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flog
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fl??/
- Rhymes: -??
- (US) IPA(key): /fl??/
Etymology 1
From unattested Old English *floggian, a stem variant of Proto-Germanic *flukk?n? (“to beat”), itself a secondary zero-grade iterative with unetymological -u-, derived from *fl?kan?. The original zero-grade iterative *flakk?n? had been misinterpreted as an o-grade. See flack (“to beat”), also as a dialectal noun "a blow, slap".
Verb
flog (third-person singular simple present flogs, present participle flogging, simple past and past participle flogged)
- (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
- (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
- (transitive, Britain, slang) To sell.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
- (transitive, agriculture) To exploit.
- (theater) To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
Synonyms
- (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
flog (plural flogs)
- (Australia, informal, derogatory) A contemptible, often arrogant person.
See also
- flail
- flay
- vapulate
Etymology 2
Blend of fake +? blog
Noun
flog (plural flogs)
- (Internet slang) A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.
- 2008, Lucas Conley, OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder
- Though a handful of viral videos and flogs have captured significant interest, the vast majority hardly register with consumers.
- 2009, Nico Carpentier, Benjamin De Cleen, Participation and Media Production: Critical Reflections on Content Creation (page 33)
- An element more problematic […] in the move of corporate communications and practices online is the sometimes masked nature of such initiatives, for example through blogola and flogs.
- 2010, Beata Klimkiewicz, Media Freedom and Pluralism
- […] hidden advertising and flogs (the use of “personal blogs” for unfair commercial and political purposes), […]
- 2008, Lucas Conley, OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder
Synonyms
- spamblog
- splog
References
Anagrams
- GLOF, golf
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flo?k/
Verb
flog
- past tense of fliegen
Icelandic
Etymology
Doublet (showing a-mutation) of flug (“flight; cliff”), from Old Norse flog, flug (“flight; cliff; an illness of the head”), from Proto-Germanic *flug?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fl???/
- Rhymes: -???
Noun
flog n (genitive singular flogs, nominative plural flog)
- (obsolete, poetic) flight (the act of flying)
- seizure (sudden attack [of an illness], convulsion, e.g. an epileptic seizure)
- seizure (sudden onset of pain)
Declension
Related terms
- flogaveiki
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse flog.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flo??/
Noun
flog n (definite singular floget, indefinite plural flog, definite plural floga)
- a flight (the act of flying)
- a steep drop, near vertical cliff
References
- “flog” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Volapük
Noun
flog (nominative plural flogs)
- flake
Declension
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vl??/
Noun
flog
- Soft mutation of blog.
Mutation
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speed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spi?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English spede (“prosperity, good luck, quickness, success”), from Old English sp?d (“luck, prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic *sp?di (“prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic *sp?an, Proto-Germanic *sp?an? (“to prosper, succeed, be happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *speh?- (“to prosper, turn out well”). Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“success, quickness, speed”), Dutch spoed (“haste; speed”), German Low German Spood (“haste; speed; eagerness; success”), German Sput (“progress, acceleration, haste”). Related also to Old English sp?wan (“to be successful, succeed”), Albanian shpejt (“to speed, to hurry”) and Russian ???????? (spešít?, “to hurry”), Latin sp?s (“hope, expectation”), sp?r? (“hope”, verb), perhaps also to Ancient Greek ?????? (speúd?, “to urge on, hasten, press on”).
Noun
speed (countable and uncountable, plural speeds)
- The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.
- Synonyms: celerity, rapidity, velocity
- (mathematics, physics) The rate of motion or action, specifically the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time.
- Hyponyms: lightspeed, speed of light, speed of sound
- (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
- (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open (shutter speed).
- (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
- (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
- (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a stimulant, especially illegally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:methamphetamine
- (archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.
- (slang) Personal preference.
- (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- Synonyms: DgammaDspot, gamma of the gamma
- Hypernym: Greeks
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
Units for measuring speed: metres/meters per second, m/s, kilometres/kilometers per hour, km/h (metric); knot, kt, kn (nautical); feet per second, ft/s, ft/sec and fps, miles per hour, mph (imperial and U.S. customary); mach (aeronautical)
Etymology 2
From Middle English speden, from Old English sp?dan (“to speed, prosper, succeed, have success”), from Proto-West Germanic *sp?dijan (“to succeed”). Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“to meet with success, assist, promote, accomplish, speed”), Dutch spoeden (“to hurry, rush”), Low German spoden, spöden (“to hasten, speed”), German sputen, spuden (“to speed”).
Verb
speed (third-person singular simple present speeds, present participle speeding, simple past and past participle sped or (mostly UK) speeded)
- (intransitive, archaic) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene i[1]:
- We have been praying for our husbands' healths,
- Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.
- Are they returned?
- 18thc., Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
- At night returning, every labor sped, / He sits him down the monarch of a shed: / Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys, / His children’s looks, that brighten at the blaze;
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene i[1]:
- (transitive, archaic) To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
- with rising gales that sped their happy flight
- (intransitive) To go fast.
- (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
- (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
- 1982, Carole Offir & Carole Wade, Human sexuality, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p.454:
- It is possible that the uterine contractions speed the sperm along.
- 2004, James M. Cypher & James L. Dietz, The process of economic development, Routledge, p.359:
- Such interventions can help to speed the process of reducing CBRs and help countries pass through the demographic transition threshold more quickly […].
- 1982, Carole Offir & Carole Wade, Human sexuality, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p.454:
- (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
- 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, Allen and Unwin, p.46:
- If Hector had not been speeding, it was possible that his next thought would have hurt: he loves his uncle unconditionally, in a way he will never love me.
- 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, Allen and Unwin, p.46:
- (obsolete) To be expedient.
- (archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
- (archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
- To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
- He sped him thence, home to his habitation.
- To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
- 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani
- Judicial acts […] are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties.
- 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani
Usage notes
- The Cambridge Guide to English Usage indicates that sped is for objects in motion (the race car sped) while speeded is used for activities or processes, but notes that the British English convention does not hold in American English.
- Garner's Modern American Usage (2009) indicates that speeded is incorrect, except in the phrasal verb, speed up. Most American usage of speeded conforms to this.
- Sped is about six times more common in American English (COCA) than speeded. Sped is twice as common in UK English (BNC).
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:speed.
Derived terms
- speed up
- Godspeed
Translations
Anagrams
- Peeds, deeps, pedes, spede
French
Noun
speed m (plural speeds)
- speed (amphetamine)
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