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fortify
English
Etymology
From Old French fortifier, from Latin fortific?.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f??t?fa?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??t?fa?/
- Hyphenation: for?ti?fy
Verb
fortify (third-person singular simple present fortifies, present participle fortifying, simple past and past participle fortified)
- (military) To increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces. [from early 15th c.]
- (figuratively) To impart strength or vigor to.
- (wine) To add spirits to wine to increase the alcohol content. [from 1880]
- (food) To increase the nutritional value of food by adding ingredients. [from 1939]
- 1979, Kiplinger's Personal Finance (volume 33, number 7, July 1979, page 47)
- Compare the nutrition information label of a regular ready-to-eat fortified cereal with that of a presweetened brand and you'll note that, although the sweetened one's sugar content is higher, the fortification is virtually identical.
- 1979, Kiplinger's Personal Finance (volume 33, number 7, July 1979, page 47)
Synonyms
- (To strengthen military defenses): castellate, incastle, incastellate; see also strengthen and secure
- (To impart strength): See also Thesaurus:strengthen
Derived terms
- biofortify
Related terms
- fort
- fortification
- fortress
Translations
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sonar
English
Etymology
From SONAR, acronym from sound navigation and ranging. Coined by American scientist Frederick Vinton Hunt in the 1940s.
Pronunciation
Noun
sonar (plural sonars)
- (nautical) echolocation
- (nautical) A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.
Synonyms
- SONAR (acronym of sound navigation and ranging)
Derived terms
- Doppler sonar
Translations
See also
- radar
- lidar
- sodar
Anagrams
- Ras?n, arson, orans, roans, saron, sorna
Catalan
Etymology 1
From Old Occitan sonar, from Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swen- (“to sound, resound”).
Verb
sonar (first-person singular present sono, past participle sonat)
- to sound, to make a sound
- to ring, to buzz
Conjugation
Related terms
- resonar
- so
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English sonar.
Noun
sonar m (uncountable)
- sonar
Further reading
- “sonar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sonar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “sonar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sonar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sonar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?so?.n?r/
- Hyphenation: so?nar
- Rhymes: -o?n?r
Noun
sonar m (plural sonars)
- sonar
Derived terms
- grondsonar
- sonarapparaat
- sonarapparatuur
- sonarhut
- sonarsignaal
- sonarsysteem
- sonarvis
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sonar.
Noun
sonar m (plural sonars)
- sonar
Icelandic
Noun
sonar
- indefinite genitive singular of sonur
Ido
Etymology
From Esperanto soni (“to sound”), French sonner, Italian suonare, Spanish sonar, ultimately from Latin son? (“to make a noise”).
Verb
sonar (present tense sonas, past tense sonis, future tense sonos, imperative sonez, conditional sonus)
- to ring
Conjugation
Occitan
Pronunciation
Verb
sonar
- to call (to name or refer to)
- Synonyms: cridar, apelar
Conjugation
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English sonar.
Noun
sonar m (plural sonares)
- (nautical) sonar (technique and device that uses sound propagation to detect underwater objects)
Romanian
Etymology
From French sonar
Noun
sonar n (plural sonare)
- sonar
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sonar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?na?r/
- Hyphenation: so?nar
Noun
sòn?r m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- sonar
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /so?na?/, [so?na?]
Etymology 1
From Old Spanish sonar, from Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swen- (“to sound, resound”).
Verb
sonar (first-person singular present sueno, first-person singular preterite soné, past participle sonado)
- to sound, to ring
- to sound (appear)
- (figuratively) to ring a bell, to be familiar
- (transitive, reflexive, figuratively) to blow one's nose
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English sonar.
Noun
sonar m (plural sonares)
- sonar (a device that uses hydrophones to locate objects underwater)
Alternative forms
- sónar
Further reading
- “sonar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Verb
sonar
- present tense of sona.
Anagrams
- Arons, nosar, sorna
Venetian
Etymology
From Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?. Compare Italian suonare.
Verb
sonar
- (transitive) to play, sound
Conjugation
- Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
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