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fervent
English
Etymology
From Middle English fervent, from Old French fervent, from Latin fervens, ferventem, present participle of fervere (“to boil, ferment, glow, rage”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?.v?nt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??.v?nt/
- Hyphenation: fer?vent
- Rhymes: -??(?)v?nt
Adjective
fervent (comparative more fervent, superlative most fervent)
- Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief.
- 1819, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda, ch. 3:
- As I returned my fervent hopes were dashed by so many fears.
- 1819, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda, ch. 3:
- Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, or passion.
- 1876, Wilkie Collins, "Mr. Captain and the Nymph," in Little Novels,
- Never again would those fresh lips touch his lips with their fervent kiss!
- 1876, Wilkie Collins, "Mr. Captain and the Nymph," in Little Novels,
- Glowing, burning, very hot.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Second Epistle of Peter, 3:10:
- But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Second Epistle of Peter, 3:10:
Derived terms
- fervently
Related terms
- fever
- ferment
- fervid
- fervor
Translations
Further reading
- fervent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fervent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- fervent at OneLook Dictionary Search
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ferv?ns.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /f???vent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /f?r?ben/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /fe??vent/
Adjective
fervent (masculine and feminine plural fervents)
- fervent
- Synonym: fervorós
Derived terms
- ferventment
Related terms
- fervor
Further reading
- “fervent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fervent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “fervent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fervent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin ferv?ntem, accusative of ferv?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??.v??/
- Homophone: fervents
Adjective
fervent (feminine singular fervente, masculine plural fervents, feminine plural ferventes)
- fervent
Derived terms
- fervemment
Further reading
- “fervent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
fervent
- third-person plural present active indicative of ferve?
Romanian
Etymology
From French fervent, from Latin fervens.
Adjective
fervent m or n (feminine singular fervent?, masculine plural ferven?i, feminine and neuter plural fervente)
- fervent
Declension
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aggressive
English
Etymology
From aggress +? -ive. Compare with French agressif.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?????s.?v/
- Rhymes: -?s?v
Adjective
aggressive (comparative more aggressive, superlative most aggressive)
- Characterized by aggression; unjustly attacking; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking or arguing.
- an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
- 2011, Judith S. Weis, Do Fish Sleep?, Rutgers University Press (?ISBN), page 63:
- When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).
- (programming) Of heuristics, source code optimization techniques, etc.: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- 1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer ?ISBN, page 59
- This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
- 2001, Paul Feautrier (edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal), Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer ?ISBN, page 173
- Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.
- 2002, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press ?ISBN, page 465
- However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.
- 2002, Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press ?ISBN, page 249
- The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.
- 2003, Susanna Pelagatti (edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch), Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Springer ?ISBN, page 182
- This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.
- 2011, Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition, Elsevier ?ISBN, page 11
- The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.
- 1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer ?ISBN, page 59
- (pathology, of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:combative
Antonyms
- passive
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- aggressive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- aggressive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
German
Adjective
aggressive
- inflection of aggressiv:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
aggressive f pl
- feminine plural of aggressivo
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
aggressive
- definite singular of aggressiv
- plural of aggressiv
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
aggressive
- definite singular of aggressiv
- plural of aggressiv
Swedish
Adjective
aggressive
- absolute definite natural masculine form of aggressiv.
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