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plod
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pl?d/
- Rhymes: -?d, -??d
Etymology 1
From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plod (“a puddle”). Compare Dutch plodden, Dutch plodderen and Danish pladder (“mire”).
Noun
plod (uncountable)
- A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
Verb
plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)
- (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50,[1]
- The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
- Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island Part One, Chapter 1
- I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50,[1]
- (transitive) To trudge over or through.
- 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, p. 127,[2]
- Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?
- Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.
- 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,[3]
- […] Speed thou to Lombard-street,
- Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,
- 'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: The Richards Press, XLVI, pp. 69-70,[4]
- Break no rosemary, bright with rime
- And sparkling to the cruel clime;
- Nor plod the winter land to look
- For willows in the icy brook
- To cast them leafless round him […]
- 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, p. 127,[2]
- To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,[5]
- Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low,
- which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,
- He must be still familiar with the skyes,
- which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,[5]
Derived terms
- plodder
- plodding
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:plod.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).
Noun
plod (plural plods)
- (obsolete) A puddle.
Etymology 3
From PC Plod.
Noun
plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)
- (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
- (Britain, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
Synonyms
- (the police): See Thesaurus:police
- (police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer
Translations
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plod?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plot/
Noun
plod m
- fruit
- fetus
Declension
Derived terms
- oplodí n
See also
- embryo
- zárodek
- ovoce
Further reading
- plod in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- plod in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Romanian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plod?
Noun
plod n (plural plozi)
- (derogatory) small child
- (colloquial) fetus
Declension
Further reading
- plod in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plod?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plô?d/
Noun
pl?d m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- fruit (part of plant)
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plod?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pló?t/
Noun
pl??d m inan
- fruit (part of plant)
Inflection
Derived terms
- pl??den
Further reading
- “plod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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bound
English
Alternative forms
- bownd (archaic)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Etymology 1
From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ?ebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ?ebunden respectively. See bind.
Verb
bound
- simple past tense and past participle of bind
- I bound the splint to my leg.
- I had bound the splint with duct tape.
Adjective
bound (not comparable)
- (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
- (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
- (dated) Constipated; costive.
- Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
- Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
Antonyms
- (logic: constrained by a quantifier): free
Hyponyms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bound, bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).
Adjective
bound (comparative more bound, superlative most bound)
- (obsolete) Ready, prepared.
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- Which way are you bound?
- Is that message bound for me?
- (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
Derived terms
Related terms
- bound to
- I'll be bound
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English bounde, from Old French bunne, from Medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina (“a bound, limit”)
Noun
bound (plural bounds)
- (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
- I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.
- Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.
- (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 4
From Middle English bounden, from the noun (see above).
Verb
bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)
- To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
- (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 5
From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombit?re, present active infinitive of bombit? (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).
Noun
bound (plural bounds)
- A sizeable jump, great leap.
- The deer crossed the stream in a single bound.
- A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
- (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
- the bound of a ball
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Derived terms
- by leaps and bounds
Translations
Verb
bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)
- (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
- The rabbit bounded down the lane.
- (transitive) To cause to leap.
- to bound a horse
- , Act V, Scene II, page 93:
- […] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Hor?e for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off.
- (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
- a rubber ball bounds on the floor
- (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
- to bound a ball on the floor
Derived terms
- rebound
Translations
Anagrams
- Dubon
Middle English
Noun
bound
- Alternative form of band
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