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annihilate
English
Etymology
From Latin annihil? (“I reduce to nothing”), from ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??na??.le?t/
Verb
annihilate (third-person singular simple present annihilates, present participle annihilating, simple past and past participle annihilated)
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
- (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
- (archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
Synonyms
- (to reduce to nothing): benothing, destroy, eradicate, extinguish
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
Antonyms
- (to reduce to nothing): create, generate
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- annihilate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- annihilate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latin
Verb
annihil?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of annihil?
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cutoff
English
Alternative forms
- cut-off
Etymology
cut +? off
Noun
cutoff (plural cutoffs)
- The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
- (medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
- A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
- A device that stops the flow of a current.
- A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
- A cessation in a flow or activity.
- 1985, Alfred Brenner, The TV Scriptwriter's Handbook (page 144)
- If the treatment is approved, a script is written. If the script is approved, it goes into production. But this is usually a long and painful process. A cutoff can take place (and often does) at any step along the way.
- 1985, Alfred Brenner, The TV Scriptwriter's Handbook (page 144)
- (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
- (chiefly in the plural) shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers
- (journalism) A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
- 1919, The Washington Newspaper
- Light-face type, cutoffs, borders and rules are the universal plan. No black body matter and almost no black headlines appear.
- 1919, The Washington Newspaper
Translations
Adjective
cutoff (not comparable)
- Constituting a limit or ending.
- (psychology, medicine) Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.
Anagrams
- offcut
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