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air
English
Alternative forms
- aire, ayre, eyr (obsolete)
- ayr (especially when referring to the form of music)
Etymology
From Middle English air, eir (“gas, atmosphere”), from Anglo-Norman aeir, eyer, Old French aire, eir, from Latin ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, “wind, atmosphere”). Displaced native Middle English luft, lift (“air”) (from Old English lyft (“air, atmosphere”)), Middle English loft (“air, upper region”) (from Old Norse lopt (“air, sky, loft”)). More at lift, loft.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???/, /???/
- (General American) enPR: âr, IPA(key): /????/, /???/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophones: Ayr, ere, eyre, heir, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er (US)
Noun
air (countable and uncountable, plural airs)
- (uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly:
- (historical, philosophy, alchemy) understood as one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
- (historical, medicine) understood as a particular local substance with supposed effects on human health.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
- Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- (physics) understood as a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
- (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space.
- A breeze; a gentle wind.
- A feeling or sense.
- November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- Smalling’s quick one-two of yellow cards towards the end of the first half had left an air of inevitability about what would follow and, if anything, it was probably a surprise that City restricted themselves to Sergio Agüero’s goal bearing in mind another of United’s defenders, Marcos Rojo, was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half with a dislocated shoulder.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation, then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the air of one thoroughly at home.
- November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 4:
- "He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain:—but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 4:
- (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
- (music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18:
- "If I," said Mr. Collins, "were so fortunate as to be able to sing, I should have great pleasure, I am sure, in obliging the company with an air; for I consider music as a very innocent diversion, and perfectly compatible with the profession of a clergyman […] "
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18:
- (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
- (countable, uncountable) An air conditioner or the processed air it produces.
- (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
- (snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
- A television or radio signal.
- (uncountable) Publicity.
Synonyms
- atmosphere
- aura
- lift
- nimbus
- gas
Derived terms
Pages starting with “air”.
Related terms
- aerate
- aero-
- aria
Translations
See air/translations § Noun.
Verb
air (third-person singular simple present airs, present participle airing, simple past and past participle aired)
- To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
- To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
- It's getting quite stuffy in this room: let's open the windows and air it.
- To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
- 1917, National Geographic, v.31, March 1917:
- Thus, in spite of all opposition, the rural and urban assemblies retained the germ of local government, and in spite of the dual control, as the result of which much of their influence was nullified, they did have a certain value in airing abuses and suggesting improvements.
- 1917, National Geographic, v.31, March 1917:
- (transitive) To broadcast (a television show etc.).
- (intransitive) To be broadcast.
- This game show first aired in the 1990s and is still going today.
- (Britain, MLE, slang) To ignore (a person).
- Why is this girl airing me?
Derived terms
- air out
- aired
- aired-out
Translations
Anagrams
- ARI, Ari, IAR, IRA, Ira, RIA, Rai, rai, raï, ria
Cornish
Alternative forms
- ayr
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [e??]
Noun
air m
- air
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French air, from Middle French air, from Old French air, from Latin ??r.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??r/
- Hyphenation: aie
- Rhymes: -??r
Noun
air m (plural airs, diminutive airtje n)
- air, pretension or pretentious attitude
- tune, melody
Descendants
- Afrikaans: air
French
Etymology
From Old French air, aire, from Latin ??r.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??/
- Homophones: aire, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, ers, haire, haires, hère, hères
Noun
air m (plural airs)
- air (gases of the atmosphere)
- tune, aria
- appearance
- air (pretension)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “air” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- ira
- rai
Gothic
Romanization
air
- Romanization of ????????????
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay air, from Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.??r/
Noun
air (first-person possessive airku, second-person possessive airmu, third-person possessive airnya)
- water
- clear liquid H?O
- mineral water
- one of the four elements in alchemy
- one of the five basic elements in some other theories
- (colloquial) a cockfight round which started by spraying water to the cock.
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “air” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish airid (“ploughs, tills”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a??/
Verb
air (present analytic aireann, future analytic airfidh, verbal noun ar, past participle airthe)
- (literary, transitive, intransitive) plough
Conjugation
Noun
air m
- genitive singular of ar
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (stressed) /???/, (unstressed) /???/
Pronoun
air (emphatic airsean)
- third-person singular masculine of ar (on him, on it m)
Mutation
References
- "air" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 airid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Kedah Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ä.jäq/
Noun
air
- water.
- Air manis
- Sweet water
- Air manis
Kein
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?/
Noun
air
- woman
Further reading
- Bemal Organized Phonology Data
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *airo.
Noun
air
- oar
Malay
Alternative forms
- ?????
Etymology
First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. From Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /ae(r)/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /a?(r)/
- Rhymes: -ae(r), -e(r)
Noun
air (Jawi spelling ?????, informal 1st possessive airku, impolite 2nd possessive airmu, 3rd possessive airnya)
- water (liquid H2O)
- 2012, Faridah Abdul Rashid, Research on the Early Malay Doctors : 1900-1957 : Malaya and Singapore [2]
- loji rawatan air
- water treatment plant
- loji rawatan air
- 2012, Faridah Abdul Rashid, Research on the Early Malay Doctors : 1900-1957 : Malaya and Singapore [2]
Derived terms
- air bah / ???? ???
- air mata / ???? ????
Descendants
- Indonesian: air
References
- Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Norman
Etymology
From Latin ??r.
Noun
air m (plural airs)
- air (mixture of gases that make up the earth's atmosphere)
Related terms
- atmosphère, atmosphéthe
Old French
Alternative forms
- aer, aïr, ar, eir, aeir, eyer, aire
Etymology
From Latin ??r.
Noun
air m (oblique plural airs, nominative singular airs, nominative plural air)
- air (mixture of gases that make up the earth's atmosphere)
Descendants
- French: air
- Norman: air
- ? Middle English: air, eir
- English: air
- Scots: air
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- ar
Etymology
From the same root as ar (“for”, preposition).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar?/
Conjunction
air
- for (because, since)
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55d11
- c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159a2
- c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159a3
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55d11
Pohnpeian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?jir/
Verb
air
- (transitive) to strip off, as when stripping insulation off a wire
- (transitive) to wipe off a ropelike object by drawing it through one's hand or fingers
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish ar and Manx er.
Preposition
air (+ dative)
- on, upon
- of, concerning
- for, on account of
- by
Inflection
Usage notes
- The word air and its derivates are used in many idioms:
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish air and Manx er.
Pronoun
air
- third-person singular masculine of air: on him, on it
Inflection
References
- “air” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *airo.
Noun
air
- oar
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ai?r/
Noun
air
- Soft mutation of gair.
Mutation
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display
English
Etymology
From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plic?re (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?spl??, IPA(key): /d?s?ple?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Hyphenation: dis?play
Noun
display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)
- A show or spectacle.
- A piece of work to be presented visually.
- A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
- (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
- (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
- (travel, aviation, in a reservation system) The asterisk symbol, used to denote that the following information will be displayed, eg, *H will "display history".
Descendants
- ? Russian: ???????? (displéj)
- ? Kazakh: ??????? (dïspley)
Translations
See also
Verb
display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
- (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
- (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
- (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)
- (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
- (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
- (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
- Synonym: splay
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
- The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].
Translations
Further reading
- display in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- display in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- display at OneLook Dictionary Search
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English display.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s?ple?/, /?d?s.ple?/
- Hyphenation: dis?play
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
display m or n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)
- display (screen)
Portuguese
Etymology
From English display.
Noun
display m (plural displays)
- display (electronic screen)
- Synonyms: ecrã, tela
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:display.
Spanish
Etymology
From English display.
Noun
display m (plural displays)
- display
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