Englishadj/ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/

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  Of or pertaining to England.

  • During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired.
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  English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.

  • Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.
  • Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions.
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  Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).

  • The Uſuwrper [...] within a few miles Tanna's Fort, near the Engliſh ſettlement of Fort William.
  • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
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  Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.

  • an English ton
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  Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.

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  broadcastingfilmmediaDenoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors on a camera.

Englishnoun/ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/

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  The people of England, e.g., Englishmen and Englishwomen.

  • Cricket—a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
  • The English and the ROTW have a long history of conflict, periodically interrupted for tea.
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  The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.

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  Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.

  • Sorry, my English isn't very good. I wish I had better English.
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  A particular instance of the English language, including:

  • What's the English for 'à peu près'? It depends: how is it being used?
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  A particular instance of the English language, including:

  • The specs are all correct, but the English in the instructions isn't as clear as it should be.
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  A particular instance of the English language, including:

  • Thank you, doctor. Now, please say that again in English.
  • Data: I have completed my analysis of the anomaly. It appears to be a multi-phasic temporal convergence in the space-time continuum. Dr. Crusher: In English, Data.
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  A particular instance of the English language, including:

  • I loved reading until 7th grade English.
  • This reflects that in English, students learn a range of text types, such as procedures, editorials, poetry, and not just academic essays.
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  datedmediaprintingpublishingA size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.

Englishname/ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/

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  The language that developed in England and is now spoken in the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and many other parts of the world.

  • English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
  • How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English?
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  A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.

  • I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as “simple”; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down”; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure.
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  English language, literature, composition as a subject of study

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  An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.

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  A male or female given name.

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  A number of places in the United States:

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  A number of places in the United States:

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  A number of places in the United States:

Englishverb/ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/

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  archaicrareTo translate, adapt or render into English.

  • […] when a man expresses in Latin a Thing to be taken by Wrong, and englishes it; […] but if he declares on a Latin Word, which has no perfect Signification, nor so elegant as it might be; yet upon his Englishing of it whereby the Plaintiff's Meaning appears to the Court, the Plaintiff shall recover, and the Jury shall be intended to give Damages according to the Declaration in Latin, not having Respect to the Englishing; but when there is a proper Latin Word to express the Thing taken, there if the Plaintiff declares by another Word, it is not good.
  • […] severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.
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  archaicrareTo make English; to claim for England.

  • While the man Clive—he fought Plassy, spoiled the clever foreign game, Conquered and annexed and Englished!

englishnoun詞源 1/ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/

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  Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in pool, billiards or bowling; spin, sidespin.

  • You can't hit it directly, but maybe if you give it some english.
  • There was a magical way of putting English on the dice to result in a six.
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  An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance.

  • Some drop science, while I'm dropping english.
  • Preston Sturgis in his Sullivan’s Travels (1942) put some english on the idea in a bit about a filthy, defeated, white chaingang that is invited to a rural black church for an evening of old movies.