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mystery

English

Etymology

From Middle English mysterie, from Anglo-Norman misterie (Old French mistere), from Latin mysterium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (must?rion, a mystery, a secret, a secret rite), from ?????? (múst?s, initiated one), from ???? (mué?, I initiate), from ??? (mú?, I shut). Displaced native Old English ?er?ne.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: m?s?t?r?, m?s?tr?, IPA(key): /?m?st??i/, /?m?st?i/
  • Hyphenation: mys?te?ry, myst?ery

Noun

mystery (countable and uncountable, plural mysteries)

  1. Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown. [From XIV century.]
  2. Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
  3. (obsolete) A secret or mystical meaning. [From XIV century.]
    • 1567, Matteo Bandello, Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello, tr. Geffraie Fenton:
      ...and, not knowing the meaning or misterie of her pollicie, forgat no termes of reproche or rigorous rebuke against his chast doughter.
  4. A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid). [From XIV century.]
    • 1744 (first printed), Jonathan Swift, A Sermon on the Trinity
      If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind.
  5. (archaic outside Eastern Orthodoxy) A sacrament. [From XV century.]
    • 1809, Sir Robert Ker Porter, Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808:
      There are seven mysteries, or sacraments, in the Greek church, viz. baptism, the chrism (a rite peculiar to this church), the eucharist, confession, ordination, marriage, and the holy oil.
  6. (chiefly in the plural) A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation. [From XV century.]
  7. (Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ. [From XVII century.]
  8. A craft, art or trade; specifically a guild of craftsmen.
    • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
      The trades, the crafts, the mysteries, would all be losers.

Synonyms

  • roun (obsolete)

Derived terms

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Translations

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman misterie.

Noun

mystery

  1. Alternative form of mysterie (mystery)

Etymology 2

From Old French mistere.

Noun

mystery

  1. Alternative form of mysterie (duty)

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static

English

Alternative forms

  • (obsolete) statick

Etymology

Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (statikós), from ?????? (híst?mi, to make stand).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?stæt.?k/
  • Rhymes: -æt?k

Adjective

static (not comparable)

  1. Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
    Synonym: stable
    Antonym: dynamic
  2. making no progress; stalled, no movement or advancement.
  3. Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
    Synonyms: stable, still
    Antonyms: dynamic, kinetic, mobile, moving
  4. (programming) Computed, created or allocated before the program starts running, and usually not changeable at runtime
    Antonyms: dynamic, nonstatic
  5. (object-oriented programming) Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.

Derived terms

  • aerostatic
  • anti-static, antistatic
  • electrostatic
  • hydrostatic
  • static caravan
  • static electricity
  • static fire
  • static friction
  • statical
  • staticity

Related terms

  • stasis

Translations

Noun

static (countable and uncountable, plural statics)

  1. (uncountable) Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
    • 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
      The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
  2. (by extension, uncountable) Interference or obstruction from people.
  3. (uncountable) Static electricity.
  4. (countable) A static caravan.
  5. (uncountable, slang) Verbal abuse.
  6. (countable, programming) A static variable.
    • 2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques (page 149)
      Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.

Related terms

  • statics

Translations

Anagrams

  • -tastic, Ticats, attics, cat sit, cat-sit, catsit

Romanian

Etymology

From French statique.

Adjective

static m or n (feminine singular static?, masculine plural statici, feminine and neuter plural statice)

  1. static

Declension

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