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corrugation
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?r.?.??e?.??n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
corrugation (countable and uncountable, plural corrugations)
- The process of corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pp. 391–92]:
- According to the pilot, ships were taking hard punishment in the storm. But from this altitude the corrugations of the seas looked no higher to the eye than the ridges of your palate feel to the tongue.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pp. 391–92]:
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ditch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English dich, from Old English d?? (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“id.”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin f?g? (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.
Noun
ditch (plural ditches)
- A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
- (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
- c. 1947, Patrick Kavanagh, Stony Grey Soil
- You flung a ditch on my vision
- Of beauty, love and truth.
- O stony grey soil of Monaghan
- You burgled my bank of youth!
- 2013, Frank McNally, When Anglophone lines get crossed
- The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).
- c. 1947, Patrick Kavanagh, Stony Grey Soil
References
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- fosse
- moat
Verb
ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)
- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- (intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
Synonyms
- abandon
- discard
- dump
- jettison
- lose
- shed
- See also Thesaurus:junk
Translations
Etymology 2
From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English d?can (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech.
Verb
ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)
- Alternative form of deech
Noun
ditch (usually uncountable, plural ditches)
- Alternative form of deech
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