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anatomy
English
Etymology
From French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek *???????? (*anatomía), from ??????? (anatom?, “dissection”), from ??? (aná, “up”) + ????? (témn?, “I cut, incise”) (surface analysis ana- +? -tomy), literally “cut up”. Doublet of ottomy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??næt?mi/
Noun
anatomy (countable and uncountable, plural anatomies)
- The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
- Synonym: dissection
- The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
- Hyponyms: anthropotomy, phytotomy, zootomy
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.
- (countable) A treatise or book on anatomy.
- (by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.
- Synonym: analysis
- (colloquial) The form of an individual.
- (euphemistic) The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
- (archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.68:
- So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomy of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.68:
- The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- phytotomy
- zootomy
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scheme
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin sch?ma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek ????? (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ??? (ékh?, “I hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ski?m/
- Rhymes: -i?m
Noun
scheme (plural schemes)
- A systematic plan of future action.
- c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
- The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
- c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
- A plot or secret, devious plan.
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- the appearance and outward scheme of things
- 1706, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul; at the Funeral of My. Tho. Bennett
- such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity
- 1754, Jonathan Edwards, The Freedom of the Will
- arguments […] sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey
- to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France
- April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey
- (mathematics) A type of geometric object.
- (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A council housing estate.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 101:
- It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 101:
- (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
- (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as
http:
ornews:
. - (Britain, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
Usage notes
In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”
Synonyms
- (a systematic plan of future action): blueprint
Derived terms
- colour scheme
- pilot scheme
Descendants
- ? Malay: skim
Translations
Verb
scheme (third-person singular simple present schemes, present participle scheming, simple past and past participle schemed)
- (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.
- (transitive) To plan; to contrive.
- 1908, Bohemian Magazine (volume 15, page 381)
- He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter.
- 1908, Bohemian Magazine (volume 15, page 381)
Translations
References
- Silva Rhetoricae
Anagrams
- Meches
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?m?/
Verb
scheme
- (reflexive) to be ashamed
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
Middle Low German
Etymology
From Old Saxon skimo (“shadow”). Originally masculine.
Pronunciation
- Stem vowel: ?¹
- (originally) IPA(key): /sk??m?/
Noun
scheme m or f
- A shadow, a shade; a darkness created by an object obstructing light
- A shadow, a shade; something which is barely perceptible or not physical
- ...lose se van der walt der dusternisse unde van deme scheme des dodes. (" ...free them from the power of darkness and the shadow of death." )
- A shimmer; a soft or weak occurrence of light
- twilight; the lighting conditions at dusk and dawn
- A face mask
- aureola
Alternative forms
- sceme
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