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frank
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?æ?k/
- Rhymes: -æ?k
- Homophones: franc, Frank
Etymology 1
Middle English, from Old French franc (“free”), in turn from the name of an early Germanic confederation, the Franks.
Adjective
frank (comparative franker, superlative frankest)
- honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.
- (medicine) unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident
- (obsolete) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
- It is of frank gift.
- (obsolete) Liberal; generous; profuse.
- (obsolete, derogatory) Unrestrained; loose; licentious.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Derived terms
- frankly
Translations
Noun
frank (plural franks)
- (uncountable) Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article).
- October 5, 1780, William Cowper, letter to Rev. William Unwin
- I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again.
- October 5, 1780, William Cowper, letter to Rev. William Unwin
- (countable) The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found.
Verb
frank (third-person singular simple present franks, present participle franking, simple past and past participle franked)
- To place a frank on an envelope.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 20
- It will be so ridiculous to see all his letters directed to him with an M.P.—But do you know, he says, he will never frank for me?
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 20
- To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
- To send by public conveyance free of expense.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
Translations
See also
- prepay
Etymology 2
Shortened form of frankfurter.
Noun
frank (plural franks)
- A hot dog or sausage.
- Synonyms: frankfurt, frankfurter
Related terms
- cocktail frank
See also
- sav
- savaloy
Etymology 3
Noun
frank (plural franks)
- (Britain) The grey heron.
Etymology 4
From Old French franc.
Noun
frank (plural franks)
- A pigsty.
Verb
frank (third-person singular simple present franks, present participle franking, simple past and past participle franked)
- To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fra?k]
- Rhymes: -a?k
Noun
frank m
- franc (former currency of France and some other countries)
- franc (any of several units of currency such as Swiss franc)
Further reading
- frank in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- frank in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Alternative forms
- vrank (archaic, except in the expression vrank en vrij)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch vranc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fr??k/
- Hyphenation: frank
- Rhymes: -??k
- Homophone: Frank
Adjective
frank (comparative franker, superlative frankst)
- frank, candid, blunt, open-hearted
- (dated) cheeky, brazen
Inflection
Derived terms
- frank en vrij
Estonian
Etymology
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Noun
frank (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- franc
Declension
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German
Etymology
From Middle High German franc, from Old French franc (“free”), of Germanic but eventually uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?a?k/
Adjective
frank (not comparable)
- (archaic) frank
Usage notes
- Now almost exclusively used in the (also somewhat dated) expression frank und frei.
Declension
Further reading
- “frank” in Duden online
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /frank/
Noun
frank m anim
- franc
Usage notes
Unqualified modern usage typically refers to the Swiss franc.
Declension
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shallow
English
Etymology
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English s?eald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh?- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??al??/
- (US) IPA(key): /??æl.o?/
- Rhymes: -æl??
- Hyphenation: shal?low
Adjective
shallow (comparative shallower, superlative shallowest)
- Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- This crater is relatively shallow.
- Saute the onions in a shallow pan.
- Extending not far downward.
- The water is shallow here.
- Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
- Lacking interest or substance.
- The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
- Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- shallow learning
- The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
- (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
- (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
Antonyms
- deep
Derived terms
- given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
Translations
Noun
shallow (plural shallows)
- A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
- The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
- dashed on the shallows of the moving sand
- A fish, the rudd.
- (historical) A costermonger's barrow.
- 1871, Belgravia (volume 14, page 213)
- You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.
- 1871, Belgravia (volume 14, page 213)
Usage notes
- Usually used in the plural form.
Translations
See also
- shoal
- sandbar
- sandbank
Verb
shallow (third-person singular simple present shallows, present participle shallowing, simple past and past participle shallowed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become less deep.
References
Anagrams
- hallows
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