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bale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be??l/, [?be??(?)?], [be???]
- Rhymes: -e?l
- Homophone: bail
Etymology 1
From Middle English bale (“evil”), from Old English bealo, from Proto-Germanic *balw?. Cognate with Low German bal- (“bad, ill”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (balweins, “torture”), Old High German balo (“destruction”), Old Norse b?l (“disaster”).
Noun
bale (uncountable)
- Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
- Suffering, woe, torment.
Derived terms
- baleful
Etymology 2
From Middle English bale (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Old English b?l (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *b?l? (“pyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine; gleam; sparkle”). Cognate with Old Norse bál (which may have been the direct source for the English word).
Noun
bale (plural bales)
- (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
- (archaic) A funeral pyre.
- (archaic) A beacon-fire.
Derived terms
- balefire
Etymology 3
From Middle English bale (“bale”), from Old French bale and Medieval Latin bala, of Germanic origin. Doublet of ball.
Noun
bale (plural bales)
- A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- So having made up my mind, I packed up in bales a quantity of precious stuffs suited for sea-trade and repaired with them from Baghdad-city to Bassorah-town, where I found ship ready for sea, and in her a company of considerable merchants.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
- A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
- A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
Coordinate terms
- (measurement of paper): bundle, quire, ream
Derived terms
- bale of dice
Translations
Further reading
- Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled)
- (transitive) To wrap into a bale.
Translations
Etymology 4
Alternative spelling of bail.
Verb
bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled)
- (Britain, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
Translations
Further reading
- Bale in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- -able, Abel, Able, Beal, Blea, Ebla, Elba, able, albe, bael, beal, blea
Buginese
Noun
bale
- fish
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
bale
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of balen
Anagrams
- Abel
French
Alternative forms
- balle
Etymology
From Gaulish *balu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bal/
Noun
bale f (uncountable)
- chaff (inedible casing of a grain seed)
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French balai.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.le/
Noun
bale
- broom
Verb
bale
- to sweep
Javanese
Noun
bale
- Dated spelling of balé.
Kapampangan
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.
Noun
balé
- house
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English bealo, from Proto-Germanic *balw?.
Alternative forms
- balu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?l(?)/
Noun
bale (plural bales)
- An evil or wrong act; a bad deed.
- Maliciousness, iniquity, damage.
- Devastation and doom; the causing of lifelessness.
- Woe or torment; hurting, agony.
Related terms
- baleful
- bale-siðe
Descendants
- English: bale (dated)
References
- “b?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
Adjective
bale
- decisive, ruinous, vicious
- tormentuous, painful, hurtful
References
- “b?le, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
Etymology 2
Either from Old English b?l, Old Norse bál, or a conflation of both; in any case, from Proto-Germanic *b?l?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?l/
Noun
bale
- Any large fire; a bonfire or pyre.
- A fire for inhumation; a funeral pyre.
- A fire for execution or killing.
Related terms
- bale-fyre
Descendants
- English: bale (archaic)
- Scots: bale
References
- “b?l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
Etymology 3
Probably from Old French bale, balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish or Old High German balla (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz.
Alternative forms
- bala, ball
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?l(?)/
Noun
bale (plural bales)
- A bale (rounded bundle)
Descendants
- English: bale
References
- “b?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- “bale”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
bale (present tense balar, past tense bala, past participle bala, passive infinitive balast, present participle balande, imperative bal)
- Alternative form of bala
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Homophones: Bali (Brazil), vale (Norte of Portugal)
- Hyphenation: ba?le
Verb
bale
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of balar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of balar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of balar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of balar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of balir
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of balir
Romanian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin root *baba. Compare French bave, Italian bava, Spanish and Portuguese baba. The normal result, *ba, is not used as the singular has been replaced with bal? through analogy.
Noun
bale f pl (plural only)
- slobber, drool, dribble, saliva
Declension
Synonyms
- saliv?
Derived terms
- b?los
Spanish
Verb
bale
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of balar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of balar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of balar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of balar.
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- bali
Etymology
From Spanish vale, second-person singular present indicative form of valer (“to be worth”), from Old Spanish valer, from Latin val?re, present active infinitive of vale? (“to be worth”), from Proto-Italic *wal??, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wl?h?éh?yeti, from *h?welh?- (“to rule, be strong”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bá?le
Noun
bále
- An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
Conjunction
bále
- so; Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.
- so; Used to introduce a rhetorical question.
Interjection
bále
- Used before stating or enumerating the gist or summary of what is being discussed.
- Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response or when one cannot start to speak.
Adjective
bále
- with value or importance
Derived terms
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French ballet.
Noun
bale (definite accusative baleyi, plural baleler)
- ballet
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stack
English
Etymology
From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”), from Proto-Indo-European *steg- (“pole; rod; stick; stake”). Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
stack (plural stacks)
- (heading) A pile.
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- c. 1790, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm
- But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.
- c. 1790, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- (Britain) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- An extensive collection
- 1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less
- She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.
- 2005, Elizabeth McLeod, The Original Amos 'n' Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928-1943 Radio Serial, McFarland ?ISBN, page 26
- “We said, 'Maybe we could come up with a couple of characters doing jokes,'” Correll recalled in 1972. “We had a whole stack of jokes we used to do in these home talent shows
- 2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education and Skills Committee, Post-16 skills: ninth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence, The Stationery Office ?ISBN, page 42
- Going back to an earlier question, which I think is very important, this question of how you use skills. It is no good having a great stack of skills in a workplace if the employer does not utilise them properly
- 1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A smokestack.
- (heading) In computing.
- (programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
- Hyponym: history stack
- (computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, p.47:
- When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.
- 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, p.47:
- An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
- Synonym: protocol stack
- A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
- 2016, John Paul Mueller, AWS For Admins For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 323
- A Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack is a configuration of four popular products for hosting websites.
- Synonym: technology stack
- 2016, John Paul Mueller, AWS For Admins For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 323
- (programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
- (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
- (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
- (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
- (heading) In architecture.
- A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
- A vertical drainpipe.
- (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
- (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
- (aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
- (video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
Derived terms
- chimney stack
- flare stack (synonym of flare tower)
- full-stack
- protocol stack
- technology stack
Translations
Verb
stack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)
- (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
- Synonyms: build up, stack up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
- (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
- (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
- 2017 July 26, Lindsay Murdoch, "Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female PM, faces financial ruin and jail", in smh.com.au, The Sydney Morning Herald;
- In 2015 the country's military-stacked national assembly impeached her and banned her from political office over the scheme, which her government introduced after she had campaigned in 2011 promising to support the rural poor.
- Synonym: gerrymander
- 2017 July 26, Lindsay Murdoch, "Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female PM, faces financial ruin and jail", in smh.com.au, The Sydney Morning Herald;
- (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
- 1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43,
- Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. ‘Mum, I?ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?’, the middle-class panacea for all diseases.
- 1984, Jack Hibberd, A Country Quinella: Two Celebration Plays, page 80,
- MARMALADE Who stacked the car? (pointing to SALOON) Fangio here.
- JOCK (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle.
- 2002, Ernest Keen, Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt, page 19,
- Eventually he sideswiped a bus and forced other cars to collide, and as he finally stacked the car up on a bridge abutment, he passed out, perhaps from exhaustion, perhaps from his head hitting the windshield.
- 2007, Martin Chipperfield, slut talk, Night Falling, 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback, page 100,
- oh shit danny, i stacked the car / ran into sally, an old school friend / you stacked the car? / so now i need this sally?s address / for the insurance, danny says
- Synonyms: smash, wreck
- 1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43,
- (gaming) To operate cumulatively.
- (aviation, transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
- (informal, intransitive) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
Translations
Related terms
- stackable
- stacked
- unstack
- stack it
Anagrams
- ATCKs, Tacks, sackt, tacks
Middle English
Etymology 1
See stak.
Noun
stack
- Alternative form of stak
Etymology 2
See stake.
Noun
stack
- Alternative form of stake
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse stakkr.
Noun
stack c
- a stack (e.g. of hay), a pile (e.g. of manure)
- an ant farm, an ant colony
- a stack (in computer memory)
Declension
Related terms
- gödselstack
- höstack
- myrstack
See also
- stackare
- stapel
Verb
stack
- past tense of sticka.
Anagrams
- tacks
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