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chess
English
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Pronunciation
- enPR: ch?s, IPA(key): /t???s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English ches, chesse, from Old French eschés, plural of eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic ????? (š?h, “king [in chess]”), from Persian ???? (š?h, “shah, king”), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (mlk? /š?h/), from Old Persian ???? (XŠ /xš?ya?iya/).
Compare German Schach and Italian scacchi. Compare French échecs (“chess”) and its descendants: Catalan escacs and Dutch schaak. More at check and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”).
Noun
chess (usually uncountable, plural chesses)
- A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of chess
- checkers
- draughts
- scacchic
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.
Noun
chess (plural chesses)
- (now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 59:
- Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 59:
Etymology 3
Compare French châssis (“a framework of carpentry”).
Noun
chess (plural chesses)
- (military, chiefly in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
- 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
- the balks are laid and covered with chesses to within 1 foot of the trestle
- 1885, Edward S. Farrow, Farrow's Military Encyclopedia; A Dictionary of Military Knowledge
- Each chess consists of three planks.
- 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
References
chess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- hESCs
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issuer
English
Etymology
issue +? -er
Noun
issuer (plural issuers)
- One who issues, emits, or publishes.
Translations
References
- issuer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- issuer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Suires, sursie, uresis
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