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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)

  1. (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.)
  2. (sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done.
  3. (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

Translations

Anagrams

  • INSTIs, sit-ins, sits in

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whine

English

Etymology

From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hw?nan (to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine), from Proto-West Germanic *hw?nan, from Proto-Germanic *hw?nan?, from Proto-Indo-European *?wey- (to hiss, whistle, whisper). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian hvine, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine.

Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wain?n?.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: w?n, IPA(key): /wa?n/, [?a??n], [????n], [?ä?n], [??e?n]
  • (without the winewhine merger) enPR: hw?n, IPA(key): /?a?n/
  • Rhymes: -a?n
  • Homophone: wine (accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

whine (plural whines)

  1. A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
  2. A complaint or criticism.

Translations

Verb

whine (third-person singular simple present whines, present participle whining, simple past and past participle whined)

  1. (intransitive) To utter a high-pitched cry.
  2. (intransitive) To make a sound resembling such a cry.
    The jet engines whined at take off.
  3. (intransitive) To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine.
  4. (intransitive) To move with a whining sound.
  5. (transitive) To utter with the sound of a whine.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:complain

Translations


Middle English

Verb

whine

  1. Alternative form of whynen

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