cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
homophone: wrap
Forms: form: raps
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: […] and that every hank or skein that shall be used as a binder to tie up or bind together any pound or parcel of yarn shall contain the same number of threads in a rap or lea, and the same number of raps or leas as the other hanks or skeins in the said pound or parcel.
ref: 1762, The Statutes at Large (Great Britain), page 386:
text: At each rap the reel was moved slightly to one side, so that the next rap was wound separately, and so on until seven raps had been made, then the seven raps were made up into one hank, […]
ref: 1881, Alfred Spitzli, A Manual for Managers, Designers, Weavers, and All Others, page 22:
text: Thus, a rap may be reeled (of cotton or silk 120 yards, of worsted 80 yards), then as one rap is equal to one-seventh of a hank, 1000 grains will be equal to the one-seventh of a pound, so that whatever part of 1000 grains one rap weighs, or whatever number of raps are required to weigh1000 grains, that number of hanks will weigh one pound.
ref: 1885, Thomas Rotherforth Ashenhurst, A practical treatise on weaving and designing of textile fabrics:
text: The yarn rap reel is 1½ yard in circumference; 80 rounds or 120 yards make one rap; 7 raps or 840 yards one bank. In 1 lb. of cotton yarn there are 7,000 grains. When one rap weighs 1,000 grains, or seven raps 7,000 grains, the yarn is one hank to the pound, and when ten raps weigh 350 grains it is 28.57 hanks to the pound.
ref: 1888, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Manchester Meeting, 1887 on the Regulation of Wages by Means of Lists in the Cotton Industry., page 19:
text: Rule to find constant for beams: Multiply the number of yards in one rap by the number of ends in the beam, and by the number of raps on the beam and divide by 840.
ref: 1913, How to Build, Equip and Operate a Cotton Mill in the United States, page 408:
glosses: A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
rap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
homophone: wrap
Forms: form: raps
Etymology: Perhaps contracted from rapparee.
Senses: examples: text: Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
ref: 1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 1:
text: Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent.
ref: 1886, Mrs. Alexander, Beaton's Bargain:
glosses: Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
examples: text: I don't care a rap.
text: That's not worth a rap.
glosses: A whit; a jot.
rap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
homophone: wrap
Forms: form: raps
form: rapping
form: rapped
form: rapped
form: rapt
form: rapt
Senses: glosses: To seize and carry off.
glosses: To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
rap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
homophone: wrap
Forms: form: raps
Etymology: From RAP (“record of arrest and prosecution”).
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: RAP
glosses: Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.
examples: text: We got one maybe ID, but when we checked, we found out the suspect's been in Rikers for a year on a drug rap.
ref: 2014, James Neal Harvey, Mental Case:
glosses: A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
Derived terms: murder rap
rap sheet
rap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
homophone: wrap
Forms: form: raps
form: rapping
form: rapped
form: rapped
Senses: glosses: to rappel
Derived terms: rap down
rap jumping
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: rap-full
snit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: snits
Etymology: American English, of unknown origin, perhaps onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: fit, hissy, hissy fit, shit fit, tantrum, snippiness
text: He's in a snit because he got passed over for promotion.
text: First, I think that the NPR leadership made a mistake in appearing to fire Williams in a snit, rather than not renewing his contract, at the next opportunity, because of longstanding differences in journalistic values.
ref: 2010 October 25, James Fallows, “Why NPR Matters (Long)”, in The Atlantic:
text: She was confused. Now that he had worked himself into a snit he'd be angry if she unmade the bed and did what he wanted.
ref: 2013, Florida Ann Town, On the Rim, page 84:
synonyms: snit fit
glosses: A temper; a bad mood.
examples: text: I want some hot coffee now or so help me I'll throw you out on your arse, you little snit.
ref: 2010, Michael Aye, Seahorse, page 82:
glosses: Term of abuse.
Derived terms: snitty
snit fit
Related terms: snide
snit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: snits
Etymology: Likely related to Proto-Germanic *snidaz, i.e. a a little, a bit. Also perhaps from obsolete German Schnitt which is a small amount of beer served in a larger glass.
Senses: glosses: A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters.
examples: text: The bartender served us each a snit with our Bloody Marys this morning.
glosses: A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois.
snit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: snits
Etymology: From German Schnitte (“slice”).
Senses: examples: text: Scenes of plenty, bliss Arcad'n' Sparkling eyes and rosy features; Joyous, blessed, happy creatures! Apple snits and pumpkin slices; Eggs and butter bring good prices! Gran'ries full and runnin' Over; Bulging haymows sweet with clover; ...
ref: 1898, Herald and Presbyter, page 38:
text: For instance, a recipe for pear butter calls for 6 “buckets” of pear snits, 5 “buckets” of water and 40 lbs. of sugar.
ref: 1947, The Mennonite Community, volumes 1-3, page 13:
text: Nora Virginia Wolfe Houldershell (Moorefield, West Virginia), and how she dried fruit […] "They called the dried apple peels 'apple snits' and hung them on the tree at Christmas along with popcorn, cranberries, and other edibles. Grandma Wolfe made watermelon wine from the flesh and juice, pickles from the rind, and planted [them]."
ref: 2011, Faye Porter, At My Grandmother's Knee: Recipes and Memories Handed Down By Women of the South, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 79:
text: We like to dip apple snits in hot cocoa and imagine the Stag of Yule coming to the windows of our house, even though we are three blocks from the woods! Apples are among the favorite foods of deer, […]
ref: 2013, Montague Whitsel, The Fires of Yule: A Keltelven Guide for Celebrating the Winter Solstice, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 98:
text: One year, he brought them a bag of dried apple snits. The tangy dried fruits were quite a treat. The pieces of apple were tasty, but the best part of all was that Mother had made a delicious apple snit pie from some of them!
ref: 2017, Robin Propst Kile, Hidden in the Mountains: Fort Seybert 1758, LifeRich Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A slice of dried fruit.
knuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nŭkˈ-əl
ipa: /ˈnʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: knuckles
form: knuckling
form: knuckled
form: knuckled
Etymology: From Middle English knokel (“finger joint”), from Old English cnucel (“the juncture of two bones; knuckle; joint”), from Proto-West Germanic *knukil, from Proto-Germanic *knukilaz (“knuckle, knot, bump”), as *knukô (“bone, joint”) + *-ilaz (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Dutch knokkel (“knuckle”), Low German Knökel (“knuckle”), German Knöchel (“ankle, knuckle”), Old Norse knykill.
Senses: examples: text: He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.
glosses: To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (sense 1).
examples: text: I could feel my big toe snap, but as he's gone down on his good knee and half swung round I knuckled him in the kidney as hard as I could hit. He's gone all the way down, so I dropped my 19 stone into the middle of his back.
ref: 2013, Lenny McLean, The Guv'nor:
text: Only then I knuckled him. He had to be taught a hard lesson.
ref: 2014, W. Smyth, Mama OM, page 415:
glosses: To strike or punch.
glosses: To bend the fingers.
glosses: To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
synonyms: knuckle under
glosses: To yield.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: To land on the knuckle (sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from “knuckle” as a verb
word: knuckle down
sense: Terms derived from “knuckle” as a verb
word: knuckle to
sense: Terms derived from “knuckle” as a verb
word: knuckle under
sense: Terms derived from “knuckle” as a verb
word: knuckle up
TCAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtiːˌkæs/
Forms: form: TCASs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ACAS
Hypernyms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: CAS
Coordinate terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: GCAS
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: RIMCAS
ACAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
ACAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of airborne collision avoidance system.
Synonyms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: TCAS
Hypernyms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: CAS
Coordinate terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: GCAS
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: RIMCAS
Related terms: urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20051106004836/http://www.acas.org.uk/index.html
word: ACAS website
joint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔɪnt/
rhymes: -ɔɪnt
Etymology: The noun is from Middle English joynt (attested since the late 13th century), from Old French joint (“joint of the body”) (attested since the 12th century). The adjective (attested since the 15th century) is from Old French jointiz. Both Old French words are from Latin iūnctus, the past participle of iungō. See also join, jugular, junction.
The meaning of "building, establishment", especially in connection with shady activities, appeared in Anglo-Irish by 1821 and entered general American English slang by 1877, especially in the sense of "opium den". The sense "marijuana cigarette" is attested since 1935. The development to meaning "any thing" also happened to the Scots and Memphian form junt and the Mid-Atlantic/Philadelphian form jawn.
Senses: examples: text: The play was a joint production between the two companies.
text: A joint burden laid upon us all.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
synonyms: mutual
shared
glosses: Done by two or more people or organisations working together.
Synonyms: word: collective
word: common
word: corporate
word: joint
word: mutual
word: shared
word: united
Hyponyms: word: communal
Derived terms: ball joint
hip joint arthrosis
hip joint disease
joint account
joint and several
joint committee
joint communiqué
joint custody
joint encoding
joint entropy
joint family
joint household
joint investigation team
joint life
joint line
joint operations
joint probability
joint stereo
joint-stock bank
joint-stock company
joint tenancy
joint tenant
joint venture
joint will
anti-gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigravity
Etymology: From anti- + gravity.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Any concept, system or device that would oppose or cancel out the force of gravity.
Derived terms: antigravity lean
antigravity yoga
wooden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdn̩/
rhymes: -ʊdən
Forms: form: more wooden
form: most wooden
form: wodden
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From wood + -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.
Senses: examples: text: a wooden boat
text: On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.
text: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.
ref: 2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]
ref: 2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Made of wood.
examples: text: wooden acting
glosses: As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
Derived terms: don't take any wooden nickels
wooden anniversary
Woodenbridge
wooden coat
woodener
woodenest
wooden fish
woodenheaded
wooden-headed
wooden horse
wooden kimono
wooden language
wooden leg
wooden-legged
woodenly
wooden mare
woodenness
wooden nickel
wooden nutmeg
wooden overcoat
wooden spoon
wooden spooner
wooden spoonist
wooden surtout
woodentop
wooden-top
wooden wedge
scarce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛəs/
ipa: /ˈskɛɚs/
ipa: /skeːs/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /skeəs/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /skiəs/
ipa: /skeɹs/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skɜː(ɹ)s/
ipa: /skɑː(ɹ)s/
note: see scace
ipa: /ˈskeɪs/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)s
Forms: form: scarcer
form: scarcest
form: scarse
form: scace
Etymology: From Middle English scars, scarse, from Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace. Compare Middle Dutch schaers (“scarce”), Middle Dutch schaers (“a pair of shears, plowshare”), scheeren (“to shear”).
The standard pronunciation having the /ɛə(ɹ)/ vowel instead of expected /ɑː(ɹ)/ is due to a tendency for Old and Middle French preconsonantal /ar/ to be borrowed as Middle English /aːr/ that only survives in this word and dace in the modern standard, but is more frequent in Early Modern English and traditional dialects; compare Scots gairden (“garden”), lairge (“large”).
Senses: examples: text: By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa.
text: You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen in value one fifth.
ref: 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC:
text: My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
qualifier: such as food
glosses: Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
raw_tags: of resources
examples: text: The project failed due to the scarce resources in the national market.
text: a region scarce of prey
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
Synonyms: word: geason
word: infrequent
word: raresome
word: rare
Derived terms: make oneself scarce
scarce as hen's teeth
scarce chaser
scarce copper
scarcely
scarcen
scarceness
Related terms: scarcity
degree Kelvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degrees Kelvin
Senses: related: word: mul:°K
synonyms: degree absolute
glosses: Nonstandard form of kelvin (“one-unit interval on the Kelvin scale”).
millimilli-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From milli- + milli-.
Senses: glosses: micro- (in the names of SI units)
millimicro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From milli- + micro-.
Senses: glosses: nano- (in the names of SI units)
micromicro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From micro- + micro-.
Senses: glosses: Pico- (in the names of SI units)
eek
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: ēk
ipa: /iːk/
ipa: /ik/
other: /iː/
other: /i/
homophone: eke
rhymes: -iːk
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: examples: text: Eek! There's a mouse in the bathtub!
glosses: Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
examples: text: I almost got fired from my job yesterday. Eek!
glosses: Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise.
glosses: Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.
eek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ēk
ipa: /iːk/
ipa: /ik/
other: /iː/
other: /i/
homophone: eke
rhymes: -iːk
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: eeks
form: eeking
form: eeked
form: eeked
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: examples: text: She was dangling the mouse by its tail, but as it tried to arch upwards and bite, she started to jig about wildly […] The anglers had watched a beautiful young woman dance naked beneath a full moon to the feverish rhythm of unworldly eeking noises!
ref: 2009, Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions:
text: We saw a frog and she eeked in terror again from the sight of it hopping near her.
ref: 2011, Isaac E. Washington, The Stars in My Dreams, page 106:
text: “Sorry, love, they all look the same to me,” said Dad, desperately trying to spot one with a particularly pink nose. “Armitage? ARMITAGE!” called Zoe. All the rats eeked. Every single one of them wanted to escape.
“We’ll just have to set them all free,” said Zoe.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.
glosses: Of a black person, to speak nonsense or gibberish.
Related terms: ook
eep
meep
eek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēk
ipa: /iːk/
ipa: /ik/
other: /iː/
other: /i/
homophone: eke
rhymes: -iːk
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: eeks
Etymology: Clipping of ecaf (“face”), from face via backslang.
Senses: examples: text: How bona to vada your eek!
translation: How good to see your face!
english: How good to see your face!
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text: You have your Elizabeth Taylor done in half-tones, reclining on this chaise longue – that’s your actual French – decollete down to her ankles, with a wanton look all over her eek.
ref: 1966, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, Round the Horne, season 2, spoken by either Julian or Sandy (either Hugh Paddick or Kenneth Williams):
text: Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.
ref: 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:
text: [H]e plonked his corybungus down and turned his eek to the driver.
ref: 2021, Daren Kay, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”, in The Brightonians (ebook):
glosses: A face.
Synonyms: countenance
eek
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ēk
ipa: /iːk/
ipa: /ik/
other: /iː/
other: /i/
homophone: eke
rhymes: -iːk
rhymes: -iː
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eke (“also”).
synonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnɒnəmi/
Forms: form: synonymies
Etymology: From French synonymie and its etymon Late Latin synōnymia, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía), from συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, “of like name”) + -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, synonym + -y or syn- + -onymy. Doublet of synonymia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
synonyms: homosemy
synonymity
synonymousness
antonyms: nonsynonymy
;
antonymy
coordinate_terms: antiphrasis
;
cohyponymy
coordination
coordinateness
;
parasynonymy
plesionymy
;
comeronymy
;
metonymy
;
synechdoche
glosses: A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or phrases. (See Usage notes below.)
glosses: A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.
synonyms: interpretatio
interpreter
synonymia
glosses: The use of synonyms to clarify or explain one's meaning.
synonyms: synonymics
glosses: The study of synonyms.
glosses: A system of synonyms.
examples: text: sink into synonymy
text: In 1924 this name was reduced to synonymy.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: The state of not being the name to be used, of being a synonym.
examples: text: The synonymy of Tachina is extensive.
text: Descriptions are followed by a synonymy of the names that have been applied in the literature .
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A group or list of synonyms.
Related terms: synonym
synonymia
electrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛktɹəm/
Forms: form: electrums
Etymology: From Latin ēlectrum, from Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron).
Senses: glosses: Amber.
examples: text: Native gold almost always contains silver in amounts varying widely between 5 and 50 per cent. This natural alloy is known as electrum although in classical antiquity where the word originated it seems to have been used for an artificial alloy of the two metals.
ref: 1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 111:
text: A natural alloy containing more than 20 per cent silver is called electrum, and was regarded by the ancients as a different metal from gold.
ref: 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 45:
synonyms: green gold
glosses: An alloy of gold and silver, used by the ancients; now specifically a natural alloy with between 20 and 50 per cent silver.
glosses: German silver plate.
placer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: placers
Etymology: From place + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Thou placer of plants both humble and tall
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who places or arranges something.
glosses: One who deals in stolen goods; a fence.
examples: a third-placer
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A horse, etc. that finishes in a particular place in a race.
Synonyms: sense: dealer in stolen goods
word: fence
sense: dealer in stolen goods
word: receiver
placer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: placers
Etymology: From place + -er (suffix apparently denoting association).
Senses: examples: text: This is a “placer” sheep, as it is called. The prerequisites to this condition are that the young sheep must be still nursing, but must have begun to nibble grass. It must be the young of a mother that has been somewhat isolated, away from the corral and away from the herd, by herself out on the prairie. Now, when the mother dies, the lamb remains close to the mother′s body[…].
ref: 1951, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, Problems of Infancy and Childhood, volume 4, page 101:
text: 1971, American Society of Animal Science. Journal of Animal Science, Volume 32, Pages 601-1298, page 1281,
In Australia “placer” lambs are also destroyed, for these too are of little use; they will return constantly to one place, not staying with the flock.
qualifier: ethology; sheep; ethology; sheep
glosses: A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.
Related terms: cade
poddy
imprinting
placer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈplæsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æsə(ɹ)
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈpleɪsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Etymology: From American Spanish placer, from earlier placel, apparently from obsolete Portuguese placel.
Senses: examples: text: Placer gold comes from the weathering of the primary veins releasing the gold to be transported by water action and concentrated in gravel or sand beds.
ref: 1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 110:
text: Since time immemorial, people found that they could extract the gold from placer deposits by sifting the fine-grained material through a mesh: the technique of panning.
ref: 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 46:
text: He still ran a placer mine in the Interior.
ref: 2008, Tanyo Ravicz, Of Knives and Men: Alaskans, page 77:
topics: business
mining
glosses: alluvial; occurring in a deposit of sand or earth on a river-bed or bank, particularly with reference to precious metals such as gold or silver
placer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈplæsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æsə(ɹ)
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈpleɪsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: placers
Etymology: From American Spanish placer, from earlier placel, apparently from obsolete Portuguese placel.
Senses: glosses: A place where the superficial detritus is washed for gold, etc.
glosses: Any place holding treasures.
Derived terms: Placer County
gangue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: găng
ipa: /ɡæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
homophone: gang
Forms: form: gangues
Etymology: Borrowed from French gangue. Doublet of gang.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the percentage recovery of metal from the ore was much higher than in the primitive process where the semi-vitrified gangue and half-smelted ore are typically rich in prills of copper and copper minerals.
ref: 1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 147:
topics: business
mining
coordinate_terms: country
glosses: The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.
Synonyms: veinstone
Derived terms: endogangue
exogangue
magic mud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of refractory materials used in casting metal.
glosses: A semi-liquid substance made of cornstarch and water, used in children's experiments.
glosses: A substance used to treat baseballs before they are put into professional play, to provide a firmer grip and better control.
white cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white caps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whitecap (“type of wave”).
bever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: bevers
Senses: examples: text: And, passing forward with furious affret, / Pierst through his bever and quite into his brow.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
text: He who lookes you in the face, ſaith he ſees you, though the reſt of your bodie be within your cloathes, and if you, being an ὁωλομάχος a cataphract in your proteſtantiſh πανοπλία [panoplía, suit of armour] should for fear pull downe your beuer before you come into the liſt, your Aduerſarie for all that might light vpon your (  ) vnleſſe you bring with you Giges his ring, ſo to make your ſelf inuiſible; [...]
ref: 1635, L. I. [pseudonym; John Lechmere], “The Third Argument was about the Killing Letter; out of Origen, […]”, in The Relection of a Conference Tovching the Reall Presence. Or A Bachelovrs Censvre of a Masters Apologie for Doctour Featlie, Douai: Lavrence Kellam, →OCLC, page 333:
text: Some close helmets have a farther improvement called a bever, the bever when closed covers the mouth and chin, and either lifts up by revolving on the same pivots as the visor, or lets down by means of two or more pivots on each side near the jaws, in which case the bever consists of several laminæ or plates, one shutting over the other.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 8:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bevor.
bever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːvə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbiːvə/
enpr: bēʹvər
ipa: /ˈbivɚ/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
homophone: beaver
homophone: Belvoir
homophone: bevor
ipa: /ˈbiːvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: bevers
Etymology: From Middle English bever, from Anglo-Norman bever (modern French boire), from Latin bibō.
Senses: examples: text: Bid my subsiser carry my hackney to the buttery, and give him his bever; it is a civil and sober beast, and will drink moderately.
ref: 1625, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Elder Brother. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A drink.
examples: text: It seemeth that wee daily shorten the use of this, and that in our houses (as I have seene in mine infancie) breakfasts, nunchions, and beavers [translating collations] should be more frequent and often used than now adayes they are.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 2, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Thirty meals a day and ten bevers.
ref: 1604, Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus:
text: Very softly I boiled water, made a sandwich from the remains of the luncheon roast chicken, scalded the Twining creature. Then I softly carried my bever to the study on a tray[…].
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
glosses: A snack or light refreshment between meals.
glosses: A time for drinking.
glosses: A mixture of cider and water.
Related terms: beverage
bever
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːvə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbiːvə/
enpr: bēʹvər
ipa: /ˈbivɚ/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
homophone: beaver
homophone: Belvoir
homophone: bevor
ipa: /ˈbiːvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: bevers
form: bevering
form: bevered
form: bevered
Etymology: From Middle English bever, from Anglo-Norman bever (modern French boire), from Latin bibō.
Senses: glosses: To take a light repast between meals.
bever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːvə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbiːvə/
enpr: bēʹvər
ipa: /ˈbivɚ/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
homophone: beaver
homophone: Belvoir
homophone: bevor
Forms: form: bevers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of beaver (“semiaquatic rodent”).
close helmet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊs ˈhɛlmət/
ipa: /ˈkləʊz-/
ipa: /ˈkloʊs ˈhɛlmət/
ipa: /ˈkloʊz-/
Forms: form: close helmets
Senses: examples: text: A close helmet entirely covers the head, face, and neck, having on the front perforations for the admission of air, and slits through which the wearer may see objects around him, this part which is stiled the visor lifts up by means of a pivot over each ear.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 7:
glosses: A helmet that entirely covers the head, including the face.
Related terms: bevor
visor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪzɚ/
rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: visors
form: vizor
form: viser
form: visere
form: visier
form: visiere
Etymology: From Middle English viser, from Anglo-Norman viser and Old French visiere.
Senses: examples: text: A close helmet entirely covers the head, face, and neck, having on the front perforations for the admission of air, and slits through which the wearer may see objects around him, this part which is stiled the visor lifts up by means of a pivot over each ear.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 7:
coordinate_terms: bevor
buffe
glosses: A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
examples: text: No visor does become black villainy
So well as soft and tender flattery.
ref: 1608, William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, act IV, scene IV, line 44:
glosses: A mask for the face.
glosses: The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
glosses: A rigid adjustable flap on an automobile windshield that can shield the eyes of a driver from direct sunlight or glare.
Hyponyms: sun visor
Related terms: vizard
visor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪzɚ/
rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: visors
form: visoring
form: visored
form: visored
form: vizor
form: viser
form: visere
form: visier
form: visiere
Etymology: From Middle English viser, from Anglo-Norman viser and Old French visiere.
Senses: antonyms: unvisor
glosses: To cover with, or as if with, a visor.
bacinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacinets
Senses: examples: text: Bacinets were light helmets, so called from their resemblance to a bason, and were generally without vizors, though from diverse quotations cited by Du Cange, they appear occasionally to have had them.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of bascinet.
bascinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæsɪˈnɛt/
ipa: /ˈbæsɪˌnɛt/
Forms: form: bascinets
form: basinet
form: bassinet
form: bacinet
form: basnet
Etymology: Via Middle English basynet (attested since the early 1300s), from Anglo-Norman bacynet, bacinet (“little basin”), diminutive of bacin, bassin (“basin, helmet”), but compare bassinet.
Senses: glosses: A light helmet, typically with a high, pointed skull, either open-faced (in early models) or made with a visor (later models).
bassinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæsɪˈnɛt/
ipa: /ˌbæsɪˈnɛt/
ipa: /ˈbæsɪˌnɛt/
Forms: form: bassinets
form: bassinette
Etymology: From French bassinet (“small basin”), equivalent to basin + -et. Ernest Klein, however, suggests derivation from French bercelonnette (“cradle”), with influence from bassin(et), to account for the English sense.
Senses: examples: text: The next day, the baby sleeps in a bassinet near my bed.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 198:
glosses: A newborn baby's bed, traditionally woven with reeds or straw; a (wicker) cradle.
bassinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæsɪˈnɛt/
ipa: /ˌbæsɪˈnɛt/
ipa: /ˈbæsɪˌnɛt/
Forms: form: bassinets
form: bassinette
Senses: examples: text: Bassinets were worn in the reigns of Edward II. and III. and Richard II. by most of the English Infantry, as may be repeatedly seen in the Rolls of Parliament, and other public records.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:
text: Alleyne stood by the tiller, looking backwards, the fresh wind full in his teeth, the crisp winter air tingling on his face and blowing his yellow curls from under his bassinet.
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, chapter 16:
glosses: Alternative form of bascinet.
salet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salets
Senses: examples: 1786: Father Daniel defines a Salet to be a sort of light casque, without a crest, sometimes having a visor, and sometimes without one. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11.
glosses: Alternative form of sallet (“helmet”).
sallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsælɪt/
rhymes: -ælɪt
Forms: form: sallets
form: salet
form: salade
form: celate
Etymology: From Middle French salade, from Spanish celada, thought to be from Latin caelāta (“ornamentally engraved (helmet)”) (although the Latin word is not attested in this sense).
Senses: examples: text: At Hampton Court, sallets for archers on horseback, sallets with grates, and old sallets with vizards: At Windsor, salettes and skulls: At Calais, saletts with vysars and bevers, and salets with bevers.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:
text: Ursula wore that day a hauberk under her gown, and was helmed with a sallet; and because of her armour she rode upon a little horse.
ref: 1896, William Morris, chapter 29, in The Well at the World's End, volume II, London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., book IV, page 258:
glosses: A type of light spherical combat helmet used in the 15th century.
sallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsælɪt/
rhymes: -ælɪt
Forms: form: sallets
Etymology: Alternative forms.
Senses: examples: text: One ſaid there was no ſallets in the lines to make thẽ ſauory, / But called it an honeſt methode, as wholeſome as ſweete.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], signatures E3, verso – [E4], recto:
text: To make Sallet of Lemon pill, or green Citron. You must have your Lemon Pill preserved very green, Rasp it into a Dish, and raise it up lightly with a Fork […]
ref: 1682, A perfect school of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth:
glosses: Archaic form of salad.
NCG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NCGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of new college graduate.
impulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpʌls/
Forms: form: impulses
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impulser, from Latin impulsus.
For spelling, as in pulse, the -e (on -lse) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.
Senses: examples: c. 1715-1716, Samuel Clarke, letter to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
All spontaneous animal motion is performed by mechanical impulse.
glosses: A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
examples: text: The impulse to learn drove me to study night and day.
text: When I saw the new book, I couldn't resist the impulse to browse through it.
text: Theſe were my natural Impulses for the undertaking: […]
ref: 1685, John Dryden, transl., “Preface”, in Sylvæ: Or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one,[…].”
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: An impulse urged him to plant a sudden blow on it, by he forced himself to consider the impolicy of such an act.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
examples: text: The total impulse from the impact will depend on the kinetic energy of the projectile.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The integral of force over time.
Derived terms: counterimpulse
impulse-buy
impulse buy
impulse buyer
impulse buying
impulse control disorder
impulse function
impulse good
impulseless
impulse noise
impulse purchase
impulse response
nerve impulse
on an impulse
on impulse
specific impulse
Related terms: impel
impulsion
impulsive
impulsively
impulsiveness
impulsivity
impulsor
pulse
impulse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpʌls/
Forms: form: impulses
form: impulsing
form: impulsed
form: impulsed
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impulser, from Latin impulsus.
For spelling, as in pulse, the -e (on -lse) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.
Senses: examples: text: With that force so impulsed and prest they are carried under the deepe Ocean.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: To impel; to incite.
vysar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vysars
Senses: examples: text: At Hampton Court, sallets for archers on horseback, sallets with grates, and old sallets with vizards: At Windsor, salettes and skulls: At Calais, saletts with vysars and bevers, and salets with bevers.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:
glosses: Archaic form of visor.
morion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒɹɪən/
Forms: form: morions
Etymology: From Middle French morion, from, Spanish morrión, from morra (“upper part of the head”), from morro (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”). Related to moraine (“an amassment of rocks on a glacier”).
Senses: examples: text: The Roman footmen caried not their morions, sword and target only, as for other armes (saith Cicero) they were so accustomed to weare them continually, that they hindered them no more than their limbs[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: This unlucky defect, however, his industry supplied by a vizor, which he made of paste-board, and fixed so artificially to the morrion, that it looked like an intire helmet.
ref: 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.1:
text: The morion is a kind of open helmet, without visor or bever, somewhat resembling a hat; it was commonly worn by the harqubussiers and musqueteers.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 12:
glosses: A kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor.
morion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒɹɪən/
Forms: form: morions
Etymology: From French morion, from Late Latin mōrion, a misreading in some manuscripts for Latin mormoriōn.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A brown or black variety of quartz.
late
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: lates
Etymology: From Middle English late, lat, from Old English læt (“slow; slack, lax, negligent; late”), from Proto-West Germanic *lat, from Proto-Germanic *lataz (“slow, lazy”). By surface analysis, deverbal from let.
Cognates
Cognate with Yola laate (“late”), North Frisian leed, leet, lääs (“late”), Saterland Frisian leet (“late”), Dutch, German Low German laat (“late, tardy”), Danish lad (“languid, lazy, indolent”), Faroese, Icelandic latur (“lazy”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lat (“lazy”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃 (lats, “lazy, slothful”).
Senses: examples: text: At about 11 pm one night in Corporation Street my watch were on van patrol and Yellow Watch were on late as usual.
ref: 2007, Paul W Browning, The Good Guys Wear Blue:
glosses: A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
chain mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain mails
form: chainmail
Etymology: chain + mail; attested since the 1780s.
Senses: examples: text: Chain mail is formed by a number of iron rings, each ring having four others inserted into it, the whole exhibiting a kind of net work, with circular meshes, every ring separately rivetted; this kind of mail answers to that worn on the ancient breast plates, whence they were denominated loricæ hammatæ, from the rings being hooked together.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:
text: A few broken broadswords, a helmet and a couple of chain mails preserved in museums are all the relics of those far-off times.
ref: 1947, Sergei Eisenstein, translated by X. Danko, edited by G. Ivanov-Mumjiev, compiled by R. Yurenev, Notes of a Film Director, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, page 36:
text: Chain mails were also sometimes attached to the back of Viking helmets to protect the neck.
ref: 2004, Step into the World of… The Vikings, Bath: Grandreams Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 14:
text: They wore chain mails over simple brown tunics, war paint still covered their faces in simple streaks, and their long dark hair hung in pony-tails that wrapped about their shoulders or hung down their backs.
ref: 2014, Saul Rip, The Rise of Shendoa (The Underworld Legacy Series), San Clemente, Calif.: Sourced Media Books, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: A flexible defensive armor, made of a mesh of interlinked metal rings.
Synonyms: topics: mail
information
word: armor
Coordinate terms: sense: armor
word: plate mail
sense: armor
word: scale mail
chain mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain mails
Etymology: From mail.
Senses: glosses: A chain letter.
later
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.tə/
enpr: lāʹtər
ipa: /ˈleɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈleɪ̯.ɾɚ]
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Etymology: * Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late + -er.
* Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late + -er.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).
Senses: examples: text: You came in late yesterday and today you came in even later.
glosses: comparative form of late: more late
examples: text: My roommate arrived first. I arrived later.
text: I arrived later than my roommate.
glosses: Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
examples: text: I wanted to do it now, but I’ll have to do it later.
glosses: At some unspecified time in the future.
examples: text: Compare Malay nanti (“later; if not”)
text: Later you fall asleep how?
translation: What if you fall asleep?
english: What if you fall asleep?
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synonyms: word: sekali
glosses: What if (something problematic or unanticipated happens); if not (something undesirable will happen).
Synonyms: sense: afterward in time
word: afterwards
word: hereafter
word: subsequently
sense: at some unspecified time in the future
word: later on
word: someday
word: one day
Derived terms: catch you later
I kill you later
neverthelater
no later than
you later alligator
shoot first and ask questions later
smell ya later
smell you later
sooner rather than later
sooner than later
to be named later