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node
English
Etymology
From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin n?dus. Doublet of knot and nodus.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??d
Noun
node (plural nodes)
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ? and ?.
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
- (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
Synonyms
- (computer networking): host
- (graph theory): vertex
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Irish: nód
Translations
See also
- neurode
References
- node on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Deno, Deon, Done, Endo, done, endo, endo-, oden, onde, oned
Danish
Noun
node c (singular definite noden, plural indefinite noder)
- (music) note
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
node
- (archaic) Dative singular form of nood
Japanese
Romanization
node
- R?maji transcription of ??
Latin
Noun
n?de
- vocative singular of n?dus
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin n?dus. Doublet of knotte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n??d(?)/
Noun
node (plural nodez)
- (medicine, Late Middle English) lump, swelling
- (rare, Late Middle English) knot, tie
Descendants
- English: node
- ? Irish: nód
References
- “n?de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Latin nodus (“knot”). Akin to English node.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²nu?.d?/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
node m (definite singular noden, indefinite plural nodar, definite plural nodane)
- a node
Etymology 2
From Old Norse hnoða.
Alternative forms
- noda
Noun
node n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural node, definite plural noda)
- Synonym of nyste
Etymology 3
Verb
node (present tense noder, past tense nodde, past participle nodd/nodt, passive infinitive nodast, present participle nodande, imperative nod)
- Synonym of neia
References
- “node” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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mound
English
Etymology
From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-Germanic *mund? (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh?-nt-éh? (“the beckoning one”), from *men-, *man-, *mar- (“hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek ???? (már?, “hand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Noun
mound (plural mounds)
- An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
- Synonyms: bulwark, rampart
- A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
- (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
- A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
- (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
- (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
- (obsolete) A helmet.
- (obsolete) Might; size.
Synonyms
- (part of regalia): globus cruciger, globe, orb
Derived terms
- shaftmound
Translations
Verb
mound (third-person singular simple present mounds, present participle mounding, simple past and past participle mounded)
- (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
- (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
Synonyms
- (fortify with a mound): bank, bank up, bulwark, rampart
- (pile into mounds): heap up, pile; see also Thesaurus:pile up
Derived terms
- amound
Translations
See also
- mound on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mound in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Mudon, Mundo
Middle English
Noun
mound
- Alternative form of mund
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