cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hurtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːtl̩/
ipa: /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/
ipa: [-ɾ(ə)l]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl
homophone: hurdle stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: hurtles
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English hurtelen, hurtlen (“to cast, hurl, throw; to charge at; to clash in combat, fight; to collide; to injure; to knock down; to propel, push, thrust; to rush; to stumble”) [and other forms], from hurten (“to injure, wound, hurt (physically or figuratively); to damage, impair; to hurt one’s feelings, humiliate; to receive an injury; to collide into; to propel, push, thrust; to stumble”) (see further at English hurt (verb)) + -el-, -elen (frequentative suffix). The English word is analysable as hurt (“(obsolete) to knock; to strike”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: I flung closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, flings to sheathe; / And, in that hurtle of united souls, / The mystic motions which in common moods / Are shut beyond our sense, broke in on us, […]
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Ninth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 398:
glosses: An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
examples: text: [T]he war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.
ref: 1975, William Howard Gass, quotee, “GASS, WILLIAM H(OWARD)”, in John Wakeman, editor, World Authors 1950–1970 […] (Authors Series), New York, N.Y.: The H[alsey] W[illiam] Wilson Company, →ISBN, page 538, column 1:
text: Jamba has removed from [Christopher] Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials – even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
ref: 2005 June 20, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.
examples: text: There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.
ref: 1913, Eden Phillpotts, chapter IV, in Widecombe Fair, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.
glosses: (Violent) disagreement; conflict.
hurtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːtl̩/
ipa: /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/
ipa: [-ɾ(ə)l]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl
homophone: hurdle stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: hurtles
Etymology: Possibly a clipping of hurtleberry, from Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”); further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).
Senses: examples: text: Vaccinia nigra, the blacke VVhortle, or Hurtle, is a baſe and lovve tree, or vvoodie plant, bringing foorth many branches of a cubite high, ſet full of ſmall leaues, of a darke greene colour, […]
ref: 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Whortes, or Whortle berries”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book III, page 1229:
synonyms: word: hurt
english: obsolete except Britain, dialectal
translation: obsolete except Britain, dialectal
word: hurtleberry
extra: any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs
word: whortleberry
extra: any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs
glosses: Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”).
hurtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːtl̩/
ipa: /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/
ipa: [-ɾ(ə)l]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl
homophone: hurdle stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: See hurdle.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hurdle.
hymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hī'mən
ipa: /ˈhaɪmən/
rhymes: -aɪmən
Forms: form: hymens
Etymology: From Middle French hymen, from Late Latin hymēn, from Ancient Greek ὑμήν (humḗn, “skin, membrane”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: maidenhead
virginal membrane
glosses: A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females.
examples: text: I would for ever baniſh from my thoughts—I will obey the firſt ſummons that proclaims you a happy wife.—On my devoted head may every miſery, reſulting from an ill-fated marriage, have juſtly been exhauſted. On your propitious hymen may ſmiling peace, domeſtic harmony, and mutual love, for ever wait; and time alone diſſolve the tender union!
ref: 1788, [Cassandra,] Lady H[awke], “Adelaide de Tourville to Henrietta de Valiere”, in Julia de Gramont, […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Bensley, for B[enjamin] White and Son, […], →OCLC, page 203:
text: Fanny read to herself that "it was with infinite concern the newspaper had to announce to the world, a matrimonial fracas in the family of Mr. R. of Wimpole Street; the beautiful Mrs. R. whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in the fashionable world, having quitted her husband's roof in company with the well known and captivating Mr. C. the intimate friend and associate of Mr. R. and it was not known, even to the editor of the newspaper, whither they were gone."
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 281–282:
glosses: Marriage.
Derived terms: hymenal
hymenate
hymenectomy
hymenitis
hymenless
hymenlike
hymenology
hymenoplasty
hymenorrhaphy
hymenotomy
imperforate hymen
hymnal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪmnəl/
rhymes: -ɪmnəl
Forms: form: hymnals
Etymology: From Middle English hymnale, from Medieval Latin hymnāle, noun use of neuter of hymnālis.
Senses: glosses: A collection of hymns; a hymn book.
Synonyms: hymnary
hymnbook
hymn-book
hymn book
Derived terms: sing from the same hymnal
Related terms: hymn
hymnally
hymnbook
hymnic
hymnical
hymnically
hymnodist
hymnody
hymnologist
hymnology
hymnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪmnəl/
rhymes: -ɪmnəl
Forms: form: more hymnal
form: most hymnal
Etymology: From Medieval Latin hymnālis.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hymns.
Synonyms: hymnic
hymnical
Derived terms: hymnally
ibis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.bɪs/
Forms: form: ibis
form: ibises
form: ibides
form: ibes
Etymology: Mentioned in the Wycliffe Bible as ybyn or ibin, as ibys from 16th century and ibis shortly after. From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian h-b-G26 (hbj) (compare Coptic ϩⲓⲃⲱⲓ (hibōi) or ϩⲓⲡ (hip)).
Senses: examples: text: It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Loomings”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.
wikipedia: Wycliffe's Bible
Derived terms: African sacred ibis
Australian white ibis
bald ibis
bare-faced ibis
black-faced ibis
black ibis
crested ibis
giant ibis
glossy ibis
green ibis
hadada ibis
ibisbill
Madagascar ibis
plumbeous ibis
Puna ibis
Reunion ibis
sacred ibis
scarlet ibis
sharp-tailed ibis
straw-necked ibis
white-faced ibis
white ibis
wood ibis
iconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈkɒnɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /aɪˈkɑnɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /aɪˈkɒnɪk/
ipa: /aɪˈkɔnɪk/
ipa: /aɪˈkɒnɪk/
ipa: [aɪˈkɔ̟nɪk]
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more iconic
form: most iconic
form: iconique
Etymology: From Late Latin īconicus, from Ancient Greek εἰκονικός (eikonikós). By surface analysis, icon + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: famous
antonyms: aniconic
glosses: Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.
examples: text: an iconic move in martial arts
text: And although we’ve certainly seen a variety of blue shades — from periwinkle to cobalt and even Dean Cain’s indigo-washed costume from the 1990’s TV show “Lois & Clark” — Superman’s uniform is still instantly recognizable across generations. In fact, there is only one film — Zack Snyder’s 2013 “Man of Steel” — in which Superman does not wear his iconic red belted trunks.
ref: 2025 February 21, Leah Dolan, “How the Superman ‘S’ became fashion’s favorite logo”, in CNN:
synonyms: signature
glosses: Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.
examples: text: For younger musicians, Coltrane’s death became one of those iconic events that stays vividly in the mind.
ref: 1983, J. K. Chambers, Milestones, New York: Beech Tree Books, →ISBN, page 111:
text: She angrily turned, giving me my favorite view, that iconic view of a woman from the rear.
ref: 1986, John Updike, Roger's Version, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 306:
text: In time The Simpsons would, indeed, resort to spoofing such decidedly non-spooktacular fare like E.T and Mr. And Mrs. Smith (both in “Treehouse Of Horror XVIII”) but in 1992 the field was wide-open and the show could cherry-pick the most iconic and beloved fright fare of all time.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2012:
text: "We did look at building a new bridge, but this is an iconic structure," says Network Rail Project Manager Michael Bryan.
ref: 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 50:
synonyms: emblematic
glosses: Famously and distinctively representative of its type.
examples: text: an iconic gesture in sign language
text: A portrait of a person is to a considerable extent iconic, but is not completely so since the painted canvas does not have the texture of the skin, or the capacities for speech and motion, […]
ref: 1955 [1946], Charles William Morris, Signs, Language, and Behavior, G. Braziller, →ISBN, page 23:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
antonyms: batonic
glosses: Representing something; symbolic.
Derived terms: homoiconic
iconically
iconicize
iconicness
noniconic
uniconic
ideate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdieɪt/
Forms: form: ideates
form: ideating
form: ideated
form: ideated
Etymology: From idea + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
examples: text: Two thousand young men and women from across the country had gathered under canvas tents on a public ground for a weekend of ideating and networking.
ref: 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 358:
coordinate_terms: brainstorm#Verb
innovate
;
brainchild#Verb
glosses: To generate an idea.
Derived terms: ideation
ideational
ideationally
ideative
ideator
Related terms: idealize
ideate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdieɪt/
Etymology: From idea + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Produced by an idea.
ideate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdieɪt/
Forms: form: ideates
form: ideat
Etymology: From Late Latin ideatum. See idea.
Senses: qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.
idol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īʹd(ə)l
ipa: /ˈaɪ.dəl/
ipa: [ˈaɪ.dl̩]
ipa: /ˈaɪ.dəl/
ipa: [ˈaɪ.ɾl̩]
ipa: /ˈɑɪ.dəl/
ipa: [ˈɑɪ.ɾl̩]
rhymes: -aɪdəl
homophone: idle
homophone: idyl(l) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: idols
form: idoll
Etymology: From Middle English ydole, from Old French idole, from Latin idolum, from Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image, idol”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos (“seeing, image”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Doublet of aidoru, eidolon, and idolum and related to idea.
Senses: examples: text: 20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship deuils, and idoles of golde, and siluer, and brasse, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, nor heare, nor walke:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 9:20–21:
text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
ref: 1911, J. Milton Hayes, The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God:
glosses: A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
glosses: A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
examples: text: Tom Cruise is his idol.
text: Sachin Tendulkar is Rohan's idol.
text: They are known as "idols" and their job is "to sell dreams". For decades, the young pop stars of Japan and South Korea have been the envy of teenagers.
ref: [2016 January 26, Mariko Oi, “The dark side of Asia’s pop music industry”, in BBC News:
qualifier: Asia
glosses: A popular entertainer, usually young, captivating and attractive, and often female, with an image of being close to fans.
glosses: An eidolon or phantom; a misleading or elusive image or representation.
Synonyms: sense: a celebrated person
word: icon
sense: a celebrated person
word: star
sense: a celebrated person
word: superstar
Derived terms: idolatry
idolic
idolise
idolize
idolish
idolism
idolist
idolomancy
idolomania
idolous
idol shepherd
idolsphere
kill your idols
matinee idol
matinée idol
Moorish idol
idyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭdʹĭl
enpr: ĭdʹəl
ipa: /ˈɪd.ɪl/
ipa: /ˈɪd.əl/
rhymes: -ɪdɪl
rhymes: -ɪdəl
enpr: īʹdĭl
enpr: īʹdəl
ipa: /ˈaɪ.dɪl/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.dəl/
rhymes: -aɪdɪl
rhymes: -aɪdəl
homophone: idle
homophone: idol stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: idylls
form: idyl
Etymology: From Latin īdyllium, from Ancient Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidúllion), from diminutive of εἶδος (eîdos, “form, shape”).
Senses: glosses: Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
glosses: An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.
Derived terms: idyllian
Related terms: idyllic
idyllical
idyllically
idyllist
idylist
ileum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪliəm
Forms: form: ilea
Etymology: Via Medieval Latin from Latin ilia.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.
Derived terms: ileal
ileitis
ileography
ileostomy
ileotomy
ileus
illume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈluːm/
ipa: /ɪˈljuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: illumes
form: illuming
form: illumed
form: illumed
Etymology: Clipping of illumine.
Senses: examples: text: Laſt night of all, / When yond ſame Starre that's Weſtward from the Pole / Had made his courſe t’illume that part of Heauen / Where now it burnes, / Marcellus and my ſelfe, / The Bell then beating one.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 152:
text: How dread the thunder's peal that rolls above !
How bright the flashes that illume the sky !
ref: 1819, Samuel Mcpherson Janney, “The last of the Lenapé, and Other Poems”, in Electricity:
text: Brighter the sun illumed the suburbs, more / Ugly and absolute that shade's reproof […]
ref: 1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Third”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 123:
text: At night there is no light in this building, but searchlights from distant points illume the splendid dome and the colonnades.
ref: 1915, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, volume 109:
synonyms: illuminate
illumine
glosses: To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright.
Derived terms: illumer
reillume
relume
unillumed
illume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈluːm/
ipa: /ɪˈljuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Etymology: Clipping of illumine.
Senses: examples: text: Till lo! at once broad through the gloom, / The lightnings flash’d their dread illume, / Full on a rock by copse embound, / And tore and whirl’d its ruins round; […]
ref: 1838, James Struthers, “The Woes of Separation. A Tale. Addressed to Separation.”, in Poetic Tales: with Other Poems and Songs, Glasgow: […] Bell and Bain, part IV, page 37:
text: The abdication of belief / Makes the behavior small – / Better an ignis fatuus / Than no illume at all.
ref: c. 1882, Emily Dickinson, “An Ablative Estate”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd and M[illicent] T[odd] Bingham, editors, Bolts of Melody, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1945, page 294:
text: What, in the glowing constellation / Of gem-thoughts studding all high aspire throughout the ages / More truly is the lamp / Lit in the illume of the empyrean / That brightest gleams / Athwart the darksome way of every questor / Intent upon the holy mount of Truth?
ref: 1887, anonymous author, “The Finding”, in Apotheosis of an Ideal. An Interior-Life Drama., Boston, Mass.: […] [David Clapp and Son], →OCLC, pages 38–39:
text: The silver on the leaves, the clover in the mist, / The light Acadian troll of winging lutanist; / Along an orchard’s path the fireweed’s orange flare, / Upon a mood’s gloom the illume of turquoise air.
ref: 1913, Mary Robertine Stokes, “These Dear Old Fields of Kent”, in On a Green Slope: […], Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, page 30:
glosses: Illumination.
imager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmɪdʒə/
ipa: /ˈɪmədʒə/
ipa: /ˈɪmɪd͡ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈɪməd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: imagers
Etymology: From Middle English ymageour, from Old French imageor; equivalent to image + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A system that creates a digital copy such as a disk image.
Derived terms: bioimager
neuroimager
phosphoimager
phosphorimager
imbrue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: imbrues
form: imbruing
form: imbrued
form: imbrued
form: embrue
Etymology: From Middle English embrewen, from Old French *embrever (whence Middle French embreuver), metathetic variant of embevrer (“to imbibe, steep, penetrate, soak”) (with same stem variation found in French abreuver and beuverie), from Vulgar Latin imbiberāre.
Senses: examples: text: My hands were imbrued in his blood.
text: Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder, — found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.
ref: 1837, Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter ; A Story of Madrid, volume II, Richard Bentley, pages 275–276:
text: At other times, I thought, What if the young man who was with so much difficulty restrained from imbruing his hands in me, should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should mistake the time, and should think himself accredited to my heart and liver to-night, instead of to-morrow!
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 23:
text: "I've been sacrificing so to strange gods that I feel I want to put on record, somehow, my fidelity—fundamentally unchanged, after all—to our own. I feel as if my hands were embrued with the blood of monstrous alien altars—of another faith altogether.
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
info_templates: extra_data: words: in
slaughter
etc.’
expansion: [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’]
glosses: To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’].
Derived terms: imbruement
impale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: impales
form: impaling
form: impaled
form: impaled
form: empale
Etymology: From Middle French, from Medieval Latin impālāre, from Latin palus, whence also pale.
Senses: glosses: To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage).
glosses: To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
examples: text: [T]he Tovvne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe.
ref: 1624, John Smith, “The Present Estate of Nevv-Plimoth”, in Iohn Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, book 6; republished as The Generall Historie of Virginia, …, London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Edward Blackmore, 1632, →OCLC, page 247:
glosses: To enclose or fence with stakes.
Synonyms: sense: pierce something with any long, pointed object
word: fix
sense: pierce something with any long, pointed object
word: stake
sense: pierce something with any long, pointed object
word: stick
sense: pierce something with any long, pointed object
word: run through
sense: pierce something with any long, pointed object
word: transfix
sense: enclose or fence with stakes
word: pale
sense: enclose or fence with stakes
word: palisade
sense: enclose or fence with stakes
word: picket
word: empierce
word: impale
word: pierce
word: prick
word: puncture
word: transpierce
Hyponyms: word: bore
word: cut
word: drill
word: skewer
word: spit
word: stab
Derived terms: impalation
impalement
impaler
unimpale
Related terms: word: make a hole
imping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmpɪŋ
Forms: form: impings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of grafting or mending.
glosses: A practice used on birds to fix important broken feathers.
imping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imp
inapt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈæpt/
Forms: form: more inapt
form: most inapt
Etymology: From French inapte, from Middle French, equivalent to in- + apt.
Senses: synonyms: unsuitable
inept
unapt
glosses: Not apt.
Derived terms: inaptly
inaptness
incise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: incises
form: incising
form: incised
form: incised
form: encise
Etymology: From Middle French inciser.
Senses: examples: text: The executioner’s blade is incised with Christ’s crown of thorns, and with the words of a prayer.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 5:
glosses: To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.
Derived terms: incisal
incisely
reincise
subincise
induct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌkt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Forms: form: inducts
form: inducting
form: inducted
form: inducted
Etymology: Originated 1350–1400 from Middle English induct, borrowed from Latin inductus, perfect passive participle of indūcō, equivalent to induce + -tus (past participle suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Franklin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the first female inductee […]
glosses: To bring in as a member; to make a part of.
examples: text: It is my pleasure to induct the new Officers for this coming term.
glosses: To formally or ceremoniously install in an office, position, etc.
examples: text: She was inducted into the ways of the legal profession.
glosses: To introduce into (particularly if certain knowledge or experience is required, such as ritual adulthood or cults).
examples: text: At the time of war the President is authorized by law to induct persons into the armed forces involuntarily.
glosses: To draft into military service.
examples: text: The ceremonies in the gathering were first inducted by the Venetians.
glosses: To introduce; to bring in.
Derived terms: inductee
inductometer
inductophone
reinduct
superinduct
uninducted
Related terms: induction
indict
inflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inflows
Etymology: From Middle English inflowen, equivalent to in- + flow.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of flowing in or into.
examples: text: The inflow of air.
text: According to Farside Investors’ data, spot ETH exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded net inflows of roughly $2.4 billion in the past six trading days, well above the $827 million in net inflows into spot BTC ETFs during the same period.
ref: 2025 July 25, Rakesh Upadhyay, “Price predictions 7/25: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, HYPE, XLM, SUI”, in Cointelegraph:
glosses: Anything which flows in or into.
examples: text: But there is also "top down causality" in which the entire system, as a whole, is affected by the inflow or influence of pattern formation, or "information."
ref: 2000, Sandra Marie Schneiders, Finding the Treasure:
text: Broadly speaking, there are two cases in which a national culture is subjected to the sudden inflow or influence of a foreign culture: (1) when the former is conquered by the latter and (2) when it conquers the latter.
ref: 2008, Richard Calichman, Overcoming Modernity:
text: Open yourself completely to the inflow and influence of the music and light of God through daily practice of the spiritual exercises, which he gives to you.
ref: 2010, Gabriel Ezutah, Trail of Immortality:
glosses: Influence from outside.
Synonyms: influx
Related terms: inflood
inflow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inflows
form: inflowing
form: inflowed
form: inflowed
Etymology: From Middle English inflowen, equivalent to in- + flow.
Senses: examples: text: the discusing and drying up of the inflowed Humour
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To flow in.
ingest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst/
homophone: in jest
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: ingests
form: ingesting
form: ingested
form: ingested
Etymology: From Latin ingerō (“I carry in”).
Senses: glosses: To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
examples: text: The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.
raw_tags: of a jet engine
examples: text: While this might seem like more than enough computing power for these purposes, the same machine is also used to ingest, archive and distribute TRMM data to the user community.
ref: 2013, R. L. Grossman, C. Kamath, P. Kegelmeyer, Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications, page 176:
glosses: To bring or import into a system.
Synonyms: word: consume
word: get outside
word: ingest
word: partake
word: put away
word: touch
Hypernyms: word: admit
word: receive
Hyponyms: word: imbibe
word: drink
word: eat
word: break one's fast
word: dig into
word: lace into
word: slattern away
word: tuck into
Meronyms: word: digest
word: swallow
Derived terms: coingest
ingestable
ingester
ingestible
ingestive
misingest
noningested
reingest
uningested
ingest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst/
homophone: in jest
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: From Latin ingerō (“I carry in”).
Senses: examples: text: Film is a physical, photochemical medium that requires a significant transformation process for ingest into the electronic/digital domain of television.
ref: 2007, Edmund A. Williams, National Association of Broadcasters Engineering Handbook:
text: Material received by the BSF for ingest into storage, and the items being picked and refilled, are all processed in an ancillary hall next to the high-density storage area.
ref: 2013, Michael Heaney, Catriona Jeanne Cannon, Transforming the Bodleian, page 78:
glosses: The process of importing data or other material into a system.
inhere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: inheres
form: inhering
form: inhered
form: inhered
form: inhære
Etymology: From Latin inhaerēre (“stick in, stick to, inhere to”), from in (“in”) + haereō (“stick”); see hesitate. Compare adhere, cohere.
Senses: examples: text: He [Massinger] inherits the traditions of conduct, female chastity, hymeneal sanctity, the fashion of honour, without either criticizing or informing them from his own experience. In the earlier drama these conventions are merely a framework, or an alloy necessary for working the metal; the metal itself consisted of unique emotions resulting inevitably from the circumstances, resulting or inhering as inevitably as the properties of a chemical compound.
ref: 1932, T. S. Eliot, “Philip Massinger”, in Essays on Elizabethan Drama, USA: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., published 1960, page 151:
text: We had already been claimed by the split infinitives of Star Trek, were already preparing to boldly go into a world where ethics, so far from inhering in the very structure of the cosmos, was a matter of personal taste […].
ref: 2001, Will Self, Feeding Frenzy:
text: […]such developments are attributable in part to the tendencies for parallel 'drift' that inhere in genetically related languages because of the perseverance of typological similarities – an idea originally put forward by Sapir.
ref: 2008, Zev Handel, “What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a Field and a Language Family in Flux”, in Language and Linguistics Compass, volume 2, number 3, →DOI, pages 422-441:
text: Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity.
ref: 5 January 2009, John Kraemer, Larry Gostin, The Guardian:
glosses: To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.
Derived terms: coinhere
Related terms: adhere
cohere
inherent
inherence
inherency
inters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inter
intone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtoʊn/
ipa: /ɪnˈtəʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: intones
form: intoning
form: intoned
form: intoned
Etymology: From Middle English entune, entone, from Old French entoner, from Medieval Latin intonō, from in- (inchoative prefix) + tonus (“pitch, tone”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); doublet of intonate. Cognate with French entonner, Italian intonare.
Senses: glosses: To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
examples: text: to intone the church service
text: But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
glosses: To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.
Derived terms: intonable
intonate
intonation
intonational
intonationally
intonator
intonement
intoner
intoningly
unintoned
iodate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodates
Etymology: From iodic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion IO₃⁻; any salt of iodic acid.
Derived terms: cadmium iodate
diiodate
hydriodate
hydrogen iodate
iodatian
potassium iodate
silver iodate
sodium iodate
iodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: iodates
form: iodating
form: iodated
form: iodated
Etymology: From iod(ine) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To treat with iodine.
iodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɪ.əˌdɑɪd/
Forms: form: iodides
Etymology: From iodine + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: compound
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: fluoride
chloride
bromide
;
astatide
tennesside
glosses: A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical.
examples: text: The organification of iodide in the thyroid gland was described using a second order rate constant (KthybindC, /nmol/L*hr/kg thyroid weight) fitted to provide thyroidal iodide stores near the maximal value, which increased with age.
ref: 2016 March 2, “Dietary Iodine Sufficiency and Moderate Insufficiency in the Lactating Mother and Nursing Infant: A Computational Perspective”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: Presence of nitrides, argonides, arsenides, and iodides in the crystalline rocks
ref: 2017, Kathleen F. Edwards, Joel F. Liebman, No Nobel for Noble Gases - Some Guesses Why:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: compound
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
halide#Noun
<
salt
<
compound
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: fluoride
chloride
bromide
;
astatide
tennesside
fluoride
chloride
bromide
;
astatide
tennesside
glosses: A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical.
Any salt of hydroiodic acid.
synonyms: iode
iodure
ioduret
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: halide#Noun
<
anion#Noun
<
ion#Noun
coordinate_terms: fluoride
chloride
bromide
;
astatide
tennesside
glosses: The anionic form of an iodine atom.
Derived terms: acyl iodide
americium iodide
ammonium iodide
auric iodide
aurous iodide
barium iodide
biniodide
bismuthous iodide
cadmium iodide
caesium iodide
cesium iodide
chloriodide
chloroiodide
chlorobromiodide
cuprous iodide
curium iodide
diiodide
dithiazanine iodide
ethyl iodide
green iodide of mercury
hydrogen iodide
hydroiodide
indium iodide
iodidate
iodide of iodammonium
iodiodide
iron iodide
kalium iodide
lead iodide
lithium iodide
manganese iodide
mercurous iodide
mercury(I) iodide
methyl iodide
organoiodide
oxapium iodide
oxoiodide
oxyiodide
pentaiodide
periodide
phosphonium iodide
polyiodide
potassium iodide
protiodide
protoiodide
radioiodide
radium iodide
scandium iodide
silver iodide
sodium iodide
stannous iodide
sulfiodide
sulphiodide
tetraiodide
thallious iodide
triiodide
tungsten iodide
vinyl iodide
iris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ī'rĭs
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪs/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪs/
ipa: [ˈʌɪ.ɹɪs]
ipa: /ˈɑɪ.ɹɪs/
rhymes: -aɪɹɪs
Forms: form: irises
form: iris
form: irides
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek *ϝῖρις (*wîris)
Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris)bor.
Latin eira
Latin ira
Latin irisbor.
English iris
From Middle English iris, from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”). Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *w(e)ih₁-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). If so, it would be cognate to English wire.
Senses: examples: text: Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant of the genus Iris, common in the northern hemisphere, and generally having attractive blooms (See Iris (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, which adjusts to control the amount of light reaching the retina, and which forms the colored portion of the eye (See Iris (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).
topics: arts
broadcasting
cinematography
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
glosses: A diaphragm used to regulate the size of a hole, especially as a way of controlling the amount of light reaching a lens.
glosses: A rainbow, or other colourful refraction of light.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A constricted opening in the path inside a waveguide, used to form a resonator.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The inner circle of an oscillated color spot.
Derived terms: word: autoiris
word: bearded iris
word: beardless iris
word: bowltube iris
word: copper iris
word: Dutch iris
word: German iris
word: irid-
word: irido-
word: Iris
word: irisate
word: irisated
word: iriscope
word: iris diaphragm
word: iris dilator muscle
word: iris in
word: irisless
word: irislike
word: irisology
word: iris out
word: iris pigmented epithelium
word: irisresorcinol
word: iris sawfly
word: iris shot
word: iris-skipper
word: Japanese iris
word: rabbit-ear iris
word: Siberian iris
word: Spanish iris
word: stinking iris
word: xiphium iris
Related terms: iridal
iridescent
iridial
iridian
iridium
iridocyclitis
iridology
iritic
iritis
iris
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ī'rĭs
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪs/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪs/
ipa: [ˈʌɪ.ɹɪs]
ipa: /ˈɑɪ.ɹɪs/
rhymes: -aɪɹɪs
Forms: form: irises
form: irising
form: irised
form: irised
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek *ϝῖρις (*wîris)
Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris)bor.
Latin eira
Latin ira
Latin irisbor.
English iris
From Middle English iris, from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”). Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *w(e)ih₁-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). If so, it would be cognate to English wire.
Senses: qualifier: lens; or door; lens; or door
glosses: To open or close in the manner of an iris.
raw_tags: of an aperture
examples: text: Pure, transparent, glistening in the sun, and irised by a thousand hues, which float and wave and spread in graceful and ceaseless motion on its surface!
ref: 1834, Jacob Abbott, chapter 1, in The Corner-Stone, Boston: William Peirce, page 31:
text: The sun as it comes indoors out of space
Has left a rainbow irising each glass—
A refraction, caught then multiplied
From the crystal tied within our window,
ref: 1987, Charles Tomlinson, “Winter Journey”, in The Return, Oxford University Press, page 35:
synonyms: iridize
glosses: To cause (something) to shine with the colours of the rainbow; to make iridescent.
Derived terms: irised
irised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪst/
rhymes: -aɪɹɪst
Etymology: From iris + -ed; as a synonym of iridescent and irisated, perhaps a calque of French irisé.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of iris
isomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.sə.mə/
enpr: ī'səmər
ipa: /ˈaɪ.sə.mɚ/
Forms: form: isomers
form: isomere
Etymology: From iso- + -mer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of two or more compounds with the same molecular formula but with different structure.
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Any of two or more atomic nuclei with the same mass number and atomic number but with different radioactive properties.
Synonyms: sense: physics: atomic nuclei
word: nuclear isomer
Derived terms: alloisomer
atropisomer
atropoisomer
chromoisomer
cis-trans isomer
conformer
endo-isomer
exo-isomer
geoisomer
geometric isomer
isomerase
isomerate
isomer bomb
isomeric
isomerisation
isomerism
isomerization
isomerize
isomeromorphism
metastable isomer
nuclear isomer
optical isomer
photoisomer
positional isomer
pseudoisomer
regioisomer
rotamer
stereoisomer
structural isomer
topoisomer
triosephosphateisomerase
valence isomer
Related terms: isoform
isotope
ivied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪviːd/
Forms: form: more ivied
form: most ivied
Etymology: From ivy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] Lancelot Carnaby stopped from his rash venture into the water, and drew himself back into an ivied bush, which served as the finial of the little garden-hedge.
ref: 1880, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, “Battery and Assumpsit”, in Mary Anerley. A Yorkshire Tale. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 33:
text: But he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.
ref: 1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 4, in World so Wide […], New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 35:
text: Even a place as innocent and unsqualid as the ivied Wesleyan University in Connecticut provokes contempt[…]
ref: 1987, Eugene Goodheart, Pieces of Resistance, page 188:
text: […] great glossy-leaved mango trees ivied with pepper vines […]
ref: 1988, Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture, New York: Knopf, pages 195–196:
antonyms: univied
glosses: Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant.
jagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jaggers
Etymology: From jag + -er.
Senses: glosses: carrier, carter
examples: text: The jagger, with those green, goggling, and gain-descrying kind of optics, which we have already described, continued gazing for an instant after the customer, who treated his wares with such irreverence.
ref: 1821, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate:
glosses: peddler, hawker
glosses: A jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc.
glosses: A toothed chisel.
examples: text: I don't know if you've ever gotten close to a jagger bush, but those stickers can be pretty mean.
ref: 2011, Larry Enright, A King in a Court of Fools:
text: 2011- , Chris Preksta, Curt Wootton, Pittsburgh Dad: Everything Your Dad Has Said to You
How about we play The Store is a jagger bush and you don't touch nothing.
glosses: Synonym of jag (“thorn from a bush”).
synonyms: word: jag
extra: thorn from a bush
jagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jaggers
Etymology: Blend of jaguar + tiger
Senses: glosses: The offspring of a male jaguar and a female tiger.
jakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Forms: form: jakeses
form: jacks
form: jacques
form: jakes's
form: jakeses
Etymology: From Middle English Jake (variant of “Jack”) or Jakke (variant of “Jacques” and “Jack”). Use as a place to urinate and defecate first attested in the form jacques. Compare terms such as US slang Cousin John and Quincy, used as euphemistic personifications the speaker was "visiting".
Senses: examples: text: My lord, if you’ll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: […] Whereas the Truth-finder, having raked out that Jakes his own Mind, and being there capable of tracing no Ray of Divinity, nor any thing virtuous, or good, or lovely, or loving, very fairly, honestly, and logically concludes, that no such things exist in the whole Creation.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 1, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI, page 269:
text: And the treasures of the floor and walls went raw into the jakeses from my brush and dustpan: sludges, geodes, hair, dead insects and arachnidae, a rubber glove and tainted paper waste, a mouse's skull and tail, a set of used plasters, […]
ref: 1994, Derek Beaven, Newton’s Niece, Fourth Estate, published 1999, page 8:
synonyms: word: outhouse
word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
glosses: A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
Derived terms: jakeshouse
jakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Forms: form: jacks
form: jacques
form: jakes's
form: jakeses
Etymology: From Middle English Jake (variant of “Jack”) or Jakke (variant of “Jacques” and “Jack”). Use as a place to urinate and defecate first attested in the form jacques. Compare terms such as US slang Cousin John and Quincy, used as euphemistic personifications the speaker was "visiting".
Senses: glosses: plural of jake
jakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Forms: form: jacks
form: jacques
form: jakes's
form: jakeses
Etymology: From Middle English Jake (variant of “Jack”) or Jakke (variant of “Jacques” and “Jack”). Use as a place to urinate and defecate first attested in the form jacques. Compare terms such as US slang Cousin John and Quincy, used as euphemistic personifications the speaker was "visiting".
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jake