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Word: stale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stale, from Old French estal (“fixed position, place”), but probably originally from Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): compare West Flemish stel in the same sense for ‘beer’ and ‘urine’. Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. Labels: colloquial Example: I went to Riggs's batty-cake shop, and asked 'em for a penneth of the cheapest and nicest stales, that were all but blue-mouldy, but not quite. Example: Frayed-looking sweet-cakes...bought as ‘stales’ from the baker.
Word: stale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stale, from Old French estal (“fixed position, place”), but probably originally from Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): compare West Flemish stel in the same sense for ‘beer’ and ‘urine’. Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption. Labels: transitive Example: Ile goe tell all the Argument of his Play aforehand, and so stale his Inuention to the Auditory before it come foorth. Example: Not content To stale himselfe in all societies, He makes my house as common as a Mart. 2. To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption. Labels: intransitive Example: They have got so much of Christ as to be staled of his company. Example: Philanthropy was beginning to stale. 3. To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age. Labels: intransitive Example: The Drink from that Time flattens and stales. 4. To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Stalyn, or make stale drynke, defeco. Example: A stock of old porter should be kept, sufficient for staling the consumption of twelve months.
Word: stale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stale, from Old English stalu, from Proto-Germanic *stal-; compare English stell from this root. The development was paralleled by the ablaut which became English steal, from Middle English stele, from Old English stela, from Proto-Germanic *stel-. Both are from the same Proto-Indo-European root *stel-, *stol- (“to place, establish”), whence also Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós, “handle”). See also English stele. Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) Example: In Case your Cask is a Butt,...have ready boiling...Water, which put in, and, with a long Stale and a little Birch fastened to its End, scrub the Bottom. Example: You came to me with the axe head in one hand and the stale in the other. 2. One of the posts or uprights of a ladder. Labels: dialectal Example: Stales, the staves, or risings of a ladder, or the staves of a rack in a stable. Example: Fruit ladders should be provided beforehand. They differ from the ordinary ladder by having the bottom rungs a little longer and the top of the side stales meeting together so is to rest in the fork of a limb. 3. One of the rungs on a ladder. Example: To begin then: not long before this paragraph was written, P fell into doze, and dreamt, he saw Jacob's ladder with one foot standing on the earth, the other reaching up into heaven. Dukes, Marquisses, and other Peers, fancy represented to him, as standing on the upper stales; on the middle ones, Knights and Baronets, and under them, a train of Esquires and Gentlemen, reaching to the bottom. Example: Mr. Marsden managed, by dint of swimming, to come in contact with the form, to which hemself and friend had previously fixed the cord and thrown overboard; but this, from its shape, would have proved, in all probability, but a doubtful means of escape, had he not, after a time, fallen in with a small ladder, which he affixed with the cord to the form, placing his leg between the stales, and resting his body, sometimes at full length, when the breakers had fallen on the form. 4. The stem of a plant. Labels: obsolete 5. The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc. Example: The Surgians cut of the stale of that shaft in suche wise, that they moued not the heade that was wythin the fleshe. Example: But (ſeeing th'arrowes ſtale without,) and […]
Word: stale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stale, from Old English stalu, from Proto-Germanic *stal-; compare English stell from this root. The development was paralleled by the ablaut which became English steal, from Middle English stele, from Old English stela, from Proto-Germanic *stel-. Both are from the same Proto-Indo-European root *stel-, *stol- (“to place, establish”), whence also Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós, “handle”). See also English stele. Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: For stalyng of the ladders of the Churche xx d.
Word: stale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 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. Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line. Labels: obsolete Example: Wherefore they had a great avauntage, but in coclusion thie french menne were slayne, and their horses taken, and so the lyght horsement came wyth their catail, nere to the embushment, and the frenchimen folowed, that seyng the englyshmen that kept the stale, came in al hast & rescued their light horsemen, and draue the frenchemen backe, & then made returne to their beastes Example: All these in great hast came to Newnam bridge, where they found other Englishmen that had woone the bridge of the Frenchmen, and so all togither set foward to assaile the Frenchmen that kept the stale, and tarie till the residue of their companie which were gone a forraging vnto Calis walles were come: for the other that had spoiled the marishes were returned with a great bootie. 2. A stalemate; a stalemated game. Labels: uncommon Example: They stand at a stay; Like a Stale at Chesse, where it is no Mate, but yet the Game cannot stirre. 3. An ambush. Labels: obsolete Example: It is a stelling place and sovir harbry, Quhar ost in staill or embuschment may ly. Example: The erle of Essex...with .ii. C. speares was layde in a stale, if the Frenchmen had come neerer. 4. A band of armed men or hunters. Labels: obsolete Example: The staill past throw the wod with sic noyis...yat all the bestis wer rasit fra thair dennys. Example: The Lard of Drunlanrig lying al thys while in ambush...forbare to breake out to gyue anye charge vppon his enimies, doubting least the Earle of Lennox hadde kept a stale behynde. 5. The main force of an army. Labels: Scotland, obsolete Example: Neveryeles I knaw asweill by Englisemen as Scottishmen that their stale was no les then thre thowsand men.
Word: stale Part of Speech: adj Etymology: 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. Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. At a standstill; stalemated. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Then drawith he & is stale.
Word: stale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 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. Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. To stalemate. Labels: transitive, uncommon Example: He shall stale þe black kyng in the pointe þer the crosse standith. Example: In China, however, a player who stales his opponent's King, wins the game. 2. To be stalemated. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: For vnder cuire I got sik check, that I micht neither muife nor neck, bot ather stale or mait.
Word: stale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Noun from Middle English stale, from Anglo-Norman estal (“urine”), from Middle Dutch stal (“urine”). Cognate with Middle Low German stal (“horse urine; bowel movement”). Verb from Middle English stalen, from Old French estaler (“urinate”), related to Middle High German stallen (“to piss”). Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. Urine, especially used of horses and cattle. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: […]That they be not compelled to eate their owne donge, and drinke their owne stale with you? Example: The stale of Camels and Goats[…]is good for them that have the dropsie.
Word: stale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Noun from Middle English stale, from Anglo-Norman estal (“urine”), from Middle Dutch stal (“urine”). Cognate with Middle Low German stal (“horse urine; bowel movement”). Verb from Middle English stalen, from Old French estaler (“urinate”), related to Middle High German stallen (“to piss”). Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Gif ony stal in the yet of the gilde...he sall gif iiijd. to the mendis. Example: Tary a whyle, your hors wyll staale.
Word: stale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stale (“bird used as a decoy”), probably from uncommon Anglo-Norman estale (“pigeon used to lure hawks”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic, probably *standaną (“to stand”). Compare Old English stælhran (“decoy reindeer”) and Northumbrian stællo (“catching fish”). Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap. Labels: obsolete Example: Like vnto the fowlers, that by their stales draw other birdes into their nets. Example: A wife thats more then faire is like a stale, Or chanting whistle which brings birds to thrall. 2. Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait. Labels: obsolete Example: She ran in all the hast Vnbrased and vnlast... It was a stale to take the deuyll in a brake. Example: The Britaynes woulde oftentimes...lay their Cattell...in places conueniente, to bee as a stale to the Romaynes, and when the Romaynes shoulde make to them to fetche the same away,...they would fall vpon them. 3. An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait. Labels: obsolete Example: Their mynisters, be false bretherne or false sustern, stales of the deuyll. Example: This is Captain Whibble, the Towne stale, For all cheating imployments. 4. a partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another. Labels: obsolete Example: I perceiue Lucilla (sayd he) that I was made thy stale, and Philautus thy laughinge stocke. Example: Was I then chose and wedded for his stale? 5. A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. sinister) designs; a stalking horse. Labels: obsolete Example: That of the two nominated, one should be an unfit Man, and as it were a Stale, to bring the Office to the other. Example: Had he none else to make a stale but me? 6. A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman. Labels: obsolete Example: Spare not to tell him, that he hath wronged his honor in marrying the renowned Claudio...to a contaminated stale. Example: But to be leaft for such a one as she, The stale of all, what will folke thinke of me? 7. Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured. Labels: obsolete Example: 'Tis the living bird that makes the best stale to draw others into the net. Example: If my live birds aren't all drownded and my stales spoiled.
Word: stale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stale (“bird used as a decoy”), probably from uncommon Anglo-Norman estale (“pigeon used to lure hawks”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic, probably *standaną (“to stand”). Compare Old English stælhran (“decoy reindeer”) and Northumbrian stællo (“catching fish”). Pronunciation: /steɪl/ 1. To serve as a decoy, to lure. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive Example: The eye...Doth serue to stale her here and there where she doth come and go.
Word: phishing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Respelling of fishing (“trying to find”). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/ 1. The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Labels: uncountable Example: Holonym: social engineering Example: A growing number of U.S. cities are alerting residents to a widespread phishing scam involving fraudulent text messages about unpaid parking violations. 2. The act of circumventing security with an alias. Labels: uncountable
Word: phishing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Respelling of fishing (“trying to find”). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of phish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unemployed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English employed English unemployed From un- + employed. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/ 1. Having no job despite being able and willing to work. Labels: not-comparable Example: The government announced a new initiative to help the unemployed. Example: The number of unemployed keeps rising steadily. 2. Having no use, not doing work Labels: not-comparable Example: England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.
Word: unemployed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English employed English unemployed From un- + employed. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/ 1. The unemployed people of a society or the world, taken collectively. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: intro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of introduction, from Latin intrōductiō (“lead-in, introduction”) – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound; the first part ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games. Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɹoʊ/ 1. An introduction. Labels: informal 2. The opening sequence at beginning of a film, television program, etc. Labels: informal 3. A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition. Example: If the rules specify that the DLLs' size will be added to the 64K limit, there's not a lot of space to code an intro. Example: Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.
Word: intro Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of introduction, from Latin intrōductiō (“lead-in, introduction”) – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound; the first part ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games. Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɹoʊ/ 1. To introduce. Labels: informal, transitive
Word: liaison Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin ligātiō (stem ligātiōn-; whence the English doublet ligation), derived from ligō (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”). Pronunciation: /liˈeɪˌzɒ̃/, /-ˌzɒn/, /-z(ə)n/, /laɪˈeɪˌzɒn/, /-zən/ 1. A thickening for sauces, typically based on egg yolks. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]prepare a liaison, or four or five yolks of eggs and some cream […] 2. Communication between two parties or groups. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Cooperation, working together. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Any person who relays information between two groups or organizations. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As a community liaison, I work to make sure the general public knows about our organization's work. Example: The 55-year-old, who worked as a nurse liaison for 30 years before opening her clothing boutique in 2014, began streaming fashion shows on Facebook Live featuring herself wearing the clothes, jewelry and accessories she sells. 6. A tryst; a romantic meeting. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. An illicit sexual relationship or affair. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: ostriches in breeding season are relentlessly promiscuous, with both males and females seeking liaisons with multiple partners. Example: Even her sex life is rigidly regulated, the liaisons with her married co-worker, Peter (Michael Esper), unfolding with more efficiency than pleasure. 8. Fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: liaison Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin ligātiō (stem ligātiōn-; whence the English doublet ligation), derived from ligō (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”). Pronunciation: /liˈeɪˌzɒ̃/, /-ˌzɒn/, /-z(ə)n/, /laɪˈeɪˌzɒn/, /-zən/ 1. To liaise. Labels: proscribed
Word: liason Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of liaison. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: snug Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dialectal English snug (“tight, handsome”), perhaps from Old Norse snøggr, from Proto-Germanic *snawwuz (“short, quick, fast”). Compare Icelandic snöggur (“smooth”), Danish snög (“neat”), Swedish snygg (“handsome, nice-looking”). Compare also English snudge (“to nestle, remain snug and quiet”). Pronunciation: /snʌɡ/, /snɐɡ/, /snʊɡ/ 1. Warm and comfortable; cosy. Example: I felt snug tucked up in my snug bed. Example: Now, if in a stage coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re-arrange their "comforters," feel indignantly a sensible loss of caloric—the intruder has at least made a sensation. 2. Satisfactory. Example: I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but, in the cool tranquillity of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men's bonds, and mortgages, and title-deeds. 3. Close-fitting. Example: [I]t does make it clear that adding the keyboard case to the PinePhone will more than double the thickness. You may still be able to slide the whole thing into your pocket, but it’s likely to be more of a snug fit than when using the phone on its own. 4. Close; concealed; not exposed to notice. Example: Be ſure at Will’s the following Day, / Lie ſnug, and hear what Criticks ſay.
Word: snug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dialectal English snug (“tight, handsome”), perhaps from Old Norse snøggr, from Proto-Germanic *snawwuz (“short, quick, fast”). Compare Icelandic snöggur (“smooth”), Danish snög (“neat”), Swedish snygg (“handsome, nice-looking”). Compare also English snudge (“to nestle, remain snug and quiet”). Pronunciation: /snʌɡ/, /snɐɡ/, /snʊɡ/ 1. A small, comfortable back room in a pub. Labels: UK 2. A lug.
Word: snug Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dialectal English snug (“tight, handsome”), perhaps from Old Norse snøggr, from Proto-Germanic *snawwuz (“short, quick, fast”). Compare Icelandic snöggur (“smooth”), Danish snög (“neat”), Swedish snygg (“handsome, nice-looking”). Compare also English snudge (“to nestle, remain snug and quiet”). Pronunciation: /snʌɡ/, /snɐɡ/, /snʊɡ/ 1. To make secure or snug. Labels: transitive Example: He snugged his Gun into its tunic holster, checked the scope on his Follower and left the room. 2. To snuggle or nestle. 3. To make smooth. Labels: transitive
Word: escape Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 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. Pronunciation: /ɪˈskeɪp/, /ɪk-/, /ə-/, /ɛ-/, /ɛk-/ 1. To get free; to free oneself. Labels: intransitive Example: The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall. Example: The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe. 2. To break out of confinement. Labels: transitive Example: The prisoners escaped their cell. 3. To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. Labels: transitive Example: He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail. Example: The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire. 4. To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. Labels: intransitive Example: Luckily, I escaped with only a fine. 5. To avoid responsibilities and stresses for a time. Labels: intransitive Example: Work was stressful, and I needed to escape. 6. To be forgotten by. Labels: transitive Example: I used to know the name of the capital of France, but it escapes me now. 7. To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by. Labels: transitive Example: The name of the hotel escapes me at present. Example: The detective examined the crime scene, but one clue escaped his notice. 8. To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character. Labels: transitive Example: When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash. Example: Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal. 9. To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys. 10. To grow wild, instead of in a cultivated area. Labels: intransitive Example: You have to be careful planting mint, or it will escape and take over your yard. 11. To express, especially involuntarily. Labels: transitive Example: I tried to look disappointed, but a smile escaped me.
Word: escape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 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. Pronunciation: /ɪˈskeɪp/, /ɪk-/, /ə-/, /ɛ-/, /ɛk-/ 1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel. 2. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Something that has escaped; an escapee. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But what about the flocks of Waxbills? Are they escapes gone feral, or are they spreading from Africa? 4. A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. escape key Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream. 7. A successful shot from a snooker position. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes. 10. A sally. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: thousand escapes of wit 11. An apophyge. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: administration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English administracioun, from Old French administration, from Latin administratio, from administrare; see administer; compare French administration. Equivalent to administrate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ədˌmɪn.ɪˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/, /ədˌmɪn.əˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/, /ədˌmɪn.əˈstɹæɪ.ʃən/, /ədˌmən.əˈstɹæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: […] the fact that the propertied classes are no longer the best educated, and the fact that the large number of people who owe their position solely to their general education do not possess that experience of the working of the economic system which the administration of property gives are important to understanding the role of the intellectual. 2. The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain. Labels: countable, usually Example: Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies. Example: The trove of documents from half a dozen federal agencies in recent days are a direct result of a blockbuster Supreme Court decision last month that allowed the administration to develop plans for ending birthright citizenship – even though the effort has once again been placed on hold. 3. The country's government under the rule of a particular leader. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The Obama administration Example: The Duterte administration 4. A body that administers; a body of administrators. Labels: countable, usually Example: The Chiang Mai Administrative Court ruled in favour of students from the Media Arts and Design Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, who filed for a temporary injunction on 18 October after the University administration prohibited them from showing their final theses in the University Art Centre because some pieces dealt with social and political themes. 5. The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament Example: oral administration of insulin 6. Management. Labels: uncountable, usually 7. An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision. Labels: UK, uncountable, usually Example: The company went into voluntary administration last week. Example: The other ambitions, and much of Prescott's plan, foundered just south of Hatfield that October, when a GNER express derailed on a shattered rail […], plunging the railway into a crisis that led to private track owner Railtrack being put into administration.
Word: administrator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *mey- Proto-Indo-European *-néwti Proto-Indo-European *minéwti Proto-Italic *minuō? Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Italic *-(j)ōs? Proto-Italic *minōs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *minosteros Latin minister Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin ministrō Latin administrō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin administrātorbor. English administrator Borrowed from Latin administrātor (literally “he that is near to attend”). Doublet of administrador. Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹeɪ.tə/, /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹeɪ.tɚ/ 1. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager. Example: Kraft Heinz said the new products will be available nationwide to all school administrators to procure and offer to students either for purchase in the lunchroom – though the company did not disclose the cost to schools – or for free through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). Example: Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday. 2. A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:administrator. 3. One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network.
Word: admirable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English admyrable, partly from Middle French admirable and partly from its etymon, Latin admirābilis. By surface analysis, admire + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.məɹ.ə.bəl/, /ædˈmaɪ.ɹə.bəl/ 1. Deserving of the highest esteem or admiration; estimable. Example: It's admirable that Shelley overcame her handicap and excelled in her work. Example: The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order. 2. Good or heroic. Example: The act of putting out the burning fires was admirable.
Word: admirable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English admyrable, partly from Middle French admirable and partly from its etymon, Latin admirābilis. By surface analysis, admire + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.məɹ.ə.bəl/, /ædˈmaɪ.ɹə.bəl/ 1. The quality, state, or an example of being admirable.
Word: admirably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English admirable Middle English -ly English -ly English admirably From admirable + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.mə.ɹə.bli/, /ˈæd.mɪɹ.ə.bli/ 1. In a way worthy of admiration. Example: Near-synonym: laudably Example: He succeeded admirably in drawing fire away from the troop transports. 2. To an admirable degree. Example: They have made admirably great improvements in quality. Example: Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.
Word: admiralty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French amirauté, for an older amiralté (“office of admiral”), from Late Latin admīrālitās. See admiral. Analyzable as admiral + -ty. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.mɪ.ɹəl.ti/ 1. The office or jurisdiction of an admiral. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: admiration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English admiracion, borrowed from Middle French admiration, or directly from Latin admīrātiō, from prefix ad- (“to, towards”) + mīrō (“to look at”) + -ātiō. Compare the verb admire, and US dialectal terms miration and mirate. Pronunciation: /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ 1. A positive emotion combining wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful; a feeling of respect for another's skills or attributes, as one might look on a hero or role model. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: admiration of a war hero Example: They looked at the landscape in admiration. 2. Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject). Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman? Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour Of other your new pranks. Example: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. 3. Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Now, good Lafeu, Bring in the admiration; that we with thee May spend our wonder too, or take off thine By wondering how thou took’st it.
Word: admire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English admyren, borrowed from Middle French admirer, from Latin admīror, from ad + mīror (“wonder at”). Pronunciation: /ədˈmaɪə/, /ədˈmaɪɹ/, /ədˈmʌɪɹ/ 1. To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The poor fellow, admiring how he came there, was served in state all day long […]. Example: examples rather to be admired than imitated 2. To regard with wonder and delight. Labels: transitive Example: kings ſhall crouch vnto our conquering ſwords, And hoſtes of Souldiers ſtand amazd at vs, When with their fearfull tongues they ſhall confeſſe Theſe are the men that al the world admires, 3. To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence. Labels: transitive 4. To estimate or value highly; to hold in high esteem. Labels: transitive Example: to admire a person of high moral worth Example: to admire a landscape 5. To be enthusiastic about (doing something); to want or like (to do something). (Sometimes followed by to.) Labels: US, dialectal, rare Example: I'm not sayin' she's touched the Devil, now, but I'd admire to know what books she reads and why she hides them — she'll not answer me, y' see. Example: And I'd admire seeing this creek become a sort of stopping place for geese of one sort and another.
Word: admired Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ədˈmaɪɹd/, /ədˈmaɪəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of admire Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:admired.
Word: admiring Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ædˈmaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/ 1. Feeling or showing admiration. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:admiring.
Word: admiring Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ædˈmaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of admire Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: admiring Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ædˈmaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/ 1. admiration Example: What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross […] Example: We must keep up a constant worship of God in our families, and in our closets; we must be frequent in holy adorings and admirings of God.
Word: admirer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English admire Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English admirer From admire + -er. Pronunciation: /ədˈmaɪ.ɹə/, /ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/ 1. One who admires. Example: Deven is an enthusiastic admirer of The Beatles. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:admirer. 2. One who is romantically attracted to someone. Example: Although he has a number of admirers, he prefers to remain single. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:admirer.
Word: admission Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin admissio, admissionis; compare French admission. See admit. Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪʃən/, /ædˈmɪʃ.n̩/ 1. The act or practice of admitting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday. 2. Permission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I request admission for two adults. Example: UK cinema admissions are set to hit their lowest level since records began almost a century ago, with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic wiping almost £1bn from box office sales. 3. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgement; concession. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 7. The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is no way he has seen that show, the admission is more than he makes in a week.
Word: admit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English admitten, amitten, borrowed from Old French admettre, amettre (“to admit”), from Latin admittō (“to allow entrance, inlet”, literally “to send to”), from ad- + mittere (“to send”). Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪt/ 1. To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration. Labels: transitive Example: to admit a serious thought into the mind Example: to admit evidence in the trial of a cause 2. To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise. Labels: transitive Example: to admit an attorney to practice law Example: The prisoner was admitted to bail. 3. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny (+ to). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: the argument or fact is admitted Example: He admitted his guilt. 4. To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted. Labels: transitive Example: The words do not admit such a construction. Example: Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. 5. To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission. Labels: intransitive, with-of Example: Circumstances do not admit of this. Example: The text does not admit of this interpretation. 6. To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment. Labels: transitive Example: "This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they were admitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm."
Word: admitted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of admit Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:admitted.
Word: admitted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪtɪd/ 1. having received admittance
Word: admitting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of admit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:admitting.
Word: admitting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪtɪŋ/ 1. An act of admission; an allowing to enter. Example: Other parts of the ceremony have their unpleasantnesses; for there is great difficulty in admittings and omittings of guests to the festivities.
Word: admonish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English a(d)monisshen (adapted through -ishen (“-ish”) from earlier amonesten), from Old French amonester (modern French admonester), from an unattested Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *admonestāre, from Latin admoneō (“to remind, warn”), from ad- + moneō (“to warn, advise”). Pronunciation: /ədˈmɒn.ɪʃ/, /ædˈmɑn.ɪʃ/ 1. To inform or notify of a fault; to rebuke in a serious tone; to tell off. Labels: transitive Example: Better is a poore and a wise child, then an old and foolish king who will no more be admonished. Example: And further, by these, my sonne, be admonished: of making many bookes there is no end, and much studie is a wearinesse of the flesh. 2. To advise against wrongdoing; to caution; to warn against danger or an offense. Labels: transitive Example: “You needn’t stray off too far in doin’ it,” his partner admonished. “If that pack ever starts to jump you, them three cartridges’d be wuth no more’n three whoops in hell. Them animals is damn hungry, an’ once they start in, they’ll sure get you, Bill.” 3. To instruct or direct. Labels: transitive
Word: ado Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do. Pronunciation: /əˈduː/ 1. Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion. Labels: uncountable Example: Antonio:In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a wantwit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. Example: Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”
Word: bundle of joy Part of Speech: noun 1. A newborn baby. Labels: idiomatic Example: Nature took its course, and Marie did give birth to a bundle of joy, but she soon discovered that motherhood was not all bliss. 2. A child. Labels: idiomatic 3. A pet. Labels: idiomatic, uncommon
Word: apatheist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of apathy + atheist. 1. A person who does not care about the existence of a God or gods; a supporter of apatheism.
Word: magnifico Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian magnifico. Doublet of magnific. 1. A grandee or nobleman of the Republic of Venice. Labels: historical, obsolete Example: For be ſure of this, / That the Magnifico is much beloued, / And hath in his effect, a voyce potentiall, / As double as the Dukes, he will diuorce you, / Or put vpon you what reſtraint, and greeuance, That law with all his might to inforce it on, / Weele giue him cable. Example: I know—I've heard—but no wealth of the imagination can ever really quite reconstruct Tupworthy, the shoddy magnifico, in his immense porcine complacency, his monumental self-importance. 2. A rector of a German university. Labels: obsolete
Word: mezzo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (music): Clipping of mezzo-soprano Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtsoʊ/, /ˈmɛdzoʊ/, /ˈmɛtsəʊ/, /ˈmɛdzəʊ/ 1. mezzo-soprano Example: Emily Golden, a mezzo who was adept in an especially wide range of roles;
Word: mezzo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: (music): Clipping of mezzo-soprano Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtsoʊ/, /ˈmɛdzoʊ/, /ˈmɛtsəʊ/, /ˈmɛdzəʊ/ 1. At a middle level or scale, between micro and macro. Labels: not-comparable Example: mezzo social work
Word: indefinite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin indēfīnītus. Morphologically in- + definite. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪt/ 1. Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite. Example: Your account will be suspended for an indefinite period of time. Example: A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the government from enforcing a controversial statute about the indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects. 2. Vague or unclear. Example: She gave an indefinite answer which nobody really understood. 3. Undecided or uncertain. Example: I'm still indefinite about what I'm going to study at college. 4. Being an integral without specified limits. Example: Don't forget to m the +C when calculating indefinite integrals. 5. Designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things. Example: the indefinite article
Word: indefinite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin indēfīnītus. Morphologically in- + definite. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪt/ 1. A word or phrase that designates an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things.
Word: definite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dēfīnītus, past participle of dēfīniō, whence also English define. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/, /ˈdɛfənɪt/, /ˈdɛfənət/, /ˈdefɪnɪt/, /ˈdefənət/ 1. Having distinct limits. Example: definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval Example: […] elements combine in definite proportions […] 2. Free from any doubt. Example: definite knowledge 3. Determined; resolved; decided. Example: […] idiots in this case of favour would Be wisely definite 4. Designating an identified or immediately identifiable person or thing, or group of persons or things Example: the definite article
Word: definite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dēfīnītus, past participle of dēfīniō, whence also English define. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/, /ˈdɛfənɪt/, /ˈdɛfənət/, /ˈdefɪnɪt/, /ˈdefənət/ 1. A word or phrase that designates a specified or identified person or entity. 2. Anything that is defined or determined. Labels: obsolete
Word: tripod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tréyes Borrowed from Latin tripod- (stem of tripūs, tripodis), from Ancient Greek τρίποδ- (trípod-, stem of τρίπους, τρίποδος (trípous, trípodos), literally “three-footed”); equivalent to tri- + -pod. Doublet of tripus, tripos, and teapoy. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪpɒd/, /ˈtɹɑjpɔd/, /ˈtɹaɪpɑd/, /ˈtɹɑepɔd/, /ˈtɹɑepɒd/ 1. A three-legged stand or mount. Example: Cameras often have tripod attachments, which help when taking steady photographs. 2. An organism with three limbs. 3. A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897). 4. Someone with a very large penis. Labels: humorous, slang
Word: tripod Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *tréyes Borrowed from Latin tripod- (stem of tripūs, tripodis), from Ancient Greek τρίποδ- (trípod-, stem of τρίπους, τρίποδος (trípous, trípodos), literally “three-footed”); equivalent to tri- + -pod. Doublet of tripus, tripos, and teapoy. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪpɒd/, /ˈtɹɑjpɔd/, /ˈtɹaɪpɑd/, /ˈtɹɑepɔd/, /ˈtɹɑepɒd/ 1. To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress. Labels: intransitive Example: I tripodded after my 6-mile run. 2. Of a lizard, to raise its body upright bracing itself on hind legs and tail. Labels: intransitive