Even at the busiest periods, an air of quiet orderliness pervades the hall, and the first impression gained by the traveller is one of efficiency, neatness and cleanliness.
3.2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.
4.(dated) The quality of producing an effect or effects.
5.1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.
6.The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose; the ratio of useful work to energy expended.
Antonyms: inefficiency, wastefulness
The efficiency of this loudspeaker is 40%.
7.(US) A one-room apartment.
Synonyms: efficiency apartment, studio apartment, (UK, Ireland) bedsit
I have an efficiency available June through July.
fully-furnished efficiencies
[References]
- efficiency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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overarching
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌəʊvəɹˈɑːtʃɪŋ/[Adjective]
overarching (comparative more overarching, superlative most overarching)
1.That forms an overhead arch
2.(by extension) all-embracing or overwhelming
Synonyms: all-embracing, all-encompassing
The work attains narrative continuity, variety in its stories, and unity through the overarching idea of metamorphosis.
3.2020 May 20, David Thrower, Ian Wray, “Revisiting the plan for developing the North's rail network”, in Rail, page 39:
Firstly, there needs to be an overarching plan - in the sense that each part of the rail system must be considered together, precisely because it is an integrated network.
[Noun]
overarching (plural overarchings)
1.A structure that arches over something.
2.1875, Julius Sachs, Alfred William Bennett, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological, page 27:
But in this case the overarchings do not grow uniformly, but in such a manner that their rims form at least a fissure […]
[References]
- “overarching”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
overarching
1.present participle and gerund of overarch
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overarch
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- hovercar
[Etymology]
over- + arch
[Verb]
overarch (third-person singular simple present overarches, present participle overarching, simple past and past participle overarched)
1.To form an arch over something.
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evolvable
[[English]]
[Adjective]
evolvable (comparative more evolvable, superlative most evolvable)
1.Capable of evolving.
2.2010, Pierre Van de Laar, Teade Punter, Views on Evolvability of Embedded Systems, page 7:
First, an evolvable system can respond quickly to change. In other words, a new system satisfying changed requirements is released onto the market quickly.
3.That can be drawn out.
[Etymology]
evolve + -able
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putt
[[English]]
ipa :/pʌt/[Etymology 1]
Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”).[1] Compare Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a hit”). The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid. In Dutch, the word is instanced in a description of golf in an early seventeenth-century edition of Pieter van Afferden's Tyrocinium linguae latinae.[2] All derive from Proto-Germanic *putōną.
[Etymology 2]
Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.
[References]
1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
2. ^ Heiner Gillmeister, “Über den Ursprung des Golfspiels”, March 7, 2016.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Verb]
putt
1.imperative of putte
[[Scots]]
ipa :/pʌt/[Etymology]
From Middle English putten.
[Synonyms]
- pit
[Verb]
putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle puttin, simple past putt, past participle putt)
1.to put
[[Swedish]]
[Adjective]
putt
1.sour and disappointed; sulky
[Etymology]
Of imitative origin (also compare English pout).
[Noun]
putt c
1.(golf) a putt
2.a light push or shove (more generally)
[References]
- putt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- putt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- putt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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put out
[[English]]
[Adjective]
put out (comparative more put out, superlative most put out)
1.Taking offense; indignant.
2.1991 May 4, Elizabeth Yukins, “Maryland Passes Gay Hate Crimes Bill”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
Gordon told GCN that when the bill was first reviewed in the House, it received a 70-49 vote, one vote short of the majority it needed to pass. Gordon said that gay and lesbian activists were "extremely put-out" over this narrow loss.
He was put out at the mere suggestion of misconduct.
[Anagrams]
- output
[Noun]
put out (plural put outs)
1.Misspelling of putout.
[Verb]
put out (third-person singular simple present puts out, present participle putting out, simple past and past participle put out)
1.(transitive) To blind (eyes).
You can't have a pair of scissors! You'll put your eye out!
2.(transitive) To place outside, to remove, particularly
Don’t forget to put out the dog.
1.To expel.
2.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 27:
‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘The ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ ...
‘Ah, now, this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’
3.To remove from office.(transitive) To cause something to be out, particularly
1.To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
I don't mean to put you out. It's just vital that I get this done tonight.
2.1885, William Dean Howells, chapter XII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham[1]:
“Then you didn't find her so amusing as Tom does?”
“I found her pert. There's no other word for it. She says things to puzzle you and put you out.”
3.(sports) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
4.2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport[2]:
England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.
5.(baseball and cricket) To cause a player on offense to be out.
6.(boxing and medicine) Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.(intransitive) To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
- c. 1900, O. Henry, The Missing Chord:
Along about Tuesday Uncle Cal put out for San Antone on the last wagonload of wool.(transitive) To cause something to go out, particularly
1.To produce, to emit.
The factory puts out 4000 units each day.
This unit puts out 4000 BTUs.
2.(obsolete) To express.
3.To broadcast, to publish.
4.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 27:
‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘The ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ ...
‘Ah, now, this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’
5.To dislocate (a joint).
Lift with your knees. Don’t put out your back.
6.To extinguish (fire).
7.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
Yet she must dye, else shee'l betray more men:
Put out the Light, and then put out the Light:
If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister,
I can againe thy former light restore,
Should I repent me. But once put out thy Light,
Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature,
I know not where is that Promethaean heate
That can thy Light re-Lume.
8.1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934:
[…] in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.
They worked for days to put out the brushfire.
She put out her cigarette.
9.To turn off (light).
10.2010, Terry Deary, Put out the Light, p. 10:
'You talk funny,' I said to him. 'I mean, the other wardens say, "Put that light out", but you shout, "Put out the light".'
'Shakespeare,' the warden said in a deep voice.
Put out those lights before the Germans see them.(intransitive, originally US slang) To consent to sex.
- 1928 December, Our Army, page 19:
Don't them laundry queens put out good enough to suit you?
- 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 17, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
Christ, maybe that blond was only a bitch after all. Maybe she put out even to the punks. Come to think of it, she looked a little hard-boiled.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC:
Aarfy […] tried to dissuade them from ever putting out for anyone but their husbands.
- 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grove Press, page 95:
Nobody likes a cockteaser. Either you put out or you dont.[sic]
- 1975, David Lodge, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses, page 232:
If she won't put out the men will accuse her of being bourgeois and uptight.
- 2003, Elizabeth M. Noble, Reading Group, page 205:
I can't afford to waste a Saturday night here with some married bird who isn't putting out.
- 2005, William Heffernan, A Time Gone By:
This Grosso dated this woman a couple of times, and then, when she wouldn't put out for him, he beat her up and forced her.
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put-out
[[English]]
[Adjective]
put-out (comparative more put-out, superlative most put-out)
1.Alternative spelling of put out
[Anagrams]
- output
[Etymology]
Deverbal from put out.
[Noun]
put-out (plural put-outs)
1.Alternative spelling of putout
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putting
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpʊtɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
put + -ing
[Etymology 2]
putt + -ing
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start out
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- outstart
[Verb]
start out (third-person singular simple present starts out, present participle starting out, simple past and past participle started out)
1.To emerge suddenly; to jump out. [from 14th c.]
2.To be or become conspicuous; to stand out. [from 16th c.]
3.1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 102:
I do not find that any particulars of this day's conversation start out. But it was in general most agreeable.
4.To begin. [from 16th c.]
He started out writing for the school magazine, and now he's a TV talk show celebrity.
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one-day
[[English]]
[Adjective]
one-day (not comparable)
1.lasting one day
one-day conference
one-day cricket match
2.1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, pages 422, 425:
On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...].
[Anagrams]
- Yeadon, day one, noyade
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facet
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfæsɪt/[Etymology]
Borrowed from French facette.
[Noun]
facet (plural facets)
1.Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
This facet of the diamond was masterfully cut to enhance its value.
2.One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
Synonym: aspect
The child's learning disability was only one facet of the problems contributing to his delinquency.
3.One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
We had just about completed the research facet of the project when the order came to cancel it.
4.(anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
5.(anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
the articular facet of a bone
6.(anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
7.(architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
8.(mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
9.(computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
[Verb]
facet (third-person singular simple present facets, present participle faceting or facetting, simple past and past participle faceted or facetted)
1.To cut a facet into a gemstone.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/fasɛt/[Etymology]
Borrowed from French facette (“facet”), diminutive of face.
[Noun]
facet c (singular definite facetten, plural indefinite facetter)
1.facet
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/faːˈsɛt/[Etymology]
Borrowed from French facette.
[Noun]
facet n (plural facetten, diminutive facetje n)
1.facet
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈfa.t͡sɛt/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin facētus. Doublet of facecja.
[Further reading]
- facet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- facet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
facet m pers (female equivalent facetka, diminutive facecik)
1.(colloquial) guy, fellow, chap
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time
[[English]]
ipa :/taɪm/[Alternative forms]
- tyme (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- METI, emit, it me, item, mite
[Etymology]
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favourable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Cognate with Scots tym, tyme (“time”), Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”), Danish time (“hour, lesson”), Swedish timme (“hour”), Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”), Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”), Icelandic tími (“time, season”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus.
[Further reading]
-
- Time in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- Time (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Interjection]
time
1.(tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
2.The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
3.A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
[Noun]
time (countable and uncountable, plural times)
1.(uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:time
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
2.1937, Delmore Schwartz, Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day[2]:
Time is the fire in which we burn.
3.2023 May 26, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 0:40 from the start, in Zelenskyy surprises the Johns Hopkins commencement ceremony[3], MSNBC, archived from the original on 2023-05-26:
One of the most common truisms on Earth is the advice to value or at least not waste time. Why has it become so widespread? Every person eventually realizes that time is the most valuable resource on the planet. Not oil or uranium. Not lithium or anything else, but time. Time. The very flow of time convinces us of this. Some people realize this sooner, and these are the lucky ones. Others realize it too late when they lose someone or something. People cannot avoid it, this is just a matter of time. But there is a fundamental difference that comes down to the question of time. The time of your life is under your control. The time of life of our force on the front line, the time of life of all Ukrainians who are forced to live through this terrible Russian aggression unfortunately is subject to many factors that are not all in their control. I do not wish anyone to feel like they are in my shoes, and it's impossible to give a manual on how to go through life so as not to waste time. However, one piece of advice always works. You have to know exactly why you need today and how you want your tomorrows to look like.
1.(physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
2.1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 35:
So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered; I was, so to speak, attenuated — was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!
3.2010, Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 204:
We all have a visceral understanding of what it means for the universe to have multiple space dimensions, since we live in a world in which we constantly deal with a plurality — three. But what would it mean to have multiple times? Would one align with time as we presently experience it psychologically while the other would somehow be "different"?
4.(physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.
5.2012, Robert Zwilling, Natural Sciences and Human Thought, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 80:
Eventually time would also die because no processes would continue, no light would flow.
6.2015, Highfield, Arrow Of Time, Random House →ISBN
Given the connection between increasing entropy and the arrow of time, does the Big Crunch mean that time would run backwards as soon as collapse began?
7.(physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.A duration of time.
1.(uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
More time is needed to complete the project. You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute. Are you finished yet? Time’s up!
2.1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond[4]:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
3.(countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
a long time; Record the individual times for the processes in each batch. Only your best time is compared with the other competitors. The algorithm runs in O(n2) time.
4.1897 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:
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
5.1938, Richard Hughes, In Hazard:
The shock of the water, of course, woke him, and he swam for quite a time.
6.(uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time. He is not living at home because he is doing time.
7.1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 64:
Arrested on duty at Fort Richardson, both parents had worked hard at blaming the other for their son's death, but Kate's meticulous recording of the detail of the bruising found on the child's body and the physical evidence surrounding the scene, plus patient, painstaking interviews with neighbors above and below stairs had resulted in time for both.
8.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:
"Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time."
9.(countable) An experience.
We had a wonderful time at the party.
10.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
11.
12. (countable) An era; (with the, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
Roman times; the time of the dinosaurs; how things were at that time; how things were in those times
13.63 BC, (Can we date this quote by Cicero and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), First Oration against Catiline (translation)
O the times, O the customs!
14.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
The time is out of joint
15.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
Dr. Manuel: You're wasting your time. The age of humanity is over. Our extinction is inevitable.[...]
Shepard: I don't have time for this.
Dr. Manuel: Time? Our time is over.
16.(uncountable, with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
In my time, we respected our elders.
17.(only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.An instant of time.
1.(uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
Excuse me, have you got the time? What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock? A computer keeps time using a clock battery.
2.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
3.(countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
it’s time for bed; it’s time to sleep; we must wait for the right time; it's time we were going
4.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
5.2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
6.(countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
at what times do the trains arrive?; these times were erroneously converted between zones
7.
8.(countable) An instance or occurrence.
When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.
see you another time; that’s three times he’s made the same mistake
Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!
9.1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
10.2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
One more time.
11.
12.(UK, in public houses) Closing time.
Last call: it's almost time.
13.The hour of childbirth.
14.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
She was within little more than one month of her time.
15.(as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
It was his time.(countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.(countable) A ratio of comparison.
your car runs three times faster than mine; that is four times as heavy as this(grammar, dated) A tense.
the time of a verb
- 1823, Lindley Murray, Key to the Exercises Adapted to Murray's English Grammar, Fortland, page 53f:
Though we have, in the notes under the thirteenth rule of the Grammar, explained in general the principles, on which the time of a verb in the infinitive mood may be ascertained, and its form determined; [...]
- 1829, Benjamin A. Gould, Adam's Latin Grammar, Boston, page 153:
The participles of the future time active, and perfect passive, when joined with the verb esse, were sometimes used as indeclinable; thus, [...](music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
- 1619–1620, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The False One. A Tragedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:
some few lines set unto a solemn time(slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- 2019 September 15, “Wiley Flow” (track 12), in Heavy Is The Head[5], performed by Stormzy:
I used to pay for things but that was time ago.
- 2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, Sagirah Gammon, 00:38:33 from the start, in Brady Hood, director, Top Boy(Good Morals) (4), episode 1 (TV), spoken by girl called B:
Ats' mum is looking for him, says he ain't been back in time
- 2023 January 15, Layton Williams, 12:51 from the start, in Freddy Syborn, director, Bad Education(Prison) (4), episode 3 (TV), spoken by Inchez (Anthony J. Abraham):
INCHEZ:Man this is long! We've been in here for time!
Synonyms: ages, long
[References]
1. ^ James Lambert, 2012, 'Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis' World Englishes Vol. 31, issue 1, page 112-127. [1]
- time on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[See also]
- calendar
- temporal
- Timese
[Synonyms]
- (to measure time): clock
- (to choose the time for): set
[Verb]
time (third-person singular simple present times, present participle timing, simple past and past participle timed)
1.To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
2.To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
3.1625, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
4.(obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
5.1861, John Greenleaf Whittier, At Port Royal:
With oar strokes timing to their song.
6.(obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
7.To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
8.1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses:
Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
9.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion / Was timed with dying cries.
10.To measure, as in music or harmony.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/ˈtiːmə/[Etymology 1]
From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), cognate with Swedish timme, English time. From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-, specifically Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō. The Germanic noun *tīdiz (“time”) is derived from the same root.
[Etymology 2]
Borrowed from English time.
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[ˈtime][Adverb]
time
1.fearfully
[Etymology]
From tim- + -e.
[[Latin]]
[References]
- “time”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
[Verb]
timē
1.second-person singular present active imperative of timeō
[[Middle English]]
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-, specifically Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō.
[Noun]
time m (definite singular timen, indefinite plural timer, definite plural timene)
1.an hour
2.a lesson, class
[References]
- “time” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/²tiːmə/[Etymology]
From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from *deh₂y- (“to share, divide”). Akin to English time.
[Noun]
time m (definite singular timen, indefinite plural timar, definite plural timane)
1.an hour
2.a lesson, class
3.an appointment
Eg har ein time hjå tannlegen. ― I have an appointment at the dentists.
4.time, moment (mainly poetic)
5.1945, Jakob Sande, Da Daniel drog:
No er timen komen, Daniel!
Now the time has come, Daniel!
[References]
- “time” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Old Swedish]]
[Etymology]
From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô.
[Noun]
tīme m
1.time
2.hour
3.occasion
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈt͡ʃĩ.mi/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English team.
[Noun]
time m (plural times)
1.(Brazil, chiefly sports) a team
Synonyms: (Portugal) equipa, (Brazil) equipe
2.(Brazil, informal) sexual orientation
[[Scots]]
[Noun]
time (plural times)
1.time
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Pronoun]
tíme (Cyrillic spelling ти́ме)
1.masculine/neuter instrumental singular of tȃj
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
time
1.inflection of timar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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electric
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈlɛktɹɪk/[Adjective]
electric (not comparable)
1.Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
2.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion[1]:
But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
3.2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
4.2022 December 14, Ben Jones, “Switzerland: a template for Northern Powerhouse Rail?”, in RAIL, number 972, page 28:
While Britain continues to argue about how to deliver affordable electrification and decarbonisation, Swiss railways have been 100% electric since the 1960s.
5.Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
6.Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
7.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 278:
A glance from Beatrice—for nothing is so electric as the kindness of sympathy—stopped the tide of bewailings that were gushing forth. "Poor child!" muttered the housekeeper; "but it's no good telling her."
8.a. 1857, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Vision of Poets”, in Poems, volume I, New York: C. S. Francis & Co., published 1857, pages 195–196:
And bold / Electric Pindar, quick as fear, / With race-dust on his cheeks, and clear / Slant startled eyes that seemed to hear // The chariot rounding the last goal, / to hurtle past it in his soul.
9.1867, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass[2], page 98:
I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.
[Alternative forms]
- electrick (“chiefly archaic”)
[Etymology]
1640s (Thomas Browne), from New Latin ēlectricus (“electrical; of amber”), from ēlectrum (“amber”) + -icus (“adjectival suffix”), from Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, “amber”), related to ἠλέκτωρ (ēléktōr, “shining sun”), of unknown origin; see there for further information. The Latin term was apparently used first with the sense “electrical” in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert in his work De Magnete.[1]
[Noun]
electric (plural electrics)
1.(informal, usually with definite article) Electricity; the electricity supply.
We had to sit in the dark because the electric was cut off.
2.(informal) An electric powered version of something that was originally or is more commonly not electric.
1.(rare, countable) An electric car.
2.2004, Dennis Barton, Red Star 4: Victory[3]:
There were electric vehicles around, but four-wheel drive electrics were pretty damned rare, and the snow was deep enough to stop anything that didn't have a minimum of four big wheels spinning at all times.
3.An electric toothbrush.
4.2007, Working Mother, volume 31, number 1, page 71:
The beautiful VIOlight bathroom unit takes up very little space (it's about the size of a cup), yet it holds up to 4 toothbrushes - even electrics!
5.An electric typewriter.
6.1983, Stephen King, Word Processor of the Gods:
Richard's old Olivetti electric had been put aside for the time being on top of one of the filing cabinets. “It serves the purpose,” Richard said. He nodded at the word processor.(archaic) A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.(fencing) Fencing with the use of a body wire, box, and related equipment to detect when a weapon has touched an opponent.
Antonym: steam
[References]
1. ^ “electric”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- electric in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “electric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Dictionary.com definitions of electric
- de V. Heathcote, Niels H. (December 1967), “The early meaning of electricity: Some Pseudodoxia Epidemica - I”, in Annals of Science, volume 23, issue 4, →DOI, →ISSN, WD Q54266797, pages 261–275
[Synonyms]
- electrical
[[Occitan]]
[Adjective]
electric m (feminine singular electrica, masculine plural electrics, feminine plural electricas)
1.electric
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/eˈlek.trik/[Adjective]
electric m or n (feminine singular electrică, masculine plural electrici, feminine and neuter plural electrice)
1.electric
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French électrique.
[References]
- electric in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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electric razor
[[English]]
[Further reading]
- “electric razor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “electric razor”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
[Noun]
electric razor (plural electric razors)
1.Synonym of electric shaver
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razor
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹeɪzə/[Alternative forms]
- razour (obsolete)
[Etymology]
From Middle English rasour, from Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave”). More at rat.Displaced native Old English sċierseax (literally “shaving knife”).
[Noun]
razor (plural razors)
1.A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
2.Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.
3.The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
4.(philosophy) A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor
[Verb]
razor (third-person singular simple present razors, present participle razoring, simple past and past participle razored)
1.(transitive) To shave with a razor.
2.1868, George MacDonald, chapter 6, in Guild Court[1], volume 3, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 137:
He thought likewise, that what with razoring and tanning, and the change of his clothes, he was not likely to be recognised.
3.1996, George R. R. Martin, “Tyrion”, in A Game of Thrones[2], New York: Bantam, published 2016, page 641:
Lord Tywin did not believe in half measures. He razored his lip and chin as well, but kept his side-whiskers, two great thickets of wiry golden hair that covered most of his cheeks from ear to jaw.
4.2008 April 13, Sara Corbett, “Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?”, in New York Times[3]:
He might be busy examining the advertisements for prostitutes stuck up in a São Paulo phone booth, or maybe getting his ear hairs razored off at a barber shop in Vietnam.
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first-of-its-kind
[[English]]
[Adjective]
first-of-its-kind (not comparable)
1.(uncommon) Unique and exceptionally different.
2.(uncommon) Something unique which appears in the earliest phases.
3.2017 July 27, Emily Rauhala, “Transgender Chinese man wins first-of-its-kind labor discrimination case”, in The Washington Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 November 2017, WorldViews[2]:
A Chinese court on Thursday found that a transgender man was unjustly fired from his job, a first-of-its-kind ruling that activists called a step forward in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.
[Noun]
first-of-its-kind (plural first-of-its-kinds)
1.(uncommon) A unique example or type appearing in the earliest phases.
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unusual
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈjuːʒuəl/[Adjective]
unusual (comparative more unusual, superlative most unusual)
1.Not usual, out of the ordinary.
Synonyms: uncommon, rare, extraordinary, remarkable; see also Thesaurus:strange
Antonyms: normal, usual, common, ordinary
Every once in a while, though, Idol comes across an unusual talent who just blows everyone away.
It’s definitely not unusual for a couple to meet through friends or be set up on a date.
His behavior was unusual in that it was considered childish for a man of his age.
I’ve had no problem with female docs. I’ve had some – how should I say it – unusual experiences with a couple of male ones. And I have heard from girlfriends about their unusual experiences as well.
[Alternative forms]
- unusuall (obsolete)
[Etymology]
From un- + usual.
[Noun]
unusual (plural unusuals)
1.Something that is unusual; an anomaly.
2.1905, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes:
I should say that it was very unusual for such men to leave a bottle half empty. How do all these unusuals strike you, Watson?
3.1939, Pauline Redmond, Wilfrid Redmond, Business paper writing, a career, page 154:
Two of these unusuals have been selected for special effort throughout the season. They are kneeling pads and water-proof garden gloves. During the bulb planting season they are displayed with the bulbs […]
[References]
- “unusual”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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conquer
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒŋkə/[Alternative forms]
- conquire (obsolete)
[Etymology]
From Middle English conqueren, from Old French conquerre, from Late Latin conquaerere (“to knock, strike; to search for, procure”), from Latin con- + quaerere (“to seek, acquire”). Displaced native Old English oferwinnan.
[Verb]
conquer (third-person singular simple present conquers, present participle conquering, simple past and past participle conquered)
1.To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
2.1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 88:
I lay in the desert beyond all cities and sounds, and above me flowed the River of Silence through the sky; and on the desert’s edge night fought against the Sun, and suddenly conquered.
3.To acquire by force of arms, win in war; to become ruler of; to subjugate.
In 1453, the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople.
4.1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Field, […], 1594, →OCLC, [verse 17], lines [97–100]:
I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
5.1714, Alexander Pope, Imitation of Horace, Book II. Sat. 6:
We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms.
6.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
"Look at Clive - just a clerk, and he conquered India!"
7.1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment[1], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:
Taiwan's interests and Hong Kong's political and economic future are best served by close ties between their friends in the West and Beijing. For example, the fact that the PRC must choose between using force to conquer Taiwan and forfeiting its relationship with the United States is the best guarantee of Taipei's security.
8.To overcome an abstract obstacle.
Today I conquered my fear of flying by finally boarding a plane.
to conquer difficulties or temptations
9.1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 1:
By winning words to conquer willing hearts, / And make persuasion do the work of fear.
10.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
11.(dated) To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace
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protagonist
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈtæɡ.ə.nɪst/[Antonyms]
- antagonist
[Etymology]
From Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (prōtagōnistḗs, “a chief actor”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”). By surface analysis, prot- (“first”) + agonist (“combatant, participant”).
[Noun]
protagonist (plural protagonists)
1.(authorship) The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
Antonym: antagonist
2.A leading person in a contest; a principal performer.
3.(proscribed) An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.
[[Danish]]
[Further reading]
- “protagonist” in Den Danske Ordbog
[Noun]
protagonist c (singular definite protagonisten, plural indefinite protagonister)
1.(literature) protagonist
Synonym: hovedperson
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌproː.taː.ɣoːˈnɪst/[Antonyms]
- antagonist
[Etymology]
Ultimately from Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (prōtagōnistḗs). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
[Noun]
protagonist m (plural protagonisten)
1.protagonist, main character [from 18th c.]
2.1780, M. C. Curtius, Aristoteles Verhandeling over de dichtkunst, tr. from German, publ. by Arend Fokke Simonsz., page 105.
Hy voerde nog een perſoon in, en verdeelde het Treurſpel in twee rollen, van welke de eerste Acteur de hoofdrol ſpeelde en daarvan de Protagonist heette;
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
Synonyms: hoofdpersonage, hoofdpersoon
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French protagoniste.
[Noun]
protagonist m (plural protagoniști)
1.protagonist
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
protagonist c
1.(authorship) a protagonist
Antonym: antagonist
[References]
- protagonist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- protagonist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- protagonist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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exhilarating
[[English]]
[Adjective]
exhilarating (comparative more exhilarating, superlative most exhilarating)
1.Refreshingly thrilling.
Synonyms: exhilarant, cheering, gladdening, stimulating, enlivening; see also Thesaurus:exciting, Thesaurus:blissful
2.1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 109–110:
Mrs. Palmer added, "that this news, though it could scarcely be called exhilarating, had had such an effect on her elderly friends, that they had determined to set out to Bath, and, when rested, proceed thence to Exeter, in order to be nearer the place where the vessel was expected, and to be a support to Lord Meersbrook, in case of the worst."
3.1991, Italo Calvino, “Candide, or Concerning Narrative Rapidity”, in Martin McLaughlin, transl., Why Read the Classics?, New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2014, →ISBN, page 103:
What most delights us today in Candide is not the 'conte philosophique', nor its satire, nor the gradual emergence of a morality and vision of the world: instead it is its rhythm. With rapidity and lightness, a succession of mishaps, punishments and massacres races over the page, leaps from chapter to chapter, and ramifies and multiplies without evoking in the reader's emotions anything other than a feeling of an exhilarating and primitive vitality.
4.2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): ‘Treehouse Of Horror III’”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 17 October 2016:
Writing a "Treehouse of Horror" segment has to be both exhilarating and daunting. It's exhilarating because it affords writers all the freedom in the world.
5.2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, in RAIL, number 939, page 59:
"Like many other large resorts, the town operated electric tramways, with open-topped cars. The journey down the steep incline to the harbour must have been exhilarating at times, testing the brakes on the vehicles to the limit."
[Verb]
exhilarating
1.present participle and gerund of exhilarate
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exhilarate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪɡˈzɪləɹeɪt/[Etymology]
Two laughing girls from Ghazni Province, AfghanistanFrom Latin exhilarāre (“to delight, to gladden, to make merry”), from ex- (“out, away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”)) + hilarāre, present infinitive of hilarō (“to cheer, to gladden”), from hilaris (“cheerful, light-hearted, lively”), from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”), from ἵλαος (hílaos, “gracious, kind, propitious”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₂- (“comfort, mercy”).
[Further reading]
- “exhilarate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “exhilarate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
- (to cheer): enliven, stimulate
[Verb]
exhilarate (third-person singular simple present exhilarates, present participle exhilarating, simple past and past participle exhilarated)
1.(transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy.
Good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates the drinker.
2.1605, Francis Bacon, The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane. To the King, book II, London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne, →OCLC, page 37, recto:
For the Philiſtian preſcribeth Cures of the minde in Phrenſies, and melancholy Paſsions; and pretendeth alſo to exhibite Medicines to exhilarate the minde, to confirme the courage, to clarifie the wits, to corroborate the memorie, and the like; but the ſcruples and ſuperſtitions of Diet, and other Regiment of the body in the ſect of the Pythagoreans, in the Hereſy of the Manicheas, and in the Lawe of Mahumes doe exceede; […]
3.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Musicke a Remedy”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 6, subsection 3, page 276:
Any and ſundry are the meanes, which Philoſophers and Phyſicians haue preſcribed to exhilarate a ſorrowfull heart, to diuert thoſe fixed and intent cares and meditations, which in this malady ſo much offend; but in my judgement none ſo preſent, none ſo powerfull, none ſo [a]ppoſite as a cup of ſtrong drinke, mirth, muſicke, and merry company.
4.1838 November 1, Charles Dickens, “XV. Mrs. Charles Dickens.”, in Life, Letters, and Speeches of Charles Dickens with Biographical Sketches of the Principal Illustrators of Dickens’s Works: Illustrated with Engravings on Steel: In Two Volumes, volume I, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge [Mass.], published 1894, →OCLC, page 118:
I slept soundly, and without feeling the least uneasiness, and am a great deal better this morning; neither do I find that the henbane has affected my head, which, from the great effect it had on me,—exhilarating me to the most extraordinary degree, and yet keeping me sleepy,—I feared it would.
5.1843 June, “Art. XI. The Highlands, The Scottish Martyrs, and Other Poems. By the Rev. James G. Small. Edin. Whyte & Co.”, in The Monthly Review (New and Improved Series), volume II, number II, London: G. Henderson, 2, Old Bailey, Ludgate-Hill, →OCLC, page 235:
It is now for us to say, that with very considerable powers of fancy, and a deep feeling of enthusiasm, he [James G. Small] has described the scenes of his romantic rambles, and recorded the historical or traditional events for which he cherishes such a warm veneration, in song that by turns exhilarates, captivates, and melts; and that will especially arouse Scotland's associations.
6.1978, Michael Stewart, “The Light that Failed: April 1966 – June 1970”, in Politics & Economic Policy in the UK since 1964: The Jekyll & Hyde Years, Oxford: Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 64:
Returning to their desks at the beginning of April 1966, exhilarated by the size of the Labour majority, Ministers found that there had been no improvement in the economic outlook while they had been away; indeed it had grown worse.
7.(transitive) To excite, to thrill.
8.1856, Joel Pinney, “The Effects of Alcoholic Liquors, and the Customs of Drinking and Inebriety”, in The Duration of Human Life and Its Three Eras: When Men Attained to More than Nine Hundred Years of Age; when They Attained to Only Four Hundred and Fifty; when They Reached to Only Threescore Years and Ten; Shewing the Probable Causes and Material Agents that have Shortened the Lives of the Human Race, and the Barriers that Prevent a Return to the Longevity of the Early Patriarchs, London: Longman & Co., →OCLC, page 116:
[A]lcohol, as all the world knows, or should know, does not nourish, but only stimulates,—exhilarates if you will, but exhilarates as fire exhilarates! Would carbon or any other combustible exhilarate only to burn up, consume, and destroy?
9.1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 12, in Have his Carcase:
Harriet became suddenly conscious that every woman in the room was gazing furtively or with frank interest at Wimsey and herself, and the knowledge exhilarated her.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
exhilarāte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of exhilarō
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unfathomable
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈfæðəməbəl/[Adjective]
unfathomable (comparative more unfathomable, superlative most unfathomable)
1.Impossible to fathom or understand.
Synonyms: fathomless, incomprehensible, unintelligible; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
Antonyms: explicable, intelligible; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible
The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable.
2.2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times[1]:
Suggestions that those leaders are irrational and their decisions unfathomable are remarkably shallow. North Korea is not a theocracy led by zealots who preach the rewards of the afterlife.
3.Difficult to penetrate.
Synonyms: impenetrable, impregnable
Antonyms: penetrable, pregnable
[Etymology]
un- + fathom + -able.
[See also]
- fathomless
- unfathomed
- unimaginable
- inconceivable
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portray
[[English]]
ipa :/pɔːˈtɹeɪ/[Alternative forms]
- pourtray (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- Praytor, parroty
[Etymology]
From Middle English portray, from Middle French portraire.
[Verb]
portray (third-person singular simple present portrays, present participle portraying, simple past and past participle portrayed)
1.To paint or draw the likeness of.
I will portray a king on horseback.
2.(figuratively) To represent by an image or look.
3.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:
Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death,
And in his eies the furies of his heart,
That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng,
And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.
4.(figuratively) To describe in words; to convey.
5.To play a role; to depict a character, person, situation, or event.
For my next movie, I will be portraying Shakespeare.
6.(obsolete) To adorn.
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52119
in circulation
[[English]]
[Further reading]
- “in circulation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “in circulation”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “in circulation”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
[Prepositional phrase]
in circulation
1.Percolating between people or places.
The story has been in circulation for a while now.
2.Freely available; not restricted in access; in general use.
Because of the Internet, there is a vast library of free video material in circulation.
3.Seen in public. (of a person)
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52120
circulation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌsɜː(ɹ).kjʊˈleɪ.ʃən/[Anagrams]
- unicortical
[Etymology]
From Middle English circulacioun, from Latin circulatio.Morphologically circulate + -ion
[Noun]
circulation (countable and uncountable, plural circulations)
1.
2.The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
3.The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
4.1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 252:
For example, by changing the use of existing rooms, removing or replacing unsightly features, clearing obstacles to easy circulation, rearranging direction signs and generally introducing as much order as possible, most outdated station buildings can be made reasonably efficient and attractive.
5.Currency; circulating coins; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
The new bills will come into circulation next Friday.
6.The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measurement of diffusion
7.June 1 2016, Karen Roberts in the Evening Express, Aberdeen Journals - The Broad Street Years
The reputation and circulation of the paper continued to grow, and the board decided a new custom-built base was required for both the Press and Journal and Evening Express to replace the crumbling, but much loved, Broad Street offices.
8.
9. (strictly) The movement of the blood in the circulatory system, by which it is brought into close relations with the cells and tissues of the body; (loosely) the circulatory system.
10.1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization[1], Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2:
In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […]
11.The movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
[See also]
- circle
- cycle
- cyclus
[[French]]
ipa :/siʁ.ky.la.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
From Latin circulātiōnem.
[Further reading]
- “circulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
circulation f (plural circulations)
1.circulation (act of moving in a circular shape)
2.(anatomy) circulation (of blood)
3.traffic
4.distribution, circulation (of a newspaper/magazine)
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52121
in __
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
in
1.(international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-1 language code for Indonesian.
Synonym: id (current)
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪn/[Anagrams]
- N.I., NI, ni
[Etymology 1]
Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.Sense 1/2 "in"/"into" are from the original PIE prefix, with locative/accusative case respectively. Sense 3/4 "qualification"/"means" are from the PIE metaphor of all infinitives coming from locatives.
[References]
1. ^ Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851), “IN”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volume (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.
- Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
[[Abinomn]]
[Pronoun]
in
1.he; she
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/ən/[Adverb]
in
1.in; inside; within
[Etymology]
From Dutch in, from Middle Dutch in, from Old Dutch in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
[Preposition]
in
1.in
2.into
[[Akkadian]]
ipa :/in/[Preposition]
in
1.Alternative form of ina (“in, on, at”)
[[Ayomán]]
[Noun]
in
1.water
[References]
- Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)
[[Baure]]
[Noun]
in
1.water
[References]
- Swintha Danielsen, Baure: An Arawak Language of Bolivia
[[Central Nahuatl]]
[Article]
in
1.the.
[[Chamorro]]
ipa :/in/[Pronoun]
in
1.we (exclusive)
[References]
- Donald M. Topping (1973) Chamorro Reference Grammar[7], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
[See also]
Chamorro personal pronouns
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/iːn[Etymology 1]
From English in.
[Etymology 2]
Clipping of English interview.
[Etymology 3]
Clipping of English integrate.
[References]
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
[[Chuukese]]
[Noun]
in
1.mother
[[Cimbrian]]
[Etymology 1]
From Middle High German in, from Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in (“in”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle High German in, from Old High German inan, from Proto-Germanic *inǭ.
[References]
- “in” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
[[Classical Nahuatl]]
[Article]
in
1.the
[Pronoun]
in, īn
1.(demonstrative) this; these
[References]
- Michel Launey; Christopher Mackay (2011) An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Amazon Kindle: Cambridge University Press, pages Loc 1408
[[Danish]]
[Adjective]
in (neuter in, plural and definite singular attributive in)
1.(colloquial) fashionable, in
[Antonyms]
- yt
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɪn/[Adjective]
in (used only predicatively, not comparable)
1.in style
[Adverb]
in
1.in, inside
2.(postpositional) into
De jongen rende het huis in.
The boy ran into the house.
[Antonyms]
- uit
- buiten
[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch in, from Old Dutch in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
[Preposition]
in
1.in (expressing containment)
De geest in de fles
the genie in the bottle
[Synonyms]
- binnen
[Verb]
in
1.inflection of innen:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[Emilian]]
ipa :/in/[Etymology]
From Latin inde (“thence”). Cognate with Catalan en, French en, Italian ne.
[Pronoun]
in (adverbial)
1.(genitive case) of it, of them
Vô-t di pām? A t’in dāg dû.
Do you want some apples? I will give you two (of them).
2.(genitive case) about it, about them
A t’in avîva descòurs ajêr.
I talked to you about it yesterday.
3.(ablative case) from here
A sòun stùf, a m’in vāg.
I am tired, I am leaving (from here).
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈin/[Adjective]
in (colloquial)
1.in, popular (in fashion)
2.1985, Jukka Karjalainen (lyrics and music), “Mikä mahtaa olla in?”, in Doris, performed by J. Karjalainen ja mustat lasit:
Tee niin, tee näin, olet in, in, in,
Olet keskipiste koko kaupungin
Do this, do that, [and] you will be in, in, in,
You will be the centre of the whole city
3.1991, “Oot maalainen”, in Juha Vainio (lyrics), Viiskymppisen viisut, performed by Juha Vainio:
Kuiskaan silloin hiljaa: «mie viljele en viljaa;
oon vihdoin in»!
So I quietly whisper: "I don't grow no crops;
I'm finally in"!
[Anagrams]
- -ni
[Antonyms]
- out
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English in.
[Further reading]
- “in”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][8] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
[[Friulian]]
[Etymology]
From Latin in.
[Preposition]
in
1.in
[[German]]
ipa :/ʔɪn/[Etymology 1]
From Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
[Etymology 3]
Borrowed from English in.
[Further reading]
- “in” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “in”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
[[Gothic]]
[Romanization]
in
1.Romanization of 𐌹𐌽
[[Hokkien]]
[[Interlingua]]
[Preposition]
in
1.in
[[Irish]]
[Preposition]
in (plus dative, triggers eclipsis)
1.Alternative form of i
[[Istriot]]
[Etymology]
From Latin in.
[Preposition]
in
1.in; on
2.1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:
Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!
How they row well on the high seas!
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈin/[Anagrams]
- ni, nì
[Etymology]
From Latin in.
[Preposition]
in
1.in
Ho qualcosa in tasca. ― I have something in my pocket.
Partirò in primavera. ― I will be leaving in spring.
Vado in quinta elementare. ― I'm in fifth grade.
2.to
Sono andato in panetteria. ― I went to the bakery.
3.into
4.by
Vado a scuola in autobus. ― I go to school by bus.
5.on
Ho messo un cappello in testa. ― I put a hat on my head.
Metti il pane in tavola. ― Put the bread on the table.
6.marker of way or manner
riso in bianco ― plain rice (literally, “rice in white”)
camminare in punta di piedi ― to walk on the tips of one's toes
[[Japanese]]
[Romanization]
in
1.Rōmaji transcription of いん
[[Juǀ'hoan]]
ipa :/ĩ/[Letter]
in (upper case In)
1.A letter of the Juǀ'hoan alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[[Karaim]]
[Etymology 1]
From Proto-Turkic.
[Etymology 2]
From Proto-Turkic *īn.
[[Ladin]]
[Preposition]
in
1.in
[[Latin]]
ipa :/in/[Alternative forms]
- en, endo, indu (ante-classical)
[Antonyms]
- ex
[Etymology]
From earlier en, from Proto-Italic *en, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”). Cognate with English in.The ablative is from the locative, and the accusative is from the directional.
[Preposition]
in (+ ablative), in (+ accusative)
1.(+ ablative) in, at, on, upon, from (space)
2.29 bc. Vergil. Georgics, III
omne adeo genvs in terris hominvmqve ferarvmqve
et genvs æqvorevm pecvdes pictæqve volvcres
in fvrias ignemqve rvvnt
So far does every species on earth of man and beast,
whether the aquatic species, livestock, or painted-winged,
collapse into the frenzies and the fire.
3.Seneca
venenum in auro bibitur
Poison is drunk from a gold cup.
4.(+ ablative) under, within, in
5.70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues 1.4:
lentus in umbrā
sluggish under the shade
6.(+ ablative) during, within, while in (time)
7.(+ ablative) about, respecting, concerning (of reference)
8.(+ ablative) among
9.Vulgate, Gospel of St. John 1:14:
Et Verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis :
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
10.Vulgate, Gospel of St. Luke 1:28:
Et ingressus angelus ad eam dixit : Ave gratia plena : Dominus tecum : benedicta tu in mulieribus.
And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
11.(+ accusative) into, to
12.29 bc. Vergil. Georgics, III
omne adeo genvs in terris hominvmqve ferarvmqve
et genvs æqvorevm pecvdes pictæqve volvcres
in fvrias ignemqve rvvnt
So far does every species on earth of man and beast,
whether the aquatic species, livestock, or painted-winged,
collapse into the frenzies and the fire.
13.1774, Finnur Jónsson, Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ 1:
De introductione religionis Christianæ in Islandiam.
On the introduction of Christianity to Iceland.
14.(+ accusative) toward, towards, against, at
Gallī in Rōmānōs incurrunt. ― The Gauls are rushing against the Romans.
15.Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 6:
Scelera in se fratris
The brother’s crimes against himself
16.Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 12:
in adversum Romani subiere
The Romans marched against their enemy
17.(+ accusative) until, for
18.(+ accusative) about
19.(+ accusative) according to
20.Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 19:
Generatimque distributi in civitates
and being distributed in tribes according to their respective nations
[[Ligurian]]
ipa :/iŋ/[Etymology 1]
From Latin in.
[Etymology 2]
With iotacism, from un (“a, an”, indefinite article).
[[Lombard]]
ipa :/in/[Alternative forms]
- ind (followed by article)
- en, èn (Eastern orthographies)
[Etymology]
From Latin in.
[Preposition]
in
1.in
[[Louisiana Creole]]
ipa :/ɛ̃/[Article]
in
1.Alternative form of un
[[Mapudungun]]
ipa :[ˈin][Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[References]
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
[Verb]
in (Raguileo spelling)
1.To eat.
2.first-person singular realis form of in
[[Marshallese]]
ipa :[inʲ][Etymology 3]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.
[References]
- Marshallese–English Online Dictionary
[[Middle Dutch]]
[Etymology 1]
From Old Dutch in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
[Etymology 2]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
- “in”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “in (VI)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page VI
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/in/[Etymology 1]
From Old English inn.
[Etymology 2]
From Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
[Etymology 3]
From Old English inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.
[[Mohegan-Pequot]]
[Noun]
in
1.man (adult male)
[References]
- A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot (John D. Prince, Frank G. Speck)
[[Mokilese]]
[Particle]
in
1.construct particle; of, relating to
[Preposition]
in
1.at
2.in
3.on
[[Northern Sami]]
ipa :/ˈin/[Verb]
in
1.first-person singular present of ii
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
in (singular and plural in)
1.popular
[Alternative forms]
- inn (adjective)
[Anagrams]
- ni
[Etymology]
From English in.
[References]
- “in” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
in (singular and plural in)
1.popular
[Alternative forms]
- inn (adjective)
[Anagrams]
- ni
[Etymology]
From English in.
[References]
- “in” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Okinawan]]
[Romanization]
in
1.Rōmaji transcription of いん
[[Old English]]
ipa :/in/[Etymology 1]
From Proto-Germanic *in.
[Etymology 2]
From Proto-Germanic *inn.
[[Old High German]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Germanic *in.
[Preposition]
in
1.in
[[Old Irish]]
[Etymology 1]
From Proto-Celtic *sindos (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”) or *só (“this”); weak doublet of sin (“this”).
[Etymology 2]
Unknown. Probably related to Middle Welsh a (interrogative particle). The n may be from Proto-Celtic *ne (compare Latin -ne (interrogative particle) < nē (“not”)).[1] Has been compared to Latin an (“or, whether”, interrogative particle).[2]
[Etymology 4]
Probably originally the masculine/neuter dative singular of the definite article (see Etymology 1); compare Middle Welsh and Welsh yn.[3]
[[Old Norse]]
[Article]
in
1.inflection of inn:
1.feminine nominative singular
2.neuter nominative/accusative plural
[[Old Saxon]]
[Etymology]
From Proto-Germanic *in.
[Preposition]
in
1.in
[[Pennsylvania German]]
[Preposition]
in
1.in
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology 1]
Unadapted borrowing from Latin in (“in”). Doublet of em.
[Etymology 2]
Unadapted borrowing from English in.
[[Romagnol]]
ipa :[i][Etymology]
From Latin in (“in”).
[Preposition]
in
1.in, into
2.by
A vég a Ravèna in bicicléta.
I go to Ravenna by bike.
[References]
Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 289
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/in/[Etymology]
Inherited from Latin līnum (“flax”).
[Noun]
in n (plural inuri)
1.flax
[[Romansch]]
[Alternative forms]
- egn (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
- ün (Puter, Vallader)
[Article]
in m (feminine ina)
1.(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) a, an
[Etymology]
From Latin ūnus.
[Number]
in m (feminine ina)
1.(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) one
[[Sardinian]]
ipa :/in/[Etymology]
From Latin in, from earlier en, from Proto-Italic *en, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).
[Preposition]
in
1.in, into
[References]
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
[[Sassarese]]
ipa :/in/[Alternative forms]
- i', i (apocopic)
[Etymology]
From Latin in, from earlier en, from Proto-Italic *en, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).
[Preposition]
in
1.in
Soggu in sigunda erementari ― I'm in second grade
Canti seddi in crassi tóia? ― How many are you in your class?
Paràuri ischritti in rùiu ― Words written in red
Fabeddàbani in sassaresu ― They were speaking (in) Sassarese
2.1866, chapter III, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew][9] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, verse 1, page 7:
In chissi dì poi vinisi Giuanni Battilta pridigghendi in lu diseltu di la Giudea
In those days, then came John the Baptist, preaching in the desert of Judaea
3.1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Puisia [Poetry]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others], Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 19:
E s’ammenta di nommi immintigaddi,
un basgiu dazi a facci risurani,
chi più no li vidia che in sonni fei
And she remembers forgotten names, gives a kiss to smiling faces she would only see again in nightmares
(literally, “And she remembers herself of forgotten names, a kiss gives to laughing faces, which she didn't see anymore except in bad dreams”)
[References]
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
[[Saterland Frisian]]
ipa :/ɪn/[Etymology]
From Old Frisian in, from Proto-West Germanic *in. Cognates include West Frisian yn and German in.
[Preposition]
in (neuter or distal adverb deerin, proximal adverb hierin, interrogative adverb wierin)
1.in, inside
2.in, into
[References]
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “in”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Adjective]
in (Cyrillic spelling ин)
1.(rare, archaic) other
Synonym: drugi
[Etymology]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьnъ.
[[Slovene]]
ipa :/in/[Conjunction]
in
1.and
[Etymology]
From Proto-Slavic *i.
[Synonyms]
- i (dialectal)
[[Sumerian]]
[Romanization]
in
1.Romanization of 𒅔 (in)
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/ɪn/[Adverb]
in
1.into, to in
Antonym: ut (“to out”)
Han gick in ― He walked in ("to in")
Han gick inne ― He was walking around inside (for comparison)
De går in ― They're walking in ("to in")
Han gick in i rummet ― He walked into the room
Han är inne i rummet ― He is in the room
[Anagrams]
- ni
[References]
- in in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- in in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- in in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[See also]
- inne (“in as a location, inside”)
- inåt (“inwards”)
[[Turkish]]
ipa :/in/[Etymology 1]
From Ottoman Turkish این (in),.[1] from Proto-Turkic *īn (“lair, burrow”)[2][3] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰃𐰤 (in), Turkmen hīn, Southern Altai ийин (iyin), Kazakh ін (ın), Yakut иин (iin).
[[Vietnamese]]
ipa :[ʔin˧˧][Anagrams]
- ni
[Etymology 1]
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 印 (“to print”, SV: ấn).
[[Volapük]]
[Preposition]
in
1.in
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ɪn/[Alternative forms]
- i ni, inni
[Pronoun]
in
1.(literary) first-person plural of i
[[West Frisian]]
ipa :/ən/[Determiner]
in
1.a, an; indefinite article
[Etymology]
Shortened from ien (“one”).
[[Yola]]
[Preposition]
in
1.Alternative form of ing (“in”)
2.1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 84:
At by mizluck was ee-pit t'drive in.
Who by misluck was placed to drive in.
3.1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 9, page 88:
A clugercheen gother: all, ing pile an in heep,
A crowd gathered up: all, in pile and in heap,
4.1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:
An gooude usquebaugh ee-sarith uth in cooanès.
And good whiskey served out in wooden cans.
5.1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 96:
Raree met in plathearès, ee-zet in a rooe,
There was choice meat in platters, set in a row,
6.1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 104:
Lickweese mee been deeth in aar heeve.
Likewise my bees die in their hive.
[References]
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 84
[[Yoruba]]
ipa :/ĩ̄/[[Zou]]
ipa :/ǐn/[Etymology]
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔim, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kim (“house, womb”).
[Noun]
ín
1.house
[References]
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41
- Philip Thanglienmang (2014), “Zou Tonology”, in Indian Linguistics, volume 75, issue 1-2, →ISSN
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɹɛdɪt/[Anagrams]
- direct, triced
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French crédit (“belief, trust”), from Latin crēditum (“a loan, credit”), neuter of crēditus, past participle of crēdere (“to believe”). The verb is from the noun. Doublet of shraddha, creed.
[Noun]
credit (countable and uncountable, plural credits)
1.Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Maccabees 10:46:
When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit into them, nor received them.
3.(uncountable) Recognition, respect and admiration.
I give you credit for owning up to your mistake.
He arrived five minutes late, but to his credit he did work an extra ten minutes at the end of his shift.
4.1782, William Cowper, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], published 1785, →OCLC, page 343:
John Gilpin was a citizen
Of credit and renown,
A train-band Captain eke was he
Of famous London town.
5.1946 July and August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 213:
The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order.
6.2011 December 10, David Ornstein quoting David Moyes, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport[1]:
"I've got to give credit to Van Persie, it was a great goal. We didn't mean to give them chances but they're a good team."
7.2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club[2]:
You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre.
8.(countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
She received a singing credit in last year's operetta.
9.2020 November 1, Alan Young, “His first major acting credit came in 1957 British gangster film No Road Back.”, in The Scotsman[3]:
10.(television/film, usually in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.
They kissed, and then the credits rolled.
11.
12. (uncountable, law, business, finance) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid.
In view of your payment record, we are happy to extend further credit to you.
13.The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
a long credit or a short credit
14.(uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).
What do you mean my credit is no good?
15.(accounting) An addition to certain accounts; the side of an account on which payments received are entered.
16.(tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
Didn't you know that the IRS will refund any excess payroll taxes that you paid if you use the 45(B) general business credit?
17.A source of value, distinction or honour.
That engineer is a credit to the team.
18.1836, Henry Francis Cary, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope.: The Author's Preface:
I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please.
19.(science fiction) A unit of currency used in a fictional universe or timeframe.
To repair your star cruiser will cost 100,000 credits.
20.1934 December, John W. Campbell, Jr., “The Mightiest Machine”, in Astounding Stories, volume XIV, number 4, Street & Smith, page 12:
Aside from the fact that she means nearly ten million credits investment, which no one will insure on this trip, there will necessarily be seventy-three men aboard.
21.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Credits ("Creds") Codex entry:
The standard credit was established by the Citadel's Unified Banking Act as the currency of interstellar trade. The credit has a managed floating exchange rate, calculated in real time by the central bank to maintain the average value of all participating currencies. Some regional currencies are worth more than a credit and some less.
22.2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 19:
"First the Patrons wipe-out our home world, now you blow any chance of us making any credits," Kane said in his gruff sinking voice.
23.A nominal unit of value assigned outside of a currency system.
Would you like to play? I put in a dollar and I've got two credits left.
24.2012, Brian Carter, Justin Levy, Facebook Marketing, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 178:
Facebook Credits are a virtual currency used only on Facebook that debuted in May 2009. Ten credits are equal to one dollar. Facebook keeps 30% of all Facebook Credit transactions.
25.(uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
If you do not come to class, you will not get credit for the class, regardless of how well you do on the final.
26.(countable) A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.
Dude, I just need 3 more credits to graduate – I can take socio-linguistics of Swahili if I want.
[References]
- “credit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- credit in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “credit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
- (course credit, credit hour): unit
[Verb]
credit (third-person singular simple present credits, present participle crediting, simple past and past participle credited)
1.(transitive) To believe; to put credence in.
Synonyms: accept, believe
Someone said there were over 100,000 people there, but I can't credit that.
2.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
How shall they credit
A poor unlearned virgin?
3.1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:
[T]he Heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slowest to credit another's Treachery.
4.1952, Daphne du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree:
She said quite naturally, as if nothing had happened, “I want you to go back home, Victor darling. You mustn’t worry about me any more.”’ Victor told me he could hardly credit it, at first, that she could stand there and say this to him.
5.(transitive, accounting) To add to an account.
Antonym: debit
Credit accounts receivable with the amount of the invoice.
For the payroll period credit employees' tips to their wages paid account and debit their minimum wage payable account.
The full amount of the purchase has been credited to your account.
6.(transitive) To acknowledge the contribution of.
I credit the town council with restoring the shopping district.
Credit the point guard with another assist.
7.(transitive) To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
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:
You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
crēdit
1.third-person singular present active indicative of crēdō
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French crédit.
[Noun]
credit n (plural credite)
1.credit
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ˈkrɛdɪt/[Mutation]
[Noun]
credit m (plural creditau)
1.Alternative form of credyd (“credit”)
[Verb]
credit (literary)
1.second-person singular imperfect/conditional of credu
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presented
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɪˈzɛntɪd/[Adjective]
presented (not comparable)
1.(mathematics, of a group) Having a specified presentation, or a presentation with specified properties.
[Anagrams]
- pretensed, repetends, serpented
[Verb]
presented
1.simple past and past participle of present
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Horn
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- NRHO, Rohn
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ɦɔrn/[Etymology]
First attested as hurne in 1102. Derived from the dative singular form of Old Dutch horn (“protruding bend, corner”).See also Limburgish Häör.
[Proper noun]
Horn n
1.A village and former municipality of Leudal, Limburg, Netherlands.
[References]
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
[[German]]
ipa :/hɔrn/[Etymology]
From Middle High German horn, from Old High German horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.Compare Low German Horn, Hoorn, Hurn; Höärn (Altmärkisch); Häörn (Haön) (Münsterländisch), Dutch hoorn, English horn, Danish horn and Swedish horn.
[Further reading]
- “Horn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Horn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Horn” in Duden online
- Horn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Horn” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
[Noun]
Horn n (strong, genitive Hornes or Horns, plural Hörner, diminutive Hörnchen n or Hörnlein n)
1.horn (musical instrument)
2.horn (projection, of an animal, altar, etc.)
3.cornet
4.(anatomy) cranial parietal bonesHorn n (strong, genitive Hornes or Horns, plural Horne)
1.horn (substance from which animal horns are made)
[Proper noun]
Horn m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Horns or (with an article) Horn, feminine genitive Horn, plural Horns)
1.a surnameHorn n (proper noun, genitive Horns or (optionally with an article) Horn)
1.A city in Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Coordinate term: Bad Meinberg (same municipality)
2.A municipality of Lower Austria, Austria
3.A municipality of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.A municipality of Switzerland
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈhorn][Proper noun]
Horn
1.a surname
[See also]
- Appendix:Hungarian surnames
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liability
[[English]]
ipa :/laɪəˈbɪlɪti/[Anagrams]
- alibility
[Etymology]
From liable + -ity.
[Noun]
English Wikipedia has an article on:LiabilityWikipedia liability (countable and uncountable, plural liabilities)
1.An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
Coordinate term: asset
2.1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw:
"I was to say that Maw and Meggins disclaim all responsibility," continued the other. "They admit no liability at all, but in consideration of your son's services they wish to present you with a certain sum as compensation."
1.(accounting) Any item recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
Antonym: assetA handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; an individual or action that exposes others to greater risk.
Coordinate term: asset
- 2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair[1]:
Asked if at some point Huma becomes a liability to Hillary, the long-term Clinton insider replies, “It’s like anything else. I don’t think so, but you know I don’t have any idea. Hillary is very loyal, but she’s obviously pragmatic.”
1.(informal, mildly derogatory) A person on a team that is more of a hindrance than a help.
You're a bloody liability sometimes!The likelihood of something happening.The condition of being susceptible to something.
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seismic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsaɪzmɪk/[Adjective]
seismic (not comparable)
1.Related to, or caused by an earthquake or other vibration of the Earth.
seismic activity
2.(figuratively) Of very large or widespread effect.
3.2018 January 27, Dafydd Pritchard, “Newport 1 - 1 Tottenham Hotspur”, in BBC Sport[1]:
With Spurs having avoided a seismic Cup upset, Newport's heroic display will be rewarded with a lucrative replay at Wembley.
4.2023 February 22, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A farewell to micro-management”, in RAIL, number 977, page 3:
But the most seismic change is the shift to being supportive of open access. In practice, most of the industry has collectively opposed this for the past 25 years. The Department for Transport has been particularly hostile, seeing it as little more than cherry-picking.
5.2024 March 17, Ilan Stavans, “Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?”, in The New York Times[2]:
That the two leading candidates are women is seismic in a country imbued with machismo, where gender violence is rampant and the fight for women’s rights has been especially sluggish under the incumbent president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, who is limited by Mexico’s Constitution to one six-year term.
6.(of a place) Subject to earthquakes
a seismic area
[Etymology]
Based on Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós, “shaking, earthquake”) + -ic.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
seismic m or n (feminine singular seismică, masculine plural seismici, feminine and neuter plural seismice)
1.seismic
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French séismique. By surface analysis, seism + -ic.
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seismic shift
[[English]]
[Etymology]
An allusion to the drastic change to the landscape caused by a massive earthquake.
[Noun]
seismic shift (plural seismic shifts)
1.(idiomatic) A fundamental reorientation of a state of affairs.
2.1958, Waldo Frank, "Mexico" in The Romance of North America (Hardwick Moseley, ed.), Houghton Mifflin, p. 127 (Google snippet view):
The seismic shift in Mexico began in 1810 with the movement toward independence from Spain.
3.1999 December 6, Eamon Phoenix, “Peace Is Breaking Out”, in Time, retrieved 19 May 2015:
For the republican movement, the acceptance of seats in a "partitionist" Assembly signaled a seismic shift in historical attitudes since the division of Ireland in 1921.
4.2007 December 10, “Most Important of 2007”, in Businessweek, retrieved 19 May 2015:
[T]he U.S. could be on the verge of a seismic shift, where it is possible to envision a time when it will no longer be the dominant economic superpower.
5.2011 February 5, “The Aging of America”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 May 2015:
Baby boomers began turning 65 in January, heralding a seismic shift in demographics worldwide.
[Synonyms]
- upheaval
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