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slump
English
Etymology
Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“to sell off”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Verb
slump (third-person singular simple present slumps, present participle slumping, simple past and past participle slumped)
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- These different groups […] are exclusively slumped together under that sense.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance (sermon)
- The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance (sermon)
- (slang) (transitive) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
Translations
Noun
slump (plural slumps)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- 2004, Jonathan Tolins, The Last Sunday in June
- TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months.
- MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that."
- 2004, Jonathan Tolins, The Last Sunday in June
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- (Britain, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
Derived terms
- slumplike
Translations
Anagrams
- Plums, lumps, plums
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb slumpa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl?mp/
Noun
slump m (definite singular slumpen, indefinite plural slumpar, definite plural slumpane)
- random event, chance, happenstance
- Eg valde han ut på slump.
- I picked it randomly.
- Eg valde han ut på slump.
- a good amount, quite a bit
- Eg vann ein god slump pengar i går.
- I won quite a bit of money yesterday.
- Eg vann ein god slump pengar i går.
Verb
slump
- imperative of slumpa
Further reading
- “slump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Noun
slump m (plural slumps)
- slump (decline)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
slump c
- chance, happenstance
Declension
Derived terms
- slumpartikel
Related terms
- slumpvariabel
- slumpa
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paddle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pædl?/, /?pæ.d?l/
- (US) IPA(key): [?p?æ.???]
- Rhymes: -æd?l
Etymology 1
Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek ???????? (p?dálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from ????? (p?dós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).
Alternative forms
- paidle (obsolete)
Noun
paddle (plural paddles)
- A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
- A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
- Time spent on paddling.
- A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
- A paddlewheel.
- A blade of a waterwheel.
- (video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
- (Britain) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
- A bat-shaped spanking implement.
- A ping pong bat.
- Synonym: racket
- A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
- In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
- A group of inerts.
- A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode.
- (slang) hand
- (sports) Alternative form of padel
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Danish: paddel, padle
Translations
See also
- oar
Verb
paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)
- (transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
- while paddling ducks the standing lake desire
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter IX
- Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe […]
- (intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
- (transitive) To spank with a paddle.
- To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
- To tread upon; to trample.
Translations
Etymology 2
Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln (“to tramp about”), frequentative form of padjen (“to tramp, run in short steps”), from pad (also in Dutch dialects). Compare also Saterland Frisian paddelje (“to paddle”).
Verb
paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)
- (intransitive, Britain) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- To toddle.
- (archaic, intransitive) To toy or caress using hands or fingers.
Translations
Further reading
- paddle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German
Verb
paddle
- inflection of paddeln:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
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