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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RETIARY

From Latin retiarius.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RETIARY

retiary  [ˈriːtɪərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RETIARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Retiary is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RETIARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

retiary

Retiarius

A retiarius was a Roman gladiator who fought with equipment styled on that of a fisherman: a weighted net, a three-pointed trident, and a dagger. The retiarius was lightly armoured, wearing an arm guard and a shoulder guard. Typically, his clothing consisted only of a loincloth held in place by a wide belt, or of a short tunic with light padding. He wore no head protection or footwear. The retiarius was routinely pitted against a heavily armed secutor. The net-fighter made up for his lack of protective gear by using his speed and agility to avoid his opponent's attacks and waiting for the opportunity to strike. He first tried to throw his net over his rival. If this succeeded, he attacked with his trident while his adversary was entangled. Another tactic was to ensnare his enemy's weapon in the net and pull it out of his grasp, leaving the opponent defenseless. Should the net miss or the secutor grab hold of it, the retiarius likely discarded the weapon, although he might try to collect it back for a second cast. Usually, the retiarius had to rely on his trident and dagger to finish the fight.

Definition of retiary in the English dictionary

The definition of retiary in the dictionary is of, relating to, or resembling a net or web.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RETIARY


bestiary
ˈbɛstɪərɪ
dearie
ˈdɪərɪ
diary
ˈdaɪərɪ
enquiry
ɪnˈkwaɪərɪ
Erie
ˈɪərɪ
expiry
ɪkˈspaɪərɪ
hosiery
ˈhəʊzɪərɪ
inquiry
ɪnˈkwaɪərɪ
lire
ˈlɪərɪ
Neri
ˈnɪərɪ
ostiary
ˈɒstɪərɪ
peri
ˈpɪərɪ
query
ˈkwɪərɪ
revestiary
rɪˈvɛstɪərɪ
siri
ˈsɪərɪ
steery
ˈstɪərɪ
subsidiary
səbˈsɪdɪərɪ
teary
ˈtɪərɪ
theory
ˈθɪərɪ
vestiary
ˈvɛstɪərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RETIARY

retia
retial
retiarii
retiarius
reticella
reticence
reticency
reticent
reticently
reticle
reticula
reticular
reticularly
reticulary
reticulate
reticulately
reticulation
reticule
Reticuli
reticulocyte

WORDS THAT END LIKE RETIARY

ambassador plenipotentiary
ariary
auxiliary
beneficiary
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
evidentiary
intermediary
judiciary
minister plenipotentiary
ministers plenipotentiary
obedientiary
penitentiary
plenipotentiary
post-Tertiary
potentiary
residentiary
silentiary
tertiary
the Tertiary
wholly-owned subsidiary

Synonyms and antonyms of retiary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «retiary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RETIARY

Find out the translation of retiary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of retiary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «retiary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

retiary
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

retiary
570 millions of speakers

English

retiary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

retiary
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

retiary
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

retiary
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

retiary
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

retiary
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rétiaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Retiari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

retiary
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

網状の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

retiary
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Retiary
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

retiary
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வலை போன்ற சிக்க வைக்கும் பொருளைப் பயன்படுத்துகிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पालकाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

retiary
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

retiary
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

retiary
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

retiary
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

retiary
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

retiary
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

retiary
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

retiary
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

retiary
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of retiary

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RETIARY»

The term «retiary» is used very little and occupies the 191.124 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RETIARY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «retiary» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «retiary» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about retiary

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RETIARY»

Discover the use of retiary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to retiary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Amazing Illustrated Word Game Memory Books Volume 2, Set ...
I'.i'.e"?r'i'3i§l$§,'I.'lI'Z.'lZ't'$Z'k (Wealth going to do'" I found it' I didn't know what it was and I was just going to use it to hang plants! How was I supposed to know it was a gladiator's RETIARY weapon? I'm innocent, I tell you' IRATELY he ...
Frank H. Gaertner, 2011
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Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: ...
Also published online at retiary.org/ls/writings/em_back_page_slashed.html (last accessed August 14, 2004). 5. This system is described in L. Spiegel, C. Kellner, and E. V. B. Lapham, The AlphaSyntauri: A Keyboard-Based Digital Playing ...
Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, 2006
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Aranei, or a natural history of spiders, including the ...
CHAPTER I. Nature seems to have divided Spiders into two troops : Aerial, specimens of which occur every day, and Ao^tatic, living in waters, and not so common. Aerial Spiders divide readily into two classes : i. Retiary, or such as weave ...
Thomas Martyn, Eleazar Albin, Carolus Clerck, 1793
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. ...
Dr. J. 1 retiary and laqueary.] The retiarius or laquearius was a prizefighter, who entangled his opponent in a net, which by some dexterous management he threw upon him. — Dr. J. 3 Lipara.] The Lipanean islands, near Italy, being volcanoes, ...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1852
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. ...
That the net works and nets of antiquity were little different in the form from ours at present, is confirmable from the nets in the hands of the retiary gladiators, the proper combatants with the Secutores. To omit the ancient conopeion or gnat-net  ...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1835
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and ...
That the net works and nets of antiquity were little different in the form from ours at present, is confirmable from the nets in the hands of the retiary gladiators, the proper combatants with the Secutores. To omit the ancient conopeion or gnat-net  ...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1835
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Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain ...
... not only like common gladiators, with ordinary weapons and down-right blows make at us, but also, like retiary and laqueary 2 combatants, with nets, frauds, and entanglements fall upon us. Weapons for such combats, are not to be forged at ...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1835
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a ...
... not only like common gladiators, with ordinary weapons and down-right blows make at us, but also, like retiary and laqueary 2 combatants, with nets, frauds, and entanglements fall upon us. Weapons for such combats, are not to be forged at ...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1835
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Comprehensive Materials Processing
surface is produced by pressing the titanium alloy retiary sheet into a mold or by handcraft, which requires a long time and high cost. Nowadays, this 3D curved surface is formed by hand or by rapid prototyping techniques, whereas sufferers ...
‎2014
10
The Sound Studies Reader
“Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings.” http://www.retiary.org/ls/ (visited April 30, 2008). Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1981. “French Feminism in an International Frame.” Yale French Studies 62, Feminist Readings: FrenchTexts/American ...
Jonathan Sterne, 2012

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