whack

Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”).

sl

del c:\docs\readme.txt
Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.

(slang, computing, typography) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.


slut

From Swedish slut, from Middle Low German slūt.

(radio communications) over and out, out (ending a conversation)


pod

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

unc

uncertain

gloss

"seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">pod-ware</i> (“legume seed; seed grain”)

ncog

These ads are shown during commercial breaks when there is no game action. Usually, multiple spots are grouped into a pod of commercials.

2014, Lisa P. Masteralexis, Carol A. Barr, Mary Hums, Principles and Practice of Sport Management, page 448:

(broadcasting) A set of commercials to be shown together.


proof

en-noun

proof (countable and uncountable, plural proofs)

→ Russian: пруф (pruf), пру́фы (prúfy)

desc

⇒ Russian: пруфли́нк (pruflínk, literally “proof + link”)

From Middle English proof, from Old French prove, from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from Latin probō (“to prove”); see prove; compare also the doublet probe.

the proof of the pudding is in the eating

And these men scour the printed proof for error, blunder, and misspelling.

2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 382:

(countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.


oblique

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

uder

Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.

1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:

Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.

1990, John McDermott, Punctuation for Now, page 20:


Romeo

Borrowed from Italian Romeo, from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos, “Roman”).

der

(fiction) One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.


Dracula

Dracula
Order of the Dragon
Vlad II Dracul
Vlad the Impaler

From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).

(fiction) The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.


puck

From Middle English pouke, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūkō, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Old Norse púki (“devil”) (dialectal Swedish puke). Doublet of pooka.

inh

(mythology, literature) The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Robin Goodfellow

a small being, human in form who is playful and has magical powers


disco

la-verb

discō (present infinitive discere, perfect active didicī, supine discitum); third conjugation

discō (canonical)
discere (infinitive present)
didicī (active perfect)
discitum (supine)
discō (active first-person indicative present singular)
discis (active indicative present second-person singular)
discit (active indicative present singular third-person)
discimus (active first-person indicative plural present)
discitis (active indicative plural present second-person)
discunt (active indicative plural present third-person)
discēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
discēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
discēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
discēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
discēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
discēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
discam (active first-person future indicative singular)
discēs (active future indicative second-person singular)
discet (active future indicative singular third-person)
discēmus (active first-person future indicative plural)
discētis (active future indicative plural second-person)
discent (active future indicative plural third-person)
didicī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
didicistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
didicit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
didicimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
didicistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
didicērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
didicēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
didiceram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
didicerās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
didicerat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
didicerāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
didicerātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
didicerant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
didicerō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
didiceris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
didicerit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
didicerimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
didiceritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
didicerint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
discor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
disceris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
discere (indicative passive present second-person singular)
discitur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
discimur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
disciminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
discuntur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
discēbar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
discēbāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
discēbāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
discēbātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
discēbāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
discēbāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
discēbantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
discar (first-person future indicative passive singular)
discēris (future indicative passive second-person singular)
discēre (future indicative passive second-person singular)
discētur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
discēmur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
discēminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
discentur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
discam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
discās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
discat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
discāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
discātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
discant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
discerem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
discerēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
disceret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
discerēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
discerētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
discerent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
didicerim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
didicerīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
didicerit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
didicerīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
didicerītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
didicerint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
didicissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
didicissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
didicisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
didicissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
didicissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
didicissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
discar (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
discāris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
discāre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
discātur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
discāmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
discāminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
discantur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
discerer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
discerēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
discerēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
discerētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
discerēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
discerēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
discerentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
disce (active imperative present second-person singular)
discite (active imperative plural present second-person)
discitō (active future imperative second-person singular)
discitō (active future imperative singular third-person)
discitōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
discuntō (active future imperative plural third-person)
discere (imperative passive present second-person singular)
disciminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
discitor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
discitor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
discuntor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
discere (active infinitive present)
discī (infinitive passive present)
discēns (active participle present)
discitūrum esse (active future infinitive)
discitum īrī (future infinitive passive)
discitūrus (active future participle)
discendus (future participle passive)
discundus (future participle passive)
didicisse (active infinitive perfect)
discitum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
discitus (participle passive perfect)
discitum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
discitūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
discendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
discendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
discendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
discendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
discitum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
discitū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *dɨskɨd

Breton: deskiñ

Cornish: dyski

Welsh: dysgu

From Proto-Italic *diskō, from earlier *dikskō, from Proto-Indo-European *di-dḱ-ské-ti, a reduplicated durative, inchoative and suffixed verb from the root *deḱ- (“to take”). From the same root as doceō; unrelated to discipulus.
Cognates include Ancient Greek δέχομαι (dékhomai), whereas δαῆναι (daênai) is attributed to another root, *dens-, together with δεδαώς (dedaṓs), δήνεα (dḗnea) and διδάσκω (didáskō).


نسخ

(calligraphy) Naskh (style of calligraphy)


foil

en-noun

foil (countable and uncountable, plural foils)

From Middle English foyle, from Middle French fueille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine.
The literary sense is from the practice of backing a gem with metal foil to make it shine more brilliantly.
Doublet of folio and folium, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.

As Puss comes to realize his legendary status is not a substitute for interpersonal connection, his interactions with Kitty and the therapy dog start to take on a surprising amount of weight, while Goldilocks serves as a well-realized foil who has more in common with Puss that is at first apparent.

2022 December 20, Leigh Monson, “Puss In Boots: The Last Wish review: Antonio Banderas leads the best film yet in the Shrek franchise”, in AV Club:

(authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.

contrastfiguur

character who helps emphasise the traits of the main character


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

(electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.


blank verse

en-noun

blank verse (countable and uncountable, plural blank verses)

Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.

[T]here is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.

1592, Robert Greene, Groats-Worth of Witte, Bought with a Million of Repentance, London: imprinted for William Wright, folio F¹v:

I could have spoken in blank verse of Shakespearean beauty, all sorts of great ideas flashed through my mind; it was as though the bonds of my flesh had been loosened, and left the spirit free to soar to the empyrean of its native power.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 288:

Soon after Surrey's translation of Virgil, blank verse became a persuasive rival to the heroic couplet.

2006, Philip Hobsbaum, “The heroic couplet”, in Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, Routledge, →ISBN, page 18:

(poetry) A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.


zombie

Unadapted borrowing from English zombie.

(fiction) zombie (deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living)


brownie

brownie (countable and uncountable, plural brownies)

→ Belarusian: бра́ўні (bráŭni)

→ Chinese: 布朗尼 (bùlǎngní)

→ Dutch: brownie

→ French: brownie

→ German: Brownie

→ Hungarian: brownie

→ Irish: donnóg (calque)

→ Italian: brownie

→ Japanese: ブラウニー (buraunī)

→ Lithuanian: braunis

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: brownie

→ Polish: brownie

→ Portuguese: brownie

→ Russian: бра́уни (bráuni)

→ Kazakh: брауни (brauni)

→ Spanish: brownie

→ Thai: บราวนี (bpraao-níi)

→ Turkish: brownie, browni, brovni

→ Welsh: browni

From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots.

Thus, offer Brownie a piece of bread, a cup of drink, or a new coat and hood, and he flouted at it, and perhaps, in his huff, quitted the place for ever ; but leave a nice bowl of cream, and some fresh honeycomb, in a snug private corner, and they soon disappeared, though Brownie, it was to be supposed, never knew any thing of them.

1828, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume II, page 169:

"Oh, auntie, do you know what Stine says?" cried a little brown-eyed beauty; "she says I shall go with her into the hayloft to-night and give the brownie his Christmas porridge."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 5:

1908, Dinah Craik, The Adventures of A Brownie:

Stories were told of a brownie riding horseback to fetch the midwife at childbirth or helping his master to win at checkers.

1985, The Encyclopedia Americana, volume 1, page 636:

There are no brownies in my house, though. I know because there's always a pile of dishes in the sink.

2004, Justin Hocking, Jeffrey Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher, editors, Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End, page 37:

Pseudunus and his group looked around, frightened, and realized that three more treents surrounded them, accompanied by a myriad of other creatures. Centaurs, elves, humans, satyrs, halflings, mémechares and brounies surrounded them on all sides, except the one they had come from. Bears and wolves, clearly under the effect of natural magic spells, gritted their teeth and growled menacingly, while snakes hissed in defiance.

2018 May 26, Joel Puga, “Chapter 6 Faiths”, in The Godungava, Joel Puga:

(folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.


septet

PIE word
 *septḿ̥
From Latin septem (“seven”).

A group of seven, particularly
(poetry) A set of seven lines.

A group of seven, particularly
A set of seven lines.


Curved single quotation marks and apostrophes

Straight single quotation mark and apostrophe

I hope D—ds—y will look to theſe literal Errors, he being the only one of the Trade I can venture to truſt.

1748, a Lady, in a Letter to her Friend in the Country, A Free Comment on the Late Mr. W—g—n’s Apology for His Conduct; Which Clears Up the Obscurities of That Celebrated Posthumous Work, and Dissipates the Clouds in Which the Author Has Thought Proper to Envelope His Meaning (in English), London: […] W. Webb, page 15:

(dated, fiction) Used to replace part or all of a person's name, a place name, a date, or so forth.


Shakespearean

en-adj

Shakespearean (comparative more Shakespearean, superlative most Shakespearean)

more Shakespearean (comparative)
most Shakespearean (superlative)
Shakespearian (alternative)
Shakesperian (alternative archaic)
Shaksperian (alternative archaic)

[…]there were those who had them set far over back—wide-awake men, who wanted a clear prospect; while careless men, who did not know, or care, how their hats sat, had them shaking about in all directions. The various hats, in fact, were quite a Shakespearean study.

1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XI, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:

The boisterous Bulmer playfully made a pass at him with his drawn sword, going forward with the lunge in the proper fencing fashion, and making a somewhat too familiar Shakespearean quotation about a rodent and a Venetian coin.

1922, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Hole in the Wall”, in The Man Who Knew Too Much […] , London: Cassell and Company, pages 80–81:

Meanwhile, I presided over the Senate. I also dined quite frequently with the President who continued to delight and fascinate me with his conversation, not to mention his wonderful malice which was positively Shakespearean in its variety.

There was indeed something Shakespearean about both the service in the abbey and the marches that surrounded it. By Shakespearean I mean there was a blend of pageantry, procession, music and mystery.

2023 May 7, Michael Billington, “The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

This is the distinctive milieu of Succession, the HBO juggernaut which turned the pitiful exploits of a bunch of media mogul failsons into Shakespearean drama for four critically acclaimed seasons.

2025 June 2, Adrian Horton, “Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.


Shakespearean sonnet

en-noun

Shakespearean sonnet (plural Shakespearean sonnets)

Named after English playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564–1616) and strongly associated with his authorship.

named-after

(poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains and a final couplet, in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.


Spenserian sonnet

en-noun

Spenserian sonnet (plural Spenserian sonnets)

Named after English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/1553–1599) and associated with his authorship.

named-after

(poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains with the latter rhyme part being carried over from one quatrain to the next, and a concluding couplet, therefore comprising a rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.


ingenue

Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).

The intelligent and talented blonde who was fluent in English, French and Spanish was interested in art and joined a local theater group to work on set designs but wound up on stage playing an ingenue in Liliom and was spotted by director Vincente Minnelli.

2012, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969, McFarland, →ISBN, page 396:

(theater, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.

naiva

a dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role


Petrarchan sonnet

en-noun

Petrarchan sonnet (plural Petrarchan sonnets)

Named after Italian scholar, poet and humanist Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), who did not invent but made large use of this form in his authorship.

named-after

(poetry) A sonnet comprising an octave and a closing sestet, following the rhyme scheme of either abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd or abba abba cce dde or abba abba cdd cee.


tag

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

cog

Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.

2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success, page 300:

(television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.

Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.

(Can we date this quote?), michael, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away

(Can we date this quote?), Jane MacDonald, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.

(Can we date this quote?), bart_...@hotmail.com, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

(informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").


clapboard

(film) A clapperboard; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.


vend

vend f (definite singular venda, indefinite plural vender, definite plural vendene)

venda (definite singular)
vender (indefinite plural)
vendene (definite plural)

(poetry, music) a stanza, or the tune of one


girafa

→ Hunsrik: Schiraff

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.?
Classical Persian سرنا
Proto-Indo-European *ped-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts
Proto-Iranian *pā́dah
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (p-a-d)
Classical Persian پَا (pā)
Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor.
Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐbor.
Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa)bor.
Italian giraffabor.
Portuguese girafa
Borrowed from Italian giraffa.

etymon

(Brazil, film, television) boom (movable pole used to support a microphone or camera)


factual

From fact + -ual, modeled after, and by analogy with, actual.

The BBC is increasing its budget for factual this year.

(broadcasting) Programmes having content based on facts, such as documentaries.


slot

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.

1940, LIFE, volume 8, number 17, page 111:

(journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.


quiescent

en-adj

quiescent (comparative more quiescent, superlative most quiescent)

more quiescent (comparative)
most quiescent (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Latin quiēscēns, quiēscentem.

lbor

The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".


blast

en-noun

blast (countable and uncountable, plural blasts)

→ Irish: bleaist

From Middle English blast, blest, from Old English blǣst (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāstu, from Proto-Germanic *blēstuz (“blowing, blast”).
Cognate with West Frisian blast (“blast”), dialectal Dutch blast (“stubborn intent, drumming”), obsolete German Blast (“wind, blowing”), German blasen (“to blow”), Dutch blazen (“to blow”), Danish blæst (“wind”), French blaser (“to blunt, dull”). More at blow.

cog

[…] the microphone has been unostentatiously working out its own destiny here and abroad, mainly in America. Evolution seems to be most promising (in the elimination of "microphone blast" and background noises — common faults of the earlier types) in the direction of the electrostatic, or condenser, microphone, […]

1969, The Realist: A Journal of Scientific Humanism, page 67:

(uncountable, broadcasting) Unwanted noise from a microphone.


blast

en-verb

blast (third-person singular simple present blasts, present participle blasting, simple past and past participle blasted)

blasts (present singular third-person)
blasting (participle present)
blasted (participle past)
blasted (past)

⇒ Italian: blastare

From Middle English blasten, blesten, from Old English blǣstan (“to blow, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blēstijan, from Proto-Germanic *blēstijaną. Possibly related to Middle High German blesten (“to stand out, plop, splash”).

noncog

Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.

(transitive, science fiction) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).


abat

(folklore) a vampirelike creature or monster


馬簾

(printing) the continuous dotted lines when creating a table of contents


mosca

From Old Galician-Portuguese mosca, from Latin musca.


mosca

Inherited from Old Spanish mosca, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-. Compare English midge.

digital on-screen graphic
digital on-screen graphic


狒々

狒々 (canonical)
狒々 (canonical)
hihi (romanization)

(Japanese mythology, folklore) a hihi (Japanese monkey-like yokai)


barrel

barrels (plural)
barrell (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternative connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic *𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍃 (*bērils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz, *bērilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear + -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.

vat

round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop

Moreover, it adds to difficulties in adjusting/servicing lamps located over high scenery, ceilings etc., where the barrel networks cannot be lowered or reached.

2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 325:

The barrel, which is usually from 2.0 m to 2.5 m long, and capable of lifting loads up to 120 kg, is suspended from the main housing which contains the motor gearbox unit, etc.

2013, Brian Fitt, Joe Thornley, Lighting Technology, page 118:

(television) A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.


đũa

head

đũa • (箸, 筷, 杜, 𥮊)

vi-noun

(classifier chiếc, cây, cái) đũa • (箸, 筷, 杜, 𥮊)

chiếc (classifier)
cây (classifier)
cái (classifier)
箸 (CJK)
筷 (CJK)
杜 (CJK)
𥮊 (CJK)

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 箸 (“chopstick”, SV: trợ).

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">trợ</i>


measure

→ Japanese: メジャー (mejā)

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From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra (“a measure”), from mēnsus, past participle of mētīrī (“to measure”). Largely displaced native Old English metan ("to measure" whence modern mete) and ġemet (“a measure”).

lainsäädäntötoimenpide

piece of legislation as course of action

a poem in iambic measure

(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.

размер

poetry: manner of ordering and combining the quantities


aksara

ms-noun

aksara (Jawi spelling اکسارا, plural aksara-aksara)

Indonesian: aksara

Borrowed from Sanskrit अक्षर (akṣara, “alphabet”).


-id

Borrowed from Middle French -ide f, from Latin -is f (genitive: -idis; plural: -ides), from Ancient Greek -ῐς f (-ĭs) (genitive: -ῐδος (-ĭdos); plural: -ῐδες (-ĭdes)).

Aeneas + -id → Aeneid

Achilles + -id → Achilleid

Perseus + -id → Perseid (epic poem)

(literature) Forming the names of epic poems.


editor

editors (plural)
ed. (alternative abbreviation)
edit. (alternative abbreviation)
Ed. (alternative)
editour (alternative obsolete rare)

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From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

(television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

монтажи́ст

someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order


editor

ca-noun

editor m (plural editors, feminine editora)

(graphic arts, publishing, computing) editor


bloom

en-noun

bloom (countable and uncountable, plural blooms)

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

(television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.


strand

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streng (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”). Compare also Old High German stranga (“strand of hair”), modern German Strang (“strand, thread, cord”).

cog

By 1985, the children's strand had been renamed Children's BBC (CBBC by the mid-1990s), which continued to show animation among other programming in a dedicated time slot.

2020, Nichola Dobson, Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons, page 45:

(broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

sarja

broadcasting:series of programmes on a particular theme


TNT

(television) initialism of television numérique terrestre (“digital OTA (digital over-the-air television)”)


style

en-noun

style (countable and uncountable, plural styles)

styles (plural)
stile (alternative)
stylee (alternative)
stile (alternative obsolete)

→ Finnish: staili

→ Scottish Gaelic: stoidhle

→ Iban: stail

→ Japanese: スタイル (sutairu)

→ Korean: 스타일 (seutail)

→ Malay: stail

→ Portuguese: style

→ Swahili: staili

The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”), from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). Doublet of stylus.
The English word is cognate with Catalan estil (“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”), German Stiel (“handle; stalk”), Italian stilo (“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”), Occitan estil, Portuguese estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”), Spanish estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

styl

manner of expression in writing or speech

styl

the house style of the journal

If you have to settle for an expert typist who has not completed recent dissertations for your school, buy two copies of the style manual, one for you and one for the typist.

1993, Evelyn Hunt Ogden, “Spending Money and Using the 20th Century to Your Advantage”, in Completing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Master’s Thesis in Two Semesters or Less, 2nd edition, Lanham, Md., Toronto, Ont.: ScarecrowEducation, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, published 2003, →ISBN, page 60:

There are many excellent style manuals, and every good writer should have one or more of these at hand, along with the appropriate formatting instructions for the particular standard beng followed. This book is a how-to survival manual for students, researchers, and family members who need to learn and use APA [American Psychological Association] style and who would like to use some of the tools provided by Microsoft Word.

2012, Larry A. Pace, “Preface and Acknowledgments”, in Using Microsoft Word to Write Research Papers in APA Style, Anderson, S.C.: TwoPaces.com, →ISBN, page 5:

A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.

(printing, publishing) A set of rules regarding the presentation of text (spelling, typography, the citation of references, etc.) and illustrations that is applied by a publisher to the works it produces.

styl

set of rules applied by a publisher to the works it produces


BOM

balm (some speakers with the father-bother merger)

(journalism) Acronym of business-office must (“a story that must be published at the behest of the publication's business office”).


wrap

en-noun

wrap (countable and uncountable, plural wraps)

From Middle English wrappe, from the verb (see above).

This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.

2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164:

Attend a news conference, and prepare a wrap or package.

2005, Ted White, Broadcast News: Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 245:

(television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.


anti-gravity

(science fiction) Any concept, system or device that would oppose or cancel out the force of gravity.


shield

From Middle English scheld, shelde, from Old English scield (“shield”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“cut, split”). Cognate with West Frisian skyld, Dutch schild (“shield”), German Schild (“shield”), Danish skjold (“shield”), Icelandic skjöldur (“shield”) and Faroese skjøldur (“shield”).
Compare Latin scūtum (“shield”), Irish sciath (“shield”), Latgalian škīda (“shield”), Lithuanian skydas (“shield”), Russian щит (ščit, “shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, protect”), *skey- (“to cut, split”).

noncog

Kinetic barriers, colloquially called "shields", provide protection against most mass accelerator weapons. Whether on a starship or a soldier's suit of armor, the basic principle remains the same.
Kinetic barriers are repulsive mass effect fields projected from tiny emitters. These shields safely deflect small objects traveling at rapid velocities. This affords protection from bullets and other dangerous projectiles, but still allows the user to sit down without knocking away their chair.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kinetic Barriers ("Shields") Codex entry:

Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.

(science fiction) A field of energy that protects or defends.

schild

sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends


orphan

orphans (plural)
orphane (alternative obsolete)

Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos.
 PIE word
 *h₃órbʰos
Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.

weeskind

person whose (parent or) parents have died

anak yatim (who has lost father, literally means orphan child)

(typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.

fransk horeunge

single line of type at the bottom of page


mist

en-verb

mist (third-person singular simple present mists, present participle misting, simple past and past participle misted)

mists (present singular third-person)
misting (participle present)
misted (participle past)
misted (past)

The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).
The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian.

inh

(printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.


prosa

From Old Galician-Portuguese prosa, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) in the term prōsa ōrātio (“straightforward speech”), alteration of prōrsa, from the feminine form of prōrsus (“straight, forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from prō- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”).

der

(literature, uncountable) prose (written language not intended as poetry)


stereo

en-noun

stereo (countable and uncountable, plural stereos)

A shortened form of stereotype, stereoscope or stereophonic, all originally derived from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”).


ancora

From Latin ancora. Doublet of anchor and anker.

(palaeography) Either of the symbols ⟨⸔⟩, ⟨⸕⟩ found in marginal notes to mark missing text.


greeking

If text gets smaller than this value, [Adobe] Illustrator shows the text blocks as gray bars, an operation called greeking. Both type size and view size figure into the equation, so that 6-point type greeks at 100-percent view size and 12-point type greeks at 50 percent. Greeking speeds the screen display because gray bars are easier to draw than individual characters.

2002, Deke McClelland, “The Interface”, in Real World Adobe Illustrator 10, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN, pages 46–47:

Designers have long worked with a concept known as greeking. Greeking is a method of drawing gray bars to represent blocks of text rather than taking the time to image them all on the screen. […] Unless you really want to see every character of every word at every size, there's hardly any reason to turn greeking off.

2007, David Blatner, Gene Gable, Real World QuarkXPress 7, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN:

The use of greeking (also called dummy text) allows page designers to place text on a page without the actual content acting as a distraction. The history of greeking is unclear, but it was first used in the middle of the 20th century. The text was based on the words of Cicero, a Roman leader whose writings are admired. The language he spoke and wrote was Latin rather than Greek, so the naming of this dummy text is misleading.

2007, Susan E. L. Lake, Karen Bean, “Using Other Design Tools”, in The Business of Technology: Digital Desktop Publishing, Mason, Oh.: Thompson/South-Western, →ISBN, page 109:

(computing, typography) Nonsense text or graphics inserted into a document as a placeholder to create a dummy layout, or to demonstrate a type font; the practice of using such placeholder text or graphics.


rom com

rom coms (plural)
romcom (alternative)
rom-com (alternative)


storey

en-noun

storey (plural storeys or (obsolete) stories)

storeys (plural)
stories (obsolete plural)
story (alternative Philippines US)

From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches. Doublet of story and history.
An alternative etymology derives Middle English story from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.

der

Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey .

(typography) A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.


blimp

Origin not entirely certain. However, most historians believe that it is onomatopoeia for the sound a blimp makes when thumped. Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A. D. Cunningham of the British Royal Navy in 1915.
There is an often repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type B-limp, hence “blimp”. In fact, A. D. Topping reports on the “Etymology of ‘Blimp’”, in the AAHS Journal, Winter 1963, that:
: “there was no American ‘A-class’ of airships as such—all military aircraft, heavier or lighter-than-air were designated with ‘A’ until the appearance of B-class airships in May 1917. There was an American B airship—but there seems to be no record of any official designation of non-rigids as ‘limp’. Further, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the first appearance of the word in print was in 1916, in England, a year before the first B-class airship.”

onom

onomatopoeia

You can create your own blimp or barney with anything that will deaden the camera noise, such as a changing bag, foam rubber, […]

2015, Peter W. Rea, David K. Irving, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, page 209:

(film, television) A soundproof cover for a video camera.


redundant

en-adj

redundant (comparative more redundant, superlative most redundant)

more redundant (comparative)
most redundant (superlative)

From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).

(of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.


ark

ark (indefinite nominative singular)
arks (genitive indefinite singular)
arket (definite nominative singular)
arkets (definite genitive singular)
ark (indefinite nominative plural)
arks (genitive indefinite plural)
arken (definite nominative plural)
arkens (definite genitive plural)

→ Finnish: arkki

From Old Swedish ark, from Middle Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Compare German Bogen. It refers to the bend of the parchment when folded.

(printing) a signature, a multiple of four pages printed on a single sheet, which is folded and bound into a book


enano

es-noun

enano m (plural enanos, feminine enana, feminine plural enanas)

enanos (plural)
enana (feminine)
enanas (feminine plural)

→ Cebuano: unano

→ Tagalog: unano

From Latin nānus, from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos). Cognate with Portuguese anão. Compare English nano-.


octave

From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.

Octave in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

With mournful melody it continued this octave.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

(poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.


trickster

1991, Alan R. Velie (compiler and editor), American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Revised edition, page 44,
The trickster is one of the oldest and most widespread of mythological and literary figures. […] As the name implies, the trickster is, on one level—probably the most important—an amoral practical joker who wanders about playing pranks on unsuspecting victims […] With all the fluctuations, certain things about the trickster are predictable: he is always a wanderer, always hungry, and usually oversexed.
Tricksters abound in folktales […] .

And let us begin with those sympathetic elements, the tricksters who obtain the lovers and the land, always at the expense of fools and knaves, sometimes at the expense of other tricksters.

2015, J. Douglas Canfield, Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy, page 31:

(mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others with their acts of trickery; any similar figure in literature.


cyborg

Blend of cybernetic + organism. Coined by Austrian neuroscientist Manfred Clynes in 1960.

coinage

I would not classify the Tin Woodman as magical robot, but more of a magical cyborg, if anything.

1981, Teri (Pettit at PARC-MAXC), fa.sf-lovers newsgroup, "Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V3 #122", May 15

Prof. Clynes is a published poet and author of five books. He coined the word "cyborg". He also coined the word "sentics" to describe a new science entirely of his own devising.

1991, Timothy K. Smith, "Manfred Clynes Sees A Pattern in Love -- He's Got the Printouts", The Wall Street Journal, September 24, front page

... Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Warwick is no stranger to publicity. His autobiography, I, Cyborg, which came out last month (Century, £16.99), meticulously catalogues his very many newspaper, magazine, radio and TV appearances. With commendable honesty, he also acknowledges the amount of (unfair, obviously) criticism he has received for being greedy for media attention. That isn't the main thrust of the book, though, which is rather an account of why he is turning himself into a cyborg.

2002 September 19, “Short Cuts”, in London Review of Books, volume 24, number 18, Thomas Jones:

The cyborg subject, with its pacemakers, drug regimes and artificial limbs, is usually also the first world middle to upper-class economic subject with a conscious incentive to preserve life for as long as possible under the best possible conditions.

2003, David Simpson, "Are we still tragic?", guardian.co.uk (exclusive from London Review of Books Vol. 25 No. 7, April 3), April 1

On the track of John and Kate is the T-X (Kristanna Loken), a blond female cyborg so metallically single-minded, and so impervious to blandishment and punishment alike, that, from where I was sitting, she looked to be our best hope of getting a woman into the Oval Office.

2003 July 14, Anthony Lane, “The Current Cinema -- Metal Guru”, in The New Yorker:

Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:

(science fiction) A being which is part machine and part organic.


cyborg

en-verb

cyborg (third-person singular simple present cyborgs, present participle cyborging, simple past and past participle cyborged)

cyborgs (present singular third-person)
cyborging (participle present)
cyborged (participle past)
cyborged (past)

(science fiction) To convert (something) into a cyborg.


cyborg

Unadapted borrowing from English cyborg.


cyborg

cyborg (nominative singular)
cyborgi (nominative plural)
cyborga (genitive singular)
cyborgów (genitive plural)
cyborgowi (dative singular)
cyborgom (dative plural)
cyborga (accusative singular)
cyborgi (accusative plural)
cyborgiem (instrumental singular)
cyborgami (instrumental plural)
cyborgu (locative singular)
cyborgach (locative plural)
cyborgu (singular vocative)
cyborgi (plural vocative)

Orthographic borrowing from English cyborg.

obor

(robotics, science fiction) cyborg (being which is part machine and part organic)


prime

composite

prime element of a mathematical structure

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

der

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

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


master

masters (plural)
maistre (alternative archaic)
Marse (alternative Caribbean US dialectal obsolete)
marse (alternative Caribbean US dialectal obsolete)
mas'r (alternative)
Master (alternative)
mastre (alternative obsolete)
maister (alternative obsolete)
mayster (alternative obsolete)
Massa (alternative)
massa (alternative)
massah (alternative)
massy (alternative)
masta (alternative)
Mastah (alternative)
mastah (alternative)
mastuh (alternative)
measter (alternative UK obsolete pronunciation-spelling)
mester (alternative dialectal)
mister (alternative dialectal)

Sranan Tongo: masra

→ Catalan: màster

→ Finnish: master

→ French: master

→ German: Master

→ Polish: master

→ Portuguese: máster

→ Spanish: máster

→ Turkish: master

From Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre (noun) and maistriier, maister (verb) from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro, magister, and meister.

doublet

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete

use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house

(film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.


inferior

en-adj

inferior (comparative more inferior, superlative most inferior)

more inferior (comparative)
most inferior (superlative)
inferiour (alternative)

Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”).

bor

an inferior figure or letter

Located below:
(typography) Printed in subscript.


inferior

inferiors (plural)
inferiour (alternative)

(printing) An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.


superior

/sʉːˈpɪə.ɹiː.ə/

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upper”).

a superior figure or letter


superior

superiors (plural)
superiour (alternative UK obsolete)

/sʉːˈpɪə.ɹiː.ə/

(printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.


circular

pt-verb

circular (first-person singular present circulo, first-person singular preterite circulei, past participle circulado)

circulo (first-person present singular)
circulei (first-person preterite singular)
circulado (participle past)
circular (impersonal infinitive)
circular (first-person infinitive singular)
circulares (infinitive second-person singular)
circular (infinitive singular third-person)
circularmos (first-person infinitive plural)
circulardes (infinitive plural second-person)
circularem (infinitive plural third-person)
circulando (gerund)
circulado (masculine participle past singular)
circulados (masculine participle past plural)
circulada (feminine participle past singular)
circuladas (feminine participle past plural)
circulo (first-person indicative present singular)
circulas (indicative present second-person singular)
circula (indicative present singular third-person)
circulamos (first-person indicative plural present)
circulais (indicative plural present second-person)
circulam (indicative plural present third-person)
circulava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
circulavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
circulava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
circulávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
circuláveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
circulavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
circulei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
circulaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
circulou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
circulamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
circulámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
circulastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
circularam (indicative plural preterite third-person)
circulara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
circularas (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
circulara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
circuláramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
circuláreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
circularam (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
circularei (first-person future indicative singular)
circularás (future indicative second-person singular)
circulará (future indicative singular third-person)
circularemos (first-person future indicative plural)
circulareis (future indicative plural second-person)
circularão (future indicative plural third-person)
circularia (conditional first-person singular)
circularias (conditional second-person singular)
circularia (conditional singular third-person)
circularíamos (conditional first-person plural)
circularíeis (conditional plural second-person)
circulariam (conditional plural third-person)
circule (first-person present singular subjunctive)
circules (present second-person singular subjunctive)
circule (present singular subjunctive third-person)
circulemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
circuleis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
circulem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
circulasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
circulasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
circulasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
circulássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
circulásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
circulassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
circular (first-person future singular subjunctive)
circulares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
circular (future singular subjunctive third-person)
circularmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
circulardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
circularem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
circula (imperative second-person singular)
circule (imperative singular third-person)
circulemos (first-person imperative plural)
circulai (imperative plural second-person)
circulem (imperative plural third-person)
não circules (imperative negative second-person singular)
não circule (imperative negative singular third-person)
não circulemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não circuleis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não circulem (imperative negative plural third-person)

Borrowed from Latin circulāre (“to make round”), post-Augustan form of Latin circulārī.

Este é o único jornal que ainda circula.

This is the only newspaper still in circulation.

(intransitive) to circulate; to be disseminated; to be spread; to go around

(media) to circulate (to be published and distributed)


narrator

Morgan Freeman was the narrator of March of the Penguins.

(film and television) The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.


fill

en-noun

fill (countable and uncountable, plural fills)

From Middle English fille, vülle, fülle, from Old English fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄ (“fullness”). Cognate with German Fülle.

(film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.


Persephone

From Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

(science fiction) The ninth or tenth planet, orbiting beyond Pluto.


panel

From Middle English panel (“piece of cloth, saddle pad, pane of glass, piece of ice, part, division, jury list, jury members”), from Anglo-Norman panel, panelle (“piece of cloth, saddle cushion”), from Vulgar Latin *pannellus, diminutive of Latin pannus (“cloth, rag, garment”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Cognate with Old English fana (“a piece of cloth, patch, banner, flag, vane”). Doublet of vane.

cog

The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.

(comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.


panel

berpanel

panelled, having a panel; having a board

(comics) panel (an individual frame or drawing in a comic)


cena

(theater, film, television, radio) scene (part of a dramatic work)


cenobite

cenobites (plural)
coenobite (alternative)
cœnobite (alternative)

From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).

der

(fiction) A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.


字母

/t͡sz̩⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sz̩⁵¹ muɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡si²⁴²⁻⁵³ mo³³/

/li³³⁻¹¹ bu⁵³/

/li⁴¹⁻²² bu⁵⁵⁴/

/li²²⁻²¹ bu⁵³/

/zi³³⁻²¹ bɤ⁴¹/

/d͡zi²²⁻²¹ bo⁵³/

/zi³³⁻²¹ bu⁴¹/

/t͡sz̩⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sz̩⁵¹ muɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡si²⁴²⁻⁵³ mo³³/

/li³³⁻¹¹ bu⁵³/

/li⁴¹⁻²² bu⁵⁵⁴/

/li²²⁻²¹ bu⁵³/

/zi³³⁻²¹ bɤ⁴¹/

/d͡zi²²⁻²¹ bo⁵³/

/zi³³⁻²¹ bu⁴¹/


Middle-earth

Middle Earth (alternative)
Middle-Earth (alternative)

(fiction) The main setting of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and other works.

Միջերկիր

fictional place on Earth where most of the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien are set


rampant

fr-adj

rampant (feminine rampante, masculine plural rampants, feminine plural rampantes)

rampante (feminine)
rampants (masculine plural)
rampantes (feminine plural)


hentai

en-noun

hentai (countable and uncountable, plural hentai or hentais)

→ Cebuano: hentai

→ Finnish: hentai

→ French: hentai

→ German: Hentai

→ Indonesian: hentai

→ Italian: hentai

→ Korean: 헨타이 (hentai)

→ Polish: hentai

→ Portuguese: hentai

→ Russian: хентай (xentaj)

→ Spanish: hentai

→ Swedish: hentai

→ Tagalog: hentai

→ Ukrainian: хента́й (xentáj)

Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者(へんたいせいよくしゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

ja-r

へんたい せいよく-しゃ

There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love

2019, “Hentai”, in Cry, performed by Cigarettes After Sex:

X defines adult content as […]
This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".

2024 June 5, “Porn now officially allowed on X with safeguards for those under 18”, in Channel News Asia:

(Japanese pornography) A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.


rishathra

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-rishathra.wav

Generalized from the term coined by author Larry Niven in his Ringworld novels.

(science fiction) Sex between any two (or more) humanoids of different species.


cloak

en-verb

cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)

cloaks (present singular third-person)
cloaking (participle present)
cloaked (participle past)
cloaked (past)
cloke (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos, ultimately imitative.
Doublet of cloche and clock.

onomatopoeic

imitative

The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

(science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.


roger

→ Japanese: ラジャー (rajā)

From Roger, used circa 1940 in UK and US military communication to represent "R" when spelling out a word. "R" is the first letter in received, used to acknowledge understanding a message. "Roger" for "received" was in spoken usage in air traffic radio parlance by 1950.

Pilot: CESSNA TWO THREE FOUR—ROGER—OUT.

(radio telecommunications) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)


roger

en-verb

roger (third-person singular simple present rogers, present participle rogering, simple past and past participle rogered)

rogers (present singular third-person)
rogering (participle present)
rogered (participle past)
rogered (past)

The Explorer radio operator rogered receipt of the War Room's signal.

(radio telecommunications, transitive) To acknowledge by saying "roger".


confess

confess (third-person singular simple present confesses, present participle confessing, simple past and past participle confessed)

confesses (present singular third-person)
confessing (participle present)
confessed (participle past)
confessed (past)

From Middle English confessen, from Anglo-Norman confesser, from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus (Old French confés), past participle of cōnfiteor (“I confess, I admit”) from con- + fateor (“I admit”). Displaced Middle English andetten (“to confess, admit”) (from Old English andettan). Doublet of confiteor.
Sense 6 is a calque of 告白 (kokuhaku).

cog

(chiefly Japanese media) To profess one's love.


conceit

en-noun

conceit (countable and uncountable, plural conceits)

conceits (plural)
conceipt (alternative obsolete)

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

From Middle English conceyte, formed from conceyven by analogy with pairs such as (Modern English) deceive~deceit, receive~receipt etc. Doublet of concept and concetto. Akin to Portuguese conceito.

The “cyberspace” conceit allows him to dramatize computer hacking in nontechnical language, although I wonder how much his somewhat florid descriptions of the “bodiless exultation of cyberspace” will mean to readers who have not experienced the illusion of power that punching the keyboard of even a dinky little word-processor can give.

1985 November 24, Gerald Jonas, “Science Fiction”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In the next and final stanza, Donne expands the conceit of world exploration to present us with a further distinction between the spirituality of the lovers and the “map reader” and “sea-discoverers.”

2009, Harold Bloom, John Donne, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 16:

Jones and Palin wrote and starred in The Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969) for LWT. Its conceit was to relate historical incidents as if TV had existed at the time.

2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:

(countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.

metafora

ingenious expression or metaphorical idea as a literary device


leonine

Léonin
Pope Leo II
Pope Leo IV
San Clemente al Laterano

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English leonin, leonine (“of or pertaining to a person named Leo; specifically Pope Leo IV”), from Latin leōnīnus, from Leo (“man’s name”) (from leo (“lion”): see etymology 1) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Sense 2 (“being or relating to a kind of verse with internal rhyme”) is said to refer to a (possibly apocryphal) medieval monk named Leo or Leonius who composed verse with this characteristic; his identity is uncertain, but the composer Léonin (also known as Leo, Leoninus, or Leonius; flourished 1135–1201) has been suggested. Alternatively, the word may refer to Pope Leo II (c. 611–683): see the c. 1760–1761 quotation.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

leonine rhyme

In the Church of St. Dominick is a ſmall Picture of the Bleſſed Virgin, vvith the Infant JESUS in her Arms, vvell painted, and yet, appears to have been done in the Iron Age of Painting and other Arts, by the follovving verses, vvrit under it. […] Theſe Leonine Verſes, as plainly appears by them, expreſs a Senſe contrary to the Intention of the VVriter.

1712, [Bernard de] Montfaucon, “My Journey to Siena; […]”, in [John Henley?], transl., The Travels of the Learned Father Montfaucon from Paris thro’ Italy. […], London: […] D. L. for E[dmund] Curll […], E[gbert] Sanger […], R[obert] Gosling […], and W. Lewis […], →OCLC, page 403:

Observe, that, if the date of this poem be true, the general opinion, that the Leonine verse owes its name to Leonius, seems to be false; […] It is not therefore very likely, as Leonius flourished in 1154, that he should give name to such Latin verses upwards of thirty years before. Indeed some people have thought that it was called after Leo, probably the Second, who lived in 684, a pope who is said to have reformed the hymns and the music of the church.

c. 1760–1761 (date written; published 1814), Thomas Gray, “[Essays. Metrum.] Observations on the Pseudo-Rhythmus.”, in Edmund Gosse, editor, The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. […], volume I (Poems, Journals, and Essays), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, pages 374–375:

[T]he Latin poetry, instead of Leonine rhymes, or attempts at regular hexameters almost equally bad, becomes, in the hands of Gunther, Gualterus de Insulis, Gulielmus Brito, and Joseph Iscanus, to whom a considerable number of names might be added, always tolerable, sometimes truly spirited; […]

1837–1839, Henry Hallam, “On the General State of Literature in the Middle Ages to the End of the Fourteenth Century”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, paragraph 84, page 100:

(poetry) Being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme); also (by extension), of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme.

leoniininen

being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse; of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme


leonine

A[llen]. The Clink of Syllables call'd Rymes, / Brought in ith' barb'rous Runick times, / To ſober Criticks ſeems to be / A paultry part of Poetry, / Becoming Monkiſh dull Divines, / VVho traded much in Leonines. / J[ohn]. Altho' to ſpoil I ſhould be ſorry, / An undergraduate Antiquary, / Yet I'll produce a Line or tvvo / Of Leonines in Cicero, / Before the Monks long time ago.

1715, “Canto III”, in The Miller of Trompington: being an Exercise upon Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale, London: […] Jonas Brown, […]; and sold by J[ames] Roberts […], →OCLC, pages 44–45:

[F]rom the jingling of the Greek couplet juſt before, and ſimilar inſtances of his taſte, I am perſuaded Sir VVilliam intended theſe as Leonines perfect in their kind.

1771 December, “Illustration of the Inscription on Sir W[illiam] Browne’s Monument. […] Continued from Our Last. The Notes.”, in The Town and Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume III, London: […] A[rchibald] Hamilton Junr. […]; [a]nd sold by Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, page 648, column 1:

The manuscript of Trinity College, Cambridge, which we have already mentioned, was written at the beginning of the thirteenth century, and the proverbs which it contains are translations into Latin leonines of some of the more popular English, and, in one or two instances, Norman proverbs of that time.

1835 March, “Art. V.— […] 4. Collection of English Proverbs of the Twelfth Century, Translated into Latin Leonines. MS. Trin. Coll. Camb. O. 2. 45. (Unpublished.) [book review]”, in Cochrane’s Foreign Quarterly Review, volume I, number II, London: Whittaker & Co. […]; Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 395:

(poetry, chiefly in the plural) Synonym of Leonine verse (“a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme)”).


lav

When you’re recording interviews, it’s best to use a lav.

lavalier microphone
lavalier microphone#English

(film, informal) Clipping of lavalier microphone.


-o

اَوُرَكِيْبُوُ جُوَ نِمَاسِ ، كَكُلَ خَسَرَ اُخَسِرِيِ

18th century, Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, Al-Inkishafi, stanza 13:

The one who rides it, know you are a rebel; you harm yourself.

Aurakibuo jua ni-mwasi, kwa-kula khasara ukhasiriye.

(archaic, Northern Swahili, poetry) relative marker for any noun class


tempus

la-noun

tempus n (genitive temporis); third declension

temporis (genitive)
tempus (nominative singular)
tempora (nominative plural)
temporis (genitive singular)
temporum (genitive plural)
temporī (dative singular)
temporibus (dative plural)
tempus (accusative singular)
tempora (accusative plural)
tempore (ablative singular)
temporibus (ablative plural)
tempus (singular vocative)
tempora (plural vocative)
temporī (locative singular)
tempore (locative singular)
temporibus (locative plural)

Eastern Romance:

Megleno-Romanian: timp

Romanian: timp

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: tempu

Dalmatian: tiamp

Istriot: tenpo

Italian: tempo (see there for further descendants)

desc

Judeo-Italian: טִִינְפוֹ (ṭinəpo /tinpo/)

Neapolitan: tiempo

Sicilian: tempu

Venetan: tenpo, tempo, tènp

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: timp

Ladin: tëmp

Romansch: temp, taimp, tains

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: tänp

Ligurian: tempo

Lombard: temp

Piedmontese: temp

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: temps

Old French: temps (see there for further descendants)

Occitano-Romance:

Old Catalan: temps

Catalan: temps

desctree

Old Occitan: tems
Occitan: tèms, tems, temps

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: tiempu

Old Galician-Portuguese: tempo

Galician: tempo

Portuguese: tempo

Spanish: tiempo

Borrowings:

→ Finnish: tempus

→ Middle Welsh: tymhor

Welsh: tymor

→ Norwegian Bokmål: tempus

→ Russian: темп (temp)

→ Sardinian: tempus

→ Swedish: tempus

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tempula, *templa

Catalan: templa

Italian: tempia

Old French: temple
French: tempe
→ Middle English: temple
English: temple

Romanian: tâmplă

⇒ Asturian: tenllera

⇒ Galician: tempas

→ Basque: denbora

→ Italian: tempora

→ Portuguese: têmpora

→ Sicilian: tèmpura

→ Spanish: témpora

From Proto-Italic *tempos; thence, two ultimate origins have been proposed:
* From Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the extension *temp- of the root *ten- (“to stretch, string”), with meaning development "what is stretched, stretching" → "stretch (of time)" → "time, occasion".
* From Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”), thus "a section (of time)", this root also giving Latin temnō, tondeō, Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō). templum is a possible cognate that has also been assigned to both roots.
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek τὰ καίρῐᾰ (tà kaírĭă, “the vital or fatal place (on the body)”), from καιρός (kairós, “time, opportunity, etc.”), and is less frequent in singular form. Compare Old English þunwang (“temple of the head”), Middle High German tinne, tinge (“forehead, temples”).
As seen from the adverb temperī, the noun would originally have declined like genus.

cog

(poetry, rhetoric) time; measure, quantity


spud

From Middle English spudde (“small knife”). Origin unknown; probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjót (“spear”), German Spieß (“spear; spike; skewer”). Compare English spit (“sharp, pointed rod”). The use of the term for a potato was perhaps first used in New Zealand and Australian dialect and slang.

This spigot (spud) is used to support the lamp, and allows it to be turned from side to side. The spud fits into a socket in a bracket (receptable^([sic])) or a C-clamp. This fixture enables you to suspend the lighting fixture from an overhead bar […]

1991, Gerald Millerson, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film, page 299:

(film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.


cutaway

cutaways (plural)
cut-away (alternative)

fraklip

the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else

the director struggles to jazz up his stilted blocking with clumsy montage cutaways, which are only effective in the upbeat, darkly funny number “Sincerely, Me,” in which Evan dreams up a dance-filled fantasy of his fake friendship with Connor.

2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:

(television) The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.

Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots […]

(television) A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction.

plan de coupe

a cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker


مترجم

ar-adj

مُتَرْجَمُونَ

مُتَرْجَمَات

مُتَرْجَم • (mutarjam) (feminine مُتَرْجَمَة (mutarjama), masculine plural مُتَرْجَمُونَ (mutarjamūna), feminine plural مُتَرْجَمَات (mutarjamāt))

مُتَرْجَم (canonical)
mutarjam (romanization)
مُتَرْجَمَة (feminine)
مُتَرْجَمُونَ (masculine plural)
مُتَرْجَمَات (feminine plural)
مُتَرْجَم (indefinite informal masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَم (definite informal masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَة (ar-infl-a feminine indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَة (ar-infl-a definite feminine informal singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمٌ (indefinite masculine nominative singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمُ (definite masculine nominative singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَةٌ (ar-infl-a feminine indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَةُ (ar-infl-a definite feminine nominative singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمًا (accusative indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَ (accusative definite masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَةً (accusative ar-infl-a feminine indefinite singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite feminine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمٍ (genitive indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمِ (definite genitive masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَةٍ (ar-infl-a feminine genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَةِ (ar-infl-a definite feminine genitive singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَيْن (dual indefinite informal masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَيْن (definite dual informal masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine informal singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَانِ (dual indefinite masculine nominative singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَانِ (definite dual masculine nominative singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine nominative singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَيْنِ (accusative definite dual masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual feminine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَيْنِ (definite dual genitive masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual feminine genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine genitive singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمِين (indefinite informal masculine plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمِين (definite informal masculine plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمَات (feminine indefinite informal plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمَات (definite feminine informal plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمُونَ (indefinite masculine nominative plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمُونَ (definite masculine nominative plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمَاتٌ (feminine indefinite nominative plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمَاتُ (definite feminine nominative plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمِينَ (accusative indefinite masculine plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمِينَ (accusative definite masculine plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمَاتٍ (accusative feminine indefinite plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمَاتِ (accusative definite feminine plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمِينَ (genitive indefinite masculine plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمِينَ (definite genitive masculine plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمَاتٍ (feminine genitive indefinite plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمَاتِ (definite feminine genitive plural sound-form)

Derived from the passive participle of the verb تَرْجَمَ (tarjama, “to translate”), from the root ت ر ج م (t r j m).


pathos

en-noun

pathos (countable and uncountable, plural pathoses)

From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).

uder

(literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.


figa

From Old Galician-Portuguese figa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *fīca (“vulva”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree or fruit”).

(folklore) fig sign, used to ward off evil spirits, the evil eye, etc. When directed to a person is insulting and equivalent to a bras d'honneur


barre

→ English: barre

→ Romanian: bară

→ Vietnamese: ba-rê

From Middle French barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Frankish *bara (“bar, beam, barrier, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to strike, pierce”).
If so, then cognate with Old High German para, bara (“bar, beam, one's cherished land”), Middle Dutch bāre, baer (“bar, barrier, rail”), Old Frisian ber (“attack, assault”), Swedish bärling (“a spoke”), Norwegian berling (“a small bar in a vehicle, rod”), Latin forus (“gangway, plank”), Russian забо́р (zabór, “fencing, paling, fence”), Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros, “piece of land, furrow, marker, beacon, lighthouse”).
An alternative etymology derives Old French barre and Vulgar Latin *barra from a Celtic source related to Breton barri (“branch, twig”).
Doublet of bar.

cog

(typography) clipping of barre oblique: the slash mark ⟨/⟩

barre de fraction
barre de fraction#French

(typography) clipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩

(typography) clipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩

barre inscrite

(typography) clipping of barre verticale: the vertical bar ⟨|⟩

barre oblique inversée
barre oblique inversée#French

(typography, improper) clipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash ⟨\⟩


bloop

en-verb

bloop (third-person singular simple present bloops, present participle blooping, simple past and past participle blooped)

bloops (present singular third-person)
blooping (participle present)
blooped (participle past)
blooped (past)

onom

Imitative

Optical track can be blooped by using blooping tape, which is available from motion picture equipment dealers.

1979, John Mercer, An Introduction to Cinematography, page 96:

(television, transitive) To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.


brayer

(printing) A hand printing tool, in the US often a roller, used to spread a thin even layer of ink. Early brayers, consisting of a vertical cylinder with a single handle, were designed to break up thick inks before spreading.


cam

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

(cinematography) cam (device for filming)


canto

From Old Galician-Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus (“song; singing”), perfect passive participle of canō (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”). Cognate of English chant.


chuff

en-noun

chuff (countable and uncountable, plural chuffs)

(scriptwriting, uncountable) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.


coca

From cocatriz, probably from Old French cocatriz, from Latin calcātrīx.

de baleas, de cocas, de orças et de todoslos outros pescados quea ẽnas agoas

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:

of whales, of cockatrices, of orcas and of all the other fishes that are in the waters

que ordenaba e mandaba que andase logo a dita confraría de Santa Oufémea depúus a confraría de Santa María a Madre con sua danza de espadas e çirios e outros jogos algúus, se os tebesen, saluo que o jogo da qoqa que andase aalende das confrarías de San Sebastián e de San Migeel, junto con a confraría dos carniçeyros, por que a dita coqa he escandallosa

1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 145:

they ordered and commanded that the guild of Saint Euphemia be the firt [in the parade], then the guild of Saint Mary Mother, with its sword dance and candles and other amusements, if they have any, with the exception of the game of the cockatrice, which should go after the guilds of Saint Sebastian and Saint Michael, with the butcher's guild, because said cockatrice is scandalous

(mythology, folklore) cockatrice, in Galician folklore a water creature


corona

A favorite and most attractive combination is that of the corona or series of sonnets, employed to frame or develop some one theme. A list of these corone is given by Biadene, who selects and publishes from among them a series of three by Petrarch, and the famous corona of the months by Folgore da San Gemignano.

1889 May, F. M. Warren, “The Sonnet. Morfologia del Sonetto nei secoli xiii e xiv. L. Biadene [Studj di Filologia Romanza, Fasc. 10.]”, in A. Marshall Elliott, editor, Modern Language Notes, volume IV, Baltimore, Md.: [Johns Hopkins University Press], →ISSN, →OCLC, column 308:

But the poets of Siena, and particularly the Academy of the Intronati, found the proper way of constructing coronas—since the ones mentioned above should really be called sequences ['catene'] rather than coronas.

1997, Michael R. G. Spiller, The Sonnet Sequence: A Study of Its Strategies (Studies in Literary Themes and Genres; 13), New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 144:

[Lady Mary] Wroth alludes to these contexts as the corona of sonnets that crowns the sequence opens: "In this strang labourinth how shall I turne?" (Wroth, Poems 127).

2000, Mary B. Moore, “The Labyrinth of Style: Lady Mary Wroth and the Idea of Petrarchism”, in Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism, Carbondale, Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

Both sets of echoes derive from the poets' first poems, and since first poems in Petrarchan sequences set stylistic, tonal, and thematic expectations, Robert [Sidney]'s double allusion to first poems should color readings of this, the first poem of his corona.

2015, Mary B. Moore, “Robert Sidney’s Poetry”, in Margaret P. Hannay, Mary Ellen Lamb, Michael G. Brennan, editors, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700, volume 2 (Literature), Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, part VI (Poetry), page 250:

(poetry) A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.


decant

en-verb

decant (third-person singular simple present decants, present participle decanting, simple past and past participle decanted)

decants (present singular third-person)
decanting (participle present)
decanted (participle past)
decanted (past)

From French décanter, from Medieval Latin dēcanthāre, from dē- + canthus (“beak of a cup or jug”).

“We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future …” He was going to say “future World controllers,” but correcting himself, said “future Directors of Hatcheries,” instead.

(science fiction) To remove (a clone or other artificially-gestated baby) from its chamber, vat, or artificial womb.


dipole

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dipole.wav


dor

az-noun

dor (definite accusative doru, plural dorlar)

doru (accusative definite)
dorlar (plural)
dor (nominative singular)
dorlar (nominative plural)
doru (accusative definite singular)
dorları (accusative definite plural)
dora (dative singular)
dorlara (dative plural)
dorda (locative singular)
dorlarda (locative plural)
dordan (ablative singular)
dorlardan (ablative plural)
dorun (definite genitive singular)
dorların (definite genitive plural)
dorum (first-person nominative possessive singular)
dorlarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
dorun (nominative possessive second-person singular)
dorların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
doru (nominative possessive singular third-person)
dorları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
dorumuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
dorlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
dorunuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
dorlarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
doru (nominative plural possessive third-person)
dorları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
dorumu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
dorlarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
dorunu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
dorlarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
dorunu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
dorlarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
dorumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
dorlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
dorunuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
dorlarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
dorunu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
dorlarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
doruma (dative first-person possessive singular)
dorlarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
doruna (dative possessive second-person singular)
dorlarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
doruna (dative possessive singular third-person)
dorlarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
dorumuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
dorlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
dorunuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
dorlarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
doruna (dative plural possessive third-person)
dorlarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
dorumda (first-person locative possessive singular)
dorlarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
dorunda (locative possessive second-person singular)
dorlarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
dorunda (locative possessive singular third-person)
dorlarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
dorumuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
dorlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
dorunuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
dorlarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
dorunda (locative plural possessive third-person)
dorlarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
dorumdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
dorlarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
dorundan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
dorlarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
dorundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
dorlarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
dorumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
dorlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
dorunuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
dorlarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
dorundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
dorlarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
dorumun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
dorlarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
dorunun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
dorlarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
dorunun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
dorlarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
dorumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
dorlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
dorunuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
dorlarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
dorunun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
dorlarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


gape

en-verb

gape (third-person singular simple present gapes, present participle gaping, simple past and past participle gaped)

gapes (present singular third-person)
gaping (participle present)
gaped (participle past)
gaped (past)

From Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (“to gape”) (compare Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (descendants Middle English geapen, Dutch gapen, German gaffen), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰеh₂b-. Cognates include Russian зяпа (zjapa).

(pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.


haiku

nb-noun

haiku m or n (definite singular haikuen or haikuet, indefinite plural haiku, definite plural haikuene)

haikuen (definite singular)
haikuet (definite singular)
haiku (indefinite plural)
haikuene (definite plural)

Ultimately borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku).

Det opprinnelige haikuet er japansk


haiku

nn-noun-multi

haiku m or n (definite singular haikuen or haikuet, indefinite plural haikuar or haiku, definite plural haikuane or haikua)

haikuen (definite singular)
haikuet (definite singular)
haikuar (indefinite plural)
haiku (indefinite plural)
haikuane (definite plural)
haikua (definite plural)

der finst ikkje så mange ord i eit haiku

Paal-Helge Haugen sette om japanske haikuar til norsk[.]

1998, Hadle Oftedal Andersen, editor, Poesiens pil, [Oslo]: Cappelen, page 170:

Paal-Helge Haugen translated Japanese haikus into Norwegian.


haiku

(poetry) haiku (Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme)

(poetry) haiku (three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme)


haiku

(poetry) haiku (type of poem used in Japanese poetry)


iris

irises (plural)
iris (plural)
irides (plural)

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”). Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *w(e)ih₁-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). If so, it would be cognate to English wire.

der

(photography, cinematography) A diaphragm used to regulate the size of a hole, especially as a way of controlling the amount of light reaching a lens.


iris

Borrowed from Dutch iris (“iris”), from Middle French iris, from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris).

(anatomy, photography, cinematography) iris


kern

From French carne (“corner; projecting angle; quill of a pen”), from Latin cardinem (“hinge”) or from Etymology 1. The verb is a back-formation from kerned, which is from the noun. Doublet of cardo.

uder

A few types have a portion of the face letter projecting over the body, as in the letter f ; this projection is called the kern, and in combination with other letters the projecting part generally extends over the next letter, as in fe. In those combinations, wherein the kern would come in contact with another letter, compound types are cast, as in the case of ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl.

1856, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Odd Fellows' Literary Casket, volumes 6-7, page 360:

(hot metal printing, typography) Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.


kern

en-verb

kern (third-person singular simple present kerns, present participle kerning, simple past and past participle kerned)

kerns (present singular third-person)
kerning (participle present)
kerned (participle past)
kerned (past)
kerne (alternative)

If you need to kern anything beyond the most commonly used pairs, you can use applications software such as Adobe PageMaker to customize pairs.

2001, Constance J. Sidles, Graphic Designer's Digital Printing and PrePress Handbook, page 51:

Especially consider kerning if you are printing on a relatively high-resolution printer, such as a 600-dpi (dots per inch) laser printer.

2001, Bill Camarda, Special Edition Using Microsoft Word 2002, page 122:

Remember, the goal of kerning is to make letter pairs look natural, not necessarily to minimize letterspaces.

2006, Tova Rabinowitz, Exploring Typography, page 320:

You should kern letter pairs when spacing between characters is too wide or too narrow.

2008, Terry Rydberg, Exploring Adobe InDesign CS4, page 98:

(typography, chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.

välistää

to adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters


ligand

Borrowed from Latin ligandus, gerundive of ligo (“bind”).

ربيطة

something that binds to another chemical entity

Holonym: ligature

(typography) A letter that orthography requires or allows to be ligated with one or more other letters to form a ligature, such as a in æ or o in œ.


loge

→ German: Loge

→ Dutch: loge

→ Macedonian: ложа (loža)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: losje

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: losje

→ Polish: loża

→ Russian: ло́жа (lóža)

→ Persian: لژ (lož)

→ Swedish: loge

→ Ukrainian: ло́жа (lóža)

Inherited from Middle French loge, from Old French loge. The Masonic sense developed under influence from English lodge.

etymon

(theater, television) dressing room (a room in a theatre or other performance venue in which performers may change costumes and apply makeup)


mire

Borrowed from Italian mira, from Latin mīrō (“to wonder at”).


motif

From Dutch motief, from Middle Dutch motijf, from Old French motif (Modern French motif), from Late Latin mōtivus.

(music, literature) a short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work


Borrowed from Latin nānus, from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos).

(folklore) in Catalan celebrations, someone who wears a large papier-mâché head


nave

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Doublet of nau.

inh+

(colloquial, usually in science fiction) ellipsis of nave espacial (“spaceship”)


nodder

(television) Synonym of noddy (“cutaway scene of an interviewer nodding”).


pica

en-noun

pica (countable and uncountable, plural picas)

From Medieval Latin pica (“pica: a service book”), possibly from Latin pīca (“magpie”) after the piebald appearance of the typeset page (cf. pie (“disordered type”)). The relation to the printer's measure is unclear, as no edition of the text in pica type is known. The French pica derives from English rather than vice versa.

der

I had been at Baldwin's before dinner in consequence of a letter from him which showed me that, by using a pica instead of an English letter in printing my book, I might comprise it within such a number of sheets as a guinea-volume should contain […].

1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 30:

(typography, printing, uncountable) A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.

(typography, uncountable, usually with qualifier) A font of this size.

(typography, countable) A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.


pica

Borrowed from English pica, ultimately from Latin pīca.


platen

From French platine, from plat (“flat”). See plate, and compare platin.

And the form is inked, the paper is applied, the bed is slid, and the platen is levered down and the proof is printed.

2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 382:

(printing) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.


ret

(printing, historical) Clipping of reiteration.