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concur
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin concurro (“to run together, agree”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?k?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?k??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Verb
concur (third-person singular simple present concurs, present participle concurring, simple past and past participle concurred)
- To agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
- To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
- (obsolete) To run together; to meet.
- (rare) To converge.
Synonyms
- (to unite or agree): accord, agree, coexist; See also Thesaurus:agree
- (to meet in the same point): cooperate, unite
- (to run together): assemble, congregate, crowd, flock
- (to converge):
Antonyms
- (to unite or agree): disagree, dissent
- (to meet in the same point):
- (to run together): disperse, disassemble
- (to converge): diverge
Related terms
- concourse
- concurrence
Translations
References
- concur in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- concur in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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complot
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?t
- (noun) IPA(key): /?k?m?pl?t/
- (verb) IPA(key): /k?m?pl?t/
Noun
complot (plural complots)
- (archaic) A plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy
- c. 1582–1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, Act 3, Scene 2:
- LOR. Now to confirme the complot thou hast cast
- Of all these practices, Ile spread the watch,
- Vpon precise commandement from the king
- Strongly to guard the place where Pedringano
- This night shall murder haples Serberine.
- c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 5, Scene 1:
- AARON: […] / For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres,
- Acts of black night, abominable deeds,
- Complots of mischief, treason, villainies,
- Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd: / […]
- 1918, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, Grosset & Dunlap 1919, page 164:
- The young advertising agent stood against the fence in silent horror, his heart bumping heavily. His hands were clammy, his feet seemed to have grown larger and taken root. What damnable complot was this?
- c. 1582–1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, Act 3, Scene 2:
Verb
complot (third-person singular simple present complots, present participle complotting, simple past and past participle complotted)
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To plot together; conspire.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act 1, Scene 1:
- BOLINGBROKE. […] Besides, I say and will in battle prove,
- Or here, or elsewhere to the furthest verge
- That ever was survey'd by English eye,
- That all the treasons for these eighteen years
- Complotted and contrived in this land,
- Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act 1, Scene 1:
Derived terms
- complotment
- complotter
Related terms
- plot
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French complot.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /kom?pl?t/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kum?pl?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
complot m (plural complots)
- conspiracy
Further reading
- “complot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “complot” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “complot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “complot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Alternative forms
- (before 1996) komplot
Etymology
From French complot (“crowd-, plot”), from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?m?pl?t/
- Hyphenation: com?plot
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
complot n (plural complotten, diminutive complotje n)
- conspiracy
Synonyms
- samenzwering
Derived terms
- complotdenker
- complottheoreticus
- complottheorie
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: komplot
French
Etymology
From Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.plo/
Noun
complot m (plural complots)
- plot; conspiracy
Derived terms
- comploter
- théorie du complot
Descendants
Further reading
- “complot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Noun
complot m (plural complots)
- plot; conspiracy; complot
Romanian
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *palo-, *pl?- (“to fold”)
Noun
complot n (plural comploturi)
- complot, conspiracy
Related terms
- complota
- complotare
- complotat (past participle of "complota")
- complotist
Spanish
Etymology
From French complot (“plot, conspiracy”), from Middle French complot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kom?plot/, [kõm?plot?]
Noun
complot m (plural complots)
- (colloquial) plot, conspiracy
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