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detach
English
Etymology
From Old French destachier, from the same root as attach; compare French détacher and Portuguese and Spanish destacar.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /d??tæt?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /d??tæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?
Verb
detach (third-person singular simple present detaches, present participle detaching, simple past and past participle detached)
- (transitive) To take apart from; to take off.
- (transitive, military) To separate for a special object or use.
- (intransitive) To come off something.
Synonyms
- (take apart from): disengage, unfasten; see also Thesaurus:disconnect or Thesaurus:deadhere
- (separate for a special object or use): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- (come off something): fall off
Antonyms
- attach
Derived terms
- detachable
- detachment
Translations
Anagrams
- Cath ed, cathed, chated, hectad
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wrest
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?st, IPA(key): /??st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Homophone: rest
Etymology 1
From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wr?stan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijan?, (compare Proto-Germanic *wr?han? (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wr?þan? (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wrei?-, *wrey?- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Verb
wrest (third-person singular simple present wrests, present participle wresting, simple past and past participle wrested)
- (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
- (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.
- (transitive, figuratively) To seize.
- (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
- (transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.
Derived terms
- outwrest
- overwrest
- wrester
Related terms
- wrestle
Translations
Noun
wrest (plural wrests)
- The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
- (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
- (obsolete) Active or motive power.
- (obsolete, rare) Short for saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
Derived terms
- saw wrest
- wrest block
- wrest pin
- wrest plank
Etymology 2
Possibly a variant of wrist: see the quotation. Wrist is also derived from *wr?þan? (“to weave, twist”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wrei?-, *wrey?- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”).
Noun
wrest (plural wrests)
- A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
Etymology 3
A misspelling of rest, probably influenced by wrest (etymology 1, verb and noun).
Noun
wrest (plural wrests)
- (agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
Derived terms
- turnwrest
References
Anagrams
- Trews, strew, trews, werst
Middle English
Noun
wrest
- Alternative form of wrist
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