Everest

en-proper noun

Everest (countable and uncountable, plural Everests)

One day in the late spring of 1924 an observer on the East Rongbuk Glacier at the foot of Everest, staring up at the summit of the mountain through a telescope, saw the morning mists part around the summit, and saw there two black figures climbing steadily upwards. One of them was an Oxford undergraduate, the other was Mallory. They were, at that moment, at a height of 28,400 feet, higher than any man has ever climbed before and only six hundred feet below the top.

1925, Willard L. Sperry, Reality in Worship: a Study of Public Worship and Private Religion, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, pages 337–338:

The early expeditions, though they failed, did make the picture much clearer. The problems of Everest emerged- problems of supply and support, unbelievably treacherous weather, and worst of all, the problem of altitude itself- the terrifying lack of oxygen. Several of the early climbers attacking the summit from the north got within a thousand feet of it. Mallory and Irvin for instance, who attempted it in 1924. Neither of them came back. Why should a man climb Everest? It was Mallory himself who gave the classic reply: 'Because it is there'. Everest remained a challenge: aloof, inviolate, murderous.

1953, 5:41 from the start, in The Conquest of Everest, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-30:

Everest saw a clutch of records on Thursday including the most summits for a woman and the first all-Black team -- and a Ukrainian climber reached the top of the world for her war-torn country.
Nepali climber Lhakpa Sherpa, 48, reached the snow-capped summit for the 10th time, breaking her own record set in 2018.
"Lhakpa stood atop Everest at 6:15 am today. This has become her 10th ascent," Mingma Gelu Sherpa of Seven Summit Adventure, the agency that handled her expedition, told AFP from the Everest base camp.

2022 May 12, “Ukrainian summits Everest 'for her people' as records tumble”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2022-05-12:

It was unclear whether Pasang Dawa Sherpa planned a third ascent of Everest this season, which started in April and ends the first week of June. Such a feat has never been attempted in the history of Everest climbs, mountaineering experts say.

2023 May 23, Bhadra Sharma, Sameer Yasir, “4 Everest Ascents in 10 Days: Sherpas Battle for a Climbing Record”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-23, Asia Pacific:

The deadliest year on Everest remains 2015, when a devastating earthquake in Nepal triggered a series of avalanches on the mountain, killing 20 people.

2025 May 28, “Melting snow making Everest more perilous, record-holding climber Kami Rita warns”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2025-05-28:

(uncountable) A mountain on the border of Tibet, China and Nepal.


present

presents (plural)
præsent (alternative archaic)
ps. (alternative abbreviation)

From Middle English present, from Old French present, from Latin praesent-, praesens, present participle of praeesse (“to be present”), from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + esse (“to be”).


prion

From (a reordering of) the initial letters of proteinaceous infectious particle. Coined by American neurologist and biochemist Stanley B. Prusiner in 1982.

coin

Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 277:

Five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions—a class of misfolding, infectious proteins that cause fatal brain diseases—after a retired lab worker who handled prions in the past was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most common prion disease in humans.

2021 July 28, Barbara Casassus, “France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers”, in Science:

(molecular biology) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.


offense

en-noun

offense (countable and uncountable, plural offenses)

offenses (plural)
offence (alternative Australia Canada New-Zealand UK)

From Middle English offence, from Old French offense, from Latin offensa (“a striking against; displeasure; injury”).

der

The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.


pervert

From Old French pervertir, itself from the Latin pervertō.

And yet it is not only tolerated, but perverts are making to it in England and this country, — perverts among the intelligent and the learned. For these things, which I have quoted, are not accusations made in a corner, but have been published in the face of the world by one of the profoundest theologians of the day, and challenge confutation.

1867, Stephen Elliott, Sermons, page 382:

[…] a religious pervert is ever a doubtful product. One separated from the fellows of his youth and the faith of his fathers, by acceptance of a different religion, is of necessity more or less adrift on the sea of life […]

1925, The Dalhousie Review, volume 5, page 115:

According to the Holy Qur'an, those who cast off God's signs and follow Satan and their caprice are perverts; they are likened to dogs […]

2001, Ismāʻīl Salāmī, Islamic Views on Human Rights: Viewpoints of Iranian Scholars, page 128:

(dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, or adopted a twisted sense of values or morals.


convict

en-verb

convict (third-person singular simple present convicts, present participle convicting, simple past and past participle convicted)

convicts (present singular third-person)
convicting (participle present)
convicted (participle past)
convicted (past)

From Middle English convicten, from Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Doublet of convince. Displaced native Old English forwyrċan (“to convict, condemn”).

ncog

He was a convicted felon.

His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.

And his subjects wrung all they could wring / Out of temple and palace and store. / But when there seemed no more to bring, / His captors convicted the king / Of once having started a war, / And strangled the wretch with a string.

1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:

(transitive, law) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.


convict

(law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.

The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.

A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.


Chumash

From Ineseño čʰumaš (“the Santa Barbara Channel Island people”).

bor

The colonial given language name of this tribe.


pique

en-verb

pique (third-person singular simple present piques, present participle piquing, simple past and past participle piqued)

piques (present singular third-person)
piquing (participle present)
piqued (participle past)
piqued (past)

The verb is borrowed from French piquer (“to prick, sting; to anger, annoy; (reflexive) to get angry; to provoke, stimulate; (reflexive) to boast about”), from Middle French piquer, picquer (“to prick, sting; to anger, annoy; (reflexive) to get angry”), from Old French piquer (“to pierce with the tip of a sword”), from proto-Romance or Vulgar Latin *pīccare (“to sting; to strike”) or *pikkāre, and then either:
* Onomatopoeic; or
* from Frankish *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to knock; to peck; to pick; to prick”). If so, pique is a doublet of pick, pitch, and peck.
The noun is borrowed from Middle French pique (“a quarrel; resentment”) (modern French pique), from piquer, picquer (verb); see above.

възбуждам

to excite (someone) to action; to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest)


pique

en-noun

pique (countable and uncountable, plural piques)

Men take up piques and diſpleaſures at others, and then every opinion of the diſliked perſon muſt partake of his fate, and be engaged in the quarrel: […]

1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, “A Survey of the Causes of Disputes; Fourthly, Passion”, in The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC, page 373:

[H]e ſhew'd himself, out of ſome little pique, the moſt bitter enemy againſt the K[ing, i.e., Charles I of England] in all the Houſe [of Parliament], as well in action as ſpeech; […]

1691, [Anthony Wood], “HENRY MARTEN”, in Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume II (Completing the Whole Work), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […], →OCLC, column 493:

This dog and man at firſt were friends; / But when a pique began, / The dog, to gain his private ends, / Went mad and bit the man.

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], “A Migration. The Fortunate Circumstances of Our Lives are Generally Found at Last to Be of Our Own Procuring. [An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.]”, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume I, Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, pages 175–176:

Not so Madame de Soissons, who at once divined his intentions and watched his progress, internally resolving to render him every ill office pique could suggest, or ridicule execute.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 222:

[L]ong, costly, and bloody wars had arisen upon a point of ceremony, upon a personal pique, upon a hasty word, upon some explosion of momentary caprice; […]

1853, Thomas De Quincey, “On War”, in Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers. […], volume II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, pages 199–200:

[T]here occurred one of the little skirmishes which it is almost impossible to avoid, when some five-and-twenty women, old and young, with all their private piques and prejudices, try to work together.

1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Consequences”, in Little Women: […], part second, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 93:

(uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.

обида

enmity, ill feeling; a feeling of animosity or a dispute

Tuſh! tuſh! you take the grave peake uppon you too much: who would think you could ſo eaſily ſhake off your olde friendes?

1592, Tho[mas] Nashe, “The Foure Letters Confuted”, in Strange Newes, of the Intercepting Certaine Letters and a Convoy of Verses, […], London: […] Iohn Danter, […], →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] Payne Collier, editor, Illustrations of Early English Literature (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), volume II, London: Privately printed, [1867], →OCLC, page 35:

Pray, my Lord, take no picque at it: 'tis not given to all men to be confident: […]

1667 (revival performance), John Dryden, The Wild Gallant: A Comedy. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] Newcomb for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1669, →OCLC, Act II, page 20:

"'Tis because you are an indifferent person," said Lucy, with some pique, and laying a particular stress on those words, "that your judgment must justly have such weight with me.["]

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 30:

"At all events," replied Francesca, "it could not be better bestowed, than as an offering, however unworthy, for his sake who is nearest and dearest to me in the world." / "I thank you for the implied compliment," returned Evelyn, in a tone of pique.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 283:

You think this is a personal thing with me? Are you telling me I think of this in terms of a personal pique?

1957 June 27, Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman, Alexander Mackendrick (uncredited), Sweet Smell of Success:

This defiance was not a fit of pique, but a matter of principle. He [Mandela's father] was asserting his traditional prerogative as a chief and was challenging the authority of the magistrate.

1994, Nelson Mandela, chapter 1, in Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, part 1 (A Country Childhood), page 6:

[Jürgen] Klopp’s team had the better balance between attack and defence and, crucially, they got lucky with the disallowed goal that brought [Pep] Guardiola to the point of spontaneous combustion at half-time. Guardiola’s fit of pique led to his banishment from the dugout and City will wonder what might have happened if they had taken a 2–0 lead into the second half.

2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-03:

(uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.

uražená pýcha

irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; a transient feeling of wounded pride


pique

Borrowed from Spanish pique, from Central Quechua piki.


quite

Jersey Dutch: kwāit

A development of quit, influence by Anglo-Norman quite. Doublet of coy, quit, quiet, and quietus. For an analogous semantic development from the same root, compare Armenian շատ (šat).

doublet

Thus when they had the witch diſrobed quight, / And all her filthy feature open ſhowne, / They let her goe at will, and wander waies vnknowne.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 49, page 118:

Nobuyoshi Araki has been called a monster, a pornographer and a genius—and the photographer quite agrees.

2005 October 4, Adrian Searle, The Guardian:

To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.

With verbs, especially past participles.

El adrea was quite dead. No more will he slink silently upon his unsuspecting prey.

1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1917, →OCLC, pages 66–67:

It was almost quite dark in there and she kept her arms stretched out in front of her so as not to bump her face into the back of the wardrobe.

1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:

In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:


acuate

en-adj

acuate (comparative more acuate, superlative most acuate)

more acuate (comparative)
most acuate (superlative)

From Medieval Latin acuātus, past participle of acuāre, variant of Classical Latin acuere (“to sharpen”), from acus (“needle”).


acuminate

en-verb

acuminate (third-person singular simple present acuminates, present participle acuminating, simple past and past participle acuminated)

acuminates (present singular third-person)
acuminating (participle present)
acuminated (participle past)
acuminated (past)
accuminate (alternative)

From Late Latin acuminatus, past participle of acuminare (“to sharpen to a point”).

(intransitive) To end in or come to a sharp point.


agglomerate

agglomerate (third-person singular simple present agglomerates, present participle agglomerating, simple past and past participle agglomerated)

agglomerates (present singular third-person)
agglomerating (participle present)
agglomerated (participle past)
agglomerated (past)
aglomerate (alternative)

/əˈɡlɒm(ə)ˌɹeɪt/

/əˈɡlɑ.mɚˌeɪt/

From Latin agglomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from ad (“to”) + glomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).

der

(geography) To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlements and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration).


agglutinate

From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtinare, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”).

an agglutinate language

an agglutinate family of languages

(linguistics) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning.

agglutinoiva

linguistics: consisting of root words combined with affixes


ay

Tro. Have I not tarried?
Pan. Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.
Tro. Have I not tarried?
Pan. Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.
Tro. Still have I tarried.
Pan. Ay, to the leavening; but […]

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? […]"

1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:

"I swear also that I will honour and will cherish thee, Kallikrates, who hast been swept by the wave of time back into my arms, ay, till the very end, come it soon or late."

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

(Mid-Ulster, others) Alternative spelling of aye ("yes")


ay

counting the ays and the noes in a vote


ay

From Middle English ai, from Old Norse ei, from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“eternity, age”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vitality”); cognate with Old English ā, Ancient Greek ἀεί (aeí, “always”), and Latin aevum (“an age”).

O he that hath ay lived free, …

1670, John Barbour, The Acts and Life of the most victorious Conquerour Robert Bruce King of Scotland, as cited in 1860, Thomas Corser, Collectanea Anglo-poetica, page 160

(archaic, poetic or Northern England or Scotland) Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.


ay

For example, New Zealanders tended to say "ay" at the end of sentences, but in the Asian community people used different tags to check whether people were still listening.

2013 November 13, “Surprising changes in the way Aucklanders speak”, in Stuff:

New Zealand spelling of eh (question tag)


aye

"Appears suddenly about 1575, and is exceedingly common about 1600." Probably from use of aye (“ever, always”) as expression of agreement or affirmation, or from Middle English a ye (“oh yes”), or synthesis of both. Compare Faroese ája (“certainly, ah yes”). More at oh, yea. Online Etymology Dictionary also with these posits a possible descent from I (as if clipped from e.g. "I assent").

(nautical) a word used to acknowledge a command from a superior, usually preceded by a verbatim repeat-back.


aye

"To call for the ayes and nays;" "The ayes have it."

An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.


aye

(MLE, MTE, regional African-American Vernacular, Chicano) Misspelling of eh.

(New Zealand) Alternative spelling of ay (question tag)


ave

Ye’ll come and find the place where I am lying
 And kneel and say an ave there for me.

1913, “Danny Boy”, Frederic Weatherly (lyrics):


aver

From Middle English aver, avere (“workhorse; any beast of burden (?); things which are owned, possessions, property, wealth; state of being rich, wealth; ownership, possession”) [and other forms], and then either:
* from Old French aver, aveir, avoir (“possession, property; (collectively) beasts of burden; domestic animals; cattle”) (modern French avoir (“asset, possession”)), from aveir, avoir (“to have”), from Latin habēre (“to have, hold; to have, own (possessions)”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-, *ǵʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”); or
* from Old English eafor (“workhorse; tenant’s obligation to transport goods”), further etymology uncertain.

nb...

auer, auere, aueyr, auoir, auoyre, aveer, aveir, avoir, avour, hauoir, hauour, hauoyr, haveour, haver, havoir, havoire, havour, havur, havyor, havyour, havyoure, hawere, hower

inh

[…] Gilbert has but two half-starved cowardly peasants to follow him, and but an auld jaded aver to ride upon, fitter for the plough than for manly service; […]

1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 214:

(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) An old, useless horse; a nag.


effeminate

effeminates (plural)
effæminate (alternative obsolete)
effeminat (alternative obsolete)
effœminat (alternative obsolete)
effœminate (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English effeminat, effemynat, from Latin effēminātus, past participle of effēminō, from fēmina (“woman”).

The effeminates are males with obviously recognizable traits and mannerisms; […]

1976, Psychiatry, volumes 39-40, page 246:


cave

From Middle English cave, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava (“cavity”), from cavus (“hollow”). Cognate with Tocharian B kor (“throat”), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian սոր (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “empty, barren, zero”). Displaced native Old English sċræf. More at cavum, cavus and cage.

cog

Once a code cave is created, you can execute it using either thread injection or thread hijacking. […] Additionally, you'd need to make sure that the cave properly cleans the stack.

2016, Nick Cano, Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games:


exploit

en-verb

exploit (third-person singular simple present exploits, present participle exploiting, simple past and past participle exploited)

exploits (present singular third-person)
exploiting (participle present)
exploited (participle past)
exploited (past)

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).

to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way

However, exploiting their 110mph capability will initially only be possible north of Bedford, pending an upgrade of the overhead wires between Bedford and St Pancras by Network Rail to make them suitable for use by electric trains at over 100mph.

2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:

(transitive) To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.


pinta

A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum, which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis.


four-legged

/fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/

The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.

2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195:

We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.

2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113:

It was a serious race, for the two-leggeds—human beings and birds—were racing the four-leggeds to determine which should feed the others.

2013, Vine Deloria Jr., edited by James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238:


rematch

rematch (third-person singular simple present rematches, present participle rematching, simple past and past participle rematched)

rematches (present singular third-person)
rematching (participle present)
rematched (participle past)
rematched (past)

To bring opponents together for such a contest.


oblique

en-adj

oblique (comparative obliquer, superlative obliquest)

obliquer (comparative)
obliquest (superlative)

From Middle French oblique, from Latin oblīquus (also spelled oblīcus) (“slanting, sideways, indirect, envious”).

uder

In passing from the minor third to unison, the motion ought to be oblique, but from the major third to unison the motion ought to be similar

1837, Allan Cunningham, “Music”, in The Popular Encyclopedia, page 109:

(music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.


kite

kites (plural)
kight (alternative)
kyte (alternative)

The noun is from Middle English kyte, kīte, kete (“a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red kite (Milvus milvus)”), from Old English cȳta (“kite; bittern”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūts (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH-d- (“to cry, screech”). The English word is cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite; bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzelīn, kützlīn (“owling”) (modern German Kauz (“owl”)). Possibly a doublet of coot.
Sense 3 (“lightweight toy”) is from the fact that it hovers in the air like the bird.
The verb is derived from the noun.

der

But she said, "if this was a kite, he didn't realize that you don't have the float time of the old days," which made check-kiting easier.

1991 May 21, Alex Barnum, “Suspect named in kiting case”, in San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, Calif.: Mercury Herald Co., →OCLC, page 8E:

(banking, slang) A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.


frequent

en-adj

frequent (comparative more frequent or frequenter, superlative most frequent or frequentest)

more frequent (comparative)
frequenter (comparative)
most frequent (superlative)
frequentest (superlative)

From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to cram together”).

der

'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.

1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):


integral

en-adj

integral (comparative more integral, superlative most integral)

more integral (comparative)
most integral (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French integral, from Medieval Latin integrālis, from Latin integer (“entire”); see integer.

Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two great integral parts that complete this duty.

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

Constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable

айырылғыһыҙ

constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable


integral

The integral of a univariate real-valued function is the area under its curve; but be warned! Not all functions are integrable!

(mathematics) One of the two fundamental operations of calculus (the other being differentiation), whereby a function's displacement, area, volume, or other qualities arising from the study of infinitesimal change are quantified, usually defined as a limiting process on a sequence of partial sums. Denoted using a long s: ∫, or a variant thereof.

(specifically) Any of several analytic formalizations of this operation: the Riemann integral, the Lebesgue integral, etc.

The integral of #92;frac#123;1#125;#123;x#125; on #91;#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;2#125;,1#93; is #92;ln(2), but the integral of the same function on (0,1#93; diverges. In notation, #92;int#95;#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;2#125;¹#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;x#125;dx#61;#92;ln(2), but #92;int#95;0¹#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;x#125;dx#61;#92;infty.

Stokes' theorem relates the integral over a surface of the curl of a vector field to a line integral around the boundary of that surface: #92;int#95;S#92;nabla#92;times#92;mathbf#123;F#125;#92;cdotd#92;mathbf#123;S#125;#61;#92;int#95;#123;#92;partialS#125;#92;mathbf#123;F#125;#92;cdotd#92;mathbf#123;r#125;,.

(mathematics) A definite integral: the result of the application of such an operation onto a function and a suitable subset of the function's domain: either a number or positive or negative infinity. In the former case, the integral is said to be finite or to converge; in the latter, the integral is said to diverge. In notation, the domain of integration is indicated either below the sign, or, if it is an interval, with its endpoints as sub- and super-scripts, and the function being integrated forming part of the integrand (or, generally, differential form) appearing in front of the integral sign.

The integral of x² is #92;frac#123;x³#125;#123;3#125; plus a constant.

(mathematics) An indefinite integral: the result of the application of such an operation onto a function together with an indefinite domain, yielding a function; a function's antiderivative;

(mathematics, historical or obsolete) The fluent of a given fluxion in Newtonian calculus.


tierce

From Old French tierce, from Latin tertia.

(card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.

[W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

(fencing) The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.

(obsolete) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)


mong

(British, Ireland, slang, offensive, derogatory, dated) A person with Down's syndrome.


record

→ Portuguese: recorde

From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record (verb).

We have no record of you making this payment to us.

Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.

I still like records better than CDs.

He's the record doctor / Tell him your woes / He'll reach in his bag / And he'll give you a dose

2012, “Record Doctor”, performed by Saint Etienne:

phonograph record
phonograph record#English

Ellipsis of phonograph record (“a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph”).

phonograph record

This chapter examines another data structure, the record (available in Pascal but not in all other high-level languages). Records make it easier to organize and represent information in Pascal, a major reason for the popularity of the Pascal[…]

1989, Elliot B. Koffman, Pascal: Problem Solving and Program Design, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 406:

The new record type provides another solution. A record is a class-like construct for data classes, a restricted form of class like enums and annotations.

2020, Ian F. Darwin, Java Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 232:

A record is a special kind of class that's designed to work well with immutable (readonly) data.

2021, Joseph Albahari, C# 9.0 in a Nutshell, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 210:

programming language
programming language

(programming) A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.

tietue

if distinct from structs, the latter are called arvoluokka


record

en-verb

record (third-person singular simple present records, present participle recording, simple past and past participle recorded)

records (present singular third-person)
recording (participle present)
recorded (participle past)
recorded (past)

erase

antonym(s) of “make a record of information”

erase

antonym(s) of “make an audio or video recording of”

From Middle English recorden (“to repeat, to report”), borrowed from Old French recorder (“to get by heart”), from Latin recordārī (“remember, call to mind”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

der

When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house.

(transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.


placer

(slang) One who deals in stolen goods; a fence.


precipitate

en-verb

precipitate (third-person singular simple present precipitates, present participle precipitating, simple past and past participle precipitated)

precipitates (present singular third-person)
precipitating (participle present)
precipitated (participle past)
precipitated (past)
præcipitate (alternative)

From Latin praecipitātus, perfect passive participle of praecipitō (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”) (praecipit- in its oblique stem), from prae (“before”) + -ceps (“headed”).

رَسَّبَ

to separate out of a liquid solution into solid form

Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.

(intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.

تَرَسَّبَ

to come out of a liquid solution into solid form


precipitate

en-adj

precipitate (comparative more precipitate, superlative most precipitate)

more precipitate (comparative)
most precipitate (superlative)
præcipitate (alternative)

From Latin praecipitātus (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).


precipitate

precipitates (plural)
præcipitate (alternative)

From New Latin praecipitatum. Equivalent to Latin praecipitō + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

af

As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it.

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 381:

A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.

(chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

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chemistry: solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution


transfer

en-noun

transfer (countable and uncountable, plural transfers)

/tɹɑːnsˈfɜː/

From Latin trānsferō (“I bear across”). Distant doublet of translate. See also collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.

transfer student
transfer student#English

(US, Canada, varsity sports) Ellipsis of transfer student.


yea

From Middle English ye, ȝea, ya, ȝa, from Old English ġēa, iā (“yea, yes”), from Proto-West Germanic *jā.

1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]

Let no man say that the Devil is not a cruel tyrant. He may give his folk some scrapings of unhallowed pleasure, but he will exact tithes, yea, of anise and cummin, in return, and there is aye the reckoning to pay at the hinder end.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:


eagre

eagres (plural)
aegir (alternative)
eager (alternative)
eger (alternative)
egre (alternative)
eygre (alternative)

Not attested in Middle English; either from Old English *ēagor (“water, sea”) (attested in ēagorstrēam) or Old Norse ægir (“sea, ocean”); however, both possibilities fail to show the phonological outcome one would expect.

A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees.

1896, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills: and Other Tales, page 210:


nana

nanas (plural)
'nana (alternative)
narna (alternative)
narner (alternative)

You look a right nana dressed up like that.


confine

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.

(chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.


primer

US, irregular, but common; borrowed from Etymology 2

From Middle English primer, primere, from Medieval Latin primarius and primarium (“prayer book”) possibly via Anglo-Norman primer (“prayer book”), from prima (“prime the liturgical hour and office”) + -arius and -arium (suffix forming related objects). Its use for schoolbooks derived from the late medieval and early modern use of such prayer books to teach reading.

nowrap

<i class="Latn mention" lang="la">-arium</i> (suffix forming related objects).

(New Zealand, obsolete) An elementary school class; an elementary school student.


infix

Back-formation from Middle English infixed (“stuck in”), from Latin infixus, past participle of infigō (“to fasten in”).

An affix inserted inside a root, such as -ma- in English edumacation.


excuse

en-noun

excuse (countable and uncountable, plural excuses)

From Middle English excusen (verb) and excuse (noun), borrowed from Old French escuser (verb) and excuse (noun), from Latin excūsō, excūsāre (“to excuse, allege in excuse, literally, free from a charge”), from ex (“out”) + causa (“a charge”); see cause, accuse and recuse. Displaced native Old English lād (“an excuse”) and lādian (“to excuse”).

der

Tell me why you were late – and I don't want to hear any excuses!

I had to make an excuse for being late to the meeting.

And they all atonce begane to make excuſe. The fyrſt ſayd vnto him: I have bought a ferme / and I muſt nedes goo and ſe it / I praye the have me excuſed.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke xiiij:[18], folio cj, recto:

You can kiss a hundred boys in bars
Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling
You can say it's just the way you are
Make a new excuse, another stupid reason

2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”performed by Chappell Roan:

(countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.

explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgement

pretext release

(law) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.

That thing is a poor excuse for a gingerbread man. Hasn't anyone taught you how to bake?

He's a sorry excuse for a doctor.

What a fucking lame excuse for a man.

2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 131:

Seydlitz correctly identifies the larger shell splashes as coming from the two "large light cruisers" at the rear, and takes aim. Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed.

2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 15:10 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04:

(often with preceding negative adjective, especially sorry, poor, or lame) An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.

especially sorry; poor; or lame; especially sorry; poor; or lame


prime

composite

prime element of a mathematical structure

From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus.
The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

(Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.

Tomlinson, Shawn M. (2015) Going Pro for $200 & How to Choose a Prime Lens, →ISBN, page 72: “By the time I shifted to my first autofocus film SLR with the Pentax PZ-10, primes were considered things of the past”

(film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.


contract

From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”).

sign a contract

write up a contract

read a contract

countersign a contract

legally-binding contract

unwritten contract

Marriage is a contract.

British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

(law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.

(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.


export

en-verb

export (third-person singular simple present exports, present participle exporting, simple past and past participle exported)

exports (present singular third-person)
exporting (participle present)
exported (participle past)
exported (past)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

(transitive) To cause to spread in another part of the world.

viedä

to cause to spread in another part of the world


conflict

conflict (third-person singular simple present conflicts, present participle conflicting, simple past and past participle conflicted)

conflicts (present singular third-person)
conflicting (participle present)
conflicted (participle past)
conflicted (past)

From Latin conflictus, past participle of confligere (“to strike together”), from com- (“together”) (a form of con-) + fligere (“to strike”).

[T. E.] Lawrence said that in the end he felt himself to be fighting not for the imperial British but for the rebellious Arabs. All too often he conflicted with British bureaucratic fustiness.

2014 March 2, Jan Morris, “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson, review: A skilful account of T. E. Lawrence and his role in the painful birth of an emerging Middle East [print version: A rock in Arabia's shifting sands, 1 March 2014, p. R26]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):

(intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible


estimate

estimates (plural)
æstimate (alternative)

From Middle English estimat, borrowed from Latin aestimātus (“valuing, estimate”, only used in the ablative singular: "aestimātū..." (in valuing...)), from aestimō + -tus (“action noun-forming suffix”).

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A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.

(specifically in business and construction) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job is likely to cost.

осметка

(construction and business) a document specifying how much a job will probably cost


ur

Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.


coz

Informal spelling of 'cause (“because”).


concord

After Concord, Massachusetts, where the variety was developed.

A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord grape.


crooked

en-adj

crooked (comparative more crooked, superlative most crooked)

more crooked (comparative)
most crooked (superlative)

Sranan Tongo: kruktu

Aukan: kukutu

From Middle English croked, crokid, past participle of croken (“to crook, bend”). Cognate with Danish kroget (“crooked”). More at crook.

I wouldn't try to talk to him just now, b'y! He's some crooked today!

(Newfoundland) ill-tempered; grumpy; cranky.


adulterate

adulterate (comparative more adulterate, superlative most adulterate)

more adulterate (comparative)
most adulterate (superlative)

From Latin adulterātus (“adulterate, adulterated, defiled, polluted, counterfeited”), perfect passive participle of adulterō (“to adulterate, defile, commit adultery (with), counterfeit”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, in the direction of”) + alter (“other”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), literally “to go after someone else”. Equivalent to adultery + -ate.

af

/əˈdʌltəɹət/

/əˈdʌltəɹət/

I am poſſeſt with an adulterate blot, / My bloud is mingled with the crime of luſt: [...]

c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 89, column 1:

I [i.e., ay] that inceſtuous, that adulterate beaſt, / With witchcraft of his wits, with trayterous gifts, / O wicked wit, and giftes that haue the power / So to ſeduce; wonne to his ſhamefull luſt / The will of my moſt ſeeming vertuous Queene; [...]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

[C]urse the day / When first Spain's queen beheld the black-ey'd boy, / And gore-fac'd Treason sprung from her adulterate joy.

1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XLVIII, page 32:

Tending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous.


beloved

en-adj

beloved (comparative more beloved or beloveder, superlative most beloved or belovedest)

more beloved (comparative)
beloveder (comparative)
most beloved (superlative)
belovedest (superlative)
beloveth (alternative poetic)

From Middle English beloved, biloved, equivalent to belove + -ed.

But I found at laſt, by hearing and conſidering of things that are Divine, which indeed I heard of you, as alſo of beloved Faithful, that was put to death for his Faith and good-living in Vanity-fair, That the end of these things is death. [Rom[ans] 6. 21, 22, 23.] And that for theſe things ſake, the wrath of God cometh upon the children of diſobedience. [Eph[esians] 5. 6.]

1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, pages 187–188:

When the Toy had once taken Jupiter in the Head to Enter into a State of Matrimony, he Reſolv'd for the Honour of his Celeſtial Lady, that the whole World ſhould keep a Feſtiual upon the Day of his Marriage, and ſo Invited all Living Creatures, Tag-Rag and Bob-Tail, to the Solemnity to his Wedding. They all came in very Good Time, ſaving the Tortoiſe. Jupiter […] Ask'd him, Why ſo Late? Why truly ſays the Tortoiſe, I was at Home, at my Own Houſe, my Dearly Beloved Houſe, and [Home is Home, let it be never ſo Homely.]

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] CLXXXV. Jupiters Wedding.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 155:

It is ſcarce poſſible to imagine the Conſternation I was now in, being driven from my beloved Iſland (for ſo it appeared to me now to be) into the wide Ocean, almoſt two Leagues, and in the utmoſt Deſpair of ever recovering it again.

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 164–165:

There was a youthe, and a well-beloved youthe, / And he was a ſquires ſon: / He loved the bayliffes daughter deare, / That lived in Iſlington.

1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: […], volume III, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, book II, page 133, lines 1–4:

Belovedest, I know not what counsel to give thee about calling on my sisters; and therefore must leave the matter to thine own exquisite sense of what is right and delicate.

1840 June 2, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “To Miss Peabody”, in Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chicago, Ill.: The Society of the Dofobs, published 1907, →OCLC, page 201:

Don’t worry, belovedest little angel, all is going quite well and Hub takes ever such care.

1916 July 13, Alan Scrivener Lloyd, Lloyd File, London: Imperial War Museum; quoted in Malcolm Brown, “Somme Summer”, in The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme, London: Sidgwick & Jackson in association with The Imperial War Museum, published 1997, 1996, →ISBN, page 149:

Sheep woolly skins were dunked and dunked again, / And for whose coming? Nobody’s but yours; / So no-one else’s party boy would look / Beloveder to his than you to me.

1963, Horace, translated by Nicholas Kilmer, “A Lover’s Complaint (Horace, Epode XII)”, in William Arrowsmith, D. S. Carne-Ross, J. P. Sullivan, Frederic Will, editors, Arion: A Quarterly Journal of Classical Culture, Austin, Tex.: Dean of the Graduate School, The University of Texas, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56:

The vacuum brake, much beloved by English- (though not Scottish-) built or inspired railways, but little favoured elsewhere.

1964 March, “Train braking - the next steps”, in Modern Railways, page 186:

In yonder corner your little chair, / where you often sat at my knee, / singing your sweet murmuring hymns, / my belovèd child!

2014, Niall MacLeòid, “The Death of the Widow's Child”, in Meg Bateman, Anne Loughran, editors, Bàird Ghleann Dail = The Glendale Bards: A Selection of Songs and Poems by Niall MacLeòid (1843–1913), ‘The Bard of Skye’, His Brother Ian Dubh (1847–1901) and Their Father Dòmhnall nan Òran (c. 1787–1873), Edinburgh: John Donald, →ISBN, verse 4:


compound

From Middle English compounen, from Middle French componre, compondre (“to put together”), from Latin componō, from Latin com- (“together”) + ponō (“to put”).

злучэнне

chemistry: substance made by chemical combination of elements

compound exercise
compound exercise#English


convert

en-verb

convert (third-person singular simple present converts, present participle converting, simple past and past participle converted)

converts (present singular third-person)
converting (participle present)
converted (participle past)
converted (past)

[kʰə̥ɱˈvɜːt]

From Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).

Flood converted to leave Wales with a 23-9 deficit going into the final quarter.

2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC:

(ambitransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.

Bass also kicked field goals of 40 and 49 yards, but he also missed a point-after try, which led to a 2-point conversion that the Bills converted later in the game.

2024 November 3, Jon Scott, Tommy Gallagher, “61 yards to victory: Bills ride another 2nd-half surge, beat Dolphins”, in WGRZ:

(American football) To score extra points following a touchdown.


gee

Unknown. Possibly from gowl (“vagina, vulva”), a slang term in Ireland. Compare Irish gabhal (“fork, crotch”).

The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?

1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:

But he'd had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she'd said that....

1991, Roddy Doyle, The Van, . Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 65:

Lily Neary has a lovely gee and her pore Paddy got his B.A. and by the holy fly I wouldn't recommend you to ask me what class of a tree they were under when he put his hand on her and enjoyed that.

1992, Samuel Beckett, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, . John Calder, →ISBN, page 71:

And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.

1995, Joseph O'Connor, Red Roses and Petrol, . Methuen, →ISBN, page 7:


ejaculate

ejaculate (third-person singular simple present ejaculates, present participle ejaculating, simple past and past participle ejaculated)

ejaculates (present singular third-person)
ejaculating (participle present)
ejaculated (participle past)
ejaculated (past)

Borrowed from Latin ēiaculātus, perfect active participle of ēiaculor (“to hurl, shoot out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from ē (“out”) + iaculor (“throw, dart”), from iaculum (“a missile, a dart”), from iaciō (“to throw, to hurl”).

The mighty Magnet from the Center darts / This ſtrong, tho' ſubtile Force, thro' all the Parts: / Its active Rays ejaculated thence, / Irradiate all the wide Circumference.

1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God. In Seven Books, book I, London: Printed for S. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain; and J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand, OCLC 731619916; 5th edition, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, in Dame's-street, 1727, OCLC 728300884, page 7

(transitive) To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.

Vigors almost bounded on the pavement at the mention of the name; and he ejaculated, "It is he of whom I am in search ! But why do you ask? Is it possible that—"

1857, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, The Empress Eugenie's Boudoir, London: Published, for the proprietor, by John Dicks, No. 7, Wellington Street North, Strand, page 52:

Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses. "Aiyah!" she ejaculated.

1892–1893, Cao Xueqin, translated by H. Bencraft Joly, Hung Lou Mêng; or, The Dream of the Red Chamber; a Chinese Novel, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC:

—Half a crown, Stephen responded. I daresay he needs it to sleep somewhere.
—Needs! Mr Bloom ejaculated, professing not the least surprise at the intelligence, I can quite credit the assertion and I guarantee he invariably does.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

"We're not going to use magic?" Ron ejaculated loudly.

2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:

The spermatophores begin to ejaculate immediately after leaving the penis and the whole process is completed in a very few seconds. Pulling the filament attached to the ejaculatory end of a spermatophore is all that is needed to start its ejaculation.

1910 June 20, Gilman A. Drew, “Sexual Activities of the Squid, Loligo pealii (Les.). I. Copulation, Egg-laying and Fertilization”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 22, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, published 1911, page 334:

(biology, transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.

Men can ejaculate between 0.1 and 10 milliliters of semen on average.

With a groan, he ejaculated on his abdomen.

[I]n controlled studies some men have been observed to ejaculate but not have orgasm or have orgasm but are unable to ejaculate.

1994, Vern L. Bullough with Bonnie Bullough, Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia [Garland Reference Library of Social Science; 685], New York, N.Y., London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, page 180:

The knowledge that some women ejaculate at the moment of orgasm was, like many other important aspects of sexuality, buried by Puritanism and patriarchy.

2003, Deborah Sundahl, “Foreword”, in Female Ejaculation and the G-spot, Alameda, Calif.: Hunter House Publishers, →ISBN, page ix:

However, it would be highly useful if the ejaculated spermatozoa could be successfully cryopreserved and the frozen-thawed spermatozoa used for in vitro fertilization, since this would allow the genetically valuable rats to be maintained alive rather than sacrificed.

2012, Q. Ashton Acton, editor, Germ Cells – Advances in Research and Application, Atlanta, Ga.: ScholarlyEditions, →ISBN, page 38:

Bulls, rams and boars have the biggest testes among the larger domestic animals, so they would be expected to produce and ejaculate more sperms than others with smaller testes.

2012, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 78:

Rather, these men prefer an erotic exhibition – an uninhibited display of ejaculating semen onto themselves or someone else.

2012, Trudy Rudge, Dave Holmes, editors, Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work, Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, pages 90–91:

(specifically, transitive and intransitive) Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid.


ejaculate

en-noun

ejaculate (countable and uncountable, plural ejaculates)

If semen from two ejaculates obtained from one bull is mixed, and the conception rate for the mixed sample is compared with that obtained by the use of the two ejaculates independently, any tendency for the mixed sample's conception rate to be closer to that of either of the two individual ejaculates could be used as a sensitive measure of the relationship between the semen characteristics of the two ejaculates and conception rate.

1971 August, K. L. Macmillan with J. D. Watson, “The Effect on Conception Rate of Mixing Semen from First and Second Ejaculates”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 14, number 3, Wellington: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, page 703:

The ejaculate usually spurts out as the prostate gland and surrounding muscles, as well as those at the base of the penis, contract at orgasm. In young males, the force of the spurt can be strong enough for the ejaculate to hit the upper chest; in older males, it may roll out or go an inch or two up the abdomen.

1994, Vern L. Bullough with Bonnie Bullough, Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia [Garland Reference Library of Social Science; 685], New York, N.Y., London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, page 181:

Female ejaculate is a clear liquid. Its consistency is akin to that of very light lubricant, but it is watery rather than slick. […] [B]oth women's and men's ejaculate is prostatic fluid (that is, both are created by the prostate).

2003, Deborah Sundahl, Female Ejaculation and the G-spot, Alameda, Calif.: Hunter House Publishers, →ISBN, page 34:

A smaller mammal such as a dog has a sperm concentration of 300 000 000 per millilitre in an ejaculate of 8 ml in volume. Thus, each ejaculate will contain only 2 400 000 000 (24 × 10⁸).

2012, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 79:

Ejaculates are costly to produce for human males. Frequent ejaculation, especially more frequent than every other day, results in decreased sperm counts […], suggesting limits to sperm production. Men hardly seem limited by sperm production, however, given the apparent wastage of sperm. Sperm are continuously lost in the urine, and entire ejaculates are lost during nocturnal emissions and masturbation, although masturbatory ejaculates contain fewer sperm than do copulatory ejaculates […].

2016, Todd K. Shackelford et al., “Human Sperm Competition”, in David M. Buss, editor, The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Volume 2. Application, 2nd edition, volume II, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 431:

Fluid or some other substance ejected or suddenly thrown from a duct or other body structure; specifically, semen or vaginal fluid ejected by a human being or other mammal during an ejaculation.


shower

→ Hindi: शावर (śāvar)

→ Japanese: シャワー (shawā)

→ Korean: 샤워 (syawo)

→ Pashto: شاور (šāwar)

→ Persian: شاور (šâvar) (Dari)

→ Urdu: شاوَر (śāvar)

From Middle English shour, from Old English sċūr, from Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer- (“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”). Cognate with Dutch schoer, German Schauer, Old Norse skúr, Norwegian skur, Swedish skur, Danish skur, Russian север (sever).

der

The shower will be held at the home of the bridesmaid.

A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.


invert

en-verb

invert (third-person singular simple present inverts, present participle inverting, simple past and past participle inverted)

inverts (present singular third-person)
inverting (participle present)
inverted (participle past)
inverted (past)

(transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.


invert

A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.

We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put into the invert's hands a power of reproduction which it is undesirable he should possess.

1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, page 202:

(obsolete, psychology) A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.

conspiracy theories
conspiracy theory#Noun

(Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.


peevish

en-adj

peevish (comparative more peevish, superlative most peevish)

more peevish (comparative)
most peevish (superlative)
pevish (alternative)
pievish (alternative)

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English pievish, peuysche, pevish, pevysh (“capricious, wilful; perverse, wayward”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from one of the following:
* From an unattested Old French word, from Latin perversus (“corrupted, perverted, subverted; overthrown”), the perfect passive participle of pervertō (“to corrupt, subvert; to overthrow”), from per- (prefix meaning ‘intensively, thoroughly’) + vertō (“to turn; to turn upside down, overturn, overthrow, subvert”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”)). However, the Oxford English Dictionary says this derivation “presents some formal difficulties”.
* From Middle French *expaive + -ish (similar to; somewhat, rather). *Expaive is an unattested variant of Middle French espave, Old French espave (“(adjective) of an animal: stray; of a person: foreign; (noun) flotsam; lost property”) (referring to the behaviour of stray animals; modern French épave), from Latin expavidus (“extremely frightened or horrified”), from ex- (intensifying prefix) + pavidus (“fearful, terrified; quaking, trembling; shy, timid”) (from paveō (“to be afraid; fear; to quake or tremble with fear”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to hit, strike”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives)).
The adverb is derived from the adjective.

der

The dredfull dinne droue all the rowte on a rowe; / Some tremblid, some girnid, some gaspid, some gasid, / As people halfe peuysshe, or men that were masyd.

1523, John Skelton, “A Ryght Delectable Tratyse vpon a Goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell, […]”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 372, lines 264–266:

And whan Peter knocked at the wicket of the gate whyche was towardes the ſtreate ſyde, a lytle mayden came foorthe ſoftely to harken what the matter was. Her name was Rhoda. Whome Peter perceyuyng to come to the doore, wylled her ſpedely to open the doore. Whan ſhe heard Peters voice, beeying halfe amaſed for ſoddayn ioye, did not open the doore, but runnyng backe agayne into the houſe, broughte them woorde that Peter was at the doore. But they beeyng well aſſured howe ſafe Herode [Agrippa] had cauſed Peter to bee kepte, aunſwered to the mayden, Surely thou arte peuyſhe.

1549 February 10 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1548), Erasmus, “The Actes of the Apostles. The .xii. Chapter.”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche, →OCLC, folio xlvii, recto:

There vvas neuer any ſo peeuiſh to imagin the Moone eyther capable of affection, or ſhape of a Miſtris: […]

c. 1588 (date written; published 1591), [John Lyly], Endimion, the Man in the Moone. […], London: […] I[ohn] Charlewood, for the widdowe Broome, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signature B, recto:


admix

en-verb

admix (third-person singular simple present admixes, present participle admixing, simple past and past participle admixed)

admixes (present singular third-person)
admixing (participle present)
admixed (participle past)
admixed (past)

Back-formation from admixture; analyzable as ad- + mix.

Therefore in our account of the development of their intellectual ideas, we also admix pertinent personal details.

2011, David Munchin, Is Theology a Science?, page 18:

They have 78 chromosomes, and all are known to admix.

2012, Stephen Spotte, Societies of Wolves and Free-ranging Dogs, page 1:

(transitive) To mingle with something else; to mix.


admix

In light (vision) the admix results in white and in pigments the admix results in grey.

2014, Michael Sandborn, Nataliya Vatsyayana, A Rosetta Stone: The Universal Harmonic Language Model, page 48:

In the late 1990s metal-reinforced glass ionomers were introduced for use as core buildups. These contain a silver alloy admix.

2011, George A. Freedman, Contemporary Esthetic Dentistry, page 337:

The mixture that results from admixing, especially an alloy.


alum

alums (plural)
alumni (plural)
alumn (alternative)

From alumnus and alumna (> alumn- > alum), by the removal of the originally Latin gender-specific nominative singular case endings -us (masculine) and -a (feminine).

1961 Spring, Anchora of Delta Gamma, Volume LXXVII, No. 3, page 59,
Evanston-North Shore alums are happy to open their homes to Sigma actives for special social events.

You'll remember that we're starting with a list of slightly over 7,000 names that are alums (most of them over 50) that we'd like to whittle down to a manageable list of prospects.

2006, Ted Hart, James M. Greenfield, Pamela M. Gignac, Christopher Carnie, Major Donors: Finding Big Gifts in Your Database and Online, page 47:

All schools that last have alums, and, ancient as it was by American standards, Trinity by mid-century had thousands.

2009, Timothy C. Jacobson, Charity & Merit: Trinity School at 300, page 190:

(shortening, Canada, US) A past attendee or graduate (of any gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.

alumna

the original Latin gender-specific loanword


brassy

en-adj

brassy (comparative brassier, superlative brassiest)

brassier (comparative)
brassiest (superlative)

From brass + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning “having the quality of”).

suffix

y<pos:suffix forming adjectives meaning “having the quality of”><id:adjectival>

Don’t get brassy with me, young lady!

an organ stop with a brassy tone


brassy

From brass + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns).

y<pos:suffix forming diminutive nouns><id:diminutive>

Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”).


brassy

Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.


cache

en-verb

cache (third-person singular simple present caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)

caches (present singular third-person)
caching (participle present)
cached (participle past)
cached (past)

cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation)

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).


defence

en-noun

defence (countable and uncountable, plural defences)

defences (plural)
defense (alternative US)

From Middle English defens, defense, from Old French defens, defense, from Late Latin dēfēnsa (“protection”). Displaced Old English bewering.

In cases of defence ’tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems:

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.

(team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.

(team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.

1673, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland” in Miscellanea, London: Edw[ard] Gellibrand, 1680, p. 116,
[…] severe defences may be made against weaving any Linnen under a certain breadth, such as may be of better use to the poorest People […]

(obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.


defence

en-verb

defence (third-person singular simple present defences, present participle defencing, simple past and past participle defenced)

defences (present singular third-person)
defencing (participle present)
defenced (participle past)
defenced (past)
defense (alternative US)

From Middle English defencen, defensen, from Old French defenser or its etymon, Latin dēfēnsō.

Better manned and more strongly defenced.

(obsolete, transitive) To furnish with defences; to fortify.


bund

From German Bund (“alliance, league”). Doublet of Bund, bond, and band.

A group of foreign sympathizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.


doing

en-noun

doing (countable and uncountable, plural doings)

This is his doing. (= "He did it.")

Draining that swamp is going to take some doing!

Mr. Dawe further calls his voyage “A Record of some Strange Doings at Sea.” They are strange doings, in fact, and yet not as novel as might be expected. They involve mutiny, piracy, shipwreck, and fights with Savages […]

A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.


doing

The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.


cud

cud (countable and uncountable, plural cuds)

From Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Doublet of quid (“material for chewing”).
Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).

doublet

The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time.

göyüş

food chewed for a second time by ruminants


fleer

en-verb

fleer (third-person singular simple present fleers, present participle fleering, simple past and past participle fleered)

fleers (present singular third-person)
fleering (participle present)
fleered (participle past)
fleered (past)

Possibly from a Scandinavian source, compare Norwegian bokmål flire (“to giggle”), Jutish Danish flire.

LEONATO. Tush, tush, man! never fleer and jest at me:
I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
As, under privilege of age, to brag
What I have done being young, or what would do,
Were I not old.

1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, scene 1:

[I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way[.]

1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History:

(archaic) To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn

усмихвам се презрително

to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn


gyro

/ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəʊ/

/ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹoʊ/


gyro

gyros (plural)
gyros (alternative)
giro (alternative)
giros (alternative)
yiros (alternative)
yero (alternative)

Back-formation from the plural gyros, from Greek γύρος (gýros); from the turning of the meat on a spit (as a calque of Turkish döner into Greek). Doublet of gyre and gyrus.

I'll have a gyro, please.

A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.


junker

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkə(ɹ)/

From junk + -er (relational noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).

(informal, US, Canada, derogatory) A beat-up automobile.


lac

en-noun

lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)

From Portuguese laca, from Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ (lākh) or cognates in other Indo-Aryan languages, from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lacquer.

At the turn of the century, the ever-expanding electrical industry was running low on shellac, a resin secreted by the female lac bug which could be used as an insulating material.

2019 November 5, Alice Bell, “Can science break its plastic addiction?”, in CNN:

A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.


lither

en-adj

lither (comparative more lither, superlative most lither)

more lither (comparative)
most lither (superlative)
lidder (alternative)

From Middle English lither, lyther (“deceitful; evil; false; treacherous; sinful, wicked; leading to cruelty, injustice, or wickedness, perverted; of a country: filled with wicked people; cruel, fierce; dangerous, deadly; frightening; grievous, painful; harmful, injurious; miserable, paltry, poor, worthless; feeble, sluggish; cowardly”) [and other forms], from Old English lȳþre (“bad, wicked; base, mean, wretched; corrupt”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *lūþrijaz (“bad; dissolute; neglected; useless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, slack”).
Sense 1.2 (“flexible, supple; agile, lithe”) is influenced by lithe.
Cognates
Dutch lodder (“wanton person”), loddering (“drowsy; trifling; wanton”)
German liederlich (“dissolute”), German lotterig (“slovenly”), lüderlich (“slovenly”)
Old English loþrung (“delusion, rubbish, nonsense”), loddere (“beggar”)

nb...

ledyr, leither, leother, leoðre, lether, lethir, lethire, lethur, leðere, lidder, liddyr, lider, lithere, lithre, lithur, liðere, luder, luither, luithere, luiþer, luther, luthere, luthre, luthur, luðer, luðere, luðre, luþur, luyþer, lyder, lydir, lydyr, lythyr, lythyre, lyþere,

col

Cognates

After the same manner a Monk (I mean those lither, idle, lazie Monks) doth not labour and work, as do the Peasant and Artificer: doth not ward and defend the countrey, as doth the man of warre: cureth not the sick and diseased, as the Physician doth: doth neither preach nor teach, as do the Evangelical Doctors and Schoolmasters: doth not import commodities and things necessary for the Commonwealth, as the Merchant doth: therefore is it, that by and of all men they are hooted at, hated and abhorred.

1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], “Why Monks are the Out-casts of the World; and wherefore Some Have Bigger Noses than Others?”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 1st book, page 120:

"It is thine own laziness, thou false English blood, that doest nothing but drink and sleep," retorted the page, "and leaves that lither lad to do the work, that he minds as little as thou."

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 85:

Secondarily, let him which laboureth in his vocation be prompt and active; let him be watchful and able to abide labour; he must be no lither-back, unapt, or slothful fellow. Whatsoever he doth, that let him do with faith and diligence.

[1850, Henry Bullinger [i.e., Heinrich Bullinger], “Of the Fourth Precept of the Second Table, which is in Order the Eighth of the Ten Commandments, Thou Shalt Not Steal. Of the Owning and Possessing of Proper Goods, and of the Right and Lawful Getting of the Same; against Sundry Kinds of Theft. The First Sermon.”, in H. I., transl., edited by Thomas Harding, The Decades of Henry Bullinger, Minister of the Church of Zurich, volume II (The Third Decade), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University Press [for the Parker Society], →OCLC, page 32:

Thus he [Rabelais] sketched an education which might have befitted a great King, without a word of ribaldry or scorn, and in such a spirit as proves that he gravely condemned the lazy, lither system of the monasteries.

1900, Charles Whibley, “Introduction”, in [François] Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux [i.e., Peter Anthony Motteux], edited by W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, Gargantua and Pantagruel […] (Tudor Translations; XXIV), volume I, London: David Nutt […], →OCLC, page lxiv:

(archaic or British, dialectal)
Lazy, slothful; listless.


meson

From Ancient Greek μέσον (méson, “middle”). Doublet of medium.

(rare outside entomology) The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves.


meson

From meso- + -on. Coined by Indian physicist Homi Bhabha in 1939, as a modification of the earlier suggestion mesotron.

coin

(obsolete) A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.)

(now specifically, particle physics) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.)


notate

Back-formation from notation or from Latin notātus, past participle of notāre. Morphologically note + -ate.

(botany) Marked with coloured spots or lines.


pas

The premier pas in life is the most important of all ……

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 18, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:


pith

en-noun

pith (usually uncountable, plural piths)

The noun is derived from Middle English pith, pithe (“central tissue of a plant’s stem or a tree’s trunk and branches; other spongy inner tissue in a plant; flesh of a fruit, pulp; inner tissue in a body; inner part of an object; essential part, essence, quintessence; importance, value; energy, force, strength, vigour; severity”) [and other forms], from Old English piþa [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *piþô, from earlier *piþō (oblique *pittan); further etymology unknown. Doublet of pit (“seed or stone inside a fruit”).
The verb is derived from the noun (Middle English pethen (“to give courage or strength”), from pith (noun), did not survive into modern English).
Cognates
* Dutch peen (“carrot”)
* Middle Low German peddek, peddik, piddek (“bone marrow; medulla; spinal cord; inner part of a horn or quill; (figurative) core, essence”) (the last spelling rare) (Low German Peddik (“core; pulp”))
* West Frisian piid (“pulp, kernel”)

nb...

peth, peþe, pight, piþ, piþe, piþþe, pyght, pyth, pythe, pytthe, pyþe, (Early Middle English) piþa

cog

The soft tissue inside a human or animal body or one of their organs; specifically, the spongy interior substance of a horn or the shaft of a feather.

ydin

Becauſe many do hold this opinion that this diſeaſe doth conſume the marrovv of the backe: […] [s]ome againe, do tvvine out the pith of the backe vvith a long vvire thruſt vp into the horſſes head, and ſo into his necke and backe, vvith vvhat reaſon I knovv not.

1607, Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner], Edward Topsell, “Of the Horsse. [Of the Mourning of the Chine.]”, in The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 371:

Chiefly of animals: the soft tissue inside a spinal cord; the spinal marrow; also, the spinal cord itself.

Verily if vvee take a right vievv of this laxe pith or marrovv in Mans head, neither our ſenſe nor underſtanding can diſcover any thing more in this ſubſtance that can pretend to ſuch noble operations as free Imagination and ſagacious collections of Reaſon, then vve can diſcern in a Cake of Sevvet or a bovvle of Curds.

1653, Henry More, “Of the Nature of the Soul of Man, whether She be a Meere Modification of the Body, or a Substance Really Distinct, and then whether Corporeall or Incorporeall”, in An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC, book I, page 37:

(obsolete, rare) The soft tissue of the brain.

Senses relating to humans and animals.
The soft tissue of the brain.


slurry

en-adj

slurry (comparative slurrier, superlative slurriest)

slurrier (comparative)
slurriest (superlative)

From slur (“run together; articulate poorly”) + -y.

He spoke with a slurry voice.

His voice became progressively slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.


wino

From wine + -o (“person with characteristic”).

suffix

My grandmother was a Puerto Rican wino from Spanish Harlem named Migdalia, but everybody called her Mimi. My moms and Aunt Dru were her only kids. Mimi was a tall, light-skinned woman with long wavy hair and high cheekbones. She drank cheap wine and laughed all day long.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 43:

(derogatory) A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard.

Near-synonyms: bum, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond

I came out in an alley where a couple of winos were picking through a trash bin.

(derogatory, especially) Such a drunkard who is homeless.


wino

(physics) A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.


contest

en-verb

contest (third-person singular simple present contests, present participle contesting, simple past and past participle contested)

contests (present singular third-person)
contesting (participle present)
contested (participle past)
contested (past)

PIE word
 *tréyes
From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”).

The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.

Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.

1848, John Daniel Morell, Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century:

On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.

1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13:

(transitive) To call into question; to oppose.


recharge

recharge (third-person singular simple present recharges, present participle recharging, simple past and past participle recharged)

recharges (present singular third-person)
recharging (participle present)
recharged (participle past)
recharged (past)

/ɹiːˈtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/

/ˈɹiːtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/

From Old French rechargier, from Old French re- + Old French chargier.

My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training, and your mind gets a little tired of it, too. It's nice to be able to recharge and come back fresh for the remainder of the year.

August 28, 2003, Tiger Woods, interview by Todd Budnickhttp://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=15302

(intransitive) To invigorate and revitalize one's energy level by removing stressful agents for a period of time.

unwind

to invigorate and revitalize one's energy level by removing stressful agents


belay

belay (third-person singular simple present belays, present participle belaying, simple past and past participle belayed or belaid)

belays (present singular third-person)
belaying (participle present)
belayed (participle past)
belayed (past)
belaid (participle past)
belaid (past)

From Middle English beleggen, bileggen, from Old English beleċġan (“to cover, invest, surround, afflict, attribute to, charge with, accuse”), From Proto-West Germanic *bilaggjan, equivalent to be- (“about, around”) + lay. Cognate with Dutch beleggen (“to cover, overlay, belay”), German belegen (“to cover, occupy, belay”), Swedish belägga (“to pave”).

cog

He would need an experienced partner to belay him on the difficult climbs.

(transitive, climbing) To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground.


berserk

en-adj

berserk (comparative more berserk, superlative most berserk)

more berserk (comparative)
most berserk (superlative)

The noun is borrowed from Old Norse berserkr (“Norse warrior who fights in a frenzy”), probably from bjǫrn (“bear”) + serkr (“coat; shirt”), referring to the bearskins which the warriors wore. Bjǫrn is possibly ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”); and serkr from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, tie together; thread”). Alternatively, it has been suggested that the first element of the word is from berr (“bare, naked”), referring to warriors who went into battle without armour, but this is now thought unlikely. Doublet of berserker.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
The verb might partly be a back-formation from berserker, analyzed as containing the suffix -er.
Cognates
* Icelandic berserkur
* Norwegian Bokmål berserk
* Norwegian Nynorsk berserk
* Swedish bärsärk

ref

From the collection of the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

der

In amongst the strife, Scott McTominay, whose stoppage-time winner against Israel sent Hampden berserk, and Ryan Christie offered signs of an attacking pulse.

2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0 – 1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2022-07-24:

(rare, dialectal, slang) Wildly joyous; ecstatic.


cater

Probably ultimately from French quatre (“four”), possibly via cater (“change-ringing”), although Liberman argues for a derivation from a North Germanic prefix meaning "crooked, angled, clumsy" from which he also derives cater-cousin and, via Norse, Old Irish cittach (“left-handed, awkward”). He finds this more likely than extension of the dice and change-ringing term cater as an adverb, given the likely cognates in other Germanic languages. Caterpillar and caterwaul are unrelated, being derived from cognates to cat, but may have influenced the pronunciation of Liberman's proposed earlier *cate- or undergone similar sound changes.

Cater and Cater-cornered, diagonal; diagonally. To ‘cut cater’ in the case of velvet, cloth, etc., is... ‘cut on the cross’. Cater-snozzle, to make an angle; to ‘mitre’.

1881, Sebastian Evans, Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs, s.v. "Cater and Cater-cornered":


champ

en-verb

champ (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champing, simple past and past participle champed)

champs (present singular third-person)
champing (participle present)
champed (participle past)
champed (past)

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *kampos
Latin campusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *kamp
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-West Germanic *-jan
Proto-West Germanic *kampijan
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Proto-West Germanic *-jō
Frankish *kampijōbor.
Medieval Latin campiō
Old French champiunbor.
Middle English champioun
English champion
English champ
Clipping of champion /championship.

etymon

Either champ it out and post up on the cement or face-down in the sand or get out the hammock and hang it from a palm tree.

2012 March 20, Heather Bramante, “Spring Break must-haves!”, in StudentCity Blog, archived from the original on 2016-04-13:

So on Wednesday I decided to champ up and get in a few couple of workouts all in one day.

2011 July 8, “Training When Tired”, in DeanSomerset.com:

Just take it easy and make sure you don't champ it like a slider.

2004 June 10, “OOOOH! New tyres are fun”, in Motorbike Forums:

(informal) To act or behave like a champ; to endure. [with it or up]


concert

en-noun

concert (countable and uncountable, plural concerts)

→ Japanese: コンサート (konsāto)

→ Korean: 콘서트 (konseoteu)

desc

→ Thai: คอนเสิร์ต (kɔɔn-sə̀ət)

→ Thai: คอนเสิร์ต (kɔɔn-sə̀ət)

Borrowed from French concert, from Italian concerto. Doublet of concerto.

I’m going to the rock concert on Friday.

Who’s playing at the concert on Friday?

The Beatles’ final live concert took place on 29 August 1966 at Candlestick Park

The concert came off in the evening and was a pronounced success. The little hall was crowded; all the performers did excellently well, but Anne was the bright particular star of the occasion, as even envy, in the shape of Josie Pye, dared not deny.

1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves”, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1909 (11th printing), →OCLC:

(countable) A musical performance, usually public, in which several performers or instruments take part.

konsert

a musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part


deliberate

en-adj

deliberate (comparative more deliberate, superlative most deliberate)

more deliberate (comparative)
most deliberate (superlative)

/dɪˈlɪbəɹət/

/dəˈlɪbəɹət/

Inherited from Middle English deliberat(e), borrowed from Latin dēlīberātus, perfect passive participle of dēlīberō (“to consider, weigh well”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + *līberō / lībrō (“to weigh”)), from *libera / libra (“a balance”); see librate. Doublet of deliber.

inh+

a deliberate attempt to cover up his crime

The massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 was an act of genocide in a deliberate attempt by the Bosnian Serb leadership to exterminate part of the Muslim community, appeal judges ruled in a crucial case at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague yesterday.

2004 April 20, Ian Traynor, “Hague rules Srebrenica was act of genocide”, in The Guardian:

mārika

this qualifier is placed after its associated verb

a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result

settled visage and deliberate word

1603-4, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:

Formed with deliberation; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.

The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.

Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; slow in determining.

далновиден

of a person, carefully considering the probable consequences of a step

His enunciation was so deliberate.

1803, William Wirt, The Letters of the British Spy:


demean

en-verb

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)

demeans (present singular third-person)
demeaning (participle present)
demeaned (participle past)
demeaned (past)

From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin mināre, from minārī (“to threaten”).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-demean.wav

they have demean'd themselves
Like men born to renown by life or death.

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 I, scene iv]:

They answered […] that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.

1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

(now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.


digest

digest (third-person singular simple present digests, present participle digesting, simple past and past participle digested)

digests (present singular third-person)
digesting (participle present)
digested (participle past)
digested (past)

From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart”), from dī- (for dis- (“apart”)) + gerō (“I carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both “to melt, to digest,” whence Modern English melt.

(transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

هَضَمَ

to separate food in the alimentary canal

Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.

1566, Henry Sidney, letter to Philip Sidney:

How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.

1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.

разби́рам

to think over and arrange methodically in the mind


digest

From Latin dīgesta, neuter plural of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“separate”).

By also relating the tales included in the anthology to various facts of that development, he leaves no doubt that this volume constitutes a veritable digest of the remarkable strides made by the genre in recent years.

1986 December 21, Donald Stone, “Gay Male Fiction Comes of Age in Anthology”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 8:

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles

(cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

resumo

cryptography: the result of applying a hash function to a message


discount

→ German: Discount

Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“I deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“I reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- + count.

der

The rate of interest charged in discounting.


document

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

Saint Luke […] collected them from such documents and testimonies as he […] judged to be authentic.

1794, William Paley, View of the Evidences of Christianity:

An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.

Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.

That exception is the HTML <IMG> tag–which transcludes an image into the context of the document. The image itself is neither embedded within the document nor copied—it is transcluded.

2012, Julie A. Jacko, editor, Human Computer Interaction Handbook, 3rd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 571:

This study examines video game photography as a documentary practice. […] The three themes from this study's findings – that video game photographs act as (1) vehicles for storytelling, (2) creative trophies, and (3) aesthetic tokens – reveal how personally meaningful documents emerge from this medium.

2022 July 15, Alex Urban, “Mementos from digital worlds: Video game photography as documentation”, in Journal of Documentation, →DOI, →ISSN, Abstract:

(information science) An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.

And particularly they should take care that the memory of the learner be not too much crowded with a tumultuous heap or overbearing multitude of documents or ideas at one time.

1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind:

(obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.