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scent
English
Alternative forms
- sent (obsolete)
Etymology
From c.1400, borrowed from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sent?re, present active infinitive of senti?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?nt, IPA(key): /s?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
- Homophones: cent, sent
Noun
scent (countable and uncountable, plural scents)
- A distinctive odour or smell.
- An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
- The sense of smell.
- A perfume.
- (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
- (obsolete) Sense, perception.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
- A fit false dream, that can delude the sleeper's sent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
Usage notes
- Almost always applied to agreeable odors (fragrances).
Synonyms
Derived terms
- scented
- scentless
Translations
Verb
scent (third-person singular simple present scents, present participle scenting, simple past and past participle scented)
- (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
- (transitive, figuratively) To have a suspicion of.
- (transitive) To impart an odour to.
- (intransitive, archaic) To have a smell.
- Thunderbolts […] do sent strongly of brimstone.
- To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Translations
Anagrams
- cents
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inkling
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /???kl??/
- Hyphenation: inkl?ing
Etymology 1
From Middle English ningkiling, nyngkiling (“hint, slight indication; mention, whisper”), and then either:
- possibly a variant of nikking, nyckyng (“hint, slight indication; mention, whisper”), possibly from nikken (“to mark (a text) for correction (?)”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerunds from verbs); or
- from inklen (“to mention (in a low voice); to tell (the truth)”) [and other forms] + -ing, -inge; inklen may be derived from inca, inke (“dread, fear; doubt; danger, risk (?)”), from Old English inca (“doubt, uncertainty; suspicion; fear; cause for complaint, grievance, grudge, ill-will, offence; quarrel; occasion, opportunity”), from Proto-Germanic *inkô (“ache; grief; regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eng-, *yen?- (“illness”). The English word would then be analysable as inkle +? -ing.
Sense 3 (“desire, inclination”) may have been influenced by incline (“to tend to believe or do something”) or French enclin (“inclined, prone”).
Noun
inkling (plural inklings)
- Usually preceded by forms of to give: a slight hint, implication, or suggestion given.
- Synonym: intimation
- Often preceded by forms of to get or to have: an imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something; a suspicion.
- (Britain, dialectal) A desire, an inclination.
Translations
Etymology 2
From inkle +? -ing.
Verb
inkling
- present participle of inkle
References
Anagrams
- kilning, klining, linking
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