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insist
English
Etymology
Partly from Middle French insister, from Latin ?nsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Hyphenation: in?sist
Verb
insist (third-person singular simple present insists, present participle insisting, simple past and past participle insisted)
- (with on or upon or (that + ordinary verb form)) To hold up a claim emphatically.
- (I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)
- (sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done.
- (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
Translations
Anagrams
- INSTIs, sit-ins, sits in
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remain
English
Etymology
From Middle English remainen, from Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir, from Latin remane?, mane?, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay”).
Displaced native Middle English beliven, bliven (“to remain”) (from Old English bel?fan (“to remain, stay”)) due to confluence with related Middle English beleven (“to leave behind”), with which it merged. More at beleave and belive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???me?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
- Hyphenation: re?main
Noun
remain (plural remains)
- (chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.
- (in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
- Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
- (obsolete) State of remaining; stay.
Translations
Verb
remain (third-person singular simple present remains, present participle remaining, simple past and past participle remained)
- To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed
- (mathematics) To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
- To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
- , Book I
- That […] remains to be proved.
- , Book I
- To await; to be left to.
- (copulative) To continue in a state of being.
Synonyms
- (to stay behind while others withdraw): linger, stay, tarry; See also Thesaurus:stay behind
- (to be left over after a portion is removed): rest, stay; See also Thesaurus:remain
- (to continue unchanged): endure, last, stay; See also Thesaurus:persist
- (to await; to be left to): await, bide, wait; See also Thesaurus:wait for
- (to continue in a state of being): stay
- belave
Derived terms
- remain to be seen
Translations
Anagrams
- Amrine, Armine, Mainer, Marine, Marnie, Merina, Minear, Reiman, Rieman, airmen, mainer, marine
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