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subsistence
English
Etymology
From Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistens, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). See subsist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?b?s?st?ns/
Noun
subsistence (countable and uncountable, plural subsistences)
- Real being; existence.
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- Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing.
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- The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
- Inherency.
- Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
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- His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.
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- (theology) Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.
Synonyms
- (real being): See also Thesaurus:existence
- (something required to stay alive): sustenance
- (theology): hypostasis
Related terms
- subsist
- subsistent
- subsistence economy
Translations
Further reading
- subsistence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- subsistence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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grub
English
Etymology
From hypothetical Old English *grubbian, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Old High German grubil?n (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”). The noun sense of "larva" (c. 1400) may derive from the notion of "digging insect" or from the possibly unrelated Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”)."
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Noun
grub (countable and uncountable, plural grubs)
- (countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
- Synonym: larva
- (uncountable, slang) Food.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
- (Australia, slang) A dirty person.
- (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.
- (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
Derived terms
- grubby
- grublike
- witchety grub
Translations
See also
- caterpillar
- maggot
- worm
Verb
grub (third-person singular simple present grubs, present participle grubbing, simple past and past participle grubbed)
- To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
- to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
- 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter
- They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers.
- (slang, dated, transitive) To supply with food.
- (slang, dated) To eat.
- "John dear , we must give this little fellow his supper , you know ."
“ Of course we must , my darling . "
“ He has been grubbing and grubbing at school, ” said Bella
- "John dear , we must give this little fellow his supper , you know ."
Translations
Anagrams
- -burg, Burg, burg
German
Pronunciation
Verb
grub
- singular past imperfect of graben
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gr?b?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?rû?b/
Adjective
gr?b (definite gr?b?, comparative gr?blj?, Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- rough, coarse
- rude
Declension
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