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prospect
English
Etymology
From Latin prospectus, past participle of prospicere (“to look forward”), from pro (“before, forward”) + specere, spicere (“to look, to see”), equivalent to pro- +? -spect
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?-sp?kt?, IPA(key): /p???sp?kt/
- (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: pros?pect
Noun
prospect (plural prospects)
- The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
- A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
- A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
- Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
- Their prospect was toward the south.
- The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
- a very ill prospect of a future state
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?
- The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
- A hope; a hopeful.
- (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
- (sales) A potential client or customer.
- (music) The façade of an organ.
Translations
Verb
prospect (third-person singular simple present prospects, present participle prospecting, simple past and past participle prospected)
- (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
- (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
Translations
Anagrams
- croppest
Romanian
Etymology
From German Prospekt
Noun
prospect n (plural prospecte)
- brochure
Declension
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reliance
English
Alternative forms
- relyance (obsolete)
Etymology
rely +? -ance
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???la??ns/
- Rhymes: -a??ns
Noun
reliance (countable and uncountable, plural reliances)
- The act of relying (on or in someone or something); trust.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act II, Scene 1,[1]
- […] his days and times are past
- And my reliances on his fracted [i.e. broken] dates
- Have smit my credit:
- 1752, Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote, London: A. Millar, Volume 2, Book 9, Chapter 9, p. 288,[2]
- How unfavourable is Chance, said Arabella fretting at the Disappointment, to Persons who have any Reliance upon it!
- 1867, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson” in Biographical and Historical Sketches, New York: Appleton, p. 54,[3]
- It was out of his power to support his son at either university; but a wealthy neighbor offered assistance; and, in reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value, Samuel was entered at Pembroke College, Oxford.
- 1912, W. Somerset Maugham, Mrs. Dot, London: Heinemann, Act 2, p. 89,[4]
- I put infinite reliance in your tact.
- 1962, C. S. Forester, Hornblower and the Hotspur, London: Michael, Joseph, Chapter 3,[5]
- Hornblower could see in a flash that he could place implicit reliance on Bush’s seamanship.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act II, Scene 1,[1]
- The condition of being reliant or dependent.
- 1933, “‘Rumbling’ & ‘Goosing’,” Time, 25 September, 1933,[6]
- […] he contended that habitual reliance on engine power causes a pilot to lose his ability to make a forced landing “deadstick” if necessary.
- 2016, Roger Wilkins, “Australia’s economic wellbeing is at a standstill as rift between young and old widens,” The Guardian, 20 July, 2016,[7]
- Poverty in Australia has declined, welfare reliance has stabilised and long-term poverty is becoming rare—but overall economic wellbeing is no longer improving […]
- 1933, “‘Rumbling’ & ‘Goosing’,” Time, 25 September, 1933,[6]
- (dated) Anything on which to rely; ground of trust.
- The boat was a poor reliance.
- 1593, Thomas Nashe, Christs Teares ouer Ierusalem, London: Thomas Thorp, 1613, p. 69,[8]
- Thou wert once the chiefe pillar of my posterity, and the whole reliance of my name:
- 1656, Robertson Sanderson, Twenty Sermons, London: Henry Seile, Sermon 14, p. 280,[9]
- A horse is counted but a vain thing, […] to save a man. So are Chariots, and Forts, and Armies, and Navies, and all earthly reliances.
- 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London: for the author, Volume 3, Letter 32, p. 286,[10]
- Mr. Adams may marry as well as Mr. Williams; and both, I believe, will find God’s Providence a better Reliance, than the richest Benefice in England.
- 1914, Stephen Leacock, Adventurers of the Far North, Toronto: Glasgow, Brook, Chapter 5, p. 123,[11]
- Most ominous of all was the discovery of over six hundred empty cans that had held preserved meat, the main reliance of the expedition.
- A person or thing which relies on another. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Derived terms
- overreliance, over-reliance
- self-reliance
Translations
Anagrams
- careline, cerealin, cinereal
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