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click
[[English]]
ipa :/klɪk/[Etymology 1]
Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).
[Etymology 3]
From Middle English clike, from Old French clique (“latch”).
[Etymology 4]
From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from Old English *clēċan, *clǣċan, a byform of clyċċan (“to clutch”). More at clutch.
[[French]]
[Noun]
click m (plural clicks)
1.Alternative form of clic (especially of a computer mouse)
[[Italian]]
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English click.
[Noun]
click m (invariable)
1.Alternative form of clic (especially of a computer mouse)
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
click m (plural clicks)
1.Misspelling of clic.
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connect
[[English]]
ipa :/kəˈnɛkt/[Anagrams]
- concent
[Antonyms]
- disconnect
[Etymology]
From Latin connectere (“fasten together”), from con- (“together”) + nectere (“bind”), which is cognate with English knot and English knit.
[Noun]
connect (plural connects)
1.(slang) Clipping of connection.
1.A drug dealer.
2.2013, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Victoria Christopher Murray, Friends & Foes, page 100:
My connects in Chicago are telling me all kinds of things. Nobody knows anything for sure except that Griffith is missing and money is missing.
3.2018 November 20, Justin Fenton, “Documents show FBI was investigating Baltimore officer, who has since resigned, for alleged drug trafficking”, in The Baltimore Sun[1], archived from the original on 2022-05-23:
The affidavit says the source wore a recording device during one conversation with the drug dealer, who said the officer "was doing this for big money and does runs for several connects in Bmore. Not just weed, but heroin as well, a few times coke."
4.2021, Mike Majlak, Riley J. Ford, The Fifth Vital:
I called all my connects, but they were completely dry too.
5.A useful friend or associate.
6.2019 August 3, Lauren Floyd, quoting Melissa Hanna, “People 'Took One Look at Me' and Doubted 'I could build a Million-Dollar' Company, Says Founder of Mahmee App That Attracted $3M From Mark Cuban, Serena Williams”, in Atlanta Black Star[2], archived from the original on 2020-11-26:
Even though I did not have a lot of connects in Silicon Valley, I was not concerned because I knew that Silicon Valley was not going to solve this problem.
7.2019 August 28, Chris Black, “Ask Chris Black: How Do You Keep Your Clothes Looking (and Smelling) Fresh?”, in New York Magazine[3], archived from the original on 2022-12-06:
Now that you look the part, hopefully, you have some connects because nothing looks worse than paying to get into a club!
8.2020 May 27, Catherine Healey, quoting Bryce Cotton, “Perth Wildcats star Bryce Cotton won't be caged if NBA offer comes”, in The West Australian[4], archived from the original on 2022-01-03:
My agent has a lot of connects so he's always in talks with people.
9.2020 November 3, Shirley Ju, quoting Cyrus Dobre, “Cyrus Dobre On Positive Energy, "Bye Bye" & Making People Smile”, in Flaunt[5], archived from the original on 2023-01-04:
We wanted to try something new, that's when we started a lot of our influencing on social media. It was a lot of connects but we realized when we came home, we had more resources. More of our close friends.
[Verb]
connect (third-person singular simple present connects, present participle connecting, simple past and past participle connected)
1.(intransitive, of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
Synonyms: affix, join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
I think this piece connects to that piece over there.
2.(intransitive, of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
Both roads have the same name, but they don't connect: they're on opposite sides of the river, and there's no bridge there.
3.(intransitive, of a blow) To arrive at an intended target; to land.
When that roundhouse kick connected with his temple it sent him flying across the room.
4.(transitive, of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part.
5.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
6.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
7.(transitive, of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
I connected the printer to the computer, but I couldn't get it work.
8.To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
When the technician connects my house, I'll be able to access the internet.
9.To associate; to establish a relation between.
I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me.
10.To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
I'm flying to London where I connect with a flight heading to Hungary.
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relent
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈlɛnt/[Adjective]
relent (comparative more relent, superlative most relent)
1.(obsolete) softhearted; yielding
[Etymology]
From Middle English relenten, from Anglo-Norman relentir, from Latin re- + lentare (“to bend”), from lentus (“soft, pliant, slow”). Earliest recording dates to 1526.[1]
[Noun]
relent (plural relents)
1.Stay; stop; delay.
2.2015, Mel Parsons (lyrics and music), “First Sign of Trouble”:
There was no relent, my dear, as we pulled each other in.
3.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 193:
The pistons of this engine moved without relent.
4.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
She forward went […]
Ne rested till she came without relent
Unto the land of Amazons.
5.(obsolete) A relenting.
[References]
1. ^ merriam-webster.com
[Verb]
relent (third-person singular simple present relents, present participle relenting, simple past and past participle relented)
1.(intransitive) To give in or be swayed; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to show clemency.
He had planned to ground his son for a month, but relented and decided to give him a stern lecture instead.
2.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
Can you, my Lord of Winchester, behold
My sighs and tears and will not once relent?
3.1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:
Only the valley where Sish rested when he and Time were young did Sish not provoke his hours to assail. There he restrained his old hound Time […] For the minds of the gods relent towards their earliest memories, who relent not otherwise at all.
4.1989, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day:
I did, I suppose, hope that she might finally relent a little and make some conciliatory response or other.
5.(intransitive) To slacken; to abate.
We waited for the storm to relent before we ventured outside.
He will not relent in his effort to reclaim his victory.
6.(obsolete, transitive) To lessen, make less severe or intense.
7.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
But nothing might relent her hastie flight; / So deepe the deadly feare of that foule swaine / Was earst impressed in her gentle spright […]
8.(dated, intransitive, of substance) To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield, for example by dissolving or melting
9.1669, Robert Boyle, The History of Fluidity and Firmness:
[Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will […] begin to relent.
10.1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
When opening buds salute the welcome day, / And earth, relenting, feels the genial ray.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁə.lɑ̃/[Etymology]
From re- + lent (“slow”), in the sense “lingering”.
[Further reading]
- “relent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
relent m (plural relents)
1.lingering smell (usually bad); stench
2.(figuratively) overtone
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
relent
1.Alternative form of relenten
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draft
[[English]]
ipa :/dɹɑːft/[Adjective]
draft (not comparable) (American spelling)
1.(not comparable) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.
I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer.
2.Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.
A Clydesdale is a draft horse.
[Alternative forms]
- draught (British spelling of many senses, but not all)
[Etymology]
A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”), equivalent to draw (“to draw, drag”) + -t. Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur.
[Further reading]
- “draft”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “draft”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
draft (countable and uncountable, plural drafts)
1.(American spelling) A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
2.(American spelling) The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
3.(American spelling) An act of drinking.
4.(American spelling) The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
Synonyms: swig; see also Thesaurus:drink
to drink at a draft
She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.
5.(American spelling) A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
6.(American spelling) Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
7.1863, Thomas George Shaw, Wine, the Vine, and the Cellar, page 152:
From 1767 to 1774 no pale wine was bottled but for immediate use; only draft wine of all kinds was used in the principal taverns, and it was often very bad, not from tricks of the vintners, but from bad management.
8.2015 September 14, Jeff Smith, Craft Cider: How to Turn Apples into Alcohol, The Countryman Press, →ISBN:
Another positive trend is the increase of quality in draft cider options. Draft cider has often been, and sometimes still is, considered an inferior product by cider traditionalists, who believe a true cider should come in a bottle or […]
9.(American spelling, nautical) The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
10.(universal) An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.
I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.
His first drafts were better than most authors' final products.
11.2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
Dr Richard Beeching's handwritten draft of his report survives in the National Archives.
12.(universal) A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
13.(universal) A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
14.(US, usually with the) Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
He left the country to avoid the draft.
15.(politics, US) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
16.(sports, US) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
17.(American spelling, rail transport) The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
18.The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
19.(American spelling, possibly archaic) The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.
using oxen for draft
shot forth an arrow with a mighty draft
20.1988, Kenneth W. Russell, Afther Eden, page 39:
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in the U.S., "strong" ploughs requiring the draft of four and sometimes six oxen were frequently used for breaking land which had previously lain fallow for several years.
21.(American spelling, possibly archaic) The act of drawing in a net for fish.
22.(American spelling, possibly archaic) That which is drawn in; a catch, a haul.
He cast his net, which brought him a very great draft.
23.(British, possibly archaic) A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population.
24.1841, Alexander Walker, Intermarriage, page 325:
As an instance: amongst a draft of young hounds from Earl F itzwilliam's was one, of whom Will Deane, his huntsman, made this remark in his letter, 'that he could not guess at Lord Foley's dislike to the hound called Glider, then sent, which was of the best blood in the country, being got by Mr. Meynell's Glider out of Lord Fitzwilliam's Blossom, and was moreover the most promising young hound he had ever entered;...
25.1904, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1 - Volume 42, page 83:
These drafts left between the 17th March and 28th April. After this there was no regular system of artillery drafts. A draft of 80 was detailed to take charge of horses on board ship as all cavalry drafts were for the time exhausted, and this draft sailed on the 30th June.
26.1982, John Maxwell, Brian Edmund Lloyd, Bertha Mac Smith, Letters of John Maxwell, Superintendent of Government Stock, page 206:
The Complaint about the Beef lately furnished for the use of the Troops &c at Parramatta, is not without foundation; when I commenced supplying the several Stations with animal food in January last, — a Draft of very fat Oxen was brought from Wellington for that purpose, — that draft has met the consumption of several Stations until now. — the Cattle lately remaining fell very much off in condition, though I certainly consider they were not inferior to a great deal of Beef, I have seen taken from Contractors.
27.1993, Lord Anglesey, A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919: Volume 2: 1851-1871:
An earlier draft of horses for the 4th Light Dragoons, however,was very different.
28.2009, Philip Warner, A Cavalryman in the Crimea:
The Light Brigade have got a draft of about 250 horses from England, and we expect ours shortly.
[Related terms]
- draw
[Verb]
draft (third-person singular simple present drafts, present participle drafting, simple past and past participle drafted)
1.(transitive) To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
2.To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
3.To write a law.
4.(transitive, US) To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
He was drafted during the Vietnam War.
5.To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.
There was a campaign to draft Smith to run for President.
They drafted me to be the chairperson of the new committee.
6.1960 May, “Southern Newsreel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 315, photo caption:
Class "H16" 4-6-2T No. 30516 has been drafted to the Fawley branch and is here seen working a 747-ton test train across Frost Lane crossing, near Hythe, on March 6 [...].
7.To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
The calves were drafted from the cows.
8.(transitive, sports, US) To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins.
9.(transitive, intransitive) To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
Synonym: slipstream
10.2020 September 13, Andrew Benson, “Tuscan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton claims 90th win after incredible race”, in BBC Sport[1]:
At the restart, the positions of the Mercedes drivers was reversed. Hamilton drafted Bottas down to Turn One and took the lead around the outside, controlling the race from there.
11.To draw out; to call forth.
12.To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
[[French]]
ipa :/dʁaft/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English draft.
[Noun]
draft m or f (plural drafts)
1.(sports) draft
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From English draw.
[Noun]
draft n (definite singular draftet, indefinite plural draft or drafter, definite plural drafta or draftene)
1.nautical chart
[References]
- “draft” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
- sjøkart
- kystkart
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
From English draw.
[Noun]
draft n (definite singular draftet, indefinite plural draft, definite plural drafta)
draft f (definite singular drafta, indefinite plural drafter, definite plural draftene)
1.nautical chart
[References]
- “draft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
- sjøkart
- kystkart
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
draft m (plural drafts)
1.draft (in sports)
[[Yola]]
[Noun]
draft
1.Alternative form of draught
[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 36
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draft dodger
[[English]]
[Noun]
draft dodger (plural draft dodgers)
1.(informal) A person who illicitly seeks to avoid compulsory military service (the draft).
Coordinate term: conscientious objector
[Synonyms]
- draft evader
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dodger
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdɒd͡ʒ.ə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
- red dog
[Etymology]
dodge + -er.
[Noun]
dodger (countable and uncountable, plural dodgers)Dodger on a small sailing boat
1.(countable) Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).
2.(countable) A person full of tricks or street smarts.
3.(countable, nautical) A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.
4.(countable, Australia, slang) An advertising leaflet; a flyer.
5.(uncountable, Australia, US, slang, dated) Bread.
[Synonyms]
- (companionway cover): sprayhood
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exemption
[[English]]
[Etymology]
From Old French exemption, from Latin exemptiō, from eximō.
[Noun]
exemption (countable and uncountable, plural exemptions)
1.An act of exempting.
2.The state of being exempt; immunity.
3.A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
4.Freedom from a defect or weakness.
[Synonyms]
- free pass
- get out of jail free card
- immunity
[[French]]
ipa :/ɛɡ.zɑ̃p.sjɔ̃/[Further reading]
- “exemption”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
exemption f (plural exemptions)
1.exemption
Synonym: dispense
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legislation
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌlɛd͡ʒɪsˈleɪʃən/[Anagrams]
- Agostinelli
[Etymology]
From Late Latin lēgislātiō (“the giving of the law”).Morphologically legislate + -ion
[Noun]
legislation (usually uncountable, plural legislations)
1.The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws.
Synonym: lawmaking
pass legislation
There is a lack of legislation about human cloning.
2.Law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body
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eliminating
[[English]]
[Verb]
eliminating
1.present participle and gerund of eliminate
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eliminate
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/[Anagrams]
- itameline
[Etymology]
From Latin ēlīminātus, past participle of ēlīmināre (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē (“out”) + līmen (“a threshold”), akin to līmes (“a boundary”); see English limit and limen.
[References]
1. ^ “FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations)”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], accessed 14 April 2011, archived from the original on 2011-03-08
[Verb]
eliminate (third-person singular simple present eliminates, present participle eliminating, simple past and past participle eliminated)
1.(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
Synonyms: abrogate, abolish; see also Thesaurus:destroy
2.2020 August 4, Jason Schreier, “Blizzard Employees Share Salaries With Each Other to Protest Wage Disparities”, in Time[2]:
Last year, the company eliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go.
3.(transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
4.(transitive, intransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, Thesaurus:defecate
5.2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 7:
In one study, 65.8% of the cat owners relinquishing a cat thought that their cat eliminated outside the litter box or destroyed furniture to spite them.
6.(transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
7.(accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.[1]
[[Italian]]
[Anagrams]
- eliantemi
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
ēlīmināte
1.second-person plural present active imperative of ēlīminō
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
eliminate
1.second-person singular voseo imperative of eliminar combined with te
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redux
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹiːdʌks/[Adjective]
redux (not comparable)
1.(of a topic, attributive, postpositive) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.
2.2004, Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process, page 265:
10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.
[Anagrams]
- Durex
[Etymology]
From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the 1971 publication of the novel Rabbit Redux by John Updike,[1][2] although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.
[Further reading]
- redux (literary term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
redux (plural reduxes)
1.A theme or topic redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
2.2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page 234:
With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.
3.2021 July 23, Ellie Robinson, “Coldplay shoot for the stars with their cinematic new track ‘Coloratura’”, in NME[1]:
The band chased the video up with an acoustic redux of the track, as well as performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Macy’s annual Fourth Of July Spectacular in New York.
[References]
1. ^ "Redux redux", in The Miami News (12 January 1972).
2. ^ redux at Google Ngram Viewer
[See also]
- redo
- rediscuss
- redox
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈre.duks/[Adjective]
redux (genitive reducis); third-declension one-termination adjective
1.(active voice, mostly as an epithet of Iuppiter and of Fortūna, in the poets and in inscriptions) that leads or brings back, that returns
2.(passive voice, frequent and Classical Latin) that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned, that has returned
[Alternative forms]
- reddux
[Etymology]
From redūcō (“I lead or bring back”).
[References]
- “rĕdux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “redux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- redux 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)
- rĕdux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,328/1–2
- “redux”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “redux”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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dubbed
[[English]]
ipa :/dʌbd/[Verb]
dubbed
1.simple past and past participle of dub
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a few
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Efaw
[Determiner]
a few
1.A small number of; more than two.
After a dismal few months my life at long last changed for the better.
2.1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. […]"
[Pronoun]
a few
1.A small number of things.
Regrets, I've had a few, but then again too few to mention.
Did everyone go home? --No, a few (of them) are still chatting.
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few
[[English]]
ipa :/fjuː/[Antonyms]
- many
- many
[Determiner]
few (comparative fewer or less, superlative fewest or least)
1.(preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
2.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
There are a few cars (=some, but a relatively small number) in the street.
Quite a few people (=a significant number) were pleasantly surprised.
I think he's had a few drinks. [This usage is likely ironic.]
3.(used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
There are very few people who understand quantum theory.
I was expecting a big crowd at the party, but very few people (=almost none) turned up.
4.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
Your men are valiant but their number few,
And cannot terrifie his mightie hoſt, […]
5.(meteorology, of clouds) Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.
Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight.
NOAA definition of the term "few clouds": An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, descriptive of a sky cover of 1/8 to 2/8. This is applied only when obscuring phenomena aloft are present--that is, not when obscuring phenomena are surface-based, such as fog.
6.(meteorology, of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
[Etymology]
From Middle English fewe, from Old English fēaw (“few”), from Proto-West Germanic *fau, from Proto-Germanic *fawaz (“few”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”).Cognate with Old Saxon fā (“few”), Old High German fao, fō (“few, little”), Old Norse fár (“few”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍃 (faus, “few”), Latin paucus (“little, few”) (whence English pauper, poor etc.). More at poor.
[Pronoun]
few
1.Few people, few things.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
[Synonyms]
- little (see usage)
[[Middle English]]
[Determiner]
few
1.Alternative form of fewe
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[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
From a speech by Winston Churchill that included the phrase "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".
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seismological
[[English]]
[Adjective]
seismological (not comparable)
1.Relating to seismology.
[Etymology]
seismology + -ical
[Synonyms]
- seismologic
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Tremors
[[German]]
[Noun]
Tremors
1.genitive singular of Tremor
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tremor
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹɛmə/[Alternative forms]
- tremour (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- remort, termor
[Etymology]
From Middle English tremour (“fright”), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.
[Noun]
tremor (plural tremors)
1.A shake, quiver, or vibration.
She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
1.(medicine) A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.
The optometrist has been losing patients ever since he developed tremors in his hand.An earthquake.
Did you feel the tremor this morning?
[Related terms]
English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *trem- (0 c, 23 e)
[Verb]
tremor (third-person singular simple present tremors, present participle tremoring, simple past and past participle tremored)
1.To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.
2.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 17, in Small Island[1], London: Review, page 188:
The ground tremored under their big boots.
[[Galician]]
ipa :/tɾeˈmoɾ/[Etymology]
From Old Galician-Portuguese tremor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tremor.
[Noun]
tremor m (plural tremores)
1.tremor
2.agitation
[References]
- “tremor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “tremor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “tremor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “tremor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
[[Indonesian]]
[Etymology]
From English tremor, from Middle English tremour (“fright”), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.
[Further reading]
- “tremor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
tremor
1.(medicine) A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions; tremor.
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
tremor (plural tremores)
1.(medicine) tremor
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈtre.mor/[Etymology]
From tremō + -or.
[Noun]
tremor m (genitive tremōris); third declension
1.trembling, quaking, tremor
[References]
- “tremor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tremor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tremor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
[Verb]
tremor
1.first-person singular present passive indicative of tremō
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
tremor
1.Alternative form of tremour
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
- tremour (Anglo-Norman)
[Etymology]
From Latin tremor, probably borrowed.
[Noun]
tremor oblique singular, m (oblique plural tremors, nominative singular tremors, nominative plural tremor)
1.terror; great fear
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/tɾeˈmoʁ/[Etymology]
From Old Galician-Portuguese tremor, from Latin tremor.
[Noun]
tremor m (plural tremores)
1.tremor
2.agitation
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/tɾeˈmoɾ/[Etymology]
Inherited from Old Spanish tremor (attested in El Cid), from Latin tremor. Although originally inherited, it was later used in some senses as a Latinism or Italianism (cf. tremore).[1]
[Further reading]
- “tremor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
tremor m (plural tremores)
1.tremor, trembling
[References]
1. ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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public
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpʌblɪk/[Adjective]
public (comparative more public, superlative most public)
1.Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment. [from 14th c.]
2.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], page 100, column 1:
VVith ſcoffs and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
3.2011 April 18, Sandra Laville, The Guardian:
Earlier this month Godwin had to make a public apology to the family of Daniel Morgan after the collapse of a £30m inquiry into his murder in 1987.
4.2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
5.Pertaining to the people as a whole (as opposed to a private group); concerning the whole country, community etc. [from 15th c.]
6.2010 September 16, Adam Vaughan, The Guardian:
A mere 3% of the more than 1,000 people interviewed said they actually knew what the conference was about. It seems safe to say public awareness of the Convention on Biological Awareness in Nagoya - and its goal of safeguarding wildlife - is close to non-existent.
7.2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
8.Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the state on behalf of the community. [from 15th c.]
9.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
10.2004 June 18, “The Guardian”, in Leader:
But culture's total budget is a tiny proportion of all public spending; it is one of the government's most visible success stories.
11.Open to all members of a community; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes. [from 15th c.]
12.2011 May 10, David Smith, The Guardian:
Some are left for dead on rubbish tips, in refuge bags or at public toilets.
13.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. 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.
14.(of a company) Traded publicly via a stock market.
15.(not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible to the program in general, not only to the class or any subclasses.
[Alternative forms]
- publick, publicke, publike, publique (all obsolete)
[Antonyms]
- private
[Etymology]
From Anglo-Norman publik, public, Middle French public, publique et al., and their source, Latin pūblicus (“pertaining to the people”). Compare people.Displaced native Old English ceorlfolc and Old English folclic.
[Noun]
public (plural publics)
1.The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
Members of the public may not proceed beyond this point.
2.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, 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:
“Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […] ”
3.2007 May 4, Martin Jacques, The Guardian:
Bush and Blair stand condemned by their own publics and face imminent political extinction.
4.(public relations) A particular group or demographic to be targeted.
5.2005, Donald Treadwell, Jill B. Treadwell, Public Relations Writing: Principles in Practice, page 19:
To the extent that you will use them to reach many other publics, the news media will also be one of your publics.
6.(archaic) A public house; an inn.
7.1824 June, [Walter Scott], Redgauntlet, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
these inconsiderate lads will be out of the house, and away to the publics, wasting their precious time , and
8.(non-native speakers' English) An internet publication. Calque of Russian and Ukrainian па́блик (páblyk), па́блік (páblik).
9.2023 January 7, Alexander Grigoryev, “Russian public: PMC "Wagner" fighters report that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are using unidentified chemical weapons in Artemovsk”, in Military Review[2]:
Russian publics report that the fighters of the Wagner group have already practically taken possession of Soledar, there are fights on the outskirts, where the Vushniks are trying to fight back in the salt mines.
10.2023 December, Iryna Rudia, Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė, Olena Gogorenko, Public Security and Public Order[3], number 34, Kaunas: Mykolas Romeris University, →DOI, pages 219 of 218–225:
Complex inductions are unconscious powerful components of influence. They include the following varieties:
[…] 4) Truisms. The term comes from the English word "true", which means "truth". Therefore, under truism it is accepted to understand banal truths, i.e. something that in principle does not require confirmation, but it is so banal and common knowledge that it is rather strange to base on it, but here again there is a "but". In our subconsciousness we perceive it as a certain axiom, and this axiom is interpreted by our subconsciousness itself. As an example, the phrase "In matters of war, Russia is Russia, and Ukraine is Ukraine" was repeatedly encountered in Russian publics. In principle, there is no sense in this phrase, because not a single fact is given. However, each of the readers interpreted it for himself, and putting the word "Russia" in the foreground makes a hint that Russia is stronger than Ukraine in military terms, but the phrase itself does not express such a meaning extra-linguistically.
[References]
- “public”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- public in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “public”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “public”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[[French]]
ipa :/py.blik/[Adjective]
public (feminine publique, masculine plural publics, feminine plural publiques)
1.public (various meanings)
1.(relational) of the people as a whole; public [from 1238]
l’intérêt public ― the public interest
le bien public ― the public good
La voix publique est pour lui. ― The public voice is for him.
2.public; seen or known by everyone [from 1330]
C’est une nouvelle qui est déjà publique. ― It's already public news.
3.public; representing the state on behalf of the community [from 1390]
Synonym: étatique
pouvoirs publics ― public powers
notaire public ― public notary
4.public; open to all [from 1538]
Synonym: commun
lieu public ― public place
fille publique ― streetwalker, prostitute (literally, “public girl”)
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin pūblicus. The noun is from the adjective.
[Further reading]
- “public”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
public m (plural publics)
1.public (people in general) [from 1320]
2.2015 October 3, Romain Gueugneau, “Le smartphone tout terrain s’aventure dans le grand public”, in LesEchos[4]:
Et la demande augmente dans le grand public.
And the demand is increasing amongst the general public.
3.audience [from 1671]
Il devait plaire à son public. ― He had to please his audience.
4.2016, Claudine Monfette, Robert Charlebois, Pierre Nadeau (lyrics and music), “Ordinaire”, in Encore un soir[5], performed by Céline Dion:
Quand je chante, c’est pour le public
When I sing, it's for the audience
[[Ladin]]
[Adjective]
public m pl
1.plural of publich
[[Occitan]]
[Adjective]
public m (feminine singular publica, masculine plural publics, feminine plural publicas)
1.public
Antonym: privat
[Etymology]
From Latin publicus.
[Noun]
public m (plural publics)
1.public, audience
[[Old French]]
[Adjective]
public m (oblique and nominative feminine singular publique)
1.public (not private; available to the general populace)
[Alternative forms]
- publik
- publiq
- publique
[References]
-
- publik on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/ˈpu.blik/[Adjective]
public m or n (feminine singular publică, masculine plural publici, feminine and neuter plural publice)
1.public
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French public, from Latin publicus.
[Noun]
public n (plural publice)
1.the public
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rugged
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹʌɡɪd/[Anagrams]
- Dugger, Gudger, grudge, gurged
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English rugged, roggyd, ruggyd, derived from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft, shagginess”), equivalent to rug (“rough, woollen material”) + -ed. Compare Old Swedish ruggoter (“wrinkled”), Swedish rugga (“to roughen”), Swedish ruggig (“shaggy”), Icelandic rögg (“shagginess”), Old Norse raggaðr (“tufted”), dialectal Danish raggad (“shaggy”).
[Etymology 2]
rug + -ed
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rug
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹʌɡ/[Adjective]
rug (comparative more rug, superlative most rug)
1.(UK, dialect, obsolete) snug; cosyPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rug”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
[Anagrams]
- GRU, GUR
[Etymology]
Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), related to English rag and rough. Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), related to English rag and rough. Compare also Old English rȳhe (“rug, rough covering, blanket”).
[Further reading]
- “rug”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “rug”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “rug”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
rug (plural rugs)
1.A partial covering for a floor. [1624]
2.(UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. [1591]
3.1855, William Howitt, A Boy′s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert′s Note-Book, page 254:
They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
4.1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia, page 2297:
Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.
5.1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181,
My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with.″
6.1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books
She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.
7.1997, Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes, page 22:
He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.
8.(historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. [1547]
9.1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Irelande […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC:
They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.
10.(historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze. [1577]
11.(obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug. [1627]
12.A cloth covering for a horse. [1790]
13.(obsolete, rare) A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops. [1792]
14.(slang) The female pubic hair. [1893]
15.A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
16.(slang) A wig; a hairpiece. [1940]
17.(colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair. [1954]
18.(US, slang, ethnic slur) Short for rughead.
19.1980, John Irwin, Prisons in Turmoil, page 212:
We're the motherfuckers be fightin' when the rugs [black prisoners] start wasting people around here.
[Synonyms]
- (small carpet): carpet, mat
- (wig): toupee, wig
[Verb]
rug (third-person singular simple present rugs, present participle rugging, simple past and past participle rugged)
1.(transitive) To cover with a rug.
2.1966, Margaret I. Clarke, Care of the Horse and Pony, page 45:
It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]
3.(Scotland, archaic) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
4.1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
“this was a job in the auld times o'rugging and riving through the hale country […] ”
[[Afrikaans]]
ipa :/rœχ/[Etymology]
From Dutch rug.
[Noun]
rug (plural rûe or rûens, diminutive ruggie)
1.(plural chiefly rûe) back (rear of the body)
2.(plural chiefly rûens) hill; ridge
[[Aromanian]]
[Etymology 1]
From Latin rubus. Compare Romanian rug.
[Etymology 2]
Probably a semi-learned term or borrowing from Latin rogus, as with its Romanian cognate rug (or modeled after it). Less likely inherited.
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
From Old Danish rugh, from Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Compare Norwegian Bokmål rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, English rye.
[Noun]
rug c (singular definite rugen, not used in plural form)
1.rye (Secale cereale)
[Verb]
rug
1.imperative of ruge
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/rʏx/[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch rugge, from Old Dutch ruggi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz.
[Noun]
rug m (plural ruggen, diminutive ruggetje n or rugje n)
1.back, backside
2.(geology) ridge
3.(Netherlands, historical) Short for rooie rug; a thousand-guilders banknote
4.(Netherlands) thousand euro (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
[[Elfdalian]]
[Noun]
rug m
1.rye (Secale cereale)
[[Faroese]]
[Noun]
rug
1.accusative singular indefinite of rugur
[[Irish]]
ipa :/ɾˠʌɡ/[Etymology]
From Old Irish ·ruc, prototonic form of ro·ucc, perfect tense of beirid.
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1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 101
[Verb]
rug
1.analytic past indicative of beir
[[Manx]]
[Etymology]
From ro·uccai, suppletive augmented form of beirid. Compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic rugadh.
[Synonyms]
- behr
- ymmyrk
[Verb]
rug (verbal noun ruggal, past participle ruggit)
1.to bear (give birth to)
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Compare Danish rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, English rye.
[Noun]
rug m (definite singular rugen)
1.rye (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
[References]
- “rug” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/rʊː(ɡ)/[Etymology]
From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Cognate with Faroese rugur, Icelandic rúgur, Swedish råg, Danish rug, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, and English rye.
[Noun]
rug m (definite singular rugen)
1.rye (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)
[References]
- “rug” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ruk/[Etymology 1]
Learned borrowing from Latin rūga.
[Etymology 2]
Inherited from Old Polish rug.
[Etymology 3]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[Further reading]
- rug in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “rug”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
[[Romagnol]]
ipa :[ˈɾuːɡ][Noun]
rug m pl
1.plural of rôg
[References]
Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 514
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology 1]
From Latin rogus, probably borrowed in the 19th century or semi-learned. The linguists Candrea and Tiktin believed it to be inherited.
[Etymology 2]
Inherited from Latin rubus (“bramble, briar”), from Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (“sweetbriar”). Compare Italian rovo, dialectal rogo. For the sound shift of Latin -b- to -g- in Romanian, compare neg, negură.
[References]
- rug in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
[[Scottish Gaelic]]
ipa :/rˠuk/[Verb]
rug
1.past of beir
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transformative
[[English]]
ipa :/trɑːnsˈfɔːmətɪv/[Adjective]
transformative (comparative more transformative, superlative most transformative)
1.That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change
Synonyms: transformatory, transmutative
Antonym: nontransformative
2.2019 November 6, Graeme Pickering, “New targets for Northumberland”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:
"You'll know the transformative effect that the Metro has had on the whole of Tyneside," says NCC [Northumberland County Council] leader Peter Jackson. "This new passenger line will have the same effect on southeast Northumberland. It's a transformative project and we're going to make sure it happens."
3.(linguistics) Chiefly in transformative-generative: of or relating to a theory of generative grammar in which defined operations called transformations produce new sentences from existing ones; transformational.
[Etymology]
From Medieval Latin transformātīvus (“transformative”), from Latin trānsfōrmātus (“transformed”) + -īvus (suffix attached to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming deverbal adjectives meaning ‘doing or related to doing [the verb]’). Trānsfōrmātus is the perfect passive participle of trānsfōrmō (“to transform”), from trāns- (prefix meaning ‘across; beyond; through’) + fōrmō (“to fashion, form, format, shape”) (from fōrma (“appearance, figure, form, shape”); further etymology unknown, perhaps related to Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “a form, shape”)).[1] The English word is analysable as transform + -ative.
[Further reading]
- transformational grammar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- transformation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
1. ^ “transformative, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2018; “transformative, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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play-by-play
[[English]]
[Adjective]
play-by-play (not comparable)
1.(US) Describing a sports commentary in which a commentator describes every action in some detail as it occurs, often assisted by a second commentator who provides background information and other comments
[Etymology]
From play + by + play.
[Noun]
play-by-play (plural play-by-plays)
1.(US) A detailed description or analysis of sporting events as they occur in succession, one play at a time.
2.2004, Dean Oliver, Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis:
So I collected a cross section of play-by-plays, definitely not as many as I'd like to collect but enough to feel pretty comfortable with what I was seeing.
[Synonyms]
- ball-by-ball (cricket)
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unfold
[[English]]
ipa :/ʌnˈfoʊld/[Antonyms]
- fold
[Etymology]
From Middle English unfolden, from Old English unfealdan (“to unfold”), equivalent to un- + fold.
[Noun]
unfold (plural unfolds)
1.(computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.
[Synonyms]
- (to reveal): expose, uncover; see also Thesaurus:reveal
[Verb]
unfold (third-person singular simple present unfolds, present participle unfolding, simple past and past participle unfolded)
1.(transitive) To undo a folding.
to unfold a map; to unfold a tablecloth; She unpacks the new dress and unfolds it carefully.
2.[1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple: Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, […], 1885, →OCLC:
Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
4.(intransitive) To become unfolded.
The curtains unfolded to reveal the stage.
5.(intransitive) To turn out; to happen; to develop.
Events unfolded in an unexpected way.
6.2012 November 8, Scott Tobias, “Memento’s puzzle structure hides big twists and bigger profundities”, in The AV Club[1]:
Memento unfolds over 22 scenes—or, more accurately, 22 strands of time, the main strand (in color) moving backward in increments, and another strand (in black and white) going forward, though the two overlap profoundly.
7.(transitive) To lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to reveal.
to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science
8.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold.
9.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
Unfold the passion of my love.
10.(transitive) To release from a fold or pen.
to unfold sheep
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meteorologist
[[English]]
[Etymology]
meteorology + -ist
[Noun]
meteorologist (plural meteorologists)
1.a person who studies meteorology
2.a weather forecaster
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French météorologiste.
[Noun]
meteorologist m (plural meteorologiști)
1.weather forecaster, weatherman
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correspondent
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dənt/[Adjective]
correspondent (comparative more correspondent, superlative most correspondent)
1.Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
2.1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
3.1577, “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell”, in Meredith Hanmer, transl., The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, translation of original by Eusebius Pamphilus, page 225:
[VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.
4.1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 170:
[…] and he exhibited a picture of mental stupor and abstraction, dreadful for Oriana to contemplate! producing in her, as from magnetic attraction, correspondent emotions, which with the utmost difficulty she restrained.
5.(with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
6.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
ARIEL: Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.
[Etymology]
From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.
[Noun]
correspondent (plural correspondents)
1.Someone who or something which corresponds.
2.Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
3.A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.
[References]
- “correspondent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[See also]
- corespondent
- Correspondent in Wikipedia
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌkɔ.rɛs.pɔnˈdɛnt/[Alternative forms]
- korrespondent (before 1996)
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French correspondant, correspondent, from Latin correspondens.
[Noun]
correspondent m (plural correspondenten, diminutive correspondentje n, feminine correspondente)
1.A correspondent, in particular a reporter.
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃d/[Verb]
correspondent
1.third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of correspondre
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
correspondent
1.third-person plural present active indicative of correspondeō
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
correspondent m (plural correspondents, feminine correspondente)
1.(Jersey) correspondent
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educational
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɛd͡ʒʊˈkeɪʃənəl/[Adjective]
educational (comparative more educational, superlative most educational)
1.Of, or relating to education.
A school is an educational establishment.
2.Instructive, or helping to educate.
They were shown an educational film about VD.
I can't see the educational value of going on a field trip to the clothes factory.
[Etymology]
education + -al
[Noun]
educational (plural educationals)
1.A free (or low cost) trip for travel consultants, provided by a travel operator or airline as a means of promoting their service. A fam trip
[Synonyms]
- (helping to educate): educative, instructive, didactic
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ditch
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪt͡ʃ/[Etymology 1]
From Middle English dich, from Old English dīċ (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“dam”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin fīgō (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.
[Etymology 2]
From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English dēcan (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech.
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supercharge
[[English]]
[Etymology]
super- + charge
[Noun]
supercharge (plural supercharges)
1.(heraldry) A charge borne upon an ordinary or other charge.
2.(electrics, electronics) An instance of supercharging.
[Verb]
supercharge (third-person singular simple present supercharges, present participle supercharging, simple past and past participle supercharged)
1.(automotive) To increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft.
2.(transitive) To make faster or more powerful.
3.2014 April 13, Nick Bilton, “Bend it, charge it, dunk it: Graphene, the material of tomorrow”, in The New York Times[1]:
Graphene could change the electronics industry, ushering in flexible devices, supercharged quantum computers, electronic clothing and computers that can interface with the cells in your body.
4.(electronics, electrics) To recharge a battery cell/pack at an extremely rapid pace.
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dismiss
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪsˈmɪs/[Etymology]
Middle English, from Latin dimissus (“sent away, dismissed, banished”), perfect passive participle of dīmittō (“send away, dismiss”), from dis- + mittere (“to send”).
[References]
- “dismiss”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Synonyms]
- (to end the employment or service of): see Thesaurus:lay off
[Verb]
dismiss (third-person singular simple present dismisses, present participle dismissing, simple past and past participle dismissed)
1.
2.(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
The company dismissed me after less than a year.
3.(transitive) To order to leave.
The soldiers were dismissed after the parade.
4.(transitive) To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
He dismissed all thoughts of acting again.
5.(transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
The court dismissed the case.
6.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
“He was here,” observed Drina composedly, “and father was angry with him.” ¶ “What?” exclaimed Eileen. “When?” ¶ “This morning, before father went downtown.” ¶ Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina’s case.
7.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.
8.(transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
By telling the victim to "get over it", the listener dismissed the victim's feelings.
9.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".
10.(transitive) To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).
She dismissed him with a wave of the hand.
11.(transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
He was dismissed for 99 runs.
12.(transitive, sports, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.
13.2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1-3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
Kalinic later saw red for a rash tackle on Paul Scharner before Gabriel Tamas was dismissed for bringing down Diouf.
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sideline
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsaɪdlaɪn/[Alternative forms]
- side line, side-line
[Anagrams]
- disilene, lineside
[Etymology]
side + line
[Noun]
sideline (plural sidelines)
1.A line at the side of something.
2.1809, William Nicholson, “CALLIONYMUS”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume II (B … E), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 1:
Like most other fishes, the dragonet varies slightly in colour in different individuals, and at different seasons of the year. Mr. Pennant describes the pupils of the eyes to be of a rich sapphirine blue; the irides fine fiery carbuncle; the pectoral fins light brown; the side-line straight; the colours of the fish yellow, blue, and white, making a beautiful appearance when fresh taken.
3.Something that is additional or extra or that exists around the edges or margins of a main item.
She started the business as a sideline to her regular work and it ended up becoming the greater source of income.
Soup need not be just a sideline to a meal; if you like, it can be the main course.
4.A line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.
5.(sports) A line defining the side boundary of a playing field. Used in Canadian football, field lacrosse and basketball.
Synonym: (in rugby union, rugby league and association football) touchline
6.(sports, usually in the plural) The area outside the playing field beyond each sideline.
The coach stood on the sidelines and bellowed commands at the team.
7.(figuratively) The outside or perimeter of any activity.
to relegate to the sidelines
She installed the whole fixture while he simply watched from the sidelines.
8.2023 October 3, Jason Horowitz, “Conservative Catholics, Relegated to Sidelines, Denounce Papal Gathering”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
Conservative Catholics, Relegated to Sidelines, Denounce Papal Gathering [title]
9.(Canada) A secondary road, especially a byroad at right angles to a main road.
[References]
- “sideline”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
sideline (third-person singular simple present sidelines, present participle sidelining, simple past and past participle sidelined)
1.(sports, transitive) To place on the sidelines; to bench or to keep someone out of play.
The coach sidelined the player until he regained his strength.
2.2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News[2]:
Gomez got his chance with Gary Cahill sidelined and took it superbly with an assured performance as part of a three-man defence Southgate now looks certain to use at the World Cup.
3.(figurative, transitive) To remove or keep out of circulation or out of the focus.
The illness sidelined him for weeks.
4.2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club[3]:
Subplots that might have been fun to explore were relegated or eventually sidelined altogether in the case of characters like Gendry, who disappeared for years and finally resurfaces as a blacksmith in King’s Landing, literally waiting for the call to his hero’s journey.
5.2022 January 12, David Clough, “From Germany with love: a Warship retrospective”, in RAIL, number 948, page 49:
During 1971-72, spare Type 4s on other regions enabled the whole class to be sidelined, with Class 43s going first.
6.2023 June 14, Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth, “Putin sides with military chiefs over placing Wagner under direct control”, in The Guardian[4], →ISSN:
Prigozhin’s exclusion from Ukraine would sideline one of Russia’s most recognisable war figures.
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outperform
[[English]]
[Etymology]
out- + perform
[Verb]
outperform (third-person singular simple present outperforms, present participle outperforming, simple past and past participle outperformed)
1.To perform better than something or someone.
2.2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker[1], →ISSN:
The strategy depends on an ability to outperform the market consistently, which many economists regard as virtually impossible.
3.2019 October 23, “Industry Insider: Continued rail growth”, in Rail, page 72:
Rail has continued to outperform bus operations, where a decline in ridership continues.
4.2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 8:
ChatGPT performs well at writing argumentative student essays and outperforms the quality of the human-written essays significantly.
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entitled
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈtaɪtl̩d/[Adjective]
entitled (comparative more entitled, superlative most entitled)
1.(literally) Having a title.
Her book is entitled 'My Autobiography'.
2.Having a legal or moral right or claim to something.
As a natural-born citizen I am entitled to run for president.
If you were injured at work you may be entitled to compensation.
He feels entitled to other people's respect.
3.(figuratively) Convinced of one's own righteousness (self-righteousness) or the justifiability of one's actions or status, especially wrongly so; demanding and pretentious.
4.1989, Allan Tasman, Robert E. Hales, Allen J. Frances, American Psychiatric Press Review of Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Pub, →ISBN, page 514:
THE STRAIN OF DEALING WITH ENTITLED PEOPLE. Dealing with people who are generally convinced that life (and, in particular, the clinician) owes them something can be very wearisome work — particularly if on some level (usually unconscious) the clinician believes it is appropriate (and necessary for a feeling of competence and self-worth) to satisfy this special need. […] Entitled people can be even more difficult when they have the resources in the form of prestige, power, and/or wealth to transcend the usual bonds of social reality, or when they have the bitterness and tenacity to use legal action in the face of real or imagined failings on the part of the clinician.
5.2003, Richard M. Billow, Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 107:
People feel entitled to their entitlement, and frequently feel defensive when it is challenged. As a mechanism of defense, entitlement may be protectively maintained, denied, or disowned, and also projected to make the leader feel entitled.
6.2005, W. Keith Campbell, When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 20:
In one research study, for example, we wanted to see if highly entitled people would actually take candy from children. […] He held up a bucket of Halloween candy that he said was supposed to go to the children in the developmental lab. Clearly, this was candy meant for children. The question was, would the entitled people take the candy? The experimenter passed it around the room and secretly counted the amount of candy that people took. As we expected, the entitled people took the most candy.
7.2008, Gordon Patzer, Looks: Why They Matter More Than You Ever Imagined, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn, →ISBN, page 40:
Thus, some men feel entitled to sex if they buy their date a nice meal or a few drinks. In decades past, more than a few women felt entitled to a marriage commitment after an exclusive dating relationship had lasted for some commonly agreed upon period of time—say, a year.
8.2011, Phil Torcivia, What a Nice Guy:
Nothing irks me more than entitled people. I understand that if we don't ask for what we want, we probably won't get it, but expectations are out of whack. Certain people unjustly expect to receive special treatment and they'll whine and pout like children when disappointed.
9.2011, Steve White, Please Change Your Mind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 23:
And when you feel entitled, you don't ask for help, you demand it. What will happen when these people's entitlements are taken away? They'll be outraged. They'll feel like they've lost a God-given right. So, what are they likely to do?
10.2012, John Mauk, John Metz, The Composition of Everyday Life, Concise Edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 267:
It's not merely that students shouldn't feel entitled to high grades. Bruno goes further and discovers the double jeopardy of entitlement: Those who feel entitled are “missing out” on their own educations: […]
11.2013, William H. Reid, Stuart B. Silver, Handbook of Mental Health Administration and Management, Routledge, →ISBN, page 525:
Iudith Bardwick is an expert on employees like that, who feel “entitled” to their jobs but don't do very much to deserve them. She says entitlement behavior has little to do with intelligence or experience, and everything to do with motivation and fear. Leadership should not be delegated to “entitled” people. They don't make very good team members, either, although they may work acceptably in groups. And there is a difference between teams and groups. Deepdown, many people who feel entitled are very concerned about security and anxious about change.
12.2013, John Bishop, God Distorted: How Your Earthly Father Affects Your Perception of God and Why It Matters, Multnomah Books, →ISBN:
We are not sure what caused the argument among the disciples; they simply viewed themselves as more important than they really were. Entitled people can rarely see their own attitudes.
13.2014, Emmy Laybourne, Monument 14: Savage Drift, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 16:
“Jake always acts so entitled. Like he deserves her—like I don't.” “But she's really into you, right?” Alex asked me. “Astrid?” I nodded.
14.2015, Square Enix, Life Is Strange:
Look at these entitled assholes… they don't give a shit about anybody.
[Synonyms]
- authorized, empowered (sense 2 only)
[Verb]
entitled
1.simple past and past participle of entitle
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entitle
[[English]]
ipa :/ənˈtaɪtəl/[Alternative forms]
- entitule (archaic)
- intitle (archaic or nonstandard)
[Anagrams]
- Linette, titlene
[Etymology]
From Anglo-Norman entitler, from Old French entiteler, (French intituler), from Late Latin intitulāre.
[Synonyms]
- (give a title to): designate, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
- (dignify by an honorary designation): elevate, ennoble, invest
- (give power, authority): empower, enable, qualify
- (give rightful ownership):
- (give a title to a book): name
[Verb]
entitle (third-person singular simple present entitles, present participle entitling, simple past and past participle entitled)
1.To give a title to. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2.To dignify by an honorary designation.
3.To give power or authority (to do something).
A passport entitles the bearer to travel to other countries.
4.To give rightful ownership.
5.To give a title to a book, film, play, etc.
His autobiography, entitled Life of a Driver, was a best-seller.
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sustainability
[[English]]
ipa :/səsˌteɪnəˈbɪlɪti/[Antonyms]
- unsustainability
[Etymology]
sustain + -ability
[Noun]
sustainability (countable and uncountable, plural sustainabilities)
1.The ability to sustain something.
1.(ecology) A means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, planning and acting for the ability to maintain these necessary resources for future generations.
2.(business) The ability to sustain a business in the long term, which is a state that is partly dependent on, but broader than, profitability today or in the short term; it involves aspects of a plausible path toward eventual profitability (as applies to a startup) and ecologic sustainability (for example, the long-term dependence of the timber/lumber industry on forest preservation and renewal, or of fisheries on viable fish stocks).
The making of buggy whips is the proverbial exemplar of a business without sustainability in the face of technological change.
3.2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:
In a war of words that has broken out between Khan and Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, the Mayor was accused of sending revenue-raising proposals to Shapps some three weeks late, giving him little choice but to extend negotiations. Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
4.(civics) The ability to sustain a civic practice or process in the long term, such as democracy, entrepreneurialism, a war effort, or others.
universal primary and secondary education, without which the sustainability of innovation and entrepreneurialism seems questionable
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credentials
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- centralised
[Noun]
credentials
1.plural of credentialcredentials pl (plural only)
1.Documentary evidence of someone's right to credit or authority, especially such a document given to an ambassador by a country.
Synonym: letter of credence
2.(computing, networking) login data
[Verb]
credentials
1.third-person singular simple present indicative of credential
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credential
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹɪˈdɛnʃəl/[Adjective]
credential (comparative more credential, superlative most credential)
1.Pertaining to or serving as an introduction or recommendation (to someone). [from 15th c.]
2.1625-1629, Abraham Darcie/Darcy and Thomas Browne (translators), The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England (originally by William Camden)
their credential letters on both sides
[Anagrams]
- interclade, interlaced
[Etymology]
From Medieval Latin crēdentiālis (“giving authority”), from Latin crēdentia (“trust”).
[Noun]
credential (plural credentials)
1.(chiefly in the plural) documentary or electronic evidence that a person has certain status or privileges
May I see your credentials, please?
The computer verifies the user's credentials before allowing them to log on.
2.(informal) Evidence of skill or excellence.
3.2023 April 6, Emma Sanders, “Women's Finalissima:England beat Brazil in dramatic shutout”, in BBC Sport[1]:
They deserved their half-time lead and looked fully in control until Brazil made changes at the break and began to show their credentials in attack.
[References]
- credential on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[See also]
- Credentialing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Verb]
credential (third-person singular simple present credentials, present participle credentialing or credentialling, simple past and past participle credentialed or credentialled)
1.to furnish with credentials
2.1997, Paul Thomas Hill et al., Reinventing Public Education[2], →ISBN, page 138:
School superintendents, principals, and teachers are currently credentialed only by the state.
3.2009 March 7, By Patrick Walters, “Rudd orders worldwide push for UN seat”, in Herald Sun[3]:
The newly credentialled ambassador to the Holy See is already in the PM's good books.
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live
[[English]]
ipa :/lɪv/[Anagrams]
- Levi, Viel, evil, veil, vile, vlei
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English lyven, libben, from Old English lifian, libban (“to live; be alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”).Cognate with Saterland Frisian líeuwje (“to live”), West Frisian libje (“to live”), Dutch leven (“to live”), German Low German leven, lęven (“to live”), German leben (“to live”), Swedish leva (“to live”), Icelandic lifa (“to live”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (liban, “to live”).
[Etymology 2]
An aphetic form of alive.
[Further reading]
- “live”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “live”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/laːi̯f⁵⁵/[Etymology]
From English live, possibly via Japanese ライブ (raibu).
[Noun]
live
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) live performance; concert (Classifier: 場／场 m c)
2.(Hong Kong Cantonese) livestream (Classifier: 條／条 c)
[Verb]
live
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) to broadcast live; to stream
2.(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) to reach the end (i.e. the newest posts) on a forum thread
[[Danish]]
ipa :/liːvə/[Etymology 1]
Verbal form of the noun liv (“life”).
[Etymology 2]
Borrowed from English live First attested in 1965.
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[ˈlive][Adverb]
live (lative liven)
1.(neologism) on the left
Synonym: maldekstre
Antonym: dekstre
[Etymology]
From liva + -e.
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈliʋeˣ/[Anagrams]
- Elvi, Veli, ilve, veli
[Etymology 1]
lipeä + -e
[Etymology 2]
From English live.
[[French]]
[Adjective]
live
1.recorded at a concert as opposed to in a studio
2.in real time
3.(Quebec, Eastern Ontario) now, at this moment.
[Noun]
live m (plural live or lives)
1.live stream, a video broadcast in real time, a Q&A (even written) in real time
Synonym: direct
comment faire un live sur YouTube ― how to do a livestream on YouTube
Le Monde a fait un live pendant le confinement. - Le Monde did a live Q&A during the lockdown.
[Synonyms]
- en direct
[[German]]
ipa :/laɪ̯f/[Adverb]
live
1.(broadcast, event) live (at it happens, in real time, directly)
Synonyms: direkt, in Echtzeit
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English live.
[Further reading]
- “live” in Duden online
- “live” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈlajv/[Adjective]
live (invariable)
1.performed or recorded live
Synonym: dal vivo
[Anagrams]
- Levi, levi, veli, vile
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English live, originally as an adjective.[1]
[Noun]
live m (invariable)
1.live broadcast; live reporting
[References]
1. ^ live in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
2. ^ live in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
līvē
1.second-person singular present active imperative of līveō
[[Middle English]]
[Verb]
live
1.Alternative form of lyven
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/²liːʋə/[Anagrams]
- elvi, evli, leiv, Levi, veil
[Etymology 2]
Borrowed from English live.
[Etymology 3]
From Old Norse hlífa, from Proto-Germanic *hlībijaną. The noun is derived from the verb.
[Etymology 4]
Of the noun liv n (“life”).
[References]
- “live” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Picard]]
[Etymology]
From Latin liber.
[Noun]
live m (plural lives)
1.book
[[Polish]]
ipa :/lajf/[Adjective]
live (not comparable, no derived adverb)
1.(broadcasting, colloquial, postpositive) live (seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens)
2.(colloquial, music, postpositive) live (made during a performance in front of an audience, and not, as usual, in a recording studio)
[Adverb]
live (not comparable)
1.(colloquial, postpositive) live (as it happens)
Synonym: na żywo
Antonym: z puszki
[Alternative forms]
- lajw
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English live.
[Further reading]
- live in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- live in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
live m inan
1.(broadcasting, colloquial) live transmission
2.(colloquial, music) live recording (recording made during a performance in front of an audience, and not, as usual, in a recording studio)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈlaj.vi/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English live.
[Noun]
live m or f (plural lives)
1.video stream (either a live stream or a recording of a past live stream)
Synonym: direto
Hoje assisti ao live que fizeram na semana passada.
Today, I've watched the stream that they did last week.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
live m or f or n (indeclinable)
1.live
[Adverb]
live
1.live
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English live.
[[Swazi]]
[Noun]
líve class 5 (plural émáve class 6)
1.country
[[Yola]]
[Etymology]
From Middle English lyven, from Old English libban, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan.
[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 104
[Verb]
live (present participle liveen)
1.to live
2.1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 104:
Lhaung mye thye live in prosperitee;
Long may they live in prosperity;
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live up to
[[English]]
[See also]
- make good on
[Verb]
live up (third-person singular simple present lives up, present participle living up, simple past and past participle lived up)
1.(intransitive, followed by to) To fulfil the expectations placed upon one.
She never lived up to her reputation.
The holidays didn't live up to the advertiser's claims.
2.2023 October 7, Gregor Muir, “Frieze turns 20”, in FT Weekend, Collecting, page 2:
Seeing A-listers in the aisles makes Frieze seem sexier than most fairs, placing added pressure on galleries to live up to the sponsorship provided by high-end fashion brands and luxury goods.
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live up
[[English]]
[See also]
- make good on
[Verb]
live up (third-person singular simple present lives up, present participle living up, simple past and past participle lived up)
1.(intransitive, followed by to) To fulfil the expectations placed upon one.
She never lived up to her reputation.
The holidays didn't live up to the advertiser's claims.
2.2023 October 7, Gregor Muir, “Frieze turns 20”, in FT Weekend, Collecting, page 2:
Seeing A-listers in the aisles makes Frieze seem sexier than most fairs, placing added pressure on galleries to live up to the sponsorship provided by high-end fashion brands and luxury goods.
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meson
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɛs.ɒn/[Anagrams]
- 'mones, Mones, Semon, mones, nomes, omens, semon, somen
[Etymology 1]
From Ancient Greek μέσον (méson, “middle”).
[Etymology 2]
From meso- + on. Coined by Indian physicist Homi Bhabha in 1939, as a modification of the earlier suggestion mesotron.
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
meson n (plural mesonen)
1.(physics) meson
[[Esperanto]]
[Noun]
meson
1.accusative singular of meso
[[French]]
ipa :/me.zɔ̃/[Noun]
meson m (plural mesons)
1.Alternative spelling of méson
[[Old French]]
[Alternative forms]
- maisun
- maison
[Etymology]
From Latin mansiō, mansiōnem (“abode, home, dwelling”).
[Noun]
meson oblique singular, f (oblique plural mesons, nominative singular meson, nominative plural mesons)
1.house
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status
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsteɪ.təs/[Anagrams]
- suttas
[Etymology]
Learned borrowing from Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.
[Further reading]
- "status" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 299.
[Noun]
status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)
1.A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
2.Prestige or high standing.
3.1957, Gladys Sellew, Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service, Saunders, page 81:
The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.
4.1979 April 28, Mary A. Lowry, “Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines (review)”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
It is no secret that the military was a bastion of racism and sexism keeping blacks and women in the housekeeping and other non-status jobs.
5.A situation or state of affairs.
What's the status of the investigation?
New York is known for its status as a financial center.
6.2014 March 15, “Turn It Off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:
If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
7.(law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
1.(Canada, usually used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.
He is a status Indian.(social media) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
I'm just about to update my status to "busy".
- 2012, “Facebook Drama”, performed by Northern Cree:
I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight(medicine) Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.
[References]
1. ^ https://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/status
[[Catalan]]
[Noun]
status m (invariable)
1.Alternative spelling of estatus
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/stei̯⁵⁵ tʰɐs²¹/[Etymology]
From English status.
[Noun]
status
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) relationship status
[See also]
- 報status／报status
- A0
- O1
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈstatus][Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin status.
[Further reading]
- status in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- status in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- status in Internetová jazyková příručka
[Noun]
status m inan
1.status
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈstaː.tʏs/[Etymology]
Learned borrowing from Latin status.
[Noun]
status m (plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)
1.status (condition)
2.status (legal position)
3.status (station, social standing)
4.medical file
[[Esperanto]]
[Verb]
status
1.conditional of stati
[[Finnish]]
ipa :/ˈstɑtus/[Anagrams]
- tassut
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin status.
[Further reading]
- “status”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
[Noun]
status
1.status (a person's position or standing; high standing)
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈsta.tʊs][Etymology]
From Dutch status, from Latin status.
[Further reading]
- “status” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Noun]
status (plural status-status, first-person possessive statusku, second-person possessive statusmu, third-person possessive statusnya)
1.status:
1.A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
2.A situation or state of affairs.
3.A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.(healthcare) A medical file, medical record.
- 2020, Nurman Hidaya, Alfianur, Fitriya Handayani, Manajemen dan Kepemimpinan dalam Keperawatan, Indramayu: Adab, →ISBN:
Kegiatan audit dilakukan oleh kepala ruangan pada status pasien yang telah pulang atau meninggal.
Audit was done by ward leader on discharged or death patient's medical record.
- 2018, Anita Daniel, Secangkir Kopi di Sudut Rumah Sakit, Sleman: Diandra Kreatif:
Suster April menyerahkan status pasien dengan nama Savannah Wiradinata.
Nurse April brought Savannah Wiradinata's medical record.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈsta.tus/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin status.
[Further reading]
- status in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
status m (invariable)
1.status (position in society)
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈsta.tus/[Etymology 1]
Inherited from Proto-Italic *statos. Perfect passive participle of sistō (“I cause to stand, set, place”) in its causative meaning.
[Etymology 2]
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tus. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *statъ (“wealth”).
[References]
- “status”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “status”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- status 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)
[[Lithuanian]]
ipa :/staˈtus/[Adjective]
statùs m (feminine statì) stress pattern 4
1.steep, precipitous
status kalnas - a steep mountain
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From Latin status.
[Noun]
status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statuser, definite plural statusene)
1.status
[References]
- “status” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
From Latin status.
[Noun]
status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statusar, definite plural statusane)
1.status
[References]
- “status” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈsta.tus/[Etymology]
Learned borrowing from Latin status.
[Further reading]
- status in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- status in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
status m inan
1.status (person’s position or standing)
Synonyms: położenie, pozycja
2.(law) status (legal condition)
3.importance, weight
Synonyms: funkcja, ranga, znaczenie
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈsta.tus/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from Latin status. Doublet of estado.
[Noun]
status m (invariable)
1.(sociology) status; standing (a person’s importance relative to others)
Synonym: estatuto
2.status; state (a condition at some point in time)
Synonym: estado
3.status; prestige
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin status.
[Noun]
status n (plural statusuri)
1.state, status, condition
[[Romansch]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin status.
[Noun]
status m
1.status
[Synonyms]
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/stǎːtus/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin status.
[Noun]
státus m (Cyrillic spelling ста́тус)
1.status, rank
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/esˈtatus/[Noun]
status m (plural status)
1.Alternative spelling of estatus
[[Swedish]]
[Etymology]
From Latin status.
[Noun]
status c
1.status (state)
2.status ((high) social standing)
[References]
- status in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- status in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- status in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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status quo
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwəʊ/[Alternative forms]
- statu quo (rare)
- status in quo (rare)
[Etymology]
From Latin status (“state”) (sometimes used in the ablative statū) + quō (“in which”), the ablative of quī (“which”).
[Further reading]
- status quo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- status quo ante bellum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
status quo (plural status quos or (rare) statuses quo or (rare, hypercorrect) stati quo)
1.The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.
2.2015 July 27, Noah Berlatsky, “NK Jemisin: the fantasy writer upending the 'racist and sexist status quo'”, in The Guardian[1]:
“As a black woman,” Jemisin tells me, “I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful, the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change. With epic fantasy there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative, in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.”
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌstaːtʏs ˈkʋoː/[Noun]
status quo m (plural status quo's)
1.status quo
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈsta.tus kfɔ/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from Latin status quo.
[Further reading]
- status quo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- status quo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
status quo n (indeclinable)
1.status quo (state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/isˈta.tus ˈkwo/[Alternative forms]
- estatu quo, estatus quo, statu quo
[Noun]
status quo m (invariable)
1.status quo (the existing state of things)
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autocracy
[[English]]
ipa :/ɔːˈtɒkɹəsi/[Etymology]
From auto- + -cracy, from Ancient Greek αὐτοκρατία (autokratía, “A system of government by one person with absolute power.”), from αὐτός (autós, “single, self, same, alone”) + κράτος (krátos, “power”) + -ία (-ía, “feminine abstract nouns suffix”); see also Ancient Greek αὐτοκρατής (autokratḗs, “one who governs alone”).
[Noun]
autocracy (countable and uncountable, plural autocracies)
1.(uncountable) A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.
2.(countable) An instance of this government.
[Synonyms]
- (rule): See Thesaurus:government
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bastion
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbæsti.ən/[Anagrams]
- Bostian, obtains, stiboan
[Etymology]
First attested in 1562. From French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”).
[Noun]
bastion (plural bastions)
1.(architecture) A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
2.1942, Emily Carr, “Beginnings”, in The Book of Small:
[…] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.
3.A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
4.(figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
a bastion of hope
the bastion of democracy
5.Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.
6.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XV, page 24:
[…] yonder cloud
That rises upward always higher,
And onward drags a labouring breast,
And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire.
7.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32:
It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
[Verb]
bastion (third-person singular simple present bastions, present participle bastioning, simple past and past participle bastioned)
1.(transitive) To furnish with a bastion.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌbɑs.tiˈɔn/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French bastion.
[Noun]
bastion n (plural bastions, diminutive bastionnetje n)
1.bastion; a projecting part of a rampart
Synonym: bolwerk
[[French]]
ipa :/bas.tjɔ̃/[Anagrams]
- snobait
[Etymology]
Inherited from Middle French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”) or Italian bastione. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. .
[Further reading]
- “bastion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
bastion m (plural bastions)
1.bastion
2.stronghold
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
From Italian bastione, via French bastion.
[Noun]
bastion m (definite singular bastionen, indefinite plural bastioner, definite plural bastionene)
1.a bastion (part of a fortification; also figurative)
[References]
- “bastion” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
From Italian bastione, via French bastion.
[Noun]
bastion m (definite singular bastionen, indefinite plural bastionar, definite plural bastionane)
1.a bastion (part of a fortification; also figurative)
[References]
- “bastion” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈbas.tjɔn/[Etymology]
Borrowed from French bastion, from Old French bastille.
[Further reading]
- bastion in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bastion in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
bastion m inan (diminutive bastionik)
1.(military) bastion, stronghold (place built to withstand attack)
2.(figuratively) bastion, stronghold (place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea)
Synonym: szaniec
3.(figuratively) bastion (person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle)
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French bastion.
[Noun]
bastion n (plural bastioane)
1.stronghold
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
bastion c
1.bastion; a projecting part of a rampart
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on the
[[English]]
[Adverb]
on the (not comparable)
1.(chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with adjectives describing frequency) Every; on such a basis.
We go to school on the daily.
My sister gets in trouble on the regular.
2.For quotations using this term, see Citations:on the.
3.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the.
[Anagrams]
- ethno-, hoten, oneth, thone
[See also]
- phrases starting with "on the"
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peace
[[English]]
ipa :/piːs/[Etymology]
From Middle English pees, pes, pais, borrowed from Anglo-Norman peis and Old French pais (“peace”), from Latin pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, stick, place”), related to Latin pacīscor (“agree, stipulate”), Latin pangō (“fasten, fix”); see pact. Displaced native Old English sibb and friþ.
[Further reading]
Wikiversity has more information:A World of Peace, Love and HappinessWikiversity
- “peace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “peace”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Interjection]
peace
1.(archaic) Shut up!, silence!; be quiet, be silent.
2.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
“Hark!” said the old woman, triumphantly. “I hear a step coming. […] Do you hear him?”
“I believe you are right, mother,” replied Alice, in a low voice. “Peace! open the door.”
3.1882, Mark Twain, chapter 6, in The Prince and the Pauper:
"Peace, my lord, thou utterest treason! Hast forgot the king's command? Remember I am party to thy crime, if I but listen."
4.(slang) Peace out; goodbye.
[Noun]
peace (usually uncountable, plural peaces)
1.A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence.
Synonyms: (poetic) frith; see also Thesaurus:calm
Antonyms: disruption, violence
2.2001, Carol Stream, Unshaken:
Naomi boasted in nothing but the God of Israel. And she found peace even in the midst of chaos when she went to Him in prayer.
Our lounge strives to maintain an environment of peace for the comfort of our customers.
3.A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.
The safety equipment will give me some peace of mind.
4.(figuratively, euphemistic) Death.
5.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXIV, page 53:
’Twere best at once to sink to peace,
Like birds the charming serpent draws,
To drop head-foremost in the jaws
Of vacant darkness and to cease.
6.Harmony in personal relations.
7.A state free of war, in particular war between different countries.
Antonyms: war, violence
8.1969 March 31, John Lennon, Bagism Press Conference at Sacher Hotel, Vienna
Now, a lot of cynics have said, “Oh, it’s easy to sit in bed for seven days,” but I’d like some of them to try it, and talk for seven days about peace. All we’re saying is give peace a chance.
9.1993, Marky Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Link: The Faces of Evil, Philips Interactive Media (publ.).
My boy, this peace is what all true warriors strive for.
10.1996, Oliver Lindsay, Once a Grenadier: The Grenadier Guards 1945-1995, page 374:
An uneasy peace descended upon Northern Ireland when the IRA agreed to a ceasefire in August 1994.
11.2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. […] One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
May there be peace in our time.
[Verb]
peace (third-person singular simple present peaces, present participle peacing, simple past and past participle peaced)
1.To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace.
2.1997, Yusuf Jah, Shah'Keyah Jah, Uprising, page 49:
Within every hood they have to be peacing with themselves. Then when you're living in peace with yourself, [...]
3.2006, Wayne Grady, Bringing back the dodo: lessons in natural and unnatural history:
In another northern species, ptarmigan, such a see-saw pattern between warring and peacing has indeed been observed by researchers.
4.(slang) To peace out.
5.2012, Jens Lapidus, Easy Money:
Fuck, man. Yeah, I know. He crashed with this guy, Eddie. Then the cops called me in. That's when he peaced. I swear on my father's grave, I don't know where he went. I swear.
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recede
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈsiːd/[Anagrams]
- decree
[Etymology]
From Middle French receder, from Latin recedere (“to withdraw; to go back”), from re- + cedere (“to go”).
[References]
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “recede”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
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- withdraw
[Verb]
recede (third-person singular simple present recedes, present participle receding, simple past and past participle receded)
1.To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
2.1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from th' insulted shore.
3.1725, Richard Bentley, The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism:
All bodies moved circularly have a perpetual endeavour to recede from the center.
4.To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
to recede conquered territory
5.To take back.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
[[Italian]]
ipa :/reˈt͡ʃɛ.de/[Anagrams]
- cedere
[Verb]
recede
1.third-person singular present indicative of recedere
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
recēde
1.second-person singular present active imperative of recēdō
[[Old English]]
ipa :/ˈret͡ʃede/[Verb]
reċede
1.inflection of reċċan:
1.first/third-person singular preterite
2.first/third-person singular preterite subjunctive
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Sabbath
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsæbəθ/[Alternative forms]
- sabbath
[Anagrams]
- Shabbat, shabbat
[Etymology]
From Middle English sabat, sabbat, sabath, from Old English sabat and Old French sabbat, both from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”),[1][2] with the spelling ending in -th, probably influenced by the traditional transliteration of the Hebrew as shabbāth, being attested since the 14th century and widespread since the 16th.[3] Doublet of Shabbat. Possibly from the Sumerian sa-bat ("mid-rest")[4]
[Noun]
Sabbath (plural Sabbaths)
1.Friday-Saturday, observed in Judaism and some Christian denominations as a day of rest and worship.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 58:13–14:
13 ¶ If thou turne away thy foote from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my Holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and shalt honour him, not doing thine owne wayes, nor finding thine owne pleasure, nor speaking thine owne wordes:
14 Then shalt thou delight thy selfe in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride vpon the high places of the earth, and feede thee with the heritage of Iacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
3.Sunday, observed in most of Christianity as a day of rest and worship.
4.A meeting of witches. (Also called a witches' Sabbath, Shabbat, sabbat, or black Sabbath.)
5.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.
6.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 419:
Around this conception was built up the notion of ritual devil-worship, involving the sabbath or nocturnal meeting at which the witches gathered to worship their master and to copulate with him.
7.(historical) Among the ancient Jews and Hebrews, the seventh year, when the land was left fallow.
Synonym: Sabbath year
8.(Buddhism, Myanmar) uposatha day
[References]
1. ^ “Sabbath”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
2. ^ “Sabbath”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
3. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “Sabbath”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
4. ^ Pinches, T.G. (1919), “Sabbath (Babylonian)”, in Hastings, James, editor, Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Selbie, John A., contrib, Charles Scribner's Sons, pages 889–891
[See also]
- Gregorian calendar
- Jewish calendar
- Julian calendar
- Jumu'ah
- Islamic calendar
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In
[[Translingual]]
[Symbol]
In
1.(chemistry) indium.
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Burroughs
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
Burroughs
1.An English topographical surname from Middle English, from Old English beorg (“hill”) or burg (“fort”), for someone who lived near a hill or fort.
2.A neighbourhood of Savannah, and former town in Chatham County, Georgia, United States.The Burroughs
1.An area in Barnet borough, London, England; named for the rabbit warrens there.
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