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decile
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): [?d?sa??], [?di?sa??]
- (US) IPA(key): /?d?s.?l/, /?d?s?a?l/
Noun
decile (plural deciles)
- (statistics) Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency.
- Although few people scored high marks, everyone did quite well—the lowest decile was over 50%.
- Any one of the ten subsets or groups so divided.
- Our school is in the top decile for exam results.
- (astrology) An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac.
Hypernyms
- quantile
Coordinate terms
- (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100), millile (1000)
Translations
Anagrams
- ceiled, cieled, delice
Italian
Noun
decile m (plural decili)
- (mathematics) decile
- (organic chemistry) decyl
Related terms
- (organic chemistry): decano
Spanish
Verb
decile
- (obsolete) Compound of the preterite decí and the pronoun le.
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defile
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??fa?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English defilen (“to make dirty”), alteration (due to Middle English defoulen, defoilen (“to trample, abuse”)) of Middle English befilen (“to befoul, to defile, to make foul”), from Old English bef?lan (“to befoul, defile”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- + *f?lijan? (“to defile, make filthy”). Equivalent to de- +? file. Cognate with Dutch bevuilen (“to defile, soil”). More at de-, file, be-, and foul.
Verb
defile (third-person singular simple present defiles, present participle defiling, simple past and past participle defiled)
- (transitive) To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul.
- (transitive) To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate
- (transitive) To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape
Synonyms
- (make unclean): contaminate, pollute, spoil, sully; see also Thesaurus:dirty
- (vandalize something considered sacred): desecrate, profane; see also Thesaurus:desecrate
- (violate chastity of): ravish, violate, vitiate
Antonyms
- (make unclean): clean, purify; see also Thesaurus:make clean
- (vandalize something considered sacred): sanctify; see also Thesaurus:consecrate
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Earlier defilee, from French défilé, from défiler (“to march past”), from file (“file”).
Noun
defile (plural defiles)
- A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
- 1958, Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert (translator), "Life of Nicias" in Lives: The Fall of the Roman Republic
- The next morning the enemy were on the march before him, seized the defiles, blocked the fords of the rivers, destroyed the bridges, and sent out cavalry to patrol the open ground, so as to oppose the Athenians at every step as they retreated.
- 1958, Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert (translator), "Life of Nicias" in Lives: The Fall of the Roman Republic
- A single file, such as of soldiers.
- The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
Translations
See also
- glen
Verb
defile (third-person singular simple present defiles, present participle defiling, simple past and past participle defiled)
- (archaic, intransitive) To march in a single file; to file.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.138:
- They defiled down a gully to the water and bunched and jerked their noses at it and came back.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.138:
Translations
Anagrams
- e-filed
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From French défilé.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /def?le?/
- Hyphenation: de?fi?le
Noun
defìl? m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- march-past
Declension
References
- “defile” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
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