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wrest
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?st, IPA(key): /??st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Homophone: rest
Etymology 1
From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wr?stan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijan?, (compare Proto-Germanic *wr?han? (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wr?þan? (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wrei?-, *wrey?- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Verb
wrest (third-person singular simple present wrests, present participle wresting, simple past and past participle wrested)
- (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
- (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.
- (transitive, figuratively) To seize.
- (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
- (transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.
Derived terms
- outwrest
- overwrest
- wrester
Related terms
- wrestle
Translations
Noun
wrest (plural wrests)
- The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
- (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
- (obsolete) Active or motive power.
- (obsolete, rare) Short for saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
Derived terms
- saw wrest
- wrest block
- wrest pin
- wrest plank
Etymology 2
Possibly a variant of wrist: see the quotation. Wrist is also derived from *wr?þan? (“to weave, twist”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wrei?-, *wrey?- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”).
Noun
wrest (plural wrests)
- A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
Etymology 3
A misspelling of rest, probably influenced by wrest (etymology 1, verb and noun).
Noun
wrest (plural wrests)
- (agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
Derived terms
- turnwrest
References
Anagrams
- Trews, strew, trews, werst
Middle English
Noun
wrest
- Alternative form of wrist
wrest From the web:
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require
English
Etymology
From Old French requerre (French: requérir), from Vulgar Latin *requærere, from Latin requ?r? (“I require, seek, ask for”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???kwa??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???kwa??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
- Hyphenation: re?quire
Verb
require (third-person singular simple present requires, present participle requiring, simple past and past participle required)
- (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request. [14th-17thc.]
- I requyre yow lete vs be sworne to gyders that neuer none of vs shalle after this day haue adoo with other, and there with alle syre Tristram and sire Lamorak sware that neuer none of hem shold fyghte ageynst other nor for wele, nor for woo.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Mark V:
- I requyre the in the name of god, that thou torment me nott.
- To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. [from 14thc.]
- 1998, Joan Wolf, The Gamble, Warner Books:
- "I am Miss Newbury," I announced, "and I require to be shown to my room immediately, if you please."
- 2009, Vikram Dodd, The Guardian, 29 December:
- ‘Regrettably, I have concluded, after considering the matter over Christmas […], that I can no longer maintain the high standard of service I require of myself, meet the demands of office and cope with the pressures of public life, without my health deteriorating further.’
- 1998, Joan Wolf, The Gamble, Warner Books:
- Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15thc.]
- 1972, "Aid for Aching Heads", Time, 5 June:
- Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery.
- 2009, Julian Borger, The Guardian, 7 February:
- A weapon small enough to put on a missile would require uranium enriched to more than 90% U-235.
- 1972, "Aid for Aching Heads", Time, 5 June:
- To demand of (someone) to do something. [from 18thc.]
- 1970, "Compulsory Midi", Time, 29 June:
- After Aug 3 all salesgirls will be required to wear only one style of skirt while on duty: the midi.
- 2007, Allegra Stratton, "Smith to ban non-EU unskilled immigrants from working in UK", The Guardian, 5 December:
- The government would like to require non-British fiances who wish to marry a British citizen to sit an English test.
- 1970, "Compulsory Midi", Time, 29 June:
Synonyms
- call for
Related terms
- requirement
- requisite
- request
Translations
Further reading
- require in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- require in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- require at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- querier
Interlingua
Verb
require
- present of requirer
- imperative of requirer
Latin
Verb
requ?re
- second-person singular present active imperative of requ?r?
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