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swallow
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sw?l??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sw?lo?/
- Rhymes: -?l??
Etymology 1
From Middle English swolowen, swolwen, swol?en, swelwen, swel?en, from Old English swelgan (“to swallow, incorporate, absorb, imbibe, devour”), from Proto-Germanic *swelgan? (“to swallow, revel, devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *swelk- (“to gulp”). Cognate with Dutch zwelgen (“to revel, carouse, guzzle”), German schwelgen (“to delight, indulge”), Swedish svälja (“to swallow, gulp”), Icelandic svelgja (“to swallow”), Old English swillan, swilian (“to swill, wash out, gargle”). See also swill.
The noun is from late Old English swelg (“gulf, chasm”), from the verb.
Alternative forms
- swalow, swolow (obsolete)
Verb
swallow (third-person singular simple present swallows, present participle swallowing, simple past and past participle swallowed)
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat. [from 11th c.]
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4:
- What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
- 2011, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 21 Apr 2011:
- Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed: they remain trapped in the physical world.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4:
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb. [from 13th c.]
- The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.
- 2010, "What are the wild waves saying", The Economist, 28 Oct 2010:
- His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept. [from 16th c.]
- 1920, Katherine Miller (translating Romain Rolland), Clerambault
- this humbug was readily swallowed by men who were supposed to be intelligent,
- 2011, Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian, 22 Apr 2011:
- Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.
- 1920, Katherine Miller (translating Romain Rolland), Clerambault
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
Synonyms
- (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach): consume, devour, eat, gulp
- (to take in): absorb, assimilate, engulf, incorporate, swallow up, overwhelm; see also Thesaurus:integrate
- (to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus): gulp
- (to believe or accept): buy, creed, credit
- (to engross): absorb, engage, immerse,monopolize, take over, occupy
- (to retract): disavow, take back, unsay; See also Thesaurus:recant
- (to put up with): brook, endure, live with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
swallow (countable and uncountable, plural swallows)
- (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
- (archaic) The mouth and throat; that which is used for swallowing; the gullet.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
Translations
See also
- dysphagia
Etymology 2
From Middle English swalwe, swalewe, swalowe, from Old English swealwe, from Proto-Germanic *swalw?. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.
Noun
swallow (plural swallows)
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (bird of Hirundinidae): martin
Derived terms
Related terms
- (bird of Hirundinidae): martlet (type of feetless bird in heraldry)
Translations
Anagrams
- wallows
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taste
English
Alternative forms
- tast (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster, from assumed Vulgar Latin *tast?re, from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxit?re, a new iterative of Latin tax?re (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”). Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from Old English smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from Old English smæ??an (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buri?en (“to taste”) (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?st/
- Rhymes: -e?st
Noun
taste (countable and uncountable, plural tastes)
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Synonyms
- (sensation produced by the tongue): smack, smatch; See also Thesaurus:gustation
- (set of preferences): discernment, culture, refinement, style
- (personal preference): See also Thesaurus:predilection
- (small amount of experience): impression, sample, trial
Hyponyms
- (sensation produced by the tongue): relish, savor
Meronyms
- (sensation produced by the tongue): bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
taste (third-person singular simple present tastes, present participle tasting, simple past and past participle tasted)
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
- The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
- To experience.
- I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
- They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
- He […] should taste death for every man.
- To take sparingly.
- 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydentastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false
- Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
- 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydentastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- I tasted a little of this honey.
- (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
Synonyms
- (sample the flavor of something): smack, smake; See also Thesaurus:taste
- (have a taste): hint, smack; See also Thesaurus:have taste
Translations
Further reading
- taste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- taste in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- taste at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "taste" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 313.
Anagrams
- Satet, State, Testa, Tetas, aetts, atest, state, teats, testa
Danish
Etymology
From the noun tast.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ast?
Verb
taste (imperative tast, infinitive at taste, present tense taster, past tense tastede, perfect tense har/er tastet)
- To type
Conjugation
Derived terms
- indtaste
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
taste
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tasten
German
Pronunciation
Verb
taste
- inflection of tasten:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
taste (imperative tast, present tense taster, passive tastes, simple past and past participle tasta or tastet, present participle tastende)
- to type (on a computer keyboard or typewriter)
Related terms
- tast (noun)
- tastatur
References
- “taste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- tast, taist
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French tast.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta?st/, /tast/
Noun
taste (uncountable)
- perceived flavor
Descendants
- English: taste
- Yola: taaste, tawest, thaaste
References
- “t??st(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
taste (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- vocative singular of tast
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