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shallow
English
Etymology
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English s?eald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh?- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??al??/
- (US) IPA(key): /??æl.o?/
- Rhymes: -æl??
- Hyphenation: shal?low
Adjective
shallow (comparative shallower, superlative shallowest)
- Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- This crater is relatively shallow.
- Saute the onions in a shallow pan.
- Extending not far downward.
- The water is shallow here.
- Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
- Lacking interest or substance.
- The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
- Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- shallow learning
- The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
- (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
- (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
Antonyms
- deep
Derived terms
- given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
Translations
Noun
shallow (plural shallows)
- A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
- The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
- dashed on the shallows of the moving sand
- A fish, the rudd.
- (historical) A costermonger's barrow.
- 1871, Belgravia (volume 14, page 213)
- You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.
- 1871, Belgravia (volume 14, page 213)
Usage notes
- Usually used in the plural form.
Translations
See also
- shoal
- sandbar
- sandbank
Verb
shallow (third-person singular simple present shallows, present participle shallowing, simple past and past participle shallowed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become less deep.
References
Anagrams
- hallows
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spit
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /sp?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
The noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”), from Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”), from Proto-Germanic *spit? (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *spid-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Danish spid, Dutch spit, German Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”).
The verb is derived from the noun, or from Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”), from spit, spite: see above. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch speten, spitten (modern Dutch speten), Middle Low German speten (Low German spitten, modern German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”), spissen (now dialectal)).
Noun
spit (plural spits)
- A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
- Synonym: broach
- A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
Derived terms
- Spithead (sense 2)
Translations
Verb
spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spitted)
- (transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
- (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
Translations
Etymology 2
The verb is from Middle English sp??ten, spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English sp?tan (“to spit; to squirt”); or from Middle English spit, spitte, spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spittan, spyttan (“to spit”), both from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)?w, *spy?, ultimately imitative; compare Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”) and English spew. The English word is cognate with Danish spytte (“to spit”), North Frisian spütte, Norwegian spytte (“to spit”), Swedish spotta (“to spit”), Old Norse spýta (Faroese spýta (“to spit”), Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)).
The noun is derived from the verb; compare Danish spyt (“spit”), Middle English spit, spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”), spet (“saliva, spittle”), sp??tel (“saliva, spittle”), North Frisian spiit.
Verb
spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spat or spit)
- (transitive, intransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
- Synonym: expectorate
- (transitive, intransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth; specifically, to rain or snow slightly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To utter (something) violently.
- (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, to utter.
- (intransitive) To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
Usage notes
The past tense and past participle spit is an older form, but remains the more common form used by speakers in North America, and is also used often enough by speakers of British and Commonwealth English to be listed as an alternative form by the Collins English Dictionary and Oxford Dictionaries. A non-standard past participle form is spitten.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
spit (countable and uncountable, plural spits)
- (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
- Synonyms: expectoration, spittle
- (countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
- A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image)
- (uncountable) Synonym of slam (“card game”)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
The noun is from Middle Dutch speet, spit, Middle Low German spêdt, spit (Low German spit); the word is cognate with Dutch spit, North Frisian spatt, spet, West Frisian spit.
The verb is from Middle English spitten (“to dig”), from Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”), possibly from spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”); see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch spetten, spitten (modern Dutch spitten), Middle Low German speten, spitten (Low German spitten), North Frisian spat, West Frisian spitte.
Noun
spit (plural spits)
- The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
- The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
Translations
Verb
spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spitted)
- (transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
- (transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To dig, to spade.
- Synonym: delve
Translations
References
Further reading
- rotisserie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- spit (landform) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- spitting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- spit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- James Orchard Halliwell (1847) , “SPIT”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volume II (J–Z), London: John Russell Smith, […], OCLC 1008510154, page 785, column 1: “SPIT. (1) The depth a spade goes in digging, about a foot.”
Anagrams
- ISTP, PITs, PTIs, TIPS, pist, pits, sipt, stip, tips
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch spit. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?t/
- Hyphenation: spit
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
spit n (plural spitten or speten, diminutive spitje n or speetje n)
- A skewer.
- Synonyms: braadspit, vleesspies, vleesspit
Related terms
- spies
- spits
- spitten
Ternate
Etymology
From English speed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?spit]
Noun
spit
- speedboat, motorboat
References
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English speed.
Noun
spit
- speed
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spi?t/
- Rhymes: -í?t
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German sp?t. Compare Old Norse spé, Norwegian spit, English spite, Dutch spijt. See also spej.
Noun
spit m
- Spite, defiance.
- Han åt int na i spit’n
- In defiance he ate nothing.
- Han åt int na i spit’n
Derived terms
- spitol
- spituv
Etymology 2
From Old Norse *spítr, from Proto-Germanic *spihtiz. Cognate with Old Norse spéttr, spætr, from *spihtaz, *spehtaz. Compare riit from *rihtijan? and witer from *wihtiz.
Noun
spit m
- (in compounds) Woodpecker.
Derived terms
- hakkspit
- kackspit
Etymology 3
Noun
spit m
- Capacity.
Declension
Related terms
- spiit
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