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status
English
Etymology
From Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ste?t.?s/
- (US, Canada, General Australian) enPR: st?t?s, IPA(key): /?stæt.?s/
- Rhymes: -e?t?s, -æt?s
Noun
status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)
- A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
- Prestige or high standing.
- A situation or state of affairs.
- (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
- (Canada, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.
- He is a status Indian.
- (Canada, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.
- (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
- (medicine) Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.
Usage notes
- Rarely, stat?s (following Latin) is found as the plural form.
Derived terms
- status quo
- status symbol
Translations
Further reading
- "status" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 299.
Anagrams
- suttas
Catalan
Noun
status m (plural status)
- Alternative spelling of estatus
Chinese
Etymology
From English status.
Noun
status
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) Relationship status, usually in the form A_ or O_.
See also
- ?status
- A0
- O1
Czech
Etymology
From Latin st?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /status/
Noun
status m, inanimate
- status
Declension
Derived terms
- status quo
Related terms
Further reading
- status in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- status in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
From Learned borrowing from Latin status.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sta?.t?s/
- Hyphenation: sta?tus
Noun
status m (plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)
- status (condition)
- status (legal position)
- status (station, social standing)
- medical file
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: status
Esperanto
Verb
status
- conditional of stati
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin status.
Noun
status
- status (a person's position or standing; high standing)
Declension
Anagrams
- tassut
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch status, from Latin status.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?st?a.t??s]
- Hyphenation: sta?tus
Noun
status (plural status-status, first-person possessive statusku, second-person possessive statusmu, third-person possessive statusnya)
- status:
- A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
- A situation or state of affairs.
- A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
- (healthcare) A medical file, medical record.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “status” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin status.
Noun
status m (invariable)
- status (position in society)
Further reading
- status in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?sta.tus/, [?s?t?ät??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sta.tus/, [?st???t?us]
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of sist? (“I cause to stand, set, place”).
Participle
status (feminine stata, neuter statum, adverb statim); first/second-declension participle
- fixed, set, having been set
- regular
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
status m (genitive stat?s); fourth declension
- state, status, condition
- position, place
- rank, status
- (Medieval Latin) state (a political division retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Derived terms
- statu?
References
- status in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- status in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- status in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sta?tus/
Adjective
statùs m (feminine statì) stress pattern 4
- steep, precipitous
- status kalnas - a steep mountain
Declension
Related terms
(Adjectives)
- sta?ias
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin status.
Noun
status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statuser, definite plural statusene)
- status
Derived terms
- bystatus
- statussymbol
References
- “status” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin status.
Noun
status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statusar, definite plural statusane)
- status
Derived terms
- bystatus
- statussymbol
References
- “status” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin status. Doublet of estado.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.?ta.tus/, /?sta.tus/
Noun
status m (plural status)
- (sociology) status; standing (a person’s importance relative to others)
- status; state (a condition at some point in time)
- Synonym: estado
- status; prestige
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:status.
Romansch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin status.
Noun
status m
- status
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??tus/
- Hyphenation: sta?tus
Noun
státus m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- status, rank
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?tatus/, [es?t?a.t?us]
Noun
status m (plural status)
- Alternative spelling of estatus
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
status c
- status, social standing, rank, situation
Declension
Related terms
- statusjakt
- statussymbol
status From the web:
- what status quo means
- what status means
- what status should i file for taxes
- what status is a duke
pitch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English pi?, from Latin pix. Cognate with Dutch pek, German Pech, and Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”).
Noun
pitch (countable and uncountable, plural pitches)
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
Derived terms
- pitch-black
- pitchblende
- pitch-dark
- pitch darkness
- pitch-tar
Translations
Descendants
- ? Galician: piche
- ? Portuguese: piche
See also
- piceous
Verb
pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- 1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas
- Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.
- 1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas
Etymology 2
From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), an assibilated variant of Middle English picken, pikken (“to pick, pierce”). More at pick.
Noun
pitch (plural pitches)
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- (sports, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" is the preferred word.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- September 28, 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner No. 2
- He lived at a time when learning was at its highest pitch.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press (1973), section 11:
- But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity
- 2014, James Booth, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love (page 190)
- In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy […]
- September 28, 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner No. 2
- The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- 1975, Tom A. Cullen, The Prostitutes' Padre (page 94)
- Another reason is that the prostitute who makes her pitch at Marble Arch stands a chance of being picked up by an out-of-town business man stopping at one of the hotels in the vicinity, and of being treated to a steak dinner […]
- 1975, Tom A. Cullen, The Prostitutes' Padre (page 94)
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- Prominence; importance.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- 1967, Anthony Greenbank, Instructions in Mountaineering (page 84)
- You lead "through" instead — your companion leads a pitch, then you join him. But instead of swapping over at the ice axe belay, you carry on in the lead, cutting or kicking steps until you are about twenty feet above.
- 1967, Anthony Greenbank, Instructions in Mountaineering (page 84)
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (now Britain, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Hyponyms
- football pitch
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched or (obsolete) pight)
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.
- (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
- the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Precepts of Christianity not grievous
- Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Precepts of Christianity not grievous
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
- (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Unknown. Perhaps related to the above sense of level or degree, or influenced by it.
Noun
pitch (plural pitches)
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- […] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, pages 196–197:
- His "hello" was enough to recognize his voice by. I pitched mine low so he wouldn't know it.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, pages 196–197:
Translations
References
- pitch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pitch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Pronunciation
Noun
pitch m (plural pitchs)
- pitch (sales patter, inclination)
Italian
Noun
pitch m (plural pitch)
- (cricket) cricket pitch
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