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tax
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?ks, IPA(key): /tæks/
- Homophone: tacks
- Rhymes: -æks
Etymology 1
From Middle English taxe, from Anglo-Norman tax and Old French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa.
Noun
tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)
- Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
- Synonyms: impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand, levy
- Antonym: subsidy
- (figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
- A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
- (obsolete) charge; censure
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: takis
- ? Rotokas: takisi
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin tax?re, present active infinitive of tax? (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I compute”).
Verb
tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
- (transitive) To accuse.
- (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
Derived terms
- taxable
- taxation
Translations
Anagrams
- ATX, xat
Latin
Alternative forms
- tuxtax
Interjection
tax
- an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack
References
- tax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- tax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??x/
Noun
tax f (Arabic spelling ????)
- district, neighborhood, quarter
- district, region
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press
Swedish
Pronunciation
- Homophone: tacks
Noun
tax c
- a dachshund (dog breed)
Declension
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exasperate
English
Etymology
From Latin exasper?; ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asper? (“make rough”), from asper (“rough”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /???zæsp(?)?e?t/
- (Received Pronunciation, also) IPA(key): /???z??sp??e?t/
- Rhymes: -æsp??e?t
- Hyphenation: ex?as?per?ate
Verb
exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)
- To tax the patience of, irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 6:
- And this report
- Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he
- Prepares for some attempt of war.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3:
- The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, chapter 11:
- Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.
- 1987 January 5, "Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino," Time:
- [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.
- 2007 June 4, "Loyal Mail," Times Online (UK) (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):
- News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 6:
Translations
Adjective
exasperate (comparative more exasperate, superlative most exasperate)
- (obsolete) exasperated; embittered.
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
- Thersites. Do I curse thee?
- Patroclus. Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no.
- Thersites. No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk […]
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman & Hall, 1857, Book 4, p. 177,[2]
- Like swallows which the exasperate dying year
- Sets spinning […]
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
Related terms
See also
- exacerbate
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exasperate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eksaspe?rate/, /e?zaspe?rate/
Verb
exasperate
- adverbial present passive participle of exasperar
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.sas.pe?ra?.te/, [?ks?äs?p???ä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.sas.pe?ra.te/, [??z?sp?????t??]
Verb
exasper?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of exasper?
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