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figure skating

Etymology
From the origins of figure skating, where skaters once skated out patterns onto the ice surface, making a design on its surface. This then evolved into the component of figure skating, that was latterly dropped from competitive judging.

Noun

 * 1) A sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates.

Hyponyms

 * figure ice skating, pair skating

Translations

 * Arabic: تَزَلُّج فَنِّي عَلَى اَلْجَلِيد
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: фигурно пързаляне
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 花式溜冰, 花樣溜冰
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: arta sketado
 * Estonian: iluuisutamine
 * Finnish:, kaunoluistelu
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: pattinaggio di figura
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: мәнерлеп сырғанау
 * Korean: 피겨 스케이팅
 * Latvian: daiļslidošana
 * Macedonian: уметничко лизгање
 * Mongolian: уран гулгалт
 * Norwegian: kunstløp
 * Persian: پاتیناژ نمایشی, اسکیت نمایشی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: patinação artística
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: umjetničko klizanje, umetničko klizanje
 * Slovak: krasokorčuľovanie
 * Spanish: patinaje artístico, patinaje artístico sobre hielo
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: สเกตลีลา
 * Ukrainian: фігу́рне ката́ння
 * Vietnamese:

title: figure skating


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Choctaw turn

Noun

 * 1) A turn in figure skating that involves both a change of foot and a change of edge and lobe.

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title: Choctaw turn


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spread eagle

Noun

 * 1) A position of the body involving full extension of the limbs with both fore- and hind-limbs spread wide, usually referring to humans or heraldic eagles.
 * 2)  A move in which a skater glides on both feet, the toes turned out to the sides, heels facing each other.

title: spread eagle


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Nordic combined

Etymology
. From being an event in skiing which combines two disciplines favoured by the Nordic (Scandinavians).

Noun

 * 1)  An event in which individual skiers take part in runs on a cross-country skiing course and a ski jumping hill.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 北歐兩項
 * Czech: severská kombinace
 * Estonian: kahevõistlus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Nordische Kombination
 * Japanese: ノルディック複合
 * Kazakh: шаңғы қоссайысы
 * Korean: 노르딕 복합
 * Norwegian: kombinert
 * Polish: kombinacja norweska
 * Russian: лы́жное двоебо́рье
 * Swedish:

title: Nordic combined


text: Winter Olympics

title: Winter Olympics


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Stany Zjednoczone

Etymology
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title: Stany Zjednoczone


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fail-safe

Adjective

 * 1) That does not cause undue damage in the event of failure.
 * The system is failsafe, because everything is backed up automatically.
 * 1) Designed to shut off for safety if an emergency occurs.

Translations

 * Finnish: vikaturvallinen
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Telugu: కట్టుదిట్టమైన, పాడవని, చెడిపోని

Noun

 * 1) A device, mechanism or measure designed to make something fail-safe.

Translations

 * Dutch: fouttolerant
 * Finnish: turvalaite, turvamekanismi
 * French:
 * Japanese: フェイルセーフ
 * Polish:

Verb

 * 1) To compensate automatically, in the event of a failure.
 * 2) To make a device or mechanism fail-safe, or to add a fail-safe device or mechanism to an existing system.

title: fail-safe


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This is Mino. Because my English is bad (like my French and Dutch...) I shouldn't write too much (or many? Whuaha o.O), but it doesn't matter because I usually do only a few changes. For more information see my German userpage. --Mino 19:41, 17 February 2006 (UTC) (if you find mistakes feel free to correct!)

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title: User:Mino~enwiktionary


text:
pops

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) Father, dad.
 * 2)  A man old enough to be the speaker's father.
 * 1)  A man old enough to be the speaker's father.

Usage notes
Unless the person addressed this way is very close, this can be very disrespectful and belittling.

Noun

 * 1)  the sound and related meanings

title: pops


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nicholaism

Alternative forms
Nicholaism

Etymology
Derived from Nicolaitanism which comes from Nicolaitan, a sect mentioned in Revelations Chapter 2 verses 6 & 14-15.

Noun

 * 1) the supposed sin of clergy marrying or living with women
 * 2) * 1957: Ralph Henry Carless Davis, A history of Medieval Europe, p.239 - What were the trangressions of which he (Gregory VII) was so loudly to proclaim? First there was the sin of nicholaism, or clerical marriage.

title: nicholaism


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disputant

Noun

 * 1) A participant in a dispute.
 * 2) * 1893, Henry James, Collaboration
 * One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had been playing to us divinely a short time before and whom I thought of neither as a disputant nor as an Englishman.

Adjective

 * 1) Disputing; engaged in controversy.

title: disputant


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lazy Susan

Etymology
, but probably a generic name like Jane, in reference to the device replacing a servant at table. Earliest attestation the 1903 Boston Journal, which credits local carpenter John Laurie as "the resuscitator of 'Lazy Susan'". Almost certainly not named in 'honor' of Thomas Jefferson or Edison's daughters named Susan.

Noun

 * 1) A rotating tray (turntable) used on tables and counters for serving condiments or food.
 * 2) A rotating set of shelves used to minimize inaccessible space, usually employed in corner kitchen cabinets.

Translations

 * Basque: erretilu birakari
 * Chinese: 餐桌轉盤
 * Finnish: pyörivä tarjotin, pyörivä tarjoilualusta
 * Galician:
 * German: Drehplatte, Drehteller
 * Kazakh:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: taca obrotowa
 * Portuguese: bandeja giratória
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: поворо́тный подно́с, крутя́щий подно́с
 * Spanish: tabla giratoria, bandeja giratoria, bandeja de rotatoria, estante giratorio
 * Swedish: snurrbricka,

title: lazy Susan


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cedent

Noun

 * 1) The person who cedes a personal obligation to another.

Related terms

 * (variant of cedent)

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) cessionary

title: cedent


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cessionary

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The person who receives transfer or cession of a personal obligation from the cedent.

title: cessionary


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wushu

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Any Chinese martial art.
 * 2) A modern exhibition and full-contact sport based on traditional Chinese martial arts, created in the People's Republic of China. Also known as modern wushu or contemporary wushu.

Translations

 * Arabic: اَلْوُوشُو
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * French:
 * German: Wushu
 * Indonesian: wushu
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: វូស៊ូ
 * Korean:
 * Malay: wusyu
 * Persian:
 * Polish: wushu
 * Portuguese: wushu
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: wushu
 * Swedish: wushu
 * Thai: วูซู
 * Vietnamese: (武術),  (武術),

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  a Chinese martial art

title: wushu


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capnometer

Noun

 * 1) A medical instrument that measures carbon dioxide levels in the exhaled air of patients on ventilators or under anesthesia

Related terms

 * capnometric
 * capnometry

title: capnometer


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sjambok

Etymology
From, from , from , and as borrowed in 🇨🇬: modern 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, ultimately from. Originally spelt in the colonial Dutch transliteration. The term was imported by VOC officials, Dutch merchants, the Maardijkers (Maluku (Moluccan) freemen and burghers), and Inlanders (Javanese and other modern Indonesian slaves and political exiles expelled to Dutch South Africa). .

Noun

 * 1)  A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.

Verb

 * 1)  To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.

Etymology
Borrowed from or, ultimately from.

Noun

 * A, a long heavy whip.

title: sjambok


text: spinarama

title: spinarama


text: Category:Martial arts

title: Category:Martial arts


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miry

Etymology
From, equivalent to.

Adjective

 * 1) Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , , , ; see also Thesaurus:marshy

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * German: ,
 * Irish: ceachrach, draoibeach, lábach, lábánach, broghach

title: miry


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oversoul

Noun

 * 1)  A supreme reality or mind; the spiritual unity of all being.

title: oversoul