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buy
English
Etymology
From Middle English bien, biggen, buggen, from Old English byc?an (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan, from Proto-Germanic *bugjan? (“to buy”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *b??g?- (“to bend”), or from Proto-Indo-European *b?eug?- (“to take away, deliver”).
Cognate with Scots by (“to buy, purchase”), obsolete Dutch beugen (“to buy”), Old Saxon buggian, buggean (“to buy”), Old Norse byggja (“to procure a wife, lend at interest, let out”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (bugjan, “to buy”). The spelling with “u” is from the Southwest, while the pronunciation with /a?/ is from the East Midlands.
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?, IPA(key): /ba?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophones: bi, bye, by
Verb
buy (third-person singular simple present buys, present participle buying, simple past bought, past participle bought or (rare, dialectal) boughten)
- (transitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods
- 1793, Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
- Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.
- 1793, Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
- (transitive) To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.
- (transitive) To bribe.
- (transitive) To be equivalent to in value.
- (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe
- (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)
- (poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
Alternative forms
- buie (archaic)
Synonyms
- (obtain in exchange for money): cheap (obsolete), purchase
- (accept as true): accept, believe, swallow (informal), take on
- ((intransitive) make a purchase): make a buy
Antonyms
- (obtain in exchange for money): cheap (obsolete), sell, vend
- (accept as true): disbelieve, reject, pitch
Derived terms
Related terms
- aby
Translations
Noun
buy (plural buys)
- Something which is bought; a purchase.
Antonyms
- sale
Derived terms
- buydown
- buyout
- impulse buy
Translations
References
- buy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- buy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- BYU
Tatar
Noun
buy
- length
Wolof
Noun
buy
- A baobab fruit.
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recall
English
Alternative forms
- recal (obsolete)
- (to call again): re-call
Etymology
From re- +? call, probably modelled on Latin revoc?re, French rappeler, English withcall.
Pronunciation
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???k??l/
- (General American) enPR: r??kôl, r??kôl, IPA(key): /???k?l/, /?i?k?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Hyphenation: re?call
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??i?k??l/
- (General American) enPR: ?r??kôl, r??kôl, r??kôl, IPA(key): /??i?k?l/, /?i?k?l/, /???k?l/
- Rhymes: -i?k??l, -??l
- Hyphenation: re?call
Verb
recall (third-person singular simple present recalls, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: withcall; see also Thesaurus:recant
- (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product). [from 20th c.]
Translations
Noun
recall (countable and uncountable, plural recalls)
- The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- Synonym: sensitivity
Translations
Further reading
- product recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- recall (memory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- recall election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- precision and recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- caller, cellar
Portuguese
Noun
recall m (plural recalls)
- recall (return of faulty products)
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