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manage
English
Etymology
From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, from Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from mano, from Latin manus (“the hand”); see manual.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?mæn?d?/
- (US)
- (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?mæn?d?/
- (no weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?mæn?d?/
- Rhymes: -æn?d?
- Hyphenation: man?age
Verb
manage (third-person singular simple present manages, present participle managing, simple past and past participle managed)
- (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
- (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
- (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
- It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
- (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
- (transitive, intransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
- To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (To handle with skill, wield): bewield
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
manage (uncountable)
- (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age
- Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age
- (horseriding) Manège.
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman
- You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman
See also
- man
- Management on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- manage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- manage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Meagan, agname
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harness
English
Etymology
From Middle English harneys, harnes, harneis, harnais, herneis, from Anglo-Norman harneis and Old French hernois (“equipment used in battle”), believed to be from Old Norse *hernest, from Old Norse heer (“army”) + nest (“provisions”). More at harry.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?h??(?).n?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n?s
Noun
harness (countable and uncountable, plural harnesses)
- (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.
- (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function.
- (dated, uncountable) The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general.
- 1606 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act V, scene V
- Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
- At least we'll die with harness on our back.
- 1606 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act V, scene V
- The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
- Equipment for any kind of labour.
Alternative forms
- harnass (rare, archaic)
Derived terms
- harnessed antelope
- harnessed moth
- test harness
Translations
Verb
harness (third-person singular simple present harnesses, present participle harnessing, simple past and past participle harnessed)
- (transitive) To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.
- (transitive) To capture, control or put to use.
- (transitive) To equip with armour.
Translations
See also
- harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Harness in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Shaners
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