top

az-noun

top (definite accusative topu, plural toplar)

topu (accusative definite)
toplar (plural)
topum (first-person nominative possessive singular)
toplarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
topun (nominative possessive second-person singular)
topların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
topu (nominative possessive singular third-person)
topları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
topumuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
toplarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
topunuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
toplarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
topu (nominative plural possessive third-person)
topları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
topumu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
toplarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
topunu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
toplarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
topunu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
toplarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
topumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
toplarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
topunuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
toplarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
topunu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
toplarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
topuma (dative first-person possessive singular)
toplarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
topuna (dative possessive second-person singular)
toplarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
topuna (dative possessive singular third-person)
toplarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
topumuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
toplarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
topunuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
toplarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
topuna (dative plural possessive third-person)
toplarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
topumda (first-person locative possessive singular)
toplarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
topunda (locative possessive second-person singular)
toplarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
topunda (locative possessive singular third-person)
toplarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
topumuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
toplarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
topunuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
toplarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
topunda (locative plural possessive third-person)
toplarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
topumdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
toplarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
topundan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
toplarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
topundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
toplarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
topumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
toplarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
topunuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
toplarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
topundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
toplarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
topumun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
toplarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
topunun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
toplarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
topunun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
toplarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
topumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
toplarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
topunuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
toplarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
topunun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
toplarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


top

tȍp (canonical masculine)
то̏п (Cyrillic)
tȍp (nominative singular)
tòpovi (nominative plural)
tòpa (genitive singular)
tȍpōvā (genitive plural)
tòpōvā (genitive plural)
tòpu (dative singular)
tòpovima (dative plural)
tȍp (accusative singular)
tòpove (accusative plural)
tȍpe (singular vocative)
tòpovi (plural vocative)
tòpu (locative singular)
tòpovima (locative plural)
tòpom (instrumental singular)
tòpovima (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوپ (top).


mano

Borrowed from Spanish mano, from Latin manus.


wag

en-verb

wag (third-person singular simple present wags, present participle wagging, simple past and past participle wagged)

wags (present singular third-person)
wagging (participle present)
wagged (participle past)
wagged (past)

From Middle English waggen, probably from Old English wagian (“to wag, wave, shake”) with reinforcement from Old Norse vaga (“to wag, waddle”); both from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to wag”). Related to English way.
The verb may be regarded as an iterative or emphatic form of waw (verb), which is often nearly synonymous; it was used, e.g., of a loose tooth. Parallel formations from the same root are the Old Norse vagga feminine, cradle (Swedish vagga, Danish vugge), Swedish vagga (“to rock a cradle”), vugge (“to rock a cradle”), Dutch wagen (“to move”), early modern German waggen (dialectal German wacken) to waver, totter. Compare waggle, verb

inh

The tail wagged.

(intransitive, cricket, slang) Of the tail (lower order of the batting lineup): to score more runs than expected.


ton

→ Tokelauan: tone, tane

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

ton

various units of mass notionally equivalent to a tun

(colloquial, chiefly UK) Synonym of hundred, particularly

Synonym of hundred, particularly
100 points.

Synonym of hundred, particularly
100 runs.


царица

цари́ца (canonical)
caríca (romanization)
цар (masculine)
цари́ца (indefinite singular)
цари́ци (indefinite plural)
цари́цата (definite singular)
цари́ците (definite plural)
цари́це (singular vocative)
цари́ци (plural vocative)

bg-ndecl

цари́ца<(v)>


batman

batmani (plural)
batman (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
batmanul (accusative definite nominative singular)
batmani (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
batmanii (accusative definite nominative plural)
batman (indefinite singular)
batmanului (definite singular)
batmani (indefinite singular)
batmanilor (definite plural)
batmanule (singular vocative)
batmanilor (vocative)


trait

Inherited from Old French trait, from Latin tractus.

(chess, checkers) the privilege of taking the first turn/move


lady

⇒ Afrikaans: haar ladyskap

→ Arabic: لِيدِي (līdī)

Egyptian Arabic: ليدي (lēdī)

→ Belarusian: лэ́дзі (lédzi)

→ Bulgarian: ле́йди (léjdi)

→ French: lady

→ German: Lady

→ Greek: λαίδη (laídi), λέδη (lédi)

→ Italian: lady

→ Japanese: レディ (redi), レディー (redī)

→ Korean: 레이디 (reidi)

→ Latvian: lēdija

→ Macedonian: леди (ledi)

→ Polish: lady

→ Romanian: lady

→ Russian: ле́ди (lédi)

→ Spanish: lady

→ Swedish: lady

→ Tongan: leitī

→ Ukrainian: ле́ді (lédi)

→ Volapük: läd

From Middle English lady, laddy, lafdi, lavedi, from Old English hlǣfdīġe (“mistress of a household, wife of a lord, lady”, literally “bread-kneader”), from hlāf (“bread, loaf”) + dīġe (“kneader”), related to Old English dǣġe (“maker of dough”) (whence dey (“dairymaid”)). Compare also lord. More at loaf, dairy, dough. Unrelated to lad.


rad

rada (definite singular)
raden (definite singular)
rader (indefinite plural)
radene (definite plural)


rad

nominative
rad (singular)
rady (plural)
genitive
radu (singular)
radov (plural)
dative
radom (plural)
accusative
locative
rade (singular)
radoch (plural)
instrumental
radom (singular)
radmi (plural)


rad

rad (indefinite nominative singular)
rads (genitive indefinite singular)
raden (definite nominative singular)
radens (definite genitive singular)
rader (indefinite nominative plural)
raders (genitive indefinite plural)
raderna (definite nominative plural)
radernas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse rǫð, from Proto-Germanic *radō (“row”).


marriage

en-noun

marriage (countable and uncountable, plural marriages)

marriages (plural)
mariage (alternative)

From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier (“to marry”), from Latin marītō (“marry”, verb, literally “give in marriage”), from marītus (“lover”, “nuptial”), from mas (“male, masculine, of the male sex”). Equivalent to marry + -age. Doublet of maritage. Displaced native Old English sinsċipe.

der

marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute

(card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.

(card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.


rapid

Borrowed from Middle French rapide and its etymon Latin rapidus.

In these rapid games we had just twenty-five minutes each to make all our moves, a far cry from traditional chess, where games can last up to seven hours.

2010, Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess, page 41:

In order to avoid misunderstanding, I must note that I object to the attempts to displace normal chess with fast play, not rapid or blitz in general. I love them both, and, if I were to choose which to play, classic or rapid, I would choose rapid.

2015, Mark Dvoretsky, For Friends and Colleagues, volume 2 (Reflections on My Profession):

I haven’t played against Wesley So—I’ve played him a bunch online in rapid games, but not in classical rounds.

2022 September 2, Nitish Pahwa, Magnus Carlsen (quoted), “The World’s Greatest Chess Player Cannot Wait to Battle His Young, Rising Rivals”, in Slate:


Eskimo

en-noun

Eskimo (plural Eskimo or Eskimos or Eskimoes)

Eskimo (plural)
Eskimos (plural)
Eskimoes (plural)
Eskimau (alternative)
Esquimau (alternative)
Esquimaux (alternative)
Esquimo (alternative)

Attested since 1584, ultimately from an Old Montagnais term. Ives Goddard's theory, accepted by most linguists today, is that it derives from Montagnais ayaškimew (“snowshoe-netter”). An older theory, defended by John Steckley due to its greater acceptance in Native oral traditions, but discredited by linguists, is that it derives from a term meaning "eater(s) of raw meat".
Details.
* The theory most accepted among linguists today is that it derives from ayaškimew (“snowshoe-netter”) (compare Montagnais assime·w (“she laces a snowshoe”), Ojibwe ashkime (“s/he nets snowshoes”)), a term applied to the Mi'kmaq and apparently later transferred to the Labrador Inuit.
* An older theory derives it from a term meaning "eaters of raw meat"; compare Cree askamiciw (“s/he eats it raw”) (Inuit are referred to in some Cree texts as askipiw, "eats something raw"). John Steckley argues in favor of this theory because of its greater acceptance in native oral traditions, and because the Huron, historical allies and trading partners of the Montagnais who loan-translated many names, also denote the Inuit using terms (e.g. Lorette Huron ok8ch iechronnon, Wyandot ok8chtronnon, both including -ok8ch- "to be raw") meaning "people of the raw", "people who eat something raw".
In 1978, Montagnais-speaking Quebec anthropologist Jose Mailhot alternatively suggested Eskimo meant "people who speak a different language", but Steckley considers her theory unlikely.
The term may have entered English via Spanish esquimao, esquimal (used by Basque fishermen in Labrador).

cog

(Canadian football, historical) A team member of the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos. (Obsolete as of 2020 with the team dropping this name in favour of Elks in 2021.)


passer

(sports) Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass.

(American football) A football player who makes a forward pass, who may be (but not limited to) the quarterback.


passer

passer (infinitive)
avoir (infinitive multiword-construction)
être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
passant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
passé (participle past)
passe (first-person indicative present singular)
passes (indicative present second-person singular)
passe (indicative present singular third-person)
passons (first-person indicative plural present)
passez (indicative plural present second-person)
passent (indicative plural present third-person)
passais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
passais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
passait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
passions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
passiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
passaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
passai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
passas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
passa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
passâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
passâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
passèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
passerai (first-person future indicative singular)
passeras (future indicative second-person singular)
passera (future indicative singular third-person)
passerons (first-person future indicative plural)
passerez (future indicative plural second-person)
passeront (future indicative plural third-person)
passerais (conditional first-person singular)
passerais (conditional second-person singular)
passerait (conditional singular third-person)
passerions (conditional first-person plural)
passeriez (conditional plural second-person)
passeraient (conditional plural third-person)
present indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
imperfect indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
past historic of avoir (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
être + past participle (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
future of avoir (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
passe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
passes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
passe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
passions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
passiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
passent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
passasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
passasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
passât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
passassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
passassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
passassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
present subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
imperfect subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
passe (imperative second-person singular)
passons (first-person imperative plural)
passez (imperative plural second-person)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
simple imperative of avoir (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
être + past participle (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)

→ Alemannic German: passiere

→ German: passieren

desc

Romanian: → pasa, → trece (semantic loan)

Inherited from Middle French passer, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (“step”, noun).

(card games) to pass (not play upon one's turn)


canis

la-noun

canis m or f (genitive canis); third declension

canis (genitive)
canis (nominative singular)
canēs (nominative plural)
canis (genitive singular)
canum (genitive plural)
canī (dative singular)
canibus (dative plural)
canem (accusative singular)
canēs (accusative plural)
cane (ablative singular)
canibus (ablative plural)
canis (singular vocative)
canēs (plural vocative)
canēs (alternative)

Aragonese: can

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: cãni, cãne, cheni

Istro-Romanian: căre

Megleno-Romanian: cǫini

Romanian: câine, câne

Asturian: can

Corsican: cane

Dalmatian: cun, cuon

Franco-Provençal: chin

desctree

Old French: chien, kien
Middle French: chien
French: chien
Angevin: chin
Bourguignon: chein
Champenois: chin
Franc-Comtois: tchïn
Norman: quien
Picard: tchien, kien, quien
Walloon: tchén

Istriot: can

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: cjan, čhan

Ladin: cian

Romansch: chaun, tgaun, chan

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: can

Old Piedmontese: cjeun

Piedmontese: can

Lombard: cjeun, cjaun

Lombard: can

desc

Romagnol: cân, chên (Cattolica), chën (Rimini)

Venetan: can

Italian: cane

Old Occitan: can

Catalan: ca

Occitan: can

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: can
Galician: can
Portuguese: cão

Sardinian:

Campidanese: cani

Logudorese: cane

Sicilian: cani

Spanish: can

From earlier canēs. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ, *ḱun- (“dog”), from earlier *ḱwón-s, whence also Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn), Sanskrit श्वन् (śván), though the expected outcome was formally much altered.
The -a- gained a number of ad hoc explanations, such as a shift of *-wo- to *-wa- in open syllables, or of *-n̥- to -an- before vowels. The initial unrounded c- must have been levelled early into the rest of the inflection from the expected nominative outcome *cō, as *ḱw- would have regularly delabialised before a rounded vowel.

ref

Now mostly rejected, as this assumes a relevelling on a genitive stem *ḱwn̥-, which is actually largely attested as *ḱun- in all the word's cognates.<ref name=Sihler/>

Talis enim iactatis, ut quisque canem aut senionem miserat, in singulos talos singulos denarios in medium conferebat, quos tollebat uniuersos, qui Venerem iecerat

121 C.E., Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume Aug.71:

When the tali (an oblong dice) would be thrown, those who had gotten an ace or a six had to place a denarius in the middle of the table for each dice thrown, the one that would achieve in getting a Venus (the best throw) won it all.

(dice games) the lowest, worst throw at the dice, an ace


traveller

travellers (plural)
traveler (alternative)

From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.

At the conclusion of play, the scores from all the travelers get entered into a computer.

2008, David Galt, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Bridge, →ISBN, page 263:

(bridge) A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.


exotic

en-adj

exotic (comparative more exotic, superlative most exotic)

more exotic (comparative)
most exotic (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin exōticus, from Ancient Greek ἐξωτικός (exōtikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ἐξω- (exō-, “outside”), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”).

مجلوب

foreign, with the connotation of excitingly foreign

(gambling) Being or relating to various wagers, such as the trifecta, that involve betting on the finishing positions of multiple competitors across one or more races.


guard

guards (plural)
gard (alternative)
garde (alternative)
guarde (alternative)

From Middle English garde, from early Middle French or late Old French guarde (“a guardian, warden, keeper”) (whence modern French garde), from the verb guarder. Doublet of garda, which is from Irish.

(basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.

(cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.

(American football) Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.


sheet

From Middle English schete; partly from Old English sċīete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English sċēata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English sċēat (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”).
Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”).

cog

(curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.


lagarto

Guinea-Bissau Creole: lagártu

→ Hunsrik: Lagart

From Old Galician-Portuguese lagarto, from Vulgar Latin *lacartum, from Latin lacertus, of uncertain origin.

(Portugal, soccer, derogatory) a supporter, player or coach of Sporting Clube de Portugal


centaur

From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).

This was not Kasparov's approach. Instead of rejecting the machines, he returned the year after his defeat to Deep Blue with a different kind of chess, which he called ‘Advanced Chess’. Other names for Advanced Chess include ‘cyborg’ and ‘centaur’ chess.

2018, James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology, Knowledge and the End of the Future, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 159:

(chess) A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.


cannon

en-noun

cannon (countable and uncountable, plural cannons or (mainly UK) cannon)

cannons (plural)
cannon (UK mainly plural)

Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canyon. This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.

In English billiards, a cannon is when one’s cue ball strikes the other player’s cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.

He’s got a cannon out in right.

(baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.

(xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.


cannon

en-verb

cannon (third-person singular simple present cannons, present participle cannoning, simple past and past participle cannoned)

cannons (present singular third-person)
cannoning (participle present)
cannoned (participle past)
cannoned (past)

The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.


sacrifice

en-noun

sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural sacrifices)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-
Proto-Italic *sakros
Latin sacer
Latin sacrum
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin facio
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Italic *-jōs
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin sacrificiumlbor.
Old French sacrifisebor.
Middle English sacrifice
English sacrifice
From Middle English sacrifice (“act of offering a life or object to a deity; the life or object so offered; (Christianity) act of consecrating the elements in the mass”), from Anglo-Norman sacrefiz, and Old French sacrifice, sacrifise (modern French sacrifice), from Latin sacrificium (“something offered to a deity, sacrifice”), from sacrum (“sacrifice, sacrificial rite”) + faciō (“to do, to make”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The noun sacrum is the nominalized neuter of the adjective sacer (“devoted to a deity for sacrifice; holy, sacred”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (“ceremony, ritual; to make sacred”), and the verb faciō is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”). Related Latin formations include sacrificus (“of or pertaining to sacrifice, sacrificial”) and sacrificō (“to make a sacrifice”).
Cognates
* Italian sagrifizio
* Occitan sacrifici
* Portuguese sacrificio
* Spanish sacrificio

der

(baseball) Short for sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hit (“a play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners”).

sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hit

(bridge) In full sacrifice bid: a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, that a player makes in the hope that they will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.

uhraus

(bridge) bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled

(chess) An act of intentionally allowing one's piece to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.

uhraus

(chess) act of intentionally allowing one’s piece to be captured by the opponent


sacrifice

en-verb

sacrifice (third-person singular simple present sacrifices, present participle sacrificing, simple past and past participle sacrificed)

sacrifices (present singular third-person)
sacrificing (participle present)
sacrificed (participle past)
sacrificed (past)
sacrifice (infinitive)

From Middle English sacrificen (“to offer a sacrifice to a deity”), from sacrifice (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs).

flijoj

(transitive) to offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity; (transitive) to offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity

(baseball) Of a batter: to advance (one or more runners on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out but with insufficient time to put the runner(s) out.

sacrificar-se

(baseball, transitive) of a batter: to advance (one or more runners on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded; (intransitive) to bat the ball so that it can be fielded

(chess) To intentionally allow (a piece) to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.

жертвам

(chess) to intentionally allow (a piece) to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one’s position in the game

(baseball) Of a batter: to bat the ball so that it can be fielded, placing the batter out but allowing one or more runners on base to advance.

(bridge) To make a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, in the hope that that the player will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.

uhrata

(bridge) to make a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled


keystone

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

From key + stone.
Definition 4 (retail) possibly originated in the jewelry industry in the magazine called "Jewelers' Circular-Keystone".

(baseball) The combination of the shortstop and second baseman.


iso

en-noun

iso (countable and uncountable, plural isos)

“I can remember lining up against them and saying, ‘This is the 15th iso that you’re going to get.’ ”

2007 January 5, Pete Thamel, quoting Greg Mattison, “Scoreboard Shows This Isn't the Same Old Ohio State”, in New York Times:

(American football, basketball) An isolation play in basketball or American football.


IP

IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)

(baseball, countable, invariant) Initialism of innings pitched (the statistic reporting the number of innings pitched by a pitcher.)


hutch

From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut.
(cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor.

(cricket, slang) The pavilion or dressing room.


kip

Unknown. Perhaps related to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect kep, to toss up into the air. Or else, perhaps related to German Kippe (“stub”).

Again Turk placed the pennies on the kip. He took his time, deliberate over the small action, held the kip for a long breathless moment, then jerked his wrist and the pennies were in the air.

1951, Jon Cleary, The Sundowners, published 1952, page 208:

Money was laid on the floor for bets on the heads or tails finish of two pennies tossed high into the air from a small wooden kip.

2003, Gilbert Buchanan, Malco Polia - Traveller, Warrior, page 52:

Jack discarded a length of wood, two twists of wire, his two-up kip and a spanner.

2010, Colin McLaren, Sunflower: A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue, page 101:

(Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.


poke

From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach.

onomatopoeic

imitative

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

(baseball, slang) A hit, especially an extra base hit.


worm

From Middle English worm, werm, wurm, wirm, from Old English wyrm (“worm, snake”), from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis, possibly from *wer- (“to turn”). Doublet of vermin and wyrm, the latter of which is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English.
(computing): First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.
Cognates
Germanic cognates include Dutch worm, West Frisian wjirm, German Wurm, Swedish orm (“snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk orm (“earthworm or snake”), Danish orm and Yiddish וואָרעם (vorem).
Indo-European cognates include Latin vermis (“worm”), Lithuanian var̃mas (“insect, midge”), Albanian rrime (“rainworm”), Ancient Greek ῥόμος (rhómos, “woodworm”).

шнек

something helical, especially the thread of a screw

(cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.


seed

en-verb

seed (third-person singular simple present seeds, present participle seeding, simple past and past participle seeded)

seeds (present singular third-person)
seeding (participle present)
seeded (participle past)
seeded (past)
sede (alternative)

From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”).
Cognate with West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), Low German Saad (“seed”), German Saat (“sowing; seed”), Icelandic sæði (“seed”), Danish sæd (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Latin satiō (“seeding, time of sowing, season”). More at sow.

cog

Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass.

1979 July 2, “Reflection on the Seedings Fills Pause at Wimbledon”, in The New York Times:

(sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.


walk

en-verb

walk (third-person singular simple present walks, present participle walking, simple past and past participle walked)

walks (present singular third-person)
walking (participle present)
walked (participle past)
walked (past)
walk (infinitive)

Chinese Pidgin English: walkee

From Middle English walken (“to move, walk, roll, turn, revolve, toss”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move round, revolve, roll, turn, toss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną, *walkōną (“to twist, turn, roll about, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”).
Cognate with Scots walk (“to walk”), Saterland Frisian walkje (“to full; drum; flex; mill”), West Frisian swalkje (“to wander, roam”), Dutch walken (“to full, work hair or felt”), Dutch zwalken (“to wander about”), German walken (“to flex, full, mill, drum”), Danish valke (“to waulk, full”), Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Sanskrit वल्गति (válgati, “amble, bound, leap, dance”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.

cog

(intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.

(transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.

aya

baseball: to allow to advance after four balls

(intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.


walk

From Middle English walk, walke, walc, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“a rolling motion, attack”), from Proto-Germanic *walką. Cognate with Icelandic válk (“a rolling around, a tossing to and fro, trouble, distress”).

The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone.

(baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".


squeeze

en-verb

squeeze (third-person singular simple present squeezes, present participle squeezing, simple past squeezed or (nonstandard) squoze, past participle squeezed or (nonstandard) squozen)

squeezes (present singular third-person)
squeezing (participle present)
squeezed (past)
squoze (nonstandard past)
squeezed (participle past)
squozen (nonstandard participle past)

From earlier squize, squise (whence also dialectal English squizzen and squeege), first attested around 1600, further origin uncertain; probably an alteration of quease (which is attested since 1550), from Middle English queisen (“to squeeze”), from Old English to crush, squeeze, itself also of unknown origin, perhaps imitative (compare Swedish qväsa, kväsa (“to squeeze, bruise, crush; quell”), Dutch kwetsen (“to injure, hurt”), German quetschen (“to squeeze”)). Or, a blend of obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”) (whence also squash and squish) with quease. Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to press, squeeze”).
The slang expression "to put the squeeze on (someone or something)", meaning "to exert influence", is from 1711. The baseball term "squeeze play" is first recorded 1905. "Main squeeze" ("most important person") is attested from 1896, the specific meaning "one's sweetheart, lover" is attested in 1970s.
The nonstandard strong forms squoze and squozen, attested dialectally since at least the mid-19th century, are by analogy with freeze.

cog

Jones squeezed in Smith with a perfect bunt.

(transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.

ճզմրտուք

baseball: to attempt to score a runner from third by bunting


squeeze

The game ended in exciting fashion with a failed squeeze.

(baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.

スクイズ

baseball: the act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third

(card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.


rouge

en-noun

rouge (countable and uncountable, plural rouges)

Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus. Compare rare Middle English rouge, rouȝ (“red”); later borrowed again, as it is not attested until c. 1750. The game senses are of unknown origin according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

(Canadian football) A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored.


attraction

attraction (countable and uncountable, plural attractions)

[əˈtɹækʃ(ɪ̈)n]

[əˈt͡ʃɹækʃ(ɪ̈)n]

From Middle English attraccioun, from Old French attraction, from Latin attractio from past participle of attrahō (= ad + trahō), equivalent to attract + -ion.

(chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.


penchant

penchant (countable and uncountable, plural penchants)

Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).

uder

(card games, uncountable) A card game resembling bezique.

(card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.


opposition

/ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/

/ˌɑ.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/

From Middle English opposicioun, from Old French oposicion (whence French opposition), from Late Latin oppositiō, translating Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis), from the past participle stem of classical Latin oppōnō (“I set against”).

(chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.


opposition

opposition (indefinite nominative singular)
oppositions (genitive indefinite singular)
oppositionen (definite nominative singular)
oppositionens (definite genitive singular)
oppositioner (indefinite nominative plural)
oppositioners (genitive indefinite plural)
oppositionerna (definite nominative plural)
oppositionernas (definite genitive plural)


cup

→ Farefare: kɔpɩ

→ Hebrew: קאפ (kap)

→ Japanese: カップ (kappu)

desc

→ Kashubian: kopsa (Canada, United States)

→ Korean: 컵 (keop)

→ Maori: kapu

Inherited from Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe (“cup”) and Old English copp (“cup, vessel”).
Old English cuppe is a borrowing from Late Latin cuppa, itself of obscure origin, but probably from earlier Latin cūpa (“tub, cask”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Old English copp, however, is from Proto-West Germanic *kopp (“round object, bowl, vessel, knoll, summit, crown of the head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”) (whence also obsolete English cop (“top, summit, crown of the head”), German Kopf (“top, head”)).
The Middle English word was further reinforced by Anglo-Norman cupe and Old French cope, coupe, from Latin cuppa. Compare also Saterland Frisian Kop (“cup”), West Frisian kop (“cup”), Dutch kop (“cup”), German Low German Koppke, Köppke (“cup”), Danish kop (“cup”), Swedish kopp (“cup”). Doublet of coupe, hive, and keeve.

unk

obscure

cog

that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee

that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee

that and twenty-five cents will get you a cup of coffee

there's many a slip between the cup and the lip

there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups.

2002, Rob Dimery, Peter Watts, Guinness world records, Gullane Children's Books, →ISBN:

Wallace had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season.

2011, Michael Grant, Rob Robertson, The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses, Birlinn, →ISBN:

One week earlier, they had lost 5-2 to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal [the German cup] final in Berlin.

2014, Martí Perarnau, Pep Confidential: Inside Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich, Birlinn, →ISBN:

(soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.


comer

pt-verb

comer (first-person singular present como, first-person singular preterite comi, past participle comido)

como (first-person present singular)
comi (first-person preterite singular)
comido (participle past)
comer (impersonal infinitive)
comer (first-person infinitive singular)
comeres (infinitive second-person singular)
comer (infinitive singular third-person)
comermos (first-person infinitive plural)
comerdes (infinitive plural second-person)
comerem (infinitive plural third-person)
comendo (gerund)
comido (masculine participle past singular)
comidos (masculine participle past plural)
comida (feminine participle past singular)
comidas (feminine participle past plural)
como (first-person indicative present singular)
comes (indicative present second-person singular)
come (indicative present singular third-person)
comemos (first-person indicative plural present)
comeis (indicative plural present second-person)
comem (indicative plural present third-person)
comia (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
comias (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
comia (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
comíamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
comíeis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
comiam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
comi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
comeste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
comeu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
comemos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
comestes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
comeram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
comera (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
comeras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
comera (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
comêramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
comêreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
comeram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
comerei (first-person future indicative singular)
comerás (future indicative second-person singular)
comerá (future indicative singular third-person)
comeremos (first-person future indicative plural)
comereis (future indicative plural second-person)
comerão (future indicative plural third-person)
comeria (conditional first-person singular)
comerias (conditional second-person singular)
comeria (conditional singular third-person)
comeríamos (conditional first-person plural)
comeríeis (conditional plural second-person)
comeriam (conditional plural third-person)
coma (first-person present singular subjunctive)
comas (present second-person singular subjunctive)
coma (present singular subjunctive third-person)
comamos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
comais (plural present second-person subjunctive)
comam (plural present subjunctive third-person)
comesse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
comesses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
comesse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
comêssemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
comêsseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
comessem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
comer (first-person future singular subjunctive)
comeres (future second-person singular subjunctive)
comer (future singular subjunctive third-person)
comermos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
comerdes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
comerem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
come (imperative second-person singular)
coma (imperative singular third-person)
comamos (first-person imperative plural)
comei (imperative plural second-person)
comam (imperative plural third-person)
não comas (imperative negative second-person singular)
não coma (imperative negative singular third-person)
não comamos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não comais (imperative negative plural second-person)
não comam (imperative negative plural third-person)

Kabuverdianu: kume

Macanese: comê

Papiamentu: kome

→ Malay: kumi

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese comer, from Vulgar Latin *comēre, restructuring of Latin comedere.
Cognate with Galician, Mirandese, Asturian, and Spanish comer and Mirandese quemer.

cog

vi com estes olhos que a terra há de comer

Agora comi-te a torre.

(transitive, chess, board games) to capture (eliminate a piece from the game)


comer

es-verb

comer (first-person singular present como, first-person singular preterite comí, past participle comido)

como (first-person present singular)
comí (first-person preterite singular)
comido (participle past)
comer (infinitive)
comiendo (gerund)
comido (masculine participle past singular)
comida (feminine participle past singular)
comidos (masculine participle past plural)
comidas (feminine participle past plural)
como (first-person indicative present singular)
comes (indicative informal present second-person singular)
comés (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
come (indicative present singular third-person)
comemos (first-person indicative plural present)
coméis (indicative plural present second-person)
comen (indicative plural present third-person)
comía (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
comías (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
comía (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
comíamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
comíais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
comían (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
comí (first-person indicative preterite singular)
comiste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
comió (indicative preterite singular third-person)
comimos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
comisteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
comieron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
comeré (first-person future indicative singular)
comerás (future indicative second-person singular)
comerá (future indicative singular third-person)
comeremos (first-person future indicative plural)
comeréis (future indicative plural second-person)
comerán (future indicative plural third-person)
comería (conditional first-person indicative singular)
comerías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
comería (conditional indicative singular third-person)
comeríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
comeríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
comerían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
coma (first-person present singular subjunctive)
comas (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
comás (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
coma (present singular subjunctive third-person)
comamos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
comáis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
coman (plural present subjunctive third-person)
comiera (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
comieras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
comiera (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
comiéramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
comierais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
comieran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
comiese (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
comieses (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
comiese (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
comiésemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
comieseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
comiesen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
comiere (first-person future singular subjunctive)
comieres (future second-person singular subjunctive)
comiere (future singular subjunctive third-person)
comiéremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
comiereis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
comieren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
come (imperative informal second-person singular)
comé (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
coma (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
coma (imperative singular third-person)
comamos (first-person imperative plural)
comed (imperative plural second-person)
coman (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
coman (imperative plural third-person)
comas (imperative negative second-person singular)
coma (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
coma (imperative negative singular third-person)
comamos (first-person imperative negative plural)
comáis (imperative negative plural second-person)
coman (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
coman (imperative negative plural third-person)
comerme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
comerte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
comerle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
comerse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
comernos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
comeros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
comerles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
comerse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
comerme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
comerte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
comerlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
comerla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
comerse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
comernos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
comeros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
comerlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
comerlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
comerse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
comiéndome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
comiéndote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
comiéndole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
comiéndose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
comiéndonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
comiéndoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
comiéndoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
comiéndose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
comiéndome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
comiéndote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
comiéndolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
comiéndola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
comiéndose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
comiéndonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
comiéndoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
comiéndolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
comiéndolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
comiéndose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
cómeme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
cómete (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
cómele (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
cómenos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
cómeles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
cómeme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
cómete (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
cómelo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
cómela (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
cómenos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
cómelos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
cómelas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
comeme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
comete (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
comele (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
comenos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
comeles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
comeme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
comete (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
comelo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
comela (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
comenos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
comelos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
comelas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
cómame (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
cómale (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
cómase (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
cómanos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
cómales (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
cómame (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
cómalo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
cómala (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
cómase (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
cómanos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
cómalos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
cómalas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
comámoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
comámosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
comámonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
comámoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
comámosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
comámoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
comámoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
comámosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
comámonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
comámoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
comámoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
comámoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
comedme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
comedle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
comednos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
comeos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
comedles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
comedme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
comedlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
comedla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
comednos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
comeos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
comedlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
comedlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
cómanme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
cómanle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
cómannos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
cómanles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
cómanse (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
cómanme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
cómanlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
cómanla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
cómannos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
cómanlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
cómanlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
cómanse (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

→ Sardinian: comere

Inherited from Old Spanish comer, from Vulgar Latin *comēre, restructuring of Latin comedere.

con la cuchara que escojas, con aquella comerás

lo que se han de comer los gusanos, que lo disfruten los cristianos

(transitive, chess, board games) to capture a piece


study

en-noun

study (countable and uncountable, plural studies)

From Middle English studie, from Old French estudie (Modern French étude), borrowed from Latin studium (“zeal, dedication, study”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd- (“to push, hit”). Doublet of etude and studio.

der

(chess) An endgame problem composed for artistic merit, where one side is to play for a win or for a draw.


library

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: लाइब्रेरी f (lāibrerī)

Urdu: لائبریری f (lāibrerī)

→ Iban: librari

→ Japanese: ライブラリー (raiburarī)

→ Korean: 라이브러리 (raibeureori)

→ Yoruba: láíbìrì

/ˈlaɪˌbɹɛɹi/

From Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(ʰ)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochous, bokhus (literally “book house”), from Old English bōchūs (compare bookhouse).
Romance cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: French librairie, Italian libreria, Spanish librería, Romanian librărie and Portuguese livraria. This is a relatively recent innovation (16th century in French), which ended up displacing the earlier sense.

ncog

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

At the conclusion of every duel, each player must show the remaining cards in his or her hand to the opponent to verify that no Restricted List duplicate cards appear there (e.g., to prove that a second Time Walk wasn't drawn from his library).

1994, The Magic, the Gathering: Pocket Players' Guide, →ISBN, page 167:

But why did very good players shy away from cards that are so obviously good from our perspectives? One very real possibility is that library manipulation/increased selection and redundancy tech had not yet been established - after all, many players were amazed at Lestree's use of the Sylvan Library to draw extra cards!

2006, Michael J. Flores, Deckade: 10 Years of Decks, Thoughts, and Theory!, →ISBN, page 228:

To win a game of Magic, you must achieve one of two chief goals: either be the first to reduce your opponent's life total from 20 to 0, or force him or her to attempt to draw a card from his or her library when there are no cards left in it.

2006, John Kaufeld, Jeremy Smith, Trading Card Games For Dummies, →ISBN, page 50:

The deck becomes the draw pile, also called the library, from which each player repeatedly draws cards for his or her own hand, cards that are gradually included into the game.

2010, Shirley R. Steinberg, Michael Kehler, Lindsay Cornish, Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 418:

At this phase, most of TCGs only allow players drawing card(s) from a pack which is also called library or deck.

2010, Zhigeng Pan, Maiga Chang, Adrian David Cheok, Transactions on Edutainment III, →ISBN, page 119:

(card games, Magic: The Gathering) The deck or draw pile.


decision

en-noun

decision (countable and uncountable, plural decisions)

Derived from Middle French, from Latin dēcīsiō, dēcīsiōnis, from dēcīdō (“to decide”).

(baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.


pea

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.

(baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.

(US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.


peg

From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak.
This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare.
(To indicate or ascribe an attribute to):: Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.

sense

Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six.

1961, Colin McCool, Cricket is a Game, page 123:


battery

en-noun

battery (countable and uncountable, plural batteries)

Korean: 배터리 (baeteori)

Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“battre”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie. By surface analysis, batter + -y.

der

(baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together

(chess) Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal

ketju

chess: two or more major pieces in a row


jam

en-noun

jam (countable and uncountable, plural jams)

→ Armenian: ջեմ (ǰem)

→ Azerbaijani: cem

→ Belarusian: джэм (džem)

→ Bengali: জ্যাম (jêm)

→ Bulgarian: джем (džem)

→ Cantonese: 占 (zim1, zem1)

→ Czech: džem

→ Dutch: jam

→ Estonian: džemm

→ Finnish: jamit

→ French: jam

→ Georgian: ჯემი (ǯemi)

→ Hindi: जाम (jām)

→ Japanese: ジャム (jamu)

→ Kazakh: джем (djem)

→ Korean: 잼 (jaem)

→ Kyrgyz: джем (djem)

→ Macedonian: џем (džem)

→ Malay: jem

→ Polish: dżem

→ Romanian: gem

→ Russian: джем (džem)

→ Saanich: ĆÁM

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Latin script: džȅm

Cyrillic script: џе̏м

→ Sinhalese: ජෑම් (jǣm)

→ Slovak: džem

→ Swahili: jemu

→ Swedish: jam

→ Tajik: джем (džem)

→ Thai: แยม (yɛɛm)

→ Ukrainian: джем (džem)

→ Urdu: جام (jām)

→ Welsh: jam

First attested in the early 18th c. as a verb meaning “to press, be pressed, be wedged in”. Compare dialectal jammock (“to press, squeeze, crush into a soft mass, chew food"; also "a soft, pulpy substance”). Perhaps from Middle English chammen, champen ("to bite upon something, gnash the teeth"; whence modern champ, chomp), of uncertain origin; probably originally onomatopoeic.
The "performance" sense is first attested with regards to jazz in 1929, and its origin, though uncertain, is likely metaphorical, "something sweet made by the combination of many things", with influence from jamboree.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

The pitcher's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.

(countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.

(countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.


jam

en-verb

jam (third-person singular simple present jams, present participle jamming, simple past and past participle jammed)

jams (present singular third-person)
jamming (participle present)
jammed (participle past)
jammed (past)

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

Jones was jammed by the pitch.

(baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.

syöttää käsiä päin

baseball: to throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands


toss

From Middle English tossen (“to buffet about, agitate, toss; to sift or winnow”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse (compare dialectal Norwegian tossa, dialectal Swedish tossa (“to strew, spread”)), or perhaps from an alteration of Middle English tosen (“to tease, pull apart, shred; to wound, injure”). Compare also Dutch tassen (“to pile or heap up, stack”).
The Welsh tos (“a quick jerk”) and tosio (“to jerk, toss”) are probably borrowed from the English.

cog

(cricket, soccer) The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.


development

en-noun

development (countable and uncountable, plural developments)

developments (plural)
developement (alternative)

From French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”). By surface analysis, develop + -ment. First attested in 1756.

White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.

(chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.


develop

en-verb

develop (third-person singular simple present develops, present participle developing, simple past and past participle developed or (archaic, rare) developt)

develops (present singular third-person)
developing (participle present)
developed (participle past)
developed (past)
developt (archaic participle past rare)
developt (archaic past rare)
develope (alternative)

Borrowed from French développer, from Middle French desveloper, from Old French desveloper, from des- + voloper, veloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian sviluppare, Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vloppō, *wloppō (“to wrap”) ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrappaną, *wlappaną (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) http://www.wordnik.com/words/envelop. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). The word acquired its modern meaning from the 17th-century belief that an egg contains the animal in miniature and matures by growing larger and shedding its envelopes.

cog

I need to develop my white-square bishop.

(chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.

(snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.


batsman

batswoman

batsman; when is treated as both male and female

(cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.

battitore

cricket: player of the batting side on the field

The batsman, Kathryn Leng, (who has played for quite a few years for England) asked the umpire dumbfounded if Charlie was going to bowl with a helmet on.

2001 June 19, Julia Price, “Julia's Ashes Diary 2001”, in Women's Cricket in Australia -Ashes Tour 2001, southernstars.org, archived from the original on 2015-03-22:

(cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.

(cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.

lyöjä

cricket: player principally selected to bat


ecarte

ecarteuri (plural)
ecarte (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
ecarteul (accusative definite nominative singular)
ecarteuri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
ecarteurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
ecarte (indefinite singular)
ecarteului (definite singular)
ecarteuri (indefinite singular)
ecarteurilor (definite plural)
ecarteule (singular vocative)
ecarteurilor (vocative)


bout

From Middle French, from Old French bout (“a blow”), derivative of bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin. More at bouter.

à bout

to the limit, without any room for manoeuvre

de bout en bout

from start to finish, from one end to the other

ne pas regarder plus loin que le bout de son nez

ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez

regarder par le petit bout de la lorgnette


up

down

antonym(s) of “away from the centre of the Earth”

down

antonym(s) of “towards the principal terminus”

From Middle English up, from Old English upp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, see more there.

The bowler pitched the ball up.

(cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.


three-point line

en-noun

three-point line (plural three-point lines)

(basketball) An arc on the floor of a basketball court beyond which a successful shot is worth three points.


three-point shot

three-point shot (plural three-point shots)

(basketball) A shot attempted from beyond the three-point line.


free throw

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(basketball) A shot, worth one point, taken from the free-throw line and without opposition.


free-throw line

free-throw line (plural free-throw lines)

(basketball) A line parallel to the baseline, fifteen feet from the plane of the backboard, from behind which a free throw may be taken.


backboard

(basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.


March Madness

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From the month of March, during which most of the tournament matches take place. The "madness" part is probably an allusion to the phrase mad as a March hare.

(basketball, US) The NCAA Division I basketball championship tournaments.


Final Four

(basketball, US, informal) The four regional champions of the NCAA Division I tournament, one of whom will become the national champion.

(basketball, US, informal) The final two rounds of the NCAA Division I tournament.

These two teams have an amazing number of Final Fours between them.

(basketball, US, informal) An appearance in the Final Four.

(basketball, Europe) The final round of the continent-wide Euroleague club basketball competition, featuring four teams with one becoming champion.


point guard

Many current NBA coaches are former point guards.

(basketball) A guard who is usually the shortest of the five basketball positions, and specializes in handling the ball, distributing it to the other players and generally running the team's offense.


shooting guard

(basketball) A guard who is usually the taller of the two guard positions, and sometimes specializes in shooting from outside, particular from beyond the three-point line.


dom

en-verb

dom (third-person singular simple present doms, present participle domming, simple past and past participle dommed)

doms (present singular third-person)
domming (participle present)
dommed (participle past)
dommed (past)

Nola is actually "Nurse Nola," a dominatrix who specializes in medical role playing. […] "After that," she continues, "I started domming, which I did for a long time, but have never liked much."

2006, Bitch: feminist response to pop culture, numbers 31-34:

(slang, online gaming or BDSM) To dominate.


jas

nl-noun

jas m (plural jassen, diminutive jasje n)

jassen (plural)
jasje (diminutive neuter)
Jas (alternative)

(card games, archaic) a jack or knave, especially as a trump card


discovery

en-noun

discovery (countable and uncountable, plural discoveries)

discoveries (plural)
discoverie (alternative)

from discover + -ery, on the pattern of the pair recover, recovery. Displaced native Old English onfundennes.

1700: "If I play f4, he can check me with ...Qd4, but then he has to move his Queen because he can easily lose it to a Bishop discovery on b5. He could also check me on c5 when his Queen might be safer. I could just move out of the way, though, and continue my attack."

1999, Jeremy Silman, The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, C.A.: Siles Press, →ISBN, page 189:

discovered attack
discovered attack#Noun


discover

en-verb

discover (third-person singular simple present discovers, present participle discovering, simple past and past participle discovered)

discovers (present singular third-person)
discovering (participle present)
discovered (participle past)
discovered (past)
discovre (alternative)

conceal

antonym(s) of “expose something previously covered”

From Middle English discoveren, from Old French descovrir, from Late Latin discoperīre < discooperiō, discooperīre, from Latin dis- + cooperiō. Displaced native Old English onfindan.

This move discovers an attack on a vital pawn.

(transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.


barn

From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”).
More at rest and barley.
For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.

der

close the barn door after the horse has bolted

not be able to hit the broad side of a barn

Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.

(informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.


out

From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”).
Cognate with Scots oot, out (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut, uute (“out”), West Frisian út (“out”), Dutch uit (“out”), German Low German ut (“out”), German aus (“out”), Norwegian/Swedish ut, ute (“out; outside”), Danish ud, ude (“out; outside”).

inh

There are numerous individual phrasal verbs

Wilson was bowled out for five runs.

First ball hit me on the 'and, second 'ad me on the knee, the third was in my eye, the fourth bowled me out.

1876, The School newspaper Vol. [2 issues of vols. 31 and 32]., page 66:

Hayes batted for Reed and grounded out, Murray unassisted.

1984, Official Baseball Guide, page 211:

So, first guy, Larry strikes him out, good fastball in on his hands.

2007, Philip R. Craig, William G. Tapply, Third Strike: A Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson Mystery, page 27:

The striking batter is bowled out when the wicket is broken with the bowler's delivery. A batter is bowled out whether or not the ball is touched or deflected into the stumps by the batter.

2010, Mark Butcher, Paul Abraham, Learn to Play Cricket: Teach Yourself, page A-65:

(cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).


out

→ Greek: άουτ (áout)

→ Japanese: アウト (auto)

→ Korean: 아웃 (aut)

→ Spanish: out

The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.

2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:

(baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.

(cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball.


scrabble

(Scrabble) a play where all seven tiles are used; a bingo


manu

From Latin manus (“hand”). Compare ficu for a similar gender morphology.

That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.

(card games) The set of cards held by a player.


stalemate

en-noun

stalemate (countable and uncountable, plural stalemates)

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(chess) The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw.


stalemate

en-verb

stalemate (third-person singular simple present stalemates, present participle stalemating, simple past and past participle stalemated)

stalemates (present singular third-person)
stalemating (participle present)
stalemated (participle past)
stalemated (past)

(chess, transitive) To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves.


spot

→ Catalan: espot

From Middle English spot, spotte, partially from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partially merging with Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Cognate with North Frisian spot (“speck, piece of ground”), Low German spot (“speck”), Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). See also splot, splotch.

cog

The Gunners dominated for long periods but, against the run of play, Denilson fouled Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass put Leeds ahead from the spot.

2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:


spot

en-verb

spot (third-person singular simple present spots, present participle spotting, simple past and past participle spotted)

spots (present singular third-person)
spotting (participle present)
spotted (participle past)
spotted (past)

The referee had to spot the pink on the blue spot.

(transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.

The black ball won't spot – the green is in the way.

(intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.


stale

From Middle English stale, from Old French estal (“place, something placed”) (compare French étal), from Frankish stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz, earlier *staþlaz. Related to stall and stand.

der

They stand at a stay; Like a Stale at Chesse, where it is no Mate, but yet the Game cannot stirre.

1625, Francis Bacon, Essays, section 65:

(chess, uncommon) A stalemate; a stalemated game.


stale

Then drawith he & is stale.

(chess, obsolete) At a standstill; stalemated.


stale

en-verb

stale (third-person singular simple present stales, present participle staling, simple past and past participle staled)

stales (present singular third-person)
staling (participle present)
staled (participle past)
staled (past)

He shall stale þe black kyng in the pointe þer the crosse standith.

In China, however, a player who stales his opponent's King, wins the game.

1903, H. J. R. Murray, Brit. Chess. Mag., section 283:

(chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate.

For vnder cuire I got sik check, that I micht neither muife nor neck, bot ather stale or mait.

1597, A. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, section 202:

(chess, obsolete, intransitive) To be stalemated.


stale

English: stale

Borrowed from Old French estal, from Frankish stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz, earlier *staþlaz.

‘Off mate?’ quod sche...‘thou has fundin stale This mony day’.


escape

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally “to free oneself from one's cape”), from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade. Also doublet of scape.

der

(snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.


fante

Aphetic form of infante (“child”), from Latin īnfāns, īnfantem (“infant, child”). Doublet of infante.


fante

fanți (plural)
fante (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
fanteul (accusative definite nominative singular)
fanți (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
fanții (accusative definite nominative plural)
fante (indefinite singular)
fanteului (definite singular)
fanți (indefinite singular)
fanților (definite plural)
fanteule (singular vocative)
fanților (vocative)


adopt

en-verb

adopt (third-person singular simple present adopts, present participle adopting, simple past and past participle adopted)

adopts (present singular third-person)
adopting (participle present)
adopted (participle past)
adopted (past)
adopt (infinitive)

From Middle French adopter, from Latin adoptō; ad + optō (“to choose, desire”), equivalent to ad- + opt.

تَبَنَّى

to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen

The match was not even close; the IM made amateurish blunders and ended up getting adopted.

Nakamura 'Adopts' Komodo On Fathers Day: 20.5-2.5

2018 June 19, Peter Doggers, “(title)”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 2022-05-21:

Wednesday's event will offer the Russian grandmaster three opportunities to adopt Rensch, though just like in the Speed Chess Championship, Nepomniachtchi will have to race against the clock.

2020 May 27, “Adopt-A-Danny Returns Wednesday With Ian Nepomniachtchi”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 2020-05-27:

"That's it, that's it!" the Grandmaster Eric Hansen bellowed after following nine straight losses with a win. "You are not adopting me! Not today, not today!"

2022 April 12, Jacob Sweet, “The Most Popular Chess Streamer on Twitch”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 2022-08-26:

There was wasn't much for Gukesh fans to cheer, but at least he avoided the fate of Maghsoodloo, who was "adopted", i.e. beaten 10 games in a row. Gukesh struck in the 2nd 3+1 game, when he was dangerously close to that mark.

2022 December 7, Colin McGourty, “Carlsen plays "horribly", beats Gukesh 23:7”, in chess24, archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

(chess, slang) To beat an opponent ten times in a row.


advantage

en-noun

advantage (countable and uncountable, plural advantages)

advantages (plural)
advauntage (alternative)

From Middle English avantage, avauntage, from Old French avantage, from avant (“before”), from Late Latin ab ante. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be from Latin ad (see advance). For sense development, compare foredeal.

Webb played an advantage that enabled Cazorla to supply a low cross from the left for Giroud to sweep home first time, despite Gallas and Vertonghen being in close attendance.

2012 November 17, “Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.


advertise

en-verb

advertise (third-person singular simple present advertises, present participle advertising, simple past and past participle advertised)

advertises (present singular third-person)
advertising (participle present)
advertised (participle past)
advertised (past)
advertize (alternative)

From Middle English advertisen, from Anglo-Norman advertir (“to inform”), avertir, Middle French advertir, avertir (“to warn, give notice to”), with the French -iss- infix assimilated to -ise, -ize and probably influenced by the noun advertisement. Compare also advert.

The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.

1947, On Gin Rummy: An All-American Roundup, page 121:

(card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.


shackle

From shack (“variant of shake”), shake (verb) + -le (suffix forming agent nouns; frequentative suffix forming verbs).

affix

(dice games) A dice game; also, an event at which tickets are sold for chances to be drawn to win prizes; a raffle.


pepper

en-noun

pepper (countable and uncountable, plural peppers)

Tok Pisin: pepa

→ Hawaiian: pepa

→ Marshallese: pepa

From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepul.

cog

Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".

(baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again


hurry

en-noun

hurry (countable and uncountable, plural hurries)

From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzaną (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”) (compare Latin currō (“I run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwarsär (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.
Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry.

inh

At Alabama, Jedrick Wills Jr. anchored the right side of the offensive line for two years, allowing only one sack and three-and-a-half quarterback hurries on 714 snaps last season.

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

(American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.

press

American football: incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to


layoff

(British, soccer) A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.


joker

joker (nominative singular)
jokery (nominative plural)
jokera (genitive singular)
jokerów (genitive plural)
jokerowi (dative singular)
jokerom (dative plural)
jokera (accusative singular)
jokery (accusative plural)
jokerem (instrumental singular)
jokerami (instrumental plural)
jokerze (locative singular)
jokerach (locative plural)
jokerze (singular vocative)
jokery (plural vocative)

(card games) Alternative spelling of dżoker


joker

jokeri (plural)
joker (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
jokerul (accusative definite nominative singular)
jokeri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
jokerii (accusative definite nominative plural)
joker (indefinite singular)
jokerului (definite singular)
jokeri (indefinite singular)
jokerilor (definite plural)
jokerule (singular vocative)
jokerilor (vocative)

Borrowed from French joker, English joker.


agent

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

Nevada casinos are fleeced out of millions of dollars yearly by agents (cheats acting as players) in collusion with crooked Black Jack dealers and pit bosses.

1978, John Scarne, Scarne's guide to casino gambling, page 108:

en:cheater with insider help in gambling

(gambling) A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.


agricultural

en-adj

agricultural (comparative more agricultural, superlative most agricultural)

more agricultural (comparative)
most agricultural (superlative)

/ˌæɡɹɪˈkʌltjʊəɹəl/

/ˌæɡɹɪˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/


interval

From Middle English interval, intervalle, from Old French intervalle, entreval, from Latin intervallum (“space between, interval, distance, interval of time, pause, difference; literally, space between two palisades or walls”), from inter (“between”) + vallum (“palisade, wall”).

com

(cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play


goose-step

An intentionally disparaging alternative name for the "balance step" (German Stechschritt, "cut step") from a fancied resemblance to the waddling of geese.

(rugby) A deceptive step that breaks the normal flow of running and allows a player to accelerate and/or change direction quickly while simultaneously confusing the defender.


chip

→ Catalan: xip

→ Greek: τσιπ (tsip)

→ Italian: chip

→ Korean: 칩 (chip)

desc

→ Hebrew: צִ׳יפְּס, צִ׳יפּ

→ Hebrew: צִ׳יפְּס, צִ׳יפּ (chips, chip)

→ Hungarian: csip, csipsz

→ Turkish: cips, çip

→ Yiddish: טשיפּל (tshipl)

→ Welsh: tsip

Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”) (whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.
Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above.

cog

If the second player does raise three chips, and all the other players drop, the player who opened may stay in by putting three more chips in the pot, for then he will have put in precisely as many chips as the second player.

2002, Albert H. Moorehead, Hoyle′s Rules of Games, page 46:

(games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.

(curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.

A type of shot in various sports.
A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.


chip

en-verb

chip (third-person singular simple present chips, present participle chipping, simple past and past participle chipped)

chips (present singular third-person)
chipping (participle present)
chipped (participle past)
chipped (past)

stiften

to play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards

(intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).


shark

From German Schurke (“scoundrel”); compare Dutch schurk.

shock (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)

(sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

hustler

player who feigns ineptitude to win money


whale

From Middle English whale, from Old English hwæl (“whale”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (“whale”) (compare German Wal, Swedish val, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hval, Norwegian Nynorsk kval; compare also Dutch walvis, West Frisian walfisk, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”) (compare German Wels, Latin squalus (“big sea fish”), Old Prussian kalis, Ancient Greek ἄσπαλος (áspalos), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀 (kara, “kind of fish”)).

These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale’s style.

2003, Jeff Wuorio, How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything:

A handful of the richest whales routinely play for $200,000 a hand. Australian media mogul Kerry Packer not only regularly bets that much, but has plunked down $200,000 bets for the dealer as a form of a tip.

2004, Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential: Norm! Sin City's Ace Insider 1,000 Naked Truths, Hot Spots and Cool Stuff:

The high roller who had the most ferocious reputation for trying to run the business of the casinos where he played, before he died on December 26, 2006, was Kerry Packer. In the casino world, Packer was the Prince of Whales.

2008, Deke Castleman, Whale Hunt in the Desert:

(gambling, figuratively) A gambler who routinely wagers large amounts of money.


width

en-noun

width (countable and uncountable, plural widths)

→ Scots: width, wyth

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From wide + -th, possibly by analogy with Old Norse vídd (“width”), though this is unlikely, as the word is not attested before the end of the 16th century and was historically unknown in Scots and the traditional dialect of Northern England, where one would expect Old Norse influence to be the strongest (these varieties traditionally employed wideness instead). Replaced Middle English wide, wyde (“width”).

(cricket) The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him.


treble

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.

(darts) Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.

(sports) Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.

(soccer) A win in the top league, top national cup and top continental cup in the same season.


discard

en-verb

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

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

From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.

(intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.


rubber

en-noun

rubber (usually uncountable, plural rubbers)

desc

→ Kashubian: roberk (Canada, United State)

→ Sikaiana: lapa

From rub + -er.
The sense of the substance comes from its ability to function as an eraser, displacing earlier caoutchouc. The senses not having to do with rubbing or erasing are secondarily derived from the name of the substance.

Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.

(countable, baseball) The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.


kija

kija (nominative singular)
kijas (nominative plural)
kijas (genitive singular)
kiju (genitive plural)
kijai (dative singular)
kijām (dative plural)
kiju (accusative singular)
kijas (accusative plural)
kiju (instrumental singular)
kijām (instrumental plural)
kijā (locative singular)
kijās (locative plural)
kija (singular vocative)
kijas (plural vocative)

zāles galā atrodu biljarda galdu un ņemu rokā kiju

at the end of the room I find the billiard table and I take the cue in my hand(s)

pusdienas pārtraukumā viens otrs... pacilāja novusa kiju

during the lunch break... one or the other lifted the novuss cue

(sports, billiards, snooker) cue (long stick with a pointy end used in certain games, especially pool or billiards)


demon

demons (plural)
daimon (alternative)
daemon (alternative)
dæmon (alternative)

Anthony the Great
Michelangelo
en:demon
en:demon (disambiguation)

From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Doublet of daimon.

der

Coordinate term: Canfield

‘That's much the best feeling to have.’ She dealt out the first row of ‘demon’.

1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 89:

(card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.


conventional

en-adj

conventional (comparative more conventional, superlative most conventional)

more conventional (comparative)
most conventional (superlative)

atypical

antonym(s) of “pertaining to a convention”

(bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.


kuda

From Malay kuda, Tamil குதிரை (kutirai).


kayu

Inherited from Proto-South Sulawesi *kayu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw, from Proto-Austronesian *kaSiw.

inh+

(card games) club, one of the four card suits in the traditional omi playing card.