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appropriate
English
Etymology
From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + proprio (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”).
Pronunciation
- Adjective
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p???.p?i?.?t/, /??p???.p?i?.?t/
- (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p?o?.p?i.?t/, /??p?o?.p?i.?t/
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p???.p?i?.e?t/
- (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p?o?.p?i.e?t/
Adjective
appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate)
- Suitable or fit; proper.
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- in its strict and appropriate meaning
- 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome
- appropriate acts of divine worship
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
Synonyms
- (suited for): apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable; see also Thesaurus:suitable
Antonyms
- (all senses): inappropriate
Derived terms
- appropriateness
Related terms
- proper
- property
Translations
Verb
appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)
- (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.
- 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity
- Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; see also Thesaurus:take or Thesaurus:steal
- (to set apart for): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
Translations
Further reading
- appropriate at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appropriate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Adjective
appropriate f pl
- feminine plural of appropriato
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reserve
English
Etymology
From Old French reserver.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???z?v/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???z??v/
- Rhymes: -??(?)v
- Hyphenation: re?serve
Noun
reserve (countable and uncountable, plural reserves)
- (behaviour) Restriction.
- The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
- Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
- That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
- A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
- A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
- (Canada) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
- (military) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
- (finance, insurance) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
- A reserve price in an auction.
- Wine held back and aged before being sold.
- (ceramics) Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
- 1973, Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period (page 161)
- Each is decorated with a simple disk in reserve and a band in reserve adorned with white dots.
- 1973, Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period (page 161)
- A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
- (social) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
- (sports) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
- (card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
- In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
- (calico printing) A resist.
- A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
Synonyms
- (restraint of freedom in words or actions): self-restraint, reticence, taciturnity
- (sports: reserve player): substitute
- (military: reserve forces): Army Reserve, Territorial Army, TA, TAVR, territorials, terriers, reservists
- (tract of land for Aboriginal peoples): reservation, res, rez
Derived terms
Related terms
- reservist
Translations
Verb
reserve (third-person singular simple present reserves, present participle reserving, simple past and past participle reserved)
- To keep back; to retain.
- We reserve the right to make modifications.
- To keep in store for future or special use.
- This cake is reserved for the guests!
- c. 1703-1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage
- Conceal your esteem and love in your own breast, and reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.
- To book in advance; to make a reservation.
- I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.
- (obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.
Translations
Anagrams
- Reveres, reveres, reverse, severer, veerers
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French reserve, from Old French reserver.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r??z?r.v?/
- Hyphenation: re?ser?ve
- Rhymes: -?rv?
Noun
reserve f (plural reserves, diminutive reservetje n)
- reserve, emergency supply (that which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use)
- military reserves
- reservation, restraint
- (law, Belgium) forced estate, legitime
- Synonym: voorbehouden deel
- Antonym: beschikbaar deel
- (sports) alternate, substitute, reserve
Derived terms
- gasreserve
- oliereserve
- kapitaalreserve
- reserveband
- reservebank
- reservebatterij
- reserve-eenheid
- reservefiets
- reservekracht
- reserveleger
- reservemateriaal
- reserveofficier
- reserveonderdeel
- reservevoorraad
- reservewiel
- vetreserve
- voedselreserve
Related terms
- reserveren
Descendants
- Afrikaans: reserwe
- ? Indonesian: reserve
Anagrams
- serveer, servere, verrees
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch reserve, from Old French reserver.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [r??ser.v?]
- Hyphenation: rê?sér?vê
Noun
rêsérvê (first-person possessive reserveku, second-person possessive reservemu, third-person possessive reservenya)
- (colloquial) reserve.
- Synonyms: cadangan, serap
- (colloquial) requirement.
- Synonym: syarat
Further reading
- “reserve” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Via German Reserve from French réserve
Noun
reserve m (definite singular reserven, indefinite plural reserver, definite plural reservene)
- a reserve
Derived terms
- reservedel
Related terms
- reservere
References
- “reserve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “reserve” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Via German Reserve from French réserve
Noun
reserve m (definite singular reserven, indefinite plural reservar, definite plural reservane)
- a reserve
Derived terms
- reservedel
References
- “reserve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Verb
reserve
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of reservar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of reservar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of reservar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of reservar
Spanish
Verb
reserve
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reservar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reservar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reservar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of reservar.
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