User:CaptainPermaban/sandbox

Czech noun templates

Etymology

From German Eisenbahn (“railway, railroad”) +‎ -ák.

Etymology

From blýskat (“to flash”) +‎ -u- +‎ rychle (“fast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsandboks]
• Hyphenation: ajzn‧bo‧ňák

Noun

CaptainPermaban/sandbox m anim (female equivalent ajznboňačka, related adjective ajznboňácký)

1. (colloquial, dated) railman, railwayman

   Synonym: železničář

Declension

Declension of sandbox (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	sandbox	sandboxi
genitive	sandboxa	sandboxů
dative	sandboxovi, sandboxu	sandboxům
accusative	sandboxa	sandboxy
vocative	sandboxe	sandboxi
locative	sandboxovi, sandboxu	sandboxech
instrumental	sandboxem	sandboxy

Related terms

• exekutiva f
• exekutivní
• exekutor m anim
• exekvovat impf or pf

 

Further reading

• CaptainPermaban/sandbox in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• CaptainPermaban/sandbox in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• CaptainPermaban/sandbox in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012-, slovnikcestiny.cz
• CaptainPermaban/sandbox in Internetová jazyková příručka

Declension

Declension of sandbox (soft zero-ending feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	sandbox	sandboxe
genitive	sandboxe	sandboxí
dative	sandboxi	sandboxím
accusative	sandbox	sandboxe
vocative	sandboxi	sandboxe
locative	sandboxi	sandboxích
instrumental	sandboxí	sandboxemi

Usage notes

In the first sense, the word is mostly used in connection with the renovation of the Prague Jewish Quarter.

Akce Asanace was the cover name of a Czechoslovak secret police operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s the goal of which was the expulsion of leading dissidents out of the country.

Further reading

• CaptainPermaban/sandbox in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957

Czech adjective templates

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsandboks]
• Hyphenation: říz‧ný

Adjective

CaptainPermaban/sandbox (comparative říznější, superlative nejříznější)

1. brisk, vigorous, energetic

   řízný pochod

   a brisk march

2. with a sharp taste, zesty

   řízné pivo

   zesty beer

Further reading

• CaptainPermaban/sandbox in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• CaptainPermaban/sandbox in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• CaptainPermaban/sandbox in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012-, slovnikcestiny.cz
• CaptainPermaban/sandbox in Internetová jazyková příručka

Czech interjection templates

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsandboks]

Interjection

sandbox

1. (onomatopoeia) Used to indicate the sound of a horse neighing, or something resembling it.

See also

• haf
• mňau

Czech

Interjection

sandbox

1. Misspelling of ježkovy zraky.

Czech

Alternative forms

• ježkovy zraky

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”) + κράτος (krátos, “strength, power”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmantɪkɹætɪk/
• Rhymes: -ætɪk

Adjective

sandbox (comparative more sandbox, superlative most sandbox)

1. Pertaining to a society ruled by the descendants of a prophet (specifically, the Prophet Muhammad)
   • 1935, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Wordsworth Editions, published 1997, →ISBN, pages 31-32:

     The prophet's family had held temporal rule in Mecca for the last nine hundred years, and counted some two thousand persons. The old Ottoman government regarded this clan of manticratic peers with a mixture of reverence and distrust.

Usage notes

The word is a hapax legomenon, as it is attested in the English corpus solely in the "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T. E. Lawrence (see quotation above).

Further reading

• Hapax legomenon on Wikipedia
• "The weird world of the hapax legomenon" The Spectator

1. • 1995, Dava Sobel, Longitude, Herper Perennial, published 2011, →ISBN, page 89:

     The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.