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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.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The measurement between the top plate and the fingerboard where the neck meets the body of the instrument.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To stand or insist too much or too long; overstay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
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verb
To stand too strictly on the demands or conditions of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To sail (to the mark) at a wider angle than is the normal upwind angle; to go beyond (the layline).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: yachting; boat racing; yachting; boat racing
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verb
To be neglected and left uncut for too long.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: business, forestry
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verb
To have complete or intuitive comprehension of; to understand fully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: US black subculture
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Synonyms: get, grok
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History
From Middle English overstonden, from Old English oferstandan (“to stand over”), equivalent to over- + stand. Cognate with Dutch overstaan (“to stand over”), German überstehen (“to stand through, survive”).
Blend of over + understand, coined in Rastafarianism before 1965.
