cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forever
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹɛvə(ɹ)/
ipa: /fəˈɹɛvɚ/
ipa: /fɚˈɛvɚ/
ipa: /fɔɹˈɛvɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: for ever
form: fore'er
form: for e'er
form: Forever
Etymology: Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858.
Senses: examples: text: It'd be a peaceful life / With a forever wife / And a kid someday
ref: 1971, Bruce Johnston, "Disney Girls (1957)":
text: We'll take care of you and help you find a Forever Home.
ref: 2009, Kathy Kadilak, Tommy Finds His Forever Home, page 3:
text: He is a forever friend.
ref: 2012, Brad Hicks, For Every Fear a Promise, page 96:
text: Danner posits that the United States has been trapped in a "forever war" by 9/11, and describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways by President Bush's having declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, […]
ref: 2016, Mark Danner, Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War:
glosses: Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual.
Derived terms: forever war
homosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/
ipa: /ˌhɒməʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/
ipa: /ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/
ipa: /ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/
enpr: hō'mə-sĕkʹsho͞o-əl
enpr: hō'mō-sĕkʹsho͞o-əl
ipa: /ˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃuːəl/
ipa: /ˌhoʊmoʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: homosexuals
Etymology: Borrowed from German homosexual, from homo- (“same”) + sexual (“relating to sex or sexuality”), coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1868, and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (2nd ed. 1887, in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof (compare bisexual), displacing the slightly older term Uranian. Equivalent to homo- + -sexual.
Senses: examples: text: It must not be understood that homosexuality is confined to women. Relationships of this type exist also among men, and in taki-taki are to be found words which are specific designations for male homosexuals, who are termed hantimąn, or awɛge.
ref: 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 32:
text: Soon, we got up, walked around the west side — toward the "meat rack" — the gay part of the park. There, it was as if someone had hung a line of marionettes on the railing: the lonesome young homosexuals, legs dangling, looking, waiting for that one-night's sexual connection...
ref: 1963, John Rechy, City of Night, page 48:
text: It was unheard-of for those of us who are 30-something or older to have had an openly gay role model when we were young. Homosexuals weren't depicted in the media in a positive light, if at all.
ref: 1997, The Advocate, number 742, page 9:
qualifier: typically formal; distancing or dated; typically formal; distancing or dated
glosses: A person who is sexually attracted solely or primarily to others of the same sex.
Synonyms: word: This section is divided into two tables
word: one containing synonyms that generally are not derogatory and one containing those that generally are. However
word: note that the non-derogatory terms can nonetheless be used derogatorily
word: and that some of the derogatory ones are often used humorously and non-derogatorily by gay people and others
word: of either sex* gay
english: dated psychological term
translation: dated psychological term
word: invert
word: queer
word: same-sexer
word: only of men* company man
word: Uranian
word: only of women* lesbian
word: sapphist
word: of either sex* bugger
word: fruit
word: homo
word: moffie
word: only of men* fag
word: faggot
english: Italian US
translation: Italian US
word: finook
word: pole-smoker
word: fairy
word: flamer
word: nance
word: nancy
word: nancy boy
word: pansy
word: poofter
word: queen
english: chiefly if the partner is adolescent
translation: chiefly if the partner is adolescent
word: pederast
word: sodomite
word: swish
word: light in the loafers
word: only of women* lesbo
word: dyke
word: muff-diver
word: carpet muncher
word: scissor sister
Derived terms: homo
dump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌmp/
ipa: [dɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: dumps
form: dumping
form: dumped
form: dumped
Etymology: From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.
Senses: glosses: To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
examples: text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
glosses: To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
examples: to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
examples: text: Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
glosses: To end a romantic relationship with.
glosses: To knock heavily; to stump.
examples: text: We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.
synonyms: word: chuck
word: heave
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
glosses: To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
examples: text: Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]
ref: 1980, Ian Chappell, Chappelli has the last laugh, page 39:
glosses: Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
Derived terms: antidumping
book dumping
dumpable
dumpage
dump-and-bake
dump and burn
dumpee
dumper
dumping car
dump car
dumping cart
dump cart
dumping ground
dumping syndrome
dump on
dump one's load
dump out
dumpster
Dumpsville
fuel dumping
gastric dumping syndrome
granny dumping
homeless dumping
hump and dump
jump and dump
misdump
ocean dumping
redump
undumped
water dumping
dump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌmp/
ipa: [dɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: dumps
Etymology: See dumpling.
Senses: glosses: A thick, ill-shapen piece.
examples: text: The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps.
ref: 1825, William Hone, The Every Day Book:
glosses: A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
dump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌmp/
ipa: [dɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: dumps
Etymology: Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).
Senses: glosses: A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
Related terms: dimple
dip
wherefore
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: wâ(r)'fô(r)"
enpr: hwâ(r)'fô(r)"
ipa: /ˈwɛə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʍɛə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: hwûr'fôr"
ipa: /ˈʍɜːɹˌfɔːɹ/
rhymes: -eə(ɹ)fɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: wherefor
Etymology: From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore, equivalent to where- (“what”) + for. Compare Dutch waarvoor (“what for, wherefore”), German wofür (“for what, what for, why”), Danish and Norwegian hvorfor (“wherefore, why”), Swedish varför (“wherefore, why”). More at where, for.
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore, thus ſaith the holy one of Iſrael, Becauſe ye deſpise this word, and truſt in oppreſſion and peruerſeneſſe, and ſtay thereon: Therefore this iniquitie ſhalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, ſwelling out in a high wall, whoſe breaking commeth ſuddenly at an inſtant.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 30:12–13, column 1:
text: Wherefore it was that by the time the authorities awoke to the fact that something had happened Billy Byrne was fifty miles west of Joliet, bowling along aboard a fast Santa Fe freight.
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
glosses: Because of which.
wherefore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wâ(r)'fô(r)"
enpr: hwâ(r)'fô(r)"
ipa: /ˈwɛə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʍɛə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: hwûr'fôr"
ipa: /ˈʍɜːɹˌfɔːɹ/
rhymes: -eə(ɹ)fɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: wherefores
form: wherefor
Etymology: From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore, equivalent to where- (“what”) + for. Compare Dutch waarvoor (“what for, wherefore”), German wofür (“for what, what for, why”), Danish and Norwegian hvorfor (“wherefore, why”), Swedish varför (“wherefore, why”). More at where, for.
Senses: examples: text: Ant[ipholus of Syracuse]. Shall I tell you why? / S. Dro. [Dromio of Syracuse] I, ſir, and wherefore; for they ſay, euery why hath a wherefore.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 88, column 2:
text: Let Us make one to seek, to seek and never to find out concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods.
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:
text: They want their money without reference to the hows and wherefores.
ref: 1996, Richard Bausch, Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea, page 72:
glosses: An intent or purpose; a why.
Derived terms: whys and wherefores
incorrigible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒəb(ə)l/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒɪb(ə)l/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɔɹɪd͡ʒəb(ə)l/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɔɹəd͡ʒəb(ə)l/
Etymology: From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) + corrigere (“to correct”) + -ibilis (“-able”), equivalent to in- + corrigible. Recorded since 1340.
Senses: examples: text: The construction flaw is incorrigible; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.
glosses: Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
examples: text: an incorrigible youth
glosses: Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
examples: text: His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.
glosses: Incurably depraved; not reformable.
examples: text: Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist.
ref: 2006 December 7, Michael White, “Breaking up is hard to do, even at the Treasury”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.
examples: text: The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.
raw_tags: of a proposition or belief
examples: text: It may appear as an epidemic, as a hereditary complaint, or as an obstinate and incorrigible disease again and again recurring.
ref: 1859, The British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 6, page 312:
glosses: Impossible to cure.
raw_tags: of a disease
Synonyms: sense: impossible to materially correct
word: irreparable
sense: impossible to materially correct
word: uncorrectable
sense: depraved
word: irredeemable
sense: depraved
word: unreformable
sense: depraved
word: reprobate
sense: established in a belief or habit
word: determined
sense: established in a belief or habit
word: dyed-in-the-wool
sense: established in a belief or habit
word: hopeless
sense: established in a belief or habit
word: incurable
sense: established in a belief or habit
word: unalterable
sense: intrinsically uncorrectable
word: axiomatic
sense: intrinsically uncorrectable
word: unfalsifiable
sense: of a disease
word: incurable
Derived terms: incorrigibility
incorrigibleness
incorrigibly
Related terms: incorrect
incorrigible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒəb(ə)l/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒɪb(ə)l/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɔɹɪd͡ʒəb(ə)l/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɔɹəd͡ʒəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: incorrigibles
Etymology: From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) + corrigere (“to correct”) + -ibilis (“-able”), equivalent to in- + corrigible. Recorded since 1340.
Senses: examples: text: The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders.
glosses: An incorrigibly bad individual.
asthenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æsˈθi.ni.ə/
ipa: /æsˈθiː.nɪə/
rhymes: -iːniə
Forms: form: asthenias
form: astheny
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀσθένεια (asthéneia), from ἀσθενής (asthenḗs, “sick, weak”), from ἀ- (a-, “not, un-”) + σθένος (sthénos, “strength”).
Senses: examples: text: The savage gets a headache when his thought is forced to flow in a stream of representation. In the imbecile, in the idiot we find the same thing manifested. They can only think in concrete sensory terms. In mental asthenia which approaches the state of the higher stages of imbecility and also in secondary dementia, states consequent on psychic degeneration, we find the same truth illustrated. The patient's mental activity falls many stages nearer to the level of presentative life. It is only in the higher forms of psychic life that representative elements become free, independent, and are freely and easily associated and dissociated.
ref: 1914, Boris Sidis, The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Weakness; loss of strength.
examples: text: You see nothing that might even remotely suggest life, beyond the solitary brave watering the ponies below you; but that is because the asthenia of civilization has left you half blind as well as half deaf, for where you see nothing and hear nothing Geronimo is conscious of life, movement and sound-of rodents, reptiles and birds awaiting, quiescent, the lessening heat of dusk.
ref: 1927, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The War Chief:
glosses: weakness
Derived terms: asthenozoospermia
myasthenia
myelasthenia
myxasthenia
neurasthenia
neuromyasthenia
neurosthenia
psychasthenia
thrombasthenia
Related terms: asthenic
French kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /frɛntʃˈkɪs/
ipa: /frɛnʃˈkɪs/
Forms: form: French kisses
form: French-kiss
form: french-kiss
form: frenchkiss
Etymology: Originally in reference to a common French greeting. Later, from English and American associations of the French people with sexual boldness (see French), with probable influence from earlier English and continuing European association of the French with oral sex. (See to french.)
Senses: examples: text: She showed me the French kiss where you stick your tongue out, but I didn't like it.
ref: 1922, Elliot Harold Paul, Indelible, page 61:
text: Simple lip kissing may be extended into a deep kiss (a French kiss or soul kiss, in the college parlance) which may involve more or less extensive tongue contacts.
ref: 1948, Alfred Charles Kinsey et al., Sexual Behavior of the Human Male, page 540:
glosses: A kiss in the French style, variously understood as:
The act or an instance of kissing that involves the use of one's tongue.
examples: text: I do not think there would be any harm in sending him a French kiss. It is what no English lawyer can object to, it being only justice to make both sides of the face alike.
ref: 1836, John Scott, letter
text: She had informed the amused seniors that the custom of greeting people with a kiss on each cheek was known as the French kiss.
ref: 2007, Ronald Johnston, Big Lie, page 37:
glosses: A kiss in the French style, variously understood as:
The act or an instance of kissing another person's cheeks in turn as a greeting.
examples: text: Frenchwomen touch cheeks, first one, then the other, and this touching of cheeks is known in England as the French kiss and has been adopted to a considerable extent in London among society women.
ref: 1898 August 31, Bangor Daily Whig, page 4:
glosses: A kiss in the French style, variously understood as:
The act or an instance of touching cheeks together in turn as a greeting.
Synonyms: sense: kiss involving the tongue
word: tongue kiss
sense: kiss involving the tongue
word: cataglottism
sense: kiss involving the tongue
word: soul kiss
sense: kiss involving the tongue
word: snog
sense: kiss involving the tongue
english: IRE
translation: IRE
word: shift
sense: kiss involving the tongue
english: IRE
translation: IRE
word: to meet
sense: kiss involving the tongue
word: pash
sense: kiss involving the tongue
word: tongue sandwich
sense: kiss involving the tongue
word: tongue sushi
Derived terms: French kisser
French kissing
French kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /frɛntʃˈkɪs/
ipa: /frɛnʃˈkɪs/
Forms: form: French kisses
form: French kissing
form: French kissed
form: French kissed
form: French-kiss
form: french-kiss
form: frenchkiss
Etymology: Originally in reference to a common French greeting. Later, from English and American associations of the French people with sexual boldness (see French), with probable influence from earlier English and continuing European association of the French with oral sex. (See to french.)
Senses: examples: text: French kiss, baiser très appuyé.
ref: 1923, Joseph Manchon, Le Slang, page 130:
text: She taught him how to frenchkiss and would stroke his hair.
ref: 1930, John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A.), page 390:
text: French kissin' in the USA, French kissin' in the USA, yeah, yeah
ref: 1986, Chuck Lorre, “French Kissin'”, in Rockbird, performed by Debbie Harry:
text: Sick Boy had made a drunken point about HIV transmission and to illustrate it had spent most of the night french-kissing her.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 326:
text: That's how she pictured him, her French lover, like the deepest kiss that she had ever felt. She who had never French kissed.
ref: 2007, Nin Andrews, Sleeping with Houdini: Poems, BOA Editions, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: To give a French kiss, in its various senses.
Synonyms: word: french
word: French
word: snog
therefor
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛəˈfɔː/
ipa: /ðɛəɹˈfɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: Univerbation of there (“that”) + for
Senses: examples: text: During the last fiscal year the Secretary purchased ... 54,355,748 ounces of silver and issued in payment therefor $51,106,608 in notes.
ref: 1892, Benjamin Harrison, Fourth State of the Union Address:
text: Welcoming people from all over the world, Honolulu has the glad heart behind the "glad hand," so to speak, when the welcomees give cause therefor, whether they come to teach, or to learn; to rest, or to work; to earn, or to spend.
ref: 1922, Paradise of the Pacific, volume 35:
text: If the action is adverse to the applicant law school, the action letter shall contain the Committee's specific reasons therefor.
ref: 1997 August, “Rules of procedure for approval of law schools by the American Bar Association.”, in ABA Journal, volume 83, number 8, pages 117–128:
text: We emphasize that, contrary to repeated assertions in defendant's briefing, the trial court did not strike the true findings on those three prison term allegations, but struck only the punishment therefor, which was a statutorily permitted method of handling them.
ref: 2016, Elena J. Duarte, People v. Garner, 244 Cal. App. 4th 1113 (Cal. App. 3d Dist. 2016):
coordinate_terms: herefor
wherefor
glosses: For that; in return for that.
raw_tags: in law
therefor
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛəˈfɔː/
ipa: /ðɛəɹˈfɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈðɛəfɔː/
ipa: /ˈðɛəɹfɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)fɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ðɛəˈfɔː/
ipa: /ðɛəɹˈfɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: See therefore.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of therefore.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
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hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
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1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
sake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sāk
ipa: /ˈseɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: sakes
Etymology: From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to investigate”).
Akin to West Frisian saak (“cause; business”), Low German Saak, Dutch zaak (“matter; cause; business”), German Sache (“thing; matter; cause; legal cause”), Danish sag, Swedish and Norwegian sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 (sakjō, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.
Senses: examples: text: For the sake of argument
glosses: cause, interest or account
examples: text: For old times' sake
glosses: purpose or end; reason
examples: text: Ne ãd except thoſe dayes ſhulde be ſhoꝛtened / ſhulde no fleſſe be faved: Butt foꝛ the choſens ſake thoſe dayes ſhalbe ſhoꝛtened.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xxiiij:[22], folio xxxiiij, verso:
text: When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b.
But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]
glosses: the benefit or regard of someone or something
examples: text: And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:17:
qualifier: obsolete except in phrases
glosses: contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
Derived terms: art for art's sake
for any sake
for Christ's sake
for cripes sake
for cripes' sake
for fuck's sake
for fudge's sake
for Goddess's sake
for God's sake
for goodness' sake
for gosh sake
for heaven's sake
for land's sake
for land's sake alive
for mercy's sake
for name's sake
for old sake's sake
for old times' sake
for old time's sake
for Pete's sake
for pity's sake
forsake
for sake of
for shame's sake
for the land's sake
for the land's sake alive
for the sake of
for the sake of it
for very shame's sake
fuck's sake
keepsake
land sake
land sake alive
land sakes
land's sake
land's sake alive
namesake
name-sake
sackless
sake and soke
withsake
sake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sāk
ipa: /ˈseɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: sakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of saké.
creationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiˈeɪʃənɪzəm/
Forms: form: creationisms
Etymology: From creation + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: the preservation of the race of man is made to grow out of that quickening impulse, which we call the life of humanity. This notion, which was called Traducianism by the schoolmen (the system opposed to it being termed Creatianism ^([sic]))
ref: 1848, Robert Wilberforce, The Doctrine of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in its relation to Mankind and to the Church:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.
glosses: Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought about by the deliberate act of any divine agency, such as a Creator God.
examples: ref: 2008, Thomas Dixon, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, link:
text: It must be reasonably clear to all who have taken pains to understand the matter that the true issue as regards design is not between Darwinism and direct Creationism, but between design and fortuity, between any intention or intellectual cause and no intention nor predicable first cause.
ref: 1880, Asa Gray, Natural science and religion, 2 lectures, page 89:
glosses: The belief that a deity created the world, especially as described in a particular religious text, such as the Quran or the Book of Genesis.
Hyponyms: intelligent design
Derived terms: word: anticreationism
word: day-age creationism
alt: EC
word: evolutionary creationism
word: gap creationism
alt: IDC
word: intelligent-design creationism
word: neo-creationism
word: old-earth creationism
alt: OEC
word: Old Earth creationism
word: progressive creationism
word: restoration creationism
word: ruin-restoration creationism
word: scientific creationism
word: young-earth creationism
alt: YEC
word: Young Earth creationism
Related terms: creationist
creationistic
dasypygal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæsɪˈpaɪɡəl/
Forms: form: more dasypygal
form: most dasypygal
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy, dense”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”).
Senses: examples: text: In the Dasypygal division the Orangs (genus Pithecus, Geoffr.) manifest, agreeably with their geographical position, the nearest affinities with the Scleropyga, in the length of the upper limbs and the proportionally small size of the hallux: the Chimpanzees (genus Troglodytes, Geoffr.) show the higher position in the proportions of the upper limbs to the trunk, the large size of the hallux, and other characters set forth in the present and former memoirs on the Anthropoid or Dasypygal Apes.
ref: 1859 January 11, Professor Owen, “On the External Characters of the Gorilla”, in Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, page 276:
text: Oh you think so, huh, you dasypygal dickhead!
ref: 1993, Steve Abbott, The lizard club, page 111:
glosses: Having hairy buttocks.
Related terms: dasymeter
dasymetric
franc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
homophone: frank
homophone: Frank
Forms: form: francs
form: frank
Etymology: From French franc. Doublet of Frank, frank, and farang.
Senses: examples: text: The last 50 franc note, released in 1993, features Saint-Exupéry and a depiction of The Little Prince.
glosses: A former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, replaced by the euro.
glosses: Any of several units of currency, some of which are multi-national (West African CFA Franc (XOF), Central African CFA Franc (XAF), the Swiss franc (CHF)) while others are national currencies.
Derived terms: Belgian franc
CFA franc
CFP franc
Eurofranc
franc-piece
French franc
old franc
Swiss franc
acalephan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acalephans
Senses: glosses: An acaleph.
errata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈɹɑːtə/
ipa: /ɛˈɹɑtə/
ipa: [ɛˈɹɑɾə]
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin errāta (“mistaken things, mistakes”), neuter plural of errātus (“mistaken”).
Senses: glosses: plural of erratum
errata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈɹɑːtə/
ipa: /ɛˈɹɑtə/
ipa: [ɛˈɹɑɾə]
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin errāta (“mistaken things, mistakes”), neuter plural of errātus (“mistaken”).
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: corrigenda
corrigendum
glosses: An added page in a printed work where errors which are discovered after printing and their corrections (corrigenda) are listed.
errata
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈɹɑːtə/
ipa: /ɛˈɹɑtə/
ipa: [ɛˈɹɑɾə]
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Forms: form: erratas
form: errataing
form: errataed
form: errataed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin errāta (“mistaken things, mistakes”), neuter plural of errātus (“mistaken”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus the present Volume has been printed line for line in correspondence with the celebrated Edition of Mr. Edwards, with its errors, as errataed by Mr. Perceval, and its original imprint.
ref: 1813, Spencer Perceval, The Genuine Book, page 1:
glosses: To provide (a published work) with errata.
corrigenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrigendum
corrigendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈdʒɛn.dəm/
ipa: /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈɡɛn.dəm/
ipa: /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈd͡ʒɛn.dəm/
ipa: /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈɡɛn.dəm/
Forms: form: corrigenda
Etymology: From Latin corrigendum, nominative neuter singular of corrigendus, the future passive participle (gerundive) of corrigō (“I correct”).
Senses: synonyms: erratum
glosses: An error that is to be corrected in a printed work after publication.
examples: text: errata and corrigenda
synonyms: errata
glosses: A list of errors in a printed work as a separate page of corrections. (The items thus listed will sometimes be corrected in subsequent print runs, if any occur; they are then called reprint corrections.)
Wiktionarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪk.ʃən.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈwɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈwɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈwɪk.tʃəˌnɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃənɹiən
rhymes: -ɪkʃənəɹiən
rhymes: -ɪkʃənɛəɹiən
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Wiktionarians
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wiki
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti
Proto-Italic *deikō
Medieval Latin dīcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Medieval Latin -tiō
Medieval Latin dictiō
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsios
Medieval Latin -ārius
Medieval Latin -ārium
Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor.
Middle English dixionare
English dictionary
blend
English Wiktionary
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Wiktionarian
From Wiktionary + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: An outside project called Omegawiki, started by a handful of Wiktionarians, is working on a grand combination of data from Wiktionary into a single dictionary for all languages.
ref: 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, page 430:
text: Wiktionary contributors are called Wiktionarians.
ref: 2012, Sylviane Granger, Magali Paquot, editors, Electronic Lexicography, Oxford University Press, page 271:
text: Wiktionary is compiled through a collaborative process by a large community of Web users, in this context called Wiktionarians.
ref: 2013, Robert Lew, “User-generated content (UGC) in online English dictionaries”, in OPAL - Online publizierte Arbeiten zur Linguistik, number § 5.1:
hypernyms: dictionarian
dictionarist
lexicographer
lexicographist
Wikimedian
<
contributor#Noun
<
person#Noun
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: A person who contributes to Wiktionary, especially a regular contributor well versed in the ways of the site.
Related terms: Wiktionary:Wiktionarians
outlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtlɛt/
ipa: /ˈaʊtlɪt/
Forms: form: outlets
Etymology: From Middle English outlete, outeleate, ut-lete, derived from Middle English outleten (“to allow, let out, emit”), equivalent to out- + let. Compare West Frisian útlit (“outlet”), Dutch uitlaat (“outlet”), German Auslass (“outlet”).
Senses: glosses: A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
examples: text: Jamie found doing martial arts was a great outlet for her stress.
text: Song of the bleeding throat, / Death’s outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know, / If thou wast not granted to sing thou would’st surely die.)
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
glosses: Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
glosses: A river that runs out of a lake.
glosses: A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
examples: text: I had to move the cupboard to get to the power outlet.
glosses: A wall-mounted socket connected to an electrical power supply, at which current can be taken to run electrical devices.
Derived terms: media outlet
multioutlet
nonoutlet
no outlet
postal outlet
thoracic outlet syndrome
blood royal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood royals
Senses: glosses: A member of a royal house or dynasty who has at least one parent who was born into that particular house or bloodline.
glosses: A royal family.
reason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːzn̩/
ipa: [ˈɹiːzn̩]
ipa: [ˈɹɪjzn̩]
ipa: [ˈɹɪjzən]
ipa: [ˈɹi(ː)z(ə)n]
ipa: [ˈɹiːz(ə)n]
rhymes: -iːzən
Forms: form: reasons
form: rasen
form: raisen
form: raysin
form: raison
Etymology: From Middle English reason, reson, resen, rasen, from Old English ræsn (“beam, rafter, ceiling, wall panel”), probably from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn (“house”), from Proto-Germanic *razną (“house, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”).
Senses: glosses: A wall plate.
Derived terms: reason piece
cryptography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krĭptŏgʹrəfē
ipa: [kɹ̥ɪpˈtʰɒɡɹəfiː]
ipa: /kɹɪpˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: cryptographies
Etymology: From crypto- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: cryptology
text: We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne (first use in English)
text: [A] man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.
ref: 2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025:
related: word: cryptanalysis#Noun
glosses: The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.
Derived terms: anticryptography
asymmetric cryptography
cryptographic
elliptic-curve cryptography
public-key cryptography
Related terms: crypt
cryptanalysis
cryptographer
cryptology
Dutchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌt͡ʃmən/
rhymes: -ʌtʃmən
Forms: form: Dutchmen
Etymology: From Middle English Ducheman; equivalent to Dutch + -man.
Senses: examples: text: About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]
ref: 1880 [1610 March 13], Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, “The Astronomical Messenger”, in Edward Stafford Carlos, transl., The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries: A Translation with Introduction and Notes, London: Rivingtons, translation of Sidereus Nuncius: […] , →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.
glosses: A man of Dutch descent.
glosses: A male Pennsylvania German.
examples: text: […]There have been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz.
ref: 1974, Robert Blair, Tales of the Superstitions: The Origins of the Lost Dutchman's Legend:
glosses: A male German.
examples: text: […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
ref: 1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams, page 54:
glosses: A male white Afrikaner.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Ellipsis of Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship.
Derived terms: Dutchman's breeches
Dutchman's laudanum
Dutchman's pipe
Flying Dutchman
I'm a Dutchman
Related terms: Dutchwoman
Dutchman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌt͡ʃmən/
rhymes: -ʌtʃmən
Forms: form: the Dutchman
Etymology: From Middle English Ducheman; equivalent to Dutch + -man.
Senses: examples: text: President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].
ref: 2003, James Bradley, chapter 8, in Flyboys, New York: Little, Brown and Company:
glosses: A nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Dutchwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌt͡ʃˌwʊmən/
Forms: form: Dutchwomen
Etymology: From Dutch + -woman.
Senses: synonyms: vrouw
glosses: A Dutch woman; a woman from the Netherlands.
glosses: A woman of Dutch descent.
glosses: A female Pennsylvania German.
glosses: A woman from Germany.
glosses: A female white Afrikaner.
Related terms: Dutchman
Netherlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛðɚˌlændɚ/
Forms: form: Netherlanders
Etymology: From Netherlands + -er.
Senses: synonyms: Dutchman
Dutchwoman
glosses: Someone from the Netherlands
agora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăgʹə-rə
ipa: /ˈæ.ɡə.ɹə/
Forms: form: agorae
form: agorai
form: agoras
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá).
Senses: examples: text: The custom was to dance its length, moving from partner to masked partner all the way to the agora, the city’s gathering place.
ref: 2011 September 27, Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, →ISBN:
glosses: A place for gathering.
glosses: A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece.
Related terms: agoraphobia
agorism
agora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăgʹə-rə
ipa: /ˈæ.ɡə.ɹə/
enpr: ă-g'ə-räʹ
ipa: /ˌæɡ.əˈɹɑː/
enpr: ăgʹə-rə
ipa: /ˈæ.ɡə.ɹə/
Forms: form: agorot
form: agoroth
Etymology: From Hebrew אֲגוֹרָה (agorá), from the root א־ג־ר (ʾ-g-r, “forming words relating to hoarding and storing”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel.
want
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏnt
enpr: wŭnt
ipa: /wɒnt/
ipa: /wʌnt/
enpr: wŏnt
enpr: wŭnt
enpr: wônt
ipa: /wɑnt/
ipa: /wʌnt/
ipa: /wɔnt/
ipa: [wɔːnt]
ipa: [wʌnt]
enpr: wŏnt
ipa: /wɔnt/
enpr: wŏnt
enpr: wŭnt
ipa: /wɒnt/
ipa: /wɐnt/
ipa: /wɔnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
rhymes: -ʌnt
homophone: wa'n't
Forms: form: wants
form: waunt
Etymology: From Middle English wanten (“to lack, to need”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.
Senses: glosses: A desire, wish, longing.
examples: text: She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
text: [H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii]:
text: They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 24:8:
glosses: Lack, absence, deficiency.
examples: text: Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
ref: 1713, Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction:
glosses: Poverty.
examples: text: Habitual superfluities become actual wants.
ref: 1785, William Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy:
glosses: Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
Derived terms: for want of
want ad
wantful
wantish
wantless
wantsome
wanty
want
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏnt
enpr: wŭnt
ipa: /wɒnt/
ipa: /wʌnt/
enpr: wŏnt
enpr: wŭnt
enpr: wônt
ipa: /wɑnt/
ipa: /wʌnt/
ipa: /wɔnt/
ipa: [wɔːnt]
ipa: [wʌnt]
enpr: wŏnt
ipa: /wɔnt/
enpr: wŏnt
enpr: wŭnt
ipa: /wɒnt/
ipa: /wɐnt/
ipa: /wɔnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
rhymes: -ʌnt
homophone: wa'n't
enpr: wŏnt
ipa: /wɒnt/
enpr: wŏnt
enpr: wŭnt
ipa: /wɒnt/
ipa: /wʌnt/
enpr: wŏnt
enpr: wŭnt
enpr: wônt
ipa: /wɑnt/
ipa: /wʌnt/
ipa: /wɔnt/
ipa: [wɔːnt]
ipa: [wʌnt]
enpr: wŏnt
ipa: /wɔnt/
enpr: wŏnt
enpr: wŭnt
ipa: /wɒnt/
ipa: /wɐnt/
ipa: /wɔnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
rhymes: -ʌnt
homophone: wa'n't
Forms: form: wants
Etymology: From Middle English wont (“mole”), from Old English wand, wond, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz.
Senses: examples: text: Lic. She hath the ears of a want. / Pec. Doth she want ears?
ref: 1592, John Lyly, Midas; republished in Charles Wentworth Dilke, editor, Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers, volume 1, London: Whittingham and Rowland, 1814:
glosses: A mole (Talpa europea).
start
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑːt/
enpr: stärt
ipa: /stɑɹt/
enpr: stärt
ipa: /stɑɹt/
ipa: [stäɹt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /stæɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: starts
Etymology: From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below.
Senses: examples: text: The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
text: I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: The beginning of an activity.
examples: text: He woke with a start.
text: Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]
ref: 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla:
glosses: A sudden involuntary movement.
examples: text: Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.
glosses: The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
examples: text: Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
text: Wilshere, who made his first start for England in the midweek friendly win over Denmark, raced into the penalty area and chose to cross rather than shoot - one of the very few poor selections he made in the match.
ref: 2011 February 12, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 2 - 0 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
glosses: An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
examples: text: You generally see nursery starts at garden centres in mid to late spring. Small annual plants are generally sold in four-packs or larger packs, with each cell holding a single young plant.
ref: 2009, Liz Primeau, Steven A. Frowine, Gardening Basics For Canadians For Dummies:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
examples: to get, or have, the start
glosses: An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
examples: text: “It's a rum start, old John Madingley's coming down to Tunnleton,” said Grafton, one evening in the smoking-room; […]
ref: 1887, Hawley Smart, A False Start, volume 2, page 69:
glosses: A happening or proceeding.
Derived terms: alpine start
black start
bump-start
by fits and starts
by starts and leaps
cold start
Delaware start
down start
false start
flying start
for a start
fresh start
a standing start
start to finish
the start
headstart
hill start
jackrabbit start
jumpstart
kickstart
kick start
mass start
multi-start
night start
one-start
pull start
push-start
quality start
recoil start
rolling start
shotgun start
sleep start
standing start
start codon
start key
start page
start time
stop-start
two-start
warm start
start
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑːt/
enpr: stärt
ipa: /stɑɹt/
enpr: stärt
ipa: /stɑɹt/
ipa: [stäɹt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /stæɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: starts
Etymology: From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare.
Senses: glosses: An instance of starting.
Derived terms: hard start
Related terms: get started
jump-start
start off
start on
start out
start up
the terms derived from starting