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52170 savoy [[English]] [Noun] savoy (plural savoys) 1.Alternative letter-case form of Savoy (“type of cabbage”) 0 0 2024/03/28 14:26 TaN
52171 SOS [[Translingual]] ipa :[ɛsoːˈʔɛs][Etymology 1] Chosen because its Morse code sequence (...---...) was easy to remember and recognize even through interference. Many mnemonics and backronyms were later formed from the sequence. [[English]] ipa :/ˌɛs.əʊˈɛs/[Anagrams] - 'oss, OSS, OSs, SSO, oss [Etymology 1] English Wikipedia has an article on:SOSWikipedia From the letters represented by the signal, chosen as a sequence that is easy to recall and transmit (· · · — — — · · ·); it is not, as is commonly believed, an abbreviation for "save our souls", "save our ship", or any other phrase. [Etymology 3] English Wikipedia has an article on:SOS (game)Wikipedia [[Japanese]] ipa :[e̞sɨᵝo̞ːe̞sɨᵝ][Etymology] Borrowed from English SOS. [Noun] S(エス)O(オー)S(エス) • (esuōesu)  1.SOS (conventional Morse code call made by a ship in distress) 2.(by extension) the state of being sought an emergency rescue 火(か)星(せい)からのS(エス)O(オー)S(エス) Kasei kara no esuōesu an SOS from Mars 3.silicon on sapphire [References] 1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN [[Swedish]] [Anagrams] - oss [Etymology 1] Internationalism. Ultimately from the fact that its morse code is easy to remember. First attested in 1923.[1] [Etymology 2] English Wikipedia has an article on:S.O.S. (appetizer)Wikipedia Butter, cheese, and herringInitialism of smör, ost, sill (“butter, cheese, herring”). Probably humorous in origin, most likely from the distress signal of the same name. [Etymology 3] Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:Sveriges officiella statistikWikipedia svAbbreviation of Sveriges officiella statistik (“Sweden's official statistic”). [Etymology 4] English Wikipedia has an article on:SödersjukhusetWikipedia Abbreviation of Södersjukhuset. [References] 1. ^ SOS in Svensk ordbok (SO) 0 0 2020/08/08 20:39 2024/03/29 07:09
52172 takeaways [[English]] [Anagrams] - takes away [Noun] takeaways 1.plural of takeaway 0 0 2024/03/29 11:11 TaN
52173 ingratitude [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈɡɹætɪtud/[Etymology] From Old French ingratitude, from Late Latin ingrātitūdō. By surface analysis, in- +‎ gratitude. [Noun] ingratitude (usually uncountable, plural ingratitudes) 1.A lack or absence of gratitude; thanklessness. 2.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020: “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds &#x3b; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]” 3.1966, Age & Scarpelli, Sergio Leone, and Luciano Vincenzoni (writers), Sergio Leone (director), Clint Eastwood (actor), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (movie), Produzioni Europee Associati: Blondie: Tut, tut. Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life. Antonym: gratitude [[French]] ipa :/ɛ̃.ɡʁa.ti.tyd/[Etymology] Inherited from Old French, from Late Latin ingrātitūdō. [Further reading] - “ingratitude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] ingratitude f (plural ingratitudes) 1.ingratitude, ungratefulness Antonym: gratitude 0 0 2024/03/29 11:27 TaN
52174 comple [[Latin]] [Verb] complē 1.second-person singular present active imperative of compleō 0 0 2024/03/29 16:57 TaN
52175 complementary [[English]] ipa :/ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/[Adjective] complementary (comparative more complementary, superlative most complementary) 1.Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else. I'll provide you with some complementary notes to help you study. The two business partners had complementary abilities: one had excellent people skills, while the other had a head for figures. 2.1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 140: Using the terminology we introduced earlier, we might then say that black and white squares are in complementary distribution on a chessboard. By this we mean two things: firstly, black squares and white squares occupy different positions on the board: and secondly, the black and white squares complement each other in the sense that the black squares together with the white squares comprise the total set of 64 squares found on the board (i.e. there is no square on the board which is not either black or white). 3.(genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA. 4.(physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.) [Etymology] From complement +‎ -ary. [Further reading] - “complementary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “complementary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [Noun] complementary (plural complementaries) 1.A complementary colour. 2.(obsolete) One skilled in compliments. 3.1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC: the hands of the most skilful and cunning complementaries alive 4.An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees. 0 0 2021/05/12 11:25 2024/03/29 16:57 TaN
52176 ticked [[English]] [Adjective] ticked (comparative more ticked, superlative most ticked) 1.(Canada, US, slang) Ticked off; annoyed. 2.flecked, multicolored [Anagrams] - detick [Verb] ticked 1.simple past and past participle of tick 0 0 2021/10/04 12:47 2024/04/01 11:20 TaN
52177 tick [[English]] ipa :/tɪk/[Etymology 1] A tick (Ixodes hexagonus)From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīkō, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke. [Etymology 2] From Middle English tek (“light touch, tap”). [Etymology 3] From Middle English tike, probably from Middle Dutch, from Latin theca (“cover”). [Etymology 4] Clipping of ticket. [Etymology 5] From Middle English tik-, tic-, tike-, tiken- (in compounds), an unassibilated form of Middle English tiche, tichen (“young goat”), from Old English tiċċen (“young goat; kid”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikkīn (“goatling”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *tigā (“goat”). Cognate with regional German Zicke (“nanny goat”), from Ziege (“goat; nanny goat”). [[German]] [Verb] tick 1.singular imperative of ticken [[Swedish]] [Etymology] Deverbal from ticka. [Further reading] - tick in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Noun] tick n 1.tick (quiet but sharp sound) [[Yola]] [Noun] tick 1.Alternative form of titch 2.1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX: One of these maids was bringing to market a tick (a kid) [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 130 0 0 2010/06/02 00:14 2024/04/01 11:20
52178 corporate [[English]] ipa :/ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/[Adjective] corporate (comparative more corporate, superlative most corporate) 1. 2. Of or relating to a corporation. The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise. 3.2006, 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. 4.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18: Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much. 5. 6. Formed into a corporation; incorporated. 7. 8. Unified into one body; collective. the corporate authorship of the working group 9.c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]: They answer in a joint and corporate voice. [Anagrams] - proto-race [Etymology] From Middle English corporat, corporate (a verb in the Middle English Dictionary but “this may be a true adjective” was added as a note), from Latin corporātus, past participle of corporāre (“to make into a body”), which in turn was formed from corpus (“body”). See also corpse. [Noun] corporate (countable and uncountable, plural corporates) 1.(finance) A bond issued by a corporation. 2.2009 January 11, Robert D. Hershey Jr., “Look Past 2008 Stars for Gains in Bonds”, in New York Times: So-called junk corporates and emerging-market debt remain generally out of favor. 3.A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience. 4.2013, Simon Dunmore, Actors' Yearbook 2014: Currently there are 19 members, who are all in Spotlight and belong to Equity. Areas of work include theatre, musicals, television, film, commercials, corporates and voiceovers. 5.(business, countable) A corporation that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise. McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today. 6.(business, countable) A corporate company or group. 7.(business, informal, uncountable) The higher managerial echelons of a corporation. it came down from corporate The work could be rewarding, but corporate is micro-managing everything. [References] - “corporate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - corporate in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018. - “corporate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [Verb] corporate (third-person singular simple present corporates, present participle corporating, simple past and past participle corporated) 1.(obsolete, transitive) To incorporate. 2.1598, John Stow, A Survey of London: This hospital of Savoy was again new founded, erected, corporated , and endowed with lands by Queen Mary 3.(obsolete, intransitive) To become incorporated. [[Latin]] [Verb] corporāte 1.second-person plural present active imperative of corporō 0 0 2009/12/12 14:18 2024/04/01 11:21
52179 reading [[English]] ipa :/ˈɹiːdɪŋ/[Anagrams] - Dearing, dearing, deraign, gradine, grained, inraged [Etymology 1] From Middle English reding, redyng, redand, from Old English rǣdende, present participle of rǣdan (“to read”), equivalent to read +‎ -ing. [Etymology 2] From Middle English reding, redynge, redunge, from Old English rǣding (“reading”), equivalent to read +‎ -ing. [Further reading] - “reading”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 0 0 2024/04/01 11:21 TaN
52180 Reading [[English]] ipa :/ˈɹɛdɪŋ/[Anagrams] - Dearing, dearing, deraign, gradine, grained, inraged [Etymology] From Old English Rēadingas, the name of a tribe or clan of early Anglo-Saxon England whose capital was at Reading. [Further reading] - Reading, Berkshire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Proper noun] Reading 1.A surname. 2.A large town in Berkshire, England. A unitary authority (Reading Borough Council) in Berkshire. 3.A number of places in the United States: 1.A city in Kansas. 2.A town in Massachusetts. 3.A city in Michigan. 4.An unincorporated community in Nobles County, Minnesota. 5.A town in New York. 6.A city in Hamilton County, Ohio. 7.An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio. 8.A city, the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania. 9.A town in Vermont. 10.A number of townships, listed under Reading Township.A small town in Saint James parish, Jamaica. 0 0 2024/04/01 11:21 TaN
52182 fixed [[English]] ipa :/fɪkst/[Adjective] fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed) 1.Attached; affixed. 2.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4: The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally […] 3.Not able to move; unmovable. 4.Not able to change or vary. fixed assets I work fixed hours for a fixed salary. Every religion has its own fixed ideas. He looked at me with a fixed glare. 5.Unlikely to change; Stable. 1. 2. (chemistry) Chemically stable.Supplied with what one needs. She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.(law) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium. In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.(dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated). a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixedRigged; fraudulently prearranged.(of a problem) Resolved; corrected.Repaired [Anagrams] - defix [Antonyms] - (Not able to move): mobile, moveable/movable - (Not able to change): Thesaurus: mutable - (Not able to vary): variable - (Unlikely to change): volatile [See also] - broken - crooked - bribe [Synonyms] - (Not able to move): immobile, unmoveable/unmovable - (Not able to change): Thesaurus: immutable - (Not able to vary): invariable - (Unlikely to change): stable [Verb] fixed 1.simple past and past participle of fix 0 0 2024/03/08 09:43 2024/04/01 11:23 TaN
52183 fixe [[English]] [Anagrams] - EXIF [See also] - idée fixe [Verb] fixe (third-person singular simple present fixes, present participle fixing, simple past and past participle fixed or fixt) 1.Archaic form of fix. [[Dutch]] [Verb] fixe 1.(dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of fixen [[French]] ipa :/fiks/[Etymology 1] Borrowed from Latin fīxus. [Etymology 2] Borrowed from English fix. [Further reading] - “fixe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [[German]] ipa :[ˈfɪksə][Adjective] fixe 1.inflection of fix: 1.strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular 2.strong nominative/accusative plural 3.weak nominative all-gender singular 4.weak accusative feminine/neuter singular [[Latin]] [Participle] fīxe 1.vocative masculine singular of fīxus [References] - “fixe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - fixe 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) - fixe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette [[Norman]] [Adjective] fixe m or f 1.(Jersey) fixed [Etymology] Borrowed from Latin fixus, perfect passive participle of fīgō, fīgere (“fasten, fix”). [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈfi.ʃi/[Etymology 1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Etymology 2] From fixo, influenced by French fixe, both from Latin fīxus. [[Swedish]] [Adjective] fixe 1.definite natural masculine singular of fix 0 0 2024/04/01 11:23 TaN
52184 fixé [[French]] [Further reading] - “fixé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Participle] fixé (feminine fixée, masculine plural fixés, feminine plural fixées) 1.past participle of fixer 0 0 2024/04/01 11:23 TaN
52185 insurgent [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈsəːdʒ(ə)nt/[Adjective] insurgent (not comparable) 1.Rebellious, opposing authority. 2.1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic: The insurgent provinces. 3.Of water: surging or rushing in. 4.1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 33: Vesuvio groans through all his echoing caves, / And Etna thunders o'er the insurgent waves. [Anagrams] - retunings, unresting [Etymology] From Latin īnsurgentem, accusative singular of īnsurgēns, present active participle of īnsurgō (“I rise up against, revolt”), from in (“against”) + surgō (“I rise”), itself from sub (“up from below”) + regō (“I guide, direct, rule, govern, administer”), from Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“to move in a straight line, to rule, guide, lead straight, put right”). [Noun] insurgent (plural insurgents) 1.One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency. [[Catalan]] ipa :-ent[Adjective] insurgent m or f (masculine and feminine plural insurgents) 1.insurgent [Etymology] Borrowed from Latin īnsurgentem. [Further reading] - “insurgent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “insurgent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024 - “insurgent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “insurgent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Noun] insurgent m (plural insurgents) 1.insurgent [[French]] [Verb] insurgent 1.third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of insurger [[Latin]] [Verb] īnsurgent 1.third-person plural future active indicative of īnsurgō [[Romanian]] [Etymology] Borrowed from Latin insurgens or German Insurgent. [Noun] insurgent m (plural insurgenți) 1.insurgent 0 0 2009/11/27 12:31 2024/04/01 11:29 TaN
52186 runaway [[English]] ipa :/ˈɹʌnəweɪ/[Adjective] runaway (comparative more runaway, superlative most runaway) 1.Having run away; escaped; fugitive. a runaway thief 1.(of a horse or other animal) Having escaped from the control of the rider or driver. a runaway donkey 2.Pertaining to or accomplished by running away or eloping. a runaway marriageEasily won, as a contest. a runaway victory at the pollsAccelerating out of control. a runaway train a runaway greenhouse effectUnchecked; rampant. runaway prices(informal) Deserting or revolting against one's group, duties, expected conduct, or the like, especially to establish or join a rival group, change one's life drastically, etc. The runaway delegates nominated their own candidate. [Alternative forms] - run-away [Derived terms] - Fisherian runaway - Robin runaway - runaway bride - run-awayer - runaway selection - runaway shop - runaway star - runaway truck ramp - zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse  [Etymology] Deverbal from run away. [Noun] runaway (plural runaways) 1.A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions. Runaways are vulnerable to criminal exploitation. 2.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]: Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled? 3.1556, Ralph Robinson, Utopia: originally printed in Latin, 1516, translation of original by Sir Thomas More, page 96: If any man of his owne heade and without leaue, walke out of his precint and boundes, taken without the princes letters, he is broughte againe for a fugitiue or a runaway with great shame and rebuke, and is sharpely punished. 4.A vehicle (especially, a train) that is out of control. 5.1850, “The Romance of the Electric Telegraph”, in New monthly magazine, volume 41: On New Year's Day, 1850, a catastrophe, which it is fearful to contemplate, was averted by the aid of the telegraph. A collision had occurred to an empty train at Gravesend&#x3b; and the driver having leaped from his engine, the latter started alone at full speed to London. Notice was immediately given by telegraph to London and other stations&#x3b; and while the line was kept clear, an engine and other arrangements were prepared as a buttress to receive the runaway. 6.1886, John H. Cooper, “Handling Grain in California”, in Transactions, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, volume 7: Runaways are rendered impossible, as the machine can be instantly stopped by means of a double brake connected with the driver's seat 7.1897, Editor American Machinist, “Runaway Engines and Governors”, in American machinist: We hear many ideas advanced as to the cause of engines running away, more especially in electric stations, while the wonder is that the runaways are so few. 8.1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54: Just south of Wamphray Station, they overtook the runaway. The dim figure of Mitchell could be seen sitting huddled behind the stormboard. They shouted and whistled. He paid no attention. 9.1962 April, “Motive power miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 280: The former Midland main lines out of Bristol were blocked for more than 18hr after a freight train runaway soon after midnight on February 7. "Jubilee" No. 45615 on the 4.20 p.m. Burton-Bristol freight, which conveyed a quantity of beer, lost control of its train on the 1 in 67 Fishponds incline and ran into the rear of empty stock [...]. 10.(usually attributive) An object or process that is out of control or out of equilibrium. 11.1989, Gerald Appel, Winning market systems: On the chart, the start of a runaway is marked by a box 12.1993 June 15, CIO, volume 6, number 14, page 26: An IS executive's worst nightmare, such runaways are a fact of life. Practically all large companies and organizations have experienced a runaway or are wrestling with a seriously botched project. 13.2000, F. Matteucci with Franco Giovannelli, The evolution of the Milky Way, page 142: The standard X-ray binary Cyg Xl, with a massive BH candidate, is a runaway, This could suggest that a SN explosion occurred. Cluster ejection to make a runaway can not be excluded although in the case of Cyg Xl, the progenitor runaway must have been a binary 14.2008, Francis Stoessel, Thermal safety of chemical processes, page 257: Where practicable, this passive measure reduces the consequences of a runaway. 15.The act of running away, especially of a horse or teams. 16.2012, John H. White, Jr., Wet Britches and Muddy Boots, page 171: The drivers were generally boys […] They would stop the team when other boats passed and at locks while waiting for the water to rise or fall. They could also be useful in preventing or stopping runaways. Horses were easily startled and might bolt off the tow path or into the canal itself. 17.An overwhelming victory. The home side won in a runaway. [References] - Dictionary.com [Related terms] - run away 0 0 2021/05/27 18:29 2024/04/01 20:49 TaN
52187 skittish [[English]] ipa :/ˈskɪtɪʃ/[Adjective] skittish (comparative more skittish, superlative most skittish) 1.Easily scared or startled; timid. The dog likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers. 2.1557, Roger Edgeworth, Sermons Very Fruitfull, Godly, and Learned, London: Robert Caly, The fiftenth treatice or Sermon,[1] All such be like a skittish starting horse, whiche coming ouer a bridge, wil start for a shadowe, or for a stone lying by him, and leapeth ouer on the other side into the water, & drowneth both horse and man. 3.Wanton; changeable; fickle. 4.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]: How some men creep in skittish fortune’s hall, Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes! 5.1785, William Cowper, “Book II. The Time-piece.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], →OCLC, page 69: […] ’Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should wooe a soul&#x3b; To break a jest, when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation&#x3b; and t’ address The skittish fancy with facetious tales, When sent with God’s commission to the heart. 6.Difficult to manage; tricky. 7.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym&#x3b; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 15, in Middlemarch […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII): For everybody’s family doctor was remarkably clever, and was understood to have immeasurable skill in the management and training of the most skittish or vicious diseases. [Etymology] Probably from skite (“to move lightly and hurriedly; to move suddenly, particularly in an oblique direction (Scotland, Northern England)”) +‎ -ish; compare skitter. [See also] - startle [Synonyms] - (easily scared or startled): spookish, jumpy, skittery, skitterish, squirrelly 0 0 2024/04/01 20:56 TaN
52188 dining [[English]] ipa :/ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/[Anagrams] - indign, niding [Noun] dining (countable and uncountable, plural dinings) 1.Eating dinner as a social function. 2.1869, The XIX Century, volume 1, page 6: For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana&#x3b; the cheering crowds upon the quay&#x3b; the friends we met and made&#x3b; the dinings in and dinings out […] 3.Entertaining someone to dinner. [Verb] dining 1.present participle and gerund of dine 0 0 2024/04/01 21:02 TaN
52189 fast-food [[English]] [Adjective] fast-food (not comparable) 1.Of, pertaining to, or serving fast food. [[French]] [Noun] fast-food m (plural fast-foods) 1.fast food 2.a fast food restaurant [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˌfɛs.t͡ʃiˈfu.d͡ʒi/[Noun] fast-food m or f (plural fast-foods) 1.Alternative spelling of fast food [[Romanian]] [Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English fast-food. [Noun] fast-food n (plural fast-fooduri) 1.fast-food 0 0 2023/10/16 09:07 2024/04/01 21:03 TaN
52190 fast food [[English]] ipa :/ˈfæst ˈfuːd/[Alternative forms] - fast-food, fastfood [Noun] fast food (usually uncountable, plural fast foods) 1.Food that is served quickly, often standardized and pre-prepared. 2.A type of food that is quickly made, but of low nutritional value; junk food. 3.1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Television As An instrument of Terror, page 189: In the course of the last decade, it has become the dominant “fast-food” franchise in America—and it is now spreading abroad, carrying its gospel of machine technology wedded to cheap hamburgers wherever it can find a mouth-hold, and converting anyone it can to the glories of junk food 4.1986, “JUNK. OR. GEMS?”, in 1000s of free things: or almost free, page 131: Everyone loves some junk food some of the time. That's why there are more than 140,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S. 5.1999, Carol Silverman Saunders, Safe at School: Awareness and Action for Parents of Kids Grades K-12: In high schools with open campuses, students leave at lunchtime to buy fast food elsewhere. Since leaving school is unsafe, schools are opting to serve less nutritious foods so the students stay on campus. For example, many schools have invited junk food franchises into their cafeterias, including Subway, Taco Bell, and Domino's. 6.2012 June 6, Dawn C. Chmielewski, “Disney bans junk-food advertising on programs for children”, in Los Angeles Times: Disney even chose to stop licensing its film characters for McDonald’s Happy Meals, citing the link between fast food and childhood obesity. 7.2019 January 15, Lauren Tousignant, “Junk food ads overwhelmingly target black, Hispanic kids”, in New York Post: Junk food companies spent billions of advertising dollars in 2017 targeting black and Hispanic kids, a new study has revealed. / Television ads for fast food, sugary drinks and fatty or salty snacks are almost exclusively targeted to minority youth, the report, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found. 8.Anything standardized, quickly available, and inexpensive, often, of low value. 9.2002 March 29, “Going Offshore”, in Time: The best evidence is that Sandals, the fast-food king of island weddings, now markets the term weddingmoons. 10.2007, Margo Candela, Life over easy: Guys are good for two things: 1) help when you need to move something heavy, and 2) fast-food sex where you always know what's on the menu and, with a little work, you can supersize it 11.2008 August 19, Carmen K. Sisson, “A Georgia church tries drive-in worship”, in Christian Science Monitor, page 25: Outside, the drive-in crowd is heading back into the Sturm und Drang of city traffic and a fast-food world [Synonyms] - (type of meal served quickly): short order - (quick meal of low nutritional value): junk food [[Polish]] ipa :/fast fut/[Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English fast food. [Further reading] - fast food in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - fast food in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Noun] fast food m inan 1.snack bar Synonym: bar szybkiej obsługi 2.fast food (type of meal that is often pre-prepared and served quickly) [[Portuguese]] [Alternative forms] - fast-food [Etymology] Unadapted borrowing from English fast food. [Noun] fast food m or f (plural fast foods) 1.fast food (type of meal that is often pre-prepared and served quickly) Synonym: comida-rápida 0 0 2024/04/01 21:03 TaN
52191 fastfood [[English]] [Noun] fastfood (uncountable) 1.Alternative form of fast food 2.1996, Kathlyn Gay, Martin K. Gay, Encyclopedia of North American Eating & Drinking Traditions, Customs & Rituals, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 32: Today, though, millions of American workers and students have their breakfast “on the run,” choosing morning sandwich meals from the nearest fastfood establishment, eating a breakfast sandwich such as the Egg McMuffin or Breakfast Burrito from MacDonald’s, a Croissan’wich from Burger King, or a bagel sandwich from a deli. If fastfood is not an option, a frozen muffin or biscuit sandwich heated in the microwave, a Waffle ’Wich made from sliced turkey and cream cheese between frozen waffles, or even pizza toast made with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese are other types of breakfast sandwiches that have become popular in recent years. 3.2000, William G. Nickels, James M. McHugh, Susan M. McHugh, Paul D. Berman, “Ethical Behaviour, the Environment, and Social Responsibility”, in Understanding Canadian Business, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, →ISBN, part 1 (Business Trends: Cultivating a Business in Diverse Global Environments), chapter section “The Impact of Environmental Issues on Business”, pages 150–151: Any company that puffs smoke through a stack on the roof—and that includes restaurants, fastfood or otherwise—may already be breaking regulations without knowing it. […] Furthermore, containers and other packaging are being made biodegradable. Many fastfood restaurants have followed this trend. 4.2002, Ted Nugent, Shemane Nugent, “I Kill It, I Grill It”, in Kill It & Grill It: A Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 2: And we sure as hell wouldn’t waste good hunger or any one of our much anticipated family mealtimes on fastfood or junkfood. At the Nugent tribal dinnertable we think of fastfood as a mallard or quail, garlic’d and buttered to perfection. 0 0 2024/04/01 21:03 TaN
52192 roam [[English]] ipa :/ɹəʊm/[Anagrams] - Amor, Mora, Omar, Oram, Roma, amor, moar, mora, roma [Etymology] From Middle English romen, from Old English rāmian, from Proto-Germanic *raimōną (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ārǣman (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German rāmēn (“to aim”)[1] ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble. [Noun] roam (plural roams) 1.The act of roaming; a wander; a travel without aim or destination 2.2017, Rick Maloy, Evenings and Mournings: Glass in hand, he set off on a roam of the first floor. [References] 1. ^ “roam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. [Synonyms] - (wander freely): err, shrithe, wander [Verb] roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle roamed) 1.(intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. 2.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XVII, page 28: Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam, ⁠My blessing, like a line of light, ⁠Is on the waters day and night, And like a beacon guards thee home. 3.1986, Marc Jordan, John Capek, “Rhythm of My Heart”, in Vagabond Heart‎[1], performed by Rod Stewart, published 1991: Oh, never will I roam / Now I know my place is home / Where the ocean meets the sky / I'll be sailin' 4.2013 November 26, Daniel Taylor, “Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille”, in The Guardian‎[2], archived from the original on 22 December 2021: Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam. Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear. 5.(transitive) To range or wander over. Gangs of thugs roamed the streets. 6.1671, 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: And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam. 7.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. 8.(intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices. 9.(transitive, computing, telecommunications) To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them. 10.2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development: At first, it seemed counterintuitive to me to roam settings between computers, but my problem at the time was that every example I was considering was a setting that only made sense for a single computer. [[Galician]] [Verb] roam 1.(reintegrationist norm) inflection of roer: 1.third-person plural present subjunctive 2.third-person plural imperative [[Portuguese]] [Verb] roam 1.inflection of roer: 1.third-person plural present subjunctive 2.third-person plural imperative 0 0 2018/09/07 09:30 2024/04/01 23:00 TaN
52193 utility [[English]] ipa :/juːˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/[Adjective] utility 1.Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider. utility line; utility bill 2.(Of a building or its components) containing or intended for any of a building’s often-utility-related commodity transport, such as pipes or wires, or converting equipment, such as furnaces, water tanks or heaters, circuit breakers, central air conditioning units, laundry facilities, etc. utility room; utility corridor 3.Functional rather than attractive. 4.1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106: "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages. [Antonyms] - disutility - inutility [Etymology] From Middle English utilite, from Old French utilite, utilitet (“usefulness”), from Latin ūtilitās, from uti (“to use”). By surface analysis, utile +‎ -ity. [Noun] utility (countable and uncountable, plural utilities) 1.The state or condition of being useful; usefulness. 2.1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], “III”, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volumes (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC: "The profession has its utility, but I should be sorry to see any friend of mine belonging to it." 3.Something that is useful. 4.1945 November and December, H. C. Casserley, “Random Reflections on British Locomotive Types—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 320: Undoubtedly it can be said that the humble 0-6-0 has been the backbone for general service, or general utility on British railways right from their earliest days, and is likely to remain so. 5.(economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity. 6.(philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness. 7.(business) A commodity or service provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage. Synonym: service 8.(business, finance, by extension) A natural or legal monopoly distributer of such a utility; or, the securities of such a provider. 9.(computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software. I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files. 10.1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 10, page 35: The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities. 11.(sports) The ability to play multiple positions. [References] - “utility”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. [Synonyms] - (state of being useful): usefulness, value, advantages, benefit, return, merits, virtue, note - See also Thesaurus:utility [[Spanish]] [Noun] utility m (plural utilitys) 1.(sports) utility 0 0 2023/11/21 09:59 2024/04/01 23:01 TaN
52194 speak [[English]] ipa :/spiːk/[Alternative forms] - speake (obsolete) [Anagrams] - Akpes, Paeks, Pasek, Peaks, Spake, kapes, peaks, spake [Antonyms] - be silent [Etymology] From Middle English speken (“to speak”), from Old English specan (“to speak”). This is usually taken to be an irregular alteration of earlier sprecan (“to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;sprekan, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;sprekaną (“to speak, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”). Finding this proposed loss of r from the stable cluster spr unparalleled, Hill instead sets up a different root, Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;spekan (“to negotiate”) from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;bʰégʾ-e- (“to distribute”) with *s-mobile, which collapsed in meaning with *sprekan ("to speak" < "to crackle, prattle") and so came to be seen as a free variant thereof.Cognates:Cognate with West Frisian sprekke, Low German spreken (“to speak”), Dutch spreken (“to speak”), German sprechen (“to speak”), and also with Albanian shpreh (“to utter, voice, express”) through Indo-European. [Noun] speak (countable and uncountable, plural speaks) 1.(uncountable) language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group. corporate speak; IT speak 2.(countable) Speech, conversation. (Can we add an example for this sense?) 3.(countable, informal) Short for speaker point. We will deduct speaks for hesitation.speak (plural speaks) 1.(dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy. [References] - Hill, Eugen. "Die Präferenztheorie in der historischen Phonologie aus junggrammatischer Perspektive." Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 28.2 (2009): 231–263. [Synonyms] - articulate, talk, verbalize [Verb] speak (third-person singular simple present speaks, present participle speaking, simple past spoke or (archaic) spake, past participle spoken or (colloquial, nonstandard) spoke) 1.(intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud. 2.1918, W&#x5b;illiam&#x5d; B&#x5b;abington&#x5d; Maxwell, chapter XXV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 203: And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. I was so surprised I couldn't speak. You're speaking too fast. 3.(intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation. It's been ages since we've spoken. 4.(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions. He spoke of it in his diary. Speak to me only with your eyes. Actions speak louder than words. 5.1905, Lord Dunsany &#x5b;i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany&#x5d;, The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 4: Then said the gods, making the signs of the gods and speaking with Their hands lest the silence of Pegāna should blush&#x3b; then said the gods to one another, speaking with Their hands&#x3a; “Let Us make worlds to amuse Ourselves while Māna rests. Let Us make worlds and Life and Death, and colours in the sky&#x3b; only let Us not break the silence upon Pegāna.” 6.1941, Theodore Roethke, “Open House”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 3: The deed will speak the truth In language strict and pure. I stop the lying mouth&#x3a; Rage warps my clearest cry To witless agony. 7.(intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech. This evening I shall speak on the topic of correct English usage. 8.(transitive, stative) To be able to communicate in a language. He speaks Mandarin fluently. 1.(by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field. 2.1998, Nigel G Fielding, Raymond M Lee, Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research‎[1], page 4: Even those who did 'speak computer' did so sometimes in a less than fluent way which required a jump to be made from a press-the-right-button stage to having the confidence to experiment.(transitive) To utter. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 9&#x3a;5: And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth&#x3a; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. I was so surprised that I couldn't speak a word.(transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate. - 1785, Frances Burney, Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay, author of Evelina, Cecilia, &#x26;c., link: Their behaviour to each other speaks the most cordial confidence and happiness. - 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “A Bosom Friend.”, in Moby-Dick&#x3b; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper &#x26; Brothers; London&#x3a; Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 56: There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.(informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language). Sorry, I don't speak idiot. So you can program in C. But do you speak C&#x2b;&#x2b;&#x3f;(intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound. - 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 V, scene vi&#x5d;, page 150: Make all our trumpets speak.Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language. - 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 220: Miles tremblingly confessed that it had, but to no purpose&#x3b; a parrot being able to speak better in three weeks than a brazen head.(transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus 13&#x3a;6: &#x5b;He will&#x5d; thee in hope&#x3b; he will speak thee fair. - 1847, R&#x5b;alph&#x5d; W&#x5b;aldo&#x5d; Emerson, “Threnody”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 239: Each village senior paused to scan &#x2f; And speak the lovely caravan. - 1854 August 9, Henry D&#x5b;avid&#x5d; Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden&#x3b; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC: To oversee all the details yourself in person&#x3b; to be at once pilot and captain, and owner and underwriter&#x3b; to buy and sell and keep the accounts&#x3b; to read every letter received, and write or read every letter sent&#x3b; to superintend the discharge of imports night and day&#x3b; to be upon many parts of the coast almost at the same time—often the richest freight will be discharged upon a Jersey shore&#x3b;—to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, speaking all passing vessels bound coastwise&#x3b; &#x5b;...&#x5d; - 2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving (quoting an older text) Spoke the ship Union of Newport, without any anchor. The next day ran down to Acra, where the windlass was again capsized and the pawls broken. [[Scots]] ipa :[spɪk][Etymology] From Old English sprecan. [Verb] speak (third-person singular simple present speaks, present participle speakin, simple past spak, past participle spoken) 1.to speak 0 0 2009/02/20 00:37 2024/04/01 23:01
52195 strain [[English]] ipa :/stɹeɪn/[Anagrams] - Sartin, Tarins, Trains, atrins, instar, santir, sartin, starin', tairns, tarins, trains [Etymology 1] From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English strēon, ġestrēon (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English strȳnd (“race; stock”), from strēonan, strȳnan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”). [Etymology 2] From Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, from Old French estreindre (whence French étreindre (“to grip”)), from Latin stringō (“to draw tight together, to tie”). [Etymology 3] From Middle English strenen (“to beget, father, procreate”), from Old English strēonan, strīenan, strȳnan (“to beget, generate, gain, acquire”), from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;striunijaną (“to furnish, decorate, acquire”). 0 0 2009/07/29 10:18 2024/04/01 23:03 TaN
52196 stymie [[English]] ipa :/ˈstaɪmi/[Alternative forms] - stimie, stimy, stymy [Etymology] From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”).[1][2] Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”).[3][4] If so, it is a doublet of stime. [Further reading] - stymie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Noun] stymie (plural stymies) 1.(golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952). 2.(by extension) An obstacle or obstruction. 3.1922, P. G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert‎[1]: Mary, will you be mine&#x3f; Shall we go round together&#x3f; Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie&#x3f; [References] 1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “stymie”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. 2. ^ “stymie”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. 3. ^ stymie in the Word Detective 4. ^ “stymie”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN. [Verb] stymie (third-person singular simple present stymies, present participle stymieing or stymying, simple past and past participle stymied) 1.To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck. Synonyms: block, thwart They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called. If writing dates has you stymied at times, it is probably for one of two reasons. [2] 2.2005, Tony Judt, “The Rehabilitation of Europe”, in Postwar&#x3a; A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN: It constrained governments, businesses and labour unions to collaborate in planning increased rates of output and the conditions likely to facilitate them. And above all, it blocked any return to the temptations that had so stymied the inter-war economy&#x3a; under-production, mutually destructive protectionism, and a collapse of trade. 3.2007 January 21, Joyce Cohen, “Beauty in the Eye of the Renter”, in New York Times‎[3]: I was making such a drama in my head it was stymieing me. 4.2018 July 1, John Rennie, “This Mutation Math Shows How Life Keeps on Evolving”, in Wired‎[4]: In populations that have “burst” and “path” structures, for example, individuals can never occupy positions in the graph that their ancestors held. Those structures stymie evolution by denying advantageous mutations any chance to take over a population. 5.2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change&#x3f; ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60: For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street. 6.(golf) To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie. 0 0 2010/02/17 16:14 2024/04/01 23:03 TaN
52197 parts [[English]] ipa :/pɑːts/[Anagrams] - S trap, TRAPS, prats, rapts, sprat, strap, tarps, traps [Noun] parts 1.plural of partparts pl (plural only) 1.Intellectual ability or learning. He was a man of great parts but little virtue. 2.(usually with “these”, colloquial) Vicinity, region. 3.1854, Lord Cockburn, Memoir of Thomas Thomson, Scotland Bannatyne Club, page 241: We intend being at Leamington before long, unless some change in the weather should make our stay in these parts more tolerable. 4.(euphemistic) The genitals, short for private parts. [Verb] parts 1.third-person singular simple present indicative of part [[Catalan]] ipa :/ˈpars/[[Chinese]] ipa :/pʰaːt̚⁵ siː³⁵/[Alternative forms] - part屎, part士 [Etymology] From English parts. Compare Japanese パーツ (pātsu). [Noun] parts 1.(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly engineering) part; component [References] - English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese [See also] - part [[French]] [Noun] parts f 1.plural of part [[Icelandic]] [Noun] parts 1.indefinite genitive singular of partur [[Swedish]] [Anagrams] - spart [Noun] parts 1.indefinite genitive singular of part 0 0 2024/04/01 23:10 TaN
52198 insatiable [[English]] ipa :/ɪnˈseɪʃ(j)əbəl/[Adjective] insatiable (comparative more insatiable, superlative most insatiable) 1.Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy. 2.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 4, Abbot Hugo”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C&#x5b;offin&#x5d; Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk): Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that&#x3b; but, in the mean while, how to quiet your insatiable Jew&#x3f; Hugo, for this couple of hundreds, grants the Jew his bond for four hundred payable at the end of four years. (...) Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with&#x3a; he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old&#x3b;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest' 3.1885, W&#x5b;illiam&#x5d; S&#x5b;chwenck&#x5d; Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC: Such an appointment would realize my fondest dreams. But no, at any sacrifice, I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition&#x21; at Google Books [Anagrams] - banalities [Etymology] Inherited from Middle English insaciable, from Middle French insatiable, from Old French insaciable, from Late Latin insatiabilis. by surface analysis, in- +‎ satiable. [Further reading] - “insatiable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “insatiable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. [Noun] insatiable (plural insatiables) 1.One who or that which cannot be satiated. [[French]] ipa :/ɛ̃.sa.sjabl/[Adjective] insatiable (plural insatiables) 1.insatiable [Etymology] Inherited from Middle French insatiable, from Old French insaciable, from Latin īnsatiābilis. by surface analysis, in- +‎ satiable. [Further reading] - “insatiable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [[Middle French]] [Adjective] insatiable m or f (plural insatiables) 1.insatiable [Etymology] Inherited from Old French insaciable, from Latin insatiābilis. by surface analysis, in- +‎ satiable. 0 0 2017/08/21 13:43 2024/04/01 23:10 TaN
52199 It [[English]] [Noun] It (uncountable) 1.A biological force that inhabits living beings, according to the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck. 2.1995, Franz Alexander, Samuel Eisenstein, Martin Grotjahn, Psychoanalytic Pioneers, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 319: Georg Groddeck believed in man's innate urge to symbolize. &#x5b;…&#x5d; kind of defenses that interfere with the free creation of the It. But it would be wrong to call Groddeck an artist (which he was) as opposed to a clinical observer &#x5b;…&#x5d; 3.1999, Stefan Herbrechter, Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 83: &#x5b;…&#x5d; between the Tao and Georg Groddeck's "It", in Durrell's view, compare for example Lawrence Durrell, "Studies in Genius&#x3a; IV — Georg Groddeck," Horizon 17.102 (1948) &#x3a; 392. And what of the It&#x3f; Groddeck does not claim that  &#x5b;…&#x5d; 4.2002, Sharon Klayman Farber, When the Body Is the Target&#x3a; Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments, Jason Aronson, Incorporated, →ISBN: I wanted to better understand the concept of the It in Georg Groddeck's Book of the It (1923). Groddeck never clearly defined the It, but it was virtually synonymous with the forces of the id. In fact Freud (1923) derived the word Id from It. 5.The Id, in Freudian psychology. 6.2014, Jon Mills, Underworlds&#x3a; Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 63: I believe that Freud was mistaken when he made the It into an agency without accounting for how the unconscious portion of the I performs the executive functions of object choice for the drives and competing unconscious material  &#x5b;…&#x5d; 7.Alternative letter-case form of it (“desirable quality; quality of being successful, fashionable, in vogue”) 8.2005, SPIN, page 60: After selling more than three million copies worldwide of their self- titled 2004 debut, and becoming the new It band, Franz Ferdinand lent songs to both commercials (including "Take Me Out" for Sony's PSP) and art-house porn ... 9.2007, Melissa Senate, Theodora Twist, Delacorte Press, →ISBN: &#x5b;…&#x5d; when I remember I can't admit that Bo and Brandon are my boyfriends. One Bellini brother would be okay. Two, apparently, makes me a little too PG-13 for the tweenies. The Bellini Brothers are the new It boy band, ... 10.2008, Hadley Freeman, The Meaning of Sunglasses&#x3a; And a Guide to Almost All Things Fashionable, Penguin, →ISBN, page 169: People will often tell you that you shouldn't buy this season's It bag, dress, or whatever a celebrity has recently been photographed wearing because (a) you will be deemed to be a fashion victim, (b) everyone else will have it ... 11.2010, Martha H. Swain, Elizabeth Anne Payne, Marjorie Julian Spruill, Mississippi Women&#x3a; Their Histories, Their Lives, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 228: This may seem an odd choice for the former It Girl (and the mother of the new It Boy), but &#x5b;…&#x5d; 12.2011, Ellen Willis, Out of the Vinyl Deeps&#x3a; Ellen Willis on Rock Music, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN: Since, as rock critic Georgia Christgau said at the 2008 EMP Pop Conference, “&#x5b;Willis&#x5d; cared less about rock than she did about movements,” covering the new It band was just not that important to her. As her daughter, I have received an ... 13.2017, Kelly Killoren, The Second Course&#x3a; A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 235: “He said I'll go from being this season's villain to being this season's It girl.” [Proper noun] It 1.Alternative form of It.: abbreviation of Italy. 2.Alternative form of It.: abbreviation of Italian. (language) [[Low German]] [Pronoun] It 1.(Westphalian, regional) you (nominative plural) 0 0 2009/04/22 14:13 2024/04/01 23:12 TaN
52201 ahead [[English]] ipa :/əˈhɛd/[Adverb] ahead (not comparable) 1.At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving. The island was directly ahead. Just ahead you can see the cliffs. Keep going straight ahead. 2.So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense. He finished two laps ahead of me. In all of his classes Jack was ahead. 3.In or for the future. There may be tough times ahead. You've got to think ahead so as not to be unprepared. 4.To a later time. Set the clock ahead an hour. Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 20th to the 21st. 5.1995, Charles Edward Weber, Stories of Virtue in Business, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 55: Then the customer would set a rebidding deadline ahead a month - for example from September 1 to October 1 - and give everybody four weeks to submit &#x5b;…&#x5d; 6.1998, United States House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture, Implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act&#x3a; Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 25, 1998, page 46: When we saw that wasn't working in 1976, we moved the deadline ahead to 1978. 7.At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance. He paid his rent ahead. 8.To an earlier time. Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 21st to the 20th. 9.1985, Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, volume 43, page 606: &#x5b;…&#x5d; committees in Congress hae a March 15 deadline for reporting their "views and estimates" to the budget committees. The Senate Republican leadership, eager to get a jump on the annual budget process, moved the deadline ahead to March 1 for Senate committees. 10.2003, United States House Committee on Government Reform, Smooth Sailing Or an Impending Wreck&#x3f;&#x3a; The Impact of New Visa and Passport Requirements on Foreign Travel to the United States &#x3a; Hearing Before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, July 10, 2003, page 113: &#x5b;…&#x5d; the Department is responding to the statutory requirement in the USA Patriot Act that moved the deadline ahead to 2003 from 2007. [Anagrams] - aahed [Antonyms] - (nautical) astern - behind [Etymology] a- +‎ head. Perhaps originally a nautical term, "beyond the head (of a ship)", then drifting into more general English usage where it is used to describe something as being "in front of". [References] - “ahead”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. 0 0 2009/02/25 22:10 2024/04/02 09:36
52202 ahead of [[English]] [Preposition] ahead of 1.In front of. A hill loomed ahead of them. 2.1754, Henry Fielding, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon: The island bore but little a-head of us. 3.Preceding. He's giving a series of concerts in London ahead of his international tour. 4.In the future of. You have a long trip ahead of you. Peter has a lot of work ahead of him. 5.In advance of. I arrived at the suite half an hour ahead of Jack. 6.Having made more progress than. He is far ahead of his class in math. 7.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial&#x3a; should Reggie Clemons live or die&#x3f;”, in The Guardian‎[1]: The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them. 0 0 2013/04/05 11:39 2024/04/02 09:36
52203 ahea [[Tahitian]] [Pronoun] ahea 1.when 0 0 2017/11/23 01:29 2024/04/02 09:36
52204 thousands [[English]] ipa :/ˈθaʊzn̩dz/[Anagrams] - thus and so [Noun] thousands 1.plural of thousand [Synonyms] - 1000s 0 0 2024/04/02 09:36 TaN
52205 pit [[English]] ipa :/pɪt/[Anagrams] - ITP, PTI, TIP, TPI, tip, tpi [Etymology 1] From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties. [Etymology 2] From Dutch pit (“kernel, core”), from Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;pittan (compare dialectal German Pfitze (“pimple”)), oblique of Proto-Germanic &#x2a;piþō. Compare pith. [Etymology 3] Shortening. [Further reading] - pit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [See also] - pit-a-pat (probably etymologically unrelated) [[Cahuilla]] [Noun] pít 1.road, path, way [[Catalan]] ipa :[ˈpit][Etymology] Inherited from Old Catalan pit (also pits), from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic &#x2a;pektos, from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;peg- (“breast”). Compare Occitan pièch, French pis, Spanish pecho. [Noun] pit m (plural pits) 1.breast Synonym: mamella 2.(castells) force to support the castell, provided by the castellers in the pinya by pressing their chest onto the back of the casteller in front of them [References] - “pit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “pit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [[Czech]] ipa :[ˈpɪt][Participle] pit 1.masculine singular passive participle of pít [[Dutch]] ipa :/pɪt/[Anagrams] - tip [Etymology 1] From Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;pittan (compare dialectal German Pfitze (“pimple”)), oblique of Proto-Germanic &#x2a;piþō. [Etymology 2] Borrowed from English pit. [[Hokkien]] [[Indonesian]] ipa :/ˈpɪt/[Etymology 1] Borrowed from Javanese ꦥꦶꦠ꧀ (pit), from Dutch fiets.[1] [Etymology 2] Borrowed from Hokkien 筆／笔 (pit, “inkbrush”). [Etymology 3] Borrowed from English pit. [Further reading] - “pit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016. [References] 1. ^ Nicoline van der Sijs (2010) Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd [Dutch words worldwide]‎[1], Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers, →ISBN, →OCLC [[Irish]] [Etymology] From Old Irish pit (“pit, hollow; female pudenda”), possibly related to putte (“pit, hollow”), Latin puteus. [Further reading] - Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN - G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “pit, (put)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language - Entries containing “vulva” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe. - Entries containing “pit” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge. [Mutation] [Noun] pit f (genitive singular pite, nominative plural piteanna) 1.(anatomy) vulva 2.shell-less crab [[Javanese]] [Romanization] pit 1.Romanization of ꦥꦶꦠ꧀ [[Lower Sorbian]] ipa :/pʲit/[Verb] pit 1.supine of piś [[Polish]] ipa :/pit/[Noun] pit f 1.genitive plural of pita [[Scots]] ipa :/pɪt/[Verb] pit (third-person singular simple present pits, present participle pittin, simple past pit, past participle pit) 1.to put Synonym: putt [[Scottish Gaelic]] [Etymology] From Old Irish pit (“pit, hollow; female pudenda”), possibly related to putte (“pit, hollow”), Latin puteus. [Mutation] [Noun] pit f (genitive singular pite, plural pitean) 1.female external genitalia, vulva 2.(vulgar) cunt, pussy [References] - Edward Dwelly (1911), “pit”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN - G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “pit, (put)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language [[Tocharian B]] [Etymology] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Noun] pit ? 1.gall, bile [[West Flemish]] [Etymology] From Middle Dutch pit, variant of put, from Old Dutch &#x2a;putti, from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;puti (“a well”). [Noun] pit m 1.pit 2.well [[Yola]] [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 62 [Verb] pit 1.Alternative form of pidh 2.1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 9, page 88: Fan Cournug yate a rishp, an Treblere pit w'eeme. When Cournug gave a stroke, and Treblere put with him. 0 0 2018/10/04 09:39 2024/04/02 09:39 TaN
52206 pit against [[English]] [Anagrams] - spatiating [Verb] pit against (third-person singular simple present pits against, present participle pitting against, simple past and past participle pitted against) 1.(transitive, idiomatic) To set in opposition to someone or something else. Two of the greatest tennis players will be pitted against each other in next week's final. 2.2021 October 20, Philip Haigh, “Network News&#x3a; Revised Manchester timetable due in December 2022”, in RAIL, number 942, page 27: This prompted January's timetable consultation with options that, according to Chester [sic – meaning Cheshire] West and Chester Councillor Andrew Cooper last March, pitted councils against each other. 3.2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN: Some board members believed that Mr. Altman was trying to pit them against each other. Last month, they decided to act. 0 0 2021/10/20 09:56 2024/04/02 09:39 TaN
52207 pitting [[English]] [Noun] pitting (countable and uncountable, plural pittings) 1.The formation of pits on a surface because of corrosion. 2.(archaeology) The digging of a pit. Test pittings were carried out prior to the main excavation. [Verb] pitting 1.present participle and gerund of pit 0 0 2021/10/20 09:56 2024/04/02 09:39 TaN
52208 Pitt [[English]] ipa :/pɪt/[Anagrams] - TTIP, tipt [Proper noun] Pitt (countable and uncountable, plural Pitts) 1.(countable) An English topographical surname for someone who lived by, or operated a pit or mine. 2.(informal) University of Pittsburgh 3.A hamlet in Hursley parish, City of Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4528). [See also] - Pitts 0 0 2021/10/20 09:56 2024/04/02 09:39 TaN
52209 Pit [[Limburgish]] [Alternative forms] - Pië (Eupen) [Proper noun] Pit 1.a male given name 0 0 2018/10/04 09:39 2024/04/02 09:39 TaN
52210 PIT [[English]] [Anagrams] - ITP, PTI, TIP, TPI, tip, tpi [Noun] PIT (countable and uncountable, plural PITs) 1.Initialism of personal income tax. 2.(computing) Initialism of programmable interval timer. 3.Initialism of precision immobilization technique.: a method for ending car chases by causing a controlled collision, forcing the pursued car into a spin. 4.Initialism of pursuit intervention technique.: the same method for ending car chases. 5.Initialism of parallel immobilization technique.: the same method for ending car chases. [Proper noun] PIT 1.Abbreviation of Pittsburgh. [[Polish]] ipa :/pit/[Etymology] Orthographic borrowing from English PIT. [Further reading] - PIT in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - PIT in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Noun] PIT m inan (indeclinable) 1.PIT (personal income tax) Synonym: podatek dochodowy od osób fizycznych 2.PIT (form that is used to account for personal income tax) 0 0 2021/10/20 09:56 2024/04/02 09:39 TaN
52211 adversary [[English]] ipa :/ˈæd.və.sɛɹi/[Antonyms] - hero, ally [Etymology] From Middle English adversarie, from Anglo-Norman aversaire (in Wace's Life of Saint Margaret) and Old French aversier, aversaire (French adversaire), from Latin adversārius, from adversus (“turned toward”). [Noun] adversary (plural adversaries) 1.An opponent or rival. He prepared to fight his adversary. [References] 1. ^ “Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎[1], accessed 13 March 2022, archived from the original on 2009-04-25 [Synonyms] - villain, antagonist 0 0 2018/07/10 09:59 2024/04/02 09:40 TaN
52212 clambering [[English]] [Noun] clambering (plural clamberings) 1.The act of one who clambers. 2.1923, Charles Fort, New Lands: It was his hope that he should find something of archaeologic compensation for his clamberings. He found Noah's Ark. [Verb] clambering 1.present participle and gerund of clamber 0 0 2024/04/02 09:43 TaN
52213 clamber [[English]] ipa :/ˈklæmbə/[Anagrams] - cambrel, cramble [Etymology] From Middle English clambren, clameren, clemeren (“to climb, clamber; to crawl, creep”), then either: - possibly from clam, clamb, clemb, past tense of climben (“to climb, get over; to ascend, rise”), and influenced by Old English clæmman (“to press”);[1] or - from Old English &#x2a;clambrian, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;klambrōną or &#x2a;klambizōną.The English word is cognate with Low German klemmern, klempern (“to climb”), Scots clammer (“to clamber”); and compare also Danish klamre (“to cling”), Icelandic klambra, klembra (“to pinch closely together; clamp”), Swedish klamra (“to cling”).The noun is derived from the verb.[2] [Noun] clamber (plural clambers) 1.The act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb. 2.1814 February, J&#x5b;ohn&#x5d; C&#x5b;am&#x5d; Hobhouse, “A Journey through Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the Years 1809 and 1810”, in The Literary Panorama […], volume XV, London: Printed by Jones and Hatfield, […], for C. Taylor, […], →OCLC, column 147: Against intruding uncalled, and without a proper Sybilline conductress, into the realms of grim Pluto, he might have objections, not easily removed&#x3b; but against a clamber to the scene of Jove's own Court &#x5b;Mount Olympus&#x5d;, no objection could possibly lie, except the danger of breaking his neck, in coming down again&#x3b;—much too trivial to deter a true virtuoso adept. 3.1847 April 1–7, William Bennett, “Letter X. Dublin—Cahirciveen.”, in Narrative of a Recent Journey of Six Weeks in Ireland, […], London: Charles Gilpin, […]; John Hatchard & Son, […]; Dublin&#x3a; J. Curry, Jun. &#x26; Co., →OCLC, page 108: The entrance to the caves is not far from the further gate of the park. Their position is truly disappointing. I had anticipated a clamber half up the side of the mountain, and then some vast rift of chasm, not attainable without difficulty and danger. 4.1863 October 3, Mary Eyre, “Saumur. Les Pierres Couvertes. Le Carrousel.”, in &#x5b;Samuel Lucas&#x5d;, editor, Once a Week. An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science, &#x26; Popular Information, volume IX, number 223, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, page 418, column 2: Beyond these woods were crags covered with purple heather, gleaming crimson in the light. Tired as I was, I could not resist going out of my way to enjoy a clamber over the wild moor, and its fresh breezy air. 5.2005, Richard Mabey, “Lair”, in Nature Cure, London: Chatto &#x26; Windus, →ISBN; republished Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 76: They &#x5b;the author's cats&#x5d; loved a large Ordnance Survey map above all things, or a clamber across the electric typewriter (though they never succeeded in typing their names, as my Chiltern cat Pip, in a moment of serendipitous dancing, very nearly did). [References] 1. ^ “clambren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007; compare “clamber, v.2”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889; “clamber, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. 2. ^ “clamber, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889; “clamber, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. [Verb] clamber (third-person singular simple present clambers, present participle clambering, simple past and past participle clambered) 1.(transitive, intransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion. The children clambered over the jungle gym. 2.1626, Ovid, “The Tenth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, pages 199–200: Now, neither for his harp, nor quiuer, cares&#x3a; &#x2f; Him ſelfe debaſing, beares the corded ſnares&#x3b; &#x2f; Or leades the dogs, or clambers mountaines&#x3b; led &#x2f; By lordly Loue, and flames by cuſtome fed. 3.1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC, page 157: Then ſaid the Shepherds, Thoſe that you ſee lie daſhed in pieces at the bottom of this Mountain, are they&#x3a; and they have continued to this day unburied (as you ſee) for an example to others to take heed how they clamber too high, or how they come too near the brink of this Mountain. 4.1768, William Wilkie, “A Dialogue. The Author and a Friend.”, in Fables, London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, […]; Edinburgh&#x3a; A&#x5b;lexander&#x5d; Kincaid and J. Bell, →OCLC, page 138: The worn-out Lawyer clambers to the bench &#x2f; That he may live at eaſe, and keep his wench&#x3b; &#x5b;...&#x5d; 5.1842, &#x5b;Edward Bulwer-Lytton&#x5d;, chapter VIII, in Zanoni. […], volume I, London: Saunders & Otley, […], →OCLC, book the third (Theurgia), page 296: She threaded the narrow path, she passed the gloomy vineyard that clambers up the rock, and gained the lofty spot, green with moss and luxuriant foliage, where the dust of him &#x5b;Virgil&#x5d; who yet soothes and elevates the minds of men is believed to rest. 6.1845, Thomas Moore, “The Fire-worshippers”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. […], London: Printed [by A[ndrew] Spottiswoode] for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 362, column 1: And scarce did manlier nerve uphold &#x2f; The hero Zal in that fond hour, &#x2f; Than wings the youth who, fleet and bold, &#x2f; Now climbs the rocks to Hinda's bower. &#x2f; See—light as up their granite steeps &#x2f; The rock-goats of Arabia clamber, &#x2f; Fearless from crag to crag he leaps, &#x2f; And now is in the maiden's chamber. 7.1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &#x26;c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 4: He purchased his own boat, and made a home &#x2f; For Annie, neat and nestlike, halfway up &#x2f; The narrow street that clamber'd toward the mill. 8.1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC, part V (At Aldbrickham and Elswhere), page 306: Fancy the secret meetings between the perjuring husband and wife, the denials of having seen each other, the clambering in at bedroom windows, and the hiding in closets&#x21; 9.1898, J&#x5b;ohn&#x5d; Meade Falkner, “In the Vault”, in Moonfleet, London: Edward Arnold; Edinburgh: T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable, […], →OCLC; republished London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape […], 1934, →OCLC, page 56: Thus, sitting where I was, I lit my candle once more, and then clambered across that great coffin which, for two hours or more, had been a mid-wall of partition between me and danger. &#x5b;…&#x5d; 10.1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Jungle Battles”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC, page 67: He would clamber about the roof and windows for hours attempting to discover means of ingress, but to the door he paid little attention, for this was apparently as solid as the walls. 11.1917 November, W&#x5b;illiam&#x5d; B&#x5b;utler&#x5d; Yeats, “A Deep-Sworn Vow”, in The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, Churchtown, Dundrum &#x5b;Dublin&#x5d;: The Cuala Press, →OCLC, page 15: When I clamber to the heights of sleep, &#x2f; Or when I grow excited with wine, &#x2f; Suddenly I meet your face. 12.2004, Shashi Deshpande, “Lost Springs”, in Collected Stories, volume II, New Delhi: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 70: But yesterday, on an impulse, we ventured out, getting through a gap in the wall and clambering up the rocks until we reached the peak. 13.2013, J&#x5b;ohn&#x5d; M&#x5b;axwell&#x5d; Coetzee, chapter 22, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Vic.: The Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 220: And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf. 0 0 2024/04/02 09:43 TaN
52214 compound [[English]] ipa :/ˈkɒmpaʊnd/[Etymology 1] Possibly from Malay kampong, kampung (“group of buildings, village”), via Dutch or Portuguese,[1] altered under the influence of Etymology 2. Doublet of kampung. [Etymology 2] From Middle English compounen, from Middle French componre, compondre (“to put together”), from Latin componō, from Latin com- (“together”) + ponō (“to put”). [Further reading] - - Compound in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) - Compound word, encyclopedia.com - “compound”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - “compound”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. - “compound”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN. - “compound”, in Collins English Dictionary. - “compound” (US) / “compound” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary. - compound in Britannica Dictionary - Compounds, dictionary.cambridge.org - 6. Compounding Rules, govinfo.gov - How do you decide whether a compound should be written as one word, separate words, or hyphenated words?, merriam-webster.com - A Comprehensive Guide to Forming Compounds, merriam-webster.com - English Language > Composition, britannica.com [References] 1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “compound”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [See also] - Appendix:Compounds 0 0 2010/06/10 19:55 2024/04/02 09:45
52215 senior [[English]] ipa :/ˈsinjɚ/[Adjective] senior (comparative more senior, superlative most senior) 1.Older; superior senior citizen 2.Higher in rank, dignity, or office. senior member&#x3b; senior counsel 3.(US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university. [Alternative forms] - seniour (obsolete) [Anagrams] - Ireson, Nerios, Serino, irones, nories, nosier, rosein, seroin [Antonyms] - junior - junior [Etymology] From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, signore, sir, and sire. [Further reading] - “senior”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “senior”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. [Noun] senior (plural seniors) 1.(now chiefly US) An old person. Synonyms: senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person 2.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Question&#x21;’”, in The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 77: Grave and reverend seniors seemed to have caught the prevailing spirit as badly as the students, and I saw white-bearded men rising and shaking their fists at the obdurate Professor. 3.Someone older than someone else (with possessive). [from 15th c.] He was four years her senior. 4.Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age. [from 14th c.] 5.(obsolete, biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church. [14th–16th c.] 6.1526, &#x5b;William Tyndale, transl.&#x5d;, The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), &#x5b;Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer&#x5d;, →OCLC, Acts &#x3a;&#x5b;8&#x5d;, folio clviij, recto: Then Peter full of the holy gooſt ſayd vnto them. Ye ruelars of the people &#x2f; and ſeniours of iſrahel &#x5b;…&#x5d;. 7.Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office. 8.(US, Philippines) A final-year student at a high school or university. [from 17th c.] [Synonyms] - (older): geriatric, long in the tooth, on in years; see also Thesaurus:elderly [[French]] ipa :/se.njɔʁ/[Etymology] Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of sire, seigneur, and sieur. [Further reading] - “senior”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] senior m (plural seniors) 1.(sports) senior (older player) 2.elderly person [[Indonesian]] ipa :[sɛˈniɔr][Adjective] senior 1.senior 1.older; superior 2.higher in rank, dignity, or office. [Etymology] From Dutch senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”). Doublet of senyur and sinyo. [Further reading] - “senior” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016. [Synonyms] - (in rank) kanan (Standard Malay) [[Interlingua]] [Adjective] senior (comparative plus senior, superlative le plus senior) 1.older [Etymology] Borrowed from Latin senior. [Noun] senior (plural seniors) 1.lord [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈse.ni.or/[Adjective] senior (neuter senius); third declension 1.comparative degree of senex 1.older, elder; rather old Antonym: iūnior [Anagrams] - īnserō - oriēns [Etymology] Comparative of senex. [Noun] senior m (genitive seniōris); third declension 1.(Medieval Latin) a lord, sir Coordinate term: seniorissa 2.(Medieval Latin) an abbot 3.(Medieval Latin) a husband 4.old person, old man, older person, older man [References] - “senior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - “senior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers - senior 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) - senior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette - senior in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 [[Polish]] ipa :/ˈsɛ.ɲɔr/[Etymology] Learned borrowing from Latin senior. [Further reading] - senior in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - senior in Polish dictionaries at PWN [Noun] senior m pers (female equivalent seniorka) 1.doyen, senior (oldest member of the family by age) Synonym: nestor Antonym: junior 2.doyen, elder, senior (eldest or most experienced member of a group) Synonyms: nestor, patriarcha 3.senior (athlete of adult age according to the regulations of a given sport discipline) Antonym: junior Hypernym: sportowiecsenior m pers 1.Sr. (title used after a father's name when his son is given the same name) Antonym: junior 2.(feudalism, historical) feudal lord exercising power and guardianship over his subordinate vassal Antonym: wasal Hypernyms: feudał, zwierzchnik 3.(historical) during the period of the division of Poland into districts, the oldest of the Piasts who exercised supreme power and to whom the other princes ruling the various districts were subordinate Hypernym: zwierzchnik 4.(Protestantism) senior (senior Protestant clergyman) Hypernym: duchowny [[Romanian]] [Adjective] senior m or n (feminine singular senioră, masculine plural seniori, feminine and neuter plural seniore) 1.senior [Etymology] Borrowed from French senior, itself borrowed from Latin senior. [[Spanish]] ipa :/seˈnjoɾ/[Etymology] Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of señor. [Noun] senior m (plural seniores) 1.senior (clarification of this definition is needed) 0 0 2011/02/27 16:30 2024/04/02 09:45
52216 lay [[English]] ipa :/leɪ/[Anagrams] - Aly [Etymology 1] From Middle English leyen, leggen, from Old English leċġan (“to lay”), from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;laggjan, from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;lagjaną (“to lay”), causative form of Proto-Germanic &#x2a;ligjaną (“to lie, recline”), from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;legʰ- (“to lie, recline”).Cognate with West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk leggja (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”). [Etymology 2] From Middle English laie, lawe, from Old English lagu (“sea, flood, water, ocean”), from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;lagu (“water, sea”), from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;laguz (“water, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;lókus (“water, body of water, lake”). Cognate with Icelandic lögur (“liquid, fluid, lake”), Latin lacus (“lake, hollow, hole”). [Etymology 3] From Middle English lay, from Old French lai, from Latin laicus, from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). Doublet of laic. [Etymology 4] See lie. This word was influenced by the present tense verb lay. [Etymology 5] From Middle English lay, from Old French lai (“song, lyric, poem”), from Frankish &#x2a;laih (“play, melody, song”), from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;laikaz, &#x2a;laikiz (“jump, play, dance, hymn”), from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;leyg- (“to jump, spring, play”). Akin to Old High German leih (“a play, skit, melody, song”), Middle High German leich (“piece of music, epic song played on a harp”), Old English lācan (“to move quickly, fence, sing”). See lake (“to play”). [Etymology 6] From Middle English lay, laye, laiȝe, leyȝe, from Old English lǣh, lēh, northern (Anglian) variants of Old English lēah (“lea”). More at lea. [Etymology 7] From Middle English laige, læȝe, variants of Middle English lawe (“law”). More at law. [Etymology 8] Calque of Yiddish לייגן (leygn, “to put, lay”). [References] 1. ^ John Bouvier (1839), “LAY”, in A Law Dictionary, […], volume II (L–Z), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson, […], successors to Nicklin & Johnson, […], →OCLC. 2.↑ 2.0 2.1 “lay v.¹”, in James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1, London: Clarendon Press (1908), page 128. [See also] other terms containing the word "lay", with unclear etymology - gooseberry lay - kinchin lay - snaffling lay  [[Anguthimri]] [References] - Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186 [Verb] lay 1.(transitive, Mpakwithi) to carry [[Haitian Creole]] ipa :/laj/[Etymology] From French l’ail (“the garlic”). [Noun] lay 1.garlic [[Lashi]] ipa :/laɪ̯/[Postposition] lay 1.through 2.across [References] - Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎[7], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis) [Verb] lay 1.to pass [[Malagasy]] [Etymology] From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian &#x2a;layaʀ, from Proto-Austronesian &#x2a;layaʀ. [Noun] lay 1.sail (a piece of fabric attached to a boat) 2.tent [[Mauritian Creole]] [Etymology 1] From French ail. [Etymology 2] From Malagasy ley (butterfly). [References] - Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français [[Middle English]] [Verb] lay 1.Alternative form of leie: simple past of lien [[Moore]] ipa :/láj/[Etymology] from French l’ail (“the garlic”) [Noun] lay 1.garlic (food) [[Seychellois Creole]] [Etymology 1] From French ail. [Etymology 2] From Malagasy ley (butterfly). [References] - Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français [[Vietnamese]] ipa :[laj˧˧][Verb] lay 1.to shake 0 0 2009/02/25 22:18 2024/04/02 13:21
52217 Tempest [[English]] [Etymology] From tempest, a nickname for someone with a blustery temperament. [Further reading] - Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tempest”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN. [Proper noun] Tempest (plural Tempests) 1.A surname transferred from the nickname. 0 0 2024/04/02 13:24 TaN
52218 tempest [[English]] ipa :/ˈtɛmpəst/[Etymology] From Old French tempeste (French tempête), from Latin tempestas (“storm”), from tempus (“time, weather”). [Noun] tempest (plural tempests) 1.A storm, especially one with severe winds. 2.1714 June 10, &#x5b;Alexander Pope&#x5d;, The Guardian, volume I, number 78, London: Printed for J&#x5b;acob&#x5d; Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, page 332: For a Tempeſt. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auſter and Boreas, and caſt them together in one Verſe. Add to theſe of Rain, Lightning, and of Thunder (the loudeſt you can) quantum ſufficit. Mix your Clouds and Billows well together till they foam, and thicken your Deſcription here and there with a Quickſand. Brew your Tempeſt well in your Head, before you ſet it a blowing. 3.1781, &#x5b;Mostyn John Armstrong&#x5d;, History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk. Volume IX. Containing the Hundreds of Smithdon, Taverham, Tunstead, Walsham, and Wayland, volume IX, Norwich: Printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, bookseller, →OCLC, page 51: BEAT on, proud billows&#x3b; Boreas blow&#x3b; &#x2f; Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof&#x3b; &#x2f; Your incivility doth ſhow, &#x2f; That innocence is tempeſt proof&#x3b; &#x2f; Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm&#x3b; &#x2f; Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. &#x5b;Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).&#x5d; 4.1847, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Omoo&#x3a; A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas: As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic. 5.1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid: The desert storm was riding in its strength&#x3b; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. &#x5b;…&#x5d; Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume. 6.Any violent tumult or commotion. 7.1751, &#x5b;Tobias&#x5d; Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC: Comforted with these reflections, the tempest of his soul subsided 8.1914, Ambrose Bierce, One Officer, One Man: They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given&#x3b; the tempest did not break out. 9.(obsolete) A fashionable social gathering; a drum. [References] - tempest in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828. - “tempest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “tempest”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. [Verb] tempest (third-person singular simple present tempests, present participle tempesting, simple past and past participle tempested) 1.(intransitive, rare) To storm. 2.(transitive, chiefly poetic) To disturb, as by a tempest. 3.1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: . . . the seal And bended dolphins play&#x3b; part huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. 4.1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Drowned Lover,”, in Poems from St. Irvyne: Oh&#x21; dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve, And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air. [[Middle English]] [Etymology] Old French tempeste [Noun] tempest (plural tempests) 1.tempest (storm) 0 0 2012/01/29 13:39 2024/04/02 13:24
52219 temp [[English]] ipa :/tɛmp/[Anagrams] - EMT-P, Emp't, PETM, empt [Etymology 1] Clipping of temperature. [Etymology 2] See temp. [Etymology 3] Clipping of temporary. [[Latvian]] [Verb] temp 1.inflection of tempt: 1.second-person singular present indicative 2.second-person singular imperative [[Maltese]] ipa :/tɛmp/[Etymology] Borrowed from Sicilian tempu and/or Italian tempo, both from Latin tempus. [Noun] temp m (plural tempijiet) 1.weather 2.(grammar) tense [[Polish]] ipa :/tɛmp/[Noun] temp n 1.genitive plural of tempo [[Romansch]] [Alternative forms] - temps (Sursilvan) - taimp (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) - tains (Sutsilvan) [Etymology] From Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;tempos (“stretch”), from the root &#x2a;temp- (“to stretch, string”). [Noun] temp m (plural temps) 1.(Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) time [[Swedish]] [Etymology] Clipping of temperatur (“temperature”). [Noun] temp c 1.(colloquial, often in the definite "tempen") (body) temperature (as an indication of whether someone is sick) ta tempen på någon take someone's temperature 2.(colloquial, figuratively, in "ta tempen") to probe, to take someone's pulse (ascertain a mood, thoughts, or the like) ta tempen på politikerna inför debatten see what the politicians are thinking/take the politicians' pulse prior to the debate [References] - temp in Svensk ordbok (SO) - temp in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) - temp in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) 0 0 2009/02/06 17:04 2024/04/02 13:24 TaN
52220 loom [[English]] ipa :/luːm/[Anagrams] - mool [Etymology 1] From Middle English lome, from Old English lōma, ġelōma (“tool, utensil, implement, article of furniture, household effect”) (also as andlōma, andġelōma, andlāma (“utensil, instrument, implement, tool, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic &#x2a;lōmō, &#x2a;lamō (“tool, utensil”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Dutch alaam, allaam (“tool, household ware or good, appliance”), from Middle Dutch andlame. Perhaps originally meaning "a thing of frequent use, thing repeatedly needed", in which case, akin to Old English ġelōme (“often, frequently, continually, repeatedly”), from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;ga- + &#x2a;lōmiz, &#x2a;lōmijaz (“lame, halt”), from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;lem- (“to break, soften”).Compare Old High German giluomo, kilōmo (“often, frequently”), Old High German luomen (“to wear out, fatigue”), Old High German &#x2a;luomī (as in gastluomī (“hospitality”), Old English lama (“lame”). See lame. [Etymology 2] Shetland dialect, denoting a diver or guillemot, from Old Norse lómr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European &#x2a;leh₂- (“to howl”) (expressive root). [Etymology 3] From Old Norse ljóma (“to shine”).[1] [[Dutch]] ipa :/loːm/[Adjective] loom (comparative lomer, superlative loomst) 1.lazy, pleasantly slow [Adverb] loom 1.lazily [Etymology] Ultimately from Proto-Germanic &#x2a;laum-, perhaps related to &#x2a;lamaz (“withered, lame”). Compare the verb lummelen (“to lounge about”). [[Estonian]] ipa :/ˈloːm/[Etymology] Derived from looma (“to create”) [Noun] loom (genitive looma, partitive looma) 1.animal 2.(informal) mammal [[Pnar]] ipa :/lom/[Noun] loom 1.hill 0 0 2009/05/28 17:24 2024/04/02 13:24 TaN
52221 loom large [[English]] [Verb] loom large (third-person singular simple present looms large, present participle looming large, simple past and past participle loomed large) 1.(idiomatic, intransitive) To have a great deal of importance, presence, power, or sway; to be of great significance or concern, especially when posing a likely threat or danger. Synonym: bulk large Energy policy will loom large in the policy decisions of the new government. 2.1934, United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities, page 281: Sooner or later the Catholic question will loom large in our way, so why not take a definite standpoint right from the beginning&#x3f; 3.1957, Charlotte Towle, Common Human Needs, page 64: One doubts that adequate assistance would loom large as a factor in the demoralization of the individual. 4.1980, Howard D. Crosse, George H. Hempel, Management Policies for Commercial Banks, page 174: Nevertheless, even for a country bank, the unpredictable can loom large in the management of its reserve position. 5.1990, Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe&#x3a; Volumes 7-8, page 131: At the same time, the environmental problems certainly loom large in all transition countries. 6.1997, Neil L. Whitehead, The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana, page 15: Virgin Queens loom large as inspirational icons of both endeavours but Ralegh's substantive commitment in financial and political terms was to the earlier Virginia project, with the Guiana episode appearing as a hastily conceived attempt to re-run the Virginia enterprise. 7.2007, Ingo Tönnies, Large-scale Mining in Papua New Guinea, page 107: While the environmental damages might loom large, there are rather the changes on the social structure of the Wopkaimin community and the demands for more participation in the mine's benefits — in other words, there are also social and economical reasons for the emergence of conflicts as well. 8.2019, Thierry de Duve, Aesthetics at Large — Art, Ethics, Politics, page 111: This is not to say that Schopenhauer and Nietzsche do not loom large in his work as well, but traveling back and forth between these two thinkers and Hegel is feasible, whereas reconciling Kant and Hegel is not—except perhaps via Schelling, but this would mean walking the romantic route, something Adorno avoids like the plague. 9.2021 July 7, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport‎[1]: Schmeichel was Denmark's hero as England sought the winner, saving brilliantly from Harry Maguire and Harry Kane as the game went into extra time and the prospect of penalties loomed large. 10.2022 November 14, Justin McCurry, “Taiwan looms large as Joe Biden prepares to meet Xi Jinping in Bali”, in The Guardian‎[2]: Taiwan looms large as Joe Biden prepares to meet Xi Jinping in Bali &#x5b;title&#x5d; 11.2023 July 12, Pip Dunn, “Class 99s&#x3a; "ultimate Electro-Diesel"”, in RAIL, number 987, page 52: But the point when it would have to look at alternative new-build vehicles was always looming large, and there would inevitably be a finite number of Class 66s it could source from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power. 0 0 2024/04/02 13:24 TaN
52222 rundown [[English]] [Adjective] rundown (not comparable) 1.Alternative form of run-down [Anagrams] - undrown [Etymology] Deverbal from run down. [Noun] rundown (plural rundowns) 1.(chiefly with definite article "the") A rough outline of a topic or situation. Could you give me the rundown on the new rules? 2.(gambling) A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc. 3.1946, Lancer, page 15: Comes post-time, and I am at the bookie joint listening the running descriptions and rundowns, &#x5b;…&#x5d; 4.1960, American Trial Lawyers Association, Convention Proceedings, page 455: I would say this&#x3a; If you are in a community where you do not have the rundown sheet on the horses in the race, do what they have done in Sacramento. 5.(baseball) A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out. Smith is caught in a rundown, but Jones will come around to score. 6.A Caribbean stew of meat or fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings. 7.A reduction, e.g. of an activity, or in the size of something, such as a fleet. 8.2020 May 20, “Fleet News&#x3a; LNER sends more '91s' off-lease”, in Rail, page 22: The rundown of LNER's Class 91&#x2f;Mk 4 fleet continues, with two more locomotives sent for store at Doncaster and a rake of coaches moving to Worksop, [References] - “rundown”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. [Synonyms] - See Thesaurus:ramshackle 0 0 2017/09/07 11:07 2024/04/02 13:35 TaN

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