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prod
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English brodden, from Old Norse broddr (“shaft, spike”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz. Cognate with Icelandic broddur, Danish brod.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /p??d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Verb
prod (third-person singular simple present prods, present participle prodding, simple past and past participle prodded)
- (transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.
- (transitive, informal) To encourage, to prompt.
- (transitive) To prick with a goad.
Translations
Noun
prod (plural prods)
- A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
- A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
- A poke.
- "It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.
- A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
Derived terms
- cattle prod
Translations
Further reading
- Cattle prod on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Shortened from production.
Noun
prod (countable and uncountable, plural prods)
- (programming, slang, uncountable) Short for production (“the live environment”).
- We've hit ten million users in prod today.
- (demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.
- Check our BBS for the latest prods.
Anagrams
- dorp, drop
Old French
Noun
prod m (nominative singular proz)
- (early Old French) Alternative form of pro
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shoulder
English
Etymology
From Middle English schuldre, sholder, shulder, schulder, from Old English sculdra, sculdor (“shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *skuldru (“shoulder”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), see shield. Cognate with Old Frisian skuldere (“shoulder”) (West Frisian skouder (“shoulder”)), Middle Low German scholder (“shoulder”), Low German Schuller (“shoulder”), Dutch schouder (“shoulder”), German Schulter (“shoulder”), Danish skulder (“shoulder”), Swedish skuldra (“shoulder”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????ld?/
- (General American) enPR: sh?l?d?r, IPA(key): /??o?ld?/
- Rhymes: -??ld?(r)
- Hyphenation: shoul?der
Noun
shoulder (plural shoulders)
- The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
- A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
- The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
- (topography) A shelf between two levels.
- A verge to the side of a road.
- The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
- A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
- The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
- An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
- A verge to the side of a road.
- (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
- (of an object) The portion between the neck and the body.
- (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
- The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
- (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
- (figuratively) That which supports or sustains; support.
- The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
- (surfing) The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
Hyponyms
- (a verge to the side of a road): hard shoulder, soft shoulder
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shoulder (third-person singular simple present shoulders, present participle shouldering, simple past and past participle shouldered)
- (transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
- 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore
- Around her numberless the rabble flowed, / Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.
- 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore
- (transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
- Early in the morning they shouldered light packs, took their rifles, crossed the big draw, and entered the timber where was the deadfall.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
- (transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.
- (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
- (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
- (transitive) To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
- (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
- (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
- (transitive, archaic, slang) Of a servant: to embezzle money from (the employer).
Translations
Further reading
- shoulder at OneLook Dictionary Search
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