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foul
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: foul, IPA(key): /fa?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
- Homophone: fowl
- Rhymes: -a??l
Etymology 1
From Middle English foul, from Old English f?l (“foul, unclean, impure, vile, corrupt, rotten, guilty”), from Proto-Germanic *f?laz (“foul, rotten”), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“to rot”). Cognate with Dutch vuil (“foul”), German faul (“rotten, putrid”), Danish and Swedish ful (“foul”), and through Indo-European, with Albanian fëlliq (“to make dirty”), Latin puter (“rotten”). More at putrid.
Ancient Greek ?????? (phaûlos, “bad”) is a false cognate inasmuch as it is not from the same etymon, instead being cognate to few.
Adjective
foul (comparative fouler, superlative foulest)
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene ii[1]:
- […] Hast thou forgot / The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy / Was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her?
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene ii[1]:
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
- (of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "foul" is often applied: play, ball, language, breath, smell, odor, water, weather, deed.
Synonyms
- (hateful, detestable): shameful; odious; wretched
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English foulen, fulen, from Old English f?lian (“to become foul; rot; decay”), from Proto-Germanic *f?l?n? (“to rot; decay”).
Verb
foul (third-person singular simple present fouls, present participle fouling, simple past and past participle fouled)
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- to foul the face or hands with mire
- She's fouled her diaper.
- (transitive) To besmirch.
- He's fouled his reputation.
- (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
- (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18, [2]
- The Indian's heart was sore for his boat; it looked as if nothing could save her. She was drifting more slowly now, her propeller fouled in kelp.
- The kelp has fouled the prop.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18, [2]
- (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- Smith fouled him hard.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
- Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.
- (intransitive) To become clogged.
- The drain fouled.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- The prop fouled on the kelp.
- (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
- Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- Jones fouled for strike one.
Derived terms
- foul one's own nest
Translations
Noun
foul (plural fouls)
- (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
- (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
- Jones hit a foul up over the screen.
Descendants
- ? Russian: ??? (fol)
Translations
See also
- foul fish
Further reading
- foul in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- foul in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- foul at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- fluo-
German
Verb
foul
- singular imperative of foulen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of foulen
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French fol.
Noun
foul
- Alternative form of fole (“fool”)
Etymology 2
From Old English fugol.
Noun
foul
- Alternative form of fowel
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rank
Translingual
Symbol
rank
- (mathematics) The symbol for rank.
English
Alternative forms
- ranck (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?k/
- Rhymes: -æ?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English rank (“strong, proud”), from Old English ranc (“proud, haughty, arrogant, insolent, forward, overbearing, showy, ostentatious, splendid, bold, valiant, noble, brave, strong, full-grown, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?- (“straight, direct”). Cognate with Dutch rank (“slender, slim”), Low German rank (“slender, projecting, lank”), Danish rank (“straight, erect, slender”), Swedish rank (“slender, shaky, wonky”), Icelandic rakkur (“straight, slender, bold, valiant”).
Adjective
rank (comparative ranker or more rank, superlative rankest or most rank)
- Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
- Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
- And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
- Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
- Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
- Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
- Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
- Synonyms: stinky, smelly, (UK) pong
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist
- Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed.
- Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
- Synonyms: complete, utter
- (informal) Gross, disgusting.
- (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
- (obsolete) lustful; lascivious
Derived terms
- ranken
- rankful
Translations
Adverb
rank (comparative more rank, superlative most rank)
- (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
- The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare [...].
- That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
Etymology 2
From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”).
Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”) (Modern English ring), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). More at ring.
Noun
rank (countable and uncountable, plural ranks)
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- Antonym: file
- The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- Antonym: file
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
- Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
- The fancy hotel was of the first rank.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- a membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- Private First Class (PFC) is the second-lowest rank in the Marines.
- He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
Derived terms
- break rank
- cab off the rank
- cab rank
- cab-rank rule
- close ranks
- pull rank
- taxi rank
Translations
Verb
rank (third-person singular simple present ranks, present participle ranking, simple past and past participle ranked)
- To place abreast, or in a line.
- To have a ranking.
- Their defense ranked third in the league.
- To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- Ranking all things under general and special heads.
- 1726, William Broome, The Odyssey (by Homer)
- Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
- 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety
- Heresy [is] ranked with idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, murders, and other sins of the flesh.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- (US) To take rank of; to outrank.
Derived terms
- misrank
- outrank
Translations
References
- rank at OneLook Dictionary Search
- rank in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- ARNK, Karn, karn, knar, kran, nark
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r??k/
- Hyphenation: rank
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch ranc, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz.
Adjective
rank (comparative ranker, superlative rankst)
- slender, svelte
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch ranc, ranke, from Old Dutch *rank, from Frankish hranca.
Noun
rank f (plural ranken, diminutive rankje n)
- tendril, a thin winding stem
Anagrams
- karn
References
German
Etymology
From Middle Low German rank, ranc, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?k/
Adjective
rank (comparative ranker, superlative am ranksten)
- (poetic, dated, except in the phrase rank und schlank) lithe, lissome
Declension
Related terms
- rahn
Verb
rank
- singular imperative of ranken
Further reading
- “rank” in Duden online
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