My water suddenly got WAY too hot. I replaced both upper and lower thermostats on my State water heater, only to find that when I turned the breaker back on it was buzzing. I thought it might be a faulty breaker, so I replaced the breaker with a new 30 amp double pole breaker switch and everything seemed back to normal.
plural etymologies. Learner's definition of ETYMOLOGY. 1. [count] : an explanation of where a word came from : the history of a word. According to its etymology, the English word âdopeâ comes from the Dutch word âdoopâ (which means âsauceâ). Several different etymologies have been proposed.
etymology noun [C or U]. âº the âstudy of the âorigin and âhistory of words, or a âstudy of this âtype ârelating to one âparticular word: At âuniversity she âdeveloped an âinterest in etymology. A âlist of âselected words and âtheir etymologies is âprinted at the back of the âbook. etymological adjective uk /Ëet.Éª.mÉËlÉdÊ.Éª.kÉl/ us /-ËlÉË.dÊÉª-/.