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bowl
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b???/, [b???]
- (US) IPA(key): /bo??/
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *boll?, from Proto-Germanic *bull? (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).
Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”).
Noun
bowl (plural bowls)
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- The round hollow part of anything.
- Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
- Let's smoke a bowl!
- (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
- A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
Synonyms
- (as much as is held by a bowl): bowlful
- (haircut): bowl cut, pudding bowl
- (crater): crater, hollow
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.
Noun
bowl (plural bowls)
- The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- The action of bowling a ball.
- (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
- Synonyms: lawn bowls, lawn bowling
Translations
Verb
bowl (third-person singular simple present bowls, present participle bowling, simple past and past participle bowled)
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Danish: bowle
- ? Dutch: bowlen
Translations
Anagrams
- Blow, b'low, blow
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stage
English
Etymology
From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ste?d??/
- Rhymes: -e?d?
Noun
stage (plural stages)
- A phase.
- 1986, Daniel Woodrell, Under the Bright Lights p.66
- "They're bikini briefs", Nicole said. "That just means sexy underwear."
"I though naked was sexy."
"Well, it is. But sexy comes in stages".
- "They're bikini briefs", Nicole said. "That just means sexy underwear."
- 1986, Daniel Woodrell, Under the Bright Lights p.66
- (by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
- (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
- 1829, Charles Sprague, Curiosity
- Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde:, Intentions
- The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.
- 1829, Charles Sprague, Curiosity
- A floor or storey of a house.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
- A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
- A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
- 1711 April 14, Jonathan Swift, letter to Stella
- I went in the sixpenny stage.
- a parcel sent you by the stage
- 1711 April 14, Jonathan Swift, letter to Stella
- (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
- (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
- 1807, Francis Jeffrey, "Clarkson on Quakerism", in The Edinburgh Review April 1807
- A stage […] signifies a certain distance on a road.
- 1858, Samuel Smiles, Robert Stephenson, The Life of George Stephenson: Railway Engineer, p.356
- He travelled by gig, with his wife, his favourite horse performing the journey by easy stages.
- 1807, Francis Jeffrey, "Clarkson on Quakerism", in The Edinburgh Review April 1807
- (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
- (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
- Synonym: level
- A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
- (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
Synonyms
- (phase): tier, level
- (video games): level, map, area, world, track, board, zone, phase
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (sut?ji)
Translations
Verb
stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)
- (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
- To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
- (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
- (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
- (transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
- 2010, Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, Kenneth Woodhouse, Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (page 940)
- One method of documenting a wound is as follows: (1) stage the ulcer, time present, setting where occurred; (2) describe the location anatomically; (3) measure ulcer in centimeters (length × width × base); […]
- 2010, Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, Kenneth Woodhouse, Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (page 940)
- (rocketry) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
Derived terms
- hot-stage
Synonyms
- (demonstrate in a deceptive manner): fake
Translations
Anagrams
- Gates, Geats, agest, e-tags, gates, geats, getas
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French stage
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sta?ge
Noun
stage m (plural stages, diminutive stagetje n)
- probation, induction
- apprenticeship
- internship
Related terms
- stagiair
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin stagium, itself from Old French estage: ester +? -age (whence modern French étage). Cognates and borrowings are common in other European languages, including Italian stage, Czech stáž, Dutch stage, Portuguese estágio and Serbo-Croatian staž.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sta?/
Noun
stage m (plural stages)
- internship, job that a trainee is doing in a workplace until a fixed date
- probation, induction
Related terms
- stagiaire (trainee)
Descendants
References
- “stage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- gâtes, gâtés
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French stage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sta?/
Noun
stage m (invariable)
- internship
- Synonym: tirocinio
Usage notes
- The noun is often, but incorrectly, pronounced IPA(key): /?stejd??/ or IPA(key): /?st?jd??/ via an erroneous connection to English stage. Sometimes the word is also given the meaning of English "stage" (as in a platform where a performance happens).
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French estage, from ester (“to be standing, be located”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sta?d?(?)/
Noun
stage (plural stages or stage)
- A tier of a structure; a floor or storey:
- The topmost story of a building; a rooftop.
- A deck (surface of a ship)
- A floor of a vehicle or on a mount.
- A raised floor; a platform or podium.
- A ledge or shelf (projecting storage platform)
- A stage; a platform facing the audience.
- A box seat; a premium seat for an audience member.
- A duration or period; an amount of time.
- A stage or phase; a sequential part.
- A tier or grade; a place in a hierarchy.
- A locale or place; a specified point in space.
- Heaven (home of (the Christian) God)
- (rare) The cross-beam of a window.
- (rare) A seat or chair.
- (rare) A state of being.
Derived terms
- forstage
Descendants
- English: stage
References
- “st??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2020-01-12.
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