OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# leukocyte
## English
### Alternative forms

* leucocyte (UK)

### Etymology

From leuko- +‎ -cyte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈluːkə(ʊ)sʌɪt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

leukocyte (plural leukocytes)
* (hematology, cytology, immunology) Any of a class of blood cells that play various roles in cell-mediated immunity.
** 1923, International Medical Digest, page 316:In disease of the spleen, especially Banti's disease or fibro-adenia of the spleen, the increase of leukocytes is absent or slight, with no relative lymphocytosis.
** 2022 March 17, Joan T. Merrill, Victoria P. Werth, Richard Furie et al., “Phase 2 Trial of Iberdomide in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 386, number 11, →DOI, page 1034:Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

#### Synonyms

* white blood cell, WBC

#### Hypernyms

* blood cell, hemocyte

#### Hyponyms

* granulocyte (and its hyponyms)
* lymphocyte (and its hyponyms)
* myelocyte

#### Coordinate terms

* erythrocyte, red blood cell, RBC
* thrombocyte, platelet

#### Derived terms

* human leukocyte antigen
* leukocytemia
* leukocytic
* leukocytoclasia
* leukocytoclastic
* leukocytoid
* leukocytopoiesis
* leukocytopoietic
* leukocytosis
* leukocytospermia
* leukocytotropic
* leukocyturia
# għarfien
## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic عِرْفَان (ʕirfān).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /arˈfɪːn/
* IPA: /aˤːrˈfɪːn/ (archaic)

### Noun

għarfien m
* knowledge
* awareness
* recognition
# 搜す
## Japanese

* Kanji in this term
* 搜
* さが Jinmeiyō
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 搜す – see the following entry. :
| 【探さがす】 | [verb] search Alternative spelling 捜す |
(This term, 搜す, is the kyūjitai of an alternative spelling (捜す) of the above term.) :
# 発がん性
## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 発 | 性 |
| はつ Grade: 3 | せい Grade: 5 |
| kan'on ||
* Alternative spellings
* 発癌性 発ガン性

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) はつがんせー [hàtsúgáńséé] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ha̠t͡sɨɡã̠ɰ̃se̞ː]

### Noun

発(はつ)がん性(せい) • (hatsugansei)
* carcinogenicity
** (Can we date this quote?), どうして「たばこ」を吸(す)ってはいけないの？　〜中(ちゅう)学(がく)生(せい)のみなさんへ〜　みなさんの大(たい)切(せつ)な未(み)来(らい)のために [Why can't I smoke tobacco? Dear middle schoolers: for your important futures]‎, Tama Tachikawa Health Center, archived from the original on 2020-09-19, page 2:
    たばこの煙(けむり)の中(なか)には、約(やく )4000(よんせん)種( しゅ)類(るい)の化(か)学(がく)物(ぶっ)質(しつ)があり、この中(なか)にはダイオキシンなど約(やく )200(にひゃく)種( しゅ)類(るい)もの有(ゆう)害(がい)物(ぶっ)質(しつ)、約(やく )60(ろくじゅう)種( しゅ)類(るい)の発(はつ)がん性(せい)物(ぶっ)質(しつ)が含(ふく)まれています。
       Tabako no kemuri no naka ni wa, yaku yonsen shurui no kagaku busshitsu ga ari, kono naka ni wa daiokishin nado yaku nihyaku shurui mo no yūgai busshitsu, yaku rokujū shurui no hatsugansei busshitsu ga fukumarete imasu.
       In tobacco smoke there are around 4000 kinds of chemical substances, which also include around 200 kinds of dangerous substances such as dioxins, and around 60 kinds of carcinogenic ones.

#### Usage notes

* The term "がん" written in hiragana or "ガン" written in katakana often refers to the entire malignant tumor (悪性腫瘍), while the word "癌" written in kanji is sometimes used to refer to carcinoma (癌腫) that develops from epithelial cells (上皮細胞).
# valahova
## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* valahová

### Etymology

vala- +‎ hova

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɒlɒɦovɒ]
* Hyphenation: va‧la‧ho‧va
* Rhymes: -vɒ

### Adverb

valahova
* somewhere
    Minden évben elutazunk valahova. ― We travel every year somewhere.
    Mindenki tartozik valahova. ― Everybody belongs somewhere.

### See also

$^1$ Semhogy and semmint are conjunctions meaning “(rather) than”, “before” (as in inkább meghal, semhogy… ― he'll rather die than…). $^2$ Valamint is now only used in the sense of “as well as” in enumerations. $^3$ Mindeddig/-addig mean “up until this/that point” (= egészen eddig/addig). Csak following relative pronouns expresses “-ever”, e.g. aki csak (“whoever”); is after “any” pronouns emphasizes “no matter”: akármit is (“no matter what”).

### Further reading

* valahova in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
# えがき
## Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of えがき – see the following entry. :
| 【描き】 | [verb] stem or continuative form of 描く (kaki) [godan] [verb] stem or continuative form of 描く (egaki) [godan] Alternative spelling かき |
(This term, えがき (egaki), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) :
# расточитель
## Russian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [rəstɐˈt͡ɕitʲɪlʲ]

### Noun

расточи́тель • (rastočítelʹ) m anim (genitive расточи́теля, nominative plural расточи́тели, genitive plural расточи́телей, feminine расточи́тельница)
* profligate (an overly wasteful individual)
# Għargħurin
## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.rawˈriːn/, /a.rɔwˈriːn/
** IPA: /aˤː.rəˤwˈriːn/ (archaic)
** IPA: /ɣar.ɣuˈriːn/ (archaic, rustic)

### Adjective

Għargħurin
* plural of Għargħuri
# fulvic
## English
### Etymology

From Latin fulvus (“tawny, reddish-yellow, fulvous”).

### Adjective

fulvic (not comparable)
* Of or pertaining to fulvic acid or its derivatives.

#### Derived terms

* fulvate

#### Translations
### Noun

fulvic (plural fulvics)
* A derivative of fulvic acid.
** 1983, Environmental Research Laboratories Publication Abstracts, page 49:We confirm here that isolated natural marine fulvics and marine fulvics synthesized in the laboratory affect the bioavailability of trace metals to marine phytoplankton.
** 2020, Roger S. Wotton, The Biology of Particles in Aquatic Systems, Second Edition:Freshwater chemists learned that rather than manipulate large volumes of water through a complex procedure in order to extract a few milligrams of humics or fulvics, a simple adsorption column of certain resins could collect […]

### Anagrams

* fluvic
# TCAS
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtiːˌkæs/

### Noun

TCAS (usually uncountable, plural TCASs)
* (aviation) Initialism of traffic (alert and) collision avoidance system, a system for warning pilots of impending mid-air collisions and telling them what (if any) evasive action to take.

#### Synonyms

* ACAS

#### Hypernyms

* CAS

#### Coordinate terms

* GCAS
* RIMCAS

### Anagrams

* cats, SATC, STCA, TSCA, TACs, TACS, acts, Cast, CATs, scat, Cats, CTAs, -cast, ATSC, Acts, cast, ATCs, ACTs
# persecute
## English
### Alternative forms

* persequte, persequute (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French persécuter, from Ecclesiastical Latin persecutor, from Latin persequor, persecutus (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) +‎ sequor (“follow”) (English sequel). Compare prosecute. Cf. also pursue.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈpɝsəkjut/
* (UK) IPA: /ˈpɜːsɪkjuːt/
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Verb

persecute (third-person singular simple present persecutes, present participle persecuting, simple past and past participle persecuted)
* To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.
    He who persecutes one will persecute all.
** 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:I have heard, brethren, how sharply Antichrist persecuteth you, in vexing the faithful servants of Christ with divers and strange kinds of afflictions.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:44:"Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
** 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Halton Holegate:One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.
* To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
* To kill many of one species of animal, with the intent of removing them from human habitats.
    Humans have been persecuting wolves in this forest for centuries.

#### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete.

#### Synonyms

* (beset with cruelty): oppress, harass, distress
* (annoy): see Thesaurus:annoy

#### Related terms

* persecution
* English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (3 c, 0 e)

#### Translations
### References

* “persecute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /per.seˈkuː.te/, [pɛrs̠ɛˈkuːt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /per.seˈku.te/, [perseˈkuːt̪e]

### Participle

persecūte
* vocative masculine singular of persecūtus
# 書いた
## Japanese

* Kanji in this term
* 書
* か Grade: 2
* kun'yomi

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) かいた [káꜜìtà] (Atamadaka – [1])
* IPA: [ka̠ita̠]

### Verb

書(か)いた • (kaita)
* past tense form of 書く (kaku)
# profectitious
## English
### Etymology

From Latin prōfectitius, from prōficiscor (“set out, proceed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌpɹɒfɪkˈtɪʃəs/, /ˌpɹəʊfɛkˈtɪʃəs/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

profectitious (not comparable)
* (law) Proceeding from, or as if from, a parent; derived, as from an ancestor.
** 1776–1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:The threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional was ascertained.
** 2004, Bruce W. Frier, Thomas A. J. McGinn, Thomas A. McGinn, A Casebook on Roman Family Law, page 76:A "profectitious" dowry (dos profecticia) comes from a woman's paternal ascendant (usually her father and pater familias, but the same rules would apply even if she were emancipated); its main characteristic is that it can be reclaimed if a wife predeceases her husband.
** 2020, Osvaldo Cavallar, Julius Kirshner, Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy, page 657:And I say that this is not true, alleging lex Quaesitum, which proves that, with regard to the father, what passes from grandfather to grandson, is regarded as adventitious, not profectitious.
# მერიტოკრატიული
## Georgian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [meɾitʼokʼɾatʼiuli]
* Hyphenation: მე‧რი‧ტოკ‧რა‧ტი‧უ‧ლი

### Adjective

მერიტოკრატიული • (meriṭoḳraṭiuli) (comparative უფრო მერიტოკრატიული, superlative ყველაზე მერიტოკრატიული)
* meritocratic
# għarnuq
## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic غُرْنُوق (ḡurnūq).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /arˈnuːʔ/
** IPA: /aˤːrˈnuːʔ/ (archaic)
** IPA: /ɣarˈnuːʔ/ (archaic, rustic)
* Audio (Gozo):(file)

### Noun

għarnuq m (plural għerienaq)
* crane (bird)

#### See also

* grawwa
# 探し
## Japanese

* Kanji in this term
* 探
* さが Grade: 6
* kun'yomi

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [sa̠ɡa̠ɕi]

### Noun

探(さが)し • (sagashi)
* search

#### Derived terms

* 宝探(たからさが)し (takarasagashi)

### Verb

探(さが)し • (sagashi)
* stem or continuative form of 探す (sagasu) [godan]
# brandis
## English
### Noun

brandis (plural brandises)
* (archaic, Devon, Cornwall) A triangular fire stand; trivet.
** 1887, William Crossing, The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor, Exeter: James G Commin, page 95:These stones are then placed, as the country people have it, “brandis-wise” ; that is, in the form of a brandis, the name by which the triangular stands on which the kettles are set on the hearth are called.
** 1956, Robert Morton Nance, Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, The Cledry Plays (page 47)
    I'll bush the fire a bit, if you'll leave me do it, and git un up all of a broze under the brandis. (She puts furze on the fire.)

## Catalan
### Verb

brandis
* second-person singular present subjunctive of brandar

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʁɑ̃.di/

### Verb

brandis
* inflection of brandir:
** first/second-person singular present indicative
** first/second-person singular past historic
** second-person singular imperative

### Participle

brandis m pl
* masculine plural of brandi

### Anagrams

* nibards

## Galician
### Verb

brandis
* (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural present indicative of brandir

## Portuguese
### Verb

brandis
* second-person plural present indicative of brandir

## Spanish
### Noun

brandis m pl
* plural of brandi
# little slam
## English
### Noun

little slam (plural little slams)
* (bridge, whist) The winning of 12 out of the 13 tricks.

#### Related terms

* grand slam
# Lindbergh
## English
### Proper noun

Lindbergh (countable and uncountable, plural Lindberghs)
* A surname.
** 2016 November 15, Karla Pequenino, “The women pilots that history forgot”, in CNN‎:Ruth Elder was known for her beauty and acting, but her real dream was to become the female version of transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh.
* Any of several place, school, rail station names.
** A hamlet in the Municipal District of County of St. Paul No. 19, Alberta, Canada (Lindbergh, Alberta).
** A neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia; see Lindbergh, Atlanta.
** A section of Missouri state highway running through St. Louis.
** A passenger rail station in Atlanta, Georgia (Lindbergh Center (MARTA station)).
** Another name of the San Diego International Airport (Lindbergh Field).
** A high school named after the aviator Charles Lindbergh (Lindbergh High School (St. Louis, Missouri)).
** A high school named after the aviator Charles Lindbergh (Lindbergh Senior High School (Renton, Washington)).
** Lindbergh Range in Greenland.
# прозорец
## Bulgarian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *prozorьcъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [proˈzɔrɛt͡s]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: про‧зо‧рец

### Noun

прозо́рец • (prozórec) m (diminutive прозо́рче)
* window

#### Declension
### References

* “прозорец”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
* “прозорец”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

## Macedonian
### Alternative forms

* прозор m (prozor)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *prozorьcъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈprɔzɔɾɛt͡s]
* Hyphenation: про‧зо‧рец

### Noun

прозорец • (prozorec) m (plural прозорци, relational adjective прозорски, diminutive прозорче)
* window
    Synonyms: (poetic, dialectal) пенџер (pendžer), (poetic, dialectal) пенџере (pendžere)

#### Declension
### References

* “прозорец” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu
# appallment
## English
### Alternative forms

* appalment

### Etymology

From appall +‎ -ment. This word is likely a nonce; Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed to have coined it, but there are uses that predate Holmes and others that are unlikely to have picked it up from his use.

### Noun

appallment (uncountable)
* Shock or depression occasioned by terror or disgust; dismay; the state of being appalled.
** 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:the furious slaughter of them was a great discouragement and appallment to the rest: that there died upon the place all the chieftains
** 1965 ·, Joseph W. Cohen, The Superior Student in American Higher Education, page 99:I supopse we might way that if there truly has been a resurgence of interest in the state of the mind and culture of graduating students , particularly the abler ones, it could be attributed to a kind of appallment - appallment of the teacher at his own failures; appallment of the student at how little has been expected of him and how little responsibility has been put upon him for his education; appallment of the educated public at the limited and partial carry-over from formal education into everyday, actual life.
** 1974, Henry James, edited by Leon Edel, Letters - Volume 4, page 606:An old friend of mine here, Lucy Clifford (W.K.'s widow) who was there at the "high table" and has sent me a catalogue of the guests which I hang over in the appallment of fascination — or the fascination of appallment; and which, as she has just returned and I am to see her tonight, she will fill out with hideous detail — though indeed she appears, by a line she wrote me, to have enjoyed, rather, the weird desolation of it.
** 2010, James J. Kilpatrick, The Writer's Art:Michael Gartner, editor of The Des Moines Register & Tribune, sent him a reproachful note; Gartner was filled with appallment.
# għarqa
## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic غَرْقَة (ḡarqa), غَرْق (ḡarq).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaːr.ʔa/
** IPA: /ˈaˤːr.ʔa/ (archaic)
** IPA: /ˈɣar.ʔa/ (archaic, rustic)

### Noun

għarqa f (singulative, collective għarq, plural għarqiet)
* a drowning (single instance)
# modified push-up
## English
### Noun

modified push-up (plural modified push-ups)
* A push-up exercise performed while balancing on one's knees.
    Synonyms: knee push-up, girl push-up (slang, derogatory)
# turnback
## English
### Etymology

Deverbal of turn back.

### Noun

turnback (countable and uncountable, plural turnbacks)
* (attributive) Part of a garment that is turned back.
* (basketry) The turning back of a weaver around another element.
** 1991, Rachel Nash Law, Cynthia Wieboldt Taylor, Appalachian White Oak Basketmaking: Handing Down the Basket (page 86)
    Most basketmakers make their turnbacks in a particular section of the weaving on the sides or in the middle of the basket.
* The act of turning back a boat containing immigrants.
    Coordinate term: turnaway
** 2015 July 20, Paul Farrell, “Details about asylum seeker turnbacks to remain secret, commissioner rules”, in The Guardian‎:The information commissioner, Professor John McMillan, ruled that requests for watch officer logs and authorisations for turnbacks were exempt from release because they could have a “substantial adverse effect” on the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS).
* The strap from the hames to the hip-strap, on a horse.
* A place, e.g. on a railway, where vehicles can reverse direction, i.e. turn back.
** 2023 June 14, David Clough, “Tram-trains are making tracks...”, in RAIL, number 985, page 54:Removal of one set of train turnbacks also makes more efficient use of infrastructure and reduces peak loads at interchange stations.
* (US) A cadet at a military academy who fails a class and has to retake it.

### References

* “turnback”, in Collins English Dictionary.
# pedisequus
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* pedisecus, pedissequus

### Etymology

From pēs and the root of sequor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /peˈdi.se.kʷus/, [pɛˈd̪ɪs̠ɛkʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /peˈdi.se.kwus/, [peˈd̪iːs̬ekwus]

### Adjective

pedisequus (feminine pedisequa, neuter pedisequum); first/second-declension adjective
* that follows on foot

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

#### Related terms

* pedisequa

#### Descendants

* → Italian: pedissequo

### Noun

pedisequus m (genitive pedisequī); second declension
* page, male attendant, lackey

#### Declension

Second-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Italian: pedissequo

### References

* “pedisequus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pedisequus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* pedisequus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
# plagiaplite
## English
### Noun

plagiaplite (uncountable)
* (mineralogy) A form of gladkaite with less quartz.
# semiform
## English
### Etymology

From Latin sēmifōrmis, equivalent to semi- +‎ form.

### Noun

semiform (plural semiforms)
* A partial or imperfect form.
** 1880, Horace Bushnell, Mary A. Bushnell Cheney, Life and Letters of Horace Bushnell, page 531:For seventeen years he had kept death at bay, and, at the time I speak of, medical diagnosis revealed that but one lung supported his remnant of life; thet that semiform of life seemed equal to the prime of many a hale man .
** 1969, United States. Congress. House, Hearings - Volume 7, page 649:Prior to that it was in a semiform state for 2 years, semiform state being that various groups have gotten together to say there should be a committee, so that would be approximately 5 years' life to the committee.
** 1990, Dhanjoo N. Ghista, Clinical Cardiac Assessment, Interventions, and Assist Technology, page 152:The semiform is covered with a thermoplastic bar preheated in a special chamber up to superelastic state .
* (crystallography) A crystal structure that is more elaborate than the simplest (primitive) form but which does not include all the faces and symmetry elements characteristic of the full crystal system.
** 1882, L. Fletcher, “Crystallographic Notes”, in London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (Supplement), volume 13, page 479:This semiform π (312) is again to be observed on crystal No. 13, though it is there represented by only a single face.
** 1886, R. H. Solly, “On the Tetartohedral Development of a Crystal of Tourmaline”, in The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, volume 6, page 81:As crystals of tourmaline do not rotate the plane of polarisation, it is probable that in the case of the present crystal the hemimorphic development is of a semiform, similar to those which have been observed on dioptase and apatite, and that the form should be designated crystallographically as υκπ {320}.
** 1895, Nevil Story-Maskelyne, Crystallography: A Treatise on the Morphology of Crystals, page 255:The eight normals of the tetragonal scalenohedron may carry the eight faces of a semiform in other ways than asymmetrically as regards the systematic planes.
# in tow
## English
### Prepositional phrase

in tow
* (of a vehicle, conveyance, etc.) Pulled by means of an attached line, such as a cable, chain, or rope.
** 1842, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 13, in The Wing and Wing:"Do you remember the ship? . . . I mean the dismasted eighty-four that was in tow of the frigate."
** 1944 December 10, “Freight Carriers, Gliders and Hospital Planes Take Part in Preview of Air Borne Unit's Show”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 9 Aug. 2010, page 1:Far down the field a C-47 cargo plane with two loaded gliders in tow began to move slowly up the runway.
** 1896, G. A. Henty, chapter 15, in A Knight of the White Cross:Presently the wind nearly died out, and the galley and prizes then took the coasters and fishing craft in tow.
* (figuratively, usually of persons) Following or accompanying under the direction of another, as if attached by a line and being pulled.
** 1903, Frank Norris, chapter 2, in The Pit:"He's got a man from Cincinnati in tow, and they are going to dine at the Calumet Club."
** 1987 October 5, “Central America: Speaking His Peace”, in Time:The House of Representatives hummed with excitement as Congressmen and Senators, many with their spouses and children in tow, awaited the man of the hour.
** 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 12, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:Doctor Blimber accompanied them; and Paul had the honour of being taken in tow by the Doctor himself.
** 2005, William Mueller, Rome Revisited, →ISBN, page 10:Then with an impertinent presumption she came running out the front door with the maid moving in tow.

#### Synonyms

* (pulled by means of an attached line): on tow, under tow

#### Translations
### References

* “in tow”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* in two
# għarqibt
## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /arˈʔɪpt/
* IPA: /aˤːrˈʔɪpt/ (archaic)

### Verb

għarqibt
* first/second-person singular perfect of għarqeb