transport

en-verb

transport (third-person singular simple present transports, present participle transporting, simple past and past participle transported)

transports (present singular third-person)
transporting (participle present)
transported (participle past)
transported (past)
transport (infinitive)
transport (first-person present singular)
transported (first-person past singular)
transport (present second-person singular)
transportest (archaic present second-person singular)
transported (past second-person singular)
transportedst (archaic past second-person singular)
transports (present singular third-person)
transporteth (archaic present singular third-person)
transported (past singular third-person)
transport (plural present)
transported (past plural)
transport (present subjunctive)
transported (past subjunctive)
transport (imperative present)
transporting (participle present)
transported (participle past)

From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) + port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”).

surf

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.


research

en-verb

research (third-person singular simple present researches, present participle researching, simple past and past participle researched)

researches (present singular third-person)
researching (participle present)
researched (participle past)
researched (past)

/ˈɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ/

/ˈɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ/

[ˈɹɪi.sɜːt͡ʃ]

Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”), by surface analysis, re- + search.

uder

Agency and bank staff told the newspaper the ad researched well.

(intransitive, marketing) To receive a certain response in market research.


da

From child language; compare dad and dada.

Oh where is yer da son? The man said it to me and was grumpy. Is yer da here?

2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 55:

Once the silky gent who ran a barge called the Knuckle Sandwich tried to persuade Borglum's ma and da to sell him their little dwarfish boy for twelve gold coins.

2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 48:

(Ireland, Scotland, Northern England) Father.


bustier

Borrowed from French bustier, from buste + -ier.

The clothes were equally frothy: teacup silk skirts, a bubbly wool coat in Bazooka pink, satin bustiers with huge fan pleats across the front, metallic peplum jackets and flamboyantly patterned tights.

2009 February 18, Cathy Horyn, “In the Moment, or Not”, in New York Times:

Next came the narrow silk straps of her bustier. She pushed the satin fabric down, toward her waist, exposing her breasts.

2010, Jane Porter, The Sheikh's Wife, →ISBN:

A tight-fitting women's top, often strapless, which covers the bust and sometimes extends over the belly, worn either as an undergarment or as outerwear.


wicked

en-adj

wicked (comparative wickeder or more wicked, superlative wickedest or most wicked)

wickeder (comparative)
more wicked (comparative)
wickedest (superlative)
most wicked (superlative)

From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain. Alternatively, perhaps related to English wicker, Old Norse víkja (“to bend to, yield, turn, move”), Swedish vika (“to bend, fold, give way to”), English weak.
The "excellent, awesome" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "evil, mischievous". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and sick.

cog

Genuine cowards follow wicked people and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 28:1:

‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way / What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you / What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way

1989, Chris Isaak, “Wicked Game”, in Heart Shaped World:

wicked wind

That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!


wicked

I didn't really wanna go see On Golden Pond with the fam, but my mom made me go, and I must say that in retrospect it was a wicked expressive film, with a lot of significant meaning.

The band we went to see the other night was pissah, and they were wicked loud!

(slang, especially southern New England, British) To a superlative extent, very, extremely


wicked

(British, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.


compress

From Middle French compresse, from compresse (“to compress”), from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).


Jesus

head

Jesus (plural (of male given name) Jesuses or Jesi)

Jesuses (plural)
Jesi (plural)
Iesus (alternative archaic)
Iesvs (alternative archaic)
Jesu (alternative archaic)
Jeezus (alternative slang)

/ˈd͡ʒiːˌzʌs/

From Middle English Jhesus, Iesus, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Biblical Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ), a contracted form of יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (yəhōšúaʿ, “Joshua”). The form יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ) is attested in some of the later books of the Hebrew Bible (Ezra–Nehemiah), and translated as Jeshua or Yeshua in some English editions (the former appearing in the King James Version). The Greek texts make no distinction between Jesus and Joshua, referring to them both as Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs). In the Wycliffe Bible (Middle English), the forms used are Jhesus and Jhesu.

Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, is Head of the Church; and can the Body doe any thing well, if the Head direct it not?

1621 June 19, William Laud, “Sermon preached before His Majesty”, in Seven Sermons Preached Upon Severall Occasions […], page 10:

Mohammed always announced his religion as the religion of Abraham, of Moses, and of Jesus.

1873, Syed Ameer Ali, A Critical Examination of the Life and Teachings of Mohammed, page 195:

I find that writing helps my praying, whether it is writing poetry or more conversational journaling with Jesus. I used to feel compelled to write on a scheduled basis (for example, once a week for my journaling or a poem every time I went to the Japanese Garden), but now I have let go of that compulsion and write when it seems right.

1989, James McGinnis, “Peacemaking and Prayer”, in Journey into Compassion: A Spirituality for the Long Haul, Institute for Peace and Justice; Meyer-Stone, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:

She’s right! Omarosa is right there! Also, I’m pretty sure the original titles of the New and Old Testament were Jesus Said This and Jesus Ain’t Say That.

2018 March 18, “Mike Pence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

Baháʼí Baháʼí

Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish religious preacher and craftsman (commonly understood to have been a carpenter) from Galilee held to be a prophet, teacher, the son of God, and the Messiah, or Christ, in Christianity; also called "Jesus Christ" by Christians. Held to be a prophet by Muslims and Baháʼís. Also called "the historical Jesus" from a historiographic viewpoint or a secular one.


row

From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiwō, *raigwō, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”).
Cognate with Scots raw (“row”), dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Saterland Frisian Riege (“row”), West Frisian rige (“row”), Dutch rij (“row, line”), German Low German Reeg, Riege, Rieg (“row”), German Reihe (“row”), German Riege (“sports team”).

der

And there were windows in three rows.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings vii:4:

The bright seraphim in burning row.

1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “At a Solemn Musick”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:

Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.

A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.

列 (liè) (Taiwan, means "column" in mainland China)


row

From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder. Related to Russia.

(weightlifting) Any of several thematically similar exercise movements performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.


row

Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.

There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

[…]he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?

Who's making that row?


row

en-verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

rows (present singular third-person)
rowing (participle present)
rowed (participle past)
rowed (past)


participate

participate (third-person singular simple present participates, present participle participating, simple past and past participle participated)

participates (present singular third-person)
participating (participle present)
participated (participle past)
participated (past)

Borrowed from Latin participātus, the perfect passive participle of participō (“to take part in, share in, give part in, impart”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from particeps (“taking part (in), sharing (in); someone who takes part (in)”, particip- in compounds), from pars (“part”, part- in compounds) + -ceps (“which takes, taker”), literally “(someone) who takes part”; see part and capable. Compare Old English dǣlniman (“to participate”), an earlier calque of the same Latin verb.

af

For the second year, foreign amateur runners were allowed to participate in a 10-kilometer race, a half-marathon or a full marathon in Pyongyang, the capital. The races were a part of the April 15 birthday celebration of Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea and father of his successors: Kim Jong-il, a son, and Kim Jong-un, a grandson.

2015 April 16, Jeré Longman, “At Marathon in North Korea, Curiosity Goes a Long Way”, in The New York Times:

(intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).

شَارَكَ

to join in, to take part, to involve oneself


clothes

Sranan Tongo: krosi

From Middle English clothes, cloþes, plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede, German Kleider.

cloathes (alternative obsolete)
clotheses (alternative childish nonstandard)

suit of clothes.

Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.


naked

en-adj

naked (comparative more naked, superlative most naked)

more naked (comparative)
most naked (superlative)

From Middle English naked, from Old English nacod, from Proto-West Germanic *nak(k)wad, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“naked”). Doublet of nude and naan (the latter is uncertain).

If all celestial bodies visible to the naked eye are thus mapped on the celestial sphere, it becomes apparent that the vast majority of them remain in fixed patterns with respect to each other: They form recognizable constellations that, in turn, remain unchangeably distributed.

2001, Asger Aaboe, Episodes From the Early History of Astronomy:

I entered her naked and came in her too.

Unprotected, uncovered.
Without a condom.


ton

→ Tokelauan: tone, tane

Variant of tun (“cask”), influenced by Old French tonne (“ton”).

ton

various units of mass notionally equivalent to a tun

(colloquial, chiefly UK) Synonym of hundred, particularly

Synonym of hundred, particularly
100 pounds sterling.


desert

en-verb

desert (third-person singular simple present deserts, present participle deserting, simple past and past participle deserted)

deserts (present singular third-person)
deserting (participle present)
deserted (participle past)
deserted (past)

Borrowed from French déserter, from Late Latin desertō, from Latin desertus, from deserō (“abandon”).

You can't just drive off and desert me here, in the middle of nowhere.

To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.


automobile

From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mōbilis (“movable”), equivalent to auto- (“self”) + mobile.

As early as 1898 I proposed to representatives of a large manufacturing concern the construction and public exhibition of an automobile carriage which, left to itself, would perform a great variety of operations involving something akin to judgment.


sow

sows (plural)
swine (archaic plural)
zew (alternative)
soo (alternative)

From Middle English sowe, from Old English sugu, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu, from Proto-Germanic *sugō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *su(H)kéh₂, from *suH- (“pig”).
See also West Frisian sûch, Dutch zeug, Low German Söög, German Sau, Swedish sugga, Norwegian sugge; also Welsh hwch (“pig”), Sanskrit सूकर (sūkará, “swine, boar”); also Danish so, German Sau, Latin sūs, Tocharian B suwo, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Albanian thi, Avestan 𐬵𐬏 (hū, “boar”). See also swine. Doublet of soor.

(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.


address

Tok Pisin: adres

→ Bole: adireshi

→ Cebuano: adres

→ Sinhalese: ඇඩ්රස් (æḍras)

→ Tagalog: adres

From Middle English adressen (“to raise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from a- (from Latin ad (“to”)) + drecier (modern French dresser (“to straighten, arrange”)), from Vulgar Latin *dīrectiō, from Latin dīrēctus (“straight or right”), from the verb dīrigō, itself from regō (“to govern, to rule”). Cognate with Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”).

osoite

property — see also location, property, premises, residence

valmistautuminen

(obsolete in English) act of getting ready — see also preparation

(golf, Scotland) The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging.

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detail

en-noun

detail (countable and uncountable, plural details)

Borrowed from Middle French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).

Frequently members of the small police detail dispatched to the scene joined in.

2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 7, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:

(military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.

WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.

"I could never persuade myself to confide in him that event which was so often present to my recollection, but which I feared the detail to another would only impress more deeply."

1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter 6, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.


detail

en-verb

detail (third-person singular simple present details, present participle detailing, simple past and past participle detailed)

details (present singular third-person)
detailing (participle present)
detailed (participle past)
detailed (past)

We need to have the minivan detailed.

(transitive) To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles, always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/)

отдра́ивать

US: to clean carefully (particularly a car)

Two years after England’s World Cup victory, Stiles was at Wembley again to help Manchester United become the first English team to win the European Cup final. Again Eusébio was one of his opponents, playing for Benfica, and again Stiles was detailed to keep him quiet. […]

2020 October 30, Brian Glanville, “Nobby Stiles obituary”, in The Guardian:

(transitive, military, law enforcement) To assign to a particular task.

komentaa

military: to assign to a particular task


gel

gel (third-person singular simple present gels, present participle gelling, simple past and past participle gelled)

gels (present singular third-person)
gelling (participle present)
gelled (participle past)
gelled (past)

Coined by Thomas Graham in the mid 19th century as a clipping of gelatin, from French gélatine, from Italian gelatina, diminutive form of gelata (“iced”), from Latin gelata, past participle of gelo (“to freeze”), from gelu (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). For the meaning development compare with Russian сту́день (stúdenʹ, “aspic, jelly, gel”) related to студёный (studjónyj, “cold”).

m+

We put our ideas together and they eventually gelled into a saleable product.

(intransitive, figurative) To come together to form something; to cohere.


latte

A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity.


adequate

en-adj

adequate (comparative more adequate, superlative most adequate)

more adequate (comparative)
most adequate (superlative)
adæquate (alternative archaic)

Learned borrowing from Latin adaequātus, perfect passive participle of adaequō (“to make equal to”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from ad (“to, towards, at”) + aequō (“to make equal, equalize”), from aequus (“equal”). Cognate with French adéquat.

powers adequate to a great work

an adequate definition

Proportion therefore your Clothes to your bodies, and let them be proper for your persons. […] Agreeableness […] ought to be exact, and adequate both to age, person and condition, avoiding extremities on both sides, being neither too much out, nor in the fashions.

1673, Hannah Woolley, “Of Habit, and the neatness and property thereof”, in The Gentlewomans Companion, London: Dorman Newman, page 61:

Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance […]

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 31, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

1853, Thomas De Quincey, Autobiographic Sketches in Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, “Dublin,” p. 254,
[…] in those days, Ireland had no adequate champion; the Hoods and the Grattans were not up to the mark.

All day as I drove upon my round I turned over the case in my mind, and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.

1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Empty House”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes:

John was a perfectly adequate academic. A perfectly adequate academic but not a notable teacher.

2009, J. M. Coetzee, Summertime, New York: Viking, page 212:

Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.


incense

en-verb

incense (third-person singular simple present incenses, present participle incensing, simple past and past participle incensed)

incenses (present singular third-person)
incensing (participle present)
incensed (participle past)
incensed (past)

From Middle English encens, from Old French encens (“sweet-smelling substance”) from Late Latin incensum (“burnt incense”, literally “something burnt”), neuter past participle of incendō (“I set on fire”). Compare incendiary. Doublet of incienso.

der

Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labour to incense / Thy glorious heap of funeral.

[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

(obsolete, transitive) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.


elucidate

en-adj

elucidate (comparative more elucidate, superlative most elucidate)

more elucidate (comparative)
most elucidate (superlative)

From Late Latin ēlūcidātus (“lightened, enlightened”), see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

bor

There vvas not a greater Maſter of Perſpicuity, and elucidate Diſtinctions; vvhich look'd the better in his [John Williams'] Engliſh, that ran ſvveet upon his Tongue, eſpecially being ſet out vvith a graceful Facetiouſneſs, that hit the joint of the Matter: For his VVit, and his Judgment, never parted.

a. 1671 (date written), John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata: A Memorial Offer’d to the Great Deservings of John Williams, D.D. […], part I, In the Savoy [London]: […] Edw[ard] Jones, for Samuel Lowndes, […], published 1693, →OCLC, paragraph 46, page 39:


affiliate

From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Late Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to Latin affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié (noun).

Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.

They used to been^([sic]) more of a Detroit channel, as they had showed a lot of American programs, aside from being the CBC affiliate.

1999 July 29, Chris Sobieniak, “Weird 3d NFB animated short(any canadians in here?)”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet):

Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.


affiliate

en-verb

affiliate (third-person singular simple present affiliates, present participle affiliating, simple past and past participle affiliated)

affiliates (present singular third-person)
affiliating (participle present)
affiliated (participle past)
affiliated (past)

How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?

1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology:

(transitive) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.


od

Borrowed from German Od, arbitrarily coined by the German scientist and philosopher Carl Reichenbach (1788–1869).

nb...

􂀿...􂁀 The Complete Work, from the German Second Edition. With the Addition of a Preface and Critical Notes, by John Ashburner, M.D.

219, Regent Street. Paris: J.-B. Baillière, rue Hautefeuille. New York: H. Baillière.

(pseudoscience, historical, also attributive) A hypothetical force or natural power, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.


advert

en-verb

advert (third-person singular simple present adverts, present participle adverting, simple past and past participle adverted)

adverts (present singular third-person)
adverting (participle present)
adverted (participle past)
adverted (past)

From Middle English adverten, from Old French advertir (“to notice”), from Latin advertere (“to turn toward”). See also adverse.

At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously advert to this dimension of Sunday, too.

2007 September 9, the Vatican (trans.), Pope Benedict XVI (speaker), speaking in German at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Austria

(intransitive) To take notice, to pay attention (to).


fils

Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the son is being referred to rather than the father.


overall

en-adj

overall (comparative more overall, superlative most overall)

more overall (comparative)
most overall (superlative)

/ˌəʊvəɹˈɔːl/

From Middle English overall, overal, from Old English ofer eall, ofer ealle (“over all”), equivalent to over + all. Compare Saterland Frisian oural, uural (“everywhere”), West Frisian oeral (“everywhere”), Dutch overal (“everywhere”), German Low German overall, överall (“everywhere; all over”), German überall (“all over; everywhere”), Danish overalt (“everywhere”), Swedish överallt (“everywhere; overall”).

cog

We believe also that a controlled economy cannot be understood without some overall view of the controlling institutions: hence our short studies — shorter by far than the original drafts — of the central administration.

1949, W. Keith Hancock, Margaret M. Gowing, British War Economy:


overall

/ˌəʊvəɹˈɔːl/

(British) A garment worn over other clothing to protect it; a coverall or boiler suit. A garment, for manual labor or for casual wear, often made of a single piece of fabric, with long legs and a bib upper, supported from the shoulders with straps, and having several large pockets and loops for carrying tools.

(in the plural, US) A garment, worn for manual labor, with an integral covering extending to the chest, supported by straps.


agape

en-adj

agape (comparative more agape, superlative most agape)

more agape (comparative)
most agape (superlative)

From a- + gape. First known use by John Milton in Paradise Lost (1667).

[…] in himself was all his state,
More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits
On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long
Of Horses led, and Grooms besmeard with Gold
Dazles the croud, and sets them all agape.

1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book 5, lines 353-357:

There I stand, agape like any country bumpkin

1923, Arthur Michael Samuel, “Roubiliac (1695-1762)”, in The Mancroft essays, page 159:

That's all well and good; one can sit, agape, reading the copious liner notes to this or any Explorer record, but it's what's inside the jacket that counts.

1980, Joel Flegler, Fanfare, volume 3, numbers 4-6, page 198:

The restaurant staff and OTHER DINNER GUESTS watch, agape.

1996, Lech J. Majewski with Julian Schnabel, Basquiat:

In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.

With his mouth agape and his hands clenched, Rufus Dawes, incapable of further speech, made a last effort to nod assent, but his head fell upon his breast; the next moment, the flickering light, the gloomy prison, the eager face of the doctor, and the astonished face of Vickers, vanished from before his straining eyes.

1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter VIII, in For the Term of His Natural Life:

He tries not to tear his victim's stockings, or whip too close to her stretched vulva, which shivers, unprotected, between thighs agape and straining, amid movements of muscle erotic, subdued, “monumental” as any silver memory of her body on film.

1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

In the last frame, he throws back his head and wails, his mouth agape.

1995 September 24, “Stop Me If Yov've Heard this One”, in Washington Post:

With dropped jaws and eyes agape, a world beholds the blur of Michael Johnson

1996 August 2, “Johnson can fly, and he does it without wings”, in Chicago Sun-Times:

If the slightly agape mouth is closed prior to mouth opening, this is termed the preparatory phase and is more common in suction-feeding bony fishes than elasmobranchs.

2004, Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heithaus, Biology of Sharks and their Relatives, page 171:

Mouths were agape on the announcement of England’s starting lineup, the return of Keira Walsh appearing miraculous 10 days after she left the pitch on a stretcher in agony.

2023 August 7, Suzanne Wrack, “England beat Nigeria on penalties to reach Women’s World Cup quarter-finals”, in The Guardian:

откры́тый

широко́ (širokó)


agape

en-noun

agape (countable and uncountable, plural agapae or agapai)

(uncountable, Christianity) The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others.

ⲁⲅⲁⲡⲏ

(Christianity) love of God for mankind; benevolent love for others

(uncountable) Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for others.

(countable) A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist.


agate

From Late Middle English agate, a gate. Equivalent to a- (“on”) + gate (“way, path”).

Go to it then hardily, and let us be agate.

I'm fear'd you have some ill plans agate.

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:


aged

the aged

health insurance and retirement income for the aged

see also Thesaurus:old person § Holonyms

(with definite article, collective) Old people, collectively.


nun

From Middle English nonne, nunne, from Old English nunne (“nun”), from Late Latin nonna (“nun, tutor”), originally (along with masculine form nonnus (“man”)) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana, like papa etc. Doublet of nonna.

onomatopoeic

children's speech

Thus, when the nuns came to the mission and we saw that instead of murmuring soft blessings and gliding seraphically over the grass in diaphanous habits, they wore smart blouses and skirts and walked, laughed and talked in low twanging tones very much like our own American missionaries did, we were very disappointed.

1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:

A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.

non

member of a non-Christian religious community of women


allied

en-adj

allied (comparative more allied, superlative most allied)

more allied (comparative)
most allied (superlative)


ally

en-verb

ally (third-person singular simple present allies, present participle allying, simple past and past participle allied)

allies (present singular third-person)
allying (participle present)
allied (participle past)
allied (past)
ally (infinitive)
ally (first-person present singular)
allied (first-person past singular)
ally (present second-person singular)
allyest (present second-person singular)
allied (past second-person singular)
allies (present singular third-person)
allyeth (present singular third-person)
allied (past singular third-person)
ally (plural present)
allied (past plural)
ally (present subjunctive)
allied (past subjunctive)
ally (imperative present)
allying (participle present)
allied (participle past)

From Middle English allien, alien (“to form an alliance, associate, join; to become an ally; to introduce (someone) as an ally; to marry; to become related (to someone); to attack, engage in combat; to combine; (cooking) to combine ingredients, especially to bind them together”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman alier, allier, Middle French alier, allier [and other forms], and Old French alier (“to join together, unite; to alloy (metals); (cooking) to combine ingredients”) (modern French allier), from Latin alligāre, the present active infinitive of alligō, adligō (“to bind around, to, or up (something), bandage, fasten, fetter, tie; to hold fast; to detain, hinder”), from al-, ad- (intensifying prefix) + ligō (“to bind, tie; to bandage, wrap around; to unite”) (from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind, tie”)). Doublet of allay, alligate, alloy, and ligament.

nb...

alie, alleye, allie, ally, allye, aly, alye, alyȝe

doublet

Yes in good ſooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is vvell allied, but it is impoſſible to extirpe it quite, Frier, till eating and drinking be put dovvne.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 73, column 2:

Great VVits are ſure to Madneſs near alli'd; / And thin Partitions do their Bounds divide: […]

1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, →OCLC, page 5:

Thus Nature gives us (let it check our Pride) / The virtue neareſt to our Vice ally'd; / Reaſon the Byas turns to Good from Ill, / And Nero reigns a Titus, if he vvill.

1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle II, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 13:

Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.

aliar

[A]ftervvards he [Constantine the Great] allied vvith Licinius, and gave him his Siſter in marriage, and acknovvledged him his Colleague in the Empire.

1673, Gilbert Burnet, “The First Conference”, in A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution, and Laws of the Church and State of Scotland. […], Glasgow: Robert Sanders, […], →OCLC, page 62:

Whatever injuries […] the Athenians have done me I forgive. […] If they will ally with me, rebuild the temples I have burnt.

1837, Edward Lytton Bulwer [i.e., Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VIII, in Athens: Its Rise and Fall: […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book III (From the Battle of Marathon to the Battles of Platæa and Mycale, B.C. 490 – B.C. 479), page 195:

(intransitive) Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.


ally

From Middle English allie, alie [and other forms], probably partly:
* from allien (verb): see etymology 1; and
* from Anglo-Norman allié, alié, alyé, allyé, Middle French allié, alié, allyé (“associate, supporter; friend; relative; person, state, etc., associated or united with another by alliance or treaty”), and Old French alliiet (“military or political ally”) (modern French allié), a noun use of the past participle of Anglo-Norman alier, allier, Middle French alier, allier, and Old French alier (verb): see etymology 1.

der

the pretty Pansy then Ile tye / Like Stones some Chaine inchasing, / And next to them their neere Alye, / The purple Violet placing.

1630, Michael Drayton, “[The Muses Elizium.] The Fift Nimphall.”, in Cyril Brett, editor, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1907, →OCLC, page 198, lines 113–115:

The Aleptick art, and, its neereſt ally, Medicine, are deſign'd for the cure of bodies, reducing the faculties to the beſt harmony; […]

1659–1660, Thomas Stanley, “[Timæus the Locrian. Of the Soul of the World, and of Nature.]”, in The History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, […], volume III, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Containing the Italick Sects), pages 134–135:

The frozen Earth lies buried there, belovv / A hilly heap, ſev'n Cubits deep in Snovv: / And all the VVeſt Allies of ſtormy Boreas blovv.

1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 112, lines 547–549:

And novv from the Head and Mouth, paſs vve to it's near Allie the Stomach, another no leſs notable than uſeful Part; […]

1713, W[illiam] Derham, “[A Survey of the Particular Tribes of Animals.] Of the Head, Stomach, and Other Parts of Birds.”, in Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC, book VII (A Survey of Birds), page 384:

Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.

The order of Gruiformes includes cranes and their allies.

Procyonids (raccoons and their allies), a group of North American origin, are first recorded in South America in a level immediately below a unit dated at 6.0 million years.

1979, Larry G. Marshall et al., “Calibration of the Great American Interchange: A radioisotope chronology for Late Tertiary interchange of terrestrial faunas between the Americas.”, in Science, volume 204, number 4390, →DOI, pages 272–279:

(taxonomy) An organism which is related to another organism through common evolutionary origin; specifically, a species which is closely related to another species, usually within the same family.


ally

People, groups, states, etc., which are associated or united with each other for a common purpose; confederates; also, the state of being allied; alliance, confederation.


gnome

From French gnome (“gnome”), from New Latin gnomus, used by Paracelsus as a synonym for pygmaeus (“pygmy”).

The mountain pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma, a small owl of the western United States.


alternate

Borrowed from Latin alternātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin alternō (“to take turns”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from alternus (“one after another, by turns”), from alter (“other”) + -nus. Doublet of altern; see also alter.

And bid alternate passions fall and rise

1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:

One of the two boxes displaced by the new Pelaw installation will be Springwell, between Boldon Colliery and Pelaw, which has recently had the distinction of being manned by a husband and wife on alternate shifts.

1960 September, “Talking of Trains: Newcastle signal area enlarged”, in Trains Illustrated, page 522:

The service is half-hourly as far as Harrogate and Knaresborough, with alternate trains going on to York.

2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Arch Company Award for Urban Heritage: Knaresborough”, in RAIL, number 946, page 56:

Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).

Goldschmidt (Austria; creation July 27, 1862): [...] party, argent and gules, an eagle of alternate colors, [...]

1925, The Jewish Encyclopedia: Chazars-Dreyfus Case, page 128:

(heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.


alternate

en-verb

alternate (third-person singular simple present alternates, present participle alternating, simple past and past participle alternated)

alternates (present singular third-person)
alternating (participle present)
alternated (participle past)
alternated (past)

The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil.

(transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.

The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.

(intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.


private

en-adj

private (comparative more private, superlative most private)

more private (comparative)
most private (superlative)

→ Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰਾਈਵੇਟ (prāīveṭ)

→ Welsh: preifat

[ˈpʰɹaɪ̯vɪt]

[ˈpʰɹaɪ̯vɪt]

[ˈpʰɹɑɪ̯vɪt]

[ˈpʰɹaɪ̯vət̞]

[ˈpʰɹəɪ̯və(ʔ)]

[ˈpʰɾəɪ̯və(ʔ)]

[ˈpʰɹo̞ɪ̯və(ʔ)]

[ˈpʰɾo̞ɪ̯və(ʔ)]

From Middle English privat(e) (“individual, exclusive, private”), from Latin prīvātus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from, release”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive, release”) (see -ate for more), from prīvus (“private, one's own, peculiar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine. Doublet of privy.

bor

Of a room in a medical facility, not shared with another patient.

(philosophy) Of the mind or language, not in principle experienceable, knowable, or understandable by others.


private

[ˈpʰɹaɪ̯vɪt]

[ˈpʰɹaɪ̯vɪt]

[ˈpʰɹɑɪ̯vɪt]

[ˈpʰɹaɪ̯vət̞]

[ˈpʰɹəɪ̯və(ʔ)]

[ˈpʰɾəɪ̯və(ʔ)]

[ˈpʰɹo̞ɪ̯və(ʔ)]

[ˈpʰɾo̞ɪ̯və(ʔ)]

In the cities and towns of California, privates are pressuring county governments to close or reduce in size their hospitals and to pay private hospitals for the care of low-income patients. Thus everything is stacked against public hospitals.

1973, Health/PAC Bulletin, numbers 48-67, page 2:

Because you are already moving people with the limitations of what we did in 1982 on the capping of Medicare, you are finding out that the privates are picking up that slack, […]

1993, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, The implementation of employer sanctions: Hearings:

A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care.

And what haue Kings, that Priuates haue not too,[…]

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 IV, scene i], page 85, column 1:

(obsolete) One not invested with a public office.


buffet

buffets (plural)
beaufet (alternative archaic)

→ Japanese: ビュッフェ (byuffe)

→ Korean: 뷔페 (bwipe)

Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet.

inh+

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

We'll be serving supper buffet style.

Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.


buffet

en-noun

buffet (countable and uncountable, plural buffets)

From Middle English buffet (“buffet”), from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen (“to jostle, to hustle”).

The aircraft configuration was such that there was little or no warning of the stall onset. The inboard slats were extended, and therefore, the flow separation from the stall would be limited to the outboard segment of the left wing and would not be felt by the left horizontal stabilizer. There would be little or no buffet. The DFDR also indicated that there was some turbulence, which could have masked any aerodynamic buffeting. Since the roll to the left began at V₂ + 6 and since the pilots were aware that V₂ was well above the aircraft's stall speed, they probably did not suspect that the roll to the left indicated a stall. In fact, the roll probably confused them, especially since the stickshaker had not activated.

1979 December 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “Aircraft and Flightcrew Performance”, in Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc., DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, May 25, 1979, archived from the original on 2022-08-17, page 54:

(aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.


buffet

en-verb

buffet (third-person singular simple present buffets, present participle buffeting or buffetting, simple past and past participle buffeted or buffetted)

buffets (present singular third-person)
buffeting (participle present)
buffetting (participle present)
buffeted (participle past)
buffeted (past)
buffetted (participle past)
buffetted (past)

From Middle English buffeten, from Old French buffeter, from the noun (see above).

Is Burns obscure because he was gay and therefore ignorable until the Gay Rights Movement began? Or does he largely deserve his neglect? An answer requires that one examine not only Burns' books, but also the critical environment in which he was much buffeted — which, we are told, drove him to an early grave.

1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10:

Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.

2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-05-29:

(transitive, figurative) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.


discard

discard (third-person singular simple present discards, present participle discarding, simple past and past participle discarded)

discards (present singular third-person)
discarding (participle present)
discarded (participle past)
discarded (past)

From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.

A man discards the follies of boyhood.

1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:


discord

en-noun

discord (countable and uncountable, plural discords)

Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”).
Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discordāre, from discord-, as above.

[…] For a Diſcord it ſelfe is but a Harſhneſſe of Diuers Sounds Meeting.

1631, Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 700, page 173:

Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.

kabaal

any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds


outside

en-adv

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

more outside (comparative)
most outside (superlative)
owtside (alternative obsolete)

/ˈæʊʔ.so̞ɪd/

/ˈɛʊʔ.so̞ɪd/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-outside.wav

It is the prison that supports the image of the criminal […] he's lost when he's outside.

1964, Merfyn Turner, A Pretty Sort of Prison, page 15:

To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.


tow

en-verb

tow (third-person singular simple present tows, present participle towing, simple past and past participle towed)

tows (present singular third-person)
towing (participle present)
towed (participle past)
towed (past)

→ Welsh: towio

From Middle English towen, from Old English togian, from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-.
See also Middle High German zogen, German ziehen, Dutch tijgen, Old Norse toga.

(running, cycling, motor racing, etc.) To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.


tow

On Saturday, Vettel was very unhappy with Leclerc's failure to work out a way through the traffic and give him a tow for the second runs in qualifying, as had been agreed.

2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport:

(motor racing) A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.


tow

en-noun

tow (countable and uncountable, plural tows)

rare, some parts of the UK and Australia

From Middle English touw, from Old English tow- (“spinning”) (in compounds, e.g. towcræft, towhūs, towlic), from Proto-Germanic *tawwą; compare Old Norse tó (“uncleansed wool”), Dutch touw (“rope”). Perhaps cognate with Old English tawian (“prepare for use”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “do, make”).

And the strong shall be as towe, and the maker of it as a sparke, and they shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 1:31:

An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.

(specifically) The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).


impress

en-verb

impress (third-person singular simple present impresses, present participle impressing, simple past and past participle impressed)

impresses (present singular third-person)
impressing (participle present)
impressed (participle past)
impressed (past)

From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”).

make an impression on

transitive: affect strongly and often favourably

Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.

Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.

2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:

(intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.

cut a figure

intransitive: make an impression, be impressive


ornament

en-noun

ornament (countable and uncountable, plural ornaments)

/ˈɔɹnəˌmɛnt/

From Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from ornāre (“to equip, adorn”). The verb is derived from the noun.

der

(Christianity, in the plural) The articles used in church services.


use

en-noun

use (countable and uncountable, plural uses)

Noun from Middle English use, from Old French us, from Latin ūsus (“use, custom, skill, habit”), from past participle stem of ūtor (“use”). Displaced native Middle English note (“use”) (see note) from Old English notu, Middle English nutte (“use”) from Old English nytt, Old English fricu, and Old English sidu.
Verb from Middle English usen, from Old French user (“use, employ, practice”), from Medieval Latin usare (“use”), frequentative form of past participle stem of Latin uti (“to use”). Displaced native Middle English noten, nutten (“to use”) (from Old English notian, nēotan, nyttian) and Middle English brouken, bruken (“to use, enjoy”) (from Old English brūcan).

der

I have no further use for these textbooks.

(forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.


adduct

Borrowed from Latin adductus, past participle of adduco. See adduce.

(chemistry) The product of an addition reaction.

adduceren

to draw towards a center or a middle line


Celtic

en-proper noun

Celtic (countable and uncountable, plural Celtics)

Celtics (plural)
Keltic (alternative rare)

Borrowed from French celtique or Latin celticus. First attested in the 17th century.

(soccer) Celtic F.C., a football club from Glasgow, Scotland.


centuriate

/sɛnˈtʃʊəɹiət/

First attested in 1540; borrowed from Latin centuriātus, perfect passive participle of centuriō (“to divide into groups of one hundred”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).

In the Centuriate assemblies holden by degrees, and Curiat-meetings by the wardes and parishes.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:


centuriate

en-verb

centuriate (third-person singular simple present centuriates, present participle centuriating, simple past and past participle centuriated)

centuriates (present singular third-person)
centuriating (participle present)
centuriated (participle past)
centuriated (past)


executor

executors (plural)
executour (alternative)

/ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɚ/

From Middle English executour, from Anglo-Norman executour, from Latin execūtor, agent noun of exequor.


poly

Whether the family is poly, L.G.B.T.Q. or another minority, such as a religious one, coming out is very much a personal decision.

2020 August 4, Cynthia McKelvey, “The Challenges of Polyamorous Parenting”, in The New York Times:


essay

Since late 16th century, borrowed from Middle French essay, essai (“essay”), meaning coined by Montaigne in the same time, from the same words in earlier meanings 'experiment; assay; attempt', from Old French essay, essai, assay, assai, from Latin exagium (“weight; weighing, testing on the balance”), from exigere + -ium.

der

(philately, finance) A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.


apply

en-verb

apply (third-person singular simple present applies, present participle applying, simple past and past participle applied)

applies (present singular third-person)
applying (participle present)
applied (participle past)
applied (past)

→ Cebuano: aplay

From Middle English aplien, applien, from Old French applier, (French appliquer), from Latin applicō (“join, fix, or attach to”); from ad + plicō (“fold, twist together”). See applicant, ply.

der

to apply funds to the repayment of a debt

(transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case

طَبَّقَ

to put to use for a purpose — see also use, employ


tier

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From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).

cog

This party headed towards the tiers and lakes, scouring the country while veering towards Bothwell.

2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 114:

On she drove, leaving the highway, up a skinny country road, past the snow-capped tier and into the forest on its foothills.

2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 141:

(Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.


ani

Borrowed from Portuguese ani or Spanish aní, both from Old Tupi any.

Any bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family.


defect

Borrowed from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“of, from”) + facere (“to do”).

bor+

and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture.

1824, Lydia Sigourney, Sketch of Connecticut:

The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.


combine

en-verb

combine (third-person singular simple present combines, present participle combining, simple past and past participle combined)

combines (present singular third-person)
combining (participle present)
combined (participle past)
combined (past)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle French combiner, from Late Latin combīnāre (“unite, yoke together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + bīnī (“two by two”).

der

two substances that easily combine

You with your foes combine, / And seem your own destruction to design.

1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

So sweet did harp and voice combine.

1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

(intransitive) To come together; to unite.


combine

His grandmother worked in the stamping plant of the sheet and tin combine.

en:kombinat, socialist work organization

An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.

kombinát

industrial conglomeration in the Soviet bloc

en:artwork combining painting and sculpture

(art) An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.

If you purchased this book chances are that you are planning on participating in a football combine or pro-day test.

2008, Scott Shetler, Optimal Performance Techniques for the Football Combine, page 5:

In 2008, a study was published that examined the ability of the NFL combine to predict football playing performance in the NFL (Kuzmits and Adams, 2008).

2020, Jay R. Hoffman, The Science of American Football:

At the combine, Reagor compared himself to the 49ers’ Deebo Samuel or Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill — whom he said he watched “every day”

2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time:

(American football) A test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.


canton

1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.

(obsolete) A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township.


gyros

/ˈd͡ʒiːɹoʊs/

/ˈd͡ʒaɪɹoʊs/

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From Greek γύρος (gýros); from the turning of the meat on a spit (as a calque of Turkish döner into Greek).

Now this has gotten me thinking ... I wonder whether I could build an odd-roc out of pita bread ... I'd have to toast it first, I guess, to make it rigid ... then again, I could roll it into a cone (sort of like the way I've most often seen gyroi made) and use a black olive for the nose to give it even more of a Greek touch ... hey, this has possibilities.

1993 July 7, D. Glenn Arthur Jr., “Phone solicitors”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet), archived from the original on 2025-05-05:

Well, hummus is a popular item at the Grease Trucks of Rutgers University (a group of catering trucks serving a variety of burgers, steaks, gyroi, and various Middle Eastern foods).

1997 September 12, Joseph Michael Bay, “Looking for Hummus Sandwich Ideas”, in rec.food.veg (Usenet), archived from the original on 2025-05-05:

Greek sellers of gyroi in Australia often use the spelling word "yeeros" for the singular.

2016 October 7, Peter Moylan, “Pronunciation manual”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), archived from the original on 2025-05-05:

Alternative form of gyro (“Greek sandwich”).


Uri

From Medieval Latin Uronia, possibly from Latin ora (“edge, brim”), or from the pre-Roman substrate hydronym *wer (“water”) + the Latin suffix -n-. More at Uri.


appropriate

en-verb

appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)

appropriates (present singular third-person)
appropriating (participle present)
appropriated (participle past)
appropriated (past)

From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).

af

Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

"I promise you," said she, after a pause of some minutes, "to wear the last new dress you gave me, it is a triumph of taste!"
Lord Marchmont bowed, and appropriated the compliment as if the taste had been his own, not the milliner's.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Prudence in Politics”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 179:

We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...].

1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, pages 422, 425:

Loitering, panhandling, soliciting prostitution, graffiti writing―these activities [are claimed to] foster serious criminality. As a result, disorder in itself has become a harm that justifies the criminal sanction. By appropriating harm in this way, the order-maintenance approach to criminal justice has disarmed the traditional progressive 1960s response of "no harm."

2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:

(transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

mənimsəmək

to take to oneself in exclusion of others


object

From Old French object, from Medieval Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obiciō (“I throw against”), from ob- (“against”) + iaciō (“I throw”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ἀντικείμενον (antikeímenon). Doublet of objectum and objet.

der

ἀντικείμενον

oxetu

person or thing to which an emotion is directed

target

person or thing toward which an emotion is directed

massive astronomical compact halo object

massive astrophysical compact halo object

A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.

prepositional phrase
prepositional phrase#English

(grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.

Similarly, there is a category whose objects are groups and whose arrows are the homomorphisms from one group to another.

(category theory) An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).

objektum

category theory: instance of a kind of entities forming a category


email

en-noun

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)

The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. First attested in the 1970s. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).

What’s your email?

In this system, your username is your email.

Don’t send personal messages to my work email.

ímélcím

now officially endorsed but still less common


consummate

en-adj

consummate (comparative more consummate, superlative most consummate)

more consummate (comparative)
most consummate (superlative)

First attested in the beginning of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English consummat(e) (“(past participle) fulfilled, completed; (adjective) perfect, consummate”), borrowed from Latin cōnsummātus, perfect passive participle of cōnsummō (“to sum up, finish, complete”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + summa (“a sum”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see sum, summation. Common participial usage up until Early Modern English.

inh+

I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 110, column 2:

(obsolete, as a participle)
(of a marriage) Consummated.


enchant

en-verb

enchant (third-person singular simple present enchants, present participle enchanting, simple past and past participle enchanted)

enchants (present singular third-person)
enchanting (participle present)
enchanted (participle past)
enchanted (past)
enchaunt (alternative)
inchant (alternative)
inchaunt (alternative)

/ɪnˈt͡ʃɑːnt/

/ɛnˈt͡ʃɑːnt/

/ɘnˈt͡ʃɐːnt/

/ˈɪnˌt͡ʃænt/

/ˈɪnˌt͡ʃɑːnt/

From Middle English enchaunten, from Old French enchanter, from Latin incantāre.
Doublet of incant.

(roleplaying games) To magically enhance or degrade an item.


pace

→ Japanese: ペース (pēsu)

From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.

походка

way of stepping: rate or style of how someone moves with their feet


approximate

en-adj

approximate (comparative more approximate, superlative most approximate)

more approximate (comparative)
most approximate (superlative)
approx. (alternative)

From Middle English approximat(e) (“close, near (to); similar; intimate”, also used as the past participle of approximaten), from Latin approximātus, the perfect passive participle of approximō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + proximō (“to come near”). The nouns was derived from the adjective through substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also proximate.

inh

also used as the past participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">approximaten</i>

(botany) Drawn close together, but not united.


consist

The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.

(rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.

編組 /编组

sequence of railroad carriages or cars that form a unit


psyche

Learned borrowing from Latin psychē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”).

(chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.

A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia.


psyche

Shortened form of psychology, from French psychologie, from Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”)


psyche

en-verb

psyche (third-person singular simple present psyches, present participle psyching, simple past and past participle psyched)

psyches (present singular third-person)
psyching (participle present)
psyched (participle past)
psyched (past)
psych (alternative)


eject

eject (third-person singular simple present ejects, present participle ejecting, simple past and past participle ejected)

ejects (present singular third-person)
ejecting (participle present)
ejected (participle past)
ejected (past)

From Middle French éjecter, from Latin ēiectus, perfect passive participle of ēiciō (“to throw out”), or from ēiectō, the frequentative form of the same verb, from ē-, combining form of ex (“out”), + iaciō (“to throw”).

remove

cause (something) to come out of a machine

I can't get this cassette to eject.

(intransitive) To come out of a machine.


pontificate

From Latin pontificatus, from pontifex (“high priest”), from pons (“bridge”) + facere (“make”).

The status or term of office of a pontiff or pontifex.


pontificate

pontificate (third-person singular simple present pontificates, present participle pontificating, simple past and past participle pontificated)

pontificates (present singular third-person)
pontificating (participle present)
pontificated (participle past)
pontificated (past)

From the past participle stem of mediaeval Latin pontificare (“pontificate”), from Latin pontifex (“high priest”), from pons (“bridge”) + facere (“make”).

(intransitive) To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.

(intransitive) To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.

During a policy discussion awhile^([sic]) back about New York issues, when Mr. Clinton began to pontificate, she told him that he did not exactly know what he was talking about and to hush up.

2007 May 13, Patrick Healy, “In New Role, Senator Clinton’s Strategist in Chief”, in New York Times:

"Do you hear that, Ryan? Your mommy is being a pontificating windbag."

2014 January 16, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 482 - Blood:

(intransitive) To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.


converse

converse (third-person singular simple present converses, present participle conversing, simple past and past participle conversed)

converses (present singular third-person)
conversing (participle present)
conversed (participle past)
conversed (past)

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From Old French converser, from Latin conversor (“live, have dealings with”).

der

Companions[…]
That do converse and waste the time together.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

We had conversed so often on that subject.

1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:

(formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.

To seek the distant hills, and there converse
With nature.

a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:

But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.

1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:

Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

(followed by with) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.


converse

From Latin conversus (“turned around”), past participle of converto (“turn about”).

a converse proposition

Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.


converse

All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.

(logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.

converse antonym
converse antonym#English

relational antonym
relational antonym#English

(semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.


vale

From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles.

In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease,

1767, Walter Harte, “The Vision of Death”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 16, published 1810, page 370:

"Make me a cottage in the vale," she said, / "Where I may mourn and pray.

1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art:

Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above,

a. 1854, James Montgomery, “Hymn 214”, in The Issues of Life and Death:


pasty

en-adj

pasty (comparative pastier, superlative pastiest)

pastier (comparative)
pastiest (superlative)
pastey (alternative rare)

He is pasty-faced.

(figuratively) He was feeling pasty.

Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty.

He smoothed his tailored suit and red tie. "Boy, does it look like I ain't rich now? My pockets are already full of paper! Why the fuck would I want to risk doing business with some pasty cracker? For all I know, you a cop!"

2008, John Lacombe, Winter Games, page 184:

“So, snow bunny, what should black women do? How do we...oh, how do I say this... cure our brothas of this widespread, pasty disease?” I didn't reply. Again, I tried to step away. Again, she grabbed my arm.

2010, James W. Lewis, Sellout, page 107:

(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Whiteskinned.


pasty

Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty-topped breast.

1989, Joe David Bellamy, Suzi Sinzinnati: A Novel, Pushcart Press, →ISBN, page 29:

One of the experienced dancers dabbed a bit of rubber cement inside a silver-sequinned pasty and told Betty to place it over her nipple

2001, Irene Pence, Buried Memories, Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 52:

There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid being arrested for indecency.

2004 February 2, Jake Drake, “Janet Jackson and American Slut Culture”, in rec.music.opera (Usenet):

"What's a pasty?" ¶ "That's what strippers and showgirls used to wear to cover their nipples in teh old, tamer days of yore. They were round paper disks with spangles on one side and paste on the other; hence the term pasty."

2009, Jeffry S. Hepple, “Mancha, Mexico”, in The Treasure of La Malinche, volume 2, Jeffry S. Hepple, →ISBN, page 164:

(chiefly in the plural) Alternative spelling of pastie (“a small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers”).


pasty

From Middle English paste, from Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pasté. Doublet of patty.

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.

пастет

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie


pastie

(Northern Ireland) A circular, battered and deep-fried meat pie usually consisting of minced pork, onion, potato and seasoning and served in a bap or with chips. A peculiarity of Northern Irish "chippy" cuisine, rarely (if ever) seen outside the area.


repent

en-verb

repent (third-person singular simple present repents, present participle repenting, simple past and past participle repented)

repents (present singular third-person)
repenting (participle present)
repented (participle past)
repented (past)

From Middle English repenten, from Old French repentir, from Vulgar Latin *repaenitīre, from Late Latin paenitīre, from Classical Latin paenitēre. Compare Modern French repentir.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 17:1–4:

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jonah 3:10:

If Aljunied decides to go that way (to vote for Workers' Party), well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.

2011 April 30, Lee Kuan Yew, as quoted, “Aljunied voters will regret choosing WP: MM Leel”, in Yahoo News:

(intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".

pendohem

to feel sorrow or regret for what one has done or omitted to do


Devon

→ Russian: Де́вон (Dévon)

From Old English Defenas, which meant both "Devonians" and "Devon," exemplifying the common Anglo-Saxon practice of naming a place after the people who inhabit it.

A place in Canada:
A town in Leduc County, Alberta.

New Haven County
New Haven County#English

A village and neighborhood of Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

unincorporated community
unincorporated community

New Castle County
New Castle County#English

An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware.

An unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia.


singer

→ Japanese: シンガー (shingā)

Inherited from Middle English synger, syngere, singere, singare, equivalent to sing + -er. Cognate with Scots singar, Saterland Frisian Sjunger, West Frisian sjonger, German Low German Singer. Compare also Old English sangere, Dutch zanger, German Low German Sänger, German Sänger (“singer”), Danish sanger, Swedish sångare, Icelandic söngvari.

It's the singer, not the song.

A person who sings, often professionally.


resign

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

resigns (present singular third-person)
resigning (participle present)
resigned (participle past)
resigned (past)

From Anglo-Norman resigner, Middle French resigner, and its source, Latin resignāre (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + signāre (“to seal, stamp”). Piecewise doublet of re-sign.

uder

(transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.


para

The second part of words such as primipara and multipara

(medicine) A woman who has given birth or brought pregnancies to viable gestational age a certain number of times, indicated by the number prepended to this word.


vice

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw.

(law enforcement, slang) Clipping of vice squad.


refuse

en-adj

refuse (comparative more refuse, superlative most refuse)

more refuse (comparative)
most refuse (superlative)

Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French refusé, past participle of refuser (“to refuse”). Displaced native Middle English wernen (“to refuse”)


protest

en-verb

protest (third-person singular simple present protests, present participle protesting, simple past and past participle protested)

protests (present singular third-person)
protesting (participle present)
protested (participle past)
protested (past)

PIE word
 *tréyes
From the Middle English verb protesten, from Old French protester, from Latin prōtestārī, from prō + testor, from testis (“witness”).

They protested the demolition of the school.

(transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To publicly demonstrate against.

(law, transitive) to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.

(obsolete, transitive) To publish; to make known.


protest

en-noun

protest (countable and uncountable, plural protests)

They lodged a protest with the authorities.

A formal objection, especially one by a group.

A written declaration, usually by the master of a ship, stating the circumstances attending loss or damage of ship or cargo, etc.

meriselitys

written declaration stating the circumstances attending loss or damage of ship or cargo, etc.


obliterate

en-verb

obliterate (third-person singular simple present obliterates, present participle obliterating, simple past and past participle obliterated)

obliterates (present singular third-person)
obliterating (participle present)
obliterated (participle past)
obliterated (past)
obliterate (infinitive)
obliterate (first-person present singular)
obliterated (first-person past singular)
obliterate (present second-person singular)
obliteratest (archaic present second-person singular)
obliterated (past second-person singular)
obliteratedst (archaic past second-person singular)
obliterates (present singular third-person)
obliterateth (archaic present singular third-person)
obliterated (past singular third-person)
obliterate (plural present)
obliterated (past plural)
obliterate (present subjunctive)
obliterated (past subjunctive)
obliterate (imperative present)
obliterating (participle present)
obliterated (participle past)

PIE word
 *h₁epi
(start of 17th century) From earlier obliterat, learned borrowing from Latin obliterātus, oblitterātus (“having been blotted out, effaced, erased; having been forgotten”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)). Obliterātus and oblitterātus are respectively the perfect passive participles of obliterō and oblitterō (“to blot out, efface, erase, obliterate; to cause to be forgotten”), probably either:
* from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + littera (“letter of the alphabet; (metonymically) handwriting”) (further etymology unknown); or
* from oblītus (“disregarded, neglected; forgotten”), influenced by littera. Oblītus is the perfect passive participle of oblinō (“to daub over, besmear”), from ob- + possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“not heavy, light; brief; swift”).
Cognates
* Catalan obliterar (“to erase; to cancel (a stamp); to close up or fill (a body cavity, vessel, etc.)”)
* Middle French oblitérer (modern French oblitérer (“to cause (memories) to fade; to block, obstruct; to cancel (a stamp, ticket, etc.) so it cannot be reused”))
* Portuguese obliterar (“to destroy completely; to erase”)
* Spanish obliterar (“to destroy completely; to erase”)

cog

/əˈblɪtəˌɹeɪt/

[H]e [Pope Gregory I] deſigned to obliterate and extinguiſh the memorie of Heathen antiquitie and Authors.

1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 31, recto:

This opinion ſeemeth to me, to leave very little or no place for the Chriſtian Religion. For […] It obliterateth the notion of Gods Holineſs, vvhich to be no Holineſs, but a common or indifferent thing.

1675, Richard Baxter, “[The First Book.] The First Part: […]. Section XVIII. A Confutation of Dr. Twisse’s Digr. 5. l. 2. Sect. 1. Vind. Grat.”, in Richard Baxter’s Catholick Theologie: […], London: […] Robert White, for Nevill Simmons […], →OCLC, paragraph 588, page 94:

VVhen vve forget Things; either the Impreſſions are obliterated, or the Images diſſolved into their firſt Principles, or Exterminated from the Brain, vvith the Current of the Animal Spirits into the Nerves.

1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of Mind. And First, of Phancy, or Phantastick Mind.”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 2nd book, paragraph 21, page 43:

All tenderness for the feelings of others, all selfrespect, all sense of the becoming, were obliterated from his [George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys's] mind.

1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter IV, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 450:

The Four Years' War is over— […] A new race, a young and lusty generation, already sweeps in with oceanic currents, obliterating the war, and all its scars, its mounded graves, and all its reminiscences of hatred, conflict, death. So let it be obliterated.

1872, Walt Whitman, “[Collect.] Preface, 1872, to ‘As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free,’ (now ‘Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood,’ in Permanent Ed’n.).”, in Specimen Days & Collect, Philadelphia, Pa.: Rees Welsh & Co., […], published 1882–1883, →OCLC, page 279:

That is what distance does for us; the harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated, and memory begins to look kindly on the past.

1876, William Black, “England, Farewell!”, in Madcap Violet. […], volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 182–183:

The seal of Pepi is in the House of Rurutȧ. The god who obliterateth sin, Ȧṭer-ȧsfet, obliterateth the transgressions which belong to Pepi in the presence of Khenti-merti in Sekhem.

1911, E[rnest] A[lfred Thompson] Wallis Budge, “Appendix: Translations from the Pyramid Texts of Pepi I, Mer-en-Rā, and Pepi II”, in Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection […], London: Philip Lee Warner; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 363:

Soham's station had been completely obliterated (the replacement was to close in 1965 and is only now being reopened).

2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The Heroes of Soham …”, in Rail, number 948, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43:

The initial damage assessment suggests that President Trump’s claim that Iran’s nuclear facilities were “obliterated” was overstated.

2025 June 24, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Ronen Bergman, Maggie Haberman, “Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.

عَفَا

to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace

In the developing embryo the foregut is surrounded by a group of vascular structures of bilateral distribution connected with the branchial arches. Portions of these arches are obliterated to form the normally described aorta and great vessels. The ultimate persistence of only one main vascular arch, the left, as the aorta, permits the trachea and oesophagus to lie freely to its right side.

1959 September, F. Ronald Edwards, “Vascular Compression of the Trachea and Oesophagus”, in N[orman] R[upert] Barrett, J[ohn] G[uyett] Scadding, editors, Thorax, volume XIV, number 3, London: British Medical Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 187, column 1:

The pleural sac was obliterated by firm fibrous adhesions over the right upper lobe.

1959 December, R. H. Elphinstone, R. G. Spector, “Sarcoma of the Pulmonary Artery”, in N[orman] R[upert] Barrett, J[ohn] G[uyett] Scadding, editors, Thorax, volume XIV, number 4, London: British Medical Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 335, column 1:

Compression of an aneurysm of the left carotid artery should obliterate only the pulses of the distribution of this artery, not those of the femoral arteries. If the mass is an aneurysm of the right common carotid artery, manual compression should obliterate the distribution of this vessel and, because of its location, may also obliterate the vessels of the right arm. However, femoral pulsations should be preserved.

1974 July, Ira W. DuBrow, Sheldon O. Burman, Decio O. Elias, Alois R. Hastreiter, Raymond J. Pietras, “Aortic Arch in the Neck”, in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, volume 68, number 1, [St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby?], →DOI, →ISSN, →PMID, page 27, column 1:

(biology, pathology, surgery, chiefly passive voice) To impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it (in the latter case, chiefly by filling it with tissue).

obliterar

to impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it

To be destroyed completely, leaving no trace.

distal pulses obliterate until perfusion is restored

(biology, pathology) Of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction.

täyttyä

of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction


guesstimate

guesstimates (plural)
guestimate (alternative)

Near-synonym: educated guess

I'm not sure how many people were at the festival. My best guesstimate is 50,000.

(informal) An estimate that is hardly any better than a guess, often because it is based on insufficient or unreliable data.

粗略估計 /粗略估计

estimate based on insufficient or unreliable data


offbeat

offbeats (plural)
off-beat (alternative)
off beat (alternative)

From off- + beat; not following the beat (e.g., of a drum that sounds out cadence).

The congregation clapped along on the offbeat.

(music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.

No one dignified such offbeats by responding to their outcries. Today, the "knockers of progress" have become a force that cannot be ignored.

1977, Lyle W. Dorsett, The Queen City: A History of Denver:

Being an oddball, an offbeat, or a creative person, as Jourard sees the committed professional, is something all nurses should risk.

1980, Eleanor C. Hein, Communication in nursing practice, →ISBN, page 16:

In addition to creating a web of stories that will be passed through many generations, these offbeats usually strengthen the fiber of their particular hobby […]

2001, Andrew Yoder, Pirate Radio Stations:

(slang) An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.


offbeat

en-adj

offbeat (comparative more offbeat, superlative most offbeat)

more offbeat (comparative)
most offbeat (superlative)
off-beat (alternative)
off beat (alternative)

He has such an offbeat sense of humor that hardly anyone finds his jokes amusing.


default

en-noun

default (countable and uncountable, plural defaults)

→ Russian: дефо́лт (defólt)

From Middle English defaut, defaute, from Old French defaute (“fault, defect, failure, culpability, lack”), ultimately from Latin de- (“away”) + fallo (“deceive, cheat, escape notice of”).

der

regardless of our merit or default

1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:


aba

Gymnarchus niloticus
Gymnarchus niloticus#Translingual

An electric fish of species Gymnarchus niloticus (frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa.


fine

From Middle English fin, fyn, from Old French fin (“fine, minute, exact”), of obscure origin, but probably derived from Latin fīnīre (“to finish”) or fīnis (“boundary, limit, end”), with an abstract sense of fine or thin also arising in many Romance languages (compare Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian fino). Doublet of fino.

We had dined at l'Avenue's, and afterward went to the Café de Versailles for coffee. We had several fines after the coffee, and I said I must be going.

1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Scribner, published 2003, page 14:

‘Darling,’ Lois told her, ‘don't get depressed. Have another fine.’

1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 34:

He refilled his glass. ‘The fine is very good,’ he said.

1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 18:


fragment

From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“I break”) + -mentum.

a fragment of an ancient writing

I heard a small fragment of the conversation.

[…]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.

2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not


transform

From Middle English transformen, from Old French transformer, from Latin transformo, transformare, from trans (“across”, preposition) + forma (“form”).

(geology, seismology) A transform fault.


vermiculate

en-adj

vermiculate (comparative more vermiculate, superlative most vermiculate)

more vermiculate (comparative)
most vermiculate (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin vermiculatus (“inlaid in wavy lines”), past participle of vermiculor (“to be full of worms or worm-eaten”), from vermiculus (“little worm”).


lacerate

From Middle English laceraten, from Latin lacerātus, past participle of lacerō.

The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.

(botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.


coordinate

coordinates (plural)
coördinate (alternative)
co-ordinate (alternative)

From a substantivation of the above adjective, see Etymology 1 and -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Compare French coordonné.

/kəʊˈɔːdɪnɪt/

Give me your coordinates and we'll come and rescue you.

(mathematics, cartography, astronomy) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.

koördinaat

mathematics, cartography: a number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure

These are coordinates; because each, in the sphere of its powers, is equal to, and independent of the others; and because the three united make the government.

1851, John C. Calhoun, A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United Statesᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ:

Something that is equal to another thing.


coordinate

en-verb

coordinate (third-person singular simple present coordinates, present participle coordinating, simple past and past participle coordinated)

coordinates (present singular third-person)
coordinating (participle present)
coordinated (participle past)
coordinated (past)
coördinate (alternative)
co-ordinate (alternative)

From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French coordonner.

/kəʊˈɔːdɪˌneɪt/

It can be difficult to coordinate movement of both legs after an operation.

I was playing tennis for the first time, and it was difficult to coordinate.

(ambitransitive) To synchronize (activities).