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earth

English

Etymology

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe (earth, ground, soil, dry land), from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþ? (earth, ground, soil) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (earth) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse j?rfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (compare Ancient Greek *??? (*éra) in ????? (éraze, on the ground), perhaps Tocharian B yare (gravel).

Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian ????? (erkir, earth). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *?ar??- – whence Arabic ?????? (?ar?), Hebrew ?????? (?ere?) – is probably not related.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???/
  • (US) IPA(key): /??/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)?

Proper noun

earth

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Earth; Our planet, third out from the Sun.

Usage notes

  • The word earth is capitalized to Earth when used in context with other celestial bodies.

Translations

Noun

earth (countable and uncountable, plural earths)

  1. (uncountable) Soil.
  2. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
  3. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
  4. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
  5. The lair (as a hole on the ground) of an animal such as fox.
  6. A region of the planet; a land or country.
  7. Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
  8. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
  9. The people on the globe.
  10. (archaic) The human body.
  11. (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
  12. (chemistry, obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.

Derived terms

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Verb

earth (third-person singular simple present earths, present participle earthing, simple past and past participle earthed)

  1. (Britain, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.
    Synonym: ground
  2. (transitive) To bury.
  3. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
  4. (intransitive) To burrow.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Tickell to this entry?)

Derived terms

  • earthing
  • unearth

Translations

Anagrams

  • Erath, Harte, Heart, Herat, Herta, Taher, Terah, Thera, hater, heart, rathe, rehat, th'are, thare

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orogeny

English

Etymology

From French orogénie, from Ancient Greek ???? (óros, mountain, high ground) + ?????? (geneia, creation, birth, making). Surface etymology is oro- +? -geny.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /????d??ni/, /????d??ni/

Noun

orogeny (countable and uncountable, plural orogenies)

  1. (geology) The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.
    • 1993, P. A. Cawood, Acadian orogeny in west Newfoundland: Definition, character, and significance, David C. Roy, James William Skehan (editors), The Acadian Orogeny: Recent Studies in New England, Geological Society of America, page 138,
      The effects of Acadian orogeny are concentrated in central Newfoundland, decreasing in intensity to the east and west (Williams, this volume).
    • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 102:
      When I asked Geoff Milnes what age the rocks were before they were turned into uncompromising gneisses by the Alpine orogeny he made a rueful face.
    • 2009, Robert S. Hildebrand, Did Westward Subduction Cause Cretaceous-Tertiary Orogeny in the North American Cordillera?, Geological Society of America, page 5,
      In Canada the fold-thrust belt formed during what is termed the Columbian orogeny (Monger and Price, 2002). Because the Sevier and Columbian orogenies were contemporaneous and constitute a single continuous and linear belt of rocks and structures, I use the term Cordillera orogeny to refer to the Cretaceous deformation that created the entire belt, whereas the term Laramide is used only to refer to a series of Late Cretaceous—Tertiary basement-involved uplifts, for the most part located in the Rocky Mountain foreland east of the fold-thrust belt and mainly south of the Lewis and Clark lineament (Fig. 1) in keeping with the original definition by Armstrong (1968).

Derived terms

  • orogenic
  • orogenesis
  • orogenous

Synonyms

  • orogenesis

Related terms

  • orogen

Translations

Further reading

  • orogeny on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • goonery

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