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1) Wiktionary is a multilingual dictionary and each Wiktionary site attempts to translate words from all known languages into one single language (e.g., en.wikt for all languages into English). This is one advantage over OED or Webster. 2) Wiktionary (or volunteers who work on the website) strives to be descriptive.
In all of the dictionaries I looked at besides Wiktionary, there is not a definition of "genocide" as a verb. So I need to ask you if you think it is okay or usual to you to use "genocide" as a verb to mean "To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely" like in "The bla bla bla nation genocided the bla bla bla nation."
Wiktionary entries vary as to how one word is given the "main" entry and others the "alternatives". Sometimes there's a Google Fight, sometimes it's first come first served, sometimes there's a small battle between who is right among British English and American English! Do not trust these Wiktionary labels! –
TL;DR /ɜ/, /ɛ/ and /ɝ/ are significantly different vowels. /ɜ/ and /ɝ/ are virtually the same vowel sound; both are central, the only notable difference is that the latter is being influenced by a following [ɹ]. /ɛ/ is a front vowel i.e. the highest point of the tongue is positioned relatively in front in the mouth.
1 : almost entirely : nearly 2 : for all practical purposes, e.g. virtually unknown. M-W: "virtually". Those definitions are about the same. Either the author or Wittgenstein, whichever added the word "virtually", is being fussy, saying that the number of functions for language is very very many, though possibly not infinite in a mathematical ...
Plaudits (Wiktionary) A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Laudation (Wiktionary) The act of lauding; high praise or commendation. Panegyric (Wiktionary) A formal speech publicly praising someone or something. Other words such as Commendation, Felicitation and still many others can be used. These words can also be combined with ...
0. There is also a usage trend to use - tor when the intent is to emphasize that the agent is a person, while - ter is used when the agent is not necessarily a person. For example, ‘compu tor ’ the original term meaning a person performing computation later becoming ‘compu ter ’ when calculations were performed by either people or machines.
According to the Etymology Dictionary, "lug" is "a broad-meaning word used of things that move slowly or with difficulty". I've read all the meanings listed in Wiktionary, and I can't understand what exactly "lug" means in "lug nut". I want to understand it in order to remember it better. A picture I found online: word-meaning. etymology. Share.
Being or having ‘most’ (of) something just means that no other entity is/has more. And even in American English, terms like joint winner are perfectly normal, and even joint first (prize/place) not unheard of. @Mari-LouA His sentence does not imply there are more than two, just that there is more than one.
13. "Print" in this context refers to this definition (from Wiktionary): (transitive, intransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive. It's conventional to use your (usually cursive) signature as a personally-identifiable mark. But many people's signatures look more like squiggles than ...