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career
English
Etymology
Mid 16th century, from French carrière (a road or racecourse), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carr?ria based on Latin carrus 'wheeled vehicle'. Alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan carriera ("road"), from Late Latin carr?ria.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?????/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?????/
- Homophone (non-rhotic accents only): Korea
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
career (plural careers)
- One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
- General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
- (archaic) Speed.
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- when a horse is running in his full career
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy
- It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- A jouster's path during a joust.
- 1819: Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career.
- 1819: Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse. [16th-18th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:
- It is said of Cæsar […] that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. carriere], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.
- 1756, William Guthrie (translator), Of Eloquence (originally by Quintillian)
- Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:
- (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
- (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
- to think of going back again the same career
Related terms
- careerism
- careerist
Translations
Verb
career (third-person singular simple present careers, present participle careering, simple past and past participle careered)
- To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
- Synonym: careen
- The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
Translations
Adjective
career (not comparable)
- Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”)
- a career criminal
- 2012, Arthur Gillard, Homelessness (page 38)
- Studies on homeless income find that the typical “career panhandler” who dedicates his time overwhelmingly to begging can make between $600 and $1,500 a month.
Further reading
- "career" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 52.
Scots
Etymology
From English career.
Noun
career (plural careers)
- career
career From the web:
- what career is right for me
- what career should i have
- what career is best for me
- what careers make the most money
- what careers are in demand
- what career fits me
- what career should i do
- what careers use geometry
brush
English
Etymology
From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), or also Vulgar Latin *bruscia, from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: br?sh, IPA(key): /b???/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
brush (countable and uncountable, plural brushes)
- An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
- The act of brushing something.
- A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
- A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
- Synonym: corposant
- (uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrubland
- 1906, Jack London, Before Adam, chapter 12:
- We broke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.
- 1906, Jack London, Before Adam, chapter 12:
- A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
- 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems', The Guardian, 13 September:
- The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.
- 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems', The Guardian, 13 September:
- The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
- (zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- (archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
- 1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage (originally published in Cornhill Magazine
- Mark and Lord Lufton had been boys together, and his lordship knew that Mark in his heart would enjoy a brush across the country quite as well as he himself.
- 1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage (originally published in Cornhill Magazine
- (music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
- (computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
- (computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
- Coordinate term: texture
- (video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
- (poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
- (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
Translations
Verb
brush (third-person singular simple present brushes, present participle brushing, simple past and past participle brushed)
- (transitive) To clean with a brush.
- Brush your teeth.
- (transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
- Brush your hair.
- (transitive) To apply with a brush.
- I am brushing the paint onto the walls.
- (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
- She brushes the flour off your clothes.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[1]:
- Caliban: As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd / With raven's feather from unwholesome fen / Drop on you both! […]
- (transitive, intransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
- Her scarf brushed his skin.
- Some spread their sails, some with strong oars sweep / The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave.
- 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Further to Fly”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- Maybe you will find a love that you discover accidentally, who falls against you gently as a pickpocket brushes your thigh.
- (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
- 2000, USA Today (volume 129, issues 2662-2673, page 92)
- Of course, Halloween does not have to be completely treatless. Plain chocolate candy is okay, provided you remember to brush afterwards.
- 2000, USA Today (volume 129, issues 2662-2673, page 92)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- broom
- comb
Anagrams
- Shrub, bruhs, burhs, shrub
Middle English
Noun
brush
- Alternative form of broche
brush From the web:
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- what brush to use for foundation
- what brush to use for contour
- what brushes to use for makeup
- what brush to use for highlighter
- what brush to use for chalk paint
- what brush to use for concealer
- what brush for polyurethane
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