dwell
A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given stateA period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
» Don't dwell on your past failures.
Sorge dich nicht um deine vergangenen Fehler. — Ennocb
Не зацикливайся на своих прошлых ошибках. — odexed
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4 sensesA period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
A planned delay in a timed control program.
In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
Examples
91 sentencesDon't dwell on your past failures.
ruНе зацикливайся на своих прошлых ошибках. — odexed
deSorge dich nicht um deine vergangenen Fehler. — Ennocb
Let's not dwell on past mistakes.
Don't dwell on your past mistakes!
ruНе зацикливайся на своих прошлых ошибках. — odexed
I don't remember where you dwell.
We're not going to dwell on this.
Origin
From Middle English dwellen (“delay, live, remain, persist”), from Old English dwellan (“tFrom Middle English dwellen (“delay, live, remain, persist”), from Old English dwellan (“to mislead, deceive; be led into error, stray”), from Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną (“to hold up, delay; hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to whirl, swirl, blur, obfuscate”), which is cognate with Old Norse dvelja and related to Proto-Germanic *dwelaną (“to go astray”), which underwent semantic change in its descendants. Cognates include Danish dvæle (“to linger, dwell”) and Swedish dväljas (“to dwell, reside”).
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