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corps
English
Etymology 1
From French corps d'armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.
Pronunciation
- Singular
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA(key): /k??/
- (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA(key): /k??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?r, IPA(key): /ko(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ko?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
- Plural
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA(key): /k??z/
- (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA(key): /k??z/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?rz, IPA(key): /ko(?)?z/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ko?z/
- Rhymes: -??(?)z
- Homophone: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Noun
corps (plural corps)
- (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
- An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
- diplomatic corps
- White House press corps
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping.
Noun
corps
- plural of corp
Anagrams
- S corp., crops, procs, scorp, sproc
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Latin corpus.
Noun
corps m (plural corps)
- body
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French corps, from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko?r/
- Hyphenation: corps
Noun
corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)
- student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
- Superseded spelling of korps.
Usage notes
Traditional student societies tend to prescribe the plural corpora, in regular language the plural corpsen is more common.
Synonyms
- studentencorps
- natie (historical)
Derived terms
- corpsbal
- corpslid
- studentencorps
French
Etymology
From Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *?rep-. The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??/
- Homophones: cor, cors
Noun
corps m (plural corps)
- body
- (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
- (military) corps
Derived terms
Descendants
- Karipúna Creole French: kó
- ? Danish: korps
- ? English: corps
- ? Dutch: corps, korps
- ? German: Korps
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: korps
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
- ? Swedish: kår
Further reading
- “corps” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- porcs
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crush
English
Etymology
From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *cruscio (“to brush”), from Frankish *krostjan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”). Akin to Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (kriustan, “to gnash”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Middle Low German krossen (“to break”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k???/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
crush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- a crush at a reception
- A violent crowding.
- A crowd control barrier.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (dated) A party or festive function.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray chapter 1
- Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray chapter 1
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- black crush; white crush
Hyponyms
- (infatuation): squish
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.
- to crush grapes
- 1769, Benjamin Blayney, King James Bible : Leviticus 22:24
- Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding
- Synonym: comminute
- to crush quartz
- 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
- With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.
- (figuratively) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
- (figuratively, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
- an eggshell crushes easily
- (intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- She's crushing on him.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- 2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati (page 78)
- He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).
- 2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill, Theorising Media and Practice (page 319)
- They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.
- 2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati (page 78)
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.
Derived terms
Synonyms
- (trans, to squeeze into a permanent new shape) squash
- (to pound or grind into fine particles) pulverize, pulverise
- (to overwhelm) overtake
- (to impress at) ace; slay at, kill
Translations
References
- crush in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Rusch, Schur, churs
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English crush.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?k???/, /?k???/
Noun
crush m or m f (in variation) (plural crushes or crush)
- (colloquial) crush (a love interest)
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