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cushion
English
Etymology
From Middle English cusshon, cuschen, quesshon, from later Old French coissin (modern coussin), from Vulgar Latin *cox?nus (“seat pad”), derived from Latin coxa (“hip, thigh”) with the suffix possibly after Latin pulv?nus (“pillow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
cushion (countable and uncountable, plural cushions)
- A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc.
- Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
- A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
- A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
- The pillow used in making bone lace.
- An engraver's pad.
- (historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.
- (historical) A pad supporting a woman's hair.
- (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
- (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
- 2007, Belverd Needles, Marian Powers, Financial Accounting: Media Enhanced (page 826)
- Interest coverage is important because it is an indicator of how much cushion a company has in making its interest payments.
- 2013, Stijn Claessens, Kirsten Forbes, International Financial Contagion (page 85)
- If one of the banks has a significant enough cushion of capital and a strong enough balance sheet, then it would not experience a bank run, and the domino effect in panel A would not have occurred.
- 2007, Belverd Needles, Marian Powers, Financial Accounting: Media Enhanced (page 826)
- (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
- (obsolete) A riotous dance, formerly common at weddings.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Descendants
Translations
See also
- pillow
- squab
Verb
cushion (third-person singular simple present cushions, present participle cushioning, simple past and past participle cushioned)
- To furnish with cushions.
- to cushion a sofa
- To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
- 1734, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties
- How many doughty monarchs, in later and more polite ages, would have slept in cottages, and have worked in falls, instead of inhabiting palaces, and being cushioned up in thrones, if this rule of government had continued in force ?
- 1734, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties
- To absorb or deaden the impact of.
- to cushion a blow
- 1903, Edward Porritt, "Poynings' Law", The Unreformed House of Commons Vol.II p.429 (CUP):
- the development of popular interest in Parliament made it less possible for the Privy Council in Dublin to cushion a bill which the Commons had presented to the Lord Lieutenant
- To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
Translations
References
cushion From the web:
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- what cushions go with beige sofa
muffle
English
Etymology
From Middle English muflen (“to muffle”), aphetic alteration of Anglo-Norman amoufler, from Old French enmoufler (“to wrap up, muffle”), from moufle (“mitten”), from Medieval Latin muffula (“a muff”), of Germanic origin (—first recorded in the Capitulary of Aachen in 817 C.E.), from Frankish *muffël (“a muff, wrap, envelope”) from *mauwa (“sleeve, wrap”) (from Proto-Germanic *maww? (“sleeve”)) + *vël (“skin, hide”) (from Proto-Germanic *fell? (“skin, film, fleece”). Alternate etymology traces the Medieval Latin word to Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”) from *mol (“softened, forworn”) (akin to Old High German molaw?n (“to soften”), Middle High German molwic (“soft”), English mulch) + *fell (“hide, skin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?fl?/
- Rhymes: -?f?l
Noun
muffle (plural muffles)
- Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
- A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
- (slang, archaic) A boxing glove.
- A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace)
- The bare end of the nose between the nostrils, especially in ruminants.
- A machine with two pulleys to hoist load by spinning wheels, polyspast, block and tackle.
Translations
Verb
muffle (third-person singular simple present muffles, present participle muffling, simple past and past participle muffled)
- (transitive) To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up.
- The face lies muffled up within the garment.
- He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- muffled up in darkness and superstition
- (transitive) To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.
- to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock
- (transitive) To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 397:
- The singer's voice was muffled by the thick walls, yet Tyrion knew the verse.
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 397:
- (intransitive, dated) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
- (transitive, dated) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
Translations
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- what muffler is the loudest
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- what muffles sound
- what muffler shop is open today
- what muffler sounds good on a v6
- what muffles sound the best
- what muffler does
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