lunge
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Alternative forms
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
lunge (plural lunges)
- A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
- 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.
- An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
- A fish, the namaycush.
Derived terms
- lunge whip
Translations
sudden movement
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long rope — see lunge line
exercise
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Verb
lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges, present participle lunging or lungeing, simple past and past participle lunged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
- I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
- 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork:
- With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
- (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).
Derived terms
Translations
to make a sudden movement
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to work a horse in a circle around a handler
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Anagrams
Etymology
From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (literally “the light organ”), cognate with Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, German Lunge, English lung. The noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lunge c (singular definite lungen, plural indefinite lunger)
Declension
Declension of lunge
Derived terms
- lungebetændelse
- lungekapacitet
- lungekræft
- lungetransplantation
References
Pronunciation
Adverb
lunge
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”). Compare Dutch long, English lung, Danish lunge, German Lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga.
Noun
lunge m or f (definite singular lunga or lungen, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
Derived terms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”). Akin to English lung.
Pronunciation
Noun
lunge f (definite singular lunga, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lunge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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