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lunge

noun
/lʌnd͡ʒ/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from longus
  2. derived from longare
  3. derived from *allongare✻
  4. derived from alonge
  5. derived from allonge

Definitions

  1. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.

    • 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…

    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…

    An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A fish, the namaycush.

    2. To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle

      To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).

      • I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
      • With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!

    3. To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle

      To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lunge. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01lunge02attached03joined04join05come06arrive07reach08thrust

A definitional loop anchored at lunge. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at lunge

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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