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stab
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?b, IPA(key): /stæb/
- Hyphenation: stab
- Rhymes: -æb
Etymology 1
First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe.
Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.
Noun
stab (plural stabs)
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- (informal) An attempt.
- I'll give this thankless task a stab.
- Criticism.
- (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- a horn stab
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
stab (third-person singular simple present stabs, present participle stabbing, simple past and past participle stabbed)
- (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- None shall dare / With shortened sword to stab in closer war.
- (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- (transitive, figuratively) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
Derived terms
- stabbee
- stabber
Translations
References
- stab in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- stab at OneLook Dictionary Search
Etymology 2
Clipping of stabilizer or stabiliser.
Noun
stab (plural stabs)
- (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
Etymology 3
Adjective
stab (not comparable)
- (industrial relations) Clipping of established.
- 1893, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia (page 313)
- Do you know whether any country offices pay their men by the thousand, or whether they are on stab wages? — I do not know. Some are paid stab wages, but I do not know whether there is much piece-work.
- 1967, John Child, Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry (page 113)
- The pressmen were granted a stab wage of 36s for a 60 hour week, and the extras for overtime and Sunday work […]
- 1893, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia (page 313)
Noun
stab (plural not attested)
- (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.
- 1892, The British Printer (volume 5, page 42)
- […] there were 286 overseers and 210 readers occupied in the 501 offices; 2,691 compositors were paid on the stab […]
- 1892, The British Printer (volume 5, page 42)
Anagrams
- ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, Bast, Bats, SATB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bast, bats, tabs
Danish
Etymology
From German Stab.
Noun
stab c (singular definite staben, plural indefinite stabe)
- staff
Inflection
Lushootseed
Etymology
Proto-Salish *s-tam ("what?"; "something"), from *s- +? *tam (“thing; what”)
Determiner
stab
- what (interrogative pronoun)
- thing
Swedish
Etymology
From German Stab.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??b/
Noun
stab c
- a staff
Declension
References
Anagrams
- bast
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outrage
English
Etymology
From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage (“excess”), from Late Latin *ultr?gium, *ultr?ticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultr? (“beyond”). Later reanalysed as out- +? rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these is etymologically related.
The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /?a?t.?e?d??/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?æot.?æed??/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /?a?t.??d??/
Noun
outrage (countable and uncountable, plural outrages)
- An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
- An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
- The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
- (obsolete) A destructive rampage. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
Verb
outrage (third-person singular simple present outrages, present participle outraging, simple past and past participle outraged)
- (transitive) To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
- August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
- Base and insolent minds […] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey
- The interview […] outrages all the rules of decency.
- August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
- (transitive) To inspire feelings of outrage in.
- The senator's comments outraged the community.
- (archaic, transitive) To sexually violate; to rape.
- (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.
Translations
Related terms
- outrageous
References
Further reading
- outrage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- outrage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Old French oltrage
Noun
outrage m (plural outrages)
- offence, insult, contempt
- (literary) onslaught
Verb
outrage
- first-person singular present indicative of outrager
- third-person singular present indicative of outrager
- first-person singular present subjunctive of outrager
- third-person singular present subjunctive of outrager
- second-person singular imperative of outrager
Further reading
- “outrage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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