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omen
English
Etymology
From Latin ?men (“foreboding, omen”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???m?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?m?n/
- Rhymes: -??m?n
Noun
omen (plural omens)
- Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
- A thing of prophetic significance.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "omen": good, ill, bad, auspicious, evil, favorable, happy, lucky. The terms for a positive omen aren't used much negatively, and it's considered oxymoronic by some to use it positively.
Synonyms
- augury, auspice, forecast, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, herald, hint, indication, oracle, portent, prediction, presage, prophecy, sign, signal, token, warning; danger sign, straw in the wind, (hand)writing on the wall; see also Thesaurus:omen
Related terms
- ominous
- abomination
Translations
Verb
omen (third-person singular simple present omens, present participle omening, simple past and past participle omened)
- (transitive) To be an omen of.
- (intransitive) To divine or predict from omens.
Synonyms
- prognosticate, betoken, forecast, foretell, portend, foreshadow, bode, augur, prefigure, predict, auspicate, presage
See also
- augury
- foreboding
- portend
- portent
- stars are aligned
Further reading
- omen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- omen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Emon, Mone, NEMO, Nome, meno-, meon, mone, nemo, nome
Latin
Etymology
From Old Latin osmen, of uncertain ultimate origin. Ancient authors derived it from ?s (“mouth”). Recently it was by some referred to Proto-Indo-European *h?ew- (“to see, perceive”) (whence audi?) or to the source of Ancient Greek ?????? (oíomai, “I think, believe, suppose”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?o?.men/, [?o?m?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?o.men/, [???m?n]
Noun
?men n (genitive ?minis); third declension
- an omen
- Synonym: ?r?culum
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
- ?minor
- ?min?sus
Related terms
- praen?nti?
Descendants
- Dutch: omen
- English: omen
- German: Omen
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: omen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: omen
References
- omen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- omen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- omen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- omen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- omen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin omen
Noun
omen n (definite singular omenet, indefinite plural omen or omener or omina, definite plural omena or omenene or ominaene)
- an omen
References
- “omen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Latin omen.
Noun
omen n (definite singular omenet, indefinite plural omen, definite plural omena)
- an omen
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
omen m
- definite singular of om
References
- “omen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Portuguese
Noun
omen m
- Alternative form of ome
omen From the web:
- what omen means
- what omen is an owl
- what omens does casca see
- what omen does zeus send
- what omens bothered montezuma
- what omens frighten calpurnia
- what omen is a crow
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pointer
English
Etymology
point +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??nt?/
- Hyphenation: point?er
- Rhymes: -??nt?(?)
Noun
pointer (plural pointers)
- Anything that points or is used for pointing.
- A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow.
- Synonym: fescue
- Hyponym: yad
- A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.
- Synonyms: hand, needle
- (hunting) A breed of hunting dog, trained to point out game.
- 2007, American Kennel Club, The Complete Dog Book, Ballantine Books (?ISBN), page 30:
- Most of the early wirehaired pointers represented a combination of Griffon, Stichelhaar, Pudelpointer, and German Shorthair. The Pudelpointer was a cross between a Poodle dog and an English Pointer bitch; the Griffon and the Stichelhaar were composed of Pointer, Foxhound, Pudelpointer, and a Polish water dog.
- 2007, American Kennel Club, The Complete Dog Book, Ballantine Books (?ISBN), page 30:
- (programming) A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.
- Synonym: reference
- Hyponyms: dangling pointer, function pointer, null pointer
- (graphical user interface) An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse.
- Synonym: cursor
- 1995, Aaron Marcus, Nick Smilonich, Lynne Thompson, The Cross-GUI Handbook, Addison-Wesley ?ISBN, page 231:
- The system notifies the user of the progress of a task by changing the appearance of the pointer. System-busy pointers usually adopt a timepiece metaphor.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tip, a bit of advice.
- Synonym: advice
- (in combinations) Something worth a given number of points.
Translations
See also
- (programming) dereference, address
Further reading
- pointer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pointer (computer programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pointer (user interface) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pointer (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Petrino, Petroni, interop, protein, pterion, repoint, tropein, tropine
Dutch
Etymology
From English pointer.
Pronunciation
Noun
pointer m (plural pointers, diminutive pointertje n)
- (programming) pointer
French
Etymology 1
point +? -er, from the past participle of poindre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pw??.te/
- Homophones: pointai, pointé, pointée, pointées, pointés, pointez
- Rhymes: -e
Verb
pointer
- to point to/at
- (by extension) to indicate, to show, to point out
- to punch in, to clock in
- (informal, takes a reflexive pronoun) to show up, turn up
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (to show up): arriver
Derived terms
- pointage
- pointer du doigt
- zéro pointé
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English pointer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pw??.t??/
Noun
pointer m (plural pointers)
- pointer (dog)
Further reading
- “pointer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Noun
pointer m (plural pointers)
- pointer (breed of hunting dog)
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- what pointer is used for writing a file
- what pointer speed is 800 dpi
- what pointer sister died
- what pointer sisters are still alive
- what pointer speed should i use
- what pointer in c
- what pointers are used for
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