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ardent
English
Etymology
First attested circa 14th century as Middle English ardaunt, borrowed from Anglo-Norman ardent and Old French ardant, from Latin ardentem, accusative of ard?ns, present participle of arde? (“I burn”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???d?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???d?nt/
- Hyphenation: ar?dent
Adjective
ardent (comparative more ardent, superlative most ardent)
- Full of ardor; fervent, passionate.
- 1956 — Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 43
- This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
- 1956 — Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 43
- Burning; glowing; shining.
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Arendt, Darent, daren't, endart, ranted, red ant
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ard?ns.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /???dent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?r?den/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a??dent/
Adjective
ardent (masculine and feminine plural ardents)
- burning, ablaze
- ardent, passionate
Derived terms
- ardentment
Related terms
- ardor
Further reading
- “ardent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Old French ardent, borrowed from Latin ard?ns, ard?ntem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?.d??/
Adjective
ardent (feminine singular ardente, masculine plural ardents, feminine plural ardentes)
- fiery, burning; ablaze; aflame
- fervent; passionate
Derived terms
Related terms
- ardre (verb)
- ardeur
Further reading
- “ardent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
ardent
- third-person plural present active indicative of arde?
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ardens, ardentem.
Adjective
ardent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ardent or ardente)
- burning; aflame; on fire
Related terms
- ardoir, ardre
- ardur
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French ardent, Latin ardens, ardentem.
Adjective
ardent m or n (feminine singular ardent?, masculine plural arden?i, feminine and neuter plural ardente)
- (rare, literary) ardent, fiery, passionate
- (of ships) that which, through the action of the wind, turns its prow toward the direction from where wind is blowing
Declension
Synonyms
- (ardent, fiery, passionate): înfocat, înfl?c?rat, pasionat, aprins, avântat
Related terms
- arde
- ardoare
- arz?tor
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aggressive
English
Etymology
From aggress +? -ive. Compare with French agressif.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?????s.?v/
- Rhymes: -?s?v
Adjective
aggressive (comparative more aggressive, superlative most aggressive)
- Characterized by aggression; unjustly attacking; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking or arguing.
- an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
- 2011, Judith S. Weis, Do Fish Sleep?, Rutgers University Press (?ISBN), page 63:
- When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).
- (programming) Of heuristics, source code optimization techniques, etc.: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- 1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer ?ISBN, page 59
- This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
- 2001, Paul Feautrier (edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal), Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer ?ISBN, page 173
- Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.
- 2002, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press ?ISBN, page 465
- However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.
- 2002, Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press ?ISBN, page 249
- The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.
- 2003, Susanna Pelagatti (edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch), Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Springer ?ISBN, page 182
- This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.
- 2011, Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition, Elsevier ?ISBN, page 11
- The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.
- 1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer ?ISBN, page 59
- (pathology, of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:combative
Antonyms
- passive
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- aggressive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- aggressive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
German
Adjective
aggressive
- inflection of aggressiv:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
aggressive f pl
- feminine plural of aggressivo
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
aggressive
- definite singular of aggressiv
- plural of aggressiv
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
aggressive
- definite singular of aggressiv
- plural of aggressiv
Swedish
Adjective
aggressive
- absolute definite natural masculine form of aggressiv.
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