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Pai
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :/pɑɪ̯/[Etymology]
From French paye.
[Noun]
Pai f (plural Paien)
1.pay, remuneration
[Synonyms]
- (pay): Loun, Gehalt
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈpaj/[Etymology]
From pai (“father”).
[Proper noun]
Pai m
1.(Christianity, usually as a form of address) God
Synonyms: Deus, Senhor
2.(Christianity) the first person of the Holy Trinity
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Lindsey
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlɪnzi/[Anagrams]
- dienyls, snidely
[Etymology]
Old English Lindesege, ultimately from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn (“pool”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”) (as in Lincoln) + Old English ēġ (“island (of land)”).
[Proper noun]
Lindsey (countable and uncountable, plural Lindseys)
1.A division of Lincolnshire, England; that was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom
1.A former kingdom in Great BritainA village in Babergh district, Suffolk, England.A habitational surname from Old English.
Synonym: LindsayA unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Synonym: Lindsay
[See also]
- Lindsay
- Lyndsey
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munition
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌmjuˈnɪʃən/[Etymology]
From Latin mūnitiō (“a defence, fortification”) via French munition, from mūnīre (“fortify, defend (with a wall)”) + -tiō, from moenia (“city walls, defensive walls, or walls in general”). Equivalent to munite + -tion.
[Noun]
munition (plural munitions)
1.(chiefly in the plural) Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
2.1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] [1]:
Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
3.(chiefly in the plural, military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
4.(rare, obsolete) A tower or fortification.
5.1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Habacvc 2:1:
I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.
[Verb]
munition (third-person singular simple present munitions, present participle munitioning, simple past and past participle munitioned)
1.(transitive) To supply with munitions.
2.1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 154:
Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?
[[French]]
ipa :/my.ni.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin mūnitiōnem, from mūniō.
[Further reading]
- “munition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
munition f (plural munitions)
1.ammunition (weaponry)
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GOP
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌdʒi oʊ ˈpi/[Anagrams]
- GPO, PGO, POG, pog
[Etymology 1]
English Wikipedia has an article on:Grand Old PartyWikipedia Initialism of Grand Old Party, a nickname for the Republican Party.
[Etymology 2]
English Wikipedia has an article on:Group of picturesWikipedia Acronym of group of pictures, a collection of successive pictures within a coded video stream.
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preference
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/[Alternative forms]
- præference (archaic)
[Etymology 1]
From Middle French preference, from Medieval Latin preferentia. Doublet of preferans.Morphologically prefer + -ence.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈprɛfɛrɛnt͡sɛ][Further reading]
- preference in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- preference in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- preference in Internetová jazyková příručka
[Noun]
preference f
1.preference (selection of one thing or person over others)
spotřebitelské preference ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
volební preference ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
[See also]
- upřednostnění
[[Middle French]]
[Noun]
preference f (plural preferences)
1.preference (option preferred over another option)
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refinement
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹəˈfaɪnmənt/[Etymology]
refine + -ment
[Noun]
refinement (countable and uncountable, plural refinements)
1.The act, or the result of refining; the removal of impurities, or a purified material
2.High-class style; cultivation.
3.A fine or subtle distinction.
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Guglielmo
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ɡuʎˈʎɛl.mo/[Etymology]
From Latin Gulielmus.
[Proper noun]
Guglielmo m
1.a male given name, equivalent to English William
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selective
[[English]]
ipa :/səˈlɛktɪv/[Adjective]
selective (comparative more selective, superlative most selective)
1.Of or relating to the process of selection.
2.2016, Xingming Sun, Alex Liu, Han-Chieh Chao, Cloud Computing and Security: Second International Conference, ICCCS 2016, Nanjing, China, July 29-31, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (part 2, page 579)
The selective algorithm excludes the redundant classifiers to construct a streamlined ensemble learning.
3.(biology) Of or relating to natural selection.
selective pressure
4.(of a person) choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting.
He's very selective and spent hours in the store choosing a new shirt.
5.(chiefly US, not comparable) Having the authority or capability to make a selection.
In the USA, military conscription is controlled by the Selective Service.
6.Of or relating to the social work approach called selectivity.
7.2006, Francis J. Turner, Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work, page 189:
Eligibility criteria form the essence of selective programs and individuals are evaluated using a means test.
[Anagrams]
- cleveites, electives
[Etymology]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[References]
- “selective”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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Poop
[[English]]
[Noun]
Poop (countable and uncountable, plural Poops)
1.Alternative letter-case form of poop (“video mashup”)
2.2016 November 29, Amelia Tait, “The art of the YouTube Poop”, in New Statesman[1]:
“Poopisms” are the common techniques and tricks used in videos to ensure they qualify as a true Poop.
3.2022 February 27, Malavika Pradeep, “The art of the YouTube Poop”, in Screenshot Media[2]:
The following year, when YouTube made its grand debut as an online video sharing and social media service, Poops infiltrated the platform and gripped the internet.
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latest
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈleɪ.tɪst/[Adjective]
latest
1.superlative form of late: most late
2.(now rare, poetic) Last, final.
3.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Whiles the sad pang approching she does feele, / Brayes out her latest breath, and vp her eyes doth seele.
4.Most recent.
Here is the latest news on the accident.
My latest album, which is being published next week, is better than her last one.
[Adverb]
latest
1.superlative form of late: most late
2.At the latest.
Complete the XYZ task latest by today 5:00PM.For quotations using this term, see Citations:latest.
[Anagrams]
- lattes, sattle, stealt, taslet
[Etymology]
From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late.
[Noun]
latest (plural latests)
1.The most recent thing, particularly information or news.
Have you heard the latest?
What's the latest on the demonstrations in New York?
Have you met Jane's latest? I hear he's a hunk.
2.1926, George Gaylord Simpson, edited by Léo F. Laporte, Simple curiosity; letters from George Gaylord Simpson ...[1], published 1987, page 29:
And like other futile edifices of man these are inhabited for a brief space giving glory to the proprietor of the most unusual or striking and then left to melt back to dust and be forgotten, or worse yet, to become curiosities for generations with other "latests".
3.1979, Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia[2], page 54:
It has often been said that Philadelphia is the city of firsts, Boston of bests, and New York of latests.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
latest
1.indefinite singular superlative degree of lat
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mimick
[[English]]
[Noun]
mimick (plural mimicks)
1.Alternative form of mimic
[Verb]
mimick (third-person singular simple present mimicks, present participle mimicking, simple past and past participle mimicked)
1.Alternative form of mimic
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mimic
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɪm.ɪk/[Adjective]
mimic (not comparable)
1.Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
2.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
I think every man is cloied and wearied, with seeing so many apish and mimicke trickes, that juglers teach their Dogges, as the dances, where they misse not one cadence of the sounds or notes they heare […].
3.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes / To imitate her.
4.1800, William Wordsworth, There was a Boy:
And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands
Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth
Uplifted, he, as through an instrument,
Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls,
That they might answer him.
5.Mock, pretended.
6.(mineralogy) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
[Alternative forms]
- mimick
[Etymology]
From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime.
[Further reading]
- chapter MIMIC, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- chapter MIMIC, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
mimic (plural mimics)
1.A person who practices mimicry; especially:
1.A mime.
2.A comic who does impressions.
Synonym: impressionistAn entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.An imitation.
- 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 190:
Jess jumped slightly at hearing Tillyʼs extremely accurate mimic of her voice.
[Related terms]
- mime
- mimicable
- mimicry
[Synonyms]
- See also Thesaurus:imitate
- mimicker
[Verb]
mimic (third-person singular simple present mimics, present participle mimicking, simple past and past participle mimicked)
1.To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
2.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
3.(biology) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
mimic m or n (feminine singular mimică, masculine plural mimici, feminine and neuter plural mimice)
1.mimic
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French mimique.
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prep
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹɛp/[Anagrams]
- Repp, perp, repp
[Noun]
prep (countable and uncountable, plural preps)
1.(countable) Preparation.
2.Abbreviation of preposition.
3.
4. (informal, countable) A prep school.
5.(informal, countable) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy. [from late 19th c.]
6.(British, uncountable) Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools.
7.(Australia) Nursery school; preschool.
8.(Philippines) Preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
9.Alternative form of PrEP
[Verb]
prep (third-person singular simple present preps, present participle prepping, simple past and past participle prepped)
1.
2. (informal) To prepare.
Synonym: prep up
prep someone for something
[[Middle Irish]]
[Noun]
prep f
1.a start, bounce
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accreditation
[[English]]
ipa :/əˌkɹɛd.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/[Anagrams]
- actinoceratid
[Etymology]
First attested in 1806, from accredit + -ation.
[Noun]
accreditation (countable and uncountable, plural accreditations)
1.The giving of credentials.
2.The act of accrediting.
letters of accreditation.
3.2022 September 13, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan says new Lithuanian office in Taipei begins operations”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters[1], archived from the original on 13 September 2022, Asia Pacific[2]:
Remus Chen, head of Taiwan's Foreign Ministry's Department of European Affairs, told reporters that the new Lithuanian representative Paulius Lukauskas had arrived in Taipei earlier this month, and on Monday had formally applied for his accreditation.
4.(education) The granting of approval to an institution of higher learning by an official review board after the school has met certain requirements.
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
accreditation
1.accreditation
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figure
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈfɪɡə/[Etymology]
From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin figūra (“form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing”), from fingō (“to form, shape, mold, fashion”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold, shape, form, knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (degdhi), Old English dāg (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura.
[Further reading]
- “figure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “figure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
figure (plural figures)
1.A drawing or diagram conveying information.
2.2004, Joshua Tree National Park 2004 Visitor Study:
For example, while Figure 1 shows information for 516 visitor groups, Figure 3 presents data for 1,625 individuals. A note above each graph or table specifies the information illustrated. ... For example, although Joshua Tree NP visitors returned 525 questionnaires, Figure 1 shows data for only 516 respondents.
3.The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble
4.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
a coin that bears the figure of an angel
5.A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
6.2013 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.
7.The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.
8.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
I made some figure there.
9.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
gentlemen of the best figure in the county
10.(obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
11.1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life:
that he may live in figure and indulgence
12.A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
13.1919, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health:
The origin of the corset is lost in remote antiquity. The figures of the early Egyptian women show clearly an artificial shape of the waist produced by some style of corset.
14.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 53:
She was cunningly dressed in a black, sheer gown with gold ornaments showing her figure to perfection.
15.A numeral.
16.A number, an amount.
17.1996, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt:
(i) in the 1966 edition of The Destruction of Dresden Irving contended that 135,000 were estimated authoritatively to have been killed and further contended that the documentation suggested a figure between 100,00 and 250,000;
18.A shape.
a geometrical figure, a plane figure, a solid figure
19.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
Flowers have all exquisite figures.
20.1908, Algernon Blackwood, John Silence, Physician Extraordinary:
And these were not human shapes, or the shapes of anything I recognised as alive in the world, but outlines of fire that traced globes, triangles, crosses, and the luminous bodies of various geometrical figures.
21.A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
The muslin was of a pretty figure.
22.Any complex dance moveW.
23.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, […] . It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure.
24.A figure of speech.
25.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
to represent the imagination under the figure of a wing
26.(logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
27.(astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
28.1889, Franz Hartmann, The Principles of Astrological Geomancy:
its quality, like those of all the rest, is determined by its position in the house of the astrological figure
29.(music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
30.1888, George Grove, Beethoven's Nine Symphonies: Analytical Essays:
Here, Beethoven limits the syncopations and modifications of rhythm which are so prominent in the first and third movements, and employs a rapid, busy, and most melodious figure in the Violins, which is irresistible in its gay and brilliant effect […]
31.(music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
[Verb]
figure (third-person singular simple present figures, present participle figuring, simple past and past participle figured)
1.(chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
2.(chiefly US) To come to understand.
I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying.
3.To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
4.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
1. Gent. Thou art alwayes figuring diseases in me; but
thou art full of error, I am sound.
5.2023, John B. Wright, Fire Scars:
“I know you figure me for a leftneck fool, correct?”
6.(chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.
7.(intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
8.1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 554:
It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.
9.2005, Paul Beckerman, Andean Exchange-rate Regimes, 1994-2003:
The exchange rate figures heavily in several other aspects of Venezuela's economy.
10.(transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
11.1884 August 16, X. Y. Z., “Brazilian or Maté Tea”, in The Gardeners’ Magazine, volume 27 (New Series), number 1,007, page 451:
Although now to be met with in botanic gardens everywhere, there is a certain degree of interest attaching to the figure of it in B.M. 3,992 (1843), although that was by no means the first figure published, for Lambert, Sprengel, and Sir W. Hooker had previously figured it.
12.(obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
13.1709, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma. […]”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 245:
If love, alas! be pain; the pain I bear, / No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.
14.To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
15.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
The vaulty top of heaven / Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
16.(obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
17.1698 , John Dryden, Epitaph of Mary Frampton
As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.
18.To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
19.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
whose white vestments figure innocence
20.(obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
21.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 II, scene i:
His loftie browes in foldes, do figure death,
And in their ſmoothneſſe, amitie and life:
22.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
In this the heaven figures some event.
23.(music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
24.(music) To embellish.
[[French]]
ipa :/fi.ɡyʁ/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin figūra.
[Further reading]
- “figure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
figure f (plural figures)
1.face
2.figure
[Synonyms]
- visage
[[Italian]]
ipa :/fiˈɡu.re/[Noun]
figure f
1.plural of figura
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈfiɡiu̯r(ə)/[Alternative forms]
- fygure, fegure, fugure, vigure
[Etymology]
From Old French figure, from Latin figūra.
[Noun]
figure (plural figures)
1.shape, form, appearance
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
figure
1.inflection of figurar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
figure
1.inflection of figurar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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record
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛk.ɔːd/[Anagrams]
- Corder
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record (verb).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English recorden (“to repeat, to report”), borrowed from Old French recorder (“to get by heart”), from Latin recordārī, present active infinitive of recordor (“remember, call to mind”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[rəˈkɔrt][Etymology]
From recordar.
[Further reading]
- “record” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “record”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “record” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[Noun]
record m (plural records)
1.memory, recollection of events
2.souvenir
3.(in the plural) regards (greeting to pass on to another person)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/rəˈkoːr/[Etymology 1]
Unadapted borrowing from French record, from English record, from Old French record.
[Etymology 2]
Borrowed from English record.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁə.kɔʁ/[Adjective]
record (invariable) (attributive)
1.record, record-breaking, record-setting
2.extreme
Le Pakistan connaît, depuis la fin d’avril, une vague de chaleur record.
Pakistan has known, since the end of April, a wave of record heat.
[Anagrams]
- corder
[Etymology]
English record, itself from Old French record.
[Further reading]
- “record”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
record m (plural records)
1.record (most extreme known value of some achievement)
Le record du saut en hauteur a été battu par Javier Sotomayor en 1993.
The high jump record was beaten by Javier Sotomayor in 1993.
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈrɛ.kord/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English record.
[Further reading]
- record in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
[Noun]
record m (invariable)
1.record (achievement; computer data element)
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
record (invariable)
1.Alternative form of recorde
[Noun]
record m (plural records)
1.Alternative form of recorde
[[Romanian]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French record.
[Noun]
record n (plural recorduri)
1.record (achievement)
[[Spanish]]
[Noun]
record m (plural records)
1.Misspelling of récord.
2.record
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ˈrɛkɔrd/[Etymology]
From English record.
[Further reading]
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “record”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[Noun]
record f (plural recordiau, not mutable)
1.record
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marginal
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑː.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/[Adjective]
marginal (not generally comparable, comparative more marginal, superlative most marginal)
1.(not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants.
In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups.
1.Written in the margin of a book.
There were more marginal notes than text.
2.1999, R. I. Page, Introduction to English Runes, Boydell Press, page 198:
The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
3.(geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.(comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
1.Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
His writing ability was marginal at best.
Having reviewed the test, there are two students below the required standard and three more who are marginal.
The pilots lacked experience flying in marginal weather conditions.
2.(of land) Barely productive.
He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
3.(politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.
4.2002, Andrew Geddes, Jonathan Tonge, Labour′s Second Landslide: The British General Election 2001, page 79:
In ‘battleground’ seats with the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat vote shares increased most in the most marginal seats.
5.2007, Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, page 58:
In Outer London, Harrow East is now a more marginal Labour hold than Harrow West.
6.2010, Nick Economou, Zareh Ghazarian, Australian Politics For Dummies, unnumbered page:
The pendulum lists the seats from least marginal to most marginal for the government on one side, and least marginal to most marginal for the opposition on the other side.
7.2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, in RAIL, number 945, page 8:
He justified his comment by noting that the Labour Party had quickly committed to delivering a high-speed Leeds-Manchester line, and argued that pressure would grow on the Government because there were several marginal parliamentary seats around Leeds and Bradford.(economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
[Anagrams]
- alarming
[Etymology]
Borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.
[Noun]
marginal (plural marginals)
1.Something or somebody that is marginal.
2.1990, Elizabeth B. Lee, Sociology For People: A Caring Profession, page 110:
[…] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks.
3.2013 August 29, Clifford D. Simak, Project Pope[1], Hachette UK, →ISBN, →OCLC:
“We need a saint or some other symbol that will serve to anchor our faith into the foreseeable future. I have watched and waited for a saint but none showed up—not even a marginal saint. Mary is the first one, and we must not allow her ...
4.(politics) A constituency won with a small margin.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[mər.ʒiˈnal][Adjective]
marginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural marginals)
1.marginal
2.2016 December, “Alep: La batalla que va decidir el curs de la guerra a Síria”, in El Periódico[2]:
Ara, els EUA juguen un paper marginal en el conflicte.
Now, the US plays a marginal role in the conflict.
[[French]]
ipa :/maʁ.ʒi.nal/[Adjective]
marginal (feminine marginale, masculine plural marginaux, feminine plural marginales)
1.written in the margin of a book; marginal
2.(relational) margin, edge; marginal
3.outside the mainstream; fringe, fringy
4.of lesser importance; secondary
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin marginālis.
[Further reading]
- “marginal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
marginal m (plural marginaux)
1.a person that chooses to live on the fringes of society; dropout, misfit
[[German]]
ipa :-aːl[Adjective]
marginal (strong nominative masculine singular marginaler, not comparable)
1.marginal
[Further reading]
- “marginal” in Duden online
- “marginal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Adjective]
marginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
1.marginal
[Etymology]
From Latin marginalis.
[References]
- “marginal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Adjective]
marginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
1.marginal
[Etymology]
From Latin marginalis.
[References]
- “marginal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/maʁ.ʒiˈnaw/[Adjective]
marginal m or f (plural marginais)
1.marginal (of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge)
2.outlaw, criminal (a person who operates outside established norms)
Synonyms: delinquente, desviante
3.(economics) marginal
[Etymology]
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.
[Noun]
marginal f (plural marginais)
1.a coastal avenuemarginal m or f by sense (plural marginais)
1.outlaw, criminal (a person who operates outside established norms)
Synonym: delinquente
Aquele menino é um marginal!
That boy is a criminal!
[[Romanian]]
[Adjective]
marginal m or n (feminine singular marginală, masculine plural marginali, feminine and neuter plural marginale)
1.marginal
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French marginal. By surface analysis, margine + -al.
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/maɾxiˈnal/[Adjective]
marginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural marginales)
1.marginal
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
marginal c
1.a margin
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lead
[[English]]
ipa :/lɛd/[Anagrams]
- ALDE, Adel, Dale, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Lade, Leda, adle, dale, deal, lade
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English led, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laud (“lead”), borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”).Cognate with Scots leid, lede (“lead”), North Frisian lud, luad (“lead”), West Frisian lead (“lead”), Dutch lood (“lead”), German Lot (“solder, plummet, sounding line”), Swedish lod (“lead”), Icelandic lóð (“a plumb, weight”), Irish luaidhe (“lead”) Latin plumbum (“lead”). Doublet of loth. More at flow.
- (graphite in a pencil): Graphite was once believed to be a form of lead; see black lead and plumbago.
[Etymology 2]
English Wikipedia has an article on:Lead offWikipedia From Middle English leden, from Old English lǣdan (“to lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijan, from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to cause one to go, lead”), causative of Proto-Germanic *līþaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to leave, die”).Cognate with West Frisian liede (“to lead”), Dutch leiden (“to lead”), German leiten (“to lead”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lede (“to lead”), Norwegian Nynorsk leia (“to lead”), Swedish leda (“to lead”). Related to Old English līþan (“to go, travel”).
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈlɛɒd][Etymology]
le- + ad
[Further reading]
- lead in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
[Verb]
lead
1.(transitive) to pass down, hand down, turn in, drop off
2.(transitive) to lose weight, usually as a result of some kind of training or exercise
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
lead
1.Alternative form of led (“lead”)
[[Old English]]
ipa :/læ͜ɑːd/[Etymology]
From Proto-West Germanic *laud.
[Noun]
lēad n
1.lead
[[Polish]]
ipa :/lit/[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English lead.
[Further reading]
- lead in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
lead m inan
1.(newspapers, journalism) lead paragraph, teaser, lead-in (start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how)
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splashed
[[English]]
ipa :-æʃt[Adjective]
splashed (comparative more splashed, superlative most splashed)
1.(slang) Very drunk.
[Anagrams]
- shelpads
[Verb]
splashed
1.simple past and past participle of splash
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splash
[[English]]
ipa :/splæʃ/[Etymology]
Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).
[Noun]
splash (plural splashes)
1.(onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.
2.A small amount of liquid.
I felt a splash of rain, so I put up my hood.
I felt a splash of water on my leg as the car drove into the nearby puddle.
3.2014 August 17 (last accessed), Chris Morrison, “recipe, Grilled fillet of halibut and langoustine tails with smoked haddock risotto and shellfish froth”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], archived from the original on 7 July 2013:
Add the tomato purée and cook for a further 4-5 minutes. Add a splash of whisky to the pan, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to deglaze.
4.A small amount (of color).
The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful
5.A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom.
6.An impact or impression.
The new movie made quite a splash upon its release.
7.(computing, informal) A splash screen.
8.2008, Ron Carswell, Heidi Webb, Guide to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005:
When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration.
9.(wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
10.(dated) A cosmetic powder to whiten the complexion.
11.(journalism) A large, prominent headline or article.
12.2006, Bob Franklin, Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News:
So for a local newspaper, a splash on a fatal crash is just the first of a series of reports.
13.2019, Victoria Hoffarth, When Turtles Come Home, page 69:
After the brouhaha and the newspaper headline splashes, each of these contentious items would simply die its own quiet death to be replaced by a newer scandal: […]
14.(military, slang) The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
15.2010, Robin L. Rielly, Kamikaze Attacks of World War II, page 267:
Hits were observed, but again the poor functioning of VT ammunition hindered in effecting a splash.
16.(MLE, slang) The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
17.2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics)[2], 1:52–1:56:
Jojo caught up and gave him a splash
Slap that wap, get rid of them plats
18.(MLE, slang) A knife.
Synonyms: splasher, jooka ~ jooker, nank, shank, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete, ying
19.2021 August 13, #CO CMoney (lyrics and music), “Don’t Ask”, 2:51–2:53:
You grip your splash for fashion—me and you, we ain’t got the same intentions.
[Related terms]
- splish (small splash)
- splosh (large splash)
- sploosh (larger splash)
[Synonyms]
- (sound of liquid): plash
[Verb]
splash (third-person singular simple present splashes, present participle splashing, simple past and past participle splashed)
1.To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
sit and splash in the bathtub
2.1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “She Moves On”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:
I know the reason I feel so blessed / My heart still splashes inside my chest
3.To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
water splashed everywhere
4.(transitive) To hit or expel liquid at.
The children were splashing each other playfully in the sea.
When she comes in the door, splash her with perfume.
5.To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere.
6.1978 April 8, Eric Rogers, “Speaking Out”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
The March 5, 1978 issue of National Reader […] contained an exciting front page headline -- "Most Major Hollywood Stars Are Gay or Bisexual!!!!" Splashed on the cover are photos of Rock Hudson, Shaun and David Cassidy, […] and, last but not least, Lily Tomlin.
7.2012, Taylor Swift (lyrics and music), “The Lucky One”, in Red (Taylor's Version)[3], published 2021:
Now it's big black cars and Riviera views / And your lover in the foyer doesn't even know you / And your secrets end up splashed on the news front page
8.(transitive) To spend (money).
After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike.
9.(figurative) To roughly fill with color.
10.2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport[4]:
This was pure theatre, with a 60,000 crowd at Wembley adding colour to the fight to face either England or Denmark in Sunday's final, the stadium splashed with the red of Spain at one end and the victorious blue of Italy at the other as crowds flocked back in ever bigger numbers after pandemic restrictions were lifted.
11.(transitive, nautical) To launch a ship.
12.1999 March, David M. Kennedy, "Victory at Sea": Atlantic Monthly:
In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers.
13.(military, slang) To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
14.2010, Robin L. Rielly, Kamikaze Attacks of World War II, page 234:
Planes were sighted at about 5000 yards, fire was opened at 4500 yards; the first plane was splashed about 1800 yards from the ship, the second was splashed about 3000 yards from the ship and rudder shifted to hard right.
15.(transitive, MLE) To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
16.2017 October 18, “Panic”, Knockoutned (lyrics), performed by #Moscow17 Ruth x Knockoutned:
Grab him, don't panic, rambo under my jacket
Nap him, splash him, then I'm petrol bath my jacket
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/isˈplɛʃ/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English splash.
[Interjection]
splash
1.(onomatopoeia) splash
Synonyms: chuá, tchibum
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chyron
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkaɪɹɒn/[Anagrams]
- chrony
[Etymology 1]
A genericization of the trademark of the Chyron Corporation, which was named in reference to Chiron, a centaur in Greek mythology.
[Etymology 2]
See ciron
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comforting
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌm.fɚ.tɪŋ/[Adjective]
comforting (comparative more comforting, superlative most comforting)
1.Giving comfort.
Your comforting words help ease my mind.
It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.
[Noun]
comforting (plural comfortings)
1.The act of giving comfort.
2.1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269:
Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea […]
[Verb]
comforting
1.present participle and gerund of comfort
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comfort
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkʌm.fət/[Antonyms]
- (antonym(s) of “contentment, ease”): austerity
[Etymology]
- The verb is from Middle English comforten, from Old French conforter, from Late Latin confortō (“to strengthen greatly”), itself from Latin con- (“together”) + fortis (“strong”).
- The noun is from Middle English comfort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confortō. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.
[Noun]
comfort (countable and uncountable, plural comforts)
1.Contentment, ease.
Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.
2.1684, chapter III, in Bucaniers of America: Or, A True Account of the Moſt Remarkable Aſſaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coaſts of the West-Indies, by Bucaniers of Jamica and Tortuga, Both English and French; Wherein are Contained More Eſpecially, the Unparallel'd Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, Our Engliſh Jamaican Hero, who ſack'd Puerto Velo, Burnt Panama. &c [Part II][1], volume 1, London: Printed for William Crooke, translation of De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, […] by John Eſquemeling, page 30:
But all was in vain: For having ranged up and down the Woods for ſome days, without finding the leaſt comfort to their hungry deſires, they were forced to return again unto the River. […] At laſt they arrived at the Coaſt of the Sea, where they found ſome comfort and relief to their former miſeries, and alſo means to ſeek more.
3.1850, T. S. Arthur, “A Rise in the Butter Market”, in Sketches of Life and Character[2], Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 59:
How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!
4.1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, chapter I, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, 3rd edition, London: Unwin Books, George Allen & Unwin, published 1966 (1970 printing), →ISBN, page 1:
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, […] nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole […] : it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
5.Something that offers comfort.
the comforts of home
6.A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.
7.A cause of relief or satisfaction.
The outcome of the peace negotiations in Moscow in 1940 was a heavy blow to the young nation, but in the same time a great comfort: at least the independency was preserved.
[Synonyms]
- liss
- besoothe
[Verb]
comfort (third-person singular simple present comforts, present participle comforting, simple past and past participle comforted)
1.(transitive) To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17:
Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.
3.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
Light, above all things, excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.
4.(obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
5.1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
God's own testimony […] doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
6.(obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.
7.1591 (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 IV, scene iii]:
I […] cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/kɔmˈfɔːr/[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch confoort, from Old French confort.
[Noun]
comfort n (plural comforts, diminutive comfortje n)
1.Physical comfort, ease.
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/kumˈfɔrt/[Alternative forms]
- cumfort, confort, counfort
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Old French cunfort, confort.
[Noun]
comfort (plural comforts)
1.encouragement, assurance
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Comfort
[[English]]
[Etymology]
From the English word comfort.
[Proper noun]
Comfort (plural Comforts)
1.A surname.
2.A female given name.
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whole
[[English]]
ipa :/həʊl/[Adjective]
whole (comparative wholer or more whole, superlative wholest or most whole)
1.Entire, undivided.
Synonyms: total; see also Thesaurus:entire
I ate a whole fish.
2.1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond[1]:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
3.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
4.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
“ […] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
5.2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.
1.Used as an intensifier.
I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries.
2.2016, Rae Carson, Like a River Glorious, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
There, a huge blue heron stands sentry like a statue, eye on the surface, waiting for his next meal to wriggle by. A lone grassy hill overlooks it all, well above the flood line, big enough to pitch a whole mess of tents [on].
3.2011, Keith Maillard, Looking Good: Difficulty at the Beginning, Brindle and Glass, →ISBN:
I'm thinking, thanks a whole fuck of a lot, Robert. You could have laid that on me weeks ago.Sound, uninjured, healthy.
Synonyms: hale, well; see also Thesaurus:healthy
He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, X, lines 5-6:
Here, with one balm for many fevers found, / Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.(of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
whole wheat; whole milk(mining) As yet unworked.
[Adverb]
whole (comparative more whole, superlative most whole)
1.(colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:completely
I ate a fish whole!
That's a whole other story.
[Alternative forms]
- hole (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- Howle, howel
[Derived terms]
- an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
- as a whole
- a whole nother
- a whole 'nother
- committee of the whole
- double whole
- double whole note
- go the whole hog
- go the whole pile
- go whole hog
- have one's whole life ahead of one
- heart-whole
- make whole
- mean the whole world to
- on the whole
- out of whole cloth
- part-whole model
- put one's whole pussy into
- quadruple whole
- quadruple whole note
- the whole bang shoot
- the whole caboodle
- the whole nine yards
- the whole shop
- the whole while
- the whole world
- the whole world and his dog
- unwholesome
- upon the whole
- upon the whole matter
- whole bag of tricks
- whole ball of wax
- whole blood
- whole boiling
- whole box of tricks
- whole chebang
- whole child
- whole cloth
- whole enchilada
- whole food
- whole-footed
- whole gale
- whole-genome duplication
- whole-gip
- whole gip
- whole grain
- whole-grain
- whole-gyp
- whole gyp
- whole-handedly
- whole-hearted, wholehearted
- whole-heartedly
- whole-heartedness
- whole hog
- whole kit and caboodle
- whole kit and kaboodle
- whole language
- whole-length
- whole-life
- wholemeal
- whole milk
- whole note
- whole number
- whole package
- whole plate
- whole rest
- wholesale
- wholesaler
- whole shebang
- whole shitting match
- whole shooting match
- whole-skinned
- whole smash
- whole snipe
- wholesome
- whole-souled
- whole step
- whole-time
- whole tone
- whole-tone scale
- whole-wheat, wholewheat
- whole wide world
- with whole skin
[Etymology]
From Middle English hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English hāl (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”).The spelling with wh-, introduced in the 15th century, was for disambiguation with hole, and was absent in Scots.CognatesCompare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil; also Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic цѣлъ (cělŭ, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy.
[Further reading]
- All and whole — Linguapress online English grammar
[Noun]
whole (plural wholes)
1.Something complete, without any parts missing.
Synonyms: entireness, totality; see also Thesaurus:entirety
Meronym: part
This variety of fascinating details didn't fall together into an enjoyable, coherent whole.
2.An entirety.
[References]
- “whole”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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whole number
[[English]]
[Noun]
whole number (plural whole numbers)
1.(mathematics) An integer
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whole world
[[English]]
[Pronoun]
the whole world
1.Everybody; all the world.
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billboard
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- broadbill
[Etymology]
From bill + board.
[Further reading]
- billboard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- billboard (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[Noun]
billboard (plural billboards)
1.A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
2.1932, William Faulkner, chapter 5, in Light in August, [New York, N.Y.]: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, →OCLC; republished London: Chatto & Windus, 1933, →OCLC, page 98:
He could see it like a printed sentence, fullborn and already dead God loves me too like the faded and weathered letters on last year's billboard God loves me too
3.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 31:
The land refuses to change. The more he drives the more the region resembles the country around Mt. Judge. The same scruff on the embankments, the same weathered billboards for the same products you wondered anybody would ever want to buy.
4.1971, Don DeLillo, Americana[2], Penguin, published 2006, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 111:
All America was on the verge of spring and the countryside was coming to glory, what we could see of the countryside through the smoke and billboards.
5.1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects”, in On Photography[3], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 71:
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
6.(dated) A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
7.1902, “The Casual Club”, in The Onlooker[4], Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902:
When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]
8.1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia[5], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 308:
Toward the end of April, the billboards, which I watched anxiously in those days, bloomed out one morning with gleaming white posters on which two names were impressively printed in blue Gothic letters: the name of an actress of whom I had often heard, and the name “Camille.”
9.1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.
10.(nautical) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore-channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.[1]
11.(computer graphics) A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is looked at from.
[References]
1. ^ Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, Boston: Little and Brown, 1841, p. 290, “BILL-BOARDS.”[1]
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈbil.bɔrt/[Alternative forms]
- bilbord
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English billboard.
[Further reading]
- billboard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- billboard in Polish dictionaries at PWN
[Noun]
billboard m inan
1.billboard (large advertisement along side of highway)
billboard/bilbord reklamowy ― advertisement billboard
postawić billboard/bilbord ― to put up a billboard
[[Tagalog]]
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English billboard.
[Noun]
billboard (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜇ᜔ᜇ᜔)
1.Alternative spelling of bilbord
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Billboard
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- broadbill
[Proper noun]
Billboard
1.The music charts published by Billboard magazine.
2.2012, "Yogi Chill From Soulfood Music And DJ Free On Sale Digitally". Alt.emusic.
He has charted on Billboard and several international DJ and Dance charts.
3.2009, "Looking For Benny Goodman Quartet - St. Louis Blues 1936". alt.music.big-band.
This song was originally on Victor 25411 and charted on Billboard at #20 on 10/24/36.
4.2000, "Steve Monahan........trivia buffs". rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s.
No other Monahan ever charted on Billboard and nothing by anyone named Monahan ever charted at CHUM, the leading Top 40 station in Toronto
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aesthetic
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛsˈθɛt.ɪk/[Adjective]
aesthetic (comparative more aesthetic, superlative most aesthetic)
1.Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
Coordinate term: cosmetic
It works well enough, but the shabby exterior offends his aesthetic sensibilities.
2.1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience, act I:
If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare,
You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
3.1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.
4.Beautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty or art.
Synonyms: aesthetical, tasteful
Antonyms: inaesthetic, unaesthetic
The design of the lobby cannot be considered particularly aesthetic.
5.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:
The station was rebuilt yet again by British Rail in 1967, when large chunks of the 19th century station were demolished and replaced with 'modern' buildings that were less than aesthetic.
[Alternative forms]
- æsthetic (dated)
- esthetic (US)
[Anagrams]
- cheatiest
[Etymology]
From German Ästhetik or French esthétique, both from New Latin aesthēticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “of sense perception”), from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “I feel”); Analysable as aesthe(sis) + -tic. Cognates include Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”), Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Latin audiō.
[Further reading]
- "aesthetic" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 31.
[Noun]
aesthetic (plural aesthetics)
1.The study of art or beauty.
2.That which appeals to the senses.
3.The artistic motifs defining a collection of things, especially works of art; more broadly, their aura or “vibe”.
Her most recent works have this quirky, half-serious ’90s teen culture–inspired aesthetic.
I really like the goth aesthetic you've got going there.
[Related terms]
- aesthesis, esthesis
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尾根
[[Japanese]]
ipa :[o̞.ne̞][Etymology]
From Old Japanese. Compound of 尾 (o, “a mountain ridge”) + 根 (-ne, “root; something sticking up”).
[Noun]
尾(お)根(ね) • (one) ←をね (wone)?
1.a mountain ridge
尾根(おね)伝(つた)いに歩(ある)く
one tsutai ni aruku
to walk along a ridge
尾根(おね)まで登(のぼ)る
one made noboru
to climb up to a ridge
[References]
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
[Synonyms]
- 峰(みね) (mine)
- 稜線(りょうせん) (ryōsen)
- 脊梁(せきりょう) (sekiryō)
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fertility
[[English]]
ipa :/fɝˈtɪləti/[Antonyms]
- infertility
[Etymology]
From Middle French fertilité, from Latin fertilitas.
[Noun]
fertility (countable and uncountable, plural fertilities)
1.(uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.
2.(countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
3.The average number of births per woman within a population.
[Synonyms]
- fecundity, fertileness
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participation
[[English]]
ipa :/pɑɹˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃən/[Etymology]
From Middle English participacioun, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French participacion, from Late Latin participatiō. By surface analysis, participate + -ion.
[Noun]
participation (countable and uncountable, plural participations)
1.
2. The act of participating, of taking part in something.
3.The state of being related to a larger whole.
4.The process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project or program of activity.
a decision made based on the participation of the shareholders
5.An ownership interest or profit-sharing right.
[[French]]
ipa :/paʁ.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin participātiōnem.
[Further reading]
- “participation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
participation f (plural participations)
1.participation
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replacement
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/[Etymology]
replace + -ment
[Noun]
replacement (countable and uncountable, plural replacements)
1.A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
2.2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC[1]:
Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.
3.The act of replacing something.
The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.
4.The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.
[Synonyms]
- See also Thesaurus:substitute
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over
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/[Alternative forms]
- o'er (adverb, preposition)
[Anagrams]
- -vore, Vore, rove, vore
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér, a comparative form of *upo.Akin to Dutch over, German ober, über, Danish over, Norwegian over, Swedish över, Icelandic yfir, Faroese yvir, Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂 (ufar), Latin super, Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér), Albanian upri (“group of peasants”), Sanskrit उपरि (upári).Doublet of uber, super, and hyper.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English over (“riverbank, seashore, brink”), from Old English ōfer (“riverbank, seashore, brink, edge, margin, border”), from Proto-Germanic *ōferaz. Cognate with Dutch oever (“riverbank, shore”), German Ufer (“shore, shoreline, riverbank”), Low German Över (“shore, riverbank”).
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/ou̯[Adjective]
over
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) over the top; extreme; overdone
[Etymology]
From English over. Compare Japanese オーバー (ōbā).
[Verb]
over
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) to go too far; to exceed; to go overboard
2.(Taiwanese Mandarin) to game over; to fail
[[Danish]]
[Etymology 1]
From Old Norse yfir.
[Etymology 2]
From Old Norse ofar.
[Etymology 3]
Shortening of overkrydder.
[Etymology 4]
Borrowed from English over.
[References]
- “over” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “over,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “over,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “over,4” in Den Danske Ordbog
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈoː.vər/[Adverb]
over
1.over, above
2.(postpositional) over (implying motion)
Kijk uit, er steekt een hond de straat over.
Look out, a dog is crossing over the street.
3.remaining, left over
Na het feest was er bijna geen eten meer over.
After the party there was barely any food remaining.
4.passing by, going away
De pijn gaat weer over.
The pain is going away again.
5.Denotes an imitative action, again, once again
Ik schrijf je brief over.
I will transcribe your letter.
[Anagrams]
- rove, Voer, voer
[Antonyms]
- (antonym(s) of “over”): onder
[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch ōver, from Old Dutch *ovar, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber, from Proto-Indo-European *upér, from *upo. Compare German ober, English over.
[Interjection]
over
1.(procedure word, military) over (a radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and is expecting a response.)
[Preposition]
over
1.over
2.about, concerning
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
over
1.first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ovō
[[Middle Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈɔːvər/[Adverb]
ōver
1.over
2.across, on the other side
3.plenty, more than enough
4.used up, finished
5.once again
[Etymology]
From Old Dutch over, from Proto-West Germanic *obar.
[Further reading]
- “over (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “over (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “over (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
[Preposition]
ōver
1.over, above
Antonym: onder
2.across
3.towards
4.during
5.ago, some duration in the past
6.after, following (a duration)
7.about, concerning
8.due to, because of
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/ˈɔːvər/[Alternative forms]
- ouver, ower, ove
- ofer, offr (Early Middle English)
[Etymology]
From Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar.
[Preposition]
over
1.above
[[Middle Low German]]
ipa :/ʊɒvər/[Adverb]
ōver or ȫver
1.across, on the other side
2.while
3.on top of, additionally
4.over (finished, ceased)
[Antonyms]
- (antonym(s) of “over”): under
- (antonym(s) of “over”): under
[Etymology]
From Old Saxon ovar, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber, and Old Saxon *uvir from Proto-Germanic *ubiri.
[Preposition]
ōver or ȫver
1.(accusative) across, moving through or over something
over dat rode mêr - across the Red Sea
2.(accusative) across, moving to the other side of something
3.(accusative) in, across, describing the spread of something
over alle lant - all across the lands / in every land
4.(dative) across, situated on the other side of
over deme watere - across the water
5.(dative) while, over the duration of
over deme werke begripen - while working on something
6.(dative) over, at, on, on top of, describing where something is situated; does not mean above
over deme dische - at the table
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/ˈoːʋəɾ/[Adverb]
over
1.over
2.across
[Etymology]
From Old Norse yfir.
[Preposition]
over
1.above
2.past
3.over; more than
[References]
- “over” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
ipa :/ˈoːʋɛr/[Adverb]
over
1.[[]]over
2.across
[Etymology]
From Old Norse yfir.
[Preposition]
over
1.above
2.past
3.over; more than
[References]
- “over” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[[Zazaki]]
[Pronoun]
over
1.opposite
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over time
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
over time
1.From a historic or evolutionary perspective.
"This graph shows the population of California over time."
2.Occuring gradually, as the time passes.
3.2003, Stephen A. Mitchell, Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 55:
There are surely relationships in which romantic passion dies over time; the price of abandoning them is often less than the price of endless years spent in resuscitation efforts.
4.2008, Can Attachment Explain Individual Differences in Cognitive Functioning Over Time?: Results from a 12-year Cohort-sequential Study, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 26:
It also appears that the older with less education score initially better than the young with higher education, but over time, the young appear to surpass them.
[Synonyms]
- into time (dated)
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OV
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- VO, Vo, Vò
[Noun]
OV (plural OVs)
1.(space science) Initialism of orbiter vehicle.
2.(medicine) Initialism of office visit.
[[Dutch]]
[Noun]
OV n (uncountable)
1.(proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of ov (“public transport”)
[Proper noun]
OV
1.Abbreviation of Overijssel.
[[Japanese]]
[Etymology]
From English ovulation.
[Symbol]
OV(オーブイ) • (ōbui)
1.unit of basal body temperature, 0 being 35.5 °C and 50 being 38 °C, used for fertility awareness
[Synonyms]
- (body temperature): ㍵
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childbearing
[[English]]
[Adjective]
childbearing (not comparable)
1.Of, pertaining to, or suitable for childbirth
2.1836 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - England and the English
Women in the latter stages of childbearing should not be permitted to attend the toll of the manufactories.
3.2000 Methodology for deriving ambient water quality criteria for the protection of human health
In these cases, fish intake rates specific to females of childbearing age are most appropriate when assessing exposures to developmental toxicants.
4.2004 Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Stephanie Marston - Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman's Soul: Stories Celebrating the Wisdom, Fun and Freedom of Midlife [1] (page 256)
Hips that in the old country would be considered good childbearing hips, but in this country are too wide.
[Etymology]
From Middle English childberyng, childbering, chyldberynge, child berynge, equivalent to child + bearing.
[Noun]
childbearing (usually uncountable, plural childbearings)
1.The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition
2.1865, Great Britain. General Register Office, Annual Report ... of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales ... (volumes 26–30, page 243)
From the Swedish returns (1776-1855) it appears that 100 childbearings produced 101.62 children, viz., 2.82 stillborn, 98.80 quickborn; consequently 100 quickborn children imply 101.21 childbearings.
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standing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈstændɪŋ/[Etymology 1]
From Middle English standynge, stondynge, standende, stondinde, standande, stondande, from Old English standende, stondende, from Proto-Germanic *standandz (“standing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), equivalent to stand + -ing.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English standyng, stonding, stondung, from Old English *standung, equivalent to stand + -ing.
[[Cebuano]]
[Etymology]
From English standing.
[Noun]
standing
1.in bato lata; an instance where the can is standing upright and, still in play, after being hit and pushed out of its ring
[[Faroese]]
ipa :[ˈstantɪŋk][Etymology]
standa (“to stand”) + -ing
[Noun]
standing f (genitive singular standingar, uncountable)
1.erection
[Synonyms]
- reðurstøða
[[French]]
ipa :/stɑ̃.diŋ/[Etymology]
From English standing.
[Further reading]
- “standing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
standing m (plural standings)
1.standing, status
2.Level of quality or comfort, especially about real estate
appartement de grand standing
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/esˈtandin/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English standing.
[Further reading]
- “standing”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
[Noun]
standing m (plural standings)
1.status, standing, class
de alto standing ― high-class
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Standing
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
Standing (plural Standings)
1.A surname.
[[German]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English standing.
[Further reading]
- “Standing” in Duden online
- “Standing” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
Standing n (strong, genitive Standings, no plural)
1.standing (position or reputation in society or a profession)
Synonyms: Autorität, Ansehen, Rang, Stand
2.2022 April 30, Martin Krauss, “Kampf um die Zukunft des Frauenboxens: Schwerwiegende Leichtgewichte”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[1], →ISSN:
Der damalige Promoter Jake Paul wurde bald Serranos Manager. Ob Paul seriöser ist als Maldonado, lässt sich schwer sagen, in jedem Fall hat er ökonomisch ein anderes Standing.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
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population
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. Doublet of poblacion.
[Noun]
population (plural populations)
1.The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
2.(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
3.A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
The town’s population is only 243.
population explosion; population growth
1.(cellular automata) The number of living cells in a pattern.
2.1996 December 16, Dean Hickerson, “What is his name ?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata[1] (Usenet):
This is one of several known "sawtooth" patterns, in which the population is unbounded but does not tend to infinity.
3.2003 February 28, fiziwig, “Fast GOL alogrithm that doesn't examine neighbors.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata[2] (Usenet):
Since unoccupied cells never send a message they never access their neighbors and so if the population of the arena is, say, 20% of the total area then 80% of time no neighbor cells need to be accessed at all leading 1/9th as many array accesses and computation speeds up to 9 times faster per generation.
4.2008 May 31, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata[3] (Usenet):
End population was 101,764 cells, but with some significant spikes and drops along the way.(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.
- 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
- 2023 November 29, Peter Plisner, “The winds of change in Catesby Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 997, page 56:
The tunnel was retired from operational service on September 3 1966. Since then, like many other tunnels, it has been left unused and unloved, apart from by the resident bat population.(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
- 1883, Francis Galton et al., “Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee”, in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, page 269:
[…] it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.(prison) General population.
- 1985 April 6, Jackie Beattie, “More Power To Us All”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
I would like to say something about the place I am doing time at. When I was placed in population, I met another woman and we immediately became good friends.
[[Danish]]
[Noun]
population
1.(statistics) population
[[French]]
ipa :/pɔ.py.la.sjɔ̃/[Etymology]
Borrowing from Late Latin populātiōnem from Latin populus (“people”).
[Further reading]
- “population”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
population f (plural populations)
1.population
[[Interlingua]]
[Noun]
population (plural populationes)
1.population
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
population c
1.(biology) a population
2.(statistics) a population
[References]
- population in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- population in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- population in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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predisposition
[[English]]
[Etymology]
pre- + disposition
[Noun]
predisposition (countable and uncountable, plural predispositions)
1.The state of being predisposed or susceptible to something, especially to a behavior or a health condition.
[Synonyms]
- proclivity, propensity, see also Thesaurus:predilection
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
predisposition
1.genitive singular of predispositio
[[Swedish]]
[Noun]
predisposition c
1.predisposition (to a behavior or health condition)
[References]
- predisposition in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- predisposition in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- predisposition in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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bequeath
[[English]]
ipa :/bɪˈkwiːθ/[Etymology]
From Middle English biquethen, from Old English becweþan (“to say, to speak, to address, exhort, admonish, blame, bequeath, leave by will”), equivalent to be- + quethe. Cognate with Old Frisian biquetha.
[Verb]
bequeath (third-person singular simple present bequeaths, present participle bequeathing, simple past bequeathed or (obsolete) bequoth, past participle bequeathed or (rare) bequethen or (obsolete) bequothen)
1.(law) To give or leave by will; to give by testament.
2.To hand down; to transmit.
3.1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291:
Ownership of manufacturing workshops is not essential to that job; but BR happen to have been bequeathed a considerable number with a proud history.
4.To give; to offer; to commit.
5.2006 March 26, Leslie Feinberg, “'Gay is good'”, in Workers World[1]:
These young gay men and lesbians were more militant and began to reject advice from the homophile movement to try to "fit into" society, not to make waves, and to rely on professionals and establishment figures to bequeath them social rights.
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philanthropic
[[English]]
ipa :-ɒpɪk[Adjective]
philanthropic (comparative more philanthropic, superlative most philanthropic)
1.Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind
a philanthropic enterprise
[Antonyms]
- misanthropic
- nasty
- mean
- hateful (of human race)
[Etymology]
From French philanthropique.
[See also]
- altruism
- altruist
- altruistic
- altruistically
- misandry (hatred of males)
- misanthropist
- misanthropy (hatred of human race)
- misogyny (hatred of females)
- philanthropically
- philanthropist
- philanthropy (benevolence towards human race)
- philandry (love of males)
- philogyny (love of females)
[Synonyms]
- generous
- philanthropical
- charitable
- benevolent
- humanitarian
- bighearted
- giving
- goodhearted
- altruistic
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unforeseen
[[English]]
[Adjective]
unforeseen (not comparable)
1.Not foreseen.
2.Not expected.
[Etymology]
un- + foreseen
[Noun]
unforeseen (plural unforeseens)
1.An event, incident, cost, etc. that was not foreseen.
2.1997, Gerry Souter, Buying and Selling Multimedia Services, page 25:
Unfortunately, many of the unforeseens are created by the client.
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blindfolded
[[English]]
[Adjective]
blindfolded (not comparable)
1.Wearing a blindfold
2.2006 October 6, Fang Hong, “The CCP Policy of Treating People Like "Blindfolded Donkeys" No Longer Works”, in Minghui[1]:
Once people learn the true facts they will no longer want to be "blindfolded donkeys."
[Verb]
blindfolded
1.simple past and past participle of blindfold
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schooled
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- choodles, deschool, locoshed
[Verb]
schooled
1.simple past and past participle of school
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school
[[English]]
ipa :/skuːl/[Anagrams]
- cholos
[Etymology 1]
Elementary schoolFrom Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlā, from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul. Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Bavarian Schui (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Frankish *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”). Cognate with Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal.
[Further reading]
- school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- school (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- school (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/sxoːl/[Etymology 1]
From Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Doublet of skorro.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle Dutch schōle, from Old Dutch *skola, from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”).
[Etymology 3]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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get by
[[English]]
[Verb]
get by (third-person singular simple present gets by, present participle getting by, simple past got by, past participle (UK) got by or (US) gotten by)
1.(intransitive, idiomatic) To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level.
Synonyms: get along, make do, make ends meet
Do you think they can get by on only one salary?
2.2013, Tim Myers, Melissa Sheppard, “Bad Things”, in Dear You[1], performed by Meiko:
Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it / Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it
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certainly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsɝtn̩li/[Adverb]
certainly (comparative more certainly, superlative most certainly)
1.In a way which is certain; with certainty.
2.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, I.iii.2.2:
he verily thought he had young live frogs in his belly, qui vivebant ex alimento suo, that lived by his nourishment, and was so certainly persuaded of it, that for many years following he could not be rectified in his conceit.
3.1923, A. A. Hill, Automobile Dealer and Repairer, page 30:
The torque was "built up" in the special back axle and the car crawled tankwise but very certainly over the obstacles without a jar or hesitation.
4.Without doubt, surely.
The accident was certainly caused by human error.
That was certainly sweet of him.
You may certainly join us for dinner.
5.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
6.2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
7.An emphatic affirmative answer; of course.
Would you like it with ice? Certainly, and with lemon please.
[Etymology]
From Middle English certeynly; equivalent to certain + -ly.
[References]
- “certainly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “certainly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
[Synonyms]
- (with certainty): absolutely, beyond doubt, indubitably, sure thing, undoubtedly, wis (obsolete), without a doubt
- (without doubt): definitely, doubtlessly, in fact, indeed, indisputably, indubitably, no doubt, really, sure, surely, truly, undoubtedly, unquestionably, wis (obsolete), without a doubt
- (emphatic affirmative): damn right, damn straight, fo shizzle, for sure, oh yeah, wye aye (dialect)
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get
[[English]]
ipa :/ɡɛt/[Anagrams]
- GTE, TGE, teg
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną. Cognate with Old English ġietan (whence also English yet), Old Saxon getan (“to get, to gain sth.”), Old High German pigezzan (“to uphold”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bigitan, “to find, discover”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize”).
[Etymology 2]
Variant of git.
[Etymology 3]
From Hebrew גֵּט (gēṭ).
[Further reading]
- “get”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “get”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[References]
1. ^ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gotten.html and http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm
[[Azerbaijani]]
[Verb]
get
1.second-person singular imperative of getmək
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/kɛːt̚⁵/[Etymology]
From English get.
[Verb]
get
1.(Hong Kong Cantonese) to understand, often used with "到"
佢講嘅嘢太複雜，我get唔到佢咩意思。
The stuff that he is talking about is too complicated, I don't get what he means.
[[Icelandic]]
[Verb]
get
1.inflection of geta:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.singular imperative
[[Ladino]]
[Etymology]
From Hebrew גט.
[Noun]
get m (Latin spelling)
1.divorce
[[Limburgish]]
ipa :/ie̯/[Adverb]
get
1.some, somewhat
2.very
Ich woar mer get blij. ― I was very happy.
[Alternative forms]
- jett (Krefeld)
- gätt, gädd (Eupen)
[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch iewet, iet. The diphthong /ie̯/ developed into /je/ word-initially, as it did in High German, and the onset was then enclitically hardened to ⟨g⟩ (/ʝ/). Cognate with Dutch iets, Central Franconian jet, northern Luxembourgish jett, gett, English aught.
[Pronoun]
get
1.something, anything
2.(indefinite pronoun) Placed before a plural noun, indicating general cases of people or things: some
Doe has get höng. ― You own some dogs.
[[Mauritian Creole]]
[Verb]
get
1.Medial form of gete
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/dʒɛːt/[Alternative forms]
- geet, gete, jet, gette, geete, jete, jeete
[Etymology]
From a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs).
[Noun]
get (uncountable)
1.
2. jet, hardened coal
3.A bead made of jet.
4.A jet-black pigment.
[[Old Norse]]
[Etymology]
From geta.
[Noun]
get n
1.(rare) a guess
[References]
- “get”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
[Verb]
get
1.first-person singular present indicative of geta
2.second-person singular imperative of geta
[[Old Swedish]]
ipa :/ʝeːt/[Alternative forms]
- ᚵᚽᛏ
[Etymology]
From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits.
[Noun]
gēt f
1.goat
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/d͡ʒet/[Etymology]
From French Gètes, Latin Getae, from Ancient Greek Γέται (Gétai).
[Noun]
get m (plural geți, feminine equivalent getă)
1.Get, one of the Getae, Greek name for the Dacian people
Synonym: dac
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/jeːt/[Anagrams]
- teg
[Etymology]
From Old Swedish gēt, from Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰayd- (“goat”).
[Noun]
get c
1.goat
[References]
- get in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- get in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- get in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
[[Yola]]
ipa :/ɡɛt/[Etymology]
From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną.
[References]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 111
[Verb]
get (third-person singular geeth, simple past godth)
1.to get
2.1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:
Caulès will na get to wullaw to-die.
Horses will not get to wallow to-day.
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