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obstacle
English
Etymology
From Middle English obstacle, from Old French obstacle, from Latin obst?culum.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??bst?kl?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??bst?kl?/
- Hyphenation: ob?sta?cle
Noun
obstacle (plural obstacles)
- Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
- A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.
Synonyms
- impediment
- hindrance
- hurdle
- barrier
- complication
- snag
- See also Thesaurus:hindrance
Translations
Anagrams
- Casebolt, costable
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin obst?culum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ops?ta.kl?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ups?ta.kl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ops?ta.kle/
Noun
obstacle m (plural obstacles)
- obstacle
Derived terms
- obstaculitzar
Further reading
- “obstacle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin obstaculum, from obst?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p.stakl/
Noun
obstacle m (plural obstacles)
- obstacle
Derived terms
- course d'obstacles
- faire obstacle
- saut d'obstacles
Further reading
- “obstacle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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ditch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English dich, from Old English d?? (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“id.”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin f?g? (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.
Noun
ditch (plural ditches)
- A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
- (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
- c. 1947, Patrick Kavanagh, Stony Grey Soil
- You flung a ditch on my vision
- Of beauty, love and truth.
- O stony grey soil of Monaghan
- You burgled my bank of youth!
- 2013, Frank McNally, When Anglophone lines get crossed
- The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).
- c. 1947, Patrick Kavanagh, Stony Grey Soil
References
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- fosse
- moat
Verb
ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)
- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- (intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
Synonyms
- abandon
- discard
- dump
- jettison
- lose
- shed
- See also Thesaurus:junk
Translations
Etymology 2
From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English d?can (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech.
Verb
ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)
- Alternative form of deech
Noun
ditch (usually uncountable, plural ditches)
- Alternative form of deech
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