OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# let the cat out of the bag
## English
### Etymology

(Mid-1700s) The inverse of the idiom pig in a poke. If a dishonest merchant tries to sell a cat as a pig and the cat comes out or is taken out of the bag, the merchant's secret is disclosed.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Verb

let the cat out of the bag (third-person singular simple present lets the cat out of the bag, present participle letting the cat out of the bag, simple past and past participle let the cat out of the bag)
* (idiomatic) To disclose a secret; to let a secret be known, often inadvertently.
    It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag.
** 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 300:[H]e proved himself as decent, decorous, and conscientious, as Peter was rampant, boisterous, and —— (this last epithet I choose to suppress, because it would let the cat out of the bag).

#### Synonyms

* (to let a secret be known): spill the beans, talk, tattle, blab, peach (obsolete), babble, sing

#### Translations
### See also

* bare one's breast
* buy a pup
* get off one's chest
* pig in a poke

### References

* ↑ “The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2010 November 21 (last accessed), archived from the original on 18 March 2011
* ↑ Gary Martin (1997–) “Let the cat out of the bag”, in The Phrase Finder.
# Republica Malta
## Romanian
### Proper noun

Republica Malta f
* Republic of Malta
# blent
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Verb

blent
* (archaic, poetic) simple past and past participle of blend
** c. 1500, John Lydgate, Isopes Fabules (Aesop's Fables):Even contrary, he standithe evar in disseasse / That in his hert with covetyce is blent.
** 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 275–276:She would return home comforted, carrying in her mind a clearer vision of his aspect, a distincter recollection of his voice, his smile, his bearing; and, blent with these impressions, was often a sweet persuasion that, if she could get near him, his heart might welcome her presence yet: that at this moment he might be willing to extend his hand and draw her to him, and shelter her at his side as he used to do.
** 1883, Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 96, page 66:The good and evil with man's nature blent, / The weal and woe that heaven's decrees have sent— / Impute them not to motions of the skies— / Skies than thyself ten times more impotent.
** 1873 August 1, J.A. Symonds "Poliziano's Italian Poetry" Fortnightly Review Vol.20 No.80 p.167:
    His merit as a stylist was this—that he blent the antique and the romantic, pure outline with sensual fulness.
** 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:
** 1973, Poul Anderson, The People of the Wind:Ranchland rolled beneath him. Here around Gray, the mainly Ythrian settlements northward merged with the mainly human south; both ecologies blent with Avalon’s own, and the country became a checkerboard.

#### Derived terms

* unblent
* yblent

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blent/

### Verb

blent
* third-person singular present indicative of blandan
# Unsupported titles/Latin small letter reversed f

    The title of this entry appears incorrectly here due to technical restrictions. The correct title is  .

## Abaza
### Letter

(uppercase ꟻ)
* An obsolete letter used in the 1932 version of the Abaza alphabet, during the Latinisation campaign in the Soviet Union.

## Abkhaz
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃʷ/

### Letter

(uppercase ꟻ, Cyrillic шә)
* An obsolete letter used in the 1930 version of the Abkhaz alphabet, during the Latinisation campaign in the Soviet Union.
# Republica Kazahstan
## Romanian
### Proper noun

Republica Kazahstan f
* Republic of Kazakhstan
# kin yaaʼáanii
## Navajo
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

kin yaaʼáanii
* towering house people, towering house clan

#### Usage notes

After First Man and First Woman reached the Fourth World (this world), their daughter Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé (Changing Woman) created the Navajo clans by rubbing off bits of her skin to make the first four clans. The kin yaaʼáanii are one of the original four Navajo clans.

#### Alternative forms

* kiyaaʼáanii

#### See also

* hashtłʼishnii
* hónágháahnii
* tó díchʼíiʼnii
* tó áhání
# mwereka
## Swahili
### Alternative forms

* mweleka

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

mwereka class III (plural miereka class IV or myereka class IV)
* wrestling (fighting sport)
# 孻

| 孻 | U+5B7B, &#23419; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B7B |
| ← 孺 [U+5B7A] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 孼 → [U+5B7C] |

## Translingual
### Han character

孻 (Kangxi radical 39, 子+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓木中一廿 (NDLMT), four-corner 1541$_7$, composition ⿰子盡)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 281, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7043
* Dae Jaweon: page 551, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1020, character 4
* Unihan data for U+5B7B

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 子 (“son”) + 盡 (“end; finish”).
Attested since the Ming era, in 《菽園雜記》 by 陸容:
    From: 明・陸容《菽園雜記》
    Guǎngdōng yǒu “孻” zì, yīn nài píngshēng, lǎonián suǒ shēng yòuzǐ. [Pinyin]
    In Guangdong, there is 孻 character, read as 柰 (MC najH) with level tone, it means «the youngest son of an old parent» [i.e. the last son].

### Etymology 1

Compare Zhuang byai (“tip; end”) (Ouyang, 2004).

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): nái, lái (nai$^2$, lai$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄋㄞˊ, ㄌㄞˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): laai$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: nái
*** Zhuyin: ㄋㄞˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: nái
*** Wade–Giles: nai$^2$
*** Yale: nái
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nai
*** Palladius: най (naj)
*** Sinological IPA : /naɪ̯³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lái
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄞˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lái
*** Wade–Giles: lai$^2$
*** Yale: lái
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lai
*** Palladius: лай (laj)
*** Sinological IPA : /laɪ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: laai$^1$
*** Yale: lāai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: laai$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lai$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /laːi̯⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

孻
* (Cantonese) last

#### Compounds

* 孻仔 / 𡥧仔
* 孻仔拉心肝，孻女拉五臟 / 𡥧仔拉心肝，𡥧女拉五脏
* 孻叔 / 𡥧叔
* 孻女 / 𡥧女
* 孻尾 / 𡥧尾
* 阿孻 / 阿𡥧

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 孻 – see 倈 (“(Hakka) son”). (This character is a variant form of 倈).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): だい (dai)、ない (nai)
# Republica Chineză
## Romanian
### Proper noun

Republica Chineză f
* Republic of China
# skraddari
## Icelandic
### Etymology

From late Old Norse skraddari, from Middle Low German schrader, schroder.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈskratːarɪ/
* Rhymes: -atːarɪ

### Noun

skraddari m (genitive singular skraddara, nominative plural skraddarar)
* tailor
    Synonym: klæðskeri
# Republica Arabă Egipt
## Romanian
### Proper noun

Republica Arabă Egipt f
* Arab Republic of Egypt
# Republica Angola
## Romanian
### Proper noun

Republica Angola f
* Republic of Angola
# infixive
## English
### Etymology

From infix +‎ -ive.

### Adjective

infixive (not comparable)
* (linguistics) Forming words through the addition of an infix
# circumspectivity
## English
### Etymology

From circumspective +‎ -ity.

### Noun

circumspectivity (uncountable)
* The quality of being circumspective.
# breva
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* bévera, bévora

### Etymology

From Latin bifera, feminine form of bifer (“flowering or fruiting twice each year”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɾeba/ [ˈbɾe.β̞ɐ]
* Rhymes: -eba
* Hyphenation: bre‧va

### Noun

breva f (plural brevas)
* each one of the first figs of the fig tree which fruits twice each year
    Synonym: bévera

#### Coordinate terms

* figo

#### Derived terms

* breveira

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “breva”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “breva”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bévera”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

Probably akin to brivido (“shiver”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbre.va/
* Rhymes: -eva
* Hyphenation: bré‧va

### Noun

breva f (plural breve)
* (northern Italy) a wind that blows from the lakes of Como and Lugano towards the mountains

### Further reading

* breva in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* brave

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* brevene

### Noun

breva n
* definite plural of brev

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

breva n
* definite plural of brev

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish bebra, from Latin bifera, feminine form of bifer (“flowering or fruiting twice each year”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɾeba/ [ˈbɾe.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -eba
* Syllabification: bre‧va

### Noun

breva f (plural brevas)
* black fig, breba (first fruit of the fig tree)
** 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 250:Soñar con uvas negras o brevas es presagio de luto próximo.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (Spain, colloquial) titty; jug; knocker (breast)

#### Derived terms

* de higos a brevas

#### See also

* no caerá esa breva
* higo m (second fruit)

### Further reading

* “breva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “breva”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

## Swedish
### Etymology

brev (“letter; (internet slang) post”) +‎ -a

### Verb

breva (present brevar, preterite brevade, supine brevat, imperative breva)
* (Internet slang, 4chan) to post (on an internet forum)
    Synonym: posta

#### Usage notes

Common on the /int/ - International board on 4chan.

#### Related terms

* brev (“post”)
* brevare (“poster”)
# kanó:ron
## Mohawk
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-North Iroquoian *-noɹõ- (“to find difficult, to be valuable”) from Proto-Iroquoian *-nuːɹõ- (“to be difficult, to fail to do”).

### Verb

kanó:ron (incorporating form -noron-)
* it is expensive/precious

#### Derived terms

* konnorónhkhwa’

### References

* Nora Deering, Helga H. Delisle (1976) Mohawk: A teaching grammar (preliminary version), Quebec: Manitou College, page 174
* Charles Julian (2010) A history of the Iroquoian Languages‎, University of Manitoba, page 526
# conjugationless
## English
### Etymology

From conjugation +‎ -less.

### Adjective

conjugationless (not comparable)
* Lacking conjugation.
# suffixative
## English
### Adjective

suffixative (not comparable)
* (grammar) suffixive
# photo mode
## English
### Noun

photo mode (countable and uncountable, plural photo modes)
* Alternative form of photomode
# prezervasión
## Ladino
### Noun

prezervasión f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פריזירב׳אסייון)
* Alternative spelling of prezervasion
** 2007, Silvia Guastalla, Il Giudeo-Spagnolo (Ladino): cultura e tradizione sefardita tra presente, passato e futuro‎, S. Belforte, →ISBN, page 181:La prezervasión de la kultura djudeo espanyola en general i la de la lengua en partikular preokupa a los ke se enteresan al kampo del ladino.The preservation of Judaeo-Spanish in general and the language in particular concern those interested at the Ladino camp.

### References

* ↑ “prezervasión”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.
# sham Abraham
## English
### Alternative forms

* sham Abram

### Etymology

First attested in the late 18th century. From sham + Abraham man (“a beggar who pretends to be ill”)

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ʃæm ˈeɪ.bɹəˌhæm/, /ʃæm ˈeɪ.bɹə.həm/

### Verb

sham Abraham (third-person singular simple present shams Abraham, present participle shamming Abraham, simple past and past participle shammed Abraham)
* (idiomatic, obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To pretend sickness or insanity.
** 1759, Oliver Goldsmith, The Works of Oliver Goldsmith‎, volume 3, published 1835, The Citizen of the World, Letter CXIX, page 331:The boatswain found me, as he said, an obstinate fellow: he swore that I understood my business perfectly well, but that I shammed Abraham merely to be idle.
** 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 219–220:Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart: he had muttered some words, amongst which the phrase "shamming Abraham" had been very distinctly audible; […]

#### Usage notes

The term was used by workmen to mean taking time off work through this pretense. Used by sailors to mean being put on the sick list in order to shirk duty.

#### Synonyms

* do Abram, chuck a sickie, pull a sickie, throw a sickie

#### Hypernyms

* See Thesaurus:shirk

#### Related terms

* Abraham sham, Abram sham

### See also

* play possum

### References

* ↑ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “sham Abraham”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.
* [Francis Grose] (1788) “Sham Abraham”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC.
* [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Sham Abraham”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.
* Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “sham Abraham”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 8.
* John S[tephen] Farmer, compiler (1890) “sham Abraham”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume I, [London: […] Thomas Poulter and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 10.

### Anagrams

* Abraham sham
# Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
## English
### Alternative forms

* Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
* Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu

### Etymology

Borrowed from Maori taumata-whakatangi-hanga-koauau-o-Tamatea-turi-pukaka-piki-maunga-horo-nuku-pokai-whenua-ki-tana-tahu (“The hill where the great traveller (Chief) Tamatea with the bony knees, who slid and climbed mountains, played his flute to his beloved”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtau.ma.ta.faka.ta.ŋi.ha.ŋaˌkɔ.au.au.ɔ.ta.ma.te.a.tu.ɾi.pʉ.ka.ka.pi.ki.mau.ŋa.ho.ɾo.nʉ.kʉ.pɔ.kai.fe.nʉ.a.ki.ta.na.ta.hʉ]
* Hyphenation: Tau‧ma‧ta‧whaka‧ta‧ngi‧ha‧nga‧ko‧au‧au‧o‧ta‧ma‧te‧a‧tu‧ri‧pu‧ka‧ka‧pi‧ki‧mau‧nga‧ho‧ro‧nu‧ku‧po‧kai‧whe‧nu‧a‧ki‧ta‧na‧ta‧hu

### Proper noun

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
* A hill near Pōrangahau, in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

#### Synonyms

* Taumata (truncated form)

#### Translations
### See also

* Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
* Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
# ਲਹੌਰ
## Punjabi
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Punjabi ਲਾਹੋਰੁ (lāhoru). Compare Hindi लाहौर (lāhaur).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lə.ɦɔːɾ/, [lə.ɦɔːɾ]
* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /lɔː˨ɾə̆/
* Hyphenation: ਲ‧ਹੌਰ

### Proper noun

ਲਹੌਰ • (lahaur) m (Shahmukhi spelling لہور)
* Lahore (a city, the provincial capital of Punjab, Pakistan)
    ਜੀਹਨੇ ਲਹੌਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਤੱਕਿਆ, ਉਹ ਜੰਮਿਆ ਹੀ ਨਹੀਂ।jīhne lahaur nahī̃ takkiā, uha jammiā hī nahī̃.The one who hasn't seen Lahore has yet to see anything.

#### Derived terms

* ਲਹੌਰੀਆ (lahaurīā, “Lahorite”)

#### Further reading

* ਲਹੌਰ on the Punjabi Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{pa}$
# banejo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From bani (“to bathe”) +‎ -ejo (“place”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [baˈnejo]
* Rhymes: -ejo
* Hyphenation: ba‧ne‧jo

### Noun

banejo (accusative singular banejon, plural banejoj, accusative plural banejojn)
* a place for bathing, a bathhouse or bathroom
    Hyponym: banĉambro
# overgoaded
## English
### Etymology

From over- +‎ goaded.

### Adjective

overgoaded (comparative more overgoaded, superlative most overgoaded)
* Goaded too far.
** 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 39:Endurance, over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition; the throes of a sort of moral earthquake were felt heaving under the hills of the northern counties.
# make something of
## English
### Verb

make something of (third-person singular simple present makes something of, present participle making something of, simple past and past participle made something of)
* To transform (an object or person) into something worthwhile.
** 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 52:My thousand a year is not merely a matter of dirty bank-notes and jaundiced guineas. […] I was determined to make something of it better than a fine old house to live in, than satin gowns to wear; […]
** 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 8, in The Girl on the Boat:"A wife might make something of you."
** 2011 November 22, Jeff Tully, “Oscar De La Hoya a hit at Boys & Girls Club”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 5 September 2018:"When you send that message and tell these kids that you can succeed and you can make something of your life, that’s a very important message."
* To develop an understanding or interpretation of.
** 1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 8, in The Professor at the Breakfast Table:No doubt your head aches, trying to make something of my description.
** 1961 June 5, Chalmers M. Roberts, “Talks Fail to Evoke Any 'Spirit of Vienna'”, in Washington Post, retrieved 5 September 2018:They tried to make something of the communique's vague phrase about maintaining Soviet-American contacts and they implied that President Kennedy now had Premier Nikita Khrushchev's invitation to drop in at the Kremlin for a visit anytime he chooses.
* To insist on or emphatically challenge (a point or topic, especially one which may be a subject of disagreement).
** 1996 August 21, George Vecsey, “Does Reeves Entertain Death Wish?”, in New York Times, retrieved 5 September 2018:He's controversial. He's blunt. He could be a good New Yorker. That's my opinion. You wanna make something of it?

### See also

* make something of oneself
# ten-pounder
## English
### Noun

ten-pounder (plural ten-pounders)
* Alternative form of tenpounder (“ladyfish”)
* A cannon of a certain bore size (caliber) that was named for an iron cannonball that weighed ten pounds in a certain outdated system of weights and measures.
    Hypernyms: cannon, gun, artillery
    Coordinate terms: three-pounder, nine-pounder, twelve-pounder
* A cannonball of the type that gave such a cannon its name.
    Hypernyms: shot, ball, ammunition
    Coordinate terms: three-pounder, nine-pounder, twelve-pounder

### Anagrams

* nonerupted
# 소쩍새
## Korean
### Etymology

Compound of 소쩍 (sojjeok, “hoot of a scops owl”, onomatopoeia) +‎ 새 (sae, “bird”).

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [sʰo̞t͡ɕ͈ʌ̹ks͈ɛ] ~ [sʰo̞t͡ɕ͈ʌ̹ks͈e̞]
* Phonetic hangul: [소쩍쌔/소쩍쎄]

### Noun

소쩍새 • (sojjeoksae)
* scops owl
    Hypernym: 올빼미 (olppaemi, “owl (without ear tufts)”)

#### See also

* 부엉이 (bueong'i, “owl with ear tufts”)
* 뻐꾸기 (ppeokkugi, “cuckoo”)
* 두견새 (杜鵑새, dugyeonsae)
# 鐵鎚
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tiěchuí
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄝˇ ㄔㄨㄟˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): tit$^2$ ceoi$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): thih-thûi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): tih$^4$ tui$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tiěchuí
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄝˇ ㄔㄨㄟˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tiěchuéi
*** Wade–Giles: tʻieh$^3$-chʻui$^2$
*** Yale: tyě-chwéi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tieechwei
*** Palladius: течуй (tečuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯eɪ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: tit$^2$ ceoi$^4$
*** Yale: tít chèuih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tit$^2$ tsoey$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tid$^2$ cêu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰiːt̚³⁵ t͡sʰɵy̯²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thih-thûi
*** Tâi-lô: thih-thuî
*** Phofsit Daibuun: tihtuii
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tʰi(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tʰui²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰi(ʔ)⁵ tʰui²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰi(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tʰui¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /tʰi(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tʰui²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰi(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ tʰui²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: tih$^4$ tui$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thih thûi
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰiʔ²⁻⁴ tʰui⁵⁵/

### Noun

鐵鎚
* (archaic) an iron mallet (an ancient weapon)
* Alternative form of 鐵錘 / 铁锤 (tiěchuí, “hammer”)

#### Usage notes

* In the Simplified Chinese standard 通用规范汉字表, 鎚 is treated as a variant form of 錘／锤 (chuí) and theoretically should be replaced by 锤. However, the two forms were not used interchangeably in ancient Chinese as they are in modern Chinese. Therefore, the first sense of this word is usually not simplified as 铁锤.
# semi-automatic
## English
### Alternative forms

* semiautomatic, semi-auto, semiauto

### Etymology

From semi- +‎ automatic.

### Adjective

semi-automatic (not comparable)
* Partially automatic.
* Of a firearm that automatically ejects a shell and loads the next one, but requires the trigger to be squeezed for each shot; autoloading.
    Coordinate term: fully-automatic
** 2008 September 17, “Bill in House forces capital to relax gun restrictions”, in The New York Times‎:The pro-gun majority in the House of Representatives moved Wednesday to compel the nation's capital to broaden the rights of its residents to buy and own firearms, including semi-automatic weapons.

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### Noun

semi-automatic (plural semi-automatics)
* (weaponry) A semi-automatic firearm, especially such a pistol.
** 1989 February 8, Robert Reinhold, “LOS ANGELES BANS RAPID-FIRING GUNS”, in The New York Times‎:The Los Angeles ordinance covers semi-automatics with a detachable magazine of 20 rounds or more. As examples, it cited such weapons as the AR 15 assault rifles, Uzi assault rifles and carbines, Ingram Mac-10 and Mac-11 assault carbines, AK-47 assault rifles, Thompson carbines and all Avtomat Kalashnikov weapons.
* (automotive) A semi-automatic transmission.

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#### See also

(automotive):
* manumatic
* automatic
* manual