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inflation
English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin ?nfl?ti? (“expansion", "blowing up”), from ?nfl?tus, the perfect passive participle of ?nfl? (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + fl? (“blow”).Morphologically inflate +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?fle???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
inflation (plural inflations)
- An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
- (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- (economics) A decline in the value of money.
- (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
Antonyms
- deflation
Derived terms
Related terms
- inflate
- conflation
- reflation
Translations
References
- (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.
Anagrams
- inflatino
French
Etymology
From Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin infl?ti?, infl?ti?nem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.fla.sj??/
- Homophone: inflations
Noun
inflation f (plural inflations)
- (economics) inflation
Antonyms
- déflation
Related terms
- enfler
- enflure
Further reading
- “inflation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?nfl?ti?.
Noun
inflation f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)
- (medicine) swelling
Descendants
- ? English: inflation
- French: inflation
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bow
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English bowe, bo?e, from Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bog?, from Proto-Germanic *bugô. Cognate with West Frisian boge, Dutch boog, German Bogen, Danish bue, Norwegian boge, bue, Swedish båge.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?, IPA(key): /b??/
- (US) enPR: b?, IPA(key): /bo?/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: beau
Noun
bow (plural bows)
- A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- I do set my bow in the cloud.
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- Coordinate term: blade
Synonyms
- (bow-shaped bend): arc, bend, curve
- (tool for playing stringed instruments): fiddlestick
- (a type of stringed instrument): musical bow
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
bow (third-person singular simple present bows, present participle bowing, simple past and past participle bowed)
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- The musician bowed his violin expertly.
- (intransitive) To become bent or curved.
- The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.
- (transitive) To make something bend or curve.
- 1843, William H. Prescott, The History of the Conquest of Mexico
- The whole nation […] bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny.
- 1843, William H. Prescott, The History of the Conquest of Mexico
- (transitive, figuratively) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Atheism
- Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion.
- not to bow and bias their opinions
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Atheism
Derived terms
- bower
- diddley bower
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bowen, buwen, bu?en, from Old English b?gan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *beugan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b??g?- (“to bend”). Cognate with Dutch buigen, German biegen, Danish bue.
Pronunciation
- enPR: bou, IPA(key): /ba?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophone: bough
Verb
bow (third-person singular simple present bows, present participle bowing, simple past and past participle bowed)
- (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- The soldier now blew upon a green whistle, and at once a young girl, dressed in a pretty green silk gown, entered the room. She had lovely green hair and green eyes, and she bowed low before Dorothy as she said, "Follow me and I will show you your room."
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- (transitive and intransitive) To debut.
- 2010 (publication date), Kara Krekeler, "Rebuilding the opera house", West End Word, volume 39, number 26, December 22, 2010 – January 11, 2011, page 1:
- SCP recently announced that How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical will bow on the newly renovated stage next December.
- 2010 (publication date), Kara Krekeler, "Rebuilding the opera house", West End Word, volume 39, number 26, December 22, 2010 – January 11, 2011, page 1:
- (intransitive) To defer (to something).
- (transitive) To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
Hypernyms
- (gesture): gesture; congee, congé, conge
Derived terms
Related terms
- buxom
Translations
Noun
bow (plural bows)
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
- He made a polite bow as he entered the room.
Hypernyms
- (gesture): gesture; congee, congé, conge
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English bowe, bowgh, a borrowing from Middle Low German bôch and/or Middle Dutch boech, from Proto-Germanic *b?guz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh???us (“arm”). Cognate with Dutch boeg (“bow”), Danish bov (“bow”), Swedish bog (“bow”). Doublet of bough.
Pronunciation
- enPR: bou, IPA(key): /ba?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophone: bough
Noun
bow (plural bows)
- (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.
- (rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
Synonyms
- (of a ship): prow
Antonyms
- (of a ship): poop, stern
Derived terms
- bow rudder
- bow shock
- shot across the bow, shot across the bows
Usage notes
- Often used in the plural, the ship being considered to have starboard and port bows, meeting at the stern.
Translations
Etymology 4
Noun
bow (plural bows)
- (obsolete) Alternative spelling of bough
- Ariell:
- Where the Bee ?ucks, there ?uck I,
- In a Cowslips bell, I lie,
- There I cowch when Owles doe crie,
- On the Batts backe I doe flie
- ? after Sommer merrily.
- Merrily, merrily, ?hall I liue now
- Vnder the blo??om that hangs on the Bow.
See also
- coll'arco
- curtsy
- kowtow
- Wikipedia article on bows (weapons)
- Wikipedia article on bows used to play string instruments
- Wikipedia article on bows (the knots)
- Wikipedia article on musical bows
- Wikipedia article on bows, the gestures of respect
- Wikipedia article on the bows of ships
- Bow in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- WBO
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
From Dutch bouwen (“to build”).
Verb
bow
- to build
- (figuratively, with tapu) to trust, to depend on
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo?f/
Noun
b?w f (plural bowa)
- woman
- wife
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