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breeze
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?i?z/
- Rhymes: -i?z
Etymology 1
From the earlier (nautical) term brise, brize (“breeze”), from Middle English brees (“wind”). Ultimate origin obscure.
Variously supposed to derive from a Germanic source like Saterland Frisian Briese (“breeze”), West Frisian brys (“a cool wind”), Dutch bries (“breeze”), early Dutch brysen (“to blow cool and fresh”), or from Spanish brisa (“northeast wind”).
The earliest attestations are in Middle English brees (1460), Catalan brisa, and Italian brezza (all in 15th century), with Spanish (1504) and Portuguese briza (16th century) following closely after. The aforementioned Dutch cognates and French brise, however, are attested later than the term in English. The only internal hypothesis for any of those languages is a corruption of Old Occitan bisa (“strong wind”), which is not widely accepted.
Compare also Albanian breshër (“hail”).
Alternative forms
- brize (obsolete)
- briess (obsolete)
Noun
breeze (plural breezes)
- A light, gentle wind.
- 1793, William Wordsworth, An Evening Walk
- Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- 1793, William Wordsworth, An Evening Walk
- (figuratively) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
- (cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
- Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
- An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
- A brief workout for a racehorse.
Synonyms
- see also Thesaurus:wind
- cakewalk, cinch, doddle, piece of cake, walk in the park, walkover; see also Thesaurus:easy thing
Coordinate terms
- (gentle wind): gale, hurricane, storm
Derived terms
- breezen
Translations
See also
- breeze block
- Wikipedia article on the Beaufort scale
Verb
breeze (third-person singular simple present breezes, present participle breezing, simple past and past participle breezed) (intransitive)
- (usually with along) To move casually, in a carefree manner.
- (weather) To blow gently.
- To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
Translations
References
Etymology 2
From Middle English brese, from Old English br?osa, variant of Old English brimsa (“gadfly”), from Proto-Germanic *bremus? (“gadfly”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erem- (“to make a noise, buzz, hum”). Cognate with Dutch brems (“horsefly, warblefly”), German Bremse (“gadfly, horsefly”), Danish bremse (“gadfly, horsefly”), Swedish broms (“gadfly, horsefly”). Related also to Middle English brimse (“gadfly”), French brize (“gadfly”), Old English bremman (“to rage, roar”), Latin frem? (“roar, snort, growl, grumble”). See also bream.
Alternative forms
- breese
- brize
Noun
breeze (plural breezes)
- A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
Verb
breeze (third-person singular simple present breezes, present participle breezing, simple past and past participle breezed)
- (intransitive) To buzz.
Anagrams
- beezer
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accelerate
English
Etymology
First attested in the 1520s. Either from Latin acceler?tus, perfect passive participle of acceler? (“I accelerate, hasten”), formed from ad + celer? (“I hasten”), which is from celer (“quick”) (see celerity), or back-formation from acceleration.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k.?s?l.?.??e?t/, /æk.?s?l.?.??e?t/, /?k.?s?l.?.??e?t/
Verb
accelerate (third-person singular simple present accelerates, present participle accelerating, simple past and past participle accelerated)
- (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
- (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
- (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- (intransitive) Grow; increase.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of accelerated
Synonyms
- (to cause to move faster): hasten, quicken, speed up; see also Thesaurus:speed up
- (to quicken progress): expedite, further,
- (to hasten the occurrence of an event): advance, forward
Antonyms
- decelerate
- retard
- unaccelerate
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
accelerate
- (rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate, and the like, sufficing.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “accelerate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Italian
Adjective
accelerate
- feminine plural of accelerato
Verb
accelerate
- second-person plural present indicative of accelerare
- second-person plural imperative of accelerare
- feminine plural of accelerato
Latin
Verb
acceler?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of acceler?
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