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delta
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
- (river): from the triangular shape of the majuscule Greek letter delta ?
- (USSF): from the delta wing, symbol of the USSF, a triangular wing, shaped like the majuscule Greek letter delta ?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?lt?/, [?d??t?]
- Rhymes: -?lt?
Noun
delta (plural deltas)
- The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet ?, ?.
- A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
- The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet.
- (mathematics) The symbol ?.
- (computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.
- (computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.
- (physics, engineering) A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".
- (surveying) The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.
- A type of cargo bike that has one wheel in front and two in back.
- (electrical, often attributive) The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, especially in a three-phase system.
- (finance) The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.
- (chemistry) A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.
- (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF operations wing, or an army regiment.
- (astronomy) a star that is usually the fourth brightest of a constellation.
- Delta
Synonyms
- (USSF): garrison (a support wing equivalent)
Hypernyms
- (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- deltoid
- Appendix: IPA examples
Verb
delta (third-person singular simple present deltas, present participle deltaing, simple past and past participle deltaed)
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Anagrams
- Adlet, adlet, atled, dalet, dealt, lated, taled
Asturian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Noun
delta f (plural deltes)
- delta (Greek letter)
Noun
delta m (plural deltes)
- delta (landform at the mouth of a river)
Catalan
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?d?l.t?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?d?l.t?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?del.ta/
Noun
delta f (plural deltes)
- delta; the Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).
- (geography) A delta.
Derived terms
- metall delta
Czech
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta), which is probably of Semitic origin.
Noun
delta n (indeclinable)
- Delta (Greek letter ?).
- (physics) Kind of rays consisting of secondary electrons with enough energy to escape a significant distance away from the primary radiation beam and produce further ionization (delta ray).
- Having the shape of the Greek letter ?.
Derived terms
- deltový
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta). Originally used for the delta of the Nile, because its forked shape resembled the Greek letter ?. The word is probably of Semitic origin.
Noun
delta f
- (geography) delta (forked mouth of a river)
Declension
Anagrams
- datel
- datle
References
Danish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Noun
delta n (singular definite deltaet, plural indefinite deltaer)
- a river delta
- delta (the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, ?, ?.)
Declension
References
- “delta” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?l.ta?/
- Hyphenation: del?ta
Noun
delta f (plural delta's, diminutive deltaatje n)
- The Greek letter delta.
- A river delta, a network of one or more rivers and tributaries pouring out into a larger body of water.
- Synonym: rivierdelta
Hypernyms
- mond
- monding
- riviermond
- riviermonding
Coordinate terms
- estuarium
Derived terms
- deltagebied
- Deltagebied
- Deltaplan
- Deltawerk
- rivierdelta
Finnish
(index d)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?delt(?)?/, [?de?lt?(?)?]
- Rhymes: -elt?
- Syllabification: del?ta
Noun
delta
- delta (Greek letter)
Declension
Derived terms
- deltafunktio
- deltalihas
- deltasiipi
See also
- suisto
Anagrams
- dalet
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?l.ta/
Noun
delta m (plural delta or deltas)
- delta (Greek letter)
Noun
delta m (plural deltas)
- delta (geographical feature)
Further reading
- “delta” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Noun
delta m (plural deltas)
- delta (Greek letter)
- delta (landform at the mouth of a river)
Hungarian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d?lt?]
- Hyphenation: del?ta
- Rhymes: -t?
Noun
delta (plural delták)
- delta (Greek letter)
- delta (landform at the mouth of a river)
Declension
Icelandic
Noun
delta f (genitive singular deltu, nominative plural deltur)
- delta (Greek letter)
Declension
Indonesian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d?lta]
- Hyphenation: dèl?ta
Noun
delta
- delta,
- The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet ?, ?.
- (geography) A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
Further reading
- “delta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: dèl?ta
Noun
delta m (invariable)
- delta (all senses)
Derived terms
- ala a delta
- deltaplano
Latvian
Noun
delta f (4th declension)
- delta (Greek letter)
- delta (landform at the mouth of a river)
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Noun
delta m (definite singular deltaen, indefinite plural deltaer, definite plural deltaene)
- the Greek letter ?, ? (delta)
Etymology 2
Noun
delta n (definite singular deltaet, indefinite plural delta or deltaer, definite plural deltaene)
- a river delta
Derived terms
- elvedelta
Etymology 3
From del (“part”) + ta (“take”); i.e. to take (a) part in something; to partake in something
Verb
delta (imperative delta, present tense deltar, passive deltas, simple past deltok, past participle deltatt, present participle deltakende)
- to participate; to partake
Related terms
- deltagelse, deltakelse
- deltager, deltaker
References
- “delta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From del (“part”) + ta (“take”); i.e. to take (a) part in something
Alternative forms
- deltaka, deltake (long forms)
Verb
delta (present tense deltek or deltar, past tense deltok, past participle delteke or deltatt, passive infinitive delteken, present participle deltakande, imperative delta)
- to participate
Related terms
- deltakar
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Noun
delta m (definite singular deltaen, indefinite plural deltaer or deltaar, definite plural deltaene or deltaane)
- the Greek letter ?, ? (delta)
Etymology 3
A specialized use of delta (Etymology 2).
Noun
delta n (definite singular deltaet, indefinite plural delta, definite plural deltaa)
- a river delta
Derived terms
- elvedelta
References
- “delta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?l.ta/
Noun
delta f
- delta
- (mathematics, colloquial) discriminant
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: del?ta
Noun
delta m (plural deltas)
- delta (Greek letter)
- delta (landform at the mouth of a river)
Derived terms
- asa-delta
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dêlta/
- Hyphenation: del?ta
Noun
d?lta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- delta, the Greek letter ?, ?
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?delta/, [?d?el?.t?a]
- Hyphenation: del?ta
Noun
delta f (plural deltas)
- Greek letter delta
Derived terms
Noun
delta m (plural deltas)
- (geography) a delta
Swedish
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ????? (délta).
Noun
delta n
- the Greek letter ?, ? (delta)
- a river delta
Declension
Etymology 2
From del (“part”) + ta(ga) (“take”); i.e. to take (a) part in something
Alternative forms
- deltaga (dated)
Pronunciation
Verb
delta (present deltar, preterite deltog, supine deltagit, imperative delta)
- to participate
Conjugation
Related terms
- deltagare
Anagrams
- delat, talde
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shoulder
English
Etymology
From Middle English schuldre, sholder, shulder, schulder, from Old English sculdra, sculdor (“shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *skuldru (“shoulder”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), see shield. Cognate with Old Frisian skuldere (“shoulder”) (West Frisian skouder (“shoulder”)), Middle Low German scholder (“shoulder”), Low German Schuller (“shoulder”), Dutch schouder (“shoulder”), German Schulter (“shoulder”), Danish skulder (“shoulder”), Swedish skuldra (“shoulder”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????ld?/
- (General American) enPR: sh?l?d?r, IPA(key): /??o?ld?/
- Rhymes: -??ld?(r)
- Hyphenation: shoul?der
Noun
shoulder (plural shoulders)
- The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
- A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
- The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
- (topography) A shelf between two levels.
- A verge to the side of a road.
- The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
- A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
- The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
- An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
- A verge to the side of a road.
- (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
- (of an object) The portion between the neck and the body.
- (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
- The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
- (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
- (figuratively) That which supports or sustains; support.
- The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
- (surfing) The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
Hyponyms
- (a verge to the side of a road): hard shoulder, soft shoulder
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shoulder (third-person singular simple present shoulders, present participle shouldering, simple past and past participle shouldered)
- (transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
- 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore
- Around her numberless the rabble flowed, / Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.
- 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore
- (transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
- Early in the morning they shouldered light packs, took their rifles, crossed the big draw, and entered the timber where was the deadfall.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
- (transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.
- (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
- (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
- (transitive) To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
- (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
- (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
- (transitive, archaic, slang) Of a servant: to embezzle money from (the employer).
Translations
Further reading
- shoulder at OneLook Dictionary Search
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