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transpire (trænˈspaɪə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (intr) to come to light; be known |
| 2. | informal (intr) to happen or occur |
| 3. | physiol to give off or exhale (water or vapour) through the skin, a mucous membrane, etc |
| 4. | (of plants) to lose (water in the form of water vapour), esp through the stomata of the leaves |
| [C16: from Medieval Latin transpīrāre, from Latin | |
| usage It is often maintained that transpire should not be used to mean happen or occur, as in the event transpired late in the evening, and that the word is properly used to mean become known, as in it transpired later that the thief had been caught. The word is, however, widely used in the former sense, esp in spoken English | |
| tran'spirable | |
| —adj | |
| transpiration | |
| —n | |
| tran'spiratory | |
| —adj | |
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Tran'spirable
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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