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terms

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??mz/
  • (US) IPA(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

  1. plural of term

Verb

terms

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

  • ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

  1. indefinite genitive singular of term

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apeak

English

Alternative forms

  • apeek

Etymology

From French à pic (“at its summit; vertically”), compare with Italian a picco

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??pi?k/

Adverb

apeak (not comparable)

  1. (nautical, of an anchor) In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.
    • a 1796, Charles Dibdin, "Nautical Philosophy":
      Thus the good we should cherish, the bad never seek, / For death will too soon bring each anchor apeak.
    • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 163:
      I found the New Shoreham with her anchor apeak and, within a quarter of an hour after I reached her, running seven knots an hour, right before the wind.

Anagrams

  • akepa

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