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muster
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin m?nstr?re (“to show”), from monere (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?s.t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?s.t?/
- Rhymes: -?st?(?)
Noun
muster (plural musters)
- Gathering.
- An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things. [from 14th c.]
- 1743, Richard Steele & Joseph Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.:
- She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers.
- 1920, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, Issue 13,
- The figures from 1788 to 1825 inclusive, as already mentioned, are based on the musters taken in those years; those for subsequent years are based upon estimates made on the basis of Census results and the annual […] .
- 1743, Richard Steele & Joseph Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.:
- (chiefly military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service. [from 15th c.]
- 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1:
- Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily.
- 1663, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 4 Jul 1663:
- And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen […]
- 2010, Ohtar, "Enthroned", Slechtvalk, A Forlorn Throne.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1:
- The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc. [from 19th c.]
- 2006, John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos!, Boolarong Press:
- McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert.
- 2006, John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos!, Boolarong Press:
- An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things. [from 14th c.]
- Showing.
- (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern. [15th-19th c.]
- (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display. [15th-17th c.]
- 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book III:
- Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland [...].
- 1647, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, Act 2:
- And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners.
- 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book III:
- A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists). [from 15th c.]
Derived terms
- pass muster
- bangtail muster
Translations
Verb
muster (third-person singular simple present musters, present participle mustering, simple past and past participle mustered)
- (transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit. [15th-17th c.]
- (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc. [from 15th c.]
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- (transitive, US) To enroll (into service). [from 19th c.]
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.
Synonyms
- (gather, unite, especially troops): rally
Derived terms
- muster in
- muster out
- muster up
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
muster (plural musters)
- Synonym of mustee
- 1825, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 4:
- The next, the Quadroon, from the white and mulatto woman. The third descent, from a white and quadroon, is called a muster; from the fourth, between a white and a muster, springs the musteephinas and the fifth descent, viz. from a white and musteephina, is white by law, and of free birth; indeed the two latter classes are as white as a European.
- 1925, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Elmer Anderson Carter, Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, page 291:
- Mixed bloods, they are suspended between two races, — mulattoes, quadroons, musters, mustafinas, cabres, griffies, zambis, quatravis, tresalvis, coyotes, saltatras, albarassados, cambusos, — neither white nor black, but Negroes.
- 1825, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 4:
References
- muster in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- muster in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Sumter, estrum, mustre, muters, stumer, turmes
German
Pronunciation
Verb
muster
- singular imperative of mustern
Silesian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Muster.
Noun
muster m
- design, pattern
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heap
English
Etymology
From Middle English heep, from Old English h?ap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian ka?pas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan ????????????????? (kåfa)).
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?p, IPA(key): /hi?p/
- ((Ireland), dated) enPR: h?p, IPA(key): /he?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Noun
heap (plural heaps)
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War
- a heap of vassals and slaves
- 1876, Anthony Trollope, s:Doctor Thorne
- He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense
- 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England
- a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations
- 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, s:Will o' the Mill
- I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
- 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:lot
Hyponyms
- compost heap
Derived terms
- heapful
- heapmeal
- it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: ipi
Translations
Verb
heap (third-person singular simple present heaps, present participle heaping, simple past and past participle heaped)
- (transitive) To pile in a heap.
- (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
News of that vanished Arabian,
A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
- (transitive) To supply in great quantity.
Synonyms
- (pile in a heap): amass, heap up, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
Derived terms
- heap coals of fire on someone's head
- heaped (adj), heaping (adj)
- heap up
- overheap
Translations
Adverb
heap (not comparable)
- (offensive, representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans) Very.
- 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)
- We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.
- 2004, John Robert Colombo, The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes (page 175)
- Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick.
- 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)
Anagrams
- HAPE, HEPA, epha, hep A
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.
Cognate with Old Frisian h?p, Old Saxon h?p, Old High German houf. Old Norse hópr differs from the expected form *haupr because it is a borrowing from Middle Low German.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xæ???p/, [hæ???p]
Noun
h?ap m
- group
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"
- heap
Declension
Derived terms
- h?apm?lum
Descendants
- Middle English: heep
- English: heap
Portuguese
Etymology
From English heap
Noun
heap m or f (in variation) (plural heaps)
- (computing) heap (tree-based data structure)
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian h?p, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”).
Noun
heap c (plural heapen or heappen, diminutive heapke)
- heap, pile
- mass, gang, horde
Further reading
- “heap”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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