propel
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Etymology edit
From Middle English propellen (“drive out, expel”), from Latin propellō, from pro- (“forward”) and pellō (“I push, I move”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /pɹəˈpɛl/
Audio (US): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /pɹəˈpel/
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Verb edit
propel (third-person singular simple present propels, present participle propelling, simple past and past participle propelled)
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or physical action, to cause to move in a certain direction; to drive forward.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Mass Relays Codex entry:
- Primary mass relays can propel ships thousands of light years, often from one spiral arm of the galaxy to another.
- (transitive, figurative) To provide an impetus for non-physical change, to make to arrive to a certain situation or result.
- 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 265e:
- I can discern your nature and see that even without any arguments (logoi) from me it will propel you to what you say you are drawn towards,
- 2020 November 7, Chelsea Janes, “Kamala Harris, daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, elected nation’s first female vice president”, in Washington Post[1]:
- Black women helped propel Harris and president-elect Joe Biden to victory by elevating turnout in places like Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.
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to cause to move in a certain direction
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to make to arrive to a certain situation or result
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Noun edit
propel c (singular definite propellen, plural indefinite propeller)
- propeller (mechanical device used to propel)
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Declension of propel
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | propel | propellen | propeller | propellerne |
genitive | propels | propellens | propellers | propellernes |
See also edit
- propel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
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