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continent
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?nt?n?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?nt?n?nt/, /?k?nt?n?nt/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin contin?ntem, noun use of present participle of contin?re (“to contain”).
Noun
continent (plural continents)
- Each of the main continuous land-masses on the earth's surface, now generally regarded as seven in number, including their related islands, continental shelves etc.
- (obsolete in general sense) A large contiguous landmass considered independent of its islands, peninsulas etc. Specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa. See the Continent.
- (obsolete) Land (as opposed to the water).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- The carkas with the streame was carried downe, / But th'head fell backeward on the continent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
Hyponyms
- Africa
- America
- Antarctica
- Asia
- Australia
- Europe
- Eurasia
- Gondwana
- Laurasia
- North America
- Oceania
- Pangaea
- South America
Derived terms
- the Continent
- continental
- supercontinent
Translations
See also
- (continents) continent; Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America (Category: en:Continents)
Etymology 2
From Middle English contynent, from Old French continent, from Latin continentem (“continuous; holding together”), present participle of contin?re (“to contain”).
Adjective
continent (comparative more continent, superlative most continent)
- Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one's bodily needs or passions, especially sex, urination and/or defecation.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 119:
- A celibate himself, he was of the opinion that marriage was something of a concession to human frailty, to save from fornication those who could not be continent, so it was better to marry than to burn with lust.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 119:
- Not interrupted; connected; continuous.
- 1843, John McIntosh, The Origin of the North American Indians
- The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disjoined by sea of all that coast.
- 1843, John McIntosh, The Origin of the North American Indians
- (obsolete) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
Antonyms
- incontinent
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin contin?ns.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /kon.ti?nent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kun.ti?nen/
Noun
continent m (plural continents)
- continent
Related terms
- continental
See also
- (continents) continent; Àfrica,? Amèrica,? Antàrtida,? Àsia,? Oceania,? Europa/?Nord-amèrica,? Amèrica del Nord/?Sud-amèrica,? Amèrica del Sud (Category: ca:Continents) [edit]
Further reading
- “continent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “continent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “continent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “continent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?n.ti?n?nt/
- Hyphenation: con?ti?nent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French continent, from Latin contin?ns.
Noun
continent n (plural continenten)
- continent (landmass)
Synonyms
- werelddeel
Derived terms
- subcontinent
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: kontinen
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Latin contin?ns. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Adjective
continent (not comparable)
- (chiefly medicine) continent
- (obsolete) continent, morally restrained
Inflection
Related terms
- incontinent
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin continens, continentem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.ti.n??/
Noun
continent m (plural continents)
- continent
Derived terms
- continental
- sous-continent
Related terms
- contenir
Descendants
- Antillean Creole: kontinan
- Haitian Creole: kontinan
- ? Romanian: continent
Further reading
- “continent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
continent
- third-person plural present active indicative of contine?
Middle French
Adjective
continent m (feminine singular continente, masculine plural continens, feminine plural continentes)
- continent (exercising restraint)
- Antonym: incontinent
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin contin?ns.
Noun
continent m (plural continents)
- continent
Related terms
- continental
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin continens and/or from French continent.
Noun
continent n (plural continente)
- continent
Declension
Related terms
- continental
- con?ine
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range
English
Etymology
From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?nd?/
- Rhymes: -e?nd?
Noun
range (plural ranges)
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
- Selection, array.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- Synonyms: base, training area, training ground
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- Synonyms: distance, radius
- Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- Antonym: domain
- (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
- (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- Synonym: compass
- (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"
- He may take a range all the world over.
- , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"
- (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
Hyponyms
Holonyms
- (values a function can obtain): codomain
Coordinate terms
- (firing range): shooting gallery
- (radius): azimuth, elevation, inclination
- (cooking stove): oven
Derived terms
- open the range
- very-long-range
Translations
Descendants
- Japanese: ??? (?renji)
- Korean: ??? (reinji)
Verb
range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)
- (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To rove over or through.
- to range the fields
- 1713, John Gay, Rural Sports
- Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
- (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
- At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
- (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- (transitive) To classify.
- to range plants and animals in genera and species
- (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
- The front of a house ranges with the street.
- 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night
- The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
- (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
- (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- To separate into parts; to sift.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- 2009, Jason Aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, page 250, ?ISBN
- Willie, playing in left-center, raced toward a ball no human had any business getting a glove to. Mays ranged to his left, searching, digging in, pouring on the speed, as the crowd screamed its anticipation of a triple.
- 2009, Jason Aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, page 250, ?ISBN
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:range.
Translations
Further reading
- range in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- range in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- range at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Agner, Negar, Regan, anger, areng, grane, regna, renga
Estonian
Etymology
Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.
Adjective
range (genitive range, partitive ranget)
- strict
Declension
French
Verb
range
- first-person singular present indicative of ranger
- third-person singular present indicative of ranger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
- second-person singular imperative of ranger
Anagrams
- nager, régna
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the adjective rang and vrang.
Noun
range f (definite singular ranga, indefinite plural ranger, definite plural rangene)
- the inside of a piece of clothing, but worn inside-out
- Antonym: rette
- the trachea, due to it being the wrong pipe, as opposed to the oesophagus, when eating
Verb
range (present tense rangar, past tense ranga, past participle ranga, passive infinitive rangast, present participle rangande, imperative rang)
- (transitive) to turn inside-out (e.g. a piece of clothing)
Alternative forms
- ranga (a-infinitive)
Derived terms
- range seg inn på ein
Adjective
range
- definite singular of rang
- plural of rang
References
- “range” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- ganer, garen, genar, grena, ragen, ragne, regna, renga
Portuguese
Verb
range
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ranger
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of ranger
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