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fondness
English
Etymology
From Middle English fondnes, fondnesse, fonnednesse, equivalent to fond +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?ndn?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f?ndn?s/
- Hyphenation: fond?ness
Noun
fondness (countable and uncountable, plural fondnesses)
- The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii:
- I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii:
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capacity
English
Etymology
From Middle English capacite, from Old French capacite, from Latin cap?cit?s, from capax (“able to hold much”), from capi? (“to hold, to contain, to take, to understand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??pæs?ti/
Noun
capacity (countable and uncountable, plural capacities)
- The ability to hold, receive or absorb
- A measure of such ability; volume
- The maximum amount that can be held
- It was hauling a capacity load.
- The orchestra played to a capacity crowd.
- Capability; the ability to perform some task
- The maximum that can be produced.
- Mental ability; the power to learn
- A faculty; the potential for growth and development
- A role; the position in which one functions
- Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
- Electrical capacitance.
- (operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
- Its capacity rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum capacity was 200 tons per hour.
Synonyms
- throughput
- See also Thesaurus:skill
Derived terms
- capac
- capacitance
- capacitate
- capacitive
- capacitation
- capacitor
Translations
References
- capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search
Adjective
capacity
- Filling the allotted space.
- There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.
- 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
- At an overcast Eton Dorney, roared on by a capacity crowd including Prince Harry and Prince William, the volume rose as they entered the final stages.
Related terms
- capacious
Further reading
- capacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- capacity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search
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