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marry
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?mæ??/
- (General American) enPR: m?r??
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA(key): /?mæ?i/
- (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /?m??i/, /?me?i/
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
- (Mary–marry–merry merger)
- Rhymes: -æri
- Homophones: Mary, merry (Mary–marry–merry merger)
- Hyphenation: mar?ry
Etymology 1
From Middle English marien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French marier, from Latin mar?t?re (“to wed”), from mar?tus (“husband, suitor”), from m?s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit ???? (márya, “suitor, young man”). Compare its feminine derivatives: Welsh morwyn (“girl”), merch (“daughter”), Crimean Gothic marzus (“wedding”), Ancient Greek ?????? (meîrax, “boy; girl”), Lithuanian martì (“bride”), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (mairiia, “yeoman”).) Displaced native Old English h?wian.
Verb
marry (third-person singular simple present marries, present participle marrying, simple past and past participle married)
- (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]
- Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
- 1641, Evelyn, Diary, quoted in 1869 by Edward J. Wood in The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries, volume 2, page 241:
- Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] "
- 1755, The Holy Bible, both Old and New Testament, Digested, Illustrated, and Explained, second edition, page 59:
- But Esau, being now forty years of age, took a false step by marrying not only without his parents consent; but with two wives, daughters of the Hittites.
- 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News
- If and when Suzy does marry, it will be an open marriage because she's a believer in the "totality" of freedom.
- (intransitive, with dual subject) To enter into marriage with one another.
- Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
- (transitive) To take as husband or wife. [from 15th c.]
- In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
- His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
- (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. [from 14th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIII:
- The kyngdome of heven is lyke unto a certayne kinge, which maryed his sonne [...].
- He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIII:
- (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. [from 16th c.]
- A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
- 1715, John Gay, The What D'Ye Call It?
- Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of inanimate or abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up.
- There's a big gap here. These two parts don't marry properly.
- I can't connect it, because the plug doesn't marry with the socket.
- (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union. [from 15th c.]
- The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
- 2006, Lisa C. Hickman, William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers
- For Faulkner, these years marry professional triumphs and personal disappointments: the Nobel Prize for Literature and an increasingly unlifting depression.
- (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
- (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- divorce
Derived terms
Related terms
- marriage
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English Marie, referring to Mary, the Virgin Mary. Mid-14th century.
Interjection
marry!
- (obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
- I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
See also
- wed
References
Further reading
- Marriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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meld
English
Etymology 1
Blend of melt +? weld; alternatively, from English melled (“mingled; blended”), past participle of mell.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?ld/
- Rhymes: -?ld
Verb
meld (third-person singular simple present melds, present participle melding, simple past and past participle melded)
- (US) to combine multiple similar objects into one
- One can meld copper and zinc together to form brass.
- Much as America's motto celebrates melding many into one, South Africa's says that it doesn't matter what you look like — we can all be proud of our young country. - The New York Times, 26/02/2007 [1]
Synonyms
- conflate
Related terms
- melt
- weld
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably borrowed from Dutch or German melden (“to report, announce”). Compare cognate Middle English melden (“to call out, accuse”), from Old English meldian (“to declare, announce, tell”).
Verb
meld (third-person singular simple present melds, present participle melding, simple past and past participle melded)
- In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.
Translations
Noun
meld (plural melds)
- A combination of cards which is melded.
Translations
References
- “meld”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Danish
Verb
meld
- imperative of melde
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?lt
Verb
meld
- first-person singular present indicative of melden
- imperative of melden
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
meld
- imperative of melde
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse meldr.
Alternative forms
- melder m
Noun
meld m (definite singular melden, indefinite plural meldar, definite plural meldane)
- grinding, crushing
- an amount of grain that is to be milled
- an amount of flour that returns from the mill
Related terms
- mala, male (to grind, crush)
- mjøl n
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
meld (neuter singular meldt, definite singular and plural melde)
- past participle of melde
Verb
meld
- imperative of melda and melde
References
- “meld” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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