cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
repine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭpīnʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈpaɪn/
enpr: rĭpīnʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈpaɪn/
ipa: /ɹə-/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: repines
Etymology: Believed to have been formed (with uncertainty, due to the unusual formation) as re- + pine, with the verb giving rise to the noun (first attested in 1529 and 1593 respectively); compare the Middle English verb repinen (“(uncertain) to cause trouble to someone, grieve”) (from pīnen (“to cause pain, grieve, hurt, trouble; to starve, pine; to torment, torture”), from Old English pīnian), which may be related.
Senses: examples: text: Whose beams upon his hairless face are fix’d / As if from thence they borrowed all their shine. / Were never four such lamps together mix’d, / Had not his clouded with his brow’s repine; […]
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 82], lines [487–490]:
text: And ye, fair heaps, the Muses’ sacred shrines, / (In spite of time and envious repines) / Stand still and flourish till the world’s last day, / Upbraiding it with former love’s decay.
ref: c. 1600, Joseph Hall, “Book II”, in Satires, Chiswick: Printed for C[harles] Whittingham, […] , published 1824, →OCLC, Satire II, page 30:
text: It would, therefore, be criminal negligence did we not embrace this chance to proclaim broadcast, through such men as by their learning, their repines of judgment, their character and their works, will command general recognition and attention
ref: 1979, Ronald A. Brauner, Jewish civilization: essays and studies, volume 1, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, page 112:
glosses: A repining.
appraised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹeɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appraise
unsettling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsettling
form: most unsettling
Senses: examples: text: More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt[…]
ref: April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
unsettling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsettle
unsettling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsettlings
Senses: examples: text: But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.
ref: 2013, Krishna Sen, Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia, page 19:
glosses: The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
mesmerized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesmerized
form: most mesmerized
form: mesmerised
Etymology: Derived from mesmerism, a pseudoscientific theory and practiced originating with and named after Franz Anton Mesmer and also known as animal magnetism.
Senses: glosses: Spellbound or enthralled.
glosses: Hypnotized.
mesmerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mesmerised
Etymology: Derived from mesmerism, a pseudoscientific theory and practiced originating with and named after Franz Anton Mesmer and also known as animal magnetism.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mesmerize
café au lait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/
ipa: /kæˌfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: café au laits
form: cafés au lait
form: coffee au lait
form: cafe au lait
Etymology: Borrowed from French café au lait (literally “coffee with milk”).
Senses: examples: text: It was like using a language I'd once known but had nearly forgotten, a language having to do with customs that had long before passed out of the world: café au lait at an outdoor table, with a brioche, absinthe in a tall glass, or shrimp in a cornucopia of newspaper; things I'd once read about but had never seen.
ref: 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 164:
coordinate_terms: caffè latte
latte
café noir
glosses: A mixture of coffee and hot milk.
glosses: Coffee and hot milk served in separate jugs as a breakfast drink.
examples: text: Seen all of a piece like this, in a picture that fits snugly into the lens of any camera, Kersey is a peaceful, multi-coloured Toytown of a village, whose red-tiled roofs are subdued by just the right amount of weathering and lichen, and whose overhanging gables thrust forward in a quiet brilliance of red-and-yellow ochre, pink, white and café-au-lait.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 240:
glosses: A light coffee colour.
Derived terms: café au lait birthmark
café au lait macule
café au lait spot
Related terms: café con leche
caffè latte
callused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calloused
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of callus
callused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more callused
form: most callused
form: calloused
Senses: glosses: Having calluses.
Synonyms: callous
callousy
callusy
Derived terms: noncallused
uncallused
calluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callus
calluses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of callus
hatstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatstands
form: hat stand
form: hat-stand
Etymology: * hat + stand
* (crazy, insane): From the "Roger Irrelevant" strip in the Viz comic, where this was one of Roger's absurd non sequiturs.
Senses: examples: text: I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
glosses: A device used to store hats upon, consisting of a vertical pole with a sturdy base to prevent toppling, and an array of pegs to hold the hats.
Synonyms: sense: pole with pegs
word: coatstand
sense: pole with pegs
word: hatrack
sense: pole with pegs
word: coatrack
hatstand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hatstand
form: most hatstand
form: hat stand
form: hat-stand
Etymology: * hat + stand
* (crazy, insane): From the "Roger Irrelevant" strip in the Viz comic, where this was one of Roger's absurd non sequiturs.
Senses: examples: text: Chris Merriman is 43, comes from Rugby and is totally hatstand. Here's proof: Fave planet? "The Milky Way."
ref: 1988 December, Your Sinclair, number 36, page 118:
text: "I'd have to be totally hatstand to do that! She'll recognize me."
ref: 2011, D. Leonard Freeston, The Sixth Extinction, page 282:
glosses: Crazy, insane.
oversized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversized
form: most oversized
Etymology: From over- + sized.
Senses: glosses: Very large; especially of something larger than normal for its type.
Synonyms: oversize
Derived terms: oversizedness
partway
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From part + way.
Senses: examples: text: The timetable for May-December 2022 reveals a service partway back to its pre-COVID level.
ref: 2022 September 7, Jim Steer, “CrossCountry: the heart of the nation”, in RAIL, number 965, page 30:
glosses: To some extent.
examples: text: Daisy Ridley has reawakened the debate over “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” biggest reveal, saying that the character of Rey’s lineage wasn’t clear to her even partway through filming the final chapter of the trilogy.
ref: 2020 September 9, Brian Lowry, “Daisy Ridley reawakens the ‘Star Wars’ debate over Rey’s lineage”, in CNN:
text: NR is promising ambitious plans for Oxford Road station partway along the crowded [Castlefield] corridor.
ref: 2023 June 14, Philip Haigh, “Wait goes on to unblock congested Castlefield Corridor”, in RAIL, number 985, page 51:
glosses: In part; part of the way; some of the way.
Related terms: halfway
operatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operative
counterinsurgency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterinsurgencies
Etymology: From counter- + insurgency.
Senses: examples: text: The United States will continue to pursue a military and civilian counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
text: Mr. Petraeus almost single-handedly forced a profound evolution in the country’s military thinking and doctrine with his philosophy of counterinsurgency, focused more on protecting the civilian population than on killing enemies.
ref: 2012 November 9, Michael D. Shear, “Petraeus Quits; Evidence of Affair Was Found by F.B.I.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any political or military action taken to defeat insurgency, especially during guerrilla warfare.
Synonyms: COIN
antiinsurgency
pacification
suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: plural of suit
suits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suit
goading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goad
goading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goadings
Senses: examples: text: This fact refutes the doctrine that the goadings of a guilty conscience in this life, constitute the only punishment for sin[…]
ref: 1853, Orson Squire Fowler, Practical Phrenology:
glosses: The act by which somebody is goaded.
Sundanese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌndəˈniːz/
ipa: /sundəˈniːz/
Forms: form: Sundanese
Etymology: From Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ (sunda).
Senses: examples: text: According to these reports, which could not be verified, the Sundanese were preparing to declare their freedom from the new Indonesian Republic and to ask the Dutch for military protection.
ref: 1947 April 30, “Civil War Reports Circulate in Java”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: While he is now revered as a local and national hero of the Betawi, according to older legends he was in fact a Sundanese who came to Batavia from Cirebon.
ref: 2014, Jacqueline Knörr, Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia, page 177:
glosses: A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.
Sundanese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌndəˈniːz/
ipa: /sundəˈniːz/
Etymology: From Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ (sunda).
Senses: synonyms: Basa Sunda
glosses: The language of the Sundanese people.
glosses: The abugida used to write the Sundanese language.
Sundanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌndəˈniːz/
ipa: /sundəˈniːz/
Etymology: From Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ (sunda).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Sundanese people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Sundanese terms
remembering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmɛmb(ə)ɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: remembryng
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remember
remembering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmɛmb(ə)ɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: rememberings
form: remembryng
Senses: examples: text: ‘I do remember,’ he said, ‘only Pooh doesn’t very well, so that’s why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it’s a real story and not just a remembering.’
ref: 1926, A. A. Milne, “In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees and the Stories Begin”, in Winnie-the-Pooh:
text: The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.
ref: 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering:
text: In this process participants become immersed in the dynamic interplay of rememberings, communal extraction, imaginings, expectings, etc., and of singular perceptions of each of these separately and as they come together […]
ref: 1998, Merrelyn Emery, Searching: The Theory and Practice of Making Cultural Change:
synonyms: remembrance
recollection
glosses: The act by which something is remembered.
glosso-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒs.ə(ʊ)/
ipa: /ɡlɑs.oʊ/
ipa: /ɡlɔs.oʊ/
Forms: form: gloss-
form: glotto-
form: glott-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “tongue; language”) + -o-.
Senses: examples: text: glossopharyngeal
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the tongue.
examples: text: glossolalia
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to language or speech.
Synonyms: english: Latinate equivalent
translation: Latinate equivalent
word: linguo-
Related terms: -glossia
occurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɝz/
ipa: /əˈkɜːz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of occur
attempting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attempt
omo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ.məʊ/
ipa: /oʊ.moʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos, “the shoulder”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the shoulder and scapula.
omo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ.məʊ/
ipa: /oʊ.moʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὠμός (ōmós, “raw, crude”).
Senses: glosses: Raw, crude, primitive
projects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkts/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.d͡ʒɛkts/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.d͡ʒɛkts/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkts/
enpr: prŏʹjĕkts'
enpr: prŏʹjĭkts
ipa: /ˈpɹɑˌd͡ʒɛkts/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.d͡ʒɪ̈kts/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.d͡ʒɛkts/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.d͡ʒɛkts/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɛkts
rhymes: -əʊdʒɛkts
Senses: glosses: plural of project
projects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkts/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.d͡ʒɛkts/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.d͡ʒɛkts/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkts/
enpr: prŏʹjĕkts'
enpr: prŏʹjĭkts
ipa: /ˈpɹɑˌd͡ʒɛkts/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.d͡ʒɪ̈kts/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.d͡ʒɛkts/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.d͡ʒɛkts/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɛkts
rhymes: -əʊdʒɛkts
Senses: examples: text: My friend Larry Gray never gangbanged with us but was from the projects and to your rival, that meant you were one
ref: 2008, Donovan Simmons, Terry Moses, Bloods and Crips: The Genesis of a Genocide, page 128:
qualifier: usually preceded by the
glosses: One or more high-density urban housing developments for residents having low incomes.
Synonyms: sense: housing development
word: jects
sense: housing development
word: PJ's
Related terms: section 8
projects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prə-jĕktsʹ
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkts/
rhymes: -ɛkts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of project
enters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛntɚz/
ipa: /ˈɛntəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enter
enters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛntɚz/
ipa: /ˈɛntəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of enter
captains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæp.tɪnz/
ipa: /ˈkæp.tənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of captain
captains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæp.tɪnz/
ipa: /ˈkæp.tənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of captain
hunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌntɚz/
ipa: /ˈhʌntəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hunter
includes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkluːdz/
rhymes: -uːdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of include
includes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkluːdz/
rhymes: -uːdz
Senses: glosses: plural of include
Related terms: excludes
precludes
recludes
reincludes
objections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əbˈd͡ʒɛkʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of objection
officials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɪʃəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of official
Related terms: officiality
shapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪps/
rhymes: -eɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of shape
shapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪps/
rhymes: -eɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shape
downwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnwədz/
ipa: /ˈdaʊnwɚdz/
Etymology: From down + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: Gravity pulls everything downwards.
glosses: Towards a lower place; towards what is below.
examples: text: After the rise in oil prices, the economy headed downwards.
glosses: Towards something which is lower in order, smaller, inferior, etc.
Synonyms: downward
down
particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹtɪkl̩z/
ipa: /ˈpɑːtɪkl̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of particle
Deneb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛnɛb/
Etymology: From Arabic ذَنَب الدَّجَاجَة (ḏanab ad-dajāja, “hen's tail”), from ذَنَب (ḏanab, “tail”) + دَجَاجَة (dajāja, “hen”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A blue giant star in the constellation Cygnus; Alpha (α) Cygni. It forms one corner of the Summer Triangle. Deneb is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and one of the most luminous stars known.
Albireo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from the phrase "ab ireo" in the title for the constellation Cygnus in the star catalog of the Almagest, as translated by Gerard of Cremona. Christian Ludwig Ideler speculated that "ireo" referred to the plant called irio. Later, people apparently considered "abireo" to refer to the star, and as a misprint of an Arabic term, and transcribed it as al-bireo.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A binary star in the constellation Cygnus; Beta (β) Cygni.
wearily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɹɪli/
ipa: /ˈwɪəɹɪli/
Forms: form: more wearily
form: most wearily
Etymology: From Middle English werily, werelye, equivalent to weary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Yes," said Marvin. "Wearily I sit here, pain and misery my only companions."
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 137:
text: People living in the Portishead area have grown wearily familiar with delays and cost overruns since reopening the railway (part of the MetroWest project) was approved in 2012.
ref: 2022 November 30, Andrew Mourant, “Network News: Award of DCO offers major boost to Portishead hops”, in RAIL, number 971, page 26:
glosses: In a weary manner.
Synonyms: tiredly
King Kong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See King Kong § Etymology on Wikipedia.
Senses: synonyms: Kong
glosses: A fictional giant ape, the eponymous star of several movies.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A king (playing card).
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Two kings as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
Thuban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic ثُعْبَان (ṯuʕbān, “snake”), the Arabic name for the constellation Alpha Draconis being الثُعْبَان (aṯ-ṯuʕbān).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: α Draconis, a white giant star in the constellation Draco which served as the North Star from about 3942 to 1793 BC.
Hypernyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: North Star
E100
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A motor vehicle fuel blend based on close to 100% ethanol used in alcohol fuelled vehicles
Coordinate terms: B10
B100
B15
B5
B85
E10
E15
E5
E85
M10
M100
M15
M5
M85
vorarephilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvoɹ.ɹə.ɹəˈfɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /voɹˌɹɛ.ɹ(ə)ˈfɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /voʊ̯-/
rhymes: -ɪliə
Forms: form: voraphilia
form: voreaphilia
Etymology: From Latin vorare (“to devour”) + -philia.
Senses: examples: 1998, Karl Xydexx Jorgensen, in alt.fan.furry http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/msg/1a213152a9bb5836?dmode=source&hl=en
Ooh, vorarephilia. What's eating me? A big wolfy, prolly. I'm everyone's favorite chew-toy.
1999, Kevin Alexander Cosmic, in alt.fan.vore http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.vore/msg/b0833972db5377ca?dmode=source&hl=en
A place to discuss vorarephilia... Why, I am right on topic here, my kind of place, and not even any competing predators to snatch my prey away while I play with it, harrr harrr harrrr!
2004, Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope 2 July https://web.archive.org/web/20080512084711/http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040702.html
Vore (short for vorarephilia) is a code word for a sexual interest in things eating other things.
coordinate_terms: soft vore
hard vore
glosses: A paraphilia or fetish in role-playing, involving the devouring of or being devoured by another person or creature.
glosses: Sexual cannibalism as a paraphilia.
Synonyms: word: phagophilia
Derived terms: vore
Related terms: vorarephile
endosomatophilia
inflation
macrophilia
odaxelagnia
stuffing
unbirthing
replevy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplɛvi/
rhymes: -ɛvi
Forms: form: replevies
form: replevying
form: replevied
form: replevied
Etymology: Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (probably from a Germanic source which also gave pledge).
Senses: glosses: To return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.
examples: text: I humbly crave your Majestie / It to replevie , and my Sonne reprive
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: To bail.
replevy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplɛvi/
rhymes: -ɛvi
Etymology: Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (probably from a Germanic source which also gave pledge).
Senses: glosses: replevin
tartrazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tartrazines
Etymology: From tart(a)r + azine
Senses: examples: text: Rowlands and Gorecki said that existing methods to turn tissue transparent use solutions that have side effects such as dehydration and swelling and can alter the structure of the tissue. However, tartrazine was used at a low concentration, and its effects were easily undone, potentially facilitating prolonged study of biological processes in live animals, they wrote.
ref: 2024 September 5, Katie Hunt, “Yellow food dye found in chips and candy corn turns skin transparent in mice, study says”, in CNN:
text: The European Union requires a warning label on products that contain three artificial food dyes approved in the U.S.:
Yellow No. 5, also known as tartrazine.
Red No. 40, also called E129 or Allura Red AC.
Yellow No. 6, called sunset yellow or E110.
ref: 2024 December 7, Kaitlin Sullivan, “FDA may finally ban artificial red dye from beverages, candy and other foods”, in NBC News:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lemon-yellow azo dye used as a food colouring.
Synonyms: E102
FD&C Yellow No. 5
Yellow 5
yellow 5
Related terms: tartrazinic acid
food colouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food colourings
form: food coloring
Senses: examples: text: Add a few drops of blue food colouring to the icing.
glosses: Any substance added to food in order to change its colour.
azo dye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azo dyes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a large number of mostly yellow to red synthetic dyes that contain an azo or diimide (-N=N-) functional group.
thank-you
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thank-yous
form: thankyou
form: thank you
Etymology: Compound of thank + you.
Senses: examples: text: I must offer a big thank-you to my agent for getting me this job.
glosses: An expression of gratitude.
examples: a thank-you letter
glosses: That expresses thanks.
raw_tags: as a modifier before a noun
diimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diimides
Etymology: From di- + imide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound HN=NH
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any azo compound derived from this simple compound
Synonyms: diazene
diimine
chrysoine resorcinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a golden-yellow azo dye used as a food coloring
Synonyms: E103
rhombencephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɒmbɛnˈsɛfəlɒn/
/ɹɒmbɛnˈkɛfəlɒn/
Forms: form: rhombencephalons
form: rhombencephala
Etymology: From rhomb + encephalon.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The hindbrain
Related terms: rhombencephalic
dihydroxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + hydroxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: dihydric
glosses: Containing two hydroxy functional groups.
Derived terms: dihydroxy-
dihydroxyacridine
dihydroxyadenine
dihydroxyanthraquinone
dihydroxybenzoic
dihydroxybenzoic acid
dihydroxycholecalciferol
dihydroxyflavone
doxefazepam
doxercalciferol
mitoxantrone
Related terms: english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: dihydro-
word: dihydrogen
word: dihydroxide
garrote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈɹɒt/
ipa: /ɡəˈɹoʊt/
rhymes: -ɒt
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: garrotes
form: garrotte
form: garotte
Etymology: From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot.
Senses: examples: text: […] promising that, by so doing, the painful death to which he had been sentenced should be commuted for the milder form of the garrote,—a mode of punishment by strangulation, used for criminals in Spain.
ref: 1847, William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru:
text: The prison, scaffold, garrote, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work, / The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
ref: 1892, Walt Whitman, “To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 287:
text: The Spanish had responded to the insurgency with characteristic brutality. They gave rebels the "usual four shots in the back" or the garrote—an iron collar tightened around the victim's neck with a screw until he was strangled to death.
ref: 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage, →ISBN:
glosses: An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
examples: text: The mob boss was known for having his enemies executed with a garrote of piano wire.
glosses: Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation.
garrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈɹɒt/
ipa: /ɡəˈɹoʊt/
rhymes: -ɒt
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: garrotes
form: garroting
form: garroted
form: garroted
form: garrotte
form: garotte
Etymology: From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot.
Senses: glosses: To execute by strangulation, to kill using a garrote.
examples: text: “And then Lee may have fallen into the river, and Norton been garrotted. It is certainly a formidable indictment that you have against Bellingham; but if you were to place it before a police magistrate, he would simply laugh in your face.”
ref: 1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lot No. 249”, in Round the Red Lamp […] :
text: About this time the police reports were full of cases of garrotting. The victim was seized from behind, one man gagged or burked him, while another picked his pocket.
ref: 1905, Henry J. Coke, Tracks of a Rolling Stone:
glosses: To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
Derived terms: garroter
Related terms: garrot
quinoline yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a yellow food coloring now known to be toxic and banned in some countries
Synonyms: E104
riata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɑːtə/
Forms: form: riatas
form: reata
Etymology: From Spanish reata, from reatar (“to retie”). Compare lariat.
Senses: examples: text: “You double-crossing devil,” the young man growled. “[…] Hereafter you'll trot ahead of me at the end of a riata, while I keep you on the jump with a four-horse whip. Right now you're scattering my dunnage from hell to breakfast, […]”
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter I, in The Understanding Heart:
text: A few blocks from the capitol we stripped him, cut off everything hanging between his legs, then fixed him with a riata and dragged him up and down Congress.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 429:
glosses: A lariat or lasso.
reata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiˈɑːtə/
Forms: form: reatas
form: riata
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish reata.
Senses: examples: text: The riders overtook them laughing and circled the cart at a full gallop until one of them took down his reata and dropped a loop over the mule’s head and brought it to a halt.
ref: 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
glosses: A lariat or lasso.
lariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæɹɪət/
rhymes: -æɹɪət
Forms: form: lariats
Etymology: From Spanish la reata (“the lasso”).
Senses: examples: text: Not so circumscribed in expedient for the reduction of surplus wealth were those lairds of the lariat who had womenfolk to their name.
ref: c. 1900, O. Henry, A Call Loan:
text: I'm putting on my riding hat / Got my boots and my lariat / Ooh hoo I'm dressing up in style
ref: 2003, “Dressing Up”, in Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins!, performed by The Wiggles, track 21:
glosses: A lasso.
glosses: A tether.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: An attack where the wrestler runs towards an opponent, wraps his arm around their upper chest and neck and then forces them to the ground.
Synonyms: rope
lasso
Derived terms: lariat ether
lariat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæɹɪət/
rhymes: -æɹɪət
Forms: form: lariats
form: lariating
form: lariated
form: lariated
Etymology: From Spanish la reata (“the lasso”).
Senses: examples: text: Here they dismounted, lariated their horses, in order that they might enjoy the long, green grass growing near the banks of the brook; and bathing their faces in the cool, sparkling water, they partook sparingly of their provisions.
ref: 1880, “Ballou's Monthly Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 52, page 84:
glosses: To lasso.
Synonyms: rope
lasso
fast yellow AB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fast Yellow AB
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a yellow azo dye formerly used as a food colouring
Synonyms: E105
riboflavin-5-sodium phosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow dye used as a food colouring.
Synonyms: E106
riq'a
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɑː/
ipa: /ˈɹiːkə/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -iːkə
Etymology: From Arabic رُقْعَة (ruqʕa).
Senses: glosses: A simple style of Arabic calligraphy, common in everyday handwriting.
yellow 2G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow azo dye used as a food colouring.
Synonyms: E107
risp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪsp/
rhymes: -ɪsp
Forms: form: risps
form: risping
form: risped
form: risped
form: resp
Etymology: From Middle English rispen, from Old Norse rispa (“scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *ripsōną (“to rend; rip; tear open”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyb- (“to tear; snatch; pluck; reap”). Compare also Old Norse rifsa (“to plunder; reave”).
Senses: glosses: To rub together, to rasp or grate.
risp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪsp/
rhymes: -ɪsp
Forms: form: risps
form: resp
Etymology: From Middle English rispen, from Old Norse rispa (“scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *ripsōną (“to rend; rip; tear open”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyb- (“to tear; snatch; pluck; reap”). Compare also Old Norse rifsa (“to plunder; reave”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat Greek waste silent but for the risp of the tettix and the wash of listless wind through the spare grass.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: Six Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN:
glosses: A rubbing or grating together.
Micah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkə/
rhymes: -aɪkə
Forms: form: Micahs
Etymology: From Hebrew מִיכָה (mīḵāh), shortened form of מִיכַיְהוּ (mīḵāyᵊhū, “who is like Yahweh”).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Mic.
glosses: A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
examples: The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several men in the Old Testament:
The minor prophet and author of the Book of Micah.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several men in the Old Testament:
An Ephraimite featured in Judges 17–18 and protagonist of the Micah’s idol narrative. Also called Michas.
examples: text: "We will call the boy Micah," he announced at last.
"I had thought of some sweeter name, perhaps David," she suggested.
"We will call him Micah," Abner replied.
ref: 1959, James Michener, Hawaii, Corgi Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 308:
glosses: A unisex given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew].
A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin. Used since the 17th century.
glosses: A unisex given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew].
A female given name from Hebrew, of modern American usage.
Coordinate terms: english: a name with the almost same meaning
translation: a name with the almost same meaning
word: Michael
Derived terms: Mica
Mika
roborate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒbəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: roborates
form: roborating
form: roborated
form: roborated
Etymology: Latin roborare.
Senses: glosses: to strengthen, fortify
Related terms: roborative
rother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒðə/
rhymes: -ɒðə
Forms: form: rothers
Etymology: From Middle English rother, ruther, reother, from Old English hrūþer, hrȳþer, byforms of hrīþer, hrīþ (“neat; ox”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunþaz, *hrinþaz. Cognate with Dutch rund (“bovine”), German Rind (“bovine; beef”).
Senses: glosses: A horned animal, especially an ox.
rother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒðə/
rhymes: -ɒðə
Forms: form: rothers
Etymology: From Middle English rother, from Old English rōþor. See rudder.
Senses: glosses: A rudder.
Derived terms: rother nail
roun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: rouns
Etymology: From Middle English roun, from Old English rūn, from Proto-Germanic *rūnō; more at round. Doublet of rune and round.
Senses: glosses: A secret or mystery.
glosses: A mysterious or sacred writing, rune.
glosses: A rumour, speech, advice.
glosses: A whisper.
roun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: rouns
form: rouning
form: rouned
form: rouned
Etymology: From Old English rūnian.
Senses: glosses: To whisper.
convexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convexities
Etymology: From convex + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being convex.
glosses: A convex line or surface.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.
Derived terms: concavo-convexity
hyperconvexity
non-convexity
nonconvexity
polyconvexity
pseudoconvexity
quasiconvexity
Schur-convexity
subconvexity
vega convexity
rowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊəl/
rhymes: -əʊəl
Forms: form: rowels
form: rowell
Etymology: From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.
Senses: examples: text: The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy,[…].
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, “Ivanhoe”, in The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, volume 3, published 1833, page 121:
text: The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur.
ref: 1939, Henry Miller, The Cosmological Eye, page 246:
text: The Lone Ranger will storm in at the head of a posse, rowels tearing blood from the stallion’s white hide, to find his young friend, innocent Dan, swinging from a tree limb by a broken neck.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, published 2013, page 892:
text: He nodded at the Americans. Buena suerte, he said. He put the long rowels of his spurs to the horse and they moved on.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, page 62:
glosses: The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
examples: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Knight of the Red Cross, 1850, Edmund Spenser's Knight of the Red Cross; or Holiness, page 74,
The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
glosses: A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
glosses: A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
Derived terms: rowel-head
rowel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊəl/
rhymes: -əʊəl
Forms: form: rowels
form: roweling
form: rowelling
form: roweled
form: roweled
form: rowelled
form: rowelled
form: rowell
Etymology: From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.
Senses: glosses: To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
glosses: To fit with spurs.
examples: to rowel a horse
glosses: To apply the spur to.
examples: text: He would have been completely ignorant of what was going on if Frank, periodically roweled by the viciously anti-labor stand of the Pittsburgh newspapers, hadn't felt the need of an audience.
ref: 1941, Thomas Bell, Out of This Furnace, page 240:
glosses: To incite; to goad.
ruckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: ruckles
form: ruckling
form: ruckled
form: ruckled
Etymology: Variant of ruck.
Senses: glosses: To crease or wrinkle.
ruckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: ruckles
Etymology: Variant of ruck.
Senses: examples: text: Seldom he comes by this way ; but he is amang them yonder, wi' a hookit nose and chin, grey blear'd een, lang black hair, and a ruckle o' duds for claise o' a' sorts, wi' bits o' embroidery sewed on them.
ref: 1821, John Warren, William Blackwood, Bannockburn, a novel, page 57:
text: She can't sit in the car by herself for a couple of hours whilst I clamber up a rocky river bed to see a ruckle of stones and a view that you can't see for the rain and mist, so I magnanimously say I'll come with her.
ref: 2006, David M. Addison, A Meander in Menorca, →ISBN, page 246:
text: The ground there is a ruckle of loose stones arranged in flat beds by running water, possibly by streams which flow out of 'the Gulf of Mexico,' or whatever the name of the highest corrie may be.
ref: 2007, John Campbell, A Short American Tramp, →ISBN, page 213:
text: My father said to me after the harvest, 'Now your mother's a ruckle of bones in the kirkyard, there's nobody to knit sea stockings for us.
ref: 2014, George Mackay Brown, A Time to Keep, →ISBN:
glosses: A disordered collection.
examples: text: After the second lunch, with a little more to drink, he helped her into her coat more zealously, smoothing the material down over one should blade as if the cloth had suddenly thrown up a ruckle.
ref: 2010, Julian Barnes, Before She Met Me, →ISBN:
text: When she was little and I went to see her in bed, I often thought she wasn't there. She lay so neatly and so straight, without a ruckle and with her head just under the top of the bedclothes.
ref: 2013, Candida Lycett Green, Over The Hills And Far Away, →ISBN:
text: It meant ruckling his sock right down, and nobody likes a ruckly sock, but this was no time to be stopped by a ruckle.
ref: 2015, Georgia Pritchett, Wilf the Mighty Worrier: Saves the World, →ISBN:
glosses: A wrinkle.
ruckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: ruckles
Etymology: Probably cognate with Dutch rogchelen (“to hawk”).
Senses: glosses: A rattling noise in the throat, as from suffocation.
ruckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: ruckles
form: ruckling
form: ruckled
form: ruckled
Etymology: Probably cognate with Dutch rogchelen (“to hawk”).
Senses: glosses: To make a rattling noise in the throat.
proleptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈlɛptɪkəl/
Forms: form: more proleptical
form: most proleptical
Etymology: From Ancient Greek; compare French proleptique.
Senses: glosses: Anticipating the usual time; applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
examples: text: Nor can the proleptical notions of Religion be so well defended by the protest Servants of the Altar
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: Previous; antecedent.
examples: text: It must be always remembered that this was the object for which the Three Chapters which the Predestinarians have taken refuge in: they were written in fact as a proleptical refutation of such views.
ref: 1877, W. B. Pope., A Compendium of Christian Theology, Volume 2, Wesleyan Conference Office, 2 Castle Street, Coty Road; Sold at 66, Paternoster Row, p. 348
glosses: Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative.
ruga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.ɡə/
rhymes: -uːɡə
Forms: form: rugae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rūga (“a crease in the face, wrinkle”).
Senses: examples: text: Female: Face subpolished, weakly rugose, rugae somewhat diverging, at sides sparsely and shallowly punctate; […]
ref: 1980, Joseph Kenneth Jonathan, The Isotima-complex (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), page 83:
text: the deadly water-snakes coil’d together like the Rugæ of a single great Brain, the gray and even illumination from the Sky
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A fold, crease or wrinkle.
Derived terms: word: rugate
saltillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltillos
Etymology: From Spanish saltillo.
Senses: glosses: In Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.
glosses: In mostly Hispanophone countries, especially Mexico, an apostrophe-like letter (lowercase ꞌ and in some orthographies capital Ꞌ) used to represent a glottal stop.
runnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌnəl/
ipa: /ˈɹʌn.l/
rhymes: -ʌnəl
Forms: form: runnels
form: rinel
form: rindle
Etymology: From Middle English runel, rennel, rinel, from Old English rynel (“that which runs; runner; stream”), from Proto-Germanic *runilaz, equivalent to run + -el. Cognate with Scots rinel, rinnal (“stream; runnel”), Swedish rännel (“runner; runnel”).
Senses: examples: text: Spring, is ye comen in, / Dappled larke singe, / Snow melteth, / Runnel pelteth, / Smelleth wind of newe buddinge.
ref: 1892 March, “Mother Talks—A Spring Walk”, in Cora L. Stockham, Andrea Hofer, editors, The Kindergarten Magazine […], volume IV, number VII, Chicago, Ill.: Kindergarten Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 471, column 2:
text: Every little runnel in the bay was astir, and yet the land around him was as dry as flax, and no drop of rain had fallen.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: […] great chambers in the rock where all sorts of plants were growing, under windows which had been cut to let in the sun, and glazed to adjust his warmth, and where runnels of water ran between fruit trees and seedlings, pumpkin plants and herbs.
ref: 1998, A. S. Byatt, Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice, Chatto & Windus:
glosses: A small stream, a rivulet.
examples: text: Still lower down the slope, on a staircase by the Eastern Bastion, there is an elaborate piece of hydraulic science for checking the flow of water. A stone runnel is made to descend the stairs in a series of parabolic curves which would subject the water to friction, and thus reduce its velocity and the consequent danger of a flood on the pavement below.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 9:
glosses: A small artificial channel for water to flow in.
runnel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌnəl/
ipa: /ˈɹʌn.l/
rhymes: -ʌnəl
Forms: form: runnels
form: runneling
form: runnelling
form: runneled
form: runneled
form: runnelled
form: runnelled
form: rinel
form: rindle
Etymology: From Middle English runel, rennel, rinel, from Old English rynel (“that which runs; runner; stream”), from Proto-Germanic *runilaz, equivalent to run + -el. Cognate with Scots rinel, rinnal (“stream; runnel”), Swedish rännel (“runner; runnel”).
Senses: examples: text: Not all saltmarshes are suited to habitat modification, but where they are, runnelling provides long-term and cost-effective control with minor non-target impacts.
ref: 2009, Neil Saintilan, Australian Saltmarsh Ecology, →ISBN, page 176:
text: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
The people who settled here weren’t farmers. They hunted. Yet they built a large amphitheater of mud, a platform carefully runneled to carry liquid—possibly blood.
glosses: To create channels for directing the flow of liquid.
rika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of riq'a.