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apprehension
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin apprehensio, apprehensionis, compare with French appréhension. See apprehend.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /æp.???h?n.??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /æp.?i?h?n.??n/
Noun
apprehension (countable and uncountable, plural apprehensions)
- (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
- 2006, Phil Senter, "Comparison of Forelimb Function between Deinonychus and Babiraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridea)", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec.), p. 905:
- The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground.
- 2006, Phil Senter, "Comparison of Forelimb Function between Deinonychus and Babiraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridea)", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec.), p. 905:
- (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
- perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
- 1815, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "On Life," in A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays (1840 edition):
- We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life.
- 1815, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "On Life," in A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays (1840 edition):
- Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
- The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
- Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.
Usage notes
- Apprehension springs from a sense of danger when somewhat remote, but approaching; alarm arises from danger when announced as near at hand. Apprehension is less agitated and more persistent; alarm is more agitated and transient.
Synonyms
- (anticipation of unfavorable things): alarm
- (act of grasping with the intellect): awareness, sense
- See also Thesaurus:apprehension
Antonyms
- inapprehension
Related terms
Translations
References
- apprehension at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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horror
English
Alternative forms
- horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ?ga.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /?h???/
- (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA(key): /?h???/
- (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA(key): /?h???/
- Rhymes: -???(?)
Noun
horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)
- (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- I saw many horrors during the war.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- (countable) An individual work in this genre.
- 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema
- […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
- 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema
- (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
- (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
Synonyms
- nightmare
Hypernyms
- speculative fiction
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- horror in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- horror in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- horror at OneLook Dictionary Search
Galician
Etymology
From Latin horror.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ro?]
Noun
horror m (plural horrores)
- horror
- Synonyms: espanto, pavor, terror
Related terms
References
- “horror” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “horror” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horror.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?hor?or]
- Hyphenation: hor?ror
- Rhymes: -or
Noun
horror (plural horrorok)
- horror
Declension
References
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *horz?s. Equivalent to horreo +? -or.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?hor.ror/, [?h?r??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?or.ror/, [??r??r]
Noun
horror m (genitive horr?ris); third declension
- bristling (standing on end)
- shaking, shivering, chill
- dread, terror, horror
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
- horrendus
- horridus
- horribilis
Descendants
References
- horror in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- horror in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- horror in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Old French
Alternative forms
- horrour
- horrur
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
Noun
horror f (oblique plural horrors, nominative singular horror, nominative plural horrors)
- horror or terror
Descendants
- English: horror
- Middle French: horreur
- French: horreur
Polish
Etymology
From English horror, from Latin horror.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?x?.rr?r/
Noun
horror m inan
- (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
- (film) horror movie
- Synonym: film grozy
- (literature) horror
Declension
Further reading
- horror in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- horror in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /???o?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /o??o?/
- (Paulistano) IPA(key): /o??o?/
- Hyphenation: hor?ror
Noun
horror m (plural horrores)
- horror
- Synonyms: temor, terror
Related terms
- horrendo
- hórrido
- horrífero
- horrífico
- horripilar
- horrível
- horrorizar
- horroroso
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
Cf. also the popular Old Spanish horrura, inherited from a derivative of the Latin or with a change of suffix, and taking on the meaning of "dirtiness, filth, impurity, scum"; comparable to derivatives of horridus in other Romance languages, like Italian ordo, Old French ord, French ordure, Old Catalan hòrreu, horresa, Old Occitan orre, orrezeza, Romanian urdoare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o?ro?/, [o?ro?]
Noun
horror m (plural horrores)
- horror
- Synonyms: miedo, temor, terror
Related terms
References
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