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52101 putting [[English]] ipa :/ˈpʊtɪŋ/[Etymology 1] put +‎ -ing [Etymology 2] putt +‎ -ing 0 0 2022/11/29 13:02 2024/03/20 22:26 TaN
52102 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. 0 0 2024/03/20 22:26 TaN
52103 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&#x3b; [...]. [Anagrams] - Yeadon, day one, noyade 0 0 2024/03/20 22:32 TaN
52104 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 0 0 2018/08/16 09:24 2024/03/20 22:35 TaN
52105 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b;  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&#x3b;  the time of the dinosaurs&#x3b;  how things were at that time&#x3b;  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&#x3b;  it’s time to sleep&#x3b;  we must wait for the right time&#x3b;  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&#x3b; 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?&#x3b;  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&#x3b;  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&#x3b;  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&#x3b; [...] - 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&#x3b; thus, [...](music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division. common or triple time&#x3b;   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 0 0 2008/12/15 20:23 2024/03/20 23:01 TaN
52106 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&#x3b; "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&#x3b; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them&#x3b; 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) 0 0 2012/12/04 18:06 2024/03/20 23:05
52107 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 0 0 2024/03/20 23:05 TaN
52108 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. 0 0 2023/03/28 10:20 2024/03/20 23:05 TaN
52109 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. 0 0 2023/01/05 09:22 2024/03/20 23:07 TaN
52110 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. 0 0 2022/02/19 10:13 2024/03/20 23:09 TaN
52111 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b; […] 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b;   to conquer a peace 0 0 2017/11/27 11:56 2024/03/20 23:09 TaN
52112 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&#x3b; (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) 0 0 2018/12/20 17:02 2024/03/20 23:09 TaN
52113 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 0 0 2021/12/14 13:38 2024/03/20 23:10 TaN
52114 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b; […] 3.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym&#x3b; 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b; 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&#x3b; when They Attained to Only Four Hundred and Fifty&#x3b; when They Reached to Only Threescore Years and Ten&#x3b; 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 0 0 2009/04/16 10:50 2024/03/20 23:10 TaN
52116 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 0 0 2024/03/20 23:11 TaN
52117 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. 0 0 2022/10/17 19:06 2024/03/20 23:11 TaN
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) 0 0 2024/03/20 23:12 TaN
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&#x3b; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition&#x3b; […] 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) 0 0 2009/04/19 11:48 2024/03/20 23:12 TaN
52121 in __ [[Translingual]] [Symbol] in 1.(international standards, obsolete) Former&#x20;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 &#x2a;in.Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;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 &#x2a;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 &#x2a;in (“in”). [Etymology 2] From Middle High German in, from Old High German inan, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;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 &#x2a;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&#x3f;”, 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&#x3a; «mie viljele en viljaa&#x3b; oon vihdoin in»&#x21; 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 &#x2a;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&#x3a; raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99: Cume li va puleîto in alto mare&#x21; 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 &#x2a;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 &#x2a;en, from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;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 &#x2a;(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian &#x2a;(i-)ni. [References] - Marshallese–English Online Dictionary [[Middle Dutch]] [Etymology 1] From Old Dutch in, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;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 &#x2a;in. [Etymology 3] From Old English inne, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;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 &#x2a;in. [Etymology 2] From Proto-Germanic &#x2a;inn. [[Old High German]] [Etymology] From Proto-Germanic &#x2a;in. [Preposition] in 1.in [[Old Irish]] [Etymology 1] From Proto-Celtic &#x2a;sindos (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;sḗm (“one”) or &#x2a;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 &#x2a;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 &#x2a;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 &#x2a;en, from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;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 &#x2a;en, from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;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 &#x2a;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 &#x2a;jьnъ. [[Slovene]] ipa :/in/[Conjunction] in 1.and [Etymology] From Proto-Slavic &#x2a;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 &#x2a;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&#x3a; 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 &#x2a;ʔim, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan &#x2a;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 0 0 2021/09/12 14:49 2024/03/20 23:12 TaN
52122 credit [[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&#x3a;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&#x3f; 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&#x3f; 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.&#x3a; 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 &#x26; 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&#x3a; 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&#x3f; 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&#x25; 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, &#x5b;Act I, scene iii&#x5d;: How shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin&#x3f; 3.1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii: &#x5b;T&#x5d;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 0 0 2009/02/07 23:11 2024/03/20 23:13
52123 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 0 0 2021/12/26 18:38 2024/03/20 23:16 TaN
52124 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 &#x2a;horn, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;hurną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;ḱer-.Compare Low German Horn, Hoorn, Hurn&#x3b; Höärn (Altmärkisch)&#x3b; 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 0 0 2022/04/06 14:18 2024/03/21 17:20 TaN
52125 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&#x3f;”, 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&#x21;The likelihood of something happening.The condition of being susceptible to something. 0 0 2021/03/19 17:10 2024/03/21 17:21 TaN
52126 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&#x3a; 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&#x3f;”, 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. 0 0 2009/04/17 12:44 2024/03/21 17:57 TaN
52127 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: &#x5b;T&#x5d;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 0 0 2024/03/21 17:58 TaN
52128 cardinality [[English]] [Etymology] cardinal +‎ -ity. [Further reading] - Aleph number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Beth number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Cardinality of the continuum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Limit cardinal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] cardinality (plural cardinalities) 1.(set theory, of a set) The number of elements a given set contains. Synonym: power The empty set has a cardinality of zero. 2.2005, Johan de Jong, “Set Theory”, in The Stacks Project‎[1], retrieved 2018-2-26: The cardinality of a set A is the least ordinal α such that there exists a bijection between A and α. We sometimes use the notation &#x03B1; = | A | {\displaystyle \alpha =|A|} to indicate this. 3.2006, Michael Smithson, Jay Verkuilen, Fuzzy Set Theory&#x3a; Applications in the Social Sciences, SAGE Publications, page 37: For fuzzy sets, the concept of set size or cardinality is both richer and more problematic than it is for crisp sets. It is richer because, as we shall see, we may use more than one kind of cardinality. 4.2012, Adolf Grünbaum, Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky, Philosophical Problems of Space and Time, 2nd edition, Springer, page 487: Clearly, in this example, the sensitivity to the cardinalities takes the weaker form F [ M ( A ) ] = A = {\displaystyle F[M(A)]={\overset {=}{A}}} of a single-valued function from the measure to the cardinality rather than the stronger form M ( A ) = f ( A = ) {\displaystyle M(A)=f({\overset {=}{A}})} of a function from the cardinality to the measure. 5.(type theory) The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type. 6.2021, Martin Odersky et al., chapter 19, in Programming in Scala, 5th edition, Artima, →ISBN: For many types, such as String, the set of possible values is unlimited. Such types have an infinite cardinality. 7.(data modeling, databases) The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many. 8.(religion) The status of being cardinalitial 0 0 2024/03/21 20:44 TaN
52129 gusher [[English]] [Etymology] gush +‎ -er. Doublet of geyser. [Noun] gusher (plural gushers) 1.One who gushes (makes an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment). 2.An oil well that has a natural flow and so requires no pumping. 0 0 2023/03/10 10:10 2024/03/22 07:32 TaN
52130 priced [[English]] ipa :/pɹaɪst/[Adjective] priced (not comparable) 1.(in combination) Having a price of the kind specified. [Anagrams] - percid [Verb] priced 1.simple past and past participle of price 0 0 2024/03/22 07:32 TaN
52132 top [[English]] ipa :/tɒp/[Adjective] top (not comparable) 1.Situated on the top of something. 2.(informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank. She's in the top dance school. 3.(informal) Very good, of high quality, power, or rank. He's a top lawyer. That is a top car. 4.2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon&#x3f; Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian‎[11]: In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff. [Adverb] top (not comparable) 1.Rated first. She came top in her French exam. [Anagrams] - OPT, OPt, OTP, PTO, TPO, oPt, opt, opt., pot [Etymology] From Middle English top, toppe, from Old English top (“top, highest part; summit; crest; tassel, tuft; (spinning) top, ball; a tuft or ball at the highest point of anything”), from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;topp, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;tuppaz (“braid, pigtail, end”), of unknown ultimate origin.Cognate with Scots tap (“top”), North Frisian top, tap, tup (“top”), Saterland Frisian Top (“top”), West Frisian top (“top”), Dutch top (“top, summit, peak”), Low German Topp (“top”), German Zopf (“braid, pigtail, plait, top”), Swedish topp (“top, peak, summit, tip”), Icelandic toppur (“top”).The sense of a spinning toy is separated from this, obscurely related to Dutch top and dop in this sense, against Standard Dutch tol, and French toupie having this sense. [Noun] English Wikipedia has an article on:topWikipedia top (countable and uncountable, plural tops) 1.The highest or uppermost part of something. Synonyms: peak, summit, overside Antonyms: bottom, base, underside His kite got caught at the top of the tree. 2.1879, R&#x5b;ichard&#x5d; J&#x5b;efferies&#x5d;, chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC: But then I had the &#x5b;massive&#x5d; flintlock by me for protection. &#x5b;…&#x5d; The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage&#x3b; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, &#x5b;…&#x5d;. 1.(irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost. 2.2013 March 20, Dewayne Carel, “Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], retrieved 1 October 2017: To mount the V8, I simply placed it on its top, and then prepped the mobo&#x2f;CPU for installation (applied thermal compound). We flipped the machine onto its top. 3.The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc. Synonym: (of a page) head Antonym: (of a page) foot Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen. Headings appear at the tops of pages. 4.A lid, cap, or cover of a container. Synonyms: cap, coverlid Put a top on the toothpaste tube or it will go bad. 5.A garment worn to cover the torso. Antonym: bottom I bought this top as it matches my jeans. I like this pyjama top. 6.A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached. 7.(baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats. 8.(archaic) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head. 9.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39: Like glauncing light of Phoebus brightest ray&#x3b; From top to toe no place appeared bare 10.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, &#x5b;Act IV, scene ii&#x5d;: All the stored vengeances of Heaven fall &#x2f; On her ungrateful top&#x21;The near end of somewhere. The patio is at the top of my garden. The shop is at the top of my street. A child's spinning toy; a spinning top. The boy was amazed at how long the top would spin.(heading) Someone who is eminent. 1.(archaic) The chief person; the most prominent one. 2.1649, J&#x5b;ohn&#x5d; Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC: to be the top of zealots 3.The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place. to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school 4.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, &#x5b;Act IV, scene i&#x5d;: And wears upon his baby brow the round &#x2f; And top of sovereignty. 5.2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2-1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport: After drawing their first game in Kiev the Potters are now top of Europa League Group E ahead of back-to-back games with Maccabi Tel-Aviv. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay. Synonyms: (usually male) dom, (female) domme Antonyms: bottom, sub 1.(broadly, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.(LGBT slang) A man, trans woman, or other person with a penis, who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse with other people with penises. - 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 336: Jean-Alain is a man of great physical strength, and Jesse is sure he is quite a handful for his tops. I prefer being a top, and my boyfriend prefers being a bottom. Synonym: pitcher Antonym: bottom (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Oral stimulation of the male member; a blowjob. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:oral sex - 2016 November 18, J $tash (lyrics and music), “Guap”, in No More Distractions‎[2]: Running up a check, I'ma drop the top Baby gimme neck, you know I want some top You ain't tryna fuck, then baby don't just stop - 2017, Juice Wrld (lyrics and music), “2017 Freestyle”, in Unreleased Songs‎[3]: I get some top in my coupe &#x5b;…&#x5d; Look at yo bitch she gon' choose She gon' give me top (on my block Avenue) - 2017, T-Wayne (lyrics and music), “Double Standards” (track 2, 0&#x3a;42–0&#x3a;55 from the start), in Forever Rickey: I just bought a new Ferrari off the lot, said she a virgin but she wanna give me top, she need some money so she call my phone a lot, I picked it up and then I told that bitch to stop. - 2017 December 22, “No Hook”, performed by 61 – Cee Drilla x Beans x Nz x Ruger, 0&#x3a;53–1&#x3a;00: Man chingy chingy on opps, catch ringy ringy, want lots And clingy, clingy, got dots She is a bad b, she gives tops - 2019 March 19, Nav (lyrics and music), “Price on My Head”, in Bad Habits‎[4]: His bitch gave me some top, and now he wanna send me threats - 2019 November 20, Oliver Francis (lyrics and music), “I Like”, in The Adventures Of Oliver Francis‎[5]: I like gettin' top (Ooh), I like drivin' coupes &#x5b;…&#x5d; Yeah I got Erza Scarlet tryna fuck (Yeah, ooh) Gettin' top and watching Crunchyroll - 2020 February 21, King Von (lyrics and music), “Took Her to the O”, in Levon James‎[6]: Just got some top from this stripper bitch, she from Kankakee - 2020 August 7, DON RCS (lyrics and music), “Top Down”‎[7]: She asked to give me some top and I’m down Head feeling loose ‘cos I’m lit off the brown - 2020 September 11, Ron Suno (lyrics and music), “Wraith”‎[8] ft. DDG, chorus first time 0&#x3a;24–0&#x3a;27: I’m in a wraith with a thot, she gon’ give me some top, cause my music a bop, aye(particle physics) A top quark. Hypernym: flavorThe utmost degree; the acme; the summit. - June 18 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift The top of my own ambition is to contribute to that work.(ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.(sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume. She sang at the top of her voice. - 1913, Joseph C&#x5b;rosby&#x5d; Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D&#x5b;aniel&#x5d; Appleton and Company, →OCLC: I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy&#x21;” and “Hello&#x21;” at the top of my lungs. &#x5b;…&#x5d; The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi&#x21;” and “Hello&#x21;” like the bull of Bashan.(wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out. - 2014, W. J. Johnson, Yarn Works&#x3a; How to Spin, Dye, and Knit Your Own Yarn, page 32: Most cotton is sold as top, requiring only predrafting prior to spinning.(obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point. - 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC: Hee was upon the top of his marriage with Magdalaine.The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.[1](in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots. - 1836, “Boz” &#x5b;pseudonym&#x3b; Charles Dickens&#x5d;, Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC: There was one pair of boots in particular — a jolly, good-tempered, hearty-looking, pair of tops, that excited our warmest regard(golf, cue sports, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.(golf, cue sports, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin. - 1886, E.T.Sachs, The Boys Own Annual&#x3a; Lawn-Tennis of the Present‎[9], volume 9, page 778: What is wanted is just the reverse - i.e top or overspin, which causes the ball to revolve in the direction in which it is going.(in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant. - 2014, Jamey Glasnovic, Lost and Found&#x3a; Adrift in the Canadian Rockies, →ISBN, page 144: &#x5b;…&#x5d; but with only three other tables on the patio apart from myself – two three-tops and a five-top – it's hard to imagine what the holdup is. - 2015, Jeff Benjamin, Front of the House&#x3a; Restaurant Manners, Misbehaviors &#x26; Secrets, →ISBN: It is uncanny how a server can stand in front of a ten top, without the safety net of pen and paper, and remember every item ordered by each guest including salads, &#x5b;…&#x5d;Short for topswarm. - 1866, The Scottish Gardener, page 397: My first topswarm came off on the 25th June, and a second top on the day following&#x3b; both were put into skeps of one size, and appeared to be equal as regards the number of Bees.(U.S. Army and Marines) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level. [References] 1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Top”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC. [See also] - top-dimensional (contains the word "top", but unrelated to the above etymologies) - topple [Synonyms] - first [Verb] top (third-person singular simple present tops, present participle topping, simple past and past participle topped) 1.To cover on the top or with a top. I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce. 2. 3. To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed. Synonyms: beat, better, best, exceed; see also Thesaurus:exceed Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar. 4.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, &#x5b;Act I, scene ii&#x5d;: Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, &#x2f; And my invention thrive, Edmund the base &#x2f; Shall top th' legitimate. I grow&#x3b; I prosper 5.2005 August 23, Leslie Feinberg, “Headwaters of first mass political gay movement rise”, in Workers World‎[10]: Within months, sales of ONE magazine were topping 2,000 copies. 6.2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 50: The HSDT team, however, had some work to do, although by the end of 1972 the power car interior had been adjusted and BR had agreed to 'double-manning' with extra pay when speeds topped the ton. &#x5b;exceeded 100 mph&#x5d; 7.To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of). Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s. 8.2013 December 26, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport: Liverpool topped the table on Christmas Day and, after Arsenal's win at West Ham earlier on Boxing Day, would have returned to the top had they been the first team to beat City at home this season. 9.To cut or remove the top (as of a tree) I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair. Top and tail the carrots. 10.2003, Dan Prendergast, Erin Prendergast, The Tree Doctor&#x3a; A Guide to Tree Care and Maintenance, →ISBN, page 78: Topping depletes the tree of stored energy reserves and reduces the tree's ability to produce energy, as a large percentage of the leaves are removed. 11.(Britain, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide. Depression causes many people to top themselves. 12. 13. (Britain, slang, rare, chiefly archaic) To murder or execute. Synonyms: kill, murder, slaughter, slay; see also Thesaurus:kill 14.(BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay. I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping. Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom". 15.(gay slang, transitive, intransitive) To anally penetrate in gay sex. 16.(archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower. topping passions 17.1713, W&#x5b;illiam&#x5d; Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC: lofty and topping mountains 18.1689 (indicated as 1690), &#x5b;John Locke&#x5d;, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC: , Book II, Chapter XXI influenced by that topping uneasiness 19.(archaic) To excel; to rise above others. 20.(nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other. 21.(dyeing) To cover with another dye. to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening 22.To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade). 23.(slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top. 24.(of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus. 25.To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds. 26.To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal. 27.(golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way. [[Albanian]] [Etymology] Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top). [Noun] top m (plural tope, definite topi, definite plural topet) 1.ball Synonym: gogë 2.(in the plural) slang for testicles [[Azerbaijani]] [Etymology] Inherited from Proto-Turkic &#x2a;top. [Noun] top (definite accusative topu, plural toplar) 1.ball 2.cannon 3.(chess) rook 4.roll (of paper or cloth) 5.pile, stack 6.bale, pack [See also] [[Baure]] [Noun] top 1.fog [[Crimean Tatar]] [Noun] top (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide]) 1.ball 2.lump 3.cannon [References] - Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[12], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN [[Czech]] ipa :[ˈtop][Verb] top 1.second-person singular imperative of topit [[Danish]] [Etymology] From Old Norse toppr, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;tuppaz. [Noun] top c (singular definite toppen, plural indefinite toppe) 1.summit, peak 2.hairpiece 3.top (uppermost part, lid, cap, cover, garment worn to cover the torso, child’s spinning toy) [[Dutch]] ipa :/tɔp/[Adjective] top 1.(colloquial) great, very good [Anagrams] - pot [Antonyms] - bodem [Etymology] From Middle Dutch top, topp, from Old Dutch &#x2a;topp, &#x2a;top, from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;topp, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;tuppaz. [Noun] top m (plural toppen, diminutive topje n) 1.top (uppermost part) 2.(figurative) apex 3.summit, peak (high point of a mountain or object) 4.summit, highest-level assembly 5.dominant role or partner in BDSM-interaction 6.top (piece of women's clothing) [Verb] top 1.(denominal) first-person singular present indicative of toppen [[French]] ipa :/tɔp/[Adjective] top (feminine toppe, masculine plural tops, feminine plural toppes) 1.top; best; highest in rank; maximum 2.excellent; brilliant 3.(LGBT, slang) top (dominant in role) Synonym: actif [Adverb] top 1.at most; maximum [Antonyms] - bottom [Etymology] Borrowed from English top. [Further reading] - “top”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] top m (plural tops) 1.top; shirt or garment covering the upper body 2.a signalling sound; beep [[German]] ipa :/tɔp/[Etymology 1] Borrowed from English top. [Further reading] - “top” in Duden online - “top” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈtɔp/[Etymology] Borrowed from English top. [Noun] top m (invariable) 1.(woman's dressing, garment) top [[Karaim]] [Etymology] From Proto-Turkic &#x2a;top. Cognate to Crimean Tatar top (“group”), Southern Altai топ (top, “round thing”), etc. [Noun] top 1.ball [References] N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “top”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN [[Khalaj]] ipa :[top][Etymology] From Proto-Turkic &#x2a;top. [Numeral] top (definite accusative topı, plural toplar) 1.ball [References] - Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó [[Latvian]] [Verb] top 1.third-person singular/plural present indicative of tapt 2.(with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of tapt 3.(with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of tapt [[Middle English]] ipa :/tɔp/[Alternative forms] - toppe, topp, tope, toop [Etymology] From Old English topp, toppa, from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;topp. [Noun] top (plural toppes) 1.The summit or top of something, especially a vertical object: 1.The peak of a mountain or other landform. 2.The roof or ceil of a house; the top of a fence. 3.A lid or cap; a removable top or topping. 4.The head, especially its top or the hair on its top.A small deck at the dop of a ship's sails.A cluster or bunch of fibres; a tassel.A top or whirligig (spinning toy)The start or introduction of something.(rare) The tip or end of something; that which something terminates in. [[Mopan Maya]] [Adverb] top 1.very [References] - Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press. [[Northern Kurdish]] [Etymology] From Turkish top, from Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top). [Noun] top f 1.ball (object, generally spherical, used for playing games) 2.cannon [[Old French]] [Alternative forms] - tup, tupe, tope, toup [Etymology] From Frankish &#x2a;topp. [Noun] top oblique singular, m (oblique plural tos, nominative singular tos, nominative plural top) 1.hair on top of one's head, forelock 2.top, highest point 3.tuft of flax placed on distaff 4.top (ship) [References] - Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (top) - - tup on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub [[Polish]] ipa :/tɔp/[Etymology 1] Borrowed from English top. Doublet of tupet. [Etymology 2] See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [Further reading] - top in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - top in Polish dictionaries at PWN [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈtɔ.pi/[Adjective] top (invariable) 1.(colloquial) cool, awesome 2.(colloquial) top, excellent, high-quality Synonym: top de linha [Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English top. [Noun] top m (plural tops) 1.top (garment worn to cover the torso) [[Romanian]] ipa :/ˈtop/[Etymology 1] Borrowed from Turkish top. [Etymology 2] Borrowed from English top. [[Serbo-Croatian]] ipa :/tôp/[Etymology] Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top). [Noun] tȍp m (Cyrillic spelling то̏п) 1.cannon 2.(chess) rook [See also] [[Slovene]] ipa :/tɔ́p/[Etymology 1] From Proto-Slavic &#x2a;tǫpъ. [Etymology 2] Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top). [Further reading] - “top”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈtop/[Adjective] top m or f (masculine and feminine plural tops) 1.(proscribed) top (situated on the top of something) Synonym: mejor 2.(proscribed) top (best&#x3b; of the highest quality or rank) Synonym: el mejor 3.(proscribed) top (very good, of high quality) Synonym: muy bueno [Etymology] Borrowed from English top. [Further reading] - “top”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] top m (plural tops) 1.top (first positions of a ranking) 2.top (female clothing) [References] - “top” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN [[Tocharian A]] [Etymology] Compare Tocharian B taupe. [Noun] top 1.mine (place where ore is extracted) [[Turkish]] [Etymology] From Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top), from Proto-Turkic &#x2a;top (“round thing”). [Noun] top (definite accusative topu, plural toplar) 1.ball 2.cannon 3.(slang, derogatory) gay [[Volapük]] [Etymology] Borrowed from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”). [Noun] top (nominative plural tops) 1.place 0 0 2009/02/25 11:05 2024/03/22 07:34
52133 top up [[English]] [Anagrams] - pot up, up top [Synonyms] - US English (in the sense of refill) top off [Verb] top up (third-person singular simple present tops up, present participle topping up, simple past and past participle topped up) 1.To refill (or recharge) something. I shall top up with petrol before the long trip. 2.2022 February 9, Ben Jones, “Batteries included for future shunters”, in RAIL, number 950, page 56: For the CBD90, the primary power source is a 526kW&#x2f;h lead acid battery driving four traction motors. As well as charging from a three-phase shore supply or regenerative braking, the batteries can be topped up by an EU Stage V-compliant 56kW JCB Ecomax diesel engine if required. 1.(idiomatic) To add to a credit balance. I shall top up the mobile phone at the supermarket. Users can top up their wallet balance and start sending and receiving money between mobile phones. 2.(UK) To refill a drink. The waitress topped up my coffee every few minutes. 3.To add to a number or amount, to bring something up to a certain level.(transitive, intransitive, slang) To have sex (with). We had dinner, went back to her place, and started topping up. 0 0 2024/03/22 07:34 TaN
52134 malon [[Esperanto]] [Noun] malon 1.accusative singular of malo [[Istriot]] [Noun] malon 1.melon [[Mapudungun]] [Noun] malon 1.looting [[Norman]] [Etymology] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Noun] malon m (plural malons) 1.(Jersey, pathology) scab [[Waray-Waray]] [Noun] malón 1.part; share; portion 0 0 2024/03/22 07:35 TaN
52135 maroon [[English]] ipa :/məˈɹuːn/[Anagrams] - Morano, Romano-, romano [Etymology 1] From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more. [Etymology 2] French marron (“chestnut; brown”), from Italian marrone (“chestnut; brown”). Compare Spanish marrón. [Etymology 3] Unknown. Possibly related to the sense “castaway” (etymology 1), or owing to the fact that the color of a fired flare was commonly red (etymology 2). [Etymology 4] From an intentional mispronunciation of the word moron used by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny. 0 0 2024/03/22 07:35 TaN
52136 栗 [[Translingual]] [Han character] 栗 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一田木 (MWD), four-corner 10904, composition ⿱覀木(GJKV) or ⿱覀𣎳(HT)) [[Chinese]] ipa :*riɡ[Etymology 1] Possibly related to T'en [script needed] (lik³¹, “chestnut”) (Schuessler, 2007). [Etymology 2] [Glyph origin] Characters in the same phonetic series (栗) (Zhengzhang, 2003)  Pictogram (象形) – chestnuts growing on a tree. [References] - “栗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014– [[Japanese]] ipa :[kɯ̟ᵝɾʲi][Etymology] Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:クリWikipedia jaJapanese Wikipedia has an article on:クリ属Wikipedia jaEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:Castanea crenataWikipedia From Old Japanese. [Kanji] See also:Category:Japanese terms spelled with 栗栗(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names) 1.chestnut 2.shake, tremble [Noun] 栗(くり) or 栗(クリ) • (kuri)  1.Japanese chestnut, Castanea crenata Synonym: マロン (maron) Hypernym: 橅 (buna) 2.Short for 栗色 (kuri-iro): chestnut brown [Proper noun] 栗(くり) • (Kuri)  1.a female given name 2.a surname [References] 1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN [[Korean]] ipa :[ɾjuɭ] ~ [juɭ][Etymology] From Middle Chinese 栗 (MC lit). [Hanja] Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:栗Wikisource栗 (eumhun 밤 률 (bam ryul), South Korea 밤 율 (bam yul)) 1.Hanja form? of 률&#x2f;율 (“chestnut”). [affix] [References] - 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3] [[Vietnamese]] [Han character] 栗: Hán Nôm readings: lật 1.This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}. 0 0 2024/03/22 07:35 TaN
52137 chestnut [[English]] ipa :/ˈt͡ʃɛs.nʌt/[Adjective] chestnut (not comparable) 1.Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut. chestnut hair [Anagrams] - Chesnutt [Etymology] Formerly chesten nut, from Middle English chesten, Middle English chesteyne, chasteine, from Old English ċisten and reinforced by Old French chastaigne, both from Latin castānea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia). Compare castanet. [Further reading] - chestnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural chestnuts) 1.A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea. Synonym: chestnut tree 2.A nut of this tree or shrub. 3.(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour, as seen on the fruit of the chestnut tree. chestnut:   4.A reddish-brown horse. 5.1871, Baily's Magazine of Sports &#x26; Pastimes, volume 20, page 308: Lord Carington &#x5b;…&#x5d; led the way with his chestnuts &#x5b;…&#x5d; 6.1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding, page 105: &#x5b;…&#x5d; browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish. 7.(uncountable) Wood of a chestnut tree. 8.(figurative) An old joke; a worn-out meme, phrase, ploy, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome or ineffective (often in the phrase "old chestnut"). Synonyms: cliché, platitude 9.1997 May 10, Larry Flick, “Singles”, in Billboard, →ISSN, page 62: Yep, this is a dance-leaning cover of the Matthew Wilder '80s pop chestnut. It has already saturated radio airwaves throughout Europe, with a number of programmers here already giving it positive feedback. 10.2015 August 27, Michael Signer, “What Happens When Donald Trump Stirs Up 'Passionate' Supporters”, in The Atlantic‎[1]: Take greed. He’s been cited many times for what now has become a chestnut&#x3a; “The point is, you can’t be too greedy.” 11.A round or oval horny plate found on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other animal, similar to a birthmark on a human. Synonym: night eye 12.(UK) The horse-chestnut. [Related terms] - castanet [See also] - black bean - buckeye - caltrop - chinquapin - chinquapin oak - conker - maroon - water caltrop - Appendix:Colors 0 0 2024/03/22 07:36 TaN
52138 Chestnut [[English]] [Anagrams] - Chesnutt [Proper noun] Chestnut (plural Chestnuts) 1.A surname. 0 0 2024/03/22 07:36 TaN
52139 good [[English]] ipa :/ɡʊd/[Etymology 1] From Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;gōd, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”). Cognate with Russian го́дный (gódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”), год (god), "year", via "suitable time". Related to gather and together, but not to god/God. Eclipsed non-native Middle English bon, bone, boon, boun (“good”) borrowed from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”). [Etymology 2] From Middle English goode (“good, well”, adverb), from the adjective. Compare Dutch goed (“good, well”, adverb), German gut (“good, well”, adverb), Danish godt (“good, well”, adverb), Swedish godt (“good, well”, adverb), all from the adjective. [Etymology 3] From Middle English good, god, from Old English gōd (“a good thing, advantage, benefit, gift; good, goodness, welfare; virtue, ability, doughtiness; goods, property, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;gōdą (“goods, belongings”), from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;gʰedʰ-, &#x2a;gʰodʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”). Compare German Gut (“item of merchandise; estate; property”). [Etymology 4] From Middle English goden, godien, from Old English gōdian (“to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich”), from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;gōdōn (“to make better, improve”), from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;gōdaz (“good, favourable”). [Etymology 5] From English dialectal, from Middle English &#x2a;goden, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish göda (“to fatten, fertilise, battle”), Danish gøde (“to fertilise, battle”), ultimately from the adjective. See above. [Further reading] - “good”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - “good”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “good”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. [[Chinese]] ipa :/kuːt̚[Etymology] Romanisation of 嗗 (gut4, gut6, gut2), influenced by spelling of English good. Not related to English good semantically. [Noun] good 1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 嗗 (“sound of gulp”) [Verb] good 1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 嗗 (“to gulp”) [[Dutch Low Saxon]] [Adjective] good 1.good [[Limburgish]] ipa :[ʝoː˦d][Adjective] good (comparative baeter, superlative bès, predicative superlative 't 't bès) 1.good [Alternative forms] - gott (Eupen) - joot (Krefeld) [Etymology] From Middle Dutch goet. [[Middle English]] ipa :/ɡoːd/[Adjective] good (plural and weak singular gode, comparative bettre, superlative best) 1.good (of good quality or behaviour) 2.good (morally right or righteous) 3.14th c., Chaucer, General Prologue: and certeinly he was a good felawe and certainly he was a good fellow 4.advantageous, wealthy, profitable, useful 5.large; of a great size or quantity 6.having a great degree or extent 7.(of food) tasting pleasant 8.1381, Pegge Cook, Recipes, page 114, quoted in 1962, Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons &#x5b;…&#x5d; Nym wyn &#x5b;…&#x5d; toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk. (please add an English translation of this quotation) 9.c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11: Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke &#x5b;…&#x5d; caste þher-to Safroun an Salt &#x5b;…&#x5d; (please add an English translation of this quotation) [Alternative forms] - god, gode, goed, gude [Etymology] From Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;gōd, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;gōdaz. 0 0 2010/12/07 00:10 2024/03/22 08:07
52140 good afternoon [[English]] [Etymology] Probably a shortening of "I wish you a good afternoon." [Phrase] good afternoon 1.(rather formal in US, Canada) A greeting or farewell said in the afternoon. Good afternoon everyone and thank you for coming to our special meeting today. 2.1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2: Jeeves&#x3a; Good afternoon, madam. Landlady&#x3a; Don't you good afternoon me. I'm a respectable woman. Jeeves&#x3a; I have no reason to doubt it, madam. 0 0 2024/03/22 08:07 TaN
52141 Good [[English]] ipa :/ɡʊd/[Etymology 1] - As an English surname, from the adjective good. - Also as an English surname, from the personal name Gōde, which represents the first part of names such as Godfrey, Gottfried, etc. - As a German surname, Americanized from Gut, Guth. - As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Goed, Goede. [Etymology 2] English Wikipedia has an article on:Form of the GoodWikipedia Ellipsis of the form of the Good, a calque of Ancient Greek ἡ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέα (hē toû agathoû idéa), a concept used in Plato's Republic. [[Cebuano]] [Etymology] From guod. [Proper noun] Good 1.a surname 0 0 2017/11/22 18:02 2024/03/22 08:11
52142 good and [[English]] [Adverb] good and (comparative more good and, superlative most good and) 1.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically&#x3a; see good,‎ and. 2.(idiomatic, used as an intensifier) Very; exceptionally; utterly. 3.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 25, in Treasure Island: As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is. 4.1946, H. L. Mencken, American Mercury: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. 5.2008, Nancy Huston, Fault Lines, →ISBN: &#x5b;S&#x5d;he doesn't insist on the whole vegetable-meat-fish-eggs aspect of eating, saying I'll get around to that when I'm good and ready for it. [References] - Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989. - Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996. [See also] - nice and 0 0 2024/03/22 08:34 TaN
52143 goo [[English]] ipa :/ɡuː/[Anagrams] - ogo [Etymology 1] American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue. [Etymology 2] Onomatopoeic of baby talk. [Etymology 3] See go. [References] - Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “goo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. - Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967 [See also] - moo goo gai pan (etymologically unrelated) [[Dutch]] [Anagrams] - oog [Noun] goo f (plural gooën) 1.Alternative form of gouw [[Esperanto]] ipa :[ˈɡoo][Etymology] From Japanese 碁 (go). [Noun] goo (accusative singular goon, plural gooj, accusative plural goojn) 1.go (board game) Synonym: vejĉio [[Manx]] [Etymology 1] From Old Irish guth, from Proto-Celtic &#x2a;gutus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuHtus, from &#x2a;ǵʰewH- (“to call on, invoke”). [Mutation] [[Middle English]] [References] p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864. [Verb] goo 1.Alternative form of gon (“to go”) 0 0 2012/03/03 20:07 2024/03/22 09:32
52144 copilot [[English]] [Alternative forms] - co-pilot (British spelling) [Etymology] co- +‎ pilot [Noun] copilot (plural copilots) 1.A backup or assistant pilot of an aircraft. 2.An assistant, especially one that uses artificial intelligence. [Synonyms] - second pilot - number two [Verb] copilot (third-person singular simple present copilots, present participle copiloting, simple past and past participle copiloted) 1.To serve as relief or assistant pilot. [[Catalan]] ipa :-ɔt[Etymology] From co- +‎ pilot. [Further reading] - “copilot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “copilot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024 - “copilot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. [Noun] copilot m or f by sense (plural copilots) 1.copilot [[Romanian]] [Etymology] Borrowed from French copilote. [Noun] copilot m (plural copiloți) 1.copilot 0 0 2024/03/22 10:58 TaN
52145 they're [[English]] ipa :/ðɛə(ɹ)/[Adverb] they're 1.Misspelling of there. [Anagrams] - ethery, eyther [Contraction] they're 1.Contraction of they are. [Determiner] they're 1.Misspelling of their. 0 0 2023/09/28 11:32 2024/03/22 11:00 TaN
52146 booming [[English]] ipa :/ˈbuːmɪŋ/[Adjective] booming (comparative more booming, superlative most booming) 1.Experiencing a period of prosperity, or rapid economic growth. The power of China's booming economy continues to stun the world. 2.Loud and resonant. He was asked to be MC at the function on account of his booming voice. [Noun] booming (plural boomings) 1.A deep hollow or roaring sound. 2.1825, Felicia Hemans, The Forest Sanctuary: Heavy boomings of a dull deep bell. 3.2021 March 23, Peter Holley, “They Just Moved Into an Austin Neighborhood. Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions.”, in Texas Monthly‎[1]: The fleet of several dozen cars pulled into East Austin’s Fiesta Gardens, or “Chicano Park” as locals call it, on a recent weekend with the booming of powerful stereo systems announcing their arrival. [Synonyms] - (loud, resonant): remugient, resounding; see also Thesaurus:sonorous [Verb] booming 1.present participle and gerund of boom 0 0 2022/02/25 09:59 2024/03/22 11:00 TaN
52147 geopolitical [[English]] [Adjective] geopolitical (comparative more geopolitical, superlative most geopolitical) 1.Of or relating to geopolitics. [Etymology] From geo- (“geographical”) +‎ political. 0 0 2021/07/01 17:33 2024/03/22 11:01 TaN
52148 cross [[English]] ipa :/kɹɒs/[Adjective] cross (comparative crosser, superlative crossest) 1.Transverse; lying across the main direction. At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows. 2.1704, I&#x5b;saac&#x5d; N&#x5b;ewton&#x5d;, “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC: the cross refraction of the second prism 3.(archaic) Opposite, opposed to. His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness. 4.(now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for. 5.1624, Democritus Junior &#x5b;pseudonym&#x3b; Robert Burton&#x5d;, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50: As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences. 6.c. 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness: a cross fortune 7.1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC: the cross and unlucky issue of my designs 8.1694, Robert South, Christianity Mysterious, and the Wisdom of God in Making it So (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 1694) The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind. 9.1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number): We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, &#x2f; One must be happy by the other's loss. 10.(chiefly Britain, Ottawa Valley) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed. She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job. Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me. 11.1650/1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living He had received a cross answer from his mistress. 12.Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged. cross interrogatories cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other 13.(nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting. 14.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 15: As my father remarked to me when I stole on deck to view the state of affairs, the sea was a "cross one," and very difficult to steer against. [Alternative forms] - Cross (sometimes for the historical cross of Christ) [Etymology] From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), perhaps from Old Irish cros (compare Welsh croes, Irish crois), perhaps from Latin crux (cruci). Cognate with Old Norse kross (“cross”), Icelandic kross (“cross”), Faroese krossur (“cross”), Danish kors (“cross”), Swedish kors (“cross”), German Kreuz (“cross”), Dutch kruis (“cross”). In this sense displaced native Middle English rood, from Old English rōd; see rood.The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century. [Noun] cross (plural crosses)The cross, one of the steps in a popular algorithm for solving the Rubik's Cube 1.A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other. Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one. 2.(heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross. 3.A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion). Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross. 4.(Christianity) Alternative form of Cross The Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified. 5.1811, Walter Scott, The Vision of Don Roderick&#x3b; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London&#x3a; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, stanza XXVII, page 31: From the dim landscape roll the clouds away— &#x2f; The Christians have regained their heritage&#x3b; &#x2f; Before the Cross has waned the Crescent's ray, &#x2f; And many a monastery decks the stage, &#x2f; And lofty church, and low-brow'd hermitage. 6.(Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the Cross. She made the cross after swearing. 7.(Christianity) Any representation of the Crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelery, etc. She was wearing a cross on her necklace. 8.(figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured. It's a cross I must bear. 9.1641, Ben Jonson, Timber: Heaven prepares good men with crosses. 10.The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other A quick cross of the road. 11.(biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization. 12.(by extension) A hybrid of any kind. 13.1856, Lord Dufferin, Letters from High Latitudes: Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler 14.(boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch. 15.(soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal. 16.2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎[1]: And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. 17.A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross). 18.A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross) 19.(obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general. 20.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, &#x5b;Act II, scene iv&#x5d;: I should bear no cross if I did bear you&#x3b; for I think you have no money in your purse. 21.(obsolete, Ireland) Church lands. 22.1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued: the church-lands lying within the same, which were called the Cross 23.A line across or through another line. 24.(surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course. 25.A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle. 26.(Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross. 27.(cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card. 28.(slang) Crossfire. [Preposition] cross 1.(archaic) Across. She walked cross the mountains. 2.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC: A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village. 3.The cross product of the previous vector and the following vector. The Lorentz force is q times v cross B. [Synonyms] - (production of cross-breeding or -fertilization): hybrid - (cross on which Christ was crucified): True Cross - (hand gesture): sign of the cross - (opposite to): contrarily, opposed, reverse, antipodal - (mildly angry): angry, annoyed, irritated - (to cross-fertilize or crossbreed): cross-fertilize, crossbreed [Verb] cross (third-person singular simple present crosses, present participle crossing, simple past and past participle crossed) 1.To make or form a cross. 1.To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect. She frowned and crossed her arms. 2.To lay or draw something across, such as a line. to cross the letter t 3.To mark with an X. Cross the box which applies to you. 4.To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.W 5.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’. 6.(reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself. 7.1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter”, in Mosses from an Old Manse: Again Beatrice crossed herself and sighed heavily as she bent over the dead insect. 8.(transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone). 9.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 298: "Well, no&#x21; that's what I cannot make out either," said the mother quite innocently, "for I've had castor in the cradle, - I have crossed him, and I put a silver brooch in his shirt, and I stuck a knife in the beam over the door, so I don't know how they could have managed to change him." 10.(UK, Oxford University, slang, obsolete, transitive) To mark a cross against the name of (a student) in the buttery or kitchen, so that they cannot get food there. 11.2022, Andrew Lang, Oxford The reign of Mary was scarcely more favourable to letters. No one knew what to be at in religion. In Magdalen no one could be found to say Mass, the fellows were turned out, the undergraduates were whipped — boyish martyrs — and crossed at the buttery.To move relatively. 1.(transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other. Why did the chicken cross the road&#x3f; You need to cross the street at the lights. 2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity&#x3a; An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London&#x3a; Macmillan &#x26; Co., Ltd., →OCLC: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet&#x3a; or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us. 3.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport: Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved. 4.2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 24: Whatever the merits or otherwise of Scottish independence or a united UK, plenty of people cross the border every year. 5.(intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another. Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way. 6.(transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. 7.November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq. Your kind letter crossed mine. 8.(sports) Relative movement by a player or of players. 1.(cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs. 2.(soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side. He crossed the ball into the penalty area. 3.(rugby) To score a try. 4.2011 February 12, Mark Orlovac, “England 59-13 Italy”, in BBC: England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.(social) To oppose. 1.(transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of. "You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero&#x21;" bellowed the villain. 2.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC: At length I begged him, with all the earnestness I felt, to tell me what had occurred to cross him so unusually, and to let me sympathize with him, if I could not hope to advise him. 3.1995, “Gangsta's Paradise”, in Artis Ivey, Jr., Karry Sanders, Doug Rasheed (lyrics), Gangsta's Paradise (CD), performed by Coolio and L.V., Tommy Boy, →OCLC: But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it &#x2f; Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of &#x2f; You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin' &#x2f; Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk 4.(transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off ; to debar. 5.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, &#x5b;Act III, scene ii&#x5d;: to cross me from the golden time I look for 6.(law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.(biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed. They managed to cross a sheep with a goat. - 1978, Kim Applegate Peggs, Carpenter, volume 96, page 16: Question&#x3a; What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino&#x3f; Answer &#x3a; El-if-I-no.(transitive) To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account. - 1924, Commerce Reports, volume 1, number 13, page 849: The English practice of crossing checks so that payment may be made to the bank account or to order is prevalent. [[Basque]] ipa :/kros̺/[Further reading] - "cross" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus [Noun] cross inan 1.Proscribed spelling of kros (“cross country”) [[French]] ipa :/kʁɔs/[Etymology] From English. [Further reading] - “cross”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] cross m (uncountable) 1.(sports) cross-country [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈkrɔs/[Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English cross. [Noun] cross m (invariable) 1.motocross 2.cross (boxing punch, tennis shot) 3.slice (golf shot) [[Middle English]] ipa :/krɔs/[Alternative forms] - cros, croz, crosse, crosce [Etymology] From Old English cros, borrowed from Old Norse kross, borrowed from Old Irish cros, borrowed from Latin crux. Doublet of crouche and croys. [Noun] cross (plural crosses) 1.A cross or gibbet (wooden frame for execution). 2.The Holy Cross; Christ's cross. 3.A representation of a cross; the cross as a Christian symbol: 1.(heraldry) A cross in heraldry. 2.A crucifix (cross-shaped structure). 3.A crosier (clerical staff) 4.The intersection of drawn lines, especially as a signature.(figurative) The cross in Christian metaphor&#x3a; 1.Crucifixion; nailing to a cross. 2.Suffering, penury. 3.(biblical) Christianity; the Christian religion.The sign of the cross. [[Swedish]] [Noun] cross c 1.a ball hit more or less diagonally across the playing field 1.(soccer) a cross 2.(tennis) a cross-courtmotocross (or similar sports) Synonym: motocrossa motorbike (small and light motorcycle (as used in or similar to those used in motocross)) åka cross i skogen ride a motorbike in the forest - 2000, The Latin Kings (lyrics and music), “De e knas [There's trouble]”, in Mitt kvarter [My neighborhood]: Träffade shunne på en nybaxad cross. Han frågade om jag ska ha skjuts och bjussade på ett bloss. Met the dude on a freshly-stolen motorbike. He asked if I need a ride and gave me a smoke. [References] - cross in Svensk ordbok (SO) - cross in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) 0 0 2009/02/05 13:48 2024/03/22 11:01 TaN
52149 hostile [[English]] ipa :/ˈhɒstaɪl/[Adjective] hostile (comparative more hostile, superlative most hostile) 1.Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure. Synonyms: inimical, unfriendly a hostile force hostile intentions a hostile country hostile to a sudden change 2.Aggressive; antagonistic. 3.Unwilling. 4.(not comparable) Being or relating to a hostile takeover. Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo&#x21; as soon as Friday, according to a published report. [Anagrams] - Elohist, eoliths, holiest, sholtie [Antonyms] - friendly [Etymology] Borrowed from Middle French hostile, from Latin hostīlis, from hostis (“enemy”). Displaced Old English fēondlīċ. [Noun] hostile (plural hostiles) 1.(chiefly in the plural) An enemy. 2.2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 10&#x3a;55 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 &#x3a; 2 USN)‎[1], archived from the original on 4 December 2022: The Japanese got their attack in first. About ten minutes after passing the U.S. aircraft, they spotted Hornet (local weather patterns temporarily concealing Enterprise). Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same &#x5b;…&#x5d; [Synonyms] - antagonistic - hateful - See also Thesaurus:hostile [[French]] ipa :/ɔs.til/[Adjective] hostile (plural hostiles) 1.hostile 2.unfriendly [Etymology] Inherited from Middle French hostile, hostif (this form with a change of suffix), borrowed from Latin hostilis. [Further reading] - “hostile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Synonyms] - ennemi [[Latin]] [Adjective] hostīle 1.nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of hostīlis [References] - hostile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) 0 0 2010/01/26 09:53 2024/03/22 11:02 TaN
52150 Cross [[English]] [Etymology] - As an English surname, from the noun cross, as in crossroads. Also a calque of this word in various European languages, such as French Lacroix, German Kreutz, Serbo-Croatian Križ. Compare Crouch, Crozier, Kriz. - As an Irish surname, shortened from McCrossen. - As a German surname, Americanized from Kross, from Middle Low German krus (“pitcher, vessel”), which is possibly an old Germanic borrowing of Ancient Greek κρωσσός (krōssós, “pitcher, pail, urn”). Also a variant of Kress. [Proper noun] Cross 1.(Christianity) The cross on which Jesus died and, in metonymical uses, such as to refer to Christ's suffering in general)}. Synonyms: Holy Cross, True Cross, Crucifix 2.A number of places with the name "Cross": 1.A settlement on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB5062). 2.A hamlet in St Dominick parish, east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4067) [1] 3.A hamlet in Georgeham parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4539). 4.A hamlet in Goodleigh parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS6034). 5.A hamlet north of Ellesmere, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3936). [2] 6.A village in Compton Bishop parish, Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4154). 7.A village and townland in County Clare, Ireland, Irish spelling An Chrois. 8.A village in County Mayo, Ireland, Irish spelling An Chrois. 9.An unincorporated community in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States. 10.An unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. 11.A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, United States.  Cross (surname) on WikipediaCross 1.A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road. 2.1922, Musical News and Herald, volumes 62-63, page 780: Max Cross cut a fine figure as the Colonel, Percy Penny was a somewhat unducal Duke, while Edgar McHale gave a particularly good rendering of the Major. [References] 1. ^ OS: Cornwall 2. ^ OS: Shropshire [See also] - Crozier - Kreuzer 0 0 2021/08/12 16:19 2024/03/22 11:02 TaN
52151 china [[English]] ipa :/ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/[Alternative forms] - China (generally dated) - (dialectal): chiney, cheny, cheney, chenea, chainy, chaney, chany, chaynee, chayney, cheenie, cheeny, chainé [Anagrams] - Anich, Chain, Chian, chain [Etymology] From clippings of attributive use of China, q.v., the country in East Asia. In reference to porcelain and porcelain objects, via clipping of china-ware and via this sense of Persian چین (čini) in Persia and India, which influenced the pronunciation (see below). In reference to medicine, via clipping of China root. In reference to flowers, via clipping of China rose. In reference to tea, via clipping of China tea. In Cockney slang, a clipping of china plate as a rhyme of mate (“friend”). In reference to drum cymbals, a clipping of China cymbal and as a genericization of a kind of Zildjian-brand cymbal. [Noun] china (countable and uncountable, plural chinas) 1.(uncountable) Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china. It's a china doll. 2.(uncountable) Chinaware: porcelain tableware. 3.1634, Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, page 41: They sell Callicoes, Cheney Sattin, Cheney ware. 4.1653, Henry Cogan translating Fernão Mendes Pinto as The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, p. 206: ...a Present of certain very rich Pieces of China. He set the table with china, cloth napkins, and crystal stemware. The traditional 20th anniversary gift is china. 5.(uncountable, chiefly US, dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain. 6.1921 May 11, “Edison Questions Stir Up a Storm”, in New York Times: What is porcelain&#x3f; A fine earthenware differing from china in being harder, whiter, harder to fuse and more translucent than ordinary pottery. 7.(uncountable) Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine. 8.1624, Democritus Junior &#x5b;pseudonym&#x3b; Robert Burton&#x5d;, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v: China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold &#x5b;…&#x5d;. 9.(uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff. 10.1790, Alexander Wilson, Poems, page 55: ...And then the last boon I'll implore, Is to bless us with China so tight... 11.(countable) Synonym of China rose, in its various senses. 12.1844, Jane Loudon, The Ladies' Companion to the Flower Garden, 3rd edition, page 344: Rosa indica (the common China)&#x3b; Rosa semperflorens (the monthly China). 13. 14. (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, Australia, South Africa) Synonym of mate (rhyme of china-plate). All right, me old china&#x3f; 15.1880, Daniel William Barrett, Life and Work among the Navvies, 2nd edition, page 41: ‘Now, then, my china-plate...’ This is essentially a brick~layer's phrase. If for ‘china-plate’ you substitute ‘mate’, &#x5b;…&#x5d; the puzzle is revealed. 16.1925, Edward Fraser et al., Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases, page 53: China, or Old China&#x3a; chum. 17.(uncountable, dated) Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars. 18.1907, Yesterday's Shopping, page 1: Tea... Finest China, Plain (Moning). 19.(countable, games, chiefly US, obsolete) A glazed china marble. 20.1932 March, Dan Beard, “New-Fashioned Kites and Old-Fashioned Marbles”, in Boys' Life, page 27: The marbles, in those days, had their primitive names. The unglazed china ones were called plasters because they looked like plaster&#x3b; the glazed china marbles were called chinas. I remember how charming were the partly colored lines which encircled them. 21.(countable, music) A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences. 22.2010, Carmine Appice, Drums for Everyone, page 78: China cymbals are a type of short sound cymbal. &#x5b;Brand X&#x5d; makes chinas with really short sounds. [References] - “China, n.¹ and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889. - “china”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. [[Asturian]] [Adjective] china 1.feminine singular of chinu [[Franco-Provençal]] [Noun] china f 1.female dog [[French]] [Anagrams] - nicha [Verb] china 1.third-person singular past historic of chiner [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈki.na/[Etymology 1] See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [Etymology 2] Deverbal from chinare +‎ -a. [Etymology 3] Borrowed from Spanish quina, quinaquina, from Quechua. [Etymology 4] From Portuguese China, namely "ink of China". [Etymology 5] See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[Japanese]] [Romanization] china 1.Rōmaji transcription of ちな [[Kalasha]] [Adjective] china 1.Alternative spelling of čhína [[Macanese]] [Adjective] china 1.Chinese (from or relating to China) [Derived terms] - Ano-Novo-China (“Chinese New Year”) - auto-china (“Chinese opera”) - cám china, cachôro-china (“dog whose bark is worse than his bite”) - china di lête (“dairyman”) - china falâ (“as the Chinese say”) - china-merenda (“Chinese snack-seller”) - china pobre (“beggar”) - china-rico (“Chinese magnate”) - mestre-china (“Chinese healer”) - ramendâ china-china (“just like the Chinese”) - téra-china (“mainland China”) [Noun] china (plural china-china) 1.a Chinese person, especially from mainland China 2.(collective) the Chinese China tâ dismanchâ baraca The Chinese are taking down the scaffolding [References] - https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm [Synonyms] - náchi [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈʃĩ.nɐ/[Etymology 1] Borrowed from Spanish china, from Quechua china (“female”). [Etymology 2] From China. [[Quechua]] ipa :/ˈt͡ʃina/[Noun] china 1.female (of humans or animals) 2.a woman of low social status 3.servant, slavegirl [References] - “china” in Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (2006) Diccionario quechua-español-quechua, 2nd edition, Cusco: Edmundo Pantigozo. [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈt͡ʃina/[Etymology 1] From the infantile/nursery word chin, a children's guessing game.[1][2] [Etymology 3] Borrowed from Quechua china (“female”). [Etymology 4] Allusion to the orange fruit's Asian origin (as in sinensis in Citrus sinensis). [Further reading] - “china”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [References] 1. ^ “china”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 2. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN 0 0 2009/02/16 23:33 2024/03/22 11:02 TaN
52152 wager [[English]] ipa :/ˈweɪd͡ʒɚ/[Etymology 1] From Middle English wajour, wageour, wager, from Old Northern French wageure, from wagier (“to pledge”) (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager). See also wage. [Etymology 2] From the verb, wage +‎ -er. [References] 1. ^ “wager”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. [See also] - minimum-wager [[Middle English]] [Noun] wager 1.Alternative form of wajour 0 0 2021/01/26 10:02 2024/03/22 15:53 TaN
52153 permission [[English]] ipa :/pəˈmɪʃən/[Alternative forms] - permistion, permixtion (obsolete) [Anagrams] - impression [Antonyms] - prohibition [Etymology] From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”). [Further reading] - File system permissions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions) 1.authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority) Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor? 2.The act of permitting. 3.(computing) Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how. I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission. [See also] - clearance [Verb] permission (third-person singular simple present permissions, present participle permissioning, simple past and past participle permissioned) 1.(transitive) To grant or obtain authorization for. 2.2003, Mary Ellen Lepionka, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook‎[1], page 190: Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online. [[French]] ipa :/pɛʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/[Etymology] Borrowed from Latin permissiōnem. [Further reading] - “permission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] permission f (plural permissions) 1.permission 2.military leave Ces soldats sont en permission, s’en vont en permission, reviennent de permission. 0 0 2009/12/08 15:09 2024/03/22 20:50
52154 permision [[Mauritian Creole]] ipa :/pɛːmisjɔ̃/[Etymology] From French permission. [Noun] permision 1.permission Synonym: otorizasion 0 0 2024/03/22 20:50 TaN

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