abstract away - 1. (transitive) To generalize concepts or their application by using abstraction into a more usable form. 2. (transitive, by extension) To ignore, to omit.
action of account = writ of account: following definition is from a old dictionary. Chambers or Webster??? (Law): a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account -Cowell
Andy: it seems "wine conner" exists too (dunno whether single word or hyphenated). But I wish you would help doing the research and adding cited entries rather than sitting jealously on requests that might take years to fulfil. Equinox◑02:41, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
"sitting jealously"? Nope. You've either mistaken me for someone else, or failed to assume good faith. As for wishing I would do some research, not only have I provided a source, above, but please see my replies to you, on this page, under "frienemyship" (research provided 12 August; still awaiting your response to my comment of 19 August) and "QID" (research provided 19 October 2020 - one year ago today - still awaiting your response). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits18:04, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I wish, but unless we have finally upped the minimum number of durably archived independent uses to something more sensible than three over a year, here's a sampling of twenty-eight years worth of dumb from web and print:
Slash: But it's real cool. You know, I'm not gonna sit there and degragate... degradate – whatever the word is like (laughs). (origin?) - 1992 - [2]
The main concern is that routing a signal through multiple switches could degragate data as the cummulative (sic) impedance of the switches becomes prohibitive. - 2003 - [3] (made it to print!)
Organic Melt™ deicer is an environmentally safe, agricultural-based product made with degragated sugar beets - 2013 - [4]
I have been trying to learn, teach and implement agricultural practices that aggregate our precious resources rather than degragate them. (with its antonym!) - 2014 - [5]
I had a HDD failure and a degragated RAID5. - 2016 - [6]
Degragated Mouse Control and Key Input - 2017 - [7]
Aboriginal people were called and still get called the N-word as a way to racially degragate. - 2018 - [8]
On this one, the wifi signal is crappy and degragates as you use it more. - 2019 - [9]
The PAPD degragated that woman’s human right for safety and protection. - 2019 - [10]
Aspartate can be degragated to NH4, CO2, and H2O to produce ATP energy by its carbons entering the TCA cycle. - [11]
The bottom line is – words empower people, inspire people, educate people, but can even degragate and sterotype (sic) people. - [12]
My question is why do the plasmid with insert is fully degragated by EcoR-1.? - [13]
Actually I'd say one was probably influenced by denigrate, which could actually be part of where degradate/degragate came from. In the one that mentions aboriginal people, we didn't really have racial segregation here in Australia and it's certainly not part of the conversation on race relations here so I'd say that writer was also searching for a word meaning to disparage, to belittle, etc. These are all similar to degrade in the same way that people justify the blurring of deprecate and depreciate for instance. — hippietrail (talk) 23:14, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
fidian, fidianism - occasional uses, usually in compounds, discussing Christianity 17th - 19th centuries
fop - as a verb, to fool or trick? "Finally, after being prodded to some extent by his wife, he asked me coolly but amiably enough, to come again, and the next thing I knew, I was alone in the sleigh, like someone who has been fopped, like someone whom a man bent on revenge first likes to play an insulting trick on, driving through the cold, white, starry night to the station." Arthur Schnitzler (tr. Catherine Hutter), My Youth in Vienna (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, p. 219).
Fox News effect? appears in a few books etc.; possibly related to the study that found watching FN makes one less politically aware than watching nothing at all.
Humpty-Dumpty show - "For a year or so [the Crosby Opera House in Chicago] housed lavish productions of opera with the finest singers of the day, but somehow the enterprise fell on evil ways, and before many years had passed it was given over to Humpty-Dumpty shows, families of bell ringers, trained animals, acrobats, and pantomimes." John Tasker Howard, Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1931, p. 283).
quabble (Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History, Routledge, 1992, p. 63: "I do forget them before the next appointment, and my patient and I sink back into the routine of everyday quabble."
silver stain - "In the early fourteenth century, the invention of silver stain transformed stained glass colors and techniques. This yellow pigment with a silver compound base was applied to the exterior surface of the glass and fixed there. During the firing, it penetrated the glass and altered the color: if the glass was white, it became yellow; if it was already blue or red, it became green or orange." - Michel Pastoureau, tr. Jody Gladding, Yellow: The History of a Color (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 147)
slice - adjective sense used to describe mathematical knots[27]
straight pipe: An exhaust setup on a vehicle where all mufflers (silencers) and emission control devices have been removed.
tabernacle - (an additional meaning: a niche containing a religious figure on the outside of a building?) "[The palace] is also known as the Casa dell' Angelo because of a fine Gothic relief of an angel in a tabernacle on its façade." Alastair Grieve, Whistler's Venice (New Haven: Yale University, 2000, p. 97).
Taghanic - applied to events during the Givetian stage of the Devonian period, possibly a mass extinction
-tariat - suffix apparently derived from proletariat; possibly used enough to be considered productive (chattertariat, twittertariat)
throw out one's back - very common phrase, surprised we don't have it, not sure what exactly it means.
Tolstoy - Internet slang meaning to go on at great length like a Russian novelist, or a noun addressing a person who does, or a description of an overly-long message; needs citations
"Here, the bulls and cows waited beside the big slow Belgians thilled and yoked as if to pull a painted plow out of a book of hours" at [29]; "Thilled Centennial Swivel Plow" at [30]; "short-thilled forked plough" at [31]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits14:18, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
transconduct - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (Stefano Harney, "Hapticality in the Undercommons," in The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics, 2015, p. 176: "This is our work today. We take inventories of ourselves for components not the whole. We produce lean efforts to transconduct. We look to overcome constraints.")
