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hurry

English

Etymology

From Middle English horien (to rush, impel), probably a variation of hurren (to vibrate rapidly, buzz), from Proto-Germanic *hurzan? (to rush) (compare Middle High German hurren (to hasten), Norwegian hurre (to whirl around)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (to run) (compare Latin curr? (I run), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwärsar (league; course)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.

Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry, which see.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??.i/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?h??.i/ (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
  • (US) IPA(key): [?h?.i] (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
  • Rhymes: -?ri

Noun

hurry (countable and uncountable, plural hurries)

  1. Rushed action.
  2. Urgency.
  3. (American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
  4. (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.

Derived terms

  • in a hurry

Translations

Verb

hurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried)

  1. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
  2. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
  3. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
  4. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
    • the rapid Stream presently draws him in , carries him away , and hurries him down violently.
  5. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
  6. (mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
    • 1842, The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 45:
      Elizabeth Day, aged seventeen [] "I have been nearly nine years in the pit. I trapped for two years when I first went, and have hurried ever since. I have hurried for my father until a year ago. I have to help to riddle and fill, []

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:rush

Translations

See also

  • haste
  • hurry up
  • di di mau

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coercion

English

Etymology

From Old French cohercion, from Latin coerciti? (magisterial coercion), from coercere, past participle coercitus (to restrain, coerce), from cum (with) + arce? (to shut in, enclose); see coerce.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ko?????n/, /ko?????n/

Noun

coercion (countable and uncountable, plural coercions)

  1. (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
  2. (law, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
  3. (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
  4. (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
  5. (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.

Antonyms

  • noncoercion

Hyponyms

  • type coercion

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Trivia

One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.

References

  • coercion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • “coercion” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • coercion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • coercion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • criocone

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