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hill
English
Etymology
From Middle English hill, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?Hnís (“top, hill, rock”). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian ???? (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?l, IPA(key): /h?l/, [h??]
- Rhymes: -?l
- Homophone: heel (in some dialects)
Noun
hill (plural hills)
- An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- A sloping road.
- (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
- (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
- (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
- The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
- Antonym: dale
Hyponyms
- (elevation): hillock, toman (smaller hills)
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- hill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Hill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
hill (third-person singular simple present hills, present participle hilling, simple past and past participle hilled)
- To form into a heap or mound.
- To heap or draw earth around plants.
Translations
Westrobothnian
Etymology
Cognate with Icelandic hilla, Swedish hylla.
Noun
hill f (definite singular hilla)
- shelf
Synonyms
- fjahl
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brew
English
Etymology 1
Middle English brewen, from Old English br?owan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewh?-.
Cognate withDutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek ????? (phréar, “well”), Latin ferv?re (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit ??????? (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley
Pronunciation
- enPR: bro?o, IPA(key): /b?u?/
- (Wales) IPA(key): /b????/
- Rhymes: -u?
Verb
brew (third-person singular simple present brews, present participle brewing, simple past and past participle brewed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, 1942, Chapter Eleven, p. 113,[1]
- Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]
- 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, 1942, Chapter Eleven, p. 113,[1]
- (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene 5,[2]
- Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene 5,[2]
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
- (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing
- Synonyms: contrive, plot, hatch
- 1634, John Milton, Comus, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Humphrey Mosely, 1645, p. 106,[3]
- Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]
- (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene 4,[4]
- I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene 4,[4]
- (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 5,[5]
- There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 5,[5]
- (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
Translations
Derived terms
- brewage
- brewer
- brewery
- brewhouse
Noun
brew (plural brews)
- The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
- (slang) A single serving (can, bottle, etc.) of beer.
- (Britain, slang) A cup of tea.
Translations
Etymology 2
Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow
Noun
brew (plural brews)
- (Britain, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
Translations
Anagrams
- BWER
Middle English
Verb
brew
- Alternative form of brewen
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *bry, from Proto-Indo-European *h?b?rúHs
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /br?f/
Noun
brew f
- eyebrow
Declension
Further reading
- brew in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- brew in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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