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appropriate
English
Etymology
From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + proprio (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”).
Pronunciation
- Adjective
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p???.p?i?.?t/, /??p???.p?i?.?t/
- (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p?o?.p?i.?t/, /??p?o?.p?i.?t/
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p???.p?i?.e?t/
- (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p?o?.p?i.e?t/
Adjective
appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate)
- Suitable or fit; proper.
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- in its strict and appropriate meaning
- 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome
- appropriate acts of divine worship
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
Synonyms
- (suited for): apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable; see also Thesaurus:suitable
Antonyms
- (all senses): inappropriate
Derived terms
- appropriateness
Related terms
- proper
- property
Translations
Verb
appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)
- (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.
- 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity
- Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; see also Thesaurus:take or Thesaurus:steal
- (to set apart for): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
Translations
Further reading
- appropriate at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appropriate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Adjective
appropriate f pl
- feminine plural of appropriato
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minute
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin min?ta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?n'?t, IPA(key): /?m?n?t/
- Rhymes: -?n?t
Noun
minute (plural minutes)
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
- Synonyms: instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second, tic
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- Synonym: minute of arc
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- 2008, Pink Dandelion: The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, p 52:
- The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once the minute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda.
- 2008, Pink Dandelion: The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, p 52:
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
- (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
- (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time
- Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
- 2010, Kenneth Ring, Letters from Palestine, page 18:
- “Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: minit
Borrowings
Translations
Verb
minute (third-person singular simple present minutes, present participle minuting, simple past and past participle minuted)
- (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
- To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin min?tus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minu? (“make smaller”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: m?nyo?ot', IPA(key): /ma??nju?t/
- (US) enPR: m?n(y)o?ot', m?n(y)o?ot', IPA(key): /ma??n(j)ut/, /m??n(j)ut/
- Rhymes: -u?t
Adjective
minute (comparative minuter, superlative minutest)
- Very small.
- Synonyms: infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace
- Antonyms: big, enormous, colossal, huge, significant, tremendous, vast
- Very careful and exact, giving small details.
- Synonyms: exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous
Synonyms
See also Thesaurus:tiny and Thesaurus:meticulous.
Translations
Anagrams
- minuet, munite, mutein, mutine, untime
Afrikaans
Noun
minute
- plural of minuut
Esperanto
Etymology
From minuto +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi?nute/
- Hyphenation: mi?nu?te
- Rhymes: -ute
Adverb
minute
- Lasting for a very short period; briefly, momentarily
French
Etymology
From Old French minute, borrowed from Latin min?ta. Compare menu, an inherited doublet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.nyt/
Noun
minute f (plural minutes)
- minute (etymology 1, time unit, all same senses)
Derived terms
- minute de silence
- minute papillon
Descendants
- ? Farefare: miniti
- Haitian Creole: minit
- ? Romanian: minut
Interjection
minute
- wait a sec!
Verb
minute
- first-person singular present indicative of minuter
- third-person singular present indicative of minuter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of minuter
- third-person singular present subjunctive of minuter
- second-person singular imperative of minuter
Further reading
- “minute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Adjective
minute
- feminine plural of minuto
Anagrams
- emunti, munite
Latin
Participle
min?te
- vocative masculine singular of min?tus
References
- minute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- minute in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Middle English
Noun
minute
- Alternative form of mynute
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin min?ta.
Noun
minute f (oblique plural minutes, nominative singular minute, nominative plural minutes)
- minute (one sixtieth of an hour)
Coordinate terms
- segont
- eure
- jor
- semaine
- an
Descendants
- Middle French: minute
- French: minute
- ? Farefare: miniti
- Haitian Creole: minit
- ? Romanian: minut
- ? Dutch: minuut
- Afrikaans: minuut
- French: minute
- Norman: minnute
- Walloon: munute
- ? Central Franconian: Menutt, Minutt
- ? German: Minute, Minut f, [Term?] n
- ? Czech: minuta
- ? Lower Sorbian: minuta
- ? Luxembourgish: Minutt
- ? Middle English: mynute, minute, mynut, mynet, minut
- English: minute
- Tok Pisin: minit
- Scots: meenit
- English: minute
Portuguese
Verb
minute
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of minutar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of minutar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of minutar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of minutar
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