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candidate
English
Etymology
From Latin candid?tus (“a person who is standing for public office”), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -?tus (an adjectival suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kæn.d?d?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?kæn.d?.de?t/, /?kæn.d?.d?t/
- (US, colloquially) IPA(key): /?kæn.?.d?t/, /?kæn.?.de?t/
Noun
candidate (plural candidates)
- A person who is running in an election.
- A person who is applying for a job.
- A participant in an examination.
- Something or somebody that may be suitable.
- (genetics) A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
Derived terms
- candidacy
- Manchurian candidate
- release candidate
Related terms
Translations
Verb
candidate (third-person singular simple present candidates, present participle candidating, simple past and past participle candidated)
- (uncommon) To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
- 1906, Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, page 196:
- The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.
- 2014, Susan H. Jones, Listening for God's Call, SCM Press (?ISBN), page 74:
- The report Shaping the Future also gives a set of learning outcomes for those people candidating for ordained ministry. These were also agreed by the Methodist Conference.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:candidated.
- 1906, Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, page 196:
- (nonstandard, chiefly in jargon and non-native speakers' English) To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
- 1982, Brian O'Leary, Space industrialization, CRC:
- Performance comparison of solar energy conversion candidated for SPS. (From NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston 1977.)
- 1989, Institution of Electrical Engineers. Electronics Division, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, 5-8 September 1989, Peter Peregrinus Limited (?ISBN):
- In this program if a processor becomes idle, then all feasible activities requiring that kind of processor will be candidated for scheduling. If the number of candidates is more than the number of available processors, activities with higher priority ...
- 2005, Khaled M. Khan, Yan Zhang, Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance, IGI Global (?ISBN), page 308:
- Evaluate the maintenance costs of the software system in order to candidate it for evolution AA14. Evaluate the hardware platform used and the possibility of migrating the software system toward more economical platforms ...
- 1982, Brian O'Leary, Space industrialization, CRC:
References
French
Noun
candidate f (plural candidates)
- female equivalent of candidat
Further reading
- “candidate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
candidate f
- plural of candidata
Verb
candidate
- second-person plural present indicative of candidare
- second-person plural imperative of candidare
- feminine plural of candidato
Latin
Noun
candid?te
- vocative singular of candid?tus
Norman
Noun
candidate f (plural candidates)
- female equivalent of candidat
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kandi?date/, [kãn?.d?i?ð?a.t?e]
Verb
candidate
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of candidatar.
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prospect
English
Etymology
From Latin prospectus, past participle of prospicere (“to look forward”), from pro (“before, forward”) + specere, spicere (“to look, to see”), equivalent to pro- +? -spect
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?-sp?kt?, IPA(key): /p???sp?kt/
- (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: pros?pect
Noun
prospect (plural prospects)
- The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
- A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
- A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
- Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
- Their prospect was toward the south.
- The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
- a very ill prospect of a future state
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?
- The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
- A hope; a hopeful.
- (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
- (sales) A potential client or customer.
- (music) The façade of an organ.
Translations
Verb
prospect (third-person singular simple present prospects, present participle prospecting, simple past and past participle prospected)
- (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
- (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
Translations
Anagrams
- croppest
Romanian
Etymology
From German Prospekt
Noun
prospect n (plural prospecte)
- brochure
Declension
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