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draught
English
Etymology
From Middle English draught, from Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *dragan?; equivalent to draw +? -t.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d???ft/
- Rhymes: -??ft
- (US) IPA(key): /d?æft/
- Rhymes: -æft
- Homophone: draft
Noun
draught (countable and uncountable, plural draughts)
- (British spelling) Alternative form of draft in its various senses.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke V:
- […] he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 36:
- “Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the nearest seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short draughts—long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 35:
- Finally I gave him a draught, and he sank into uneasy slumber.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter iii:
- Much as I wish that I had not to write this chapter, I know that I shall have to swallow many such bitter draughts in the course of this narrative. And I cannot do otherwise, if I claim to be a worshipper of Truth. […]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke V:
- (Britain) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
- (Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
- (Britain, medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
- (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XV:
- Then sayde Jesus: are ye yett withoute understondinge? perceave ye not, that whatsoever goeth in at the mouth, descendeth doune into the bely, and ys cast out into the draught?
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XV:
- (Britain, obsolete) Any picture or drawing.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.22:
- And therefore, for the whole process, and full representation, there must be more than one draught; the one representing him in station, the other in session, another in genuflexion.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.22:
- (Britain, obsolete) A sudden attack upon an enemy.
- drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you
Synonyms
- (outhouse): draught-house; see also Thesaurus:bathroom
- (game piece): checker (used in checkers)
Derived terms
Related terms
- draw
Translations
Verb
draught (third-person singular simple present draughts, present participle draughting, simple past and past participle draughted)
- (Britain) Alternative spelling of draft
References
- draught in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913..
Middle English
Alternative forms
- draucht, drauht, draght, draht
Etymology
From Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, equivalent to drawen +? -t.
Noun
draught (plural draughtes)
- draught
Descendants
- English: draught
- Scots: draucht
- Yola: draught
References
- “draught, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Yola
Alternative forms
- draft
Etymology
From Middle English draught, from Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz
Noun
draught
- A drawing stroke with a weapon.
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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flux
English
Etymology
From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl?ks/
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
flux (countable and uncountable, plural fluxes)
- The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
- 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments
- By […] the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body.
- 1991, Mann, H., Fyfe, W., Tazaki, K., & Kerrich, R., Biological Accumulation of Different Chemical Elements by Microorganisms from Yellowstone National Park, USA. Mechanisms And Phylogeny Of Mineralization In Biological Systems, 357-362.
- Investigation of the silica budget for the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins of Yellowstone National Park by Truesdell et al. suggest that the present fluxes of hotspring water and thermal energy may have been continuous for at least the past 10,000 yr.
- 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments
- A state of ongoing change.
- The schedule is in flux at the moment.
- Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.
- 1856, Richard Chenevix Trench, On the Death of an Infant
- Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
- A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
- It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.
- (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically electric flux, magnetic flux.
- That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.
- (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
- (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
- The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
Antonyms
- (state of ongoing change): stasis
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
flux (third-person singular simple present fluxes, present participle fluxing, simple past and past participle fluxed)
- (transitive) To use flux on.
- You have to flux the joint before soldering.
- (transitive) To melt.
- (intransitive) To flow as a liquid.
Related terms
- fluxion
Adjective
flux (not comparable)
- (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, "On Contentment", Sermon XL, in The Theological Works, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375:
- The flux nature of all things here.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, "On Contentment", Sermon XL, in The Theological Works, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375:
Related terms
- fluxional
Related terms
- fluctuant
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin fluxus. Doublet of fluix.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?fluks/
Noun
flux m (plural fluxos)
- flow
Related terms
- fluir
Further reading
- “flux” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fluxus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fly/
Noun
flux m (plural flux)
- flow
- flood, flood tide
- Antonym: reflux
- (figuratively) flood (an abundance of something)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “flux” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
flux m (oblique plural flux, nominative singular flux, nominative plural flux)
- diarrhea (rapid passage of fecal matter through the bowels)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French flux.
Noun
flux n (plural fluxuri)
- flow (the flow of the tide)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French flux. Doublet of flujo and flojo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?flu?s/, [?flu??s]
Noun
flux m (plural fluxes)
- (card playing) flush (hand consisting of all cards with the same suit)
- (Venezuela, colloquial, Dominican Republic, dated) suit (set of clothes)
- Synonyms: terno, traje
Further reading
- “flux” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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