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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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trek
English
Alternative forms
- treck (archaic)
Etymology
From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and tr?ken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekan?, *trakjan? (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?k, IPA(key): /t??k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
trek (plural treks)
- (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
- (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835-1837.
- A slow or difficult journey.
- A long walk.
- Synonym: slog
Verb
trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)
- (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
- Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
- (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
- (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.
Related terms
- trigger
Translations
Anagrams
- rekt
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /træk/
Etymology 1
From Dutch trekken.
Verb
trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)
- to haul
- to move (moving house)
- to pull
Descendants
- ? English: trek
Etymology 2
From Dutch trek.
Noun
trek (plural trekke)
- journey
Derived terms
- Groot Trek
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tr?k/
- Hyphenation: trek
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.
Noun
trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)
- (uncountable) appetite
- Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar
- Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task
- (countable) journey, migration
- (uncountable) animal migration
- (uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney.
- (countable) feature, trait
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
trek
- first-person singular present indicative of trekken
- imperative of trekken
Anagrams
- rekt
French
Noun
trek m (plural treks)
- treck
- trecking
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?t?ek]
Noun
trek
- truck
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 30
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