lunge

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See also: Lunge and lungë

English

WOTD – 12 February 2007

Alternative forms

A tennis player lunging for the ball.

Etymology

From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʌndʒ/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌndʒ

Noun

lunge (plural lunges)

  1. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
    • 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC‎[1]:
      A moment of madness from double goalscorer Kalinic put Rovers' fate back in the balance when the Croat caught Scharner with a late, dangerous lunge and was shown a straight red card by referee Phil Dowd.
  2. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
  3. An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
  4. A fish, the namaycush.

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Verb

lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges, present participle lunging or lungeing, simple past and past participle lunged)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
    I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
    • 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork
      With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
  2. (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (literally “the light organ”), cognate with Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, German Lunge, English lung. The noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”).

Pronunciation

Noun

lunge c (singular definite lungen, plural indefinite lunger)

  1. (anatomy) lung

Inflection

Declension of lunge
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative lunge lungen lunger lungerne
genitive lunges lungens lungers lungernes

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References

Italian

Pronunciation

Adverb

lunge

  1. Archaic form of lungi.

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”). Compare Dutch long, English lung, Danish lunge, German Lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga.

Noun

lunge m or f (definite singular lunga or lungen, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)

  1. (anatomy) a lung

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”). Akin to English lung.

Pronunciation

Noun

lunge f (definite singular lunga, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)

  1. (anatomy) a lung

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Further reading

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