ara

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ara (definite accusative arayı, plural aralar)

arayı (accusative definite)
aralar (plural)
ara (nominative singular)
aralar (nominative plural)
arayı (accusative definite singular)
araları (accusative definite plural)
araya (dative singular)
aralara (dative plural)
arada (locative singular)
aralarda (locative plural)
aradan (ablative singular)
aralardan (ablative plural)
aranın (genitive singular)
araların (genitive plural)
aram (first-person nominative singular)
aralarım (first-person nominative singular)
aran (nominative second-person singular)
araların (nominative second-person singular)
arası (nominative singular third-person)
araları (nominative singular third-person)
aramız (first-person nominative plural)
aralarımız (first-person nominative plural)
aranız (nominative plural second-person)
aralarınız (nominative plural second-person)
araları (nominative plural third-person)
aramı (accusative definite first-person singular)
aralarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
aranı (accusative definite second-person singular)
aralarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
arasını (accusative definite singular third-person)
aralarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
aramızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
aralarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
aranızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
aralarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
aralarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
arama (dative first-person singular)
aralarıma (dative first-person singular)
arana (dative second-person singular)
aralarına (dative second-person singular)
arasına (dative singular third-person)
aralarına (dative singular third-person)
aramıza (dative first-person plural)
aralarımıza (dative first-person plural)
aranıza (dative plural second-person)
aralarınıza (dative plural second-person)
aralarına (dative plural third-person)
aramda (first-person locative singular)
aralarımda (first-person locative singular)
aranda (locative second-person singular)
aralarında (locative second-person singular)
arasında (locative singular third-person)
aralarında (locative singular third-person)
aramızda (first-person locative plural)
aralarımızda (first-person locative plural)
aranızda (locative plural second-person)
aralarınızda (locative plural second-person)
aralarında (locative plural third-person)
aramdan (ablative first-person singular)
aralarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
arandan (ablative second-person singular)
aralarından (ablative second-person singular)
arasından (ablative singular third-person)
aralarından (ablative singular third-person)
aramızdan (ablative first-person plural)
aralarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
aranızdan (ablative plural second-person)
aralarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
aralarından (ablative plural third-person)
aramın (first-person genitive singular)
aralarımın (first-person genitive singular)
aranın (genitive second-person singular)
aralarının (genitive second-person singular)
arasının (genitive singular third-person)
aralarının (genitive singular third-person)
aramızın (first-person genitive plural)
aralarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
aranızın (genitive plural second-person)
aralarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
aralarının (genitive plural third-person)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آرا (ara), from Proto-Turkic *hār- (“split, divide, cleave in twain”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰺𐰀 (r¹a /āra/).

der

(sports, military) distance between two people in a line formation, e.g. elbow, arm, double arm


klick

* Most likely a pseudo-condensed pronunciation of kilometer, being a suitably short word emphasizing k+l instead of /keɪ/ alone (the same principle as with military spelling alphabets, but also clearly distinguished from kilo (/kiːloʊ/) for kilogram).
* Possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of a military odometer. When a soldier would complete a mark, they would signal to their commander and denote movement of 1,000 meters by hoisting up their rifle and moving the gas regulator with their thumb, which made a "click" the commander could hear.

Several klicks closer, the ruins of the City of Poets rose jaggedly against the skyline.

1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:

an asteroid between one and three kilometers wide had slammed into the ground at fifteen klicks per second.

2002 May, Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids (The Neanderthal Parallax; 1), Tor, →ISBN, page 82:

Chief, can you hear me?...(static) My bird's down. Half a klick -(static)- downriver from your position.

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Sierra 117:


on the bench

(historical, UK military, of a captain) Waiting to command his first vessel and assume the position of post-captain, ensuring further promotion will remain a matter of seniority rather than merit or ability.


Wanze

Wanze (genitive)
Wanzen (plural)
Wanze (nominative singular)
Wanzen (definite nominative plural)
Wanze (genitive singular)
Wanzen (definite genitive plural)
Wanze (dative singular)
Wanzen (dative definite plural)
Wanze (accusative singular)
Wanzen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German wanze, formed with the contractive suffix -ze (cf. Spatz, Heinz) from older Middle and Old High German wantlūs (“bug”, literally “wall louse”), equivalent to Wand + Laus.


kiila

kiila (nominative singular)
kiilat (nominative plural)
kiila (accusative nominative singular)
kiilat (accusative nominative plural)
kiilan (accusative genitive singular)
kiilat (accusative genitive plural)
kiilan (genitive singular)
kiilojen (genitive plural)
kiilain (genitive plural rare)
kiilaa (partitive singular)
kiiloja (partitive plural)
kiilassa (inessive singular)
kiiloissa (inessive plural)
kiilasta (elative singular)
kiiloista (elative plural)
kiilaan (illative singular)
kiiloihin (illative plural)
kiilalla (adessive singular)
kiiloilla (adessive plural)
kiilalta (ablative singular)
kiiloilta (ablative plural)
kiilalle (allative singular)
kiiloille (allative plural)
kiilana (essive singular)
kiiloina (essive plural)
kiilaksi (singular translative)
kiiloiksi (plural translative)
kiilatta (abessive singular)
kiiloitta (abessive plural)
kiiloin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kiilani (nominative singular)
kiilani (nominative plural)
kiilani (accusative nominative singular)
kiilani (accusative nominative plural)
kiilani (accusative genitive singular)
kiilani (accusative genitive plural)
kiilani (genitive singular)
kiilojeni (genitive plural)
kiilaini (genitive plural rare)
kiilaani (partitive singular)
kiilojani (partitive plural)
kiilassani (inessive singular)
kiiloissani (inessive plural)
kiilastani (elative singular)
kiiloistani (elative plural)
kiilaani (illative singular)
kiiloihini (illative plural)
kiilallani (adessive singular)
kiiloillani (adessive plural)
kiilaltani (ablative singular)
kiiloiltani (ablative plural)
kiilalleni (allative singular)
kiiloilleni (allative plural)
kiilanani (essive singular)
kiiloinani (essive plural)
kiilakseni (singular translative)
kiiloikseni (plural translative)
kiilattani (abessive singular)
kiiloittani (abessive plural)
kiiloineni (comitative plural)
kiilasi (nominative singular)
kiilasi (nominative plural)
kiilasi (accusative nominative singular)
kiilasi (accusative nominative plural)
kiilasi (accusative genitive singular)
kiilasi (accusative genitive plural)
kiilasi (genitive singular)
kiilojesi (genitive plural)
kiilaisi (genitive plural rare)
kiilaasi (partitive singular)
kiilojasi (partitive plural)
kiilassasi (inessive singular)
kiiloissasi (inessive plural)
kiilastasi (elative singular)
kiiloistasi (elative plural)
kiilaasi (illative singular)
kiiloihisi (illative plural)
kiilallasi (adessive singular)
kiiloillasi (adessive plural)
kiilaltasi (ablative singular)
kiiloiltasi (ablative plural)
kiilallesi (allative singular)
kiiloillesi (allative plural)
kiilanasi (essive singular)
kiiloinasi (essive plural)
kiilaksesi (singular translative)
kiiloiksesi (plural translative)
kiilattasi (abessive singular)
kiiloittasi (abessive plural)
kiiloinesi (comitative plural)
kiilamme (nominative singular)
kiilamme (nominative plural)
kiilamme (accusative nominative singular)
kiilamme (accusative nominative plural)
kiilamme (accusative genitive singular)
kiilamme (accusative genitive plural)
kiilamme (genitive singular)
kiilojemme (genitive plural)
kiilaimme (genitive plural rare)
kiilaamme (partitive singular)
kiilojamme (partitive plural)
kiilassamme (inessive singular)
kiiloissamme (inessive plural)
kiilastamme (elative singular)
kiiloistamme (elative plural)
kiilaamme (illative singular)
kiiloihimme (illative plural)
kiilallamme (adessive singular)
kiiloillamme (adessive plural)
kiilaltamme (ablative singular)
kiiloiltamme (ablative plural)
kiilallemme (allative singular)
kiiloillemme (allative plural)
kiilanamme (essive singular)
kiiloinamme (essive plural)
kiilaksemme (singular translative)
kiiloiksemme (plural translative)
kiilattamme (abessive singular)
kiiloittamme (abessive plural)
kiiloinemme (comitative plural)
kiilanne (nominative singular)
kiilanne (nominative plural)
kiilanne (accusative nominative singular)
kiilanne (accusative nominative plural)
kiilanne (accusative genitive singular)
kiilanne (accusative genitive plural)
kiilanne (genitive singular)
kiilojenne (genitive plural)
kiilainne (genitive plural rare)
kiilaanne (partitive singular)
kiilojanne (partitive plural)
kiilassanne (inessive singular)
kiiloissanne (inessive plural)
kiilastanne (elative singular)
kiiloistanne (elative plural)
kiilaanne (illative singular)
kiiloihinne (illative plural)
kiilallanne (adessive singular)
kiiloillanne (adessive plural)
kiilaltanne (ablative singular)
kiiloiltanne (ablative plural)
kiilallenne (allative singular)
kiiloillenne (allative plural)
kiilananne (essive singular)
kiiloinanne (essive plural)
kiilaksenne (singular translative)
kiiloiksenne (plural translative)
kiilattanne (abessive singular)
kiiloittanne (abessive plural)
kiiloinenne (comitative plural)
kiilansa (nominative singular)
kiilansa (nominative plural)
kiilansa (accusative nominative singular)
kiilansa (accusative nominative plural)
kiilansa (accusative genitive singular)
kiilansa (accusative genitive plural)
kiilansa (genitive singular)
kiilojensa (genitive plural)
kiilainsa (genitive plural rare)
kiilaansa (partitive singular)
kiilojaan (partitive plural)
kiilojansa (partitive plural)
kiilassaan (inessive singular)
kiilassansa (inessive singular)
kiiloissaan (inessive plural)
kiiloissansa (inessive plural)
kiilastaan (elative singular)
kiilastansa (elative singular)
kiiloistaan (elative plural)
kiiloistansa (elative plural)
kiilaansa (illative singular)
kiiloihinsa (illative plural)
kiilallaan (adessive singular)
kiilallansa (adessive singular)
kiiloillaan (adessive plural)
kiiloillansa (adessive plural)
kiilaltaan (ablative singular)
kiilaltansa (ablative singular)
kiiloiltaan (ablative plural)
kiiloiltansa (ablative plural)
kiilalleen (allative singular)
kiilallensa (allative singular)
kiiloilleen (allative plural)
kiiloillensa (allative plural)
kiilanaan (essive singular)
kiilanansa (essive singular)
kiiloinaan (essive plural)
kiiloinansa (essive plural)
kiilakseen (singular translative)
kiilaksensa (singular translative)
kiiloikseen (plural translative)
kiiloiksensa (plural translative)
kiilattaan (abessive singular)
kiilattansa (abessive singular)
kiiloittaan (abessive plural)
kiiloittansa (abessive plural)
kiiloineen (comitative plural)
kiiloinensa (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Swedish kil (“wedge”), if not an older loan.

(military) salient (outwardly projecting part of a front, etc.)

(military, historical) wedge (V-shaped force acting to split the opposing army)


trooper

From troop + -er, from French troupe. The sense of “one who endures adversity” comes from trouper (“member of an acting troupe”) but through assimilation with the sense of “soldier” has come to be usually spelled “trooper”.

(military) A soldier of private rank in cavalry or armor.

She was built by William Denny & Bros. Ltd., and launched in 1939, but went immediately on active service as a trooper.

1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:

(British, nautical, military) A troopship.


HGV

hypersonic glide vehicle
w:hypersonic glide vehicle

(aviation, aerospace, military) Initialism of hypersonic glide vehicle.


ucho

ucho (nominative singular)
ucha (nominative plural)
ucha (genitive singular)
uch (genitive plural)
uchu (dative singular)
uchům (dative plural)
ucho (accusative singular)
ucha (accusative plural)
ucho (singular vocative)
ucha (plural vocative)
uchu (locative singular)
uchách (locative plural)
uchem (instrumental singular)
uchy (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech ucho, from Proto-Slavic *uxo.

(military slang) new recruit, rookie, green recruit


WTFO

Could be credited to George Carlin "WTF". However, he may have picked it up when he was a radar operator in the United States Air Force.

(military, slang, 1970s) what the fuck, over!


bodega

→ Tausug: buriga

[boˈd̪ɛː.ɣɐ]

Borrowed from Spanish bodega, from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “storehouse”). Compare Tausug buriga. Doublet of botika.


flimsy

en-noun

flimsy (countable and uncountable, plural flimsies)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-flimsy.wav

British Army
Crusader tank
Monadhliath Mountains
North African Campaign

The origin of the adjective is uncertain; it is possibly from flim(-flam) (“(noun) false information presented as true, misinformation, nonsense; poor attempt at deception, confidence trick, pretence; (adjective) frivolous, nonsensical; deceptive; fictitious”) or a metathesis of film (“thin layer of a substance; slender thread”) + -sy (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).
The noun and verb are derived from the noun. Noun sense 4 (“metal container”) refers to the fact that the containers often split along their seams and leaked.

affix

A perusal of the comments of officers under whom he [Captain Duncan Herbert Stevens] has served as recorded in his “flimsies" indicates that he has almost consistently received high commendation for his service.

1964 August 13, John [Armstrong] Spicer, Commissioner, “Officers Principally Concerned”, in Report of Royal Commissioner on Loss of H.M.A.S. “Voyager” (Papers Presented to Parliament; XIII), Canberra, A.C.T: [F]or the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government printer, →OCLC, page 3:

Regulations required a commanding officer to render annual confidential reports on the character and ability of his officers – with particular reference to sobriety – on forms known as ‘flimsies’.

1994, John Wells, “The Community of the Mid-Victorian Navy”, in The Royal Navy: An Illustrated Social History 1870–1982, Stroud, Gloucestershire; Dover, N.H.: Alan Sutton Publishing in association with the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, →ISBN, page 7:

(by extension) A document printed or typed on such paper.

(naval slang, countable) A service certificate.

But the Q[uartermaster] has ballsed-up T3 patrol's fuel ration; instead of jerry cans we get "flimsies," the notorious four-gallon containers made of metal so thin you can practically puncture it with a fingernail. Flimsies come two to a case, packed in cardboard. Of seventy-six that Collier's crew take down from the Mack, twenty-one are leaking at the seams; eleven have drained half to nil.

2008, Steven Pressfield, chapter 10, in Killing Rommel […], New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 98:

(UK, military slang) A hexahedral metal container with a capacity of four imperial gallons (about 18 litres) used by the British Army during World War II to hold fuel.

kanisteri

metal container used by the British Army during World War II to hold fuel


silta

silta (nominative singular)
sillat (nominative plural)
silta (accusative nominative singular)
sillat (accusative nominative plural)
sillan (accusative genitive singular)
sillat (accusative genitive plural)
sillan (genitive singular)
siltojen (genitive plural)
siltain (genitive plural rare)
siltaa (partitive singular)
siltoja (partitive plural)
sillassa (inessive singular)
silloissa (inessive plural)
sillasta (elative singular)
silloista (elative plural)
siltaan (illative singular)
siltoihin (illative plural)
sillalla (adessive singular)
silloilla (adessive plural)
sillalta (ablative singular)
silloilta (ablative plural)
sillalle (allative singular)
silloille (allative plural)
siltana (essive singular)
siltoina (essive plural)
sillaksi (singular translative)
silloiksi (plural translative)
sillatta (abessive singular)
silloitta (abessive plural)
silloin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
siltani (nominative singular)
siltani (nominative plural)
siltani (accusative nominative singular)
siltani (accusative nominative plural)
siltani (accusative genitive singular)
siltani (accusative genitive plural)
siltani (genitive singular)
siltojeni (genitive plural)
siltaini (genitive plural rare)
siltaani (partitive singular)
siltojani (partitive plural)
sillassani (inessive singular)
silloissani (inessive plural)
sillastani (elative singular)
silloistani (elative plural)
siltaani (illative singular)
siltoihini (illative plural)
sillallani (adessive singular)
silloillani (adessive plural)
sillaltani (ablative singular)
silloiltani (ablative plural)
sillalleni (allative singular)
silloilleni (allative plural)
siltanani (essive singular)
siltoinani (essive plural)
sillakseni (singular translative)
silloikseni (plural translative)
sillattani (abessive singular)
silloittani (abessive plural)
siltoineni (comitative plural)
siltasi (nominative singular)
siltasi (nominative plural)
siltasi (accusative nominative singular)
siltasi (accusative nominative plural)
siltasi (accusative genitive singular)
siltasi (accusative genitive plural)
siltasi (genitive singular)
siltojesi (genitive plural)
siltaisi (genitive plural rare)
siltaasi (partitive singular)
siltojasi (partitive plural)
sillassasi (inessive singular)
silloissasi (inessive plural)
sillastasi (elative singular)
silloistasi (elative plural)
siltaasi (illative singular)
siltoihisi (illative plural)
sillallasi (adessive singular)
silloillasi (adessive plural)
sillaltasi (ablative singular)
silloiltasi (ablative plural)
sillallesi (allative singular)
silloillesi (allative plural)
siltanasi (essive singular)
siltoinasi (essive plural)
sillaksesi (singular translative)
silloiksesi (plural translative)
sillattasi (abessive singular)
silloittasi (abessive plural)
siltoinesi (comitative plural)
siltamme (nominative singular)
siltamme (nominative plural)
siltamme (accusative nominative singular)
siltamme (accusative nominative plural)
siltamme (accusative genitive singular)
siltamme (accusative genitive plural)
siltamme (genitive singular)
siltojemme (genitive plural)
siltaimme (genitive plural rare)
siltaamme (partitive singular)
siltojamme (partitive plural)
sillassamme (inessive singular)
silloissamme (inessive plural)
sillastamme (elative singular)
silloistamme (elative plural)
siltaamme (illative singular)
siltoihimme (illative plural)
sillallamme (adessive singular)
silloillamme (adessive plural)
sillaltamme (ablative singular)
silloiltamme (ablative plural)
sillallemme (allative singular)
silloillemme (allative plural)
siltanamme (essive singular)
siltoinamme (essive plural)
sillaksemme (singular translative)
silloiksemme (plural translative)
sillattamme (abessive singular)
silloittamme (abessive plural)
siltoinemme (comitative plural)
siltanne (nominative singular)
siltanne (nominative plural)
siltanne (accusative nominative singular)
siltanne (accusative nominative plural)
siltanne (accusative genitive singular)
siltanne (accusative genitive plural)
siltanne (genitive singular)
siltojenne (genitive plural)
siltainne (genitive plural rare)
siltaanne (partitive singular)
siltojanne (partitive plural)
sillassanne (inessive singular)
silloissanne (inessive plural)
sillastanne (elative singular)
silloistanne (elative plural)
siltaanne (illative singular)
siltoihinne (illative plural)
sillallanne (adessive singular)
silloillanne (adessive plural)
sillaltanne (ablative singular)
silloiltanne (ablative plural)
sillallenne (allative singular)
silloillenne (allative plural)
siltananne (essive singular)
siltoinanne (essive plural)
sillaksenne (singular translative)
silloiksenne (plural translative)
sillattanne (abessive singular)
silloittanne (abessive plural)
siltoinenne (comitative plural)
siltansa (nominative singular)
siltansa (nominative plural)
siltansa (accusative nominative singular)
siltansa (accusative nominative plural)
siltansa (accusative genitive singular)
siltansa (accusative genitive plural)
siltansa (genitive singular)
siltojensa (genitive plural)
siltainsa (genitive plural rare)
siltaansa (partitive singular)
siltojaan (partitive plural)
siltojansa (partitive plural)
sillassaan (inessive singular)
sillassansa (inessive singular)
silloissaan (inessive plural)
silloissansa (inessive plural)
sillastaan (elative singular)
sillastansa (elative singular)
silloistaan (elative plural)
silloistansa (elative plural)
siltaansa (illative singular)
siltoihinsa (illative plural)
sillallaan (adessive singular)
sillallansa (adessive singular)
silloillaan (adessive plural)
silloillansa (adessive plural)
sillaltaan (ablative singular)
sillaltansa (ablative singular)
silloiltaan (ablative plural)
silloiltansa (ablative plural)
sillalleen (allative singular)
sillallensa (allative singular)
silloilleen (allative plural)
silloillensa (allative plural)
siltanaan (essive singular)
siltanansa (essive singular)
siltoinaan (essive plural)
siltoinansa (essive plural)
sillakseen (singular translative)
sillaksensa (singular translative)
silloikseen (plural translative)
silloiksensa (plural translative)
sillattaan (abessive singular)
sillattansa (abessive singular)
silloittaan (abessive plural)
silloittansa (abessive plural)
siltoineen (comitative plural)
siltoinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈs̠il̪t̪ɑ̝]

From Proto-Finnic *cilta, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *tílˀta (compare Latvian tilts, Lithuanian tiltas).


verga

Inherited from Old Spanish verga, berga, inherited from Latin virga (“slender green branch, twig, stick”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *wisgeh₂ (“flexible rod or stick”). Compare Portuguese verga. Doublet of verja (“fence”).


DL

en-noun

DL (countable and uncountable, plural DLs)

DLs (plural)
D.L. (alternative)
D. L. (alternative)
dl (alternative)
d/l (alternative)
D/L (alternative)

(military, nautical) Initialism of light destroyer, a variant of the destroyer type of warship.

light destroyer

destroyer leader
destroyer leader#English

(military, nautical) Initialism of destroyer leader, a variant of the destroyer type of warship.


From the Selective Service Classification code.

(US, military) A military draftee rejected for being physically unfit.


SAW

squad automatic weapon
squad automatic weapon

section automatic weapon
section automatic weapon

(military, US) A squad automatic weapon or section automatic weapon, a kind of light machine gun.


clinch

→ Czech: klinč

→ German: Clinch

→ French: clinch

→ Portuguese: clinche

→ Russian: клинч (klinč)

→ Serbo-Croatian: klȉnč

→ Polish: klincz

→ Swedish: klinch

(wrestling, combat sports) The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.


atomic bomb

H. G. Wells
The World Set Free
atomic bomb

Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in his 1914 novel The World Set Free.

The gaunt face hardened to grimness, and with both hands the bomb-thrower lifted the big atomic bomb from the box and steadied it against the side.

1914, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 2, in The World Set Free:

(countable, military) A nuclear weapon that obtains its destructive energy from nuclear fission.


kol

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kol (definite accusative kolu, plural kollar)

kolu (accusative definite)
kollar (plural)
kol (nominative singular)
kollar (nominative plural)
kolu (accusative definite singular)
kolları (accusative definite plural)
kola (dative singular)
kollara (dative plural)
kolda (locative singular)
kollarda (locative plural)
koldan (ablative singular)
kollardan (ablative plural)
kolun (genitive singular)
kolların (genitive plural)
kolum (first-person nominative singular)
kollarım (first-person nominative singular)
kolun (nominative second-person singular)
kolların (nominative second-person singular)
kolu (nominative singular third-person)
kolları (nominative singular third-person)
kolumuz (first-person nominative plural)
kollarımız (first-person nominative plural)
kolunuz (nominative plural second-person)
kollarınız (nominative plural second-person)
kolları (nominative plural third-person)
kolumu (accusative definite first-person singular)
kollarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
kolunu (accusative definite second-person singular)
kollarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
kolunu (accusative definite singular third-person)
kollarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
kolumuzu (accusative definite first-person plural)
kollarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
kolunuzu (accusative definite plural second-person)
kollarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
kollarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
koluma (dative first-person singular)
kollarıma (dative first-person singular)
koluna (dative second-person singular)
kollarına (dative second-person singular)
koluna (dative singular third-person)
kollarına (dative singular third-person)
kolumuza (dative first-person plural)
kollarımıza (dative first-person plural)
kolunuza (dative plural second-person)
kollarınıza (dative plural second-person)
kollarına (dative plural third-person)
kolumda (first-person locative singular)
kollarımda (first-person locative singular)
kolunda (locative second-person singular)
kollarında (locative second-person singular)
kolunda (locative singular third-person)
kollarında (locative singular third-person)
kolumuzda (first-person locative plural)
kollarımızda (first-person locative plural)
kolunuzda (locative plural second-person)
kollarınızda (locative plural second-person)
kollarında (locative plural third-person)
kolumdan (ablative first-person singular)
kollarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
kolundan (ablative second-person singular)
kollarından (ablative second-person singular)
kolundan (ablative singular third-person)
kollarından (ablative singular third-person)
kolumuzdan (ablative first-person plural)
kollarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
kolunuzdan (ablative plural second-person)
kollarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
kollarından (ablative plural third-person)
kolumun (first-person genitive singular)
kollarımın (first-person genitive singular)
kolunun (genitive second-person singular)
kollarının (genitive second-person singular)
kolunun (genitive singular third-person)
kollarının (genitive singular third-person)
kolumuzun (first-person genitive plural)
kollarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
kolunuzun (genitive plural second-person)
kollarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
kollarının (genitive plural third-person)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قول (qol, “arm, sleeve, branch”), from Proto-Turkic *kol (“upper arm”). Cognate to Old Uyghur qwl (qol, “arm”), Karakhanid قُولْ (qōl, “arm”).


court martial

en-noun

court martial (plural (formal) courts martial or (informal) court martials)

courts martial (formal plural)
court martials (informal plural)
court-martial (alternative)
courtmartial (alternative)

A calque of French cour martiale, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun.

(law, military) A court where cases of military law are heard.

(law, military) A trial before such a tribunal.


court martial

en-verb

court martial (third-person singular simple present court martials, present participle (US) court martialing or (UK) court martialling, simple past and past participle (US) court martialed or (UK) court martialled)

court martials (present singular third-person)
court martialing (US participle present)
court martialling (UK participle present)
court martialed (US participle past)
court martialed (US past)
court martialled (UK participle past)
court martialled (UK past)
court-martial (alternative)
courtmartial (alternative)

(law, military) To subject to trial in a military court.


luchador

en-noun

luchador (plural luchadors or luchadores)

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) A Mexican professional wrestler, frequently (but not always) masked.


Aufklärung

de-noun

Aufklärung f (genitive Aufklärung, plural Aufklärungen)

Aufklärung (genitive)
Aufklärungen (plural)
Aufklärung (nominative singular)
Aufklärungen (definite nominative plural)
Aufklärung (genitive singular)
Aufklärungen (definite genitive plural)
Aufklärung (dative singular)
Aufklärungen (dative definite plural)
Aufklärung (accusative singular)
Aufklärungen (accusative definite plural)

/ˈaʊ̯fˌklɛːʁuŋ/


POL

(military) Initialism of petroleum, oil, and lubricants; consumable supplies for vehicles and machinery, collectively.


AAR

(military, management) after-action report; after-action review.


mawashi

From Japanese 廻し or 回し (mawashi), same meaning.

(sumo) The belt worn by rikishi during training and in competition


CLG

guided-missile light cruiser
guided-missile light cruiser#English

(military, nautical) Initialism of guided-missile light cruiser.


rotta

rotte (plural)
ropta (alternative)
rocta (alternative)
rota (alternative)

Deverbal formed with the feminine past participle of rompere (“to break”).

it-deverbal fpp

andare in rotta


bullpen

(US, military slang) A military prison or its enclosing stockade.


martingale

martingales (plural)
martingal (alternative)

From Middle French martingale, from Occitan martegalo, feminine form of martegal, an inhabitant of Martigues, which is from Latin maritima. Alternatively from Spanish almártaga.
The meaning in gambling may come from an old usage of "à la martingale" to mean absurdly, foolishly.https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/class/sem/html/home/notes/martingales/martingales.pdf

(fencing) A strap attached to the sword handle, preventing a sword being dropped if disarmed.


webbing

en-noun

webbing (countable and uncountable, plural webbings)

(military) A belt and shoulder harness with attached pouches used to carry a soldier's equipment, water, ammunition, etc.


verso

Borrowed from Latin versus. Compare the inherited Old Spanish viesso.

(military, weaponry) small culverin (kind of cannon)


nelson

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Nelson (cricket)
Nelson hold

Cricket sense: origin disputed; supposedly from the belief that Lord Nelson had one eye, one arm and one leg.
Wrestling sense: Back-formation from full nelson.

(wrestling) A wrestling hold in which a wrestler's arm is locked behind their back.


nelson

nelson (nominative singular)
nelsonit (nominative plural)
nelson (accusative nominative singular)
nelsonit (accusative nominative plural)
nelsonin (accusative genitive singular)
nelsonit (accusative genitive plural)
nelsonin (genitive singular)
nelsonien (genitive plural)
nelsoneiden (genitive plural)
nelsoneitten (genitive plural)
nelsonia (partitive singular)
nelsoneita (partitive plural)
nelsoneja (partitive plural)
nelsonissa (inessive singular)
nelsoneissa (inessive plural)
nelsonista (elative singular)
nelsoneista (elative plural)
nelsoniin (illative singular)
nelsoneihin (illative plural)
nelsonilla (adessive singular)
nelsoneilla (adessive plural)
nelsonilta (ablative singular)
nelsoneilta (ablative plural)
nelsonille (allative singular)
nelsoneille (allative plural)
nelsonina (essive singular)
nelsoneina (essive plural)
nelsoniksi (singular translative)
nelsoneiksi (plural translative)
nelsonitta (abessive singular)
nelsoneitta (abessive plural)
nelsonein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
nelsonini (nominative singular)
nelsonini (nominative plural)
nelsonini (accusative nominative singular)
nelsonini (accusative nominative plural)
nelsonini (accusative genitive singular)
nelsonini (accusative genitive plural)
nelsonini (genitive singular)
nelsonieni (genitive plural)
nelsoneideni (genitive plural)
nelsoneitteni (genitive plural)
nelsoniani (partitive singular)
nelsoneitani (partitive plural)
nelsonejani (partitive plural)
nelsonissani (inessive singular)
nelsoneissani (inessive plural)
nelsonistani (elative singular)
nelsoneistani (elative plural)
nelsoniini (illative singular)
nelsoneihini (illative plural)
nelsonillani (adessive singular)
nelsoneillani (adessive plural)
nelsoniltani (ablative singular)
nelsoneiltani (ablative plural)
nelsonilleni (allative singular)
nelsoneilleni (allative plural)
nelsoninani (essive singular)
nelsoneinani (essive plural)
nelsonikseni (singular translative)
nelsoneikseni (plural translative)
nelsonittani (abessive singular)
nelsoneittani (abessive plural)
nelsoneineni (comitative plural)
nelsonisi (nominative singular)
nelsonisi (nominative plural)
nelsonisi (accusative nominative singular)
nelsonisi (accusative nominative plural)
nelsonisi (accusative genitive singular)
nelsonisi (accusative genitive plural)
nelsonisi (genitive singular)
nelsoniesi (genitive plural)
nelsoneidesi (genitive plural)
nelsoneittesi (genitive plural)
nelsoniasi (partitive singular)
nelsoneitasi (partitive plural)
nelsonejasi (partitive plural)
nelsonissasi (inessive singular)
nelsoneissasi (inessive plural)
nelsonistasi (elative singular)
nelsoneistasi (elative plural)
nelsoniisi (illative singular)
nelsoneihisi (illative plural)
nelsonillasi (adessive singular)
nelsoneillasi (adessive plural)
nelsoniltasi (ablative singular)
nelsoneiltasi (ablative plural)
nelsonillesi (allative singular)
nelsoneillesi (allative plural)
nelsoninasi (essive singular)
nelsoneinasi (essive plural)
nelsoniksesi (singular translative)
nelsoneiksesi (plural translative)
nelsonittasi (abessive singular)
nelsoneittasi (abessive plural)
nelsoneinesi (comitative plural)
nelsonimme (nominative singular)
nelsonimme (nominative plural)
nelsonimme (accusative nominative singular)
nelsonimme (accusative nominative plural)
nelsonimme (accusative genitive singular)
nelsonimme (accusative genitive plural)
nelsonimme (genitive singular)
nelsoniemme (genitive plural)
nelsoneidemme (genitive plural)
nelsoneittemme (genitive plural)
nelsoniamme (partitive singular)
nelsoneitamme (partitive plural)
nelsonejamme (partitive plural)
nelsonissamme (inessive singular)
nelsoneissamme (inessive plural)
nelsonistamme (elative singular)
nelsoneistamme (elative plural)
nelsoniimme (illative singular)
nelsoneihimme (illative plural)
nelsonillamme (adessive singular)
nelsoneillamme (adessive plural)
nelsoniltamme (ablative singular)
nelsoneiltamme (ablative plural)
nelsonillemme (allative singular)
nelsoneillemme (allative plural)
nelsoninamme (essive singular)
nelsoneinamme (essive plural)
nelsoniksemme (singular translative)
nelsoneiksemme (plural translative)
nelsonittamme (abessive singular)
nelsoneittamme (abessive plural)
nelsoneinemme (comitative plural)
nelsoninne (nominative singular)
nelsoninne (nominative plural)
nelsoninne (accusative nominative singular)
nelsoninne (accusative nominative plural)
nelsoninne (accusative genitive singular)
nelsoninne (accusative genitive plural)
nelsoninne (genitive singular)
nelsonienne (genitive plural)
nelsoneidenne (genitive plural)
nelsoneittenne (genitive plural)
nelsonianne (partitive singular)
nelsoneitanne (partitive plural)
nelsonejanne (partitive plural)
nelsonissanne (inessive singular)
nelsoneissanne (inessive plural)
nelsonistanne (elative singular)
nelsoneistanne (elative plural)
nelsoniinne (illative singular)
nelsoneihinne (illative plural)
nelsonillanne (adessive singular)
nelsoneillanne (adessive plural)
nelsoniltanne (ablative singular)
nelsoneiltanne (ablative plural)
nelsonillenne (allative singular)
nelsoneillenne (allative plural)
nelsoninanne (essive singular)
nelsoneinanne (essive plural)
nelsoniksenne (singular translative)
nelsoneiksenne (plural translative)
nelsonittanne (abessive singular)
nelsoneittanne (abessive plural)
nelsoneinenne (comitative plural)
nelsoninsa (nominative singular)
nelsoninsa (nominative plural)
nelsoninsa (accusative nominative singular)
nelsoninsa (accusative nominative plural)
nelsoninsa (accusative genitive singular)
nelsoninsa (accusative genitive plural)
nelsoninsa (genitive singular)
nelsoniensa (genitive plural)
nelsoneidensa (genitive plural)
nelsoneittensa (genitive plural)
nelsoniaan (partitive singular)
nelsoniansa (partitive singular)
nelsoneitaan (partitive plural)
nelsonejaan (partitive plural)
nelsoneitansa (partitive plural)
nelsonejansa (partitive plural)
nelsonissaan (inessive singular)
nelsonissansa (inessive singular)
nelsoneissaan (inessive plural)
nelsoneissansa (inessive plural)
nelsonistaan (elative singular)
nelsonistansa (elative singular)
nelsoneistaan (elative plural)
nelsoneistansa (elative plural)
nelsoniinsa (illative singular)
nelsoneihinsa (illative plural)
nelsonillaan (adessive singular)
nelsonillansa (adessive singular)
nelsoneillaan (adessive plural)
nelsoneillansa (adessive plural)
nelsoniltaan (ablative singular)
nelsoniltansa (ablative singular)
nelsoneiltaan (ablative plural)
nelsoneiltansa (ablative plural)
nelsonilleen (allative singular)
nelsonillensa (allative singular)
nelsoneilleen (allative plural)
nelsoneillensa (allative plural)
nelsoninaan (essive singular)
nelsoninansa (essive singular)
nelsoneinaan (essive plural)
nelsoneinansa (essive plural)
nelsonikseen (singular translative)
nelsoniksensa (singular translative)
nelsoneikseen (plural translative)
nelsoneiksensa (plural translative)
nelsonittaan (abessive singular)
nelsonittansa (abessive singular)
nelsoneittaan (abessive plural)
nelsoneittansa (abessive plural)
nelsoneineen (comitative plural)
nelsoneinensa (comitative plural)


striker

lyöjä

someone or something that hits someone or something else

Someone or something that hits someone or something else.

(firearms, military) A mechanism of a firearm acting upon the firing pin.

"Dog-robber" has a definite significance to some army men; but unless one has spent some time in uniform he will probably have to search long for its meaning: an officer's servant or striker.

1921, Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Ronald Salmon Crane, The English of Business, page 90:

(military, slang) An officer's servant or orderly.


palooka

H. L. Mencken
Ham Fisher
Joe Palooka
The American Language

Used in the US since the 1920s, originally primarily of boxers. Popularized by Jack Conway of Variety, who also popularized baloney and bimbo. Further popularized by Ham Fisher in his comic strip Joe Palooka about a boxer (published in newspapers since 1930, particularly popular in 1940s).

unk

Used

But [Jack] Dempsey against some palooka who had been press agented into greatness and into the form of a Dempsey menace — that would pack any outdoor arena.

Butch: Lookin' at somethin', friend?
Vincent: I ain't your friend, palooka.

1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction:

(US, boxing, bridge, etc) Someone incompetent or untalented.


profiling

en-noun

profiling (usually uncountable, plural profilings)

(military, historical) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.


pop-up

(military) Employing the cold launch technique.


musculus

la-noun

mūsculus m (genitive mūsculī); second declension

mūsculus (canonical masculine)
mūsculī (genitive)
mūsculus (nominative singular)
mūsculī (nominative plural)
mūsculī (genitive singular)
mūsculōrum (genitive plural)
mūsculō (dative singular)
mūsculīs (dative plural)
mūsculum (accusative singular)
mūsculōs (accusative plural)
mūsculō (ablative singular)
mūsculīs (ablative plural)
mūscule (singular vocative)
mūsculī (plural vocative)

Aragonese: musclo, muscllo

Aromanian: mushclju

Asturian: muslu

Catalan: muscle, musclo

Corsican: musculu

Italian: muscolo, moscolo

Occitan: muscle

desctree

Old French: moule, moucle, moulle, mouscle
French: moule
→ Middle Dutch: mossel, mussel
Dutch: mossel

Romanian: mușchi

Spanish: muslo

→ Asturian: músculu

→ Albanian: muskul, mushk

→ Catalan: múscul

→ Old Cornish: mesclen sg

Cornish: (collective) meskel

→ Danish: muskel

→ English: musculus (learned)

→ Middle French: muscle
French: muscle
→ Middle English: muscle
English: muscle

→ Friulian: muscul

→ Galician: músculo

→ German: Muskel

→ Proto-West Germanic: *muskulā (see there for further descendants)

→ Portuguese: músculo

→ Romansch: muscul, muscal, muscla

→ Russian: мускул (muskul)

→ Sardinian: musculu

→ Spanish: músculo

→ Swedish: muskel

From mūs (“a mouse”) + -culus (diminutive suffix), literally “little mouse”. The “muscle” sense is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs, “mouse; muscle”), compare also Russian мы́шца (mýšca, “muscle”).

semantic loan

(transferred sense)
(military) a shed, mantelet, shielding


amplitude

en-noun

amplitude (countable and uncountable, plural amplitudes)

Borrowed from Middle French amplitude, from Latin amplitūdō, from amplus (“large”). By surface analysis, ample + -itude.

(firearms) The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.


corkscrew

[…] the immovable McCoy let fly his most miraculous punch of the evening, of his lives, a world-beater of a right corkscrew, a punch years in the windup […]

2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy, →ISBN, page 42:

(boxing, martial arts) A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.

コークスクリュー

boxing, martial arts: a type of sharp, twisting punch


NGA

(military, US) Initialism of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


BRAC

w:Base Realignment and Closure Commission

(military, US) Acronym of Base Realignment and Closure Commission.


no contest

Calque of Latin nolō contendere (“I don't want to contest”).

cal

(boxing, historical) The result of a boxing bout, promoted as an exhibition when the sport of boxing was illegal, when a knockout did not occur.

(boxing) A bout that the referee cancels early, either due to a serious injury early in the fight or due to a lack of action


петух

ru-noun+

пету́х • (petúx) m anim (genitive петуха́, nominative plural петухи́, genitive plural петухо́в, relational adjective петуши́ный or пету́ший or петухо́вый, diminutive петушо́к)

пету́х (canonical)
petúx (romanization)
петуха́ (genitive)
петухи́ (nominative plural)
петухо́в (genitive plural)
петуши́ный (adjective relational)
пету́ший (adjective relational)
петухо́вый (adjective relational)
петушо́к (diminutive)
пету́х (nominative singular)
петухи́ (nominative plural)
петуха́ (genitive singular)
петухо́в (genitive plural)
петуху́ (dative singular)
петуха́м (dative plural)
петуха́ (accusative singular)
петухо́в (accusative plural)
петухо́м (instrumental singular)
петуха́ми (instrumental plural)
петухе́ (prepositional singular)
петуха́х (plural prepositional)
пѣту́хъ (alternative)

desc

→ Adyghe: атакъэ (ataqɛ, “homosexual”) (semantic loan)

→ Armenian: պիտուխ (pitux)

→ Azerbaijani: petux

→ English: petukh

→ Georgian: ქათამი (katami, “homosexual”, prison slang) (semantic loan)

→ Kildin Sami: петтэх (pjettex)

→ Yakut: бөтүүк (bötüük)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pětuxъ. By surface analysis, петь (petʹ) + -ух (-ux), said to have been influenced by Пе́тя (Pétja), diminutive of Пётр (Pjotr). Related to петь (petʹ, “to sing”). Compare пе́вень (pévenʹ), Ukrainian пі́вень (pívenʹ), Belarusian пе́вень (pjévjenʹ), Bulgarian пете́л (petél), Macedonian петел (petel), Serbo-Croatian pijétao, pijévac, Slovene petêlin, pẹ́təł. Compare also Polish piać (“to crow”), which is cognate with петь (petʹ). Likewise Latin canere means both “to sing” and “to crow”. Also compare with Proto-Germanic *hanô (“rooster, cock”), Proto-Germanic *hanjō (“hen”) (whence English hen) ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”).

surf

(criminal slang, prison slang, military slang, offensive) punk, prison bitch (a passive homosexual male, or a man forced into a homosexual relationship and used as a sex slave or servant by another man, especially in the prison and military systems)


leegiheitja

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leegiheitja (genitive leegiheitja, partitive leegiheitjat)

leegiheitja (genitive)
leegiheitjat (partitive)
leegiheitja (nominative singular)
leegiheitjad (nominative plural)
leegiheitja (accusative nominative singular)
leegiheitjad (accusative nominative plural)
leegiheitja (accusative genitive singular)
leegiheitjad (accusative genitive plural)
leegiheitja (genitive singular)
leegiheitjate (genitive plural)
leegiheitjat (partitive singular)
leegiheitjaid (partitive plural)
leegiheitjasse (illative singular)
leegiheitjatesse (illative plural)
leegiheitjaisse (illative plural)
leegiheitjas (inessive singular)
leegiheitjates (inessive plural)
leegiheitjais (inessive plural)
leegiheitjast (elative singular)
leegiheitjatest (elative plural)
leegiheitjaist (elative plural)
leegiheitjale (allative singular)
leegiheitjatele (allative plural)
leegiheitjaile (allative plural)
leegiheitjal (adessive singular)
leegiheitjatel (adessive plural)
leegiheitjail (adessive plural)
leegiheitjalt (ablative singular)
leegiheitjatelt (ablative plural)
leegiheitjailt (ablative plural)
leegiheitjaks (singular translative)
leegiheitjateks (plural translative)
leegiheitjaiks (plural translative)
leegiheitjani (singular terminative)
leegiheitjateni (plural terminative)
leegiheitjana (essive singular)
leegiheitjatena (essive plural)
leegiheitjata (abessive singular)
leegiheitjateta (abessive plural)
leegiheitjaga (comitative singular)
leegiheitjatega (comitative plural)

[ˈleˑɡ̊iˌɦei̯tʲjɑ̈]

leek (“flame”) + heitma (“to cast, to throw”) + -ja

af

(military) flamethrower (a weapon for destroying an opponent with a jet of petrol, napalm or other combustible propellant)


ruck

Shah-e-Kot Valley, Afghanistan. March 2002. I strained to see over the soldiers in front of me. They were struggling to shuffle off the bird as quickly as they could. I dragged my ruck across the floor of the aircraft in my right hand.

2007, Brandon Friedman, The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory, →ISBN, page 57:

First of all – a “ruck” is nothing more than a backpack. So to "ruck march" is to carry a heavy duty backpack on a hike (loaded with gear and supplies).

2013 July 5, Brad McLeod, Top 10 Ruck Marching Tips, accessed 17 JUL 2015:

Rocky was only five foot six and skinny as a February coyote, but he could hump an eighty pound ruck across twenty mountain miles […]

2015, Sean T. Smith, Wrath and Redemption, →ISBN:

(slang, especially military) A rucksack; a large backpack.


sprawl

en-verb

sprawl (third-person singular simple present sprawls, present participle sprawling, simple past and past participle sprawled)

sprawls (present singular third-person)
sprawling (participle present)
sprawled (participle past)
sprawled (past)

From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian, ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli.

(wrestling, martial arts) To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.


sprawl

en-noun

sprawl (countable and uncountable, plural sprawls)

(wrestling, martial arts) A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.


commie

(colloquial, army) A commercial vehicle.


testudo

testudo (plural testudos or testudoes or testudines)

testudos (plural)
testudoes (plural)
testudines (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin testūdō (“tortoise, turtle, lyre, type of military shelter”).

ubor

(Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.


testudo

la-noun

testūdō f (genitive testūdinis); third declension

testūdō (canonical feminine)
testūdinis (genitive)
testūdō (nominative singular)
testūdinēs (nominative plural)
testūdinis (genitive singular)
testūdinum (genitive plural)
testūdinī (dative singular)
testūdinibus (dative plural)
testūdinem (accusative singular)
testūdinēs (accusative plural)
testūdine (ablative singular)
testūdinibus (ablative plural)
testūdō (singular vocative)
testūdinēs (plural vocative)

Italian: testuggine

Neapolitan: stuscene

→ English: testudo

→ Esperanto: testudo

→ French: testudo

→ Spanish: testudo

From testa (“fragment of earthenware; shell or covering”).

(by extension, military) covering, shed, shelter


suspense

en-noun

suspense (usually uncountable, plural suspenses)

suspenses (plural)
suspence (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English suspense, suspence, from Anglo-Norman suspens (as in en suspens) and Old French suspens, from Latin suspēnsus.

She sent us that assignment with a suspense of noon tomorrow.


destroyer

/dəˈstɹɔɪ.ɚ/

From destroy + -er. Designating a warship, it is ellipsis of torpedo-boat destroyer, the longer term appearing at the end of the 19th century and the shorter form early in the 20th.

(military, nautical, historical) A small, fast warship with light gun armament, smaller than a cruiser, but bigger than a frigate.

(military, nautical) A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship roles. Often, but not always, larger than a frigate and smaller than a cruiser.

(science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role.


ROC

Translingual: ROC

(UK, military) The Royal Observer Corps, a United Kingdom defence organization (1925 to 1992).


Canuck

Canucks (plural)
canuck (alternative)
Canack (alternative)
Cannack (alternative)
Canuc (alternative)
canuc (alternative)
Canuk (alternative)
Conuck (alternative)
Cunnuck (alternative)
Kanuck (alternative)
Kanuk (alternative)
K'nuck (alternative)

American Dialect Society
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Origin uncertain, often hypothesized to derive from the name or speech of an early Canadian minority, later broadened to denote all Canadians:
* Since 1975, many scholars have come to think the name is from Hawaiian kanaka (“man”), a self-appellation of indentured colonial canoemen and Hawaiian sailors working off the Pacific Northwest, Arctic, and New England coasts, from French canaque (“indigenous Melanesian inhabitant of New Caledonia, Kanak”); or, more likely, American whalers’ pidgin, then re-interpreted as Can(adian) + a suffix. (More below on that [specific] putative suffix.) Compare English Kanak and German Kanake.
* Some dictionaries suggest it is derived from the first syllable of Canada, or its etymon Laurentian kanata (“village”), or a related word kanuchsa meaning “villager” in either Laurentian or another Iroquoian language; with the second syllable connected to Inuktitut inuk (“man; person”), from Chinook (“Aboriginal people of the U.S. Pacific Northwest”), or another First-Nation language ending like -oc, -uc, or -uq.
* Fanciful and unlikely suggestions include German genug von Canada (literally “enough of Canada”) (allegedly uttered by German mercenaries during the American War of Independence), French quelle canule (“what a bore”) (allegedly uttered by the French during a siege of Quebec), or the surname Connaught /ˈkɑ.nəxt/ (supposedly a French-Canadian nickname for the Irish).

noncog

(aviation, military, historical) The Avro Canada CF-100 fighter-interceptor aircraft, in use between 1952 and 1981.


fortify

en-verb

fortify (third-person singular simple present fortifies, present participle fortifying, simple past and past participle fortified)

fortifies (present singular third-person)
fortifying (participle present)
fortified (participle past)
fortified (past)
fortify (infinitive)
fortify (first-person present singular)
fortified (first-person past singular)
fortify (present second-person singular)
fortifiest (archaic present second-person singular)
fortified (past second-person singular)
fortifiedst (archaic past second-person singular)
fortifies (present singular third-person)
fortifieth (archaic present singular third-person)
fortified (past singular third-person)
fortify (plural present)
fortified (past plural)
fortify (present subjunctive)
fortified (past subjunctive)
fortify (imperative present)
fortifying (participle present)
fortified (participle past)

/ˈfɔɹtəˌfaɪ/

From Late Middle English fortifien, fortfien (“to strengthen (a castle, etc.) from attack; to strengthen (an army, etc.); to strengthen (a person), aid, support; to reinforce, support; to improve; to increase the efficacy of”), from Old French fortifier (modern French fortifier), from Late Latin fortificāre (“to strengthen, fortify”), from Latin fortis (“powerful, strong”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to ascend, rise up; to be elevated or up high”) or *dʰerǵʰ- (“to be firm; robust, strong”)) + -ficō (suffix forming causative or factitive, or other verbs).

castellate

to strengthen (a place, etc.) by installing fortifications

Ile haue you learne to ſleepe vpon the ground, / March in your armor thorow watery fens, / […] / Then next, the way to fortifie your men, / In champion grounds, […]

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The Second Part […], 2nd edition, part 2, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii, signature G4, recto:

They […] descended Snake river again, and encamped just above the American falls. Here they proceeded to fortify themselves, intending to remain here, and give their horses an opportunity to recruit their strength with good pasturage, until it should be time to set out for the annual rendezvous in Bear river valley.

1837, Washington Irving, chapter XI, in The Rocky Mountains: Or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West; […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 120:

To increase the defences of (an army, soldiers, etc.), or put (it or them) in a defensive position.

укрепявам

to increase the defences of (an army, soldiers, etc.); to put (it or them) in a defensive position

But Baſilius (having bene the last day ſomevvhat vnprouided) novv had better fortified the ouerthrovvne ſconſe; and so vvell had prepared every thing for defence, that it vvas impoſſible for any valour from vvithin, to prevaile.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Thirde Booke] Chapter 4”, 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, folio 307, recto:

Moreover Agrippa vvriteth, that this vvhole coaſt of Albanie (fortified vvith thoſe high and inacceſſible mountains of Caucaſus) containeth 425 miles.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VI.] The Regions and People Confining upon the Scythian Ocean.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 121:

And ye haue numbred the houſes of Jeruſalem, and the houſes haue yee broken downe to fortifie the wall.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 22:10, column 1:

There are but Three Tovvns in the Dominions of the Prince of Monaco. The chief of 'em is ſituate on a Rock that runs out into the Sea, and is vvell fortify'd by Nature.

1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Monaco, Genoa, &c.”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 8:

[B]eſides puniſhing the diſaffection of the inhabitants, by pillaging the country, the French propoſed to ſeize and fortify St. Andrevv's, and to leave there a garriſon ſufficient to bridle the mutinous ſpirit of the province, and to keep poſſeſſion of a port ſituated on the main ocean.

1759, William Robertson, “Book III”, in The History of Scotland, during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till His Accession to the Crown of England. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, page 189:

To secure and strengthen (a place, its walls, etc.) by installing fortifications or other military works.

linnoittaa

to secure and strengthen (a place, etc.) by installing fortifications or other military works

At the ſame time, I fortified my ſelf vvith the French Captain, and the Supra Cargo, and the other Captain; […]

1725, [Daniel Defoe], “Part I”, in A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed before. […], London: […] A[rthur] Bettesworth, […]; and W. Mears, […], →OCLC, page 29:

(obsolete) To provide (a city, a fortress, an army, etc.) with equipment or soldiers.

[…] I vvill vvithdravv my ſelfe to the Riuer, & there fortifie for fiſh: for there reſteth no minute free from fight.

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

For ſuch a time do I novv fortifie / Againſt confounding Ages cruell knife, / That he ſhall neuer cut from memory / My ſvveet loues beauty, though my louers life.

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 63”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature E2, recto:

(military) To install fortifications or other military works; also (sometimes figurative), to put up a defensive position.

linnoittautua

to install fortifications or other military works; to put up a defensive position


RTU

en-verb

RTU (third-person singular simple present RTUs, present participle RTUing, simple past and past participle RTUed or RTU'd)

RTUs (present singular third-person)
RTUing (participle present)
RTUed (participle past)
RTUed (past)
RTU'd (participle past)
RTU'd (past)

(military, transitive) Initialism of return to unit.


suppress

suppress (third-person singular simple present suppresses, present participle suppressing, simple past and past participle suppressed)

suppresses (present singular third-person)
suppressing (participle present)
suppressed (participle past)
suppressed (past)

From Latin suppressus, perfect passive participle of supprimō (“press down or under”), from sub (“under”) + premō (“press”).

(military) To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.


loiter

loiter (third-person singular simple present loiters, present participle loitering, simple past and past participle loitered)

loiters (present singular third-person)
loitering (participle present)
loitered (participle past)
loitered (past)

From Middle English loitren, from Middle Dutch loteren ("to shake, wag, wobble"; > modern Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle, ramble”)), ultimately connected with a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *lūtaną (“to bend, stoop, cower, shrink from, decline”), see lout. Cognate with Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle”), Alemannic German lottern (“to wobble”), German Lotterbube (“rascal”). More at lout, little.

gl

"to shake, wag, wobble"; > modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">leuteren</i> (“to dawdle, ramble”)

der

(military, aviation) For an aircraft to remain in the air near a target.


koro

koro (nominative singular)
korot (nominative plural)
koro (accusative nominative singular)
korot (accusative nominative plural)
koron (accusative genitive singular)
korot (accusative genitive plural)
koron (genitive singular)
korojen (genitive plural)
koroa (partitive singular)
koroja (partitive plural)
korossa (inessive singular)
koroissa (inessive plural)
korosta (elative singular)
koroista (elative plural)
koroon (illative singular)
koroihin (illative plural)
korolla (adessive singular)
koroilla (adessive plural)
korolta (ablative singular)
koroilta (ablative plural)
korolle (allative singular)
koroille (allative plural)
korona (essive singular)
koroina (essive plural)
koroksi (singular translative)
koroiksi (plural translative)
korotta (abessive singular)
koroitta (abessive plural)
koroin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
koroni (nominative singular)
koroni (nominative plural)
koroni (accusative nominative singular)
koroni (accusative nominative plural)
koroni (accusative genitive singular)
koroni (accusative genitive plural)
koroni (genitive singular)
korojeni (genitive plural)
koroani (partitive singular)
korojani (partitive plural)
korossani (inessive singular)
koroissani (inessive plural)
korostani (elative singular)
koroistani (elative plural)
korooni (illative singular)
koroihini (illative plural)
korollani (adessive singular)
koroillani (adessive plural)
koroltani (ablative singular)
koroiltani (ablative plural)
korolleni (allative singular)
koroilleni (allative plural)
koronani (essive singular)
koroinani (essive plural)
korokseni (singular translative)
koroikseni (plural translative)
korottani (abessive singular)
koroittani (abessive plural)
koroineni (comitative plural)
korosi (nominative singular)
korosi (nominative plural)
korosi (accusative nominative singular)
korosi (accusative nominative plural)
korosi (accusative genitive singular)
korosi (accusative genitive plural)
korosi (genitive singular)
korojesi (genitive plural)
koroasi (partitive singular)
korojasi (partitive plural)
korossasi (inessive singular)
koroissasi (inessive plural)
korostasi (elative singular)
koroistasi (elative plural)
koroosi (illative singular)
koroihisi (illative plural)
korollasi (adessive singular)
koroillasi (adessive plural)
koroltasi (ablative singular)
koroiltasi (ablative plural)
korollesi (allative singular)
koroillesi (allative plural)
koronasi (essive singular)
koroinasi (essive plural)
koroksesi (singular translative)
koroiksesi (plural translative)
korottasi (abessive singular)
koroittasi (abessive plural)
koroinesi (comitative plural)
koromme (nominative singular)
koromme (nominative plural)
koromme (accusative nominative singular)
koromme (accusative nominative plural)
koromme (accusative genitive singular)
koromme (accusative genitive plural)
koromme (genitive singular)
korojemme (genitive plural)
koroamme (partitive singular)
korojamme (partitive plural)
korossamme (inessive singular)
koroissamme (inessive plural)
korostamme (elative singular)
koroistamme (elative plural)
koroomme (illative singular)
koroihimme (illative plural)
korollamme (adessive singular)
koroillamme (adessive plural)
koroltamme (ablative singular)
koroiltamme (ablative plural)
korollemme (allative singular)
koroillemme (allative plural)
koronamme (essive singular)
koroinamme (essive plural)
koroksemme (singular translative)
koroiksemme (plural translative)
korottamme (abessive singular)
koroittamme (abessive plural)
koroinemme (comitative plural)
koronne (nominative singular)
koronne (nominative plural)
koronne (accusative nominative singular)
koronne (accusative nominative plural)
koronne (accusative genitive singular)
koronne (accusative genitive plural)
koronne (genitive singular)
korojenne (genitive plural)
koroanne (partitive singular)
korojanne (partitive plural)
korossanne (inessive singular)
koroissanne (inessive plural)
korostanne (elative singular)
koroistanne (elative plural)
koroonne (illative singular)
koroihinne (illative plural)
korollanne (adessive singular)
koroillanne (adessive plural)
koroltanne (ablative singular)
koroiltanne (ablative plural)
korollenne (allative singular)
koroillenne (allative plural)
koronanne (essive singular)
koroinanne (essive plural)
koroksenne (singular translative)
koroiksenne (plural translative)
korottanne (abessive singular)
koroittanne (abessive plural)
koroinenne (comitative plural)
koronsa (nominative singular)
koronsa (nominative plural)
koronsa (accusative nominative singular)
koronsa (accusative nominative plural)
koronsa (accusative genitive singular)
koronsa (accusative genitive plural)
koronsa (genitive singular)
korojensa (genitive plural)
koroaan (partitive singular)
koroansa (partitive singular)
korojaan (partitive plural)
korojansa (partitive plural)
korossaan (inessive singular)
korossansa (inessive singular)
koroissaan (inessive plural)
koroissansa (inessive plural)
korostaan (elative singular)
korostansa (elative singular)
koroistaan (elative plural)
koroistansa (elative plural)
koroonsa (illative singular)
koroihinsa (illative plural)
korollaan (adessive singular)
korollansa (adessive singular)
koroillaan (adessive plural)
koroillansa (adessive plural)
koroltaan (ablative singular)
koroltansa (ablative singular)
koroiltaan (ablative plural)
koroiltansa (ablative plural)
korolleen (allative singular)
korollensa (allative singular)
koroilleen (allative plural)
koroillensa (allative plural)
koronaan (essive singular)
koronansa (essive singular)
koroinaan (essive plural)
koroinansa (essive plural)
korokseen (singular translative)
koroksensa (singular translative)
koroikseen (plural translative)
koroiksensa (plural translative)
korottaan (abessive singular)
korottansa (abessive singular)
koroittaan (abessive plural)
koroittansa (abessive plural)
koroineen (comitative plural)
koroinensa (comitative plural)


septime

(fencing) The seventh defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee level.


sector

sector
sector (Star Trek)
sector (instrument)

(military) An area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible.

(military) One of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier.


landslag

head

landslag n (singular definite landslaget, plural indefinite landslag)

landslaget (definite singular)
landslag (indefinite plural)
landslag (indefinite nominative singular)
landslaget (definite nominative singular)
landslag (indefinite nominative plural)
landslagene (definite nominative plural)
landslags (genitive indefinite singular)
landslagets (definite genitive singular)
landslags (genitive indefinite plural)
landslagenes (definite genitive plural)


garrison

/ˈɡæɹ.ɪ.sən/

/ˈɡæɹ.ɪ.sən/

/ˈɡɛɹ.ə.sən/

From Middle English garisoun, garysoun, from Old French garison, guarison, from guarir + -ison, ultimately of Germanic origin; thus a doublet of warison. Compare guard, ward; the modern meaning is influenced by (now obsolete) garnison.

(US, military, U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.


falla

(military) to retreat on a front of a battle, allowing enemy penetration into one's territory


sleeper

From Middle English sleper, equivalent to sleep + -er.

(martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.


shoulder arms

(military) a position or command in the manual of arms in which one places a rifle on the either left or right shoulder, with the forearm parallel to the ground and the hand holding the butt.

(Commonwealth, military) a military command in which one places a rifle in the side of the flank and gripped by either left or right hand.


shoulder arms

en-verb

shoulder arms (third-person singular simple present shoulders arms, present participle shouldering arms, simple past and past participle shouldered arms)

shoulders arms (present singular third-person)
shouldering arms (participle present)
shouldered arms (participle past)
shouldered arms (past)

(intransitive, military) Of a soldier at drill, to place a rifle on the right shoulder, with the forearm parallel to the ground and the hand holding the butt.

(Commonwealth, intransitive, military) Of a soldier at drill, to place a rifle in the side of the flank and gripped by either left or right hand.


daisy cutter

daisy cutters (plural)
daisy-cutter (alternative)
daisycutter (alternative)

* From plowing through a field and flattening and mowing down hypothetical daisies.
* (explosive): From flattening vegetation in a round region creating a clearing reminiscent of a daisy flower

(military, slang) The BLU-82 bomb, known for its ability to flatten a forest into a helicopter landing zone.


blooper

(US, military, slang) The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report).


eavesdropper

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

From eavesdrop + -er (“person or thing which does”).

suffix

[…] the Japanese Ministry of Defence rang the bell and informed the world's press about the Tokyo Express — the ironic Japanese nickname for the constant flow of Soviet flying eavesdroppers in Japanese airspace.

1986, Dick Van Der Aart, Aerial Espionage: Secret Intelligence Flights by East and West, page 96:

(military, slang) A surveillance aircraft.


neunschwänzige Katze

de-noun

neunschwänzige Katze f (definite nominative die neunschwänzige Katze, genitive neunschwänziger Katze, definite genitive der neunschwänzigen Katze, plural neunschwänzige Katzen, definite plural die neunschwänzigen Katzen)

die neunschwänzige Katze (definite nominative)
neunschwänziger Katze (genitive)
der neunschwänzigen Katze (definite genitive)
neunschwänzige Katzen (plural)
die neunschwänzigen Katzen (definite plural)
neunschwänzige Katze (nominative singular strong)
neunschwänzige Katzen (nominative plural strong)
neunschwänziger Katze (genitive singular strong)
neunschwänziger Katzen (genitive plural strong)
neunschwänziger Katze (dative singular strong)
neunschwänzigen Katzen (dative plural strong)
neunschwänzige Katze (accusative singular strong)
neunschwänzige Katzen (accusative plural strong)
neunschwänzige Katze (nominative singular weak)
neunschwänzigen Katzen (nominative plural weak)
neunschwänzigen Katze (genitive singular weak)
neunschwänzigen Katzen (genitive plural weak)
neunschwänzigen Katze (dative singular weak)
neunschwänzigen Katzen (dative plural weak)
neunschwänzige Katze (accusative singular weak)
neunschwänzigen Katzen (accusative plural weak)
neunschwänzige Katze (mixed nominative singular)
neunschwänzigen Katzen (mixed nominative plural)
neunschwänzigen Katze (genitive mixed singular)
neunschwänzigen Katzen (genitive mixed plural)
neunschwänzigen Katze (dative mixed singular)
neunschwänzigen Katzen (dative mixed plural)
neunschwänzige Katze (accusative mixed singular)
neunschwänzigen Katzen (accusative mixed plural)

From an adjective composed of neun (“nine”) + Schwanz (“tail”) + -ig (“-y”), and Katze (“cat”).


Schwalbe

(aviation, military) The World War II Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter.


Schwalbe

Schwalbe f (genitive Schwalbe, plural Schwalben)

Schwalbe (genitive)
Schwalben (plural)
Schwalbe (nominative singular)
Schwalben (definite nominative plural)
Schwalbe (genitive singular)
Schwalben (definite genitive plural)
Schwalbe (dative singular)
Schwalben (dative definite plural)
Schwalbe (accusative singular)
Schwalben (accusative definite plural)

→ Dutch: schwalbe

→ Silesian: šwalbkowate (compounded with native word)

From Middle High German swalwe, from Old High German swalwa, from Proto-West Germanic *swalwā. Cognate with Middle Dutch swaluwe (modern Dutch zwaluw), Old Saxon swala, Old English swealwe (modern English swallow), Old Norse svala (Danish svale, Swedish svala).
The football sense from a saying „Der fliegt wie ’ne Schwalbe!“ (“The man flies like a swallow!”), or the like, punning on fliegen in the sense of “to fall”. Compare hinfliegen (“to fall down”).

(aviation, military) Schwalbe (WWII Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter)


basic training

(military) The standard training regime for introducing new recruits to the organization's discipline and basic operational skills.


Stube

Stube f (genitive Stube, plural Stuben, diminutive Stübchen n or Stüblein n)

Stube (genitive)
Stuben (plural)
Stübchen (diminutive neuter)
Stüblein (diminutive neuter)
Stube (nominative singular)
Stuben (definite nominative plural)
Stube (genitive singular)
Stuben (definite genitive plural)
Stube (dative singular)
Stuben (dative definite plural)
Stube (accusative singular)
Stuben (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German stube, from Old High German stuba, from Proto-West Germanic *stubu.


extraction

en-noun

extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.

(military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.


rearguard

rearguards (plural)
rear guard (alternative)
rear-guard (alternative)

/ˈɹɪəɹˌɡɑɹd/

From rear + guard. Attested in The Song of Roland c. 1150 (rereguarde). Doublet of retrogarde.

(military) The rearmost part of a force, especially a detachment of troops that protect the rear of a retreating force.


filo

head

filo (definite accusative filoyu, plural filolar)

filoyu (accusative definite)
filolar (plural)

From Ottoman Turkish فیلو (filo, “line of battle”), from Venetan filo (“line”), from Latin filum.

inh

(military, nautical) fleet; squadron, line of battle


shrapnel

en-noun

shrapnel (usually uncountable, plural shrapnels)

From Shrapnel. Named after British army officer Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842) who invented an anti-personnel shell that transported a large number of bullets to the target before releasing them, at a far greater distance than rifles could fire the bullets individually. The surname is likely a metathesized form of Charbonnel, a diminutive of Old French charbon (“charcoal”) in reference to hair color, complexion, or the like.

skrapnel

fragments and debris thrown out by an exploding device

(military, historical) An anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets or balls close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

(military, historical) The bullets or balls from the aforementioned type of artillery shell.

en:any shot, fragments, or debris from any explosion

(military) Any shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb, or landmine.


siege engine

siege engines (plural)
siege-engine (alternative)

/ˈsiːd͡ʒ ˌɛnd͡ʒɪn/

/ˈsid͡ʒ ˌɛnd͡ʒɪn/

PIE word
 *h₁én
From siege + engine (“large construction used in warfare”).

compound

Opposite this hill Bohemund's men now began to dig in a definite direction. For the besiegers had devised this new mischief against the city and invented a new knavish siege-engine to apply to the town. For as they dug, they went along under the ground like moles boring holes in the soil and in places protecting themselves by sheds with high roofs against the stones and arrows which were thrown from above, and in others propping up the earth above them with poles, and thus they went on in a straight line.

1928, Anna Comnena [i.e., Anna Komnene], “Book XIII”, in Elizabeth A[nna] S[ophia] Dawes, transl., The Alexiad (Byzantine Series), Cambridge, Ont.: In Parentheses Publications, published 2000, page 233:

The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels and catapults, planted on sand-dunes.

1934, Robert Graves, chapter XXXII, in I, Claudius: […], New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, →OCLC, page 401:

(weaponry, historical) A large weapon of war used during ancient and medieval times to batter fortifications, settlements, etc.; specifically, a trebuchet or other type of catapult.


cedo

la-verb

cēdō (present infinitive cēdere, perfect active cessī, supine cessum); third conjugation

cēdō (canonical)
cēdere (infinitive present)
cessī (active perfect)
cessum (supine)
cēdō (active first-person indicative present singular)
cēdis (active indicative present second-person singular)
cēdit (active indicative present singular third-person)
cēdimus (active first-person indicative plural present)
cēditis (active indicative plural present second-person)
cēdunt (active indicative plural present third-person)
cēdēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
cēdēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
cēdēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
cēdēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
cēdēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
cēdēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
cēdam (active first-person future indicative singular)
cēdēs (active future indicative second-person singular)
cēdet (active future indicative singular third-person)
cēdēmus (active first-person future indicative plural)
cēdētis (active future indicative plural second-person)
cēdent (active future indicative plural third-person)
cessī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
cessistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
cessit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
cessimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
cessistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
cessērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
cessēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
cesseram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
cesserās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
cesserat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
cesserāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
cesserātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
cesserant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
cesserō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
cesseris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
cesserit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
cesserimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
cesseritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
cesserint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
cēdor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
cēderis (indicative passive present second-person singular)
cēdere (indicative passive present second-person singular)
cēditur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
cēdimur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
cēdiminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
cēduntur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
cēdēbar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
cēdēbāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
cēdēbāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
cēdēbātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
cēdēbāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
cēdēbāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
cēdēbantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
cēdar (first-person future indicative passive singular)
cēdēris (future indicative passive second-person singular)
cēdēre (future indicative passive second-person singular)
cēdētur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
cēdēmur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
cēdēminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
cēdentur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
cēdam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
cēdās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
cēdat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
cēdāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
cēdātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
cēdant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
cēderem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
cēderēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
cēderet (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
cēderēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
cēderētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
cēderent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
cesserim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
cesserīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
cesserit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
cesserīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
cesserītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
cesserint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
cessissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
cessissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
cessisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
cessissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
cessissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
cessissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
cēdar (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
cēdāris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
cēdāre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
cēdātur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
cēdāmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
cēdāminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
cēdantur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
cēderer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
cēderēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
cēderēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
cēderētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
cēderēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
cēderēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
cēderentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
cēde (active imperative present second-person singular)
cēdite (active imperative plural present second-person)
cēditō (active future imperative second-person singular)
cēditō (active future imperative singular third-person)
cēditōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
cēduntō (active future imperative plural third-person)
cēdere (imperative passive present second-person singular)
cēdiminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
cēditor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
cēditor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
cēduntor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
cēdere (active infinitive present)
cēdī (infinitive passive present)
cēdēns (active participle present)
cessūrum esse (active future infinitive)
cessum īrī (future infinitive passive)
cessūrus (active future participle)
cēdendus (future participle passive)
cēdundus (future participle passive)
cessisse (active infinitive perfect)
cessum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
cessus (participle passive perfect)
cessum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
cessūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
cēdendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
cēdendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
cēdendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
cēdendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
cessum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
cessū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

→ Catalan: cedir

→ Dutch: cederen

→ English: cede

→ French: céder

→ Romanian: ceda

→ Galician: ceder

→ Italian: cedere

→ Dalmatian: čedur

→ Portuguese: ceder

→ Sicilian: cèdiri

→ Spanish: ceder

[ˈt͡ʃɛː.d̪o]

Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme

From Proto-Italic *kezdō, further derivation disputed.
* Perhaps it is from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”). Cognates include Sanskrit सेधति (sedhati, “to drive, chase away”) and Avestan 𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬀𐬝 (siiazdat̰, “will chase away”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćyazd-, *ćižd-.
* Others derive it from *ḱe (“this, here”) + *sed- (“to sit down”). For the semantic development "to sit down" > "to go and sit" > "to go" compare the cognates English set out, Sanskrit उपसीदति (upasīdati, “to approach”), Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road”), and Proto-Slavic *xodъ, *xoditi.
* Others derive the ending from -dō (“to put”).

m+

(intransitive) to withdraw, depart, retire, go away from, yield

(intransitive, military) to withdraw, fall back, give up one's post, yield


Rohr

de-noun

Rohr n (strong, genitive Rohres or Rohrs, plural Rohre, diminutive Röhrchen n)

Rohres (genitive)
Rohrs (genitive)
Rohre (plural)
Röhrchen (diminutive neuter)
Rohr (nominative singular)
Rohre (definite nominative plural)
Rohres (genitive singular)
Rohrs (genitive singular)
Rohre (definite genitive plural)
Rohr (dative singular)
Rohre (dative singular)
Rohren (dative definite plural)
Rohr (accusative singular)
Rohre (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German rōr, from Old High German rōr, from Proto-Germanic *rauzą, of obscure origin; compare English rush and Old Norse reyrr, also possibly related to Latin ruscum (“bark”).
Cognate with Hunsrik Roher, Danish rør, Swedish rör.

(military) clipping of Geschützrohr (“barrel”)


Rohrkrepierer

Rohrkrepierer m (strong, genitive Rohrkrepierers, plural Rohrkrepierer)

Rohrkrepierers (genitive)
Rohrkrepierer (plural)
Rohrkrepierer (nominative singular)
Rohrkrepierer (definite nominative plural)
Rohrkrepierers (genitive singular)
Rohrkrepierer (definite genitive plural)
Rohrkrepierer (dative singular)
Rohrkrepierern (dative definite plural)
Rohrkrepierer (accusative singular)
Rohrkrepierer (accusative definite plural)

/ˈʁoːɐ̯kʁeˌpiːʁɐ/

Rohr (“barrel”) + krepieren (“to croak”)


Ofenrohr

de-noun

Ofenrohr n (strong, genitive Ofenrohres or Ofenrohrs, plural Ofenrohre)

Ofenrohres (genitive)
Ofenrohrs (genitive)
Ofenrohre (plural)
Ofenrohr (nominative singular)
Ofenrohre (definite nominative plural)
Ofenrohres (genitive singular)
Ofenrohrs (genitive singular)
Ofenrohre (definite genitive plural)
Ofenrohr (dative singular)
Ofenrohre (dative singular)
Ofenrohren (dative definite plural)
Ofenrohr (accusative singular)
Ofenrohre (accusative definite plural)

/ˈoːfn̩ˌʁoːɐ̯/


Feld

Feld n (strong, genitive Feldes or Felds, plural Felder, diminutive Feldchen n)

Feldes (genitive)
Felds (genitive)
Felder (plural)
Feldchen (diminutive neuter)
Feld (nominative singular)
Felder (definite nominative plural)
Feldes (genitive singular)
Felds (genitive singular)
Felder (definite genitive plural)
Feld (dative singular)
Felde (dative singular)
Feldern (dative definite plural)
Feld (accusative singular)
Felder (accusative definite plural)

Etymological Dictionary of the German Language

de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Middle High German velt, from Old High German feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-. Cognates include Dutch veld and English field.

ins Feld schicken

Das Feld der Ehre war nicht sichtbar, nicht vorstellbar, war Robert nicht begreifbar. Das war kein Feld, kein Acker, war keine Fläche, war nicht Nebel und nicht Luft. Es war das absolute Nichts.

1918, Leonhard Frank, Der Mensch ist gut [Man is Good], Zürich: Max Rascher:

area where action, often competitional, takes place


tarnen

de-verb

tarnen (weak, third-person singular present tarnt, past tense tarnte, past participle getarnt, auxiliary haben)

tarnt (present singular third-person)
tarnte (past)
getarnt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
tarnen (infinitive)
tarnend (participle present)
getarnt (participle past)
tarne (first-person indicative present singular)
tarnen (first-person indicative plural present)
tarne (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnst (indicative present second-person singular)
tarnt (indicative plural present second-person)
tarnest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnt (indicative present singular third-person)
tarnen (indicative plural present third-person)
tarne (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
tarnen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
tarnte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
tarnten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
tarnte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarnten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarntest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
tarntet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
tarntest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarntet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarnte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
tarnten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
tarnte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
tarnten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
tarn (imperative second-person singular)
tarne (imperative second-person singular)
tarnt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe getarnt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben getarnt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest getarnt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet getarnt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe getarnt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben getarnt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte getarnt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten getarnt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tarnen werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde tarnen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden tarnen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
getarnt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

Early 20th century, a borrowing (inspired by older Tarnkappe) from Middle High German tarnen, from Old High German *tarnōn, from Proto-West Germanic *darnōn.


maquis

→ English: maquis

→ Portuguese: maquis

→ Spanish: maquis

From Corsican machja or macchia, from Latin macula (“spot”), with addition of the suffix -is.

(figuratively, historical, military) resistance, underground (movement during World War II)


line of fire

(military, weaponry) direction in which a weapon fires


line of battle

(military) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver.

ligne de bataille

(naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement.


line of march

(military, historical) The arrangement of troops during a march.

(historical, military) The course or direction taken by marching soldiers.


line of operations

en-noun

line of operations (plural lines of operations)

As a general rule, a line of operations should- be directed upon the centre, or one of the extremities of the enemy's line of defence; unless our forces be infinitely superior in number,

1846, Henry Halleck, Elements of Military Art and Science:

(military) That portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object.


line of sight

lines of sight (plural)
line-of-sight (alternative)

(weaponry) The line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object.


line of battle ship

line of battle ship (plural line of battle ships)

I have said that our roof was decidedly Biblical in style; but to make it a dry one, something of a nautical character was added to its architecture, for on either side were scuppers, and it was slightly arched in the centre; it was commonly said that two masts, a bowsprit and a swivel gun would have transformed our dwelling into a line-of-battle ship[.]

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 112:

(nautical, military, obsolete) A ship of the line or battleship.


ablutions

(plural only, UK, military) The location or building where the showers and basins are located.


Flugzeugträger

de-noun

Flugzeugträger m (strong, genitive Flugzeugträgers, plural Flugzeugträger)

Flugzeugträgers (genitive)
Flugzeugträger (plural)
Flugzeugträger (nominative singular)
Flugzeugträger (definite nominative plural)
Flugzeugträgers (genitive singular)
Flugzeugträger (definite genitive plural)
Flugzeugträger (dative singular)
Flugzeugträgern (dative definite plural)
Flugzeugträger (accusative singular)
Flugzeugträger (accusative definite plural)

Russian: авиано́сец (avianósec) (calque)

/ˈfluːktsɔɪ̯kˌtʁɛːɡɐ/


bastion

head

bastion c (singular definite bastionen, plural indefinite bastioner)

bastionen (definite singular)
bastioner (indefinite plural)
bastion (indefinite nominative singular)
bastionen (definite nominative singular)
bastioner (indefinite nominative plural)
bastionerne (definite nominative plural)
bastions (genitive indefinite singular)
bastionens (definite genitive singular)
bastioners (genitive indefinite plural)
bastionernes (definite genitive plural)

Via French bastion, from Italian bastione.

(figurative) bastion (something or someone that resists a certain influence)


bastion

bastionik (diminutive)
bastion (nominative singular)
bastiony (nominative plural)
bastionu (genitive singular)
bastionów (genitive plural)
bastionowi (dative singular)
bastionom (dative plural)
bastion (accusative singular)
bastiony (accusative plural)
bastionem (instrumental singular)
bastionami (instrumental plural)
bastionie (locative singular)
bastionach (locative plural)
bastionie (singular vocative)
bastiony (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French bastion, from Old French bastille.

(military) bastion, stronghold (place built to withstand attack)


Trommel

de-noun

Trommel f (genitive Trommel, plural Trommeln)

Trommel (genitive)
Trommeln (plural)
Trommel (nominative singular)
Trommeln (definite nominative plural)
Trommel (genitive singular)
Trommeln (definite genitive plural)
Trommel (dative singular)
Trommeln (dative definite plural)
Trommel (accusative singular)
Trommeln (accusative definite plural)

From late Middle High German trummel, diminutive of Old High German trumme, probably of imitative origin. Compare trommeln.

onomatopoeic

imitative

drum-shaped part of a machine
(firearms) cylinder of a revolver

drum-shaped part of a machine
cylinder of a revolver