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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024lung /lʌŋ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Anatomyeither of the two saclike organs used for breathing in the chest of humans and air-breathing animals.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024lunge1 /lʌndʒ/USA pronunciation n., v., lunged, lung•ing. n. [countable] - a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife;
stab.
v. [no object] - to make a lunge or thrust;
move with a lunge:He lunged for the knife but missed it.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lung (lung),USA pronunciation n. - Anatomyeither of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and the higher vertebrates.
- Zoologyan analogous organ in certain invertebrates, as arachnids or terrestrial gastropods.
- Idioms at the top of one's lungs, as loudly as possible; with full voice:The baby cried at the top of his lungs.
- bef. 1000; Middle English lungen, Old English; cognate with German Lunge; akin to light2, lights
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lunge1 (lunj),USA pronunciation n., v., lunged, lung•ing. n. - a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife;
stab. - any sudden forward movement;
plunge.
v.i. - to make a lunge or thrust;
move with a lunge.
v.t. - to thrust (something) forward;
cause to move with a lunge:lunging his finger accusingly.
- Vulgar Latin *allongāre, for Late Latin ēlongāre to elongate
- 1725–35; earlier longe for French allonge (noun, nominal; construed as a longe), allonger (verb, verbal) to lengthen, extend, deliver (blows)
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged rush, charge, lurch.
lunge2 (lunj),USA pronunciation n., v., lunged, lung•ing. - longe.
- French; see longe, lune2
- variant of longe
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: lunge /lʌndʒ/ n - a sudden forward motion
- a thrust made by advancing the front foot and straightening the back leg, extending the sword arm forwards
vb - to move or cause to move with a lunge
- (intransitive) to make a lunge
Etymology: 18th Century: shortened form of obsolete C17 allonge, from French allonger to stretch out (one's arm), from Late Latin ēlongāre to lengthen. Compare elongateˈlunger n lunge /lʌndʒ/ n - a rope used in training or exercising a horse
vb - (transitive) to exercise or train (a horse) on a lunge
Etymology: 17th Century: from Old French longe, shortened from allonge, ultimately from Latin longus long1; related to lunge1 |