Definitions and meaning of ure
ure
Translingual
Symbol
ure
- (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Uru.
See also
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- Wiktionary’s coverage of Uru terms
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre, opera, and opus.
Noun
ure (uncountable)
- (obsolete, only in collocations in ure, out of ure) Use, practise, exercise.
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- 1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 [2]
- ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure
Derived terms
Verb
ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured)
- (obsolete, ambitransitive) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
- 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37,[3]
- […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]
Etymology 2
From Middle French ure or its etymon Latin ūrus. Doublet of urus.
Noun
ure (plural ures) (rare)
- Synonym of aurochs.
Usage notes
Ure-ox is more common; compare aurochs (ultimately from Old High German ūrohso, from ūro (“aurochs”) + ohso (“ox”)).
Related terms
- aurochs (perhaps related)
- urus
Etymology 3
Contraction
ure
- (informal, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of you're (you are).
References
Anagrams
- ERU, EUR, Eur., Rue, eur-, eur., rue
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Noun
ure
- plural of uur
Ainu
Pronunciation
Noun
ure (Kana spelling ウレ)
- (anatomy) foot
- Synonym: cikiri
Ambai
Alternative forms
Noun
ure
- eye
Danish
Noun
ure n
- indefinite plural of ur
Eastern Arrernte
Noun
ure
- fire
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Japanese
Romanization
ure
- Rōmaji transcription of うれ
Latin
Verb
ūre
- second-person singular present active imperative of ūrō
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French ore, from Latin hora.
Noun
ûre ?
- hour
Descendants
- Dutch: uur (see there for further descendants)
- Limburgish: oer
- West Flemish: eure
- → Middle Low German: ūr
- Plautdietsch: Ua
- → Danish: ur
- → Middle High German: ūre
- Alemannic German: Uur
- Bavarian: Uah
- Central Franconian: Uhr, Ouher
- German: Uhr (see there for further descendants)
- Luxembourgish: Auer
- → Saterland Frisian: Uure
- → West Frisian: oere
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman *ure (compare continental Old French uevre), from Latin opera.
Pronunciation
Noun
ure (uncountable)
- (usually with in) use, habit, custom
Descendants
References
- “ūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Noun
ure
- alternative form of eure
Etymology 3
Determiner
ure
- alternative form of oure (“our”)
Old English
Alternative forms
- ūser — Northumbrian, Mercian, or poetic
- ūr, usser — Mercian
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz. For development compare Old Norse órr.
Pronunciation
Determiner
ūre
- our
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: oure
- English: our
- Geordie English: wor
- Scots: oor, wir
Pronoun
ūre
- genitive of wē: ours, of us
Pali
Alternative forms
Noun
ure
- locative singular of uras (“breast”)
Paraujano
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈɺe/
- Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: u‧re
Verb
ure 0 (stative)
- to be clean
References
- Álvarez, José, Bravo, María (2008) “ure”, in Diccionario básico de la lengua añú [Basic dictionary of the Añú language][5], Maracaibo, Venezuela: University of Zulia, →ISBN, page 102.
Rapa Nui
Noun
ure
- penis
Usage notes
Largely considered archaic; replaced by a Tahitian term.
Rarotongan
Noun
ure
- penis
Yola
Determiner
ure
- alternative form of oor
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114
Yoruba
Pronunciation
Noun
urè
- (Ekiti, zootomy) the thigh or leg of an animal; (especially) when cooked
- Synonym: tete
Zaghawa
Noun
ure
- valley, wadi
References
- Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad
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