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crisis
English
Etymology
From Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (krísis, “a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute”), from ????? (krín?, “pick out, choose, decide, judge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?a?s?s/
Noun
crisis (plural crises)
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
- A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
- (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
Derived terms
Related terms
- critic
- critical
- criticize
- critique
- criterion
Translations
Further reading
- crisis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- crisis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Asturian
Noun
crisis f (plural crisis)
- crisis
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?k?i.zis/
- Rhymes: -izis
Noun
crisis
- plural of crisi
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (krísis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kri.z?s/
- Hyphenation: cri?sis
Noun
crisis f (plural crises or crisissen, diminutive crisisje n)
- crisis
- financial crisis
Derived terms
Related terms
- kritiek
- kritisch
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: krisis
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crisis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kri.?zis/
Noun
crisis f (oblique plural crisis, nominative singular crisis, nominative plural crisis)
- crisis, emergency; urgent situation
Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (krísis, “a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute”), from ????? (krín?, “pick out, choose, decide, judge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?isis/, [?k?i.sis]
Noun
crisis f (plural crisis)
- crisis
- attack; fit
Derived terms
- anticrisis
- crisis de comportamiento
- crisis de migraña
Related terms
- crítico
Further reading
- “crisis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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pinch
English
Etymology
From Middle English pinchen, from Old French *pinchier, pincer (“to pinch”), from Vulgar Latin *pinci?re (“to puncture, pinch”), from possible merger of *puncti?re (“a puncture, sting”), from Latin puncti? (“a puncture, prick”) and *picc?re (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikk?n, from Proto-Germanic *pikk?n? (“to pick, peck, prick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Verb
pinch (third-person singular simple present pinches, present participle pinching, simple past and past participle pinched)
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- The children were scolded for pinching each other.
- This shoe pinches my foot.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
- 1788, Benjamin Franklin (attributed), Paper
- the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare
- To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
- (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- to be pinched for money
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
- want of room […] which pincheth the whole nation
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:
- The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
- 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":
- Therefore who so them accuse
- Of any double entencion,
- To speake, rowne, other to muse,
- To pinch at their condicion,
- All is but false collusion,
- I dare rightwell the sothe express,
- They have no better protection,
- But shrowd them vnder doubleness.
- 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":
Derived terms
- pinch off
- pinch out
- pinch a loaf
Translations
Noun
pinch (plural pinches)
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 171:
- It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 171:
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- 2001, Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time:
- It looked like an hourglass, but all those little glittering shapes tumbling through the pinch were seconds.
- 2001, Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time:
- (slang) An arrest.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (pinchi)
Translations
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