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recount
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?nt
Etymology 1
From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.
Noun
recount (plural recounts)
- Narration, account, description, rendering
Translations
Verb
recount (third-person singular simple present recounts, present participle recounting, simple past and past participle recounted)
- To tell; narrate; to relate in detail
- The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- (dated) To rehearse; to enumerate.
- to recount one's blessings
Translations
Etymology 2
From re- +? count
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?i??ka?nt/
Noun
recount (plural recounts)
- A counting again, as of votes.
Translations
Verb
recount (third-person singular simple present recounts, present participle recounting, simple past and past participle recounted)
- To count again.
Translations
Anagrams
- Counter, Cureton, Cutrone, cornute, counter, counter-, countre, trounce
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whine
English
Etymology
From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hw?nan (“to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hw?nan, from Proto-Germanic *hw?nan?, from Proto-Indo-European *?wey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian hvine, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine.
Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wain?n?.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?n, IPA(key): /wa?n/, [?a??n], [????n], [?ä?n], [??e?n]
- (without the wine–whine merger) enPR: hw?n, IPA(key): /?a?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
- Homophone: wine (accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
whine (plural whines)
- A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
- A complaint or criticism.
Translations
Verb
whine (third-person singular simple present whines, present participle whining, simple past and past participle whined)
- (intransitive) To utter a high-pitched cry.
- (intransitive) To make a sound resembling such a cry.
- The jet engines whined at take off.
- (intransitive) To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine.
- (intransitive) To move with a whining sound.
- (transitive) To utter with the sound of a whine.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:complain
Translations
Middle English
Verb
whine
- Alternative form of whynen
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