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wart

Etymology
From, , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
 * 2) Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
 * 3)  Anything unsightly or undesirable; a blemish.
 * 4)  Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
 * 1)  Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
 * 1)  Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.

Translations

 * Aklanon: butig
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ثُؤْلُول
 * Egyptian Arabic: سنطاية
 * Moroccan Arabic: تولالة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: আজিনাই
 * Azerbaijani: ziyil
 * Bashkir: һөйәл
 * Basque: garatxo
 * Belarusian: баро́даўка
 * Breton: gwenaenn
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Chuvash: шӗпӗн, шӗкӗл
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vorte
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: veruko
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: kambfjøður, finnur, finna
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: espulla, empuxa, verruga, vorreca
 * Georgian: მეჭეჭი
 * German:
 * Greek:, ακροχορδώνα,
 * Ancient: θύμιον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , varacsk, ,
 * Hunsrik: Waarz
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: butig
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: faithne
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: сүйел
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: сюел, мин
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بالووکە
 * Laki: بالیک
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Southern Kurdish: بالۊک
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຫູດ
 * Latin: verrūca
 * Latvian: kārpa
 * Lithuanian: karpa
 * Luxembourgish: Waarzel
 * Macedonian: брада́вица
 * Maltese: felul
 * Mansaka: botig
 * Maori: kautona, kiritona, marupo, unahiaua, tongatonga, tona
 * Middle English: warte
 * Navajo: sęęs
 * Norman: véthue
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: vorte
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: wearte
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Salar: süle
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: брадавица, пупчица
 * Roman:, pupčica
 * Sicilian: virruca
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: butig, kulugo
 * Tajik: озах, севол, ағаз
 * Tetum: futi
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: མཛེར་པ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: siňňil
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: mụn cóc, mụt cóc,
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: בראָדעווקע

 * Georgian:

Etymology 1
, from.

Noun

 * 1) the main current of a river

Etymology 2
, from, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) worth
 * 2) worth, worthy
 * 1) worth, worthy

Etymology 3
.

Noun

 * 1)  price, worth, value

title: wart


text:
analogy

Etymology
From, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1) A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
 * 2)  The proportion or the equality of ratios.
 * 3)  The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.
 * 1)  The proportion or the equality of ratios.
 * 2)  The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.
 * 1)  The proportion or the equality of ratios.
 * 2)  The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.
 * 1)  The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: analogie
 * Arabic: قِيَاس
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: analogi
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: analogio
 * Estonian: analoogia
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: analach
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, , , 類比
 * Maltese: b'analoġija
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: анало̀гија
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: analohiya
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük: naalog

 * Arabic: قِيَاس

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title: analogy


text:
sí

Etymology
From.

Particle

 * 1)  word used to indicate agreement or acceptance

Etymology
.

Particle

 * 1) yes (affirmation; commonly used to respond affirmatively to a question)

Usage notes

 * Sí is used to add positive emphasis to the verb, much like the auxiliary in affirmative sentences in English. It generally contrasts with a previous, and is placed in the same location within the sentence. This is a usage the word shares with Spanish.

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Adverb

 * 1) yes

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) ; oneself, himself, herself, itself, themselves, yourself; each other, one another

Verb

 * : behold

Adverb

 * 1) on the ground

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, originally from.

Noun

 * 1) ski

Etymology 2
An onomatopoeia (sound imitation).

Verb

 * 1)   to howl, cry, whiz, shriek, screech, shrill

Etymology
From, from.

Adverb

 * 1) always

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) fairy mound, tumulus

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) she
 * 2) it

Noun

 * 1) foot, paw

Etymology 1
From (compare 🇨🇬), from a blend of  +.

Pronoun

 * 1) she
 * 2) it
 * 1) it

Etymology 2
See.

Etymology 1
.

Particle

 * 1) yes
 * 2)  hello
 * 1)  hello
 * 1)  hello

Usage notes

 * As an affirmation, this term has in Spanish a usage that is not usually explicitly translated into English, since it could sound like a pleonasm, being that "positively", "affirmatively", and always related to a negation (explicit or not):

Noun

 * 1) yes; aye, ay; approbation, acceptance

Etymology 2
, from, dative of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) himself, herself, itself, themselves, yourself, yourselves form of used after prepositions

title: sí


text:
Mittag

Etymology 1
From, from , compound of (see 🇨🇬) and  (see ). Cognate to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon time from about 11 a.m. to 2 p.m
 * 2)  south compass point representing 180°
 * 3) * 1545, Martin Luther, Luther Bible, Exodus 26:18 (with KJV translation)
 * "de"
 * "de"

- Zwenzig ſollen ir ſtehen gegen dem mittag

Etymology 2
Shortened from.

Noun

 * 1)  lunch light meal eaten around midday

title: Mittag


text: Vereinigte Arabische Emirate

title: Vereinigte Arabische Emirate


text:
bont

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * ,, especially in

Noun

 * 1) plug

Etymology
From, probably from (thus a ); compare 🇨🇬. The noun is derived from the adjective: originally the noun referred to furs of variegated color.

Noun

 * 1) fur

Adjective

 * 1) motley, variegated, multi-colored
 * 2)  mixed, varied, heterogeneous

Etymology 1
From an otherwise unattested stem of unknown origin +.

Verb

 * 1)  to demolish, pull down
 * 2)  to take apart, disassemble, dismantle, fractionate
 * 3)  to undo, untie, open
 * 4)  to sever, disconnect, split, cut off
 * 5)  to break down in statistics

Noun

 * 1) stem

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) dull, blunt

title: bont


text:
show-off

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) One who shows off; a person given to egotistically demonstrating their prowess or ability.
 * Quit being such a show-off, before someone gets hurt.

Usage notes
Describing someone as a show-off carries an implicit endorsement of their capability: one can only "show off" if one actually has something to show. An individual who seeks attention that they are not perceived to deserve is usually described more dismissively as an or.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian: фукльо,
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: fanfaronulo,
 * Finnish:, brassailija
 * French:
 * Georgian: მატრაკვეცა, მეტიჩარა
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:, (both slang)
 * Latin: ostentātor
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish:, , , postureador, , mandaparte
 * Tagalog: pasikat

title: show-off


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Talk:Κύπρος

I think I've managed to translate the Greek, despite not knowing a word of the language. It's amazing what you can do with an online dictionary. :-) I took out what looked like a reference to the Middle East, because I'm not sure Cyprus is really part of the M.E.  To the original poster, or any other speakers of Greek:  does this look right? -- Ortonmc 21:21, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Etymology
, a user just added some stuff but I don't really know where to look to check any of it, and it is ill-formatted, and it looks wrong. Any thoughts? —*i̯óh₁nC[5] 05:29, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, beyond my ken. —Mahāgaja (formerly Angr) · talk 10:32, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It's a good old copy paste from Wikipedia. I tried to clean it up a bit, but it's still ugly. Apparently the word is already attested in Mycenaean in the demonym, but I don't have the resources to check that.
 * I really hate all these empty toponyms etymology sections, they're the worst breeding ground for fantasist long-winded explanations. --Barytonesis (talk) 14:00, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Parchment scroll
This is the longest etymology section I've ever seen. You sure it's not material for Wikipedia at this point? @Fay Freak Shoshin000 (talk) 07:48, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, it’s not like encyclopediae and dictionaries can’t overlap, as they talk about language, so there is a false dichotomy. But we have the usual problems of Wiktionary:What Wiktionary is. We can, and are supposed to connect primary materials, it’s our job, and if information in secondary works contradicts it or each other then nothing like w:WP:SYNTHESIS applies, we have to strike a balance unless we make the dictionary argue against itself across multiple pages or even the “sourced” information in one page. We can absolve the lexicon from being dulling dumping grounds of vague resemblances, by guiding the reader through them, with guidelines inherent to the philologic and linguistic art.

 * As often with balances (such as we are used to from an administrative act and courtroom), it is easy to press the panic button and dismiss the conclusion as a ”minority opinion” or “fringe”. Though the whole point of the procedure, distinguishing the professional from the greenhornish pretender, and also from the conspirationist nutbar we dread, is to find aspects which weren’t previously illuminated, while confronting other narratives that could come to mind, particularly because they have been published by an obvious authority. Legitimization by procedure. Well you see how one passes the exams for the bar, but unlike there in etymology everyone is at an advantage here due to not having stakes in the outcome; we write no biographies of living persons, but of the linguistic material that has come out of them. I mean I added all the information, and cut Gordian knots like “Copper from Cyprus or Cyprus from copper?”, that would leave us the follow-up question where the other lexical item is from then, but nobody denies loses traction if a third option provides a way out for both word stories. I am sure people are greatly and specifically interested in these rare lines of thought. I am not imposing my opinion but weighing the merits of the case in a reproducible manner.

 * Writing texts that are less demotivating and make you smarter than the standard average ones. Regardless of the aesthetic merit, you see even that the discomposure itself enables you to have the word origin enter your memory readier and fortify it and thus optimize your comprehension through increased quality entropy (as you asked how to optimize your brain-cells: the skill issue is to selectively modulate your attention in the flood of information your self is lured to bombard you with, that has always been taught by the greater philosophers and now requires head-shrinkers, creating mental health literacy on the recipient, low in the norm population, that we fear at every corner criticizing us due to their bulk) better than it would be with the amnemonic lists as on —any articles of such kind should be rewritten if feasible: it is known by professors that students will remember certain things if you excite them with an anecdote, or emotion.

 * You may rather question DJ K-Çel’s assumption that afterwards they would be desirous to engross their mental image, of what was going and what supports it, with “more”, as if this dissertation has not satisfied their curiosity but Wikipedia would finally untangle it. The situation is reserved in this case, we afford to be longer while they don’t want to; I have outlined to you what happens when one writes there (and why), there is a bias towards some affectively contrived norm that preferrably oversteps what is relevant in science, despite their noble talk about relevance. The fear of being excluded from the tribe is so strong that it trumps rationality, because the latter itself phenomenologizes itself as a drive to relate: what the brain does when it is idle enough to edit wikis, rumination; persuasion is also the art to get people to quit this, the unnecessary shocks. We have more science tools than ever to be sure about the pertinent approaches. Probably you noticed there is a lot going on here, even if not stooping yourself to Wikipedian vulturism, though the longer but explicit text was supposed be to read faster than an obscurantist condensed one. Of course if the data is open then there is also more surface to find fault, but again the being right or wrong in conclusion is not wholly the point, of every academic text. Fay Freak (talk) 12:14, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Bruh this is some Jakob Böhme level of DMT release. I nevertheless appreciate you respecting me enough to write such a text.
 * However, to my regret, this text is so long and going off on tangents that I, as a homo economicus, took the rational decision to parse your scripture through ChatGPT in order to yield an understanding overstepping superficiality.
 * I say this with all my respect, but please don't let "Amtssprache" corrode your thinking and writing style! The Wikipedian vulturism you describe reaped, auf jeden Fall, the article "Occam's Razor", which I invite you to read.
 * My personal opinion is that Wiktionary should remain as concise and accessible in language as possible. Graphomanic ramblings and use of obscure semantics are weapons, not appropriate in all circumstances, such as an online dictionary, which should be – I believe – meant to bring the world's languages at a new level of accessibility with the shared ties of mankind underlined as never before, through the simplest prism: Language, la lengua, yazyk, al-lugha, haLashon, what we all share. I want more people to realize that each and every word they pronounce is a vessel containing a story, used throughout history's ups and lows, and more broadly reflecting ties to other peoples they would not even have considered. In the current climate of crisis, anti-intellectualism, and fascistoid blossoms sprawling hither and thither, I enjoy thinking the importance hereof transcends the quite meager userbase. I hope you see what I am trying to draw in a (somewhat) less "amtssprachlich" way.
 * All the best, kisses, Shoshin000 (talk) 15:21, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

I agree, the etymology section is too long. I thought of editing it for concision myself; however, i was unsure what to take out.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 17:00, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

 * Also, the etymology section is confusingly worded.
 * Solomonfromfinland (talk) 17:40, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:forte

2004
I see what you mean Ortonmc. It's not ideal. Maybe we can simply leave off the mention that the first part is about the English word, since that's the default. Polyglot 21:24, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * It works here, more or less. The difficulty I foresee is if a non-English word has multiple etymologies/pronunciations, and also exists as a word in another language.  For example, the German Band I recently added has four different nouns, based on the different gender/plural.  I don't know anything about German etymology, but it wouldn't surprise me if these came from different roots.  I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. -- Ortonmc 04:17, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * With the previous version of the software there wasn't an automatically created little table of contents before the articles and we didn't really mind those levels. Almost everything went into level 3, except for the word's language.
 * Crossing that bridge is probably going to mean shifting everything one level down. Polyglot 09:08, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I would dispute the "preferred pronouncation"
In purist circles, the monosyllabic pronounciation of "forte" in the context of ability is always preferred, because of the specific etymology of the word. I would dispute the section of this article that claims that the disyllabic pronounciation is preferred, unless specific and reliable sources can be cited for this assumption. 192.158.61.143 16:28, 24 October 2007 (UTC)]

 * its so stupid....and dumb. when they teach it to you don't listen its just crap well thats what my teacher said Miss Roskelly...--66.17.87.131 19:17, 19 February 2008 (UTC)yyyyyytrutyuyurtyu

 * I agree heartily with the preference of "forte" as the pronunciation of the word fort (a noun derived from the French language) meaning a particular strength. One would not go into a bakery and ask for a chocolate tor-tay. The pronunciation "for tay" is strictly for the adverb (from the Italian) in musical direction, as for piano, where forte, fortissimo, etc. are frequently used to direct one to play forcefully.
 * I am a little worried that as mispronunciations are repeated, such mispronunciations become newly acceptable standards. In this age of celebrity, are we to allow our language to be guided by the mispronunciations of sometimes barely educated sportscasters? I suppose the next surprise will be to learn that reprise rhymes with surprise because I heard some twenty-something spokesmodel pronounce it that way on the TV guide channel.
 * I can appreciate that the English language is dynamic and can change but let us not be led astray by Philistines.

I also dispute the section stating "both pronunciations are now considered standard." This is demonstrably false as they are two DIFFERENT words. One Forte, (pronounced Fort) is a French word, meaning strong point, and the other, Forte (pronounced For-tay) is an Italian word, meaning a loud passage in a musical score. Let's not dumb down our standards any more than they already are. Two different words, two different meanings, two different pronunciations. 67.165.109.152 18:15, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Agreed
"Two different words, two different meanings, two different pronunciations." Many thanks to the commenters above. It's heartening to realize one is only mostly, but not completely, surrounded by idiots. Keep fighting the good fight against societal stupidity.

Pronunciation and spelling
For more on the disyllabic / two-syllable pronunciation and the spelling with an accent, see also the RFV discussions at Talk:forté. - -sche (discuss) 21:42, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

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sexual intercourse

Noun

 * 1) Coitus or genital-genital sexual contact.
 * 2) Sexual interaction, usually involving vaginal and/or anal and/or oral penetration, between at least two organisms.
 * 1) Sexual interaction, usually involving vaginal and/or anal and/or oral penetration, between at least two organisms.
 * 1) Sexual interaction, usually involving vaginal and/or anal and/or oral penetration, between at least two organisms.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: seksuele omgang
 * Albanian: marrëdhënie seksuale
 * Arabic: جِمَاع, مُجَامَعَة, مُضَاجَعَة
 * Armenian: սեռական հարաբերություն
 * Azerbaijani: cinsi əlaqə
 * Belarusian: палавы́я зно́сіны, сукупле́нне, палавы́ акт, пло́цевы акт
 * Bengali: যৌনসঙ্গম
 * Breton: darempredoù revel
 * Bulgarian: съвокупле́ние, по́лово сноше́ние
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 性交
 * Eastern Min: 性交
 * Hakka: 性交
 * Hokkien: 性交
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Wu: 性交
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, sexuele betrekkingen, seksueel verkeer
 * Esperanto: amoro
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: samlega
 * Finnish:, seksuaalinen kanssakäyminen ;
 * French:, , , union charnelle, union sexuelle
 * Georgian: სქესობრივი კავშირი,, კოიტუსი, სქესობრივი აქტი
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌹𐌲𐍂𐌹
 * Greek:, ερωτική επαφή,
 * Gujarati: સંભોગ
 * Hebrew:, הזדווגות
 * Hindi:, , , , , , , , रतिक्रीड़ा, , जिमाअ, मुजामअत
 * Hungarian: nemi közösülés,
 * Icelandic: kynmök, mök, samfarir
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: hubungan seksual
 * Irish: comhriachtain, caidreamh collaí, bualadh craicinn, déanamh craicinn
 * Italian: rapporto sessuale,
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: жыныстық акт, жыныстық қатынас
 * Khmer: ការរួមភេទ, រតិកម្ម
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz: жакындашуу, жыныстык жакындашуу
 * Lao: ການນອນນຳກັນ, ການຮ່ວມເພດ
 * Latin: coitus
 * Latvian: dzimumakts
 * Lithuanian: lytinis aktas, sueitis
 * Macedonian: полов однос, сексуа́лен однос
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Malay:,
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠷᠢᠴᠠᠯ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kjønnslig omgang,
 * Old English: hǣmed, leġertēam, wīfġemāna
 * Oromo: gaana
 * Pashto: غو
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, آمیزِشِ جِنْسی,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: relație sexuală,, contact sexual
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scots: conjugalitie
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сексуални однос, сполни однос, сно̏ша̄ј
 * Roman: seksualni odnos, spolni odnos,
 * Sinhalese: ලිංගික සංසර්ගය
 * Slovak: pohlavný styk, súlož
 * Slovene: spolni odnos,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: sariing talamitan, pagtatalik
 * Tajik: ҷамъкунӣ, яккунӣ, ҷамъшавӣ, якшавӣ, ҷимоъ
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: җенси якынлык, җенси мөнәсәбәт
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, ,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: jynsy gatnaşyk
 * Ukrainian: стате́ві зно́сини, зляга́ння, стате́вий акт
 * Urdu: مُجامَعَت, مُباشَرَت, جِماع
 * Uyghur: جىنسىي مۇناسىۋەت
 * Uzbek: jinsiy aloqa, ,
 * Vietnamese:, , , (性交)
 * Welsh:

title: sexual intercourse


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User:Kathy T~enwiktionary

Please see my Wikipedia Page

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User:Kneiphof

I'm mostly active in Russian and Dutch Wikipedias. Unfortunately, my English is quite poor.

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Talk:bang

Verb definition
Isn't what is now there as a verb definition actually an interjection?

Is pronounciation correct spelling. I saw it before, but I think it is wrong. Polyglot 23:42, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I've shuffled things around. I think it's right now. -- Ortonmc 04:56, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

When you add definitions
When you add definitions, please change the numbers of the already translated definitions. Thanks. Webkid 10:05, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry Webkid, I thought I did. Must've missed one. Hippietrail 11:00, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Etymology

 * Wiktionary, today
 * Onomatopoeic.

 * Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1973
 * prob. of Scand origin; akin to Icel banga to hammer

 * Merriam-Webster OnLine, today
 * probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse bang hammering

 * Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
 * Icel. banga to hammer; akin to Dan. banke to beat, Sw. bångas to be impetuous, G. bengel club, clapper of a bell.

 * Online Etymology Dictioary, today
 * c.1550, "to strike hard with a loud blow," from O.N. banga "to pound, hammer" of echoic origin. Slang meaning "have sexual intercourse with" first recorded 1937. Bangs of hair first recorded 1878, Amer.Eng., though 1870 of horses (bang-tail), perhaps from notion of abruptness (cf. bang off "immediately, without delay, 1886; bang-up "excellent, first-rate," 1820, probably shortened from phrase bang up to the mark). Big bang in astrophysics first recorded 1950. Banger British slang for "a sausage" is first recorded 1919, perhaps from sense of "a bludgeon," though this is only recorded in U.S.

 * "This is the way the world ends
 * Not with a bang but a whimper"
 * [T.S. Eliot, "Hollow Men," 1925]

The above may serve as some minimal grounds of etymological talks about bang. --KYPark 09:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Slang or figurative
The sense of "sexual intercourse" may be not a special slang but a common figurative, as anyone could be easily suggested by the pounding motion of the pestle in the mortar, should such pounding be understood as the foundational sense of bang. Vulgarism may also be disputed. --KYPark 12:33, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Missing sense: perhaps a partying session?
In , Michael Jackson sings "I took my baby on a Saturday bang." Is this like a bash? Equinox ◑ 13:52, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Why the hair sense?
Why is this word used for a hairstyle? Equinox ◑ 20:52, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Is if from the horse sense, bangtail. --Dmol (talk) 22:24, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

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User talk:Kneiphof

Hi Kneiphof,

Welcome. Don't worry about your English. Dutch translations are usually among the first to be added to the words, so I'm sure you can get by with the combination of English and Dutch. I hope you will add quite a few Russian translations! Tot later Polyglot 23:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

>> Thanks for welcome! Kneiphof 03:59, 17 Jan 2004 (CET)

Hi Kneiphof, I'm glad to see you adding all the Russian translations. I noticed you're entering the gender of Russian nouns as ж or м. I think that means ж for feminine or м for masculine; am I right? And I think Russian also has neuter nouns, but I haven't noticed any yet. Since this is the English language Wiktionary, it would probably be better to use the Roman alphabet m, f, and n instead, to be consistent with everything else. Thanks, Ortonmc 02:49, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

>>Hi, Ortonmc. Russian has also neuter noun, indeed, but it is quite uncommon. I will change м into m and ж into f Kneiphof 03:59, 17 Jan 2004 (CET)

 * My goodness! That was fast.  I didn't expect you to do them all at once. :-) -- Ortonmc 03:28, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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commonwealth

Etymology
From. From c. 1450 as common wele. In the form common-wealth (common welthe) from c. 1520, used by Tyndale in the sense "secular society" in particular, for which other authors preferred publike weal. Also from the 1520s treated as a synonym or loan-translation of  (Rollison 2017:67f).

Noun

 * 1)  The well-being of a community.
 * 2) The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.
 * 3) Republic.
 * 4) * 1649, Act of the Long Parliament
 * Be it declared and enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authoritie of the same That the People of England and of all the Dominions and Territoryes thereunto belonging are and shall be and are hereby constituted, made, established, and confirmed to be a Commonwealth and free State And shall from henceforth be Governed as a Commonwealth and Free State by the supreame Authoritie of this Nation, the Representatives of the People in Parliam[ent] and by such as they shall appoint and constitute as Officers and Ministers under them for the good of the People and that without any King or House of Lords.
 * 1) * 1649, Act of the Long Parliament
 * Be it declared and enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authoritie of the same That the People of England and of all the Dominions and Territoryes thereunto belonging are and shall be and are hereby constituted, made, established, and confirmed to be a Commonwealth and free State And shall from henceforth be Governed as a Commonwealth and Free State by the supreame Authoritie of this Nation, the Representatives of the People in Parliam[ent] and by such as they shall appoint and constitute as Officers and Ministers under them for the good of the People and that without any King or House of Lords.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: gemenebes
 * Antillean Creole: komònwels
 * Arabic: كُومُنْوِلْث
 * Catalan: mancomunitat
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: лянбон
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, kansojenyhteisö
 * French:, richesse commune
 * Georgian: თანამეგობრობა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קהילייה
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: comhlathas
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: достастық
 * Khmer: សហធន
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: respublica,
 * Malay: komanwel
 * Marathi: कॉमनवेल्थ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: samvelde
 * Nynorsk: samvelde
 * Persian: مشترک‌المنافع
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , estado libre asociado
 * Swedish: samvälde
 * Tagalog: komonwelt
 * Tajik: муштаракулманофеъ
 * Vietnamese: thịnh vượng chung (盛旺喠)

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Formosa

Etymology 1
From and, from , from , from  +. As a Brazilian city, named in honor of the empress in the 1840s.

Proper noun

 * 1)   of Fujian, China (Qing Empire) (1683–1885).
 * 2)   of China (Qing Empire) (1885–1895).
 * 3)   of Japan (1895–1945).
 * 4)  of Taiwan (Republic of China) (from 1945).
 * 5)   of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
 * 1)   of Fujian, China (Qing Empire) (1683–1885).
 * 2)   of China (Qing Empire) (1885–1895).
 * 3)   of Japan (1895–1945).
 * 4)  of Taiwan (Republic of China) (from 1945).
 * 5)   of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
 * 1)   of Fujian, China (Qing Empire) (1683–1885).
 * 2)   of China (Qing Empire) (1885–1895).
 * 3)   of Japan (1895–1945).
 * 4)  of Taiwan (Republic of China) (from 1945).
 * 5)   of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
 * 1)   of Japan (1895–1945).
 * 2)  of Taiwan (Republic of China) (from 1945).
 * 3)   of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
 * 1)  of Taiwan (Republic of China) (from 1945).
 * 2)   of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
 * 1)   of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
 * 1)   of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
 * 1)   of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
 * 1)   of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
 * 1)   of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).

Etymology 2
From, from and  in reference to a bend in the Paraguay River near the city, from , from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  around the city.
 * 2)  around the city.
 * 1)  around the city.

Translations

 * Latin:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 3
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Formosa is the 41234th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 528 individuals. Formosa is most common among White (89.2%) individuals.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From. Equivalent to a clipping of.

Etymology
Clipping of, from +.

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Talk:queer

Translations (2004)
The French and Italian translations on this page are probably not in the right section, but since I don't know those languages I can't easily correct them. I've marked them with HTML comments; can someone verify them, please? -- Ortonmc 05:03, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * The French translations are both adjectives. The distinction between (1) and (2) is correct.  However, the translation given for (2) is a derogatory term.  This raises a question about the English definition.  Essentially, "queer" meaning "homosexual" was formerly a derogatory term, and is sometimes still used as such.  However, it is also now used (particularly by homosexuals themselves) without any negative connotation at all.  Should this be a single definition (as now) but with a usage note added, or two separate definitions (to aid differentiation of translations)? Amatlexico 07:36, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * In my opinion, a usage note has to be added. By the way, what is Wiki*'s politics on offensive and taboo words? I added педал as the Bulgarian equivalent of queer, but this is highly offensive to homosexuals. What can you advise me? Webkid 08:01, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * They are merely words, so I think we should add them. Describing words and explaining their usage, that's what we are trying to do. Of course, it is very important you indicate that it is very offensive. Otherwise this might create embarassing situations. It if perfectly all right to add usage notes. When they become too long, create an entry for the word and describe it further there. Polyglot 10:40, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I agree with Polyglot here - I don't believe that Wiktionary should be bowdlerised or censored to protect its users' sensibilities. The usage note clearly points out that "queer" is offensive in the sense of "homosexual" and also that it is a term that has been reclaimed by gay people.  In my opinion, this is sufficient to prevent any offence that might be caused and to show that Wiktionary is responsible in how it defines its entries.  (See also my comment below about "nigger"). -- Paul G 11:49, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Usage note (2004)
I note there is no usage note at "nigger", which has a history of usage similar to "queer". I will add one. -- Paul G 11:49, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I'm happy with the usage note in principle, but it could be trimmed a bit. Also, we generally put usage notes further down the page. One could argue that a few highly-charged words might merit a more prominent note. Personally, I'm undecided. -dmh 03:00, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Too many usage notes
Too many usage notes. We should convert some to glosses (e.g. "formerly pejorative"), and try to source some of the other statements for accuracy. Equinox ◑ 18:35, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Slur use and its application
I think the discussion of the historic use of "queer" as a slur is missing some nuance. Yes, it literally was a slur for "gay man," but it was applied to transgender women and bisexual men just as often. I know this as someone who grew up in the 1990s; it was applied to many people who were not gay on the basis that they were perceived as being such. Ligata (talk) 09:24, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I have tried to edit this to reflect it; of course I might not have done it correctly so please feel free to let me know. Ligata (talk) 09:32, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

New England slang
It's not listed at Appendix:Glossary_of_Boston_slang, but "queer" (or even "quare") has definitely been used in the Eastern Mass. area to mean "unpopular, uncool, stupid," as in "you're so queer" or "that's wicked fricken queer," similar to slang use of retarded. I suspected that this use stemmed from the "weird, unusual" meaning, but it might not be so. - 63.82.135.13 00:11, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

 * Perhaps more likely from the "gay" sense, since gay is used the same way. Equinox ◑ 08:53, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Further meanings not mentioned
There's also, extending from 'strange, quaint', the semantic complex 'suspect, suspicious, dubious', or colloquially: 'fishy, iffy, dodgy'. I suspect it might have been specifically this meaning that led to the negative concept of queer as an attribute of people, specifically people whose relationship to gender and sexuality defied social norms (presumably, predominantly those perceived as gender-nonconforming men, such as queens and fairies, due to their high visibility and the alarm they caused): as these people were associated with the demi-monde, with petty criminality, and perceived as disreputable and lawless, at odds with bourgeois order, they were treated as not only strange, but inherently suspect. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 02:08, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Tea Room discussion re pejorativeness, etc
Just noting for future findability that the use of this word is discussed at Tea room/2020/September. - -sche (discuss) 19:07, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible missing obsolete slang sense
John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) gives queer as "an old cant word ... signifying base, roguish, or worthless, — the opposite of rum, which signified good and genuine." Equinox ◑ 01:12, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

1894 verb citation
The one that says: ''"Where do you come from?" Stanley queered.'' I strongly suspect this is a scanno for "queried", i.e. asked. Equinox ◑ 21:21, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Not a scanno as Trove shows; maybe a typo or Australian? --Myrelia (talk) 21:40, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

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Brustwarze

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) nipple, teat

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turn

Etymology 1
From, from , and , both from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬. Displaced native from  (see ), and  from  (see ), among several other terms.

Verb

 * 1)  Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
 * 2)  To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
 * 3)  To change one's direction of travel.
 * 4)  To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
 * 5)  To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
 * 6)  To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
 * 7)  To navigate through a book or other printed material.
 * 8)  To twist or sprain.
 * 9)  Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
 * 10)  Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
 * 11)  To become begin to be.
 * 12)  To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
 * 13) To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
 * 14)  To sour or spoil; to go bad.
 * 15)  To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
 * 16)  To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
 * 17)  To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
 * 18)  To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
 * 19) To reach a certain age.
 * 20) To hinge; to depend.
 * 21) To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
 * 22) To change personal condition.
 * 23)  To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
 * 24) To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
 * 25) To sicken; to nauseate.
 * 26) To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
 * 27)  To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
 * 28)  To complete.
 * 29)  To make (money); turn a profit.
 * 30)  Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
 * 31) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
 * 32)  To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
 * 33)  To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
 * 34)  To translate.
 * 35)  To magically or divinely repel undead.
 * 1) To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
 * 2)  To sour or spoil; to go bad.
 * 3)  To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
 * 4)  To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
 * 5)  To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
 * 6)  To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
 * 7) To reach a certain age.
 * 8) To hinge; to depend.
 * 9) To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
 * 10) To change personal condition.
 * 11)  To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
 * 12) To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
 * 13) To sicken; to nauseate.
 * 14) To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
 * 15)  To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
 * 16)  To complete.
 * 17)  To make (money); turn a profit.
 * 18)  Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
 * 19) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
 * 20)  To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
 * 21)  To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
 * 22)  To translate.
 * 23)  To magically or divinely repel undead.
 * 1) To change personal condition.
 * 2)  To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
 * 3) To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
 * 4) To sicken; to nauseate.
 * 5) To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
 * 6)  To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
 * 7)  To complete.
 * 8)  To make (money); turn a profit.
 * 9)  Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
 * 10) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
 * 11)  To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
 * 12)  To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
 * 13)  To translate.
 * 14)  To magically or divinely repel undead.
 * 1)  To make (money); turn a profit.
 * 2)  Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
 * 3) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
 * 4)  To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
 * 5)  To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
 * 6)  To translate.
 * 7)  To magically or divinely repel undead.
 * 1)  To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
 * 2)  To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
 * 3)  To translate.
 * 4)  To magically or divinely repel undead.
 * 1)  To magically or divinely repel undead.
 * 1)  To magically or divinely repel undead.

Synonyms

 * : steer, swerve, tack
 * : steer, swerve, tack
 * : steer, swerve, tack

Translations

 * Aklanon: liko'
 * Arabic:, أَدَارَ, لوى
 * Egyptian Arabic: دار
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܦܢܐ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Avar: сверизе
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: өйөрөлөү, әйләнеү
 * Basque: jiratu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: верза
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: dreje
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: pöörlema, pöörduma
 * Finnish:, ; ,  ;  ;
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: girâ
 * Galician: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Higaonon: tagliko
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush: верза
 * Irish:, iompaigh, sníomh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئاوڕدان
 * Latin:
 * Lombard:
 * Malay:, ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: lewa
 * Mansaka: liko
 * Maore Comorian: faliki
 * Maori: matakohuki
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:, snurre
 * Occitan:
 * Old Javanese: putĕr
 * Ossetian: зилын
 * Ottoman Turkish: دونمك
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian: ,
 * Piedmontese: viré, volté
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Rapa Nui: taviri
 * Romanian: se
 * Romansch: girar
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tionndaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: geukia
 * Swedish:, vända sig, vrida sig
 * Tagalog: umikot
 * Tausug: giling
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Udmurt: берганы
 * White Hmong: tig
 * Zealandic: draoie

 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:, , , fırlatmaq
 * Bashkir: бороу
 * Bulgarian:, зави́я,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: dreje, vende
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Friulian: girâ
 * Galician: ,
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: στρέφω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kääntää, vääntää, keertää
 * Irish:, iompaigh
 * Italian:, , , svoltare
 * Japanese:
 * Kashubian: òbracac
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سوڕاندن
 * Latin: torqueō
 * Malay: pusingkan, putarkan, belokkan
 * Malayalam: തിരിയ്ക്കുക
 * Neapolitan: votà
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Old English: wendan, hweorfan
 * Pashto:
 * Polabian: bögot
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: se
 * Romansch: girar
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tionndaidh
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wobrośiś
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan: ээр
 * Ukrainian: повертати, обертати
 * White Hmong: tig
 * Yiddish: דרייען

 * Arabic: لَفَّ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: боролоу
 * Belarusian: паваро́чваць, павярну́ць
 * Bulgarian:, зави́я
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: dreje
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, muuttaa suuntaa
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:, iompaigh
 * Italian:, svoltare, virare
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Pashto:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Rapa Nui: taviri
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tionndaidh
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wobrośiś
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan: эглир
 * Ukrainian: поверта́ти, поверну́ти
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish: דרייען

 * Bashkir: ҡырыу
 * Bulgarian: стругувам
 * Danish: dreje
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: deil
 * Malayalam: തിരിയ്ക്കുക
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: چرخلمق
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Finnish: ,

 * Arabic:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: бөкләү/бөктәү
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ;
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese:, 翻す
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: قەدکردن
 * Malayalam: മറിയ്ക്കുക
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: завертати

 * Finnish: ; käydä läpi

 * Finnish: lyödä kierre
 * Norwegian:

 * Finnish:

 * Arabic: اِنْقَلَبَ, صَارَ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:, forvandle sig
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: aliformiĝi, aliiĝi, transformiĝi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: éirigh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: постанувам, полнам, правам, навршувам
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: wendan, hweorfan
 * Portuguese:, tornar-se
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tionndaidh
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: robah
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vaihtaa väriä
 * Galician: ,
 * German: sich verfärben
 * Hungarian: -ul/-ül
 * Japanese: 紅葉ず, 紅葉つ
 * Scottish Gaelic: tionndaidh
 * Spanish: estivescer
 * Thai: ผลัดใบ

 * Bulgarian: превръщам се
 * Esperanto: aliformiĝi, aliiĝi, transformiĝi
 * Finnish: ;
 * German: sich verwandeln ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Norwegian:, forvandle
 * Polish:,  ,  ,
 * Portuguese:, tornar-se
 * Spanish:, , , metamorfar
 * Swedish:

 * Bulgarian: развалям се
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ;
 * Galician:, malvar
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Norwegian: tørne
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tionndaidh
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Welsh:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:

 * Finnish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: випо́внюватися, ви́повнитися

 * Finnish:

 * Danish: vende sig mod
 * Dutch: zich keren tegen
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Japanese:, 謀反を起こす
 * Portuguese: rebelar-se
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish: alkaa huimata

 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:

 * Finnish:, voida pahoin

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish:, saada valmiiksi
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian: ,

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish: sorvautua

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish:

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ido:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Old English: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 2
Partly from, from , from , and partly an action noun from the verb.

Noun

 * 1) A change of direction or orientation.
 * 2) A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
 * 3)   A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
 * 4) A walk to and fro.
 * 5) A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
 * 6) A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
 * 7) One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
 * 8) A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
 * 9) The time required to complete a project.
 * 10) A fit or a period of giddiness.
 * 11) A change in temperament or circumstance.
 * 12)  A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
 * 13)  The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
 * 14)  The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
 * 15) A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
 * 16) A single loop of a coil.
 * 17)  A pass behind or through an object.
 * 18) Character; personality; nature.
 * 19)  An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
 * 20)  A short skit, act, or routine.
 * 21)  A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
 * 22)  The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
 * 1) A change in temperament or circumstance.
 * 2)  A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
 * 3)  The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
 * 4)  The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
 * 5) A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
 * 6) A single loop of a coil.
 * 7)  A pass behind or through an object.
 * 8) Character; personality; nature.
 * 9)  An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
 * 10)  A short skit, act, or routine.
 * 11)  A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
 * 12)  The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
 * 1)  An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
 * 2)  A short skit, act, or routine.
 * 3)  A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
 * 4)  The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
 * 1)  The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.

Synonyms

 * 360° turn, complete rotation, complete turn, full rotation, full turn
 * : go
 * : go, move
 * , spell, giddiness
 * : go, move
 * , spell, giddiness
 * , spell, giddiness
 * , spell, giddiness

Derived terms

 * See also

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: drejning,
 * Dutch:, (in traffic)
 * Finnish: ; ,
 * Friulian: gîr
 * Galician:, xiro, virada
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: στροφή
 * Hindi:
 * Italian:, , sterzata,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سوڕاندن
 * Norwegian: sving, vending,
 * Ottoman Turkish: كوشه
 * Piedmontese: vir
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: virada,, girada
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: tionndadh,
 * Ukrainian: поворот
 * Urdu: موڑ
 * Welsh:

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: omdrejning
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:, viravolta, reviravolta
 * German: (vollständige) ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: sníomh
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سوڕانەوە, خولانەوە
 * Norwegian: omdreining
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, girada
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: tionndadh,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: оберт
 * Welsh:

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:, paseo

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: পাল
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: чарга́
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: omgang
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, , vegada, xeira, ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, an der Reihe sein , dran sein
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: વારો
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:,  or
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: vooro
 * Irish: seal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:, ត្រូវលើ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: نۆبە, نۆرە
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: (verb +) etter tur
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuairt, turas
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: ,

 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: পাল
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ход
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, pelivuoro
 * French:
 * Galician:, xogada
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ingrian: vooro
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: نۆبە, نۆرە
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: داو
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuairt, turas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: (vantu)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: ריי

 * Danish: dobbeltslag
 * Finnish: kaksoislyönti, ,
 * German: Doppelschlag

 * Finnish: toimitusaika
 * Italian:, , lasso di tempo
 * Japanese: 工数
 * Portuguese:

 * Danish:, ildebefindende
 * Finnish:

 * Danish: tilbøjelighed
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tionndadh

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish:, neljäs avokortti
 * French:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:

 * Bulgarian: витка
 * Danish: snoning
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: виток

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish:

 * Arabic:
 * German:
 * Mongolian:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  turn fourth communal card in Texas hold'em

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. First appears in the 12th or 13th century.

Noun

 * 1) tower

Etymology
From the verb ; compare with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) gymnastics

Etymology
From the verb.

Noun

 * 1) gymnastics

Etymology
, from, accusative form of.

Noun

 * 1) tower
 * 2)  rook

title: turn


text:
turn down

Verb

 * 1)  To refuse, decline, or deny.
 * 2)  To reduce the power, etc. of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
 * 3)  To reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction; to double or fold down.
 * 1)  To reduce the power, etc. of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
 * 2)  To reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction; to double or fold down.
 * 1)  To reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction; to double or fold down.
 * 1)  To reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction; to double or fold down.
 * 1)  To reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction; to double or fold down.

Usage notes
In all senses the object may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, , , , , sich verweigern,
 * Hebrew: סירב
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:, abnegō
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: diùlt
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: säga nej till,
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: відхиля́ти, відхили́ти, відмовля́тися, відмо́вити, відкида́ти, відки́нути

 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: نقص
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܟܸܦ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:,  ,  ,
 * French:
 * German:, herunterdrehen, herunterregeln, niedriger stellen, , herunter stellen,
 * Hungarian:,  lejjebb vesz/kapcsol/csavar/teker, ,  ,
 * Irish: ísligh
 * Italian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: зме́ншувати, зме́ншити
 * Uzbek:
 * Walloon:,  ,

title: turn down


text:
turn up

Verb

 * 1)  To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
 * 2)  To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
 * 3)  To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
 * 4)  To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.
 * 5)  To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
 * 6)  To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
 * 1)  To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
 * 2)  To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.
 * 3)  To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
 * 4)  To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
 * 1)  To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
 * 2)  To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
 * 1)  To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
 * 1)  To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.

Usage notes

 * In senses 2, 3 and 4 the object is normally a thing, not a person. It may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: появявам се, показвам се
 * Finnish:, putkahtaa
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Interlingua: apparer
 * Italian:, , saltare fuori,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Walloon:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:,  , nagyobbra tesz/vesz, feljebb vesz
 * Interlingua: augmentar le volumine (de)
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: podgłaśniać, podgłośnić
 * Portuguese: aumentar o volume (de)
 * Russian:  ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, vrida upp volymen
 * Walloon: fé aler pus foirt

 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: reverter, girar/plicar (in alto)
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese: virar/dobrar (para cima),
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, dar vuelta
 * Walloon:, ,

 * German: ,

title: turn up


text:
soporific

Etymology
From, from. Unrelated to (distinct in Proto-Indo-European).

Noun

 * 1)  Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
 * 2)  Something boring or dull.
 * 1)  Something boring or dull.
 * 1)  Something boring or dull.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُنَوِّم
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, hipnòtic, soforífic,
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: uspávadlo
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: dormigilo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: საძილე საშუალება, საძილე პრეპარატი, საძილე ნივთიერება
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: sininnartoq
 * Interlingua: soporifico
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: sopor
 * Maori: mea whakamoe, rongoā whakamoe
 * Polish: środek nasenny
 * Portuguese: soporífero, soporífico
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: сноді́йне
 * Vietnamese: (𧆄㬳)

Adjective

 * 1)  Tending to induce sleep.
 * 2)  Boring, dull.
 * 1)  Boring, dull.
 * 1)  Boring, dull.
 * 1)  Boring, dull.
 * 1)  Boring, dull.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُنَوِّم
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, сънотворен
 * Catalan: soporífer, soporífic,, , hipnòtic
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 催眠的
 * Czech: uspávající
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: unettava
 * French:
 * Georgian: ძილის მომგვრელი, დამაძინებელი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὑπνωτικός
 * Interlingua: soporific
 * Italian:, addormentativo, addormentatore
 * Korean: 잠이 오게 하는
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: xewîner
 * Latin: somnifer, somnificus
 * Maori: rongoā whakamoe
 * Persian: خواب‌آور
 * Portuguese: soporífero, soporífico
 * Russian:, навевающий сон, вводящий в сон, ,
 * Spanish: soporífico,
 * Swedish:

Etymology
.

title: soporific


text:
Talk:evil

In Spanish you can say "lo mal" for "the bad", "the bad ones", "the bad people". In this case "lo" is the neuter article because "mal" is not a noun but an adjective being used as a noun and hence has no gender.

Also in Spanish, "mal" is used attributively before male nouns (mal tiempo), "malo" is used predicatively with male subjects (el tiempo es malo), "mala" if used both ways with feminine nouns. Hippietrail 12:01, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Picture of 'Evil Man'
Hey so, there are a *lot* of antisemitic tropes going on in that picture. . . there are characterizations of villains that don't rely on that kind of bigotry, and one of those should probably be used instead.

Update 2023.4.1: Following up on this comment by another user, I have deleted the image for a *second* time. I hope that no supervisor will override to include an image that is deeply offensive and utterly unnecessary. Gusto2199 (talk) 13:00, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

worse
OED entry of worse reads A adj. Used as the comparative of bad, evil, ill, or as the opposite of better. --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:33, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

evil be to him who evil thinks
(proverb) Evil things should happen to people who have evil thoughts. ''He's plotting against me! Evil be to him who evil thinks.''

 * ✅ Equinox ◑ 13:15, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

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User:Digital~enwiktionary

Watch this space!!

title: User:Digital~enwiktionary


text:
watch

Etymology 1
As a noun, from, from. See below for verb form.

Noun

 * 1) A portable or wearable timepiece.
 * 2) The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
 * 3) A particular time period when guarding is kept.
 * 4) A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
 * 5) A person or group of people who guard.
 * 6) The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
 * 7)  A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
 * 8)  A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
 * 9) The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
 * 1) A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
 * 2) A person or group of people who guard.
 * 3) The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
 * 4)  A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
 * 5)  A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
 * 6) The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
 * 1) The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
 * 2)  A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
 * 3)  A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
 * 4) The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
 * 1) The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, orë dore,
 * Arabic:
 * Tunisian Arabic: منڨالة
 * Aragonese: reloch
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: sãhate
 * Asturian:
 * Atong (India): khori
 * Azerbaijani: qol saatı,
 * Bashkir: ҡул сәғәте, сәғәт
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian: гадзі́ннік, нару́чны гадзі́ннік
 * Bengali: ,
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏩᏥ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 手錶
 * Dungan: шубё, бё
 * Eastern Min: 手錶
 * Hakka: 時錶仔
 * Hokkien:, , 時錶, 時表,
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 手錶
 * Cornish: euryor
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: brakhorloĝo
 * Estonian:, käekell
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:,  ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: orloi
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მაჯის საათი, საათი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, वॉच
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Istriot: rilojo
 * Italian:, , orologio da tasca
 * Japanese:,  ,  , ウオッチ
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 워치
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سەعات, کات ژمێر
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: ëura
 * Lao:, ນາລິກາ
 * Latgalian: stuņdinīks, stuņdiņs
 * Latin: horologium armillare
 * Latvian: pulkstenis,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: часовник
 * Malay:
 * Maori: wati
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: бугүйн цаг,
 * Ngazidja Comorian: saya
 * Norman: mouontre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, ,
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: ساعت
 * Papiamentu: oloshi
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , relógio de bolso
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian: arrellógiu
 * Scottish Gaelic: uaireadair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ча̀со̄внӣк, са̑т
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: zapestna ura,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: relos,
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: นาฬิกาข้อมือ, นาฬิกาพก
 * Turkish: kol saatı,
 * Turkmen: sagat
 * Ukrainian:, нару́чний годи́нник
 * Urdu: گَھڑی,
 * Uzbek:, qoʻl soat
 * Venetian: rełogio
 * Vietnamese:
 * Waray-Waray: relo
 * Welsh: oriadur,
 * Yiddish: זייגערל
 * Yup'ik: cass'aq
 * Zazaki: sehat
 * Zhuang: biuj

 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡарауыл
 * Bulgarian:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φυλακή, τήρησις, σκοπιά, φρούρημα, νύχευμα, φρουρά
 * Irish: faire
 * Italian:, ,
 * Latin: vigilia
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Wacht
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Tamil:

 * Afrikaans: wag
 * Aromanian: viglã, strajã
 * Belarusian: ва́хта, дзяжу́рства
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φυλακή
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: turno di guardia
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: vigilia
 * Luxembourgish: Wuecht
 * Maori: tiakanga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:, پَهْر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: faire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, чергува́ння
 * Zazaki: nomet

 * Afrikaans: wag
 * Arabic: حارس
 * Azerbaijani:, , keşikçi, ,
 * Bashkir: ҡарауыл
 * Belarusian: ва́рта, старо́жа, страж, караву́л
 * Bulgarian:, , ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: φύλαξ, τηρητής, σκοπός, οὖρος, φρουρός, φρουρητήρ, σκοπιωρός, φυλακή
 * Italian: ,
 * Kazakh: қарауыл
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:, gacha, , gàrdia
 * Persian: دیدِه‌بان, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, , , , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: freiceadan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, dežuranje
 * Southern Altai: каруул
 * Swedish:, vaktpatrull
 * Tamil: காவலாளி
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: కాపలాదారు
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: garawul
 * Ukrainian: сторо́жа,, , ча́ти
 * Uzbek:
 * Zazaki: pawıtoğ

 * French:
 * Italian: posto di guardia
 * Luxembourgish: Posten
 * Portuguese:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: personale di guardia, personale di sorveglianza, personale di turno
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, quarto de serviço
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tiakanga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:

 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Irish:
 * Norman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Swahili:

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
 * 2)  To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
 * 3)  To mind, attend, or guard.
 * 4)  To be wary or cautious of.
 * 5)  To attend to dangers to or regarding.
 * 6)  To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
 * 7)  To be vigilant or on one's guard.
 * 8)  To act as a lookout.
 * 9)  To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
 * 10)  To be awake.
 * 11)  To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
 * 1)  To be wary or cautious of.
 * 2)  To attend to dangers to or regarding.
 * 3)  To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
 * 4)  To be vigilant or on one's guard.
 * 5)  To act as a lookout.
 * 6)  To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
 * 7)  To be awake.
 * 8)  To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
 * 1)  To be vigilant or on one's guard.
 * 2)  To act as a lookout.
 * 3)  To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
 * 4)  To be awake.
 * 5)  To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
 * 1)  To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
 * 1)  To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.

Usage notes

 * When used transitively to mean something, there is an implication that the direct object is something which is capable of changing.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:, تَفَرَّجَ, رَاقَبَ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: شاف, اِتْفرّج
 * Hijazi Arabic: شاف, اتفرج, تابع, راقب
 * South Levantine Arabic: حضر, تفرّج
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: mirar
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: ҡарау
 * Belarusian:, паглядзе́ць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Hakka: 看
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, , , ,
 * Danish: på, holde øje med
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ყურება
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σκοπέω, βλέπω, ὁράω, θεάομαι, θεωρέω
 * Hebrew:, ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: fair
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: bízia, biziá
 * Kambera: tàru
 * Kapampangan: albe
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بینین, تەمەشاکردن
 * Lao: ເບິ່ງ
 * Latin: cōnspiciō,, , , aspecto
 * Latvian: skatīties
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: kucken, nokucken
 * Macedonian: гледа
 * Malay: menyaksikan, melihat
 * Maori: titiro, mātaki, mātakitaki, mātai
 * Mazanderani: هارشین
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: r'garder
 * Northern Mansi:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, passe på, se på
 * Old Czech: zřieti
 * Old French: espier, reguarder
 * Oromo: eeguu
 * Persian:, تماشا کردن, نظاره کردن, ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: qhaway
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: abbadiare
 * Scottish Gaelic: coimhead
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гле̏дати
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: dívať, pozerať,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: manood, magmasid
 * Tajik: нигоҳ кардан
 * Thai:, ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, спостеріга́ти
 * Urdu: دیکْھنا
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Waray-Waray: ki-ta, i-mod, tan-au
 * Welsh: ,
 * White Hmong: saib
 * Yiddish: וואַטשן
 * Zazaki: seyr kerden, temaşe kerden, weynen

 * Arabic: رَصَدَ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: назіра́ць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᎦᏎᏍᏛᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, 觀察
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, holde øje med
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θεωρέω, γρηγορέω
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: horfa á
 * Irish: fair
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: odja, oiá, biziá, bízia
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: تەماشاکردن
 * Latin:, , , speculor, aspecto
 * Luxembourgish: nokucken
 * Macedonian: набљудува
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: titiro, mātakitaki, mātaki, mātai
 * Norman: r'garder
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, passe på
 * Old French: espier, reguarder
 * Persian: تَماشا کَردَن, ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: coimhead
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: sledovať
 * Slovene:, opazovati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kutazama
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: కాపు ఉండు
 * Tocharian B: yärp-
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: спостеріга́ти
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: ,
 * White Hmong: saib
 * Zazaki: çım eşten

 * Arabic: حَرَسَ
 * Belarusian:, вартава́ць
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᎦᏎᏍᏛᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 看,
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: se efter, holde øje med
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Old French: gaiter, guarder
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მეთვალყურეობა, ზედამხედველობა, თვალის დევნება, თვალყურის დევნება, დაცვა, დარაჯობა, გუშაგობა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τηρέω, φυλάσσω, ἐφοράω, φρουρέω
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: fair
 * Italian:, , , fare attenzione
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin:, custodio
 * Luxembourgish: oppassen, surveilléieren, iwwerwaachen
 * Malayalam: കാവല് നില്‍ക്കുക
 * Maori: matapopore
 * Norman: dgetter
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: passe på
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: охороня́ти,
 * Zazaki: haydar biyen

 * Arabic:
 * Belarusian: сачы́ць, назіра́ць
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, anar amb compte
 * Czech:
 * Danish: holde øje med, vogte på
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: olla varuillaan,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὐλαβέομαι, φράζω, φυλάσσω
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: внимава
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: passe på
 * Portuguese: tomar cuidado, ter cuidado
 * Romanian: avea grijă,, fi vigilent
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: tener cuidado
 * Swedish: ta sig i akt, vara försiktig
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: слідкува́ти

 * Bulgarian:, бо́дърствам
 * Catalan:
 * French:, être vigilant
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Italian: montare la guardia
 * Latin: vigilō
 * Plautdietsch: woaken
 * Romanian: fi vigilent,
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Breton:
 * Interlingua:
 * Latin:
 * Ottoman Turkish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu:

title: watch


text:
Coventry

Pronunciation

 * or

Synonyms

 * (informal)

Translations

 * Arabic: كوفنتري
 * Armenian: Կովենտրի
 * Bulgarian: Ко́вънтри
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Georgian: კოვენტრი
 * Greek: Κόβεντρι
 * Japanese: コヴェントリー
 * Korean: 코번트리
 * Latvian: Koventri
 * Lithuanian: Koventris
 * Macedonian: Ковентри
 * Marathi: कॉव्हंट्री
 * Polish:
 * Russian: Ко́вентри
 * Scots: Coventry
 * Ukrainian: Ко́вентрі

Etymology
.

title: Coventry


text:
if only

Conjunction

 * 1)  I wish that;
 * 2)  I wish that;
 * 3)  Even if for no other reason than; only just.
 * 1)  I wish that;
 * 2)  I wish that;
 * 3)  Even if for no other reason than; only just.
 * 1)  I wish that;
 * 2)  Even if for no other reason than; only just.
 * 1)  Even if for no other reason than; only just.
 * 1)  Even if for no other reason than; only just.

Translations

 * Arabic:, تَمَنَّى
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:, , si només, si tan sols,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 就好了
 * Czech: kéž by,
 * Danish: gid
 * Dutch: was het maar zo dat, or use auxiliary with inversion and
 * Finnish: jos vain, kunpa
 * French: ,
 * German: wenn auch, wenn doch nur, wenn bloß
 * Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ὄφελον, εἴθε
 * Hebrew: הלוואי,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:, mi piacerebbe, se solo
 * Japanese: ばいいのになあ, らいいのになあ, いいのに, よいものを
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Malay: sekira, semoga, kalaulah
 * Marathi: जर का
 * Old English: ēalā
 * Persian:
 * Polish: jeśli by, jeśliby,, ,
 * Portuguese:, , quem me dera, quem dera
 * Russian: хоте́лось бы, е́сли бы то́лько,, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: да бар, само да
 * Roman: da bar, samo da
 * Slovene: če bi le
 * Spanish:, , si tan solo, si tan siquiera
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: käşgä
 * Ukrainian:
 * Yiddish: הלוואי

 * French: ,
 * Hungarian: ha másért nem (is), (csak/csupán/pusztán/mindössze) azért,…
 * Portuguese: quanto mais não seja

 * Albanian:
 * Interlingua:

title: if only


text: West Midlands

title: West Midlands


text:
vloeien

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to flow

title: vloeien


text:
salad

Etymology
From, from , borrowed from Northern , salata (compare insalata), from , from , from , from. Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.

Noun

 * 1) A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
 * 2) Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially.
 * 3) A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
 * 4)  Any varied blend or mixture.
 * 1) Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially.
 * 2) A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
 * 3)  Any varied blend or mixture.
 * 1) A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
 * 2)  Any varied blend or mixture.
 * 1)  Any varied blend or mixture.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: slaai
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: Claw5@SideTrunkhigh-PalmUp-Claw5@SideTrunkhigh-PalmUp Claw5@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp-Claw5@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp
 * Amharic: ሰላጣ
 * Arabic: سَلَطَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: شلاضة, سلطة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Abjad: صلاته, سلاطه
 * Roman: salat
 * Belarusian: сала́т, сала́та
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: saladenn
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: salato
 * Estonian: salat
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სალათი, სალათა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φυλλάς, φυλλίς
 * Greenlandic: salaatit
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: салат
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ສະຫຼັດ, ສະຫລັດ, ສລັດ, ຍຳ
 * Latin: acetaria
 * Latvian: salāti
 * Lithuanian: salotos
 * Luxembourgish: zalot
 * Macedonian: сала́та
 * Malay: salad, salatah
 * Maori: mangamata, huamata
 * Mongolian:, салат
 * Norwegian: salat
 * Nynorsk: salatrett
 * Occitan:
 * Oromo: salaaxaa
 * Ottoman Turkish: سلاطه, صلاته, صلاطه, سلاته
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Zellot
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sailead
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: салата
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ensalada
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: salat
 * Ukrainian: сала́т, сала́та
 * Urdu: سلاد
 * Uyghur: سالات
 * Uzbek:
 * Welsh: addail,
 * Yiddish: סאַלאַט

 * Finnish:

Etymology
From, borrowed from , borrowed from Northern , , from , from , from , from.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) salad

Etymology
From, from.

title: salad


text: 帮助

title: 帮助


text:
synonymordbok

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a thesaurus

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a thesaurus

Noun

 * 1) thesaurus

title: synonymordbok


text:
flux

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
 * 2) * 1991, Mann, H., Fyfe, W., Tazaki, K., & Kerrich, R., Biological Accumulation of Different Chemical Elements by Microorganisms from Yellowstone National Park, USA. Mechanisms And Phylogeny Of Mineralization In Biological Systems, 357-362.
 * Investigation of the silica budget for the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins of Yellowstone National Park by Truesdell et al. suggest that the present fluxes of hotspring water and thermal energy may have been continuous for at least the past 10,000 yr.
 * 1) A state of ongoing change.
 * 2) A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
 * 3)  The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
 * 4)  A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
 * 5)  Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
 * 6) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
 * 1) A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
 * 2)  The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
 * 3)  A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
 * 4)  Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
 * 5) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
 * 1)  A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
 * 2)  Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
 * 3) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
 * 1) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: voortdurende wijziging
 * Finnish:, muutostila
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, постоянное движе́ние, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Ukrainian: різноманітність

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: флюс
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: flusmiddel
 * Dutch:, vloeimiddel
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, juotosapuaine, fluksi
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Flussmittel
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: salakképző anyagok
 * Italian: flussante
 * Japanese: 融剤
 * Khmer:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian: Fluks
 * Polish: topnik
 * Portuguese: fundente
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: fundente
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: fflycs

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: flux
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian: Fluks
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To use flux on.
 * 2)  To melt.
 * 3)  To flow as a liquid.
 * 1)  To flow as a liquid.

Adjective

 * 1)  Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
 * ,, "On Contentment", Sermon XL, in The Theological Works, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375:
 * The flux nature of all things here.

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1) flow

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) flow
 * 2) flood, flood tide
 * 3)  flood an abundance of something
 * 1)  flood an abundance of something

Noun

 * 1) diarrhea (rapid passage of fecal matter through the bowels)

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) flow the flow of the tide

Etymology
. and.

Noun

 * 1)  flush hand consisting of all cards with the same suit
 * 2)  suit set of clothes

title: flux


text:
Talk:bear

old talk
I have added 'borne' as a past participle (e.g. "the chair was borne aloft", "the rival racers have borne down on him") - clearly there's also "born" (for childbirth) but I can't formally express the difference so perhaps somebody else will. 86.131.93.66 20:04, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Does the Maltese word really have an = in the middle? Wiki obviously doesn't like the idea--the link doesn't work. I think if it is correct, it needs to be replaced by &#61;. -- Ortonmc 19:40, 16 January 2004 (UTC)
 * I found the answer; the = looks to have been an editing mistake. -- Ortonmc 23:13, 16 January 2004 (UTC)

Inaccurate definition:
 * 1. A large carnivorous mammal....

Bears are typically omnivorous, not carnivorous. Though they do belong to the order Carnivora. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear#Habitat) -- 24.33.78.150 11:54, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Please be bold and change that which you feel is inaccurate! — Vildricianus 11:58, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

5. (slang) A large hairy man, especially one who is gay.

Surely this is only used as a metaphor and stating it as a definition is inaccurate. -- SaveFerris 08:53, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, slang or otherwise, is this a US. usage? I've not ever heard it in the UK. -- 81.134.131.2 08:36, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

 * It is U.S. usage for sure. Don’t know about England. —Stephen (Talk) 15:57, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

RFV 1
In the sense: "A market in which prices are falling." DAVilla 16:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

 * A bull market vs. a bear market - clearly in widespread use, I'd think. What exactly is the complaint?  --Connel MacKenzie 17:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes, but the word "bear" (as noun) alone does not mean "bear market" AFAIK. As a noun it does refer to investors who take the "bear" position of shorting securities. Let's make sure that we have an adequate adjectival sense and, perhaps, a usage example containing "bear market". DCDuring 22:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete A "bear" in a financial market is a person or other actor who believes that the stock prices will be falling and acts accordingly. This sense is covered in #3. "Bear" is also used as adjective in expressions like "bear market" or "bear sentiment". This sense is also covered in the entry. As far as I know, the word "bear" alone does not mean the same as "bear market", and unless appropriate quotes are provided, sense #4 should be deleted. Hekaheka 15:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Expression
How does the expression "brought to bear" fit in?
 * It is an idiom derived from the second sense of the English word bear and now has its own entry: bring to bear. I have added it to the list of derived terms in this entry. —Caesura(t) 16:27, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Other animals
I have never heard of a Koala bear or an ant bear being called just a bear, without the other word. Redddogg 04:05, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Bear as an adverb.
In Northern England we very rarely write it down, as it's only really used in speech, but when written it is always spelled 'bare'. It can also have the same meaning as 'lots of'. e.g. 'I have bare homework to do'. 'Bare scran' is a phrase often used in Manchester, meaning lots of food. Perhaps the adverb entry should be moved to bare.
 * This sounds more like an adjective. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 19:47, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * See WT:RFV and . DCDuring TALK 00:51, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Better example sentence
The current example sentence for usage of the 'large hairy man' definition seems unpleasant ('greedy hands'?). Can we not produce a more neutral depiction? Remarkably

The point is that the example sentence is unreferenced. If at all possible, we should avoid example sentences which were just made up, even by native speakers. There is enough English literature on the internet to come up with a referenced example sentence, one should think. --130.60.142.82 09:51, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

 * well, OED has "a rough, unmannerly, uncouth person", recorded since 1579. A "large hairy man" might be subsumed under that, but the more specific slang meaning in homosexual subculture doesn't necessarily fit under that; even if the "rough" is retained, the "uncouth" etc. is not intended any longer. But this subculture slang meaning is not recorded in OED, so we would need some other quotable source for it. We are also missing a referece for the meaning "difficult situation". --Dbachmann (talk) 10:05, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

 * if we can use urbandictionary.com, we would have "A term used by gay men to describe a husky, large man with a lot of body hair", example sentence George's sexual tastes run toward bears, contributed "by kim Feb 12, 2003". Not exactly a top quality reference, but it's better than nothing. --Dbachmann (talk) 10:07, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

 * Just added two citations from books/mags. Equinox ◑ 10:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * excellent, you beat me to it. The earliest record I could find was 1990, which sounds about right, as most of current gay slang originates around there. I removed the "difficult situation" meaning pending substantiation. --Dbachmann (talk) 10:15, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

"Ringe (2006)"
Who is "Ringe (2006)" and how do they suggest IE ǵʰweh₁r-  is supposed to result in Germanic ber-? It's fair enough to cite this opinion if it was published in an academic journal, but the source must be identified. --User:Dbachmann 09:50, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I assume "Ringe 2006" must be: Ringe, Donald A. (2006). From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. Linguistic history of English, v. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-955229-0. Now we just need a page number and a check that this author seriously derives ber- from "ǵʰweh₁r". --Dbachmann (talk) 10:18, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * fixed. --Dbachmann (talk) 12:26, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

RFV 2
Rfv-sense: Adverb: (UK, slang) very
 * You rang me last night but it was bear late and I didn't answer.

An objection to this spelling was made at the talk page, that this might belong at [[bare]], where it already occurs. Are both spellings attestable? Which is more common? What is the appropriate etymology? They both seem like alterations of to a standard English speaker like me. DCDuring TALK 20:12, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Never come across this. Not in Chambers. I bet it's Northern. Equinox ◑ 20:22, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * |bear+intensifier&hl=en&sa=X&ei=n65OT56WD6L30gGo-_GzAg&ved=0CGsQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=bare|bear%20intensifier&f=false This source has bear as an alternative spelling to bare, an adverbial and adjectival intensifier. Further they cite a source that claims it derives from a Trinidadian use of bare ("barely") and is now part of UK Black English. A recent |bear+intensifier&hl=en&sa=X&ei=srBOT_T3F7Cw0AG0o5z_Ag&ved=0CKUBEOgBMBM4Hg#v=onepage&q=bare|bear%20intensifier&f=false Partirdge's has "bare  adverb very, many. UK 2005" DCDuring TALK 23:15, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * We seem to be a little light on coverage of (See Category:Trinidad Creole English Language.), though thus might be from "Trinidad English". DCDuring TALK  00:48, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * @Equinox, not my part of Northern England. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:37, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed for now. - -sche (discuss) 21:05, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

 * It's bare. I just found it mentioned in Dr Sue Fox, "Spoken English" (in Language - A Student Handbook on Key Topics and Theories), as a term used by young Londoners. Equinox ◑ 12:59, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

born vs. borne
"Born" is hardly rare. I took some common digrams of "born __" and "borne __" and ran Google searches for each phrase with each spelling.

Table notes
 * Many of these are forms of "be borne in upon", defined by Oxford Dictionaries as:
 * come to be realized by: the folly of her action was borne in on her with devastating precision (American English definition)
 * "-Bible". Without the exclusion, the numbers are roughly double these. Even with it, perhaps 1/3 to 1/2 of the hits are Biblical or religious, and many others are pre-modern (e.g., The Early Records of the Town of Providence) or heroic fantasy (which may deliberately use archaisms). But in any case the numbers in this row are minuscule compared with the totals.
 * Totals of the rows above.
 * Total hits for "born", "borne" regardless of context.

In modern English, in general:
 * "Born" is used in forms of "to be born" referring to the subject's birth:
 * X was born in/on/during/... [place|date|...].
 * The much rarer "borne" is used in forms of "bear" in the senses of carrying or enduring:
 * "borne on the wind" (usually used of sounds)
 * "Icarus - Borne On Wings Of Steel" (title of a song by Kerry Livgren on the 1975 album Masque by the American progressive rock band Kansas.
 * This is not to be borne! (= "This is intolerable!")
 * Both spellings are used in the construction "be born(e) to Y", in the sense of childbirth, where Y refers to one or both parents or to the family or larger group that Y is said to belong to:
 * Ludacris Also Has A New Baby Born To Him By A Woman That's Not His Fiancee (title of a blog post dated 2 January 2014 in "This Is Laila's Blog: Nigeria's Finest Celebrity News Source")
 * father to a child borne to him by Lorcha Cohen (daughter of Leonard) (from an interview with Rufus Wainwright by Tony Clayton-Lea, dated Sep. 24, 2012)

--Thnidu (talk) 01:09, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

 * born is only common as a passive past participle relating to childbirth, as the usage note states --WikiTiki89 01:17, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

"(rare) born" again
The spelling born is not "rare", but rather is confined to certain specific meanings and contexts ("he wishes he had never been born" etc.). I really don't know why it says "rare"... -- AnonMoos (talk) 10:55, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

 * It's rare as the past participle of bear. It is only common in the expression "to be born" (which we should probably have an entry for rather than a redirect). --WikiTiki89 15:29, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

 * How is "killed" in "He was killed" different from "born" in "He was born"? Either "born" isn't a real past/passive participle at all (something you would have to justify in more detail), or else it's not "rare", but in fact quite common in its particular context.  It seems to me that both "killed" and "born" are adjectivizable to some degree, but are basically past/passive participles... AnonMoos (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

 * I think you would say "the mother has borne many children", not "born". Equinox ◑ 12:15, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

 * Yes, "borne" is the general past/passive participle of "to bear", while the spelling "born" is restricted in usage to certain specific contexts. However, "born" is not "rare"[sic], so that some other wording needs to be found. AnonMoos (talk) 02:26, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

 * The tag "(rare)" is not referring to the word "born" in general, but only to its usage as a past participle of "bear". --WikiTiki89 02:41, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

 * Dude, we've already gone over this several times without you being able to cast much useful light on the subject. Unless you're claiming that "born" in "was born" is somehow not a real past/passive participle (something which you would need to explain or justify at greater length), "born" is simply NOT "rare"[sic] as a past/passive participle, and in fact the claim of its "rareness"[sic] is the next thing to blatant flagrant nonsense.  It is contextually restricted but not "rare"[sic] -- "rare"[sic] is an extremely unfortunate word which does not usefully clarify anything with respect to this particular usage. If you are able to actually meaningfully address the topic under discussion, then please do so, but otherwise do not re-add unhelpful and inaccurate material to the dictionary entry. AnonMoos (talk) 03:12, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

"Born" is also used as an active past participle. Ngramming phrases like "had born(e) a child", "has born(e) a son", etc., shows that the spelling "born" is used 5-10% of the time. I don't know if such a high number (in published texts) can still count as a mere misspelling. (I for one purposely use "born" whenever it means "given birth" because I think the standard rule makes no sense, but apparently I'm not the only one.)

"please bear with me" and "can't bear the heat" listed under same sense
It says "To put up with something". One example includes a "with" and the other doesn't; so there is actually some difference in transitivity and I'm not sure both examples belong in that place. Thoughts? Equinox ◑ 22:48, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Bear: a noun meaning burden?
I added a noun part of speech to the second etymology section, as in "The window was a bear to open." I can't find any formal references for this usage. Is this right? --Bluehavana (talk) 19:13, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

 * Yeah, in Google Books I can find e.g. "a real bear to refinish" . But I wonder which etymology is correct. It could be the animal (cf. it was a real pain; it was a monster of a thing; and stereotype of angry bears with sore heads etc.). Equinox ◑ 19:15, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I assumed that it was after the animal. The dictionaries in which I have found this meaning all list it under the "animal" section, so on that basis I am moving our entry. Mihia (talk) 23:10, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Bear arms
The "verb" section doesn't include the meaning of "bear arms", like on Right to keep and bear arms.--MisterSanderson (talk) 15:21, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

 * It's basically a slight extension of the "to carry" meaning. Not sure about the definition "to be equipped with" which someone has added to the page... AnonMoos (talk) 09:57, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

bring to bear
What meaning is used in bring to bear? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:55, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

 * Probably "press or impinge upon" or one of its subsenses. May be metaphorical. Equinox ◑ 05:28, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

loaded for bear
What meaning is used in loaded for bear? --Backinstadiums (talk) 00:36, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

 * The animal. Like a shotgun loaded. Equinox ◑ 05:26, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Soviet Russia?
Soviet Russia (and perhaps modern Russia?) has sometimes been poetically termed "the bear", e.g.

 * 2002, Miguel A. Faria, Cuba in Revolution: Escape from a Lost Paradise (page 102)
 * Khrushchev knew the U.S. possessed an overwhelming nuclear superiority over the Soviets, including better submarines and the Jupiter rockets in Turkey, strategically placed in the soft underbelly of the Soviet bear.

Equinox ◑ 04:02, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Pronunciations
FWIW: the 1933 OED says the ursine mammal bear is pronounced bēᵊɹ (/bɛəɹ/), barley bear is bīᵊɹ (/bɪəɹ/), a pillow bear is pronounced bēᵊɹ, bīᵊɹ, and the verb is bēᵊɹ. The EDD says the ursine bear can be, in various dialects, be pronounced either /bɛə(ɹ)/ or /bɪə(ɹ)/, barley bear is either /bɛɹ/, /bɛə(ɹ)/ or /bɪə(ɹ)/, bear in the sense of a door-mat is /bɛə(ɹ)/, bear in the sense of a "large block of sandstone, which lies at the bottom and forms the base of the furnace in ironworks" is /bɛə(ɹ)/ or /bɪə(ɹ)/, the "carry" verb is in various dialects /bɛɹ/, /bɛə(ɹ)/ or /bɪə(ɹ)/, and a pillow-bere (NB spelling) is /bɪə(ɹ)/. - -sche (discuss) 17:45, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

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turnover

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period.
 * The company had an annual turnover of $500,000.
 * 1) The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc.
 * High staff-turnover can lead to low morale amongst employees
 * Those apartments have a high turnover because they are so close to the railroad tracks.
 * 1) A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (usually fruit).
 * They only served me one apple turnover for breakfast.
 * 1)  A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
 * The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss.
 * 1) A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides per minute.
 * 2) The act or result of overturning something; an upset.
 * a bad turnover in a carriage
 * 1)  An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
 * 1)  An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
 * 1)  An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: omsætning
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: giro d'affari
 * Japanese: 取引高
 * Korean: 영업 이익(營業利益)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: cifra de negocios
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: о́біг
 * Vietnamese:

 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: käive
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: taux de renouvellement/taux de remplacement (general)
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: rotatividade
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: movimiento de mercancías,
 * Ukrainian: пл́инність кáдрів

 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Polish: rożek francuski
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: pasten

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: balltap
 * Russian:

 * Bulgarian: прекатурване
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: vorco, envorco,, rouceo
 * German: Überschlagen, Überkopfgehen
 * Italian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1) Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.
 * a turnover collar

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