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firm
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??m/, [f?m]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??m/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Etymology 1
From Italian firma (“signature”), from firmare (“to sign”), from Latin firmare (“to make firm, to confirm (by signature)”), from firmus (“firm, stable”). The contemporary sense developed in the 18th century simultaneously with German Firma (“business, name of business”). There are conflicting statements in the literature as to which of the two languages influenced which.
Noun
firm (plural firms)
- (Britain, business) A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
- (business, economics) A business enterprise, however organized.
- (slang) A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism.
Derived terms
- The Firm
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English ferme, from Old French ferme, from Latin firmus (“strong, steady”). Doublet of dharma.
Adjective
firm (comparative firmer, superlative firmest)
- Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
- Fixed (in opinion)
- He was firm that selling his company would a good choice and didn't let anyone talk him out of it.
- Durable, rigid (material state)
- firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood; firm land (i.e. not soft and marshy)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
firm (third-person singular simple present firms, present participle firming, simple past and past participle firmed)
- (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
- (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
- (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
- (intransitive) To improve after decline.
- (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
- (transitive, Britain, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
Translations
Further reading
- Firm in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- FRIM, fMRI, frim
German
Etymology
From Latin firmus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??m/
Adjective
firm (comparative firmer, superlative am firmsten)
- (somewhat dated) experienced, well versed
Declension
Further reading
- “firm” in Duden online
Polish
Noun
firm f
- genitive plural of firma
Zoogocho Zapotec
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish firma.
Noun
firm
- signature
Derived terms
- chgo?o firm
- cho?o firm
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Spanish firme.
Adjective
firm
- firm, fixed
References
- Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 220
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lasting
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?læst??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l??st??/
- (æ-tensing) IPA(key): /?le?st??/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /?last??/
- Rhymes: -??st??, -æst??
- Hyphenation: last?ing
Adjective
lasting (comparative more lasting, superlative most lasting)
- Persisting for an extended period of time.
- Synonyms: abiding, durable; see also Thesaurus:lasting
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 5, p. 249,[1]
- […] hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry
- Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.
- 1706, Susanna Centlivre, Love at a Venture, London: John Chantry, Act V, p. 63,[2]
- Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […]
- 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 11,[3]
- I knew that nought was lasting, but now even
- Change grows too changeable, without being new:
- 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, 1944, Chapter 34, p. 311,[4]
- Then his son bought a carven coffin hewn from a great log of fragrant wood which is used to bury the dead in and for nothing else because that wood is as lasting as iron, and more lasting than human bones, and Wang Lung was comforted.
- (obsolete) Persisting forever.
- Synonyms: eternal, everlasting; see also Thesaurus:eternal
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act 5, Scene 7,[6]
- I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
- Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
- And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
- His soul and body to their lasting rest.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, p. 24,[7]
- Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.
Derived terms
- lastingly
- lastingness
Translations
Verb
lasting
- present participle of last
Noun
lasting (plural lastings)
- (obsolete) The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
- Synonyms: continuance, duration, endurance
- 1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334,[8]
- But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.
- 1651, John Donne, Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, dedicatory epistle,[9]
- […] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […]
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 2, Chapter 10, § 4, p. 65,[10]
- But concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith Ideas are imprinted on the Memory, we may observe […]
- A durable woollen material formerly used for women's shoes.
- Synonym: everlasting
- The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
Anagrams
- Gatlins, salting, slating, staling
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From laste +? -ing
Noun
lasting f or m (definite singular lastinga or lastingen, indefinite plural lastinger, definite plural lastingene)
- loading (av / of)
Antonyms
- lossing
References
- “laste_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From laste +? -ing
Noun
lasting f (definite singular lastinga, indefinite plural lastingar, definite plural lastingane)
- loading (av / of)
Antonyms
- lossing
References
- “lasting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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