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# მისია
## Georgian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ми́ссия (míssija), from Latin missiō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [misia]
* Hyphenation: მი‧სია

### Noun

მისია • (misia) (plural მისიები)
* mission
* legation, diplomatic mission
* delegation

#### Declension

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

#### Related terms

* მისიონერი (misioneri)
# 勒索軟件
## Chinese

| | | to blackmail; to extort | software |
| trad. (勒索軟件) | trad. (勒索軟件) | 勒索 | 軟件 |
| simp. (勒索软件) | simp. (勒索软件) | 勒索 | 软件 |
(This form in the hanzi box does not have a page created for it yet: "勒索软件".)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lèsuǒ ruǎnjiàn
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄜˋ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄖㄨㄢˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lèsuǒ ruǎnjiàn [Phonetic: lèsuóruǎnjiàn]
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄜˋ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄖㄨㄢˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lèsuǒ ruǎnjiàn
*** Wade–Giles: lê$^4$-so$^3$ juan$^3$-chien$^4$
*** Yale: lè-swǒ rwǎn-jyàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lehsuoo roanjiann
*** Palladius: лэсо жуаньцзянь (lɛso žuanʹczjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /lɤ⁵¹ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʐu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

### Noun

勒索軟件
* (computing) ransomware
# hem and haw
## English
### Alternative forms

* hem and hah (dated)

### Etymology

hem + and + haw

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Verb

hem and haw (third-person singular simple present hems and haws, present participle hemming and hawing, simple past and past participle hemmed and hawed)
* (idiomatic, US) To discuss, deliberate, or contemplate rather than taking action or making up one's mind.
    If you hem and haw long enough, someone else will do it first.
* To mumble and procrastinate in one's speech, especially with a reply to a hard question or with voicing a decision on a topical matter; to evade a question, giving vague answers; to equivocate or temporize.
    Synonym: (chiefly Britain, dialectal, archaic) hacker
** 1903, The People of the Abyss, by Jack London, Chapter 1
    The man at the Chief Office hemmed and hawed. 'We make it a rule,' he explained, 'to give no information concerning our clients.' 'But in this case,' I urged, 'it is the client who requests you to give the information concerning himself.' Again he hemmed and hawed.
** 1959 July 15, Walt Kelly, Pogo (comic strip), →ISBN, page 58:[Pogo:] How can you provide [someone] with scripts what tells him what to say all day long? […] / [Howland Owl:] It's a boon to humanity … How many dolts do you know who hems an' haws their way thru life? – I gives 'em talk.

#### See also

* ahem
* beat around the bush
* clear one's throat
* pussyfoot
* stall for time
# pastoraal
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

pastoraal
* pastoral, pertaining to herding or the countrylife
* pastoral, concerning the care of clergy for their flock of faithful

### Noun

pastoraal m (uncountable, diminutive [please provide])
* the clerical care for one's flock as spiritual herdsman

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: pastoral
# קוֹרוֹ
## Judeo-Italian
### Etymology

Inherited from Classical Latin cor (“heart”), from Proto-Italic *kord, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr

### Noun

קוֹרוֹ (qoro /coro/) m
* heart (seat of affections, understanding or will)
** 16th century [750–450 BCE], “לוּ לִיבֵירוֹ דֵי יִרְמִיַהוּ [Lu libero de Jirmiau, The Book of Jeremiah]”, in נְבִיאִים [Neviim, Prophets]‎ (manuscript), translation of נְבִיאִים [Nəvīʔīm, Prophets] (in Biblical Hebrew), chapter 7, verse 24, page 2, lines 26–28:אֵי נִין אִינְטֵיסֵירוֹ אֵי נוּן קְלֵינַארוֹ לַה רֵיקֵילַה לוּרַה אֵי יִירוֹ אִין קוּנְסִילְייִי אִין פֵינְצֵירוֹ דֵי לוּ קוֹרוֹ לוּרוֹ רִיאוֹ אֵי פֿוּרוֹ אַה דֵירֵיטוֹ אֵי נוֹ דֵינַאנְצִי׃ (Judeo-Roman)ʔe nun ʔinətesero ʔe nun qəlenaʔro lah reqelah lurah ʔe yiro ʔin qunəsiləyyi ʔin penəṣero de lu qoro luro riʔo ʔe p̄uro ʔah dereto ʔe no denaʔnəṣi./E nun intesero, e nun clenaro la rechela lura; e jiro in cunsigli, in penzero de lu coro luro rio; e furo a dereto, e no denanzi./And they did not listen, and did not pay attention; and they went in counsels, and in the stubbornness of their own evil heart; and they were backward, not forward.
# intricacy
## English
### Etymology

From intricate +‎ -acy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kə.si/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Ireland) IPA: /ɪnˈtɹɪ.kə.si/

### Noun

intricacy (countable and uncountable, plural intricacies)
* The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
    the intricacy of a knot
    the intricacy of accounts
    the intricacy of a cause in controversy
* Perplexity.
    Synonyms: involution, complication, complexity
** 2013, Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 121:The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, makes it impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.
* Something which is intricate or complex.
    There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.
** 1845, Jordan Roche Lynch, The Hunterian Oration, page 8:With the most patient assiduity he peered into the intricacies of unrevealed structure. No object was too minute, none too large, for his attention.

#### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “intricacy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “intricacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
# მიუნხენი
## Georgian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [miunχeni]
* Hyphenation: მი‧უნ‧ხე‧ნი

### Proper noun

მიუნხენი • (miunxeni) (uncountable)
* Munich (the capital and largest city of Bavaria, Germany)

#### Declension

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.
# fine words butter no parsnips
## English
### Etymology

Attested as early as 1639 as faire words butter noe parsnips, alluding to the English habit of buttering foods to make them more palatable. It was found in the 17th century in various forms with the first and last word being different, thus allowing combinations of fine/fair/soft with parsnips/cabbage/fish/connie before becoming standardized in the form fine words doth butter no parsnips.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Proverb

fine words butter no parsnips
* Nothing is achieved by empty words or flattery.

#### See also

* actions speak louder than words

### References

* Butter no parsnips on World Wide Words
* Fine words butter no parsnips on The Phrase Finder
# peai
## English
### Noun

peai (uncountable)
* The traditional folk medicine and sorcery of Guyana.

#### Derived terms

* peaiman
# Siping
## English
### Alternative forms

* Ssu-p'ing (Wade–Giles)

### Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 四平 (Sìpíng).

### Proper noun

Siping
* A prefecture-level city in Jilin, China.
** 2017 November 24, Chris Buckley, Karoline Kan, “Beijing Kindergarten Is Accused of Abuse, and Internet Erupts in Fury”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-24, Asia Pacific‎:In 2015, four teachers at a RYB Education kindergarten in Siping, northeast China, were charged with using sewing needles to jab more than 20 children on their heads, mouths and limbs, supposedly as punishment.

#### Synonyms

* (historical) Ssupingkai, Szepingkai
# inconvenient
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.

### Adjective

inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)
* not convenient
    Antonym: convenient

#### Translations
### Noun

inconvenient (plural inconvenients)
* (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
** 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:To provide against this inconvenient, when the Stoikes were demanded whence the election of two indifferent things commeth into our soule […] they answer, that this motion of the soule is extraorainarie and irregular comming into us by a strange, accidentall and casuall impulsion.
* (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

#### Related terms

* inconvenience (noun)
* inconveniently (adverb)

### Anagrams

* nonincentive

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inconvenientem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [iŋ.kum.bə.niˈen]
* IPA: (Balearic) [iŋ.koɱ.və.niˈent]
* IPA: (Valencia) [iŋ.koɱ.ve.niˈent]

### Adjective

inconvenient m or f (masculine and feminine plural inconvenients)
* inconvenient
    Antonym: convenient

#### Derived terms

* inconvenientment

### Noun

inconvenient m (plural inconvenients)
* downside, disadvantage

### Related terms

* inconveniència

### Further reading

* “inconvenient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “inconvenient”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “inconvenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “inconvenient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Middle French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.

### Noun

inconvenient m (plural inconveniens)
* disadvantage; downside; negative aspect

#### Descendants

* English: inconvenient
* French: inconvénient

#### See also

* desadvantage

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French inconvénient, from Latin inconveniens.

### Noun

inconvenient n (plural inconveniente)
* inconvenience
# Grisolia
## Italian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Proper noun

Grisolia f
* A town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy

#### Derived terms

* grisoliota

### Proper noun

Grisolia m or f by sense
* a surname transferred from the place name

### Further reading

* Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025
# unsubdued
## English
### Etymology

From un- +‎ subdued.

### Adjective

unsubdued (not comparable)
* Unconquered, not vanquished.
* Restless, not calm.

#### Derived terms

* unsubduedness
# მიქსერი
## Georgian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English mixer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mikʰseɾi]

### Noun

მიქსერი • (mikseri) (plural მიქსერები)
* mixer

#### Declension

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.
# sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
## English
### Alternative forms

* sticks and stones
* sticks and stones may break my bones
* sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me
* sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me
* sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me

### Etymology

The earliest recording dates from March 1862 in the US, but is implied to have been used earlier.

### Phrase

sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
* (idiomatic) A response to taunting proclaiming the speaker's indifference.

#### Usage notes

* Mostly used by young children

#### Antonyms

* the tongue wounds more than a lance

#### See also

* don't feed the troll

### References

* ↑ Phrases.
# cat got someone's tongue
## English
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Phrase

cat got someone's tongue
* (idiomatic, humorous) Why is someone not saying anything?
    Why won't you tell me that secret? Cat got your tongue?
** 2007, “15 Step”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:You used to be alright / What happened? / Did the cat get your tongue? / Did your string come undone?
# buallicë
## Albanian
### Etymology

From buall +‎ -icë.

### Noun

buallicë f
* female buffalo, cow

### Further reading

* Newmark, L. (1999) “buallicë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎
# wybronią
## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɘˈbrɔ.ɲɔw̃/
* Rhymes: -ɔɲɔw̃
* Syllabification: wy‧bro‧nią

### Verb

wybronią
* third-person plural future of wybronić
# Napierites
## English
### Noun

Napierites
* plural of Napierite

### Anagrams

* painteries, septenarii
# רַאמוֹ
## Judeo-Italian
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *arāmen, variant of Late Latin aerāmen, derived from Classical Latin aes (“money; copper, bronze”, oblique stem aer-).

### Noun

רַאמוֹ (raʔmo /ramo/) m
* (uncountable) copper
** 16th century [750–450 BCE], “לוּ לִיבֵירוֹ דֵי יִרְמִיַהוּ [Lu libero de Jirmiau, The Book of Jeremiah]”, in נְבִיאִים [Neviʔim, Prophets]‎ (manuscript), translation of נְבִיאִים [Nəvīʔīm, Prophets] (in Biblical Hebrew), chapter 6, verse 28, leaf 1, left page, line 1:[…] וַאנוֹ אַקוּסַאטוֹרִי דֵי רַאמוֹ אֵי פֵֿירוֹ טוּטִי אֵיסִי דֵיסְפַֿאטוּרִי אֵיסִי׃ (Judeo-Roman) […] waʔno ʔaqusaʔṭori de raʔmo ʔe p̄ero ṭuṭi ʔesi desəp̄aʔṭuri ʔesi./ […] vanno accusatori, de ramo e ferro; tutti essi desfatturi essi./ […] they go around, accusers — of copper and iron; all of them are corrupters.
# vesper sparrow
## English

Wikispecies

### Noun

vesper sparrow (plural vesper sparrows)
* Pooecetes gramineus, a medium-sized American sparrow.
# მიყოლებით
## Georgian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [miχʼolebitʰ]
* Hyphenation: მი‧ყო‧ლე‧ბით

### Adverb

მიყოლებით • (miq̇olebit)
* successively, in a row, done in a streak or having a streak
    Synonym: ზედიზედ (zedized)
# atodol
## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* atddodol

### Etymology

* atodi (“to add”) +‎ -ol.

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /aˈtɔdɔl/
* (South Wales) IPA: /aˈtoːdɔl/, /aˈtɔdɔl/
* Rhymes: -ɔdɔl

### Adjective

atodol (feminine singular atodol, plural atodolion, not comparable)
* additional, supplementary, subsidiary
    Synonyms: ychwanegol, atodedig
* (grammar) affixed
    Synonym: ategol
* (grammar) detached from a clause

#### Derived terms

* (music) cord y chweched atodol (“added sixth chord”)
* deunyddiau atodol (“additional support”)
* lwfans atodol (“supplementary allowance”)
* pwnc atodol (“subsidiary subject”)
* rhagenw atodol (“affixed pronoun”)
* Safon Uwch Atodol (SUA) (“AS-level”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* 1 2 3 4 R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “atodol”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
* ↑ Delyth Prys, J.P.M. Jones, Owain Davies, Gruffudd Prys (2006) Y Termiadur: termau wedi'u safoni; standardised terminology‎ (in Welsh), Cardiff: Awdurdod cymwysterau, cwricwlwm ac asesu Cymru (Qualifications curriculum & assessment authority for Wales), →ISBN, page 37
# artikulli
## Albanian
### Noun

artikulli
* inflection of artikull:
** definite nominative singular
** indefinite dative/ablative singular
# wybronicie
## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɘ.brɔˈɲi.t͡ɕɛ/
* Rhymes: -it͡ɕɛ
* Syllabification: wy‧bro‧ni‧cie

### Verb

wybronicie
* second-person plural future of wybronić
# yaxshi
## Uzbek
### Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai یخشی (yaxšī /⁠yaxšï⁠/), from Proto-Common Turkic *yaqšï, from Proto-Turkic *yakšï. Cognate with Uyghur ياخشى / yaxshi / яхши; Kazakh جاقسى / жақсы (jaqsy), Kyrgyz жакшы (jakşı), etc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jaχ.ʃi/, [jɐ̠χ.ʃɨ̞]
* Hyphenation: yax‧shi

### Adjective

yaxshi (comparative yaxshiroq, superlative eng yaxshi)
* good

#### Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
# guianico
## Latin
### Adjective

guiānicō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of guiānicus
# მიწავაშლა
## Georgian
### Etymology

მიწა (mic̣a, “earth”) + ვაშლი (vašli, “apple”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mit͡sʼavaʃɫa]
* Hyphenation: მი‧წა‧ვაშ‧ლა

### Noun

მიწავაშლა • (mic̣avašla)
* Jerusalem artichoke, topinambur, earthapple
    Synonym: ტოპინამბური (ṭoṗinamburi)
# chopo
## Portuguese
### Noun

chopo m (plural chopos)
* Obsolete form of choupo.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃopo/ [ˈt͡ʃo.po]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -opo
* Syllabification: cho‧po

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish, possibly through an earlier form *llopo, from Vulgar Latin *plōppus, with metathesis from Latin pōpulus. Likely influenced by Portuguese choupo, if not simply borrowed from it.

#### Noun

chopo m (plural chopos)
* A poplar tree, often the black poplar (Populus nigra)
    Coordinate term: álamo

##### Related terms

* pobo

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

chopo m (plural chopos)
* (Andalusia) Alternative form of choco (“species of squid or cuttlefish”)

##### Derived terms

* chopito

### Further reading

* “chopo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “chopo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* chopo | Diccionario • DELE Ahora
# caught with one's pants down
## English
### Etymology

Presumably engaged in some private or intimate activity. Pants may refer to either trousers or underwear.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Adjective

caught with one's pants down (not comparable)
* (idiomatic) Caught off guard, unprepared, or in an embarrassing situation.

#### Synonyms

* flat-footed

#### Derived terms

* with one's pants down
* with one's dick in one's hand
# схаменулася
## Ukrainian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [sxɐmeˈnuɫɐsʲɐ]

### Verb

схамену́лася • (sxamenúlasja)
* feminine singular past indicative of схамену́тися pf (sxamenútysja)
    Alternative form: схамену́лась (sxamenúlasʹ)
# metamorphose
## English
### Etymology

From French métamorphoser, from Old French metamorphose, from Latin metamorphōsis; see metamorphosis.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːˌfəʊz/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹˌfoʊz/, /ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹˌfoʊs/
* Hyphenation: met‧a‧mor‧phose

### Verb

metamorphose (third-person singular simple present metamorphoses, present participle metamorphosing, simple past and past participle metamorphosed)
* (of a moth or insect, intransitive) To undergo metamorphosis.
* (by extension, intransitive) To undergo some transformation.
** 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!:In fact, perhaps this is the pure and perfect incest: the brother realising that the sister’s virginity must be destroyed in order to have existed at all, taking that virginity in the person of the brother-in-law, the man whom he would be if he could become, metamorphose into, the lover, the husband; by whom he would be despoiled, choose for despoiler, if the could become, metamorphose into the sister, the mistress, the bride.
** 1995, Ian Robottom, Hart Paul, “Behaviorist EE Research: Environmentalism as Individualism”, in The Journal of Environmental Education‎, volume 26, number 2, →DOI, page 8:Environmental problems are not objectively existing physical phenomena amenable to reliable analysis and diagnosis. They are social constructions whose meaning and significance metamorphose and wax and wane according to changeable human interest.
** 1995 January, Cullen Murphy, “In Praise of Snow”, in The Atlantic‎:In fresh snow air can pass with little obstruction from the atmosphere through the snowpack to the ground: given life by differences in the temperature gradient, the snowpack breathes. But time changes that. The snow may metamorphose into what is called equitemperature, or ET, snow.
* (transitive) To transform (something) so that it has a completely different appearance.

#### Synonyms

* metamorphize
* metamorphosize

#### Related terms

* metamorphism
* metamorphosis

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “metamorphose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “metamorphose”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “metamorphose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Portuguese
### Noun

metamorphose f (plural metamorphoses)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of metamorfose.
# kishi
## Japanese
### Romanization

kishi
* Rōmaji transcription of きし

## Uzbek
### Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai كشی (kišī /⁠kiši⁠/), کیشی (kīšī /⁠kiši⁠/), from Proto-Common Turkic *kiši, from Proto-Turkic *kiĺi. Cognate with Uyghur كىشى / kishi / киши; Turkmen kişi, Azerbaijani کیشی / киши / kişi, Turkish kişi; Old Uyghur [Term?] (/⁠kiši⁠/, “person”), Old Turkic 𐰚𐰃𐰾𐰃 (kis²i /⁠kiši⁠/, “person”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ki.ʃi/, [k̟ʃɨ̞]
* Hyphenation: ki‧shi

### Noun

kishi (plural kishilar)
* person, man, human being

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Synonyms

* odam
# ημερομηνία
## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἡμέρᾱ (hēmérā, “day”) + μήν (mḗn, “month”) + -ίᾱ (-íā), modeled after νουμήνιος (noumḗnios).

### Noun

ημερομηνία • (imerominía) f (plural ημερομηνίες)
* date (a specific day)
    Synonyms: (abbreviations) η/νία (i/nía), ημ/νια (im/nia), ημερ. (imer.)
# skyhook
## English
### Etymology

From sky +‎ hook.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: skīˈ-ho͝okˌ; IPA: /ˈskaɪˌhʊk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪhʊk

### Noun

skyhook (plural skyhooks)
* A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
** 1995, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, →ISBN, page 80:Those who yearn for skyhooks call those who eagerly settle for cranes "reductionists", and they can often make reductionism seem philistine and heartless.
** 2012 June 19, Jonnie Hughes, On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves), New York: Free Press, →ISBN, page 188:It wasn't a miraculous skyhook—no god was needed.
* An overhead winch.
** 2009 January, Mike Brown, “The Art of Dismantling Your Restoration Project”, in Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, page 109:To each bolt attach a short length of chain and then run the individual chains to another large one that is run up to the skyhook, which is nothing more than a ratchet cable winch held by an overhead rafter.
** 2013, Mike Ginns, Jared's Song: Elrek's Rise, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, page 394:Jeta stood with her knobbly fists on her hips watching the two of them Goo the cylinders to the skyhooks. Those were the invaluable little workhorses of the construction forces everywhere. A simple but powerful grav unit with a winch and a hook.
* A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
* (astronautics) A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.
** 2013 September 16, Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide, New York: DK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159:It was during those battles that ORBITAL-class armor was deployed to secure and defend the skyhooks and tethers above Earth, Luna, and Mars.
* (slang) A CB radio antenna.
** 1982, Amateur Radio, volume 38, numbers 7-12, page 34:[…] despite the absence of the proverbial home-grown 75-foot high steel "sky hook."
* (tennis) A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
* (climbing) A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
    Synonym: bathook
* (board sports) A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.
** 2003, Caroline Unger, Surfing Long Beach Island, page 101:Tom bought the rights to a plastic board that had a skateboard deck and skyhooks.
# მიწურული
## Georgian
### Alternative forms

* მიწურვილი (mic̣urvili)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mit͡sʼuɾuli]

### Adjective

მიწურული • (mic̣uruli) (not comparable)
* last

#### Derived terms

* მიწურულს (mic̣uruls)

#### See also

* მილეული (mileuli)

### Noun

მიწურული • (mic̣uruli) (uncountable)
* end
    აგვისტოს მიწურული ― agvisṭos mic̣uruli ― the end of August

#### Declension

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

#### See also

* ბოლოს (bolos)