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life-or-death
[[English]]
[Adjective]
life-or-death (not comparable)
1.Of critical importance to the survival of a living organism.
Good camoflouge is life or death for many animals in the wild.
2.Having death as a possible or even likely outcome; perilous.
Ascending Mount Everest can be life or death for an inexperienced climber.
3.Of critical importance to the success of a particular endeavor.
Obtaining financing was a life-or-death matter for the research.
[Alternative forms]
- life-and-death
- life or death
[See also]
- matter of life and death
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52670
tout
[[English]]
ipa :/taʊt/[Etymology 1]
From a dialectal form of toot (“to stick out; project; peer out; peep”), itself from Middle English toten, totien, from Old English tōtian (“to peep out; look; pry; spectate”). Merged with Middle English touten (“to jut out, protrude, gaze upon, observe, peer”), from Old English *tūtian, related to Old English tȳtan (“to stand out, be conspicuous, shine”). Compare Icelandic túta (“a teat-like prominence”), tútna (“to be blown up”).
[Etymology 2]
Probably from French tout (“all”).
[[French]]
ipa :/tu/[Adverb]
tout m (feminine toute or tout, feminine plural toutes or tout)
1.all
2.totally; completely
3.(tout + adjective + que + subjunctive clause) however; no matter how
4.1886, Ernest Legouvé, Soixante ans de souvenirs:
« Oh ! disait-il, il faut le reconnaître, tout romantique qu’il soit, il y a quelque chose dans ce Lamartine… »
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
[Determiner]
tout (feminine toute, masculine plural tous, feminine plural toutes)
1.all
[Etymology]
Inherited from Middle French tout, from Old French tot, from Vulgar Latin tōttus, alteration (likely via expressive gemination) of Latin tōtus. Compare Catalan tot, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Romanian tot, Spanish todo.
[Further reading]
- “tout”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
tout m (plural touts)
1.whole, entirety, total
le tout ― everything, all of it
[Pronoun]
tout (plural tous)
1.everything
[[Haitian Creole]]
ipa :/tut/[Adjective]
tout
1.all
[Adverb]
tout
1.all
2.every
[Etymology]
From French tout (“all”).
[[Middle French]]
[Adjective]
tout m (feminine singular toute, masculine plural tous, feminine plural toutes)
1.all; all of
toute la nuit
all (of the) night
[Adverb]
tout (feminine singular toute, masculine plural tous, feminine plural toutes)
1.all (intensifier)
2.1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 45:
Et moult y avoit de gens tout autour pour regarder la iustice de la damoiselle
And there were many people all around to watch the justice afforded to the lady
3.completely; totally; entirely
[Etymology]
From Old French tot.
[[Norman]]
[Adjective]
tout m
1.(Jersey, Guernsey) all
[Adverb]
tout
1.(Jersey, Guernsey) all
[Etymology]
From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.
[[Scots]]
[Noun]
tout (plural touts)
1.A fit of sulking; a pet.
2.A sudden illness.
[Verb]
tout
1.(intransitive) To pout.
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52671
entail
[[English]]
ipa :/ɛnˈteɪl/[Alternative forms]
- intail (archaic)
[Anagrams]
- Latine, Ta-lien, Talien
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.
[References]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “entail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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