Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
Ellenikí/Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (Hellenic (Greek) Broadcasting television), Greece
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Initialism of emergency response team.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of enzyme replacement therapy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
To incite; urge on; encourage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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verb
To irritate; provoke.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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verb
To be eager; hurry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To make as if to strike; argue (with).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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verb
To strive after; try to obtain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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verb
To strive onward and upward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
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noun
the coordinated universal time when an event is received on Earth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Earth-received time
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Broader terms: coordinated universal time, UTC
History
From Middle English erten, ertin, from Old Norse erta (“to provoke, incite, tease”), from Proto-Germanic *artijaną (“to excite, tease”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2erd- (“sharp point, stinger”). Cognate with Icelandic erta (“to irritate”), Norwegian erta (“to taunt”), Swedish ärta (“to tease, jibe”), Old Irish aird (“point, ord, end point”), Ancient Greek ἄρδις (árdis, “arrowhead”).
Across languages
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