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heal
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi?l/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Homophones: heel, he'll, hill (in some accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English helen, from Old English h?lan (“to heal, cure, save, greet, salute”), from Proto-Germanic *hailijan? (“to heal, make whole, save”), from Proto-Indo-European *koyl- (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Scots hale, hail (“to heal”), Saterland Frisian heila, heilen (“to heal”), West Frisian hielje, Dutch helen (“to heal”), German heilen (“to heal”), Danish hele, Swedish hela (“to heal”). More at whole.
Verb
heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed)
- (transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
- This bandage will heal your cut.
- Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
- (intransitive) To become better or healthy again.
- Bandages allow cuts to heal.
- To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
- to heal dissensions
Synonyms
- (make better): cure, make whole
- (become better): get better, recover
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
heal (countable and uncountable, plural heals)
- (role-playing games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
- 2004, Computer Gaming World (volumes 234-237, page 81)
- Also, various interesting spells have been added—for instance, with the Orb spell, you can circle a character, firing offensive bolts or casting heals, and free up a mage-type to cast other spells or even melee.
- 2009, Paul Emmerich, Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons (page 351)
- The following macro checks whether our current target is friendly and casts a heal on it if so; otherwise it casts the heal on the target's target […]
- 2012, Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire, Sasha Barab, Games, Learning, and Society
- Synner, a priest walking by, sees her struggling and casts a heal on her.
- 2004, Computer Gaming World (volumes 234-237, page 81)
- (obsolete, uncountable) health
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Etymology 2
See hele.
Verb
heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed)
- (rare) Alternative form of hele (“conceal”).
- 1907, John. H. Brownell, Arthur Maurice Smith, Joseph E. Morcombe, The American Tyler-Keystone: Devoted to Freemasonry, page 6:
- "Heal, conceal and keep secret."
- 1998, Clive Richardson, The Horse Breakers, page 212:
- 'I swear before God and all these witnesses that I will always heal, conceal and never reveal any art or part of this secret of horsemanry which is to be revealed to me at this time or any other time hereafter.'
- 2015, Lee Morgan, The Bones Would Do: Book Two of the Christopher Penrose Novels:
- The man in black asked Christopher for the secret passwords he'd been given and he answered correctly. As soon as he had, Christopher felt the point of a blade at his throat. “Do you swear to heal, conceal and never reveal the secrets of the witching arts for all your days […] ?"
- 1907, John. H. Brownell, Arthur Maurice Smith, Joseph E. Morcombe, The American Tyler-Keystone: Devoted to Freemasonry, page 6:
Anagrams
- Aleh, Hale, Hela, Leah, hale
Estonian
Adjective
heal
- adessive singular of hea
Scots
Noun
heal (uncountable)
- (obsolete) health
References
- “heal” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian half, from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h???l/
Adjective
heal
- half
Inflection
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Further reading
- “heal”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
Noun
heal
- Alternative form of heale
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tow
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English towen, from Old English togian, from Proto-Germanic *tug?n? (Middle High German zogen, German ziehen, Dutch tijgen, Old Norse toga), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: t?, IPA(key): /t??/
- (US) enPR: t?, IPA(key): /to?/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: toe
Verb
tow (third-person singular simple present tows, present participle towing, simple past and past participle towed)
- (transitive) To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.
- (running, cycling, motor racing, etc.) To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
Translations
Noun
tow (plural tows)
- The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
- It isn't the car's battery; I think I need a tow.
- Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
- Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
- A rope or cable used in towing.
- (motor racing) A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English touw, from Old English tow- (“spinning”) (in compounds, e.g. towcræft, towh?s, towlic), from Proto-Germanic *taww?; compare Old Norse tó (“uncleansed wool”), Dutch touw (“rope”). Perhaps cognate with Old English tawian (“prepare for use”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (taujan, “do, make”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: t?, IPA(key): /t??/, (rare) enPR: tou, IPA(key): /ta?/
- (US) enPR: t?, IPA(key): /to?/
Noun
tow (countable and uncountable, plural tows)
- An untwisted bundle of fibers such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
- And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
- (specifically) The short, coarse, less desirable fibers separated by hackling from the finer longer fibers (line).
Derived terms
- tow haired
- towhead
Related terms
- taw
Synonyms
- hards, oakum
Translations
References
Anagrams
- OTW, WTO, owt, two, wot
Middle English
Alternative forms
- towe, tow?, tow?e, tough, towhe, togh, tawe, toow
Etymology
From Old English tow-; for more see English tow.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?u?/
- Rhymes: -?u?
Noun
tow
- Unprepared flax, especially used as a firestarter.
- The fibrous matter of flax or a similar plant; (tow).
- Oakum, hards; the rough portion of flax separated during hackling.
Descendants
- English: tow
- Scots: towe
References
- “tou, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.
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