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volley
English
Etymology
From Middle French volée (“flight”), from Vulgar Latin volta, from Late Latin volatus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v?li/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?li/
- Rhymes: -?li
Noun
volley (plural volleys)
- The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.
- A burst or emission of many things at once.
- When we do speak at volley
- (sports) The flight of a ball just before it bounces.
- (sports) A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground.
- (cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
Translations
Verb
volley (third-person singular simple present volleys, present participle volleying, simple past and past participle volleyed)
- (transitive) To fire a volley of shots
- (sports, transitive) To hit the ball before it touches the ground
- (intransitive) To be fired in a volley
- (sports, intransitive) To make a volley
- To sound together
Translations
Derived terms
- half volley
- scorpion volley
- volleyball
Anagrams
- Lovely, lovely
French
Etymology
From English volleyball.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?.l?/
Noun
volley m (uncountable)
- (sports, colloquial) volleyball
Synonyms
- volley-ball, volleyball
Further reading
- “volley” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
volley m (invariable)
- volleyball
- Synonym: pallavolo
Derived terms
- vollistico
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shower
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English shour, from Old English sc?r, from Proto-West Germanic *sk?ru, from Proto-Germanic *sk?r?, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)??wer- (“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”). Cognate with Dutch schoer, German Schauer, Norwegian skur.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: shou'?r, IPA(key): /??a?.?(?)/
- (US) enPR: shou'?r, IPA(key): /??a?.?/
- Rhymes: -a?.?(?), -a??(?)
Noun
shower (plural showers)
- A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).
- A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
- Synonym: shower bath
- An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- (UK, Australia)
- (especially US)
- Synonym: shower bath
- A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
- A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
- A bridal shower.
- A baby shower.
- A bridal shower.
- (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
- (chiefly Ireland, Britain, Australia, derogatory) A shower of shit.
- 1956, Private's Progress (motion picture):
- You all behaved like a shower, now you are to be treated like a shower
- 1956, Private's Progress (motion picture):
- (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, derogatory, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
- 1991, Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland, page 208 (University of Chicago Press; ?ISBN, 9780226240718)
- It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.
- 1991, Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland, page 208 (University of Chicago Press; ?ISBN, 9780226240718)
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (shaw?)
Translations
Verb
shower (third-person singular simple present showers, present participle showering, simple past and past participle showered)
- (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
- To bathe using a shower.
- To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- The individual in the army becomes used to holding human life in contempt, in fact the greater the slaughter, the greater is his merit; and the more medals, ribbons, and honors of hero-worship are showered on him, the more he becomes, after a time, indifferent to all sorts of human suffering and loss of human life.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
Synonyms
- (bathe using a shower): have a shower (British), take a shower (especially US)
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From show +? -er.
Alternative forms
- show-er (nonstandard)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????.?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??o?.?/
Noun
shower (plural showers)
- One who shows.
- 2006, Bruce Christianson, ?Bruno Crispo, ?James A. Malcolm, Security Protocols: 12th International Workshop (page 18)
- When you show a credential there's a protocol whereby the showee has assurance that the shower possesses a credential of the particular type without actually seeing the bit string.
- 2018, Elisabeth Reber, ?Cornelia Gerhardt, Embodied Activities in Face-to-Face and Mediated Settings (page 153)
- Once the showee looks at the object, the shower removes his or her gaze from the showee and gazes back at the object (see below and Fig. 5.2).
- 2006, Bruce Christianson, ?Bruno Crispo, ?James A. Malcolm, Security Protocols: 12th International Workshop (page 18)
- An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
- (slang) A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid. [from 1990s]
- Antonym: grower
Translations
Further reading
- shower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Shower (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Howser, Whoser, howers, reshow, showre, whores
Swedish
Noun
shower
- indefinite plural of show
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