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setback
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?tbæk/
Etymology
From the verb phrase set back.
Noun
setback (plural setbacks)
- An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards a desired outcome)
- After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.
- (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
- (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
- Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
- An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
- 1980, Popular Science (volume 217, number 4)
- Fuel savings from thermostat setbacks have long been accepted as fact, but little documentation existed to support it.
- 1980, Popular Science (volume 217, number 4)
- (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
- (archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
Translations
Anagrams
- backest, backets, backset
setback From the web:
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hiccup
English
Alternative forms
- hiccough (old-fashioned)
- hickup
Etymology
Alteration of earlier hickock, from hic (onomatopoeic) + -ock (diminutive suffix). Akin to Dutch hik (“hiccup”), Low German hick (“hiccup”), Danish hikke (“hiccup”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?k?p/, /?h?k?p/
- Hyphenation: hic?cup
Noun
hiccup (plural hiccups)
- A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound.
- There was a loud hiccup from the back of the room and the class erupted in laughter.
- (by extension) Any spasm or sudden change.
- (informal) A minor setback.
- There's been a slight hiccup in the processing of this quarter's results.
Hypernyms
- (spasm of the diaphragm): myoclonus
Translations
See also
- hiccups
Verb
hiccup (third-person singular simple present hiccups, present participle hiccuping or hiccupping, simple past and past participle hiccuped or hiccupped)
- (intransitive) To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups.
- (transitive) To say with a hiccup.
- "I haven't touched a drop, officer," the suspect hiccupped.
- (intransitive) To produce an abortive sound like a hiccup.
- The car engine hiccupped but wouldn't start.
Translations
hiccup From the web:
- what hiccups mean
- what hiccups
- what hiccups in the womb feel like
- what hiccups do
- what hiccups look like inside
- what hiccups mean spiritually
- what hiccups mean when pregnant
- what hiccups feel like when pregnant
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