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ramification
English
Etymology
From Middle French ramification, or its source, Latin ramific?.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æm?f??ke???n/
- (US) IPA(key): /??æm?f??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
ramification (countable and uncountable, plural ramifications)
- (botany, anatomy) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.
- 1829, Lincoln Phelps, Familiar Lectures on Botany, p. 179:
- The character of trees may be studied to advantage […] in winter, when the forms of the ramification can be seen in the naked boughs […]
- 1856, Neil Arnott & Isaac Hayes, Elements of Physics, pp. 414-5:
- From the left chamber or ventricle of the strong muscular mass, the heart, a large tube arises, called the aorta; and by a continued division or ramification, opens a way for the bright scarlet blood to the very minutest part of the living frame […]
- 1829, Lincoln Phelps, Familiar Lectures on Botany, p. 179:
- An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
- 1834, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- The treachery of some of the Jacobite agents (Rashleigh among the rest), and the arrest of others, had made George the First's Government acquainted with the extensive ramifications of a conspiracy long prepared, and which at last exploded prematurely […]
- 2009, The Guardian, Chris Power, Booksblog, 14 Jul 09:
- But most often and memorably his work falls into that territory best summed up as speculative fiction, with a particular emphasis on dystopian futures and the existential ramifications of space exploration.
- 1834, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- (mathematics) An arrangement of branches.
Related terms
- ramify
Translations
Further reading
- ramification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ramification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
ramifier +? -ification
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.mi.fi.ka.sj??/
Noun
ramification f (plural ramifications)
- a (criminal) network, offshoots of an (often clandestine) organization
- ramification, implication
- (botany, anatomy) ramification
Further reading
- “ramification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Noun
ramification f (plural ramifications)
- division into branches
- 1570, Jean Canappe, Tables anatomiques du corps humain universel: soit de l'homme, ou de la femme page 24
- De laquelle nous donnerons la divarication, cestadire ramification, ou division en ses rameaux, quand nous traicterons du foye.
- From which [from the vein] we get separating out, that is to say ramification, or division into several branches, when we are talking about the liver.
- De laquelle nous donnerons la divarication, cestadire ramification, ou division en ses rameaux, quand nous traicterons du foye.
- 1570, Jean Canappe, Tables anatomiques du corps humain universel: soit de l'homme, ou de la femme page 24
Descendants
- ? English: ramification
- French: ramification
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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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