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setback

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?s?tbæk/

Etymology

From the verb phrase set back.

Noun

setback (plural setbacks)

  1. 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.
  2. (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
  3. (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
    Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
  4. 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.
  5. (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
  6. (archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.

Translations

Anagrams

  • backest, backets, backset

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nakba

English

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (nakba, disaster, catastrophe); see Nakba for more.

Proper noun

nakba

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Nakba
    • 2009, Sumantra Bose, Contested lands ?ISBN, page 262
      Indeed, violence broke out in the occupied territories in mid-May 2000 as Palestinians observed the anniversary of the 1948 nakba—these disturbances paled in comparison to the second intifada, which erupted in the autumn.

Noun

nakba (plural nakbas)

  1. In Arab contexts: a catastrophe; a grave setback.
    • 2000, Arab American Voices, page 45:
      A second nakba happened after the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel captured Arab land that belonged to Jordan and Egypt; another 325,000 Palestinians left their homes.

Anagrams

  • Kanab

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nak.ba/

Noun

nakba f (plural nakbas)

  1. catastrophe

Proper noun

nakba f

  1. Nakba

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