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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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foresee
English
Etymology
From Middle English foreseen, forseen, from Old English fores?on; equivalent to fore- +? see. Similar formations in Dutch voorzien, German vorsehen, Latin pr?vide?.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /f???si/
- (UK) IPA(key): /f???si?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Verb
foresee (third-person singular simple present foresees, present participle foreseeing, simple past foresaw, past participle foreseen)
- To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter:
- "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
- 1838, Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter:
- (obsolete) To provide.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
- Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
Derived terms
- foreseeable
Translations
See also
- forsee
- unforeseen
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