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clog
English
Etymology
Unknown; perhaps from Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”). Perhaps of North Germanic origin; compare Old Norse klugu, klogo (“knotty tree log”), Dutch klomp.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kl??/
- (US) IPA(key): /kl??/, /kl??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
clog (plural clogs)
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- 2002, Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, Chapter 5, p. 92,[1]
- She stomped up the stairs. Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.
- 2002, Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, Chapter 5, p. 92,[1]
- A blockage.
- (Britain, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Letters” in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 115,[2]
- A clog of lead was round my feet / A band of pain across my brow;
- 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Letters” in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 115,[2]
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
- 1777, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Edmund Burke: Esq; one of the representatives in Parliament for the city of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. sheriffs of that city, on the Affairs of America, London: J. Dodsley, p. 8,[3]
- All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England, are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.
- 1777, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Edmund Burke: Esq; one of the representatives in Parliament for the city of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. sheriffs of that city, on the Affairs of America, London: J. Dodsley, p. 8,[3]
Derived terms
- clever clogs
- clog dance
- clogless
- cloglike
- clogs to clogs in three generations
- pop one's clogs
- shot-clog
Translations
Verb
clog (third-person singular simple present clogs, present participle clogging, simple past and past participle clogged)
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- The commodities […] are clogged with impositions.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- 1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898.
- For centuries it has been the rule that a mortgagor’s equity of redemption cannot be clogged and that he cannot, as a part of the original mortgage transaction, cut off or surrender his right to redeem. Any agreement which does so is void and unenforceable [sic] as against public policy.
- 1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898.
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
Derived terms
- anticlog
- cloggable
- cloggy
- clog up
- declog
- nonclogging
- unclog
- uncloggable
Translations
References
Anagrams
- G-LOC
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cloc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl???/
Noun
clog m (genitive singular cloig, nominative plural cloig)
- bell
- clock
- blowball, clock (of dandelion)
- blister
Declension
- Alternative plural: cloganna (Cois Fharraige)
Derived terms
Verb
clog (present analytic clogann, future analytic clogfaidh, verbal noun clogadh, past participle clogtha)
- (intransitive) ring a bell
- (transitive) stun with noise
- (intransitive) blister
Conjugation
Mutation
References
- "clog" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “clog” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 150.
- “clogaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 151.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *klog, from Proto-Celtic *kluk?. Cognate with Irish cloch, Scottish Gaelic clach.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klo??/
Noun
clog f (plural clogau)
- cliff, rockface
Related terms
- clegyr (“rock, crag”)
Mutation
clog From the web:
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- what clogs pores
- what clogs a toilet
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- what clogs heart arteries
- what clogs shower drains
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oppose
English
Etymology
From Middle English opposen, from Old French opposer, from Latin ob (“before, against”) + Medieval Latin pausare (“to put”), taking the place of Latin opponere (“to oppose”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p??z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??po?z/, [??p?o??z?]
- Rhymes: -??z
- Hyphenation: op?pose
Verb
oppose (third-person singular simple present opposes, present participle opposing, simple past and past participle opposed)
- To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
- Synonyms: confront, withstand, resist, hinder, obstruct, buck
- To object to.
- Synonyms: take issue with, speak out, contest, repugn, argue
- To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
- , Book I
- I may […] oppose my single opinion to his.
- , Book I
- To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
Synonyms
- be against, fight (against), check, bar, block, prevent, take on, counter, contest, resist, confront, face, combat, defy, thwart, contradict, withstand, stand up to, hinder, struggle against, obstruct, fly in the face of, take issue with, be hostile to, counterattack, speak out against, be in opposition to, be in defiance of, strive against, set one's face against, take a stand, make a stand against
Antonyms
- support
Derived terms
- opposable
Related terms
- opponent
- opposer
- opposite
- opposition
Translations
Further reading
- oppose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- oppose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- oppose at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- oppoes
French
Verb
oppose
- first-person singular present indicative of opposer
- third-person singular present indicative of opposer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of opposer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of opposer
- second-person singular imperative of opposer
Italian
Verb
oppose
- third-person singular past historic of opporre
oppose From the web:
- what opposes motion
- what opposed mean
- what opposes gravity
- what opposes the force of gravity
- what opposed
- what opposes glomerular filtration
- what opposes friction
- what opposes change in current
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