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report
English
Etymology
From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, Middle French reporter, and their source, Latin report?re (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + port?re.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???p??t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???p??t/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /???po?t/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po(?)?t/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Verb
report (third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported)
- (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). [from 15thc.]
- (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal. [15th-18thc.]
- (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15thc.]
- (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). [from 19thc.]
- (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. [from 19thc.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19thc.]
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
- In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
- Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.
- (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
- To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
- (obsolete) To refer.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- Baldwin, his son, […] succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will spare the repeating his description.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
Derived terms
- aforereported
- reporter
- underreport
- unreported
Translations
Noun
report (plural reports)
- A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
- Reputation.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:
- I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:
- (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
- While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
- […] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
- An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.
- Synonym: subordinate
Derived terms
- (piece of information): on report, report card
- (employee): direct report, indirect report
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (rep?to), ???? (rip?to)
Translations
Further reading
- Report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Report in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Perrot, Porter, perrot, porret, porter, pretor, proter, troper
French
Etymology
deverbal of reporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.p??/
Noun
report m (plural reports)
- postponement
- deferment
Synonyms
- ajournement
Further reading
- “report” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- porter
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burst
English
Etymology
From Middle English bersten, from Old English berstan, from Proto-Germanic *brestan? (compare West Frisian boarste, Dutch barsten, Swedish brista), from Proto-Indo-European *b?res- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”) (compare Irish bris (“to break”)), enlargement of *b?reHi- (“to snip, split”). More at brine. Also cognate to debris.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /b?st/
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??st/
- Rhymes: -??(r)st
Verb
burst (third-person singular simple present bursts, present participle bursting, simple past burst or (archaic) brast or (nonstandard) bursted, past participle burst or (rare) bursten or (nonstandard) bursted)
- (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
- (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
- He burst his lance against the sand below.
- (transitive) To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.
- (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
- 1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
- Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
- 1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
- (intransitive) To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.
- The flowers burst into bloom on the first day of spring.
- (transitive) To produce as an effect of bursting.
- to burst a hole through the wall
- 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X
- He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
- (transitive) To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:burst.
Coordinate terms
- split, crack
Derived terms
Related terms
- bust
Translations
Noun
burst (plural bursts)
- An act or instance of bursting.
- The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
- A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
- Synonym: spurt
- 1860/1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- "It's my wedding-day," cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!"
- A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
- (military) The explosion of a bomb or missile.
- a ground burst; a surface burst
- (archaic) A drinking spree.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Strub, strub, sturb, trubs
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse burst, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?r?st/
- Rhymes: -?r?st
Noun
burst f (genitive singular burstar, nominative plural burstir)
- bristle
- gable
Declension
Related terms
- bursti
- bursta
Old High German
Alternative forms
- borst
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *burstiz.
Noun
burst n
- bristle
Descendants
- Middle High German: burst, borst, burste, borste
- Central Franconian:
- Hunsrik: Berst
- Luxembourgish: Buuscht, Biischt
- East Central German:
- Erzgebirgisch: bèrschd
- German: Borste, Bürste
- Central Franconian:
Old Norse
Etymology
from Proto-Germanic *burstiz
Noun
burst f
- bristle
Declension
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altnordisches Wörterbuch, (4. Auflage) 2014
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