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warn
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /w??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
- Homophone: worn (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Etymology
From Middle English warnen, warnien (“to warn; admonish”), from Old English warnian (“to take heed; warn”), from Proto-Germanic *warn?n? (“to warn; take heed”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to be aware; give heed”). Cognate with Dutch waarnen (obsolete), German Low German warnen, German warnen, Swedish varna, Icelandic varna.
Verb
warn (third-person singular simple present warns, present participle warning, simple past and past participle warned)
- (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:
- (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc. [from 11th c.]
- We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic about the accident.
- I phoned to warn him of the road closure.
- (transitive) To notify or inform (someone, about something). [from at least the 13th c.]
- I warned him he'd be getting a huge box of birthday presents from me.
- (transitive) To summon (someone) to or inform of a formal meeting or duty.
- The sheriff warned her to appear in court.
- 1741–2 March 4, Books of Keelman's Hospital, Newcastle, quoted in Northumberland Words (1894):
- Committee being warned these following were absent or short [...]
- 1874, Walter Gregor, An Echo of the Olden Time from the North of Scotland, page 142:
- The people had been invited to the funeral, or warnt, by a special messenger a few days before the funeral took place.
- 1889, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the [State of] Vermont, page 490:
- [...] the plaintiff fraudulently warned the meeting for November 15, giving only five days' notice [...]
- (transitive, intransitive, of a clock, possibly obsolete) To make a sound (e.g. clicking or whirring) indicating that it is about to strike or chime (an hour).
- 1885, Walter Towers, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, page 189:
- Hark! the clock is warning ten;
- 1885, Emma Marshall, In the East Country with Sir Thomas Browne, page 106:
- No, not a word more, Andrew; the clock has warned for nine, and I am off.
- 1902, Violet Jacob, The Sheep-Stealers, page 399:
- The clock warned, and the hands pointed to a few minutes before the hour. The preacher looked towards it. "And, as you sit here," he cried," the Old Year is dragging out its last moments and the New Year is coming up —"
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:warn.
- 1885, Walter Towers, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, page 189:
- (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc. [from 11th c.]
- (transitive) To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. [from 11th c.]
- He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.
- Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.
- (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away.
- A sign warns trespassers off/away from the site.
- (intransitive) To give warning.
- 1526, William Tyndale, tr. Bible, Galatians II, 9-10:
- then Iames Cephas and Iohn [...] agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes: warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Penguin 1995, p. 177:
- She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a different name to warn that they might not come true [...].
- 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Picador 2000, p. 496:
- She warned that he was seriously thinking of withdrawing his offer to part the waters, ‘so that all you'll get at the Arabian Sea is a saltwater bath [...]’.
- 1991, Clive James, ‘Making Programmes the World Wants’, The Dreaming Swimmer, Jonathan Cape 1992:
- Every country has its resident experts who warn that imported television will destroy the national consciousness and replace it with Dallas, The Waltons, Star Trek and Twin Peaks.
- 1526, William Tyndale, tr. Bible, Galatians II, 9-10:
Usage notes
- The intransitive sense is considered colloquial by some, and is explicitly proscribed by, for example, the Daily Telegraph style guide (which prefers give warning).
Derived terms
- forewarn
- warner
- warning
Translations
Anagrams
- ANWR
Middle English
Verb
warn
- Alternative form of weren
- Alternative form of wernen
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appeal
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??pi?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??pil/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Hyphenation: ap?peal
Etymology 1
From Middle English apel, appel (“formal accusation brought in court; a challenge to trial by combat; an appeal to a higher court or authority; plea (for mercy, protection, etc.); pealing (of bells)”) [and other forms], from Old French apel (“a call”) (modern French appel (“a call; an appeal”)), from apeler (“to call; to call out”), from Latin appell?re, adpell?re, respectively the present active infinitives of appell? (“to address as, call by name; to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”) and adpell? (“to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?éd (“at; to”)) + pell? (“to drive, impel, push; to hurl, propel; to banish, expel; to eject, thrust out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“to approach”), from *pel- (“to beat; to drive; to push”)).
Noun
appeal (countable and uncountable, plural appeals)
- (law)
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- (historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- (historical) A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
- (historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- (figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- (figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
- (rhetoric) A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- (historical) A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
Alternative forms
- appeale (obsolete, 16th–17th c.)
- appeall (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
- appellant
- appellate
- appellee
- appellor
Translations
See also
- approvement
Etymology 2
From Middle English apelen, appelen (“to accuse; to make a formal charge before a court, etc., impeach; to challenge to trial by combat; to apply to a higher court or authority for review of a decision; to call upon for a decision, favour, help, etc.; to call by a name”) [and other forms], from Old French apeler (“to call; to call out”); see further at etymology 1.
Verb
appeal (third-person singular simple present appeals, present participle appealing, simple past and past participle appealed)
- (law)
- (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- (transitive, originally US) To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- (transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- (transitive, historical) Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
- (transitive, historical) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
- (intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.
- (transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- appeal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- appeal (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- appeal at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appeal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English appeal.
Noun
appeal
- appeal (power to attract or interest)
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Anagrams
- papale
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