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secure
English
Alternative forms
- secuer (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin securus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from se- (“without”) + cura (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??kj??(?)/, /s??kj??(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /s??kj??/, /s??kj?/, /s??kj??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Hyphenation: se?cure
Adjective
secure (comparative securer or more secure, superlative securest or most secure)
- Free from attack or danger; protected.
- Free from the danger of theft; safe.
- Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
- Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
- But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
- Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
- Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
- Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
- (obsolete) Overconfident; incautious; careless.
- Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
Antonyms
- insecure
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- securely
Related terms
- security
Translations
Verb
secure (third-person singular simple present secures, present participle securing, simple past and past participle secured)
- To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
- To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
- to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage
- 1831, Thomas Dick, The Philosophy of Religion
- It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
- To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
- to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
- To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
- to secure an estate
- 2014, Jamie Jackson, "Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:
- With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
- (transitive, obsolete) To plight or pledge.
Derived terms
- securement
Translations
Further reading
- secure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- secure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Creuse, Rescue, cereus, ceruse, cursee, recuse, rescue, secuer
Italian
Adjective
secure
- feminine plural of securo
Latin
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /se?ku?.re/, [s???ku???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /se?ku.re/, [s??ku???]
Noun
sec?re
- ablative singular of sec?ris
Etymology 2
securus +? -?
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /se??ku?.re?/, [s?e??ku??e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /se?ku.re/, [s??ku???]
Adverb
s?c?r? (comparative s?c?rius, superlative s?c?rissim?)
- carelessly
- fearlessly
- quietly
References
- secure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- secure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- secure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Alternative forms
- s?cure (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin sec?ris, sec?rem. Compare Italian scure.
Noun
secure f (plural securi)
- axe, hatchet
- battle axe, halberd
Declension
Synonyms
- topor
secure From the web:
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- what secures the tongue to the floor of the mouth
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accept
English
Etymology
First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin accept?, accept?re (“receive”), frequentative of accipi?, formed from ad- + capi? (“to take”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?s?pt/, /æk?s?pt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?s?pt/
- Rhymes: -?pt
- Homophone: except (in some dialects)
- Hyphenation: ac?cept
Verb
accept (third-person singular simple present accepts, present participle accepting, simple past and past participle accepted)
- (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
- (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- (transitive) To endure patiently.
- (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
- (transitive) To receive officially.
- (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- receive
- take
- withtake
- admit
- onfang (dialectal, obsolete)
Antonyms
- reject
- decline
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
accept (comparative more accept, superlative most accept)
- (obsolete) Accepted.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ak?t??ept]
Etymology 1
From German Akzept, from Latin acceptus.
Noun
accept n (plural accepte)
- acceptance
Declension
Etymology 2
Verb
accept
- first-person singular present indicative of accepta
- first-person singular present subjunctive of accepta
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?k?s?p(t)]
Verb
accept (third-person singular present accepts, present participle acceptin, past acceptit, past participle acceptit)
- accept
References
- Eagle, Andy, editor (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Swedish
Noun
accept c
- (finance, business) a bill of exchange that has been accepted
- (finance, business) the acceptance of a bill of exchange
Declension
accept From the web:
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- what acceptance rate is considered selective
- what accepts afterpay
- what accepts paypal
- what accepts ebt
- what accepts bitcoin
- what accepts google pay
- what accepts venmo
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