cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
-est
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭst
ipa: /ɪst/
enpr: əst
ipa: /əst/
Etymology: From Middle English -est, from Old English -est, -ost, from Proto-West Germanic *-ist, *-ōst, from Proto-Germanic *-istaz, *-ōstaz, related to comparative -er. Cognate of Afrikaans -ste, Dutch -st, German -(e)st, Danish -(e)st, Swedish -(a)st.
Via PIE cognate with Ancient Greek -ιστος (-istos), see Pleistocene, protist.
Senses: examples: longest, biggest, fastest, motliest
glosses: Used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs.
Coordinate terms: -er
Related terms: -most
-est
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭst
ipa: /ɪst/
enpr: əst
ipa: /əst/
Forms: form: -'st
form: -st
Etymology: From Middle English -est, -st, from Old English -est, -ast, -st, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *-zi, from Proto-Indo-European *-si. The -t was by transfer from inverted order where thou followed the verb, which also occurred in most dialects of Middle Dutch and Middle High German (compare modern German -st).
Senses: examples: goest, makest, wentest, madest
glosses: Used to form the second-person singular present tense and past tense of verbs. (if thou is the subject; not used with you)
Related terms: -eth
thou
-er
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
enpr: ər
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɹ̩]
homophone: -or
homophone: -a (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Middle English -re, -er, from Old English -ru (plural suffix), from Proto-Germanic *-izō (plural suffix). Cognate with Dutch -er (plural ending), German -er (plural ending). See also -ren.
Senses: examples: childer, calver, lamber, linder ("loins")
glosses: Suffix used to form the plural of a small number of English nouns.
Derived terms: -ren
-er
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
enpr: ər
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɹ̩]
homophone: -or
homophone: -a (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Middle English -ere, from Old English -ra, from Proto-West Germanic *iʀō, *-ōʀō, from Proto-Germanic *-izô or Proto-Germanic *-ōzô (a derivative of Etymology 4, below); related to superlative -est.
Senses: examples: text: hard + -er → harder
text: wet + -er → wetter
text: motley + -er → motlier
text: eerie + -er → eerier
text: clayey + -er → clayier
qualifier: now especially short ones
glosses: More; used to form the comparative.
raw_tags: added to certain adjectives and adverbs
-er
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
enpr: ər
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɹ̩]
homophone: -or
homophone: -a (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Middle English -er, from Old English -or, from Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀ, Proto-Germanic *-ōz.
Senses: glosses: More; used to form the comparative.
raw_tags: added to certain adverbs
-er
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
enpr: ər
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɹ̩]
homophone: -or
homophone: -a (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Middle English -eren, -ren, -rien, from Old English -erian, -rian, from Proto-West Germanic *-rōn, *-iʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *-rōną or *-izōną. Cognate with West Frisian -erje, Dutch -eren, German -eren, -ern, Danish -re, Swedish -ra.
Senses: examples: twitter, clamber, bicker, mutter, wander, flutter, flicker, slither, smother, sputter
glosses: Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
raw_tags: added to a verb or imitative sound
Synonyms: sense: used to form frequentative
word: -le
-er
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
enpr: ər
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɹ̩]
homophone: -or
homophone: -a (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Middle English -er, from Anglo-Norman -er, Old French -er, the infinitive verbal ending.
Senses: examples: text: disclaim + -er → disclaimer
text: remit + -er → remitter
text: misname + -er → misnomer
text: rebut + -er → rebutter
text: attain + -er → attainder
topics: law
glosses: Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
raw_tags: added to a verb
-er
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
enpr: ər
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɹ̩]
homophone: -or
homophone: -a (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Middle English -er, -ere (diminutive suffix). Compare -el.
Senses: examples: text: shive + -er → shiver
text: slive + -er → sliver
text: splint + -er → splinter
glosses: Used to form diminutives.
raw_tags: added to a verb or noun
-er
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
enpr: ər
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɹ̩]
homophone: -or
homophone: -a (non-rhotic)
Etymology: Attested in the UK since the 19th century. Originally Rugby School slang. Later adopted by Oxford University and then wider British society.
Senses: examples: text: association + -er → soccer (“association football”)
text: football + -er → footer (“association football”)
text: rugby + -er → rugger
text: Radcliffe + -er → Radder (“a building at Oxford University”)
glosses: Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
Derived terms: -zza
Related terms: -ers
-er
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
enpr: ər
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɹ̩]
homophone: -or
homophone: -a (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Middle English -er, from Old English -er, -or, from Proto-Germanic *-raz. Compare -le.
Senses: examples: text: clive + -er → cliver (“apt to cleave or adhere to, tenacious, expert as seizing”)
text: slip + -er → slipper (“tending to make slip, slippery”)
text: wake + -er → waker (“tending to wake, watchful”)
glosses: A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action
Synonyms: -le
-er
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
enpr: ər
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɹ̩]
homophone: -or
homophone: -a (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Mandarin -兒 /-儿 (-ér).
Senses: examples: text: Li’er said hello to his father.
text: Yue’er began to laugh again and her tears shimmered like dew on a lotus leaf disturbed by a breeze. Then we heard a sound. It was Man’er.
ref: 1979, Women of China, page 44:
text: The fish was laid out on the table, but Ping’er had not come back, nor had his father.
ref: 2002 [1934], Xiao Hong, “The Field of Life and Death”, in Howard Goldblatt, transl., The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Ying’er was not yet three years old. Li’er had always been the one to play with her or to carry her places on his back.
ref: 2014 [1959], Zhong Lihe, “The Little Ridge”, in T. M. McClellan, transl., From the Old Country: Stories and Sketches of China and Taiwan, →ISBN, page 202:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually one syllable of the given name.)
Coordinate terms: -chan
Related terms: english: verb to adjective
translation: verb to adjective
word: -ed
word: -eer
word: -ee
raw_tags: of action
word: -ess
word: -ress
english: feminine noun extension form
translation: feminine noun extension form
word: -trix
word: -est
english: verb to noun
translation: verb to noun
word: -ing
word: more
word: -or
advert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædvɜːt/
ipa: /ˈædvɜɹt/
rhymes: -ædvɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: adverts
Etymology: Clipping of advertisement.
Senses: examples: text: This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period.
ref: 2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:
text: When I was writing my 'Tube Talk' column, a man sent me a letter complaining about the advertisement of cars on the Underground. Why would the Underground masochistically promote a rival transport mode? The answer, I discovered, was that the adverts on the network must not 'harm the brand', and a car advert per se was not deemed to do that. However, a car advert that said 'Why are you using this horrible Tube when you could be driving one of our lovely cars?' would not be allowed.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 41:
text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: An advertisement, an ad.
Derived terms: advertese
blipvert
advert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædvɜːt/
ipa: /ˈædvɜɹt/
rhymes: -ædvɜː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ædvˈɜːt/
ipa: /ædvˈɜɹt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ˈædvɜːt/
ipa: /ˈædvɜɹt/
rhymes: -ædvɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: adverts
form: adverting
form: adverted
form: adverted
Etymology: From Middle English adverten, from Old French advertir (“to notice”), from Latin advertere (“to turn toward”). See also adverse.
Senses: examples: text: At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously advert to this dimension of Sunday, too.
ref: 2007 September 9, the Vatican (trans.), Pope Benedict XVI (speaker), speaking in German at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Austria
glosses: To take notice, to pay attention (to).
glosses: To turn attention to, to take notice of (something).
examples: text: To meditate, one must advert the mind toward the breath
glosses: To turn attention to, to take notice of (something).
To turn the attention (of something or someone) (to or toward) some object).
qualifier: usually fixed phrases
examples: text: ‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert.’
ref: 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:
text: As soon as Miss Fairlie had left the room he spared us all embarrassment on the subject of the anonymous letter, by adverting to it of his own accord.
ref: 1860, Wilkie Collins, The Woman In White:
text: In this context, it is worth remark that Sir Brian should have paid particular attention to the importance of a reserve of power in locomotives. He adverted to this in a discussion of punctuality, making first the highly debatable assertion that "a very high proportion" of steam locomotives today were being worked to the limit of their capacity, with little or no reserve in hand, [...].
ref: 1961 July, “Editorial: Sir Brian begs the questions”, in Trains Illustrated, page 386:
glosses: To call attention, refer (to).
Synonyms: refer
Derived terms: advertence
advertency
advertent
advertently
inadvertent
inadvertently
née
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: nay
homophone: neigh
homophone: né
Forms: form: nee
Etymology: From French née (“born”, feminine singular).
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Smith, née Jones
text: 1891, A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Doyle
Irene Norton, née Adler.
glosses: Used when giving the maiden name of a woman.
examples: text: Since the name change, Butch (née Frances) seems more tough and self-assured.
glosses: Used when giving a former name. Originally known as.
big ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big up
né
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: nay
homophone: neigh
Etymology: From French né, from Old French né, from Latin nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born”). Doublet of nada.
Senses: examples: text: Sting, né Gordon Sumner
text: It remained in the custody of Mr Svlad, or "Dirk", Gently, né Cjelli.
ref: 1987, Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, William Heinemann Ltd, page 23:
coordinate_terms: nés
née
nées
qualifier: usually italicised
glosses: Used when giving the former name of a man.
né
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: nay
homophone: neigh
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans nee.
Senses: examples: text: so I saw this girl né, and I wanted to talk to her...
glosses: Yeah? not so? hey?
risotto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzoʊtoʊ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɒtəʊ/
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
Forms: form: risottos
form: risotti
Etymology: From Italian risotto, from riso (“rice”).
Senses: examples: text: The secret to a creamy risotto is letting the rice absorb one cup of broth at a time.
text: Risotti are another Alvaro passion, and there’s a different special each week, as well as a legendary strawberry risotto in season.
ref: 2006, Fleur Britten, editor, A Hedonist’s Guide to London, Filmer Ltd, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Risotti are made with fat, short-grain rice; […]
ref: 2013, Damon Lee Fowler, Essentials of Southern Cooking: Techniques and Flavors of a Classic American Cuisine, Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 78:
text: This is one of the biggest chapters in this book because there are just so many vegetables that marry well with rice to make fantastic risotti!
ref: 2017, Valentina Harris, “Vegetables”, in Risotto! Risotto!, Absolute Press, →ISBN:
glosses: An Italian savoury dish made with rice and other ingredients.
examples: text: a pearl barley risotto
glosses: A similar dish made without rice.
pollen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒlən/
ipa: /ˈpɑlən/
rhymes: -ɒlən
Forms: form: pollens
Etymology: From Latin pollen (“fine flour”). Used by Linnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.
Senses: glosses: A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
examples: text: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref: 2013 May–June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants.
examples: text: and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne,[…]as well of pollen, as of other vitailes
ref: 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles, translation of original by Jean Froissart:
glosses: Fine powder in general, fine flour.
Derived terms: I'm allergic to pollen
nonpollen
pollen analysis
pollenarious
pollen basket
pollen count
pollen counter
pollen grain
pollen granule
polleniferous
pollenin
pollenize
pollenise
pollenless
pollenlike
pollen mother cell
pollen parent
pollenproof
pollen sac
pollen spore
pollen tube
pollen vortex
pollen wasp
polleny
pollination
polliniferous
pollinivore
pollinivorous
sporopollen
sporopollenin
Related terms: pollinate
pollen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒlən/
ipa: /ˈpɑlən/
rhymes: -ɒlən
Forms: form: pollens
form: pollening
form: pollened
form: pollened
Etymology: From Latin pollen (“fine flour”). Used by Linnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.
Senses: glosses: To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
Related terms: palyno-
palynologic
palynological
palynologist
palynology
patois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pătwäʹ
ipa: /pæˈtwɑ/
enpr: pătʹwä
ipa: /ˈpæ.twɑː/
rhymes: -ɑ
rhymes: -ætwɑː
enpr: pătwäzʹ
ipa: /pæˈtwɑz/
enpr: pătʹwäz
ipa: /ˈpæ.twɑːz/
rhymes: -ɑz
rhymes: -ætwɑːz
Forms: form: patois
form: Patois
Etymology: 1635, from French patois (“regional dialect or language”).
Senses: examples: text: [The Sundanese] are regarded as relatively barbarous, and in the company of Malays or Javanese, they are themselves ashamed of their dialect, which is looked on as a sort of rude patois.
ref: 1890, [Jacques] Élisée Reclus, “Java”, in A. H. Keane, editor, Oceanica (The Earth and Its Inhabitants; 14), New York: D. Appleton and Company, Inhabitants:
glosses: A regional dialect (usually one considered substandard) of a language (especially French).
glosses: Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
glosses: Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Haiti).
glosses: Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican creole language based primarily on English and African languages but also having influences from Spanish, Portuguese, and Hindi.
examples: text: In the patois of insurance, the winery will go bare into this year’s burning season, which experts predict to be especially fierce.
ref: 2021 July 18, Christopher Flavelle, “Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Jargon or cant.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Jamaican
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Patwa
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Jamaican Patois
stratification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratifications
Etymology: From stratum + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: He has misunderstood the English excavators in regard to the stratification of Knossos. He has wrongly imagined that the West Court of Knossos and a great part of the whole west wing belonged to an earlier building, contemporary with the West Court of Phæstos, and that they were later superseded and partly covered over by a later structure, contemporary with the supposed mainland Achæan type of Megaron at Phæstos that is now proved to be no Megaron at all.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 80:
glosses: The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A layering of musical texture.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
hyponyms: cold treatment
glosses: The process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur, often involving exposure to cold.
glosses: A classification or arrangement of things into different categories or groups.
Derived terms: biostratification
costratification
cross-stratification
destratification
economic stratification
interstratification
lake stratification
macrostratification
microstratification
monostratification
multistratification
overstratification
phylostratification
poststratification
prestratification
pseudostratification
restratification
stratificational
substratification
interpolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˌtɜː.pəˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /ɪnˌtɝ.pəˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /ɪnˌtɜː.pəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: interpolations
Etymology: From French interpolation, from Latin interpolatio. Morphologically interpolate + -ion.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
examples: text: In Perl, variable interpolation happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a LIST.
ref: 2000, Wall, Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, 3rd edition, page 992:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of interpolating: including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program.
examples: text: Today a widely established convention encloses all editorial interpolations in square brackets [like so] for clarity.
text: Bentley wrote a letter […] upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand.
ref: 1830, Thomas De Quincey, Life of Richard Bentley:
text: We, who are born into the world's artificial system, can never adequately know how little in our present state and circumstances is natural, and how much is merely the interpolation of the perverted mind and heart of man.
ref: 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse. […], part II, New York, N.Y.: Wiley and Putnam, published 1846, →OCLC, page 1:
topics: communications
editing
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
qualifier: content analysis
glosses: That which is introduced or inserted; in contexts of content analysis of centuries-old texts, especially something foreign or spurious.
examples: text: The melody itself is an interpolation of “The Streets of Cairo,” an Orientalist Tin Pan Alley song originally published in 1895.
ref: 2015, Loren Kajikawa, Sounding Race in Rap Songs, page 147:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The use of a melody from a previously recorded song, but recreated rather than sampled from that recording.
Synonyms: sense: including and processing externally-fetched data
word: transclusion
Derived terms: Hermite interpolation
hyperinterpolation
interpolational
Lagrange's interpolation formula
noninterpolation
Phong interpolation
reinterpolation
spherical linear interpolation
time-assignment speech interpolation
Related terms: interpolate
interpolary
pitch simultaneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any two or more pitches or pitch classes all of which occur simultaneously, or at the same time. It may be thought of as a more general term for any possible chord. Any chord progression or harmonic progression is then a simultaneity succession, though not all simultaneity successions are harmonic progressions and not all simultaneities are chords.
Related terms: simultaneity
dissolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsəˈl(j)uːʃən/
ipa: /ˌdɪsəˈluʃən/
rhymes: -uːʃən
Forms: form: dissolutions
Etymology: From Middle English dissolucioun, from Old French dissolucion, from Latin dissolūtiō (“a dissolving, destroying, breaking up, dissolution”).
Senses: synonyms: abolition
disestablishment
antonyms: establishment
foundation
glosses: The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.
examples: text: The whole fabric dries up, or becomes putrid; and, in both cases, sooner or later, tends to a dissolution.
ref: 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh; London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2:
text: On August 16, 2014, a 24-year-old male programmer posted a more than 9,000-word tirade about the dissolution of his relationship with video game developer Zoë Quinn.
ref: 2025 March 23, Harmeet Kaur, “How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become”, in CNN:
glosses: Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
glosses: Dissolving, or going into solution.
examples: text: He led a life of dissolution, drinking and gambling almost daily.
synonyms: dissipation
glosses: The quality of being dissolute.
Derived terms: antidissolution
dissolutional
dissolutionism
dissolutionist
double dissolution
ego dissolution
electrodissolution
nondissolution
photodissolution
predissolution
redissolution
amalgamation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: amalgamations
Etymology: From Medieval Latin amalgamātiō.
Senses: examples: text: In 1908 Sheng obtained imperial approval for the amalgamation of the Hanyang Ironworks and the Ta-yeh and P'ing-hsiang mines to form the Han-Yeh-P'ing Coal and Iron Company Limited (Han-Yeh-P'ing mei-t'ieh ch'ang-k'uang yu-hsien kung-ssu).
ref: 1958, Albert Feuerwerker, China's Early Industrialization, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:
glosses: The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
glosses: The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
glosses: The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal, especially used in antiquity to extract gold and silver from ores.
examples: text: All the circumstances of William, on the great house farm, show him to have occupied a different position from the other slaves, and, certainly, there is nothing in the supposed hostility of slaveholders to amalgamation, to forbid the supposition that William Wilks was the son of Edward Lloyd.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter VII, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
glosses: The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.
Derived terms: amalgamationism
amalgamationist
preamalgamation
Related terms: amalgam
amalgamate
gradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɡɹəˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡɹeɪˈdeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: gradations
Etymology: Borrowed from French gradation. By surface analysis, Blend of grade + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
examples: text: A decade ago, the British department-store chain John Lewis built itself a long warehouse, painted in gradations of sky blue.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: nuance
glosses: A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.
glosses: The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
examples: text: the several gradations of the intelligent universe
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
text: Two distinct types of lupus erythematosus are recognized: [1] chronic or discoid, which is essentially a skin lesion, and [2] severe systemic, designated as acute. Between the two types are many gradations to which the term subacute has been applied.
ref: 1954 February 15, Henry E. Michelson, “The Syndrome of Lupus Erythematosus”, in Modern Medicine, volume 22, number 4, Minneapolis, Minn.: Modern Medicine Publications, Inc., page 96:
glosses: Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
glosses: A calibration marking.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A diatonic succession of chords.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Ablaut.
Derived terms: consonant gradation
gradational
intergradation
progradation
gradation
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɡɹəˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡɹeɪˈdeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: gradations
form: gradationing
form: gradationed
form: gradationed
Etymology: Borrowed from French gradation. By surface analysis, Blend of grade + -ation.
Senses: glosses: To form with gradations.
Related terms: graduation
pulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌls/
ipa: /pʌls/
ipa: [pəls]
ipa: /pʊls/
ipa: /pʌls/
rhymes: -ʌls
rhymes: -ʊls
Forms: form: pulses
Etymology: From Middle English puls (“(collectively) seeds of a leguminous plant used as food; leguminous plants collectively; a species of leguminous plant”), Early Middle English pols (in compounds), possibly from Anglo-Norman pus, puz, Middle French pouls, pols, pous, and Old French pous, pou (“gruel, mash, porridge”) (perhaps in the sense of a gruel made from pulses), or directly from their etymon Latin puls (“meal (coarse-ground edible part of various grains); porridge”), probably from Ancient Greek πόλτος (póltos, “porridge made from flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”) (perhaps by extension from *pel- (“to beat, strike; to drive; to push, thrust”), in the sense of something beaten).
Senses: examples: text: Wild nuts, peas, vetch, a legume which had edible seed pods, and grasses were often combined with pulses like beans or lentils, the most commonly identified ingredient, and at times, wild mustard. To make the plants more palatable, pulses, which have a naturally bitter taste, were soaked, coarsely ground or pounded with stones to remove their husk.
ref: 2022 November 22, Katie Hunt, “Neanderthals cooked meals with pulses 70,000 years ago”, in CNN:
glosses: Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume.
glosses: Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants, especially in a mature, dry condition; (countable) a specific kind of such a grain or seed.
gos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goes (“plural of go”).
nicotinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nicotinists
Etymology: From nicotine + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Nicotinists. Smokers, it is said, are invariably polite to each other, wheresoever they be–on the penny steamboat, the two-penny tramcar, the three-penny bus, and elsewhere.
ref: 1879 July 24, The North Middlesex Magazine, page 15:
text: Indeed, it seems very probable that in many cases smoking is done, not because of the real enjoyment which comes from the practice, but because it has become a habit which the nicotinist cannot break himself of.
ref: 1914, “Our Tobacco: Its Cost”, in The Unpopular Review, volume 1, page 159:
text: That I usually buy and sow two to ten times as many kinds and plants as I can at all find room for is no sort of fault or harm, for I can give away plants even more happily than the nicotinist gives away a cigar, and with as much heartwarming thankfulness coming my way.
ref: 1915, John Horace McFarland, My Growing Garden, page 26:
glosses: One who is addicted to nicotine, the alkaloid found in tobacco.
Related terms: nicotinism
mattress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmætɹɪs/
rhymes: -ætɹɪs
Forms: form: mattresses
Etymology: From Middle English materas, from Old French, from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”). Compare divan, from Persian via Turkish (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans).
Senses: glosses: A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.
glosses: A form of retaining wall used to support foundations or an embankment
examples: text: Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring.
ref: 1941 April, “British Locomotive Developments”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 173:
text: The boiler and firebox are lagged with a lightweight Fibreglass mattress.
ref: 1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 185:
glosses: A form of lagging, in particular for boilers.
Derived terms: air mattress
crib mattress
go to the mattresses
mattress actress
mattress cover
mattress fluffer
mattress itch
mattresslike
mattress pad
mattress protector
mattress topper
mattressy
overmattress
spring mattress
walking mattress
wire mattress
Related terms: bottom sheet
futon
mattress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmætɹɪs/
rhymes: -ætɹɪs
Forms: form: mattresses
form: mattressing
form: mattressed
form: mattressed
Etymology: From Middle English materas, from Old French, from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”). Compare divan, from Persian via Turkish (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans).
Senses: examples: text: A comfortable litter of pine needles had mattressed the ground and spreading branches had been a canopy overhead.
ref: 1997, Andrew R. M. Patterson, A planet through a field of stars, page 123:
glosses: To cover with a thick layer, like a mattress; to blanket.
manacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.ə.kəlz/
rhymes: -ænəkəlz
Etymology: From Middle English manicle, from Old French manicle, from Latin manicula, diminutive form of manus (“hand”).
Senses: glosses: plural of manacle
manacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.ə.kəlz/
rhymes: -ænəkəlz
Etymology: From Middle English manicle, from Old French manicle, from Latin manicula, diminutive form of manus (“hand”).
Senses: glosses: manacle
shackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃækl̩/
ipa: /ˈʃæk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ækəl
Forms: form: shackles
Etymology: From shack (“variant of shake”), shake (verb) + -le (suffix forming agent nouns; frequentative suffix forming verbs).
Senses: glosses: A person who is idle or lazy; an idler.
topics: dice
games
glosses: A dice game; also, an event at which tickets are sold for chances to be drawn to win prizes; a raffle.
shackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃækl̩/
ipa: /ˈʃæk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ækəl
Forms: form: shackles
form: shackling
form: shackled
form: shackled
Etymology: From shack (“variant of shake”), shake (verb) + -le (suffix forming agent nouns; frequentative suffix forming verbs).
Senses: glosses: To rattle or shake (something).
glosses: To put (something) into disorder; specifically (agriculture), to cause (standing stalks of corn) to fall over.
glosses: Often followed by about: to be idle or lazy; to avoid work.
shackles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shackle
shackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shackle
maneuver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnuvɚ/
ipa: /məˈnuːvə/
ipa: /məˈnyːvɐ/
ipa: /maˈnyːvɐ/
ipa: /məˈnjuːvɚ/
rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: maneuvers
form: manoeuvre
form: manœuvre
form: maneuvre
form: manoeuver
form: manœuver
Etymology: From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, maneuver”) and manouvrer (“to maneuver”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labor”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handuwerk (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk. The verb is a doublet of the verb manure.
Senses: examples: text: The army was on maneuvers.
text: Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
examples: text: “This,” cried he, “is a manœuvre I have been some time expecting: but Mr. Harrel, though artful and selfish, is by no means deep.”
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.v.7:
glosses: Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
synonyms: ease
wrestle
glosses: A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
examples: text: The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
examples: text: Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.
glosses: A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
Derived terms: abdominal-thrust maneuver
anti-G straining maneuver
countermaneuver
Epley maneuver
Heimlich maneuver
hook maneuver
Immelmann maneuver
Lempert maneuver
mass of maneuver
Pinard's maneuver
PIT maneuver
room for maneuver
Semont maneuver
Valsalva maneuver
maneuver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnuvɚ/
ipa: /məˈnuːvə/
ipa: /məˈnyːvɐ/
ipa: /maˈnyːvɐ/
ipa: /məˈnjuːvɚ/
rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: maneuvers
form: maneuvering
form: maneuvered
form: maneuvered
form: manoeuvre
form: manœuvre
form: maneuvre
form: manoeuver
form: manœuver
Etymology: From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, maneuver”) and manouvrer (“to maneuver”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labor”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handuwerk (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk. The verb is a doublet of the verb manure.
Senses: synonyms: ease
wrestle
glosses: To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
glosses: To guide, steer, manage purposefully
examples: text: The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts
glosses: To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
Derived terms: countermaneuver
maneuverability
maneuverable
maneuverer
mismaneuver
outmaneuver
remaneuver
manioc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.ni.ɒk/
ipa: /ˈmæ.niˌɑk/
ipa: /ˈmeɪ.niˌɑk/
Forms: form: maniocs
form: manioca
form: mandioc
form: manihoc
form: manihot
Etymology: From French manioc and Spanish mandioca, ultimately from Old Tupi mani'oka.
Senses: examples: text: 1975, William R. Bascom, African Dilemma Tales, Mouton (De Gruyter), page 86,
The banana, the most important crop above ground, quarreled with the manioc, the most important underground crop. […] The manioc said that it, the yam, the sweet potato, and others were the ones that fed people and that without them people could not exist.
text: 1977, Donald W. Lathrap, Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd, Charles A. Reed (editor), Origins of Agriculture, Mouton (De Gruyter), page 741,
The selection process leading to the bitter group of maniocs has been in terms of higher starch yield and in terms of starch of a quality more appropriate for making bread ans flour.
text: Manioc, the main subsistence crop of Amazonia, is planted entirely from cuttings, which are inserted into mounds hoed up in the spaces left between the logs and the stumps.
ref: 1988, Robert L. Carneiro, “5: Indians of the Amazonian Rainforest”, in Julie Sloan Denslow, Christine Padoch, editors, People of the Tropical Rain Forest, University of California Press, page 82:
text: Manioc was first reported being grown on the mainland in 1635 at the Portuguese post at Bissau.
ref: 1993, Jonathan D. Sauer, Historical Geography of Crop Plants: A Select Roster, CRC Press, page 60:
text: Manioc gives the highest yield of starch per hectare of any known crop; some 90% of the fabric of the crop can be regarded as potentially fermentable carbohydrate.
ref: 2003, Ian Spencer Hornsey, A History of Beer and Brewing, Royal Society of Chemistry, page 26:
glosses: The tropical plant Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared.
examples: text: In the morning, after a frugal breakfast of coffee and manioc - we had to be economical of our stores - we held a council of war as to the best method of ascending to the plateau above us.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Ground manioc (cassava) is mixed with water and pressed through tube woven from palm fibers to remove toxic cyanogenic compounds.
ref: 2006, Dietland Muller-Schwarze, Chemical Ecology of Vertebrates, Cambridge University Press, page 321:
text: She made manioc pie, got water, got wild banana leaves and pounded manioc. She made the earth oven and later she opened and took out the manioc pie.
ref: 2013, Elizabeth Ewart, Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography, Bloomsbury, page 174:
glosses: Cassava root, eaten as a food.
glosses: A food starch prepared from the root.
Synonyms: sense: Manihot esculenta
word: cassava
sense: Manihot esculenta
word: yuca
sense: cassava root
word: cassava
sense: cassava root
word: yuca
sense: food starch
word: cassava
sense: food starch
word: tapioca
cassava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈsɑːvə/
rhymes: -ɑːvə
Forms: form: cassavas
form: cassaba
form: cassada
Etymology: From Spanish cazabe, from Taíno *kasabi (“cassava flour”) (compare Garifuna sibiba), from Proto-Arawak *sapi.
Senses: synonyms: yuca
glosses: Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.
synonyms: yuca
glosses: The root of this plant.
examples: text: Jucca, ſive Yucca Peruana. The root whereof the bread Caſua, or Cazava is made.
ref: 1677, Thomas Holyoke [i.e., Thomas Holyoake], “Jucca”, in A Large Dictionary: In Three Parts: I. The English before the Latin, … II. The Latin before the English, … III. The Proper Names of Persons, Places, and Other Things Necessary to the Understanding of Historians and Poets. …, London: Printed for W[illiam] Rawlins, for G[eorge] Sawbridge, W[illiam] Place, T[homas] Basset, T[homas] Dring, J[ohn] Leigh, and J[ohn] Place, →OCLC:
glosses: Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots.
Derived terms: cassava wood
tapioca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæpiˈoʊkə/
Forms: form: tapiocas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca, from Old Tupi tapi'oka.
Senses: examples: text: Fish eyes and glue we used to call the half-cooked, large-grained, starchy tapioca without flavour that we were served every week in our residence at university. How I longed for the creamy pudding Mother used to make.
ref: 2009, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 286:
text: It happened when beverage aficionados learned that tapioca, the starch used to make the sweet, round, chewy black bubbles — or pearls — that are the featured topping in the popular boba tea drink, was in short supply.
ref: 2021 April 16, Kellen Browning, “Another Unlikely Pandemic Shortage: Boba Tea”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: cassava
manioc
glosses: A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.
examples: text: When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 270:
glosses: The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc.
Derived terms: pearl tapioca
tapioca fish
tapioca pearl
tapioca pudding
tapioca starch
maniple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænɪp(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈmænəpəl/
Forms: form: maniples
Etymology: Probably from Late Latin manipulus (“bundle, handful; drachm”) (see further at etymology 1), modelled on Ancient Greek δράγμα (drágma, “bundle, handful; sheaf”) which was confused with δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “drachm”).
Senses: examples: text: [K]novving you a ſerious Student in the higheſt arcana’s of Nature; and vvith much excuſe vve bring theſe lovv delights, and poor maniples to your Treaſure.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “To My Worthy and Honored Friend Nicholas Bacon of Gillingham [i.e., Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Gillingham] Esquire”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC:
text: M., in Medicinal Preſcription, is frequently uſed to ſignify a maniple, or handful: […]
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, “M [letter]”, in The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. [...] In Thirty-nine Volumes, volume XXI, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […] [et al.], →OCLC, column 1:
glosses: A handful.
tantrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæn.tɹəm/
rhymes: -æntɹəm
Forms: form: tantrums
form: tantrem
Etymology: From earlier tanterum. Further etymology unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Many parents become embarrassed by their children throwing tantrums in public places.
text: Baby Shawn threw a tantrum when he was told the bicycle was not his.
text: When he became frustrated, he threw a tantrum, and his mother would attempt to comfort him.
ref: 2003, Saralea E. Chazan, Simultaneous Treatment of Parent and Child, page 185:
glosses: An often childish display or fit of bad temper.
Synonyms: sense: childish display of bad temper
word: dummy spit
word: hissy fit
word: meltdown
word: tantrum
word: catfit
word: conniption
word: conniption fit
word: headfit
word: hissy
word: paddy
word: shit fit
word: snit fit
word: wobbler
word: wobbly
Hypernyms: word: fit
word: outburst
word: paroxysm
Hyponyms: word: moment
word: temper tantrum
Derived terms: have a tantrum
mantrum
pitch a tantrum
temper tantrum
throw a tantrum
Related terms: word: huff
word: have kittens
word: lose one's temper
word: make a scene
word: throw a tantrum
word: throw one's toys out of the pram
tantrum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæn.tɹəm/
rhymes: -æntɹəm
Forms: form: tantrums
form: tantruming
form: tantrumming
form: tantrumed
form: tantrumed
form: tantrummed
form: tantrummed
form: tantrem
Etymology: From earlier tanterum. Further etymology unknown.
Senses: glosses: To throw a tantrum.
maraud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹɔːd/
ipa: /məˈɹɔd/
ipa: /məˈɹɑd/
ipa: /mɘˈɹoːd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
rhymes: -oːd
Forms: form: marauds
form: marauding
form: marauded
form: marauded
Etymology: From French marauder, derivative of maraud (“rogue, vagabond”), from Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”), from Frankish *marʀijan (“to neglect, hinder”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to neglect, hinder, spoil”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to trouble, confuse, ignore, forget”), + Old French suffix -ault, -aud. Cognate with Old High German marrjan, marren (“to obstruct, hinder”), Old Saxon merrian (“to hinder, waste”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to offend”). Related to mar.
Senses: examples: text: a marauding band
text: Peace Plunder, Peace, you Rogue; no Moroding now i we'll burn, rob, demolish and murder another time together : This is a Bus'ness must be done with decency.
ref: 1684, Thomas Otway, The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, volume 2, London: Richard, James, and Bethel Wellington, published 1728, The Atheist; or the Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune, page 88:
text: […] in one of which they met with a party of French that had been marauding, and made them all prisoners at discretion.
ref: 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, no. 90-505, volume 3, London: Thomas Tickell, published 1721, page 115:
glosses: To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.
examples: text: A flea out of a blanket shaken, A bloody-minded sinner, Upon a taylor's neck was taken, Marauding for a dinner.
ref: 1770, “Fables for Grown Gentlemen”, in Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, volume 29, London: A. Hamilton, page 73:
glosses: To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner.
examples: text: As the tract of country they intended to maraud was far in the Moorish territories near the coast of the Mediterranean, they did not arrive until late in the following day.
ref: 1829, Washington Irving, A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada: In Two Volumes, volume 1, Paris: Baudry, at the Foreign Library, pages 118–9:
glosses: To raid and pillage.
Related terms: marauder
marauder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹɔːdə(ɹ)/
ipa: /məˈɹɔdɚ/
ipa: /məˈɹɑdɚ/
Forms: form: marauders
Etymology: From maraud + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a band of marauders
glosses: Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
glosses: Any person who or thing which marauds.
tangram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ænɡɹæm
Forms: form: tangrams
Etymology: Possibly from Mandarin 唐 (táng, “of the Tang dynasty, by extension, Chinese”) + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A Chinese puzzle made of a square that is cut up into different triangular pieces which can then be reassembled to make designs.
Related terms: Loyd's paradox