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attack
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US, General Australian) IPA(key): /??tæk/, [??t?æk]
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
attack (plural attacks)
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.
- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- birthday attack; denial-of-service attack
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- Synonyms: hit, spike
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- Antonyms: decay, release
- (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:attack
Hyponyms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
attack (third-person singular simple present attacks, present participle attacking, simple past and past participle attacked)
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- 1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat
- Hydrofluoric acid […] attacks the glass.
- 1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:attack
Translations
Further reading
- attack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- attack in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- attack at OneLook Dictionary Search
Swedish
Etymology
From French attaque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?tak/
Noun
attack c
- attack; an attempt to cause damage
- attack; offense of a battle
Declension
Synonyms
- anfall
Related terms
- attackera
Derived terms
- hjärtattack
Anagrams
- tackat
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hound
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Etymology 1
From Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Cognate with West Frisian hûn, Dutch hond, Luxembourgish Hond, German Hund, German Low German Hund, Danish hund, Faroese hundur, Icelandic hundur, Norwegian Bokmål hund, Norwegian Nynorsk hund, and Swedish hund), from pre-Germanic *?untós (compare Latvian sùnt-ene (“big dog”), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *?w? (“dog”) (compare Welsh cwn (“dogs”), Tocharian B ku, Lithuanian šuõ, Armenian ???? (šun), Russian ???? (suka). Doublet of canine.
Noun
hound (plural hounds)
- A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
- Any canine animal.
- (by extension) Someone who seeks something.
- 1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, ?ISBN, page 93,
- On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.
- 2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper, Simon & Schuster, ?ISBN, page 483
- I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.
- 1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, ?ISBN, page 93,
- (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
- 1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,
- "Are you alone, Goodson? […] I thought, perhaps, that the […] young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?" […]
- "She had a good many successors, John."
- "You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."
- 1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,
- A despicable person.
- 1973, Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me and Other Uncanny Invitations
- 'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.
- 1973, Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me and Other Uncanny Invitations
- A houndfish.
Usage notes
- In more recent times, hound has been replaced by Modern English dog but the sense remains the same.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English hounden, from the noun (see above).
Verb
hound (third-person singular simple present hounds, present participle hounding, simple past and past participle hounded)
- (transitive) To persistently harass.
- (transitive) To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
- 1897, Andrew Lang, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (page 162)
- We both thought we saw what had the appearance to be a fox, and hounded the dogs at it, but they would not pursue it.
- 1897, Andrew Lang, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (page 162)
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English hownde, hount, houn, probably from Old Norse húnn, from Proto-Germanic *h?naz.
Noun
hound (plural hounds)
- (nautical, in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
- A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
Anagrams
- Duhon, Hudon, hundo, no duh
Middle English
Alternative forms
- honde, hounde, hund, hunde, hond, hownd, hownde, hwond
Etymology
From Old English hund
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hu?nd/, /hund/
Noun
hound (plural houndes or hounden)
- dog, hound (The canid Canis lupus familiaris)
- A pet dog; a dog kept for companionship.
- A hunting or sporting dog; a hound.
- (specifically) A male or fully-grown dog.
- A strong term of abuse, especially used against enemies of one's religion
- (rare) A heraldic portrayal of a dog.
- (rare) The forces of evil; the infernal army.
- (rare) Sirius (star)
Usage notes
The general word for "dog" is hound; dogge is vaguely derogatory and has a sense of "mongrel" or "cur".
Derived terms
- hound fysch
- hounden
- houndesberye
- houndestonge
Descendants
- English: hound
- Northumbrian: hoond, hund
- Scots: hoond, hund
References
- “h?und, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-11.
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