defenestrate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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Etymology: Etymology tree
New Latin dē
Etruscan *𐌚𐌍𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌀 (*fnestra)bor.?
New Latin fenestra
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
New Latin -ātiō
New Latin dēfenestrātiōder.
English defenestrationbf.
English defenestrate
First attested in 1904; back-formation from defenestration on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from New Latin dē- (“out”) + fenestra (“window”) + -ātiō (“-ation”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: defenestrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defenestrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defenestrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defenestrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To eject or throw (someone or something) from or through a window.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!
gloss: To throw out; to remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3).
Ever since he helped to defenestrate Richard Nixon in 1974, Mr Woodward has been a sort of super-reporter ...
According to the guidebooks, they do it so strenuously that women would very much like to defenestrate the custom.
gloss: To remove a Windows operating system from (a computer).
pos: verb
tags: humorous
slang
transitive
examples: This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC,
Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-)
◦ Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon.
2007 May 16, Richard Stallman, speech, Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works,
Now of course people who want freedom shouldn't use Windows at all, you've got to defenestrate your computer, which means either you throw Windows out of the computer, or you throw the computer out the window.
Related words: autodefenestrate
Derived words: autodefenestrate
defenestration
defenestrator
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: يُلْقِي مِن النّافِذَةِ
roman: yulqī min an-nāfiḏati
lang: Arabic
word: زت من الشباك
roman: zatt min eš-šubbāk
lang: Catalan
word: defenestrar
lang: Dutch
word: defenestreren
lang: Finnish
word: heittää ikkunasta ulos
lang: French
word: défenestrer
lang: German
word: aus dem Fenster werfen
lang: German
word: defenestrieren
lang: Icelandic
word: henda út um glugga
lang: Italian
word: defenestrare
lang: Lithuanian
word: aidinti
lang: Polish
word: defenestrować
lang: Polish
word: wyrzucić przez okno
lang: Portuguese
word: defenestrar
lang: Portuguese
word: jogar da janela
lang: Russian
word: выбра́сывать из окна́
roman: vybrásyvatʹ iz okná
lang: Russian
word: вы́бросить из окна́
roman: výbrositʹ iz okná
lang: Russian
word: выки́дывать из окна́
roman: vykídyvatʹ iz okná
lang: Russian
word: вы́кинуть из окна́
roman: výkinutʹ iz okná
lang: Spanish
word: defenestrar
lang: Swedish
word: defenestrera
lang: Tagalog
word: itapon
lang: Welsh
word: diffenestru