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fluctuate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fluctuo, fluctuatus.
Verb
fluctuate (third-person singular simple present fluctuates, present participle fluctuating, simple past and past participle fluctuated)
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (intransitive) To undulate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- I fluctuated between wishing he was back home and wishing I'd never met him.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
Related terms
- fluctuant
Translations
Latin
Verb
fl?ctu?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of fl?ctu?
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scruple
English
Etymology
From Old French scrupule, from Latin scr?pulus (“(literally) a small sharp or pointed stone; the twenty-fourth part of an ounce; uneasiness of mind, anxiety, doubt, trouble; scruple”), diminutive of scr?pus (“a rough or sharp stone; anxiety, uneasiness”); perhaps akin to Ancient Greek ?????? (skúros, “the chippings of stone”), from ????? (xurón, “razor”), from ??? (xú?, “to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *ksunyo-.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sk?u?p?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sk?up?l/
- Rhymes: -u?p?l
- Hyphenation: scru?ple
Noun
scruple (plural scruples)
- (pharmacy) A weight of 1?288 of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ?).
- Synonym: (abbreviation) s.ap.
- (obsolete, by extension) A very small quantity; a particle.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum
- (obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
- Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience.
- A Hebrew unit of time equal to 1?1080 hour.
Derived terms
- scrupleless
- scrupulosity
- scrupulous
- scrupulously
- scrupulousness
- unscrupulous
- unscrupulously
- unscrupulousness
Translations
Verb
scruple (third-person singular simple present scruples, present participle scrupling, simple past and past participle scrupled)
- (intransitive) To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
- (intransitive) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
- (transitive) To regard with suspicion; to question.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.
Translations
Further reading
- conscience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- scruple in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- scruple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- curples
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