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Translingual

Symbol

dim

1. (mathematics) dimension

English

Etymology

From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?em- (“to whisk, smoke, blow; dust, haze, cloud; obscure”). Compare Faroese dimmur, Icelandic dimmur (“dark”) and dimma (“darkness”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?m, IPA^(key): /d?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Adjective

dim (comparative dimmer, superlative dimmest)

1. Not bright or colorful.

   The lighting was too dim for me to make out his facial features.

   • 1821, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

     that sustaining Love / Which, through the web of being blindly wove / By man and beast and earth and air and sea, / Burns bright or dim

2. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.

   He may be a bit dim, but he's not stupid.

3. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.

   His vision grew dimmer as he aged.

4. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
5. (music) Clipping of diminished.

Translations

Noun

dim (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Dimness.

Verb

dim (third-person singular simple present dims, present participle dimming, simple past and past participle dimmed)

1. (transitive) To make something less bright.

   He dimmed the lights and put on soft music.

2. (intransitive) To become darker.

   The lights dimmed briefly when the air conditioning was turned on.

3. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     a king among his courtiers, […] who out to dim the lustre of all his attendants

   • 1791, William Cowper, The Odyssey of Homer

     Now set the sun, and twilight dimm'd the ways.

4. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
   • 1740, Christopher Pitt, The Aeneid

     Her starry eyes were dimm'd with streaming tears.

Derived terms

• bedim
• dimly
• dimmer (noun)

Translations

Anagrams

• DMI, IDM, IM'd, IMD, MDI, MID, Mid., mid, mid-

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?m]
• Hyphenation: dim

Etymology 1

From Dutch duim.

Noun

dim (first-person possessive dimku, second-person possessive dimmu, third-person possessive dimnya)

1. thumb
2. inch

   Synonym: inci

Etymology 2

From English dimmer.

Noun

dim (first-person possessive dimku, second-person possessive dimmu, third-person possessive dimnya)

1. high-beam headlamp on a road vehicle.

Further reading

• “dim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latvian

Verb

dim

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of dim?t
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of dim?t
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of dim?t
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of dim?t

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse dimmr. Related to English dim and Icelandic dimmur.

Adjective

dim (neuter singular dimt, definite singular and plural dimme, comparative dimmere, indefinite superlative dimmest, definite superlative dimmeste)

1. dim
2. to have bad vision

   Han er dim på synet

   His vision is dim/bad/poor

References

• “dim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From the Old Norse adjective dimmr, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz. The neuter noun is derived from the adjective. The automotive senses may be a Back-formation from - of the verb dimme.

Adjective

dim (neuter singular dimt, definite singular and plural dimme, comparative dimmare, indefinite superlative dimmast, definite superlative dimmaste)

1. gloomy
2. dim
3. having bad vision

   Han er dim på synet

   His vision is dim/bad/poor

Related terms

• dimma, dimme (verb)

Noun 1

dim m (definite singular dimmen, indefinite plural dimmar, definite plural dimmane)

1. (automotive, colloquial) a switching of one's headlamps from high-beam to low-beam
2. (automotive, colloquial) lever, button or other
3. (dialectal) Clipping of dimme (“twilight, half darkness”).

Noun 2

dim n (definite singular dimmet, uncountable)

1. (dialectal) dimmest, darkest part of the summer night
2. (dialectal) twilight

   Synonym: skumring

Etymology 2

Noun

dim m (definite singular dimmen, indefinite plural dimmar, definite plural dimmane)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of dimensjon.

References

• “dim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• mid-

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dym?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?uh?mós (“smoke”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dîm/

Noun

d?m m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. smoke

Declension

Derived terms

• dimni signal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dym?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?uh?mós (“smoke”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dím/

Noun

d?m m inan

1. smoke

Inflection

Further reading

• “dim”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?m/

Adjective

dim

1. any
2. no, not, none

Noun

dim m (uncountable)

1. anything
2. nothing, none, nil, zero

Particle

dim

1. not

Usage notes

As a verbal particle, almost always appears mutated as ddim.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English cloud, cloude, clod, clud, clude, from Old English cl?d (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”).

Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely displaced native Middle English wolken, wolkne from Old English wolcen (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kloud, IPA^(key): /kla?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Noun

cloud (plural clouds)

1. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
2. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

3. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
4. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
5. (figuratively) Anything unsubstantial.
6. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
7. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

   • so great a cloud of witnesses
8. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.

9. (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
10. (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
11. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
12. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cloud.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:cloud

Derived terms

Translations

See cloud/translations § Noun.

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Verb

cloud (third-person singular simple present clouds, present participle clouding, simple past and past participle clouded)

1. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

2. (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

3. (transitive) To make obscure.

4. (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.

5. (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
6. (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
7. (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
8. (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

Translations

Further reading

• cloud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• clouds on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• could, culdo-

French

Pronunciation

Noun

cloud m (uncountable)

1. (computing, Anglicism, with le) the cloud.

Synonyms

• le nuage

See also

• informatique en nuage
• infonuagique

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clowd, cloude, clowde, clud, clude

Etymology

From Old English cl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *kl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klu?d/

Noun

cloud (plural cloudes)

1. A small elevation; a hill.
2. A clod, lump, or boulder.
3. A cloud (mass of water vapour) or similar.
4. The sky (that which is above the ground).
5. That which obscures, dims, or clouds.

Related terms

• cloudy

Descendants

• English: cloud
• Scots: clud, clood

References

• “cl?ud, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Irish

Etymology

From clo- +? -ud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl?o.uð/

Noun

cloüd m (genitive cloita)

1. verbal noun of cloïd: subduing
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56^b16

Descendants

• Middle Irish: clód
  • Irish: cló
  • Scottish Gaelic: clòthadh

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “clód”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Noun

cloud m (plural clouds)

1. (computing) cloud