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stair
English
Etymology
From Middle English steire, staire, stayre, stayer, steir, steyre, steyer, from Old English st??er (“stair, staircase”), from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyg?- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”). Cognate with Dutch steiger (“a stair, step, wharf, pier, scaffolding”), Middle Low German steiger, steir (“scaffolding”), German Low German Steiger (“a scaffold; trestle”). Related to Old English ?st??an (“to ascend, go up, embark”), Old English st??an (“to go, move, reach; ascend, mount, go up, spring up, rise; scale”), German Stiege (“a flight of stairs”). More at sty.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /st???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: stare
Noun
stair (plural stairs)
- A single step in a staircase.
- Synonym: step
- A series of steps; a staircase.
Synonyms
- (Cockney rhyming slang) apples and pears
Usage notes
- Stairs and stair are used to refer to a single staircase, mostly interchangeably in the UK.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- ladder
- landing
Anagrams
- ISTAR, Ritsa, Sarti, airts, arist, astir, sitar, stria, tarsi, tiars, tisar
Irish
Etymology
From Latin historia. Doublet of stór.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [s?t??a??]
Noun
stair f (genitive singular staire, nominative plural startha)
- history
- account, story
- (literary) repute, fame
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- "stair" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “stair” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “stair” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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blemish
English
Etymology
From Middle English blemisshen, blemissen, from Old French blemiss-, stem of Old French blemir, blesmir (“make pale, injure, wound, bruise”) (French blêmir), from Old Frankish *blesmjan, *blasmijan (“to make pale”), from Old Frankish *blasmi (“pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“white, pale”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bles (“white spot”), German blass (“pale”), Old English ?blered (“bare, uncovered, bald, shaven”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl?m??/
- Hyphenation: blem?ish
Noun
blemish (plural blemishes)
- A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
- 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, Leviticus, 22, xix,
- Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
- 1997, Jean Soler, 5: The Semiotics of Food in the Bible, Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik (editors), Food and Culture: A Reader, page 61,
- Any foot shape deviating from this model is conceived as a blemish, and the animal is unclean.
- 2003, A. K. Forrest, Chapter 6: Surface Defect Detection on Ceramics, Mark Graves, Bruce Batchelor (editors), Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products, page 193,
- There are a very large number of types of blemish and the smallest blemish visible to a human can be surprisingly small, for example less than 10?m deep, which may be on the surface of a heavily embossed tile.
- 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, Leviticus, 22, xix,
- A moral defect; a character flaw.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:defect
Related terms
- blemished (adjective)
- blemishless
- blemishment
Translations
Verb
blemish (third-person singular simple present blemishes, present participle blemishing, simple past and past participle blemished)
- To spoil the appearance of.
- 2009, Michael A. Kirkman, Chapter 2: Global Markets fo Processed Potato Products, Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur (editors), Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology, page 40,
- Generally, varieties in current use for processing are resilient, if not wholly resistant to blemishing diseases and disorders.
- 2011, Rob Imrie, Emma Street, Architectural Design and Regulation, unnumbered page,
- I mean it reaches a point of ridiculousness in some regards, and one?s seen actually many good schemes here in San Francisco, for example, that have been blemished by an overly strict adherence to codes.
- 2009, Michael A. Kirkman, Chapter 2: Global Markets fo Processed Potato Products, Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur (editors), Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology, page 40,
- To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.
- 1600, Francis Vere, Commentaries of the Divers Pieces of Service
- There had nothing passed betwixt us that might blemish reputation.
- 1600, Francis Vere, Commentaries of the Divers Pieces of Service
Translations
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