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sprint
English
Alternative forms
- sprunt (dialectal)
Etymology
Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Middle English sprenten, from Old English *sprentan, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijan?, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintan? (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprend?- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
sprint (plural sprints)
- A short race at top speed.
- A burst of speed or activity.
- (software engineering) In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.
Descendants
Translations
Verb
sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)
- (transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.
Translations
Anagrams
- prints
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
sprint m
- sprint
Related terms
- sprintovat
- sprinter m
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spr?nt/
- Hyphenation: sprint
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints or sprinten, diminutive sprintje n)
- sprint
Derived terms
- eindsprint
- massasprint
- sprinten
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?int/
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints)
- sprint, short top-speed race.
Further reading
- “sprint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
sprint m (invariable)
- sprint (short, fast race)
- vivacity, brio
sprint f (invariable)
- A motor car having strong acceleration
Romanian
Etymology
From French sprint.
Noun
sprint n (plural sprinturi)
- sprint
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
spr?nt m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- sprint
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?p?int/, [es?p??n?t?]
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints)
- Alternative spelling of esprint
Further reading
- “sprint” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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travel
English
Alternative forms
- travail (obsolete)
- travell (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See travail.
Displaced native Middle English faren (“to travel, fare”) (from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”)), Middle English lithen (“to go, travel”) (from Old English l?þan (“to go, travel”)), Middle English feren (“to go, travel”) (from Old English f?ran (“to go, travel”)), Middle English ?ewalken, iwalken (“to walk about, travel”) (from Old English ?ewealcan (“to go, traverse”)), Middle English swinken (“to work, travel”) (from Old English swincan (“to labour, work at”)). More at fare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?æv?l/
- Rhymes: -æv?l
Verb
travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled)
- (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
- (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit
- (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- (transitive) To force to journey.
- (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?)
Conjugation
Synonyms
- fare, journey, reyse
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)
- The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
- (in the plural) A series of journeys.
- (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
Usage notes
- Used attributively to describe things that have been created or modified for use during a journey.
Synonyms
- (act of travelling): journey, passage, tour, trip, voyage
- (activity or traffic along a route or through a given point): traffic
- (working motion of a piece of machinery): stroke, movement, progression
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- travel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- travel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- travel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- retval, varlet
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.
Adjective
travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlere, indefinite superlative travlest, definite superlative travleste)
- busy
References
- “travel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.
Adjective
travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlare, indefinite superlative travlast, definite superlative travlaste)
- busy
References
- “travel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From traväl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?træ????/
Noun
travel
- A jumble of tracks, footprints.
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