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caviar
English
Alternative forms
- caviare
Etymology
From French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish ??????? (havyar) (Turkish havyar), from Persian ??????? (xâvyâr), from ????? (xâye, “egg”) (cognate with English egg). Doublet of ajvar.
Pronunciation
- (rhotic) IPA(key): [kævi???]
- (non-rhotic) IPA(key): [kævi???]
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
caviar (countable and uncountable, plural caviars)
- Roe of the sturgeon or other large fish, considered a delicacy.
- (figuratively) Something whose flavour is too fine for the vulgar taste.
Derived terms
- caviar to the general
- cowboy caviar
Translations
See also
- caviar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- malosol
Anagrams
- Air Cav, Avaric, variac
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish ??????? (havyar) (Turkish havyar), from Persian ??????? (xâvyâr), from ????? (xâye, “egg”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /k?.vi?a/
- (Central) IPA(key): /k?.bi?ar/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ka.vi?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
caviar m (plural caviars)
- caviar
Further reading
- “caviar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “caviar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “caviar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
French
Etymology
From Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish ??????? (havyar) (Turkish havyar), from Persian ??????? (xâvyâr), from ????? (xâye, “egg”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.vja?/
Noun
caviar m (plural caviars)
- caviar
Derived terms
- cuillère à caviar
Descendants
- ? Danish: kaviar
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: kaviar
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: kaviar
- ? Swedish: kaviar
Further reading
- “caviar” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish ??????? (havyar) (Turkish havyar), from Persian ??????? (xâvyâr), from ????? (xâye, “egg”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ka.?vja?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kavi?a?/
- Hyphenation: ca?vi?ar
Noun
caviar m (plural caviares)
- caviar
Related terms
- ova
- ovo
Derived terms
- come ovo e arrota caviar
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French caviar, from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish ??????? (havyar) (Turkish havyar), from Persian ??????? (xâvyâr), from ????? (xâye, “egg”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kavi?ar/
- Hyphenation: ca?vi?ar
Noun
caviar n (uncountable)
- caviar
Declension
Synonyms
- icre negre
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?bja?/, [ka???ja?]
Noun
caviar m (plural caviares)
- caviar
- (Peru) a leftist
Further reading
- “caviar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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brick
English
Etymology
From Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: br?k, IPA(key): /b??k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
brick (countable and uncountable, plural bricks)
- (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
- This wall is made of bricks.
- (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
- This house is made of brick.
- (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
- a plastic explosive brick
- 2011, Seth Kenlon, Revolution Radio (page 70)
- The handyman considered the question and I knew she had a brick of ground beans in her bag but was considering whether the beds and a hot drink was worth a brick of coffee.
- 2012, Kevin Sampson, Powder (page 34)
- He disentangled himself from the safe door and delved inside. He brought out a brick of banknotes.
- (slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.
- Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.
- 1903 Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch. 48:
- Theobald's mind worked in this way: "Now, I know Ernest has told this boy what a disagreeable person I am, and I will just show him that I am not disagreeable at all, but a good old fellow, a jolly old boy, in fact a regular old brick, and that it is Ernest who is in fault all through."
- (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
- We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
- (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
- (computing slang, figuratively) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
- (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
- (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
- The colour brick red.
- (slang) One kilo of cocaine.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Welsh: brics
Translations
Adjective
brick (not comparable)
- (colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New England, of weather) Extremely cold.
- 2005, Vibe (volume 12, number 14, page 102)
- And while the tropics are definitely the place to be when it's brick outside, rocking a snorkel on the beach only works when you're snorkeling.
- 2014, Ray Mack, Underestimated: A Searcher's Story (?ISBN), page 89:
- He was always hanging tight with me and since he had access to a ride . . . it made traveling easier. I mean it was no biggie brain buster to take the train, but when it's brick outside . . . fuck the A train.
- 2005, Vibe (volume 12, number 14, page 102)
Derived terms
- brick shithouse
Translations
Verb
brick (third-person singular simple present bricks, present participle bricking, simple past and past participle bricked)
- To build with bricks.
- 1914, The Mining Engineer, Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349
- The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids.
- 1914, The Mining Engineer, Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349
- To make into bricks.
- 1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66
- The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.
- 1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66
- (slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
- (computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
- My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
- 2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, Linux.com
- installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.
- 2016, Alex Hern, Revolv devices bricked as Google's Nest shuts down smart home company (in The Guardian)
- Google owner Alphabet’s subsidiary Nest is closing a smart-home company it bought less than two years ago, leaving customers’ devices useless as of May. […] The company declined to share how many customers would be left with bricked devices as a result of the shutdown.
Antonyms
- (technology, slang: revert a device to the operational state): unbrick
Derived terms
- bricker
- brick in
- brick over
- brick up
- brick it
Translations
See also
- brickfielder
- brick it
Further reading
- brick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “brick”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
French
Etymology
From English brig.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?ik/
Noun
brick m (plural bricks)
- (nautical) A brig, a two-masted vessel type.
- A fritter with a filling.
Further reading
- “brick” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Manx
Noun
brick m pl
- plural of breck
Mutation
Scots
Verb
brick
- South Scots form of brak (“to break”)
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