OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 20924

supine

/ˈs(j)uːpaɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
espalditendido • supino
Lying on its back.
Data, in part previously reported by this laboratory (2, 9), on the effects of mannitol loads in supine subjects, and of saline infusions in both supine and standing subjects, have…
Posterior displacement of the sternum can produce a deformity of the heart, particularly anterior indentation of the right ventricle. [...] The physical work capacity in pectus exc…
indolente
Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
In A v. UK, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights held that Part 4 of the 2001 Act [the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001] was not a strictly necessary…
Such corruption is commonplace in a world of supine civil servants and underfunded ministries.
📚 noun • entry_id 20925

supine

/ˈs(j)uːpaɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
supino
In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
And here also you may observ, that the syllable which is doubled in the Preterperfect tens is not doubled in the Supines, as totondi to clip, make's tonsum: cecídi to beat, cæsum:…
Of the large number of verbs which take the infinitive in Old-English the greater number are now followed by the supine. […] The substitution of the supine for the infinitive began…
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