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overstretch
English
Etymology
From Middle English overstrecchen, corresponding to over- +? stretch. Compare Dutch overstrekken (“to overstretch”), German überstrecken (“to overstretch”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?t?
Verb
overstretch (third-person singular simple present overstretches, present participle overstretching, simple past and past participle overstretched)
- To stretch too far.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
- The idle triumphes, maskes, lasciuious showes
- And prodigall gifts bestowed on Gaueston,
- Haue drawne thy treasure drie, and made thee weake,
- The murmuring commons ouerstretched hath.
- 1640, Charles I of England, Speech given to the Lords and Commons, at the Benquetting-House in White-Hall, 25 January, 1640, in The Works of King Charles the Martyr, London: Ric[hard] Chiswell, p. 169,[2]
- If some of [the Bishops] have overstretched their power, and incroached too much upon the Temporalty, if it be so, I shall not be unwilling these things should be redressed and reformed […]
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London Dispensatory, London: Peter Cole, p. 50,[3]
- […] outwardly in Oyls or Oyntments, it mightily helps such members as are out of joynt or overstretched.
- 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Dublin: Whitestone et al., Volume 1, Lecture 16, p. 380,[4]
- How far a Hyperbole, supposing it properly introduced, may be safely carried without overstretching it; what is the proper measure and boundary of this figure, cannot, as far as I know, be ascertained by any precise rule.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
- To stretch over something.
Derived terms
- overstretched (adjective)
Noun
overstretch (plural overstretches)
- The act of stretching something too far or beyond available resources.
overstretch From the web:
taxonomy
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
- (US) IPA(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
- Rhymes: -?n?mi
Noun
taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)
- The science or the technique used to make a classification.
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
Synonyms
- taxonomics
- (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy
Coordinate terms
- nomenclature
- ontology
Derived terms
Translations
taxonomy From the web:
- what taxonomy means
- what taxonomy are humans
- what taxonomy do humans belong to
- what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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