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outcome
English
Etymology
From out +? come.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?tk?m/
- Hyphenation: out?come
Noun
outcome (plural outcomes)
- That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process.
- (probability theory) The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.
- (education) The anticipated or desired results or evidence of a learning experience (often used in the phrase learning outcomes).
- Synonym: learning objective
- (chiefly sports) The scoreline; the result.
Translations
Anagrams
- come out, comeout
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innuendo
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic) inuendo
Etymology
From the Latin innuend? (“by nodding”), ablative singular form of innuendum (“a nodding”), gerund of innu? (“I give a nod”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nju??nd??/
- Rhymes: -?nd??
Noun
innuendo (plural innuendoes or innuendos or innuendis)
- A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication, intimation or insinuation.
- She made a devious innuendo about her husband, who was embarrassed.
- (logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
- (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
Derived terms
- innuendous
Translations
Verb
innuendo (third-person singular simple present innuendos, present participle innuendoing, simple past and past participle innuendoed)
- (transitive, law) To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.
- 1894, Frank Towers Cooper, A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury (page 119)
- A statement that a person's presence at a certain club may be "irksome," may be innuendoed that the person is of such bad character as not to be a fit associate with honourable men.
- 1894, Frank Towers Cooper, A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury (page 119)
Further reading
- Innuendo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Innuendo in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- dunnione
Latin
Verb
innuend?
- dative gerund of innu?
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