cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sulfa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌlfə/
homophone: sulfur (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: sulpha
Senses: examples: text: But my osteo plagued me throughout the rest of my stay at the HNOH, and for several years even after leaving the Home. It wasn't until the discovery of penicillin and the sulfa drugs that I finally beat that condition.
ref: 2000, Sam George Arcus, Deja Views of an Aging Orphan: Growing up in the Hebrew National Orphan Home:
glosses: Of or containing sulfonamide or sulfanilamide.
sulfa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌlfə/
homophone: sulfur (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: sulfas
form: sulpha
Senses: glosses: A sulfonamide or sulfanilamide.
Derived terms: sulfa drug
Related terms: sulfa-
sumac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈs(j)uːmæk/
ipa: /ˈʃuː-/
ipa: /ˈsuːˌmæk/
ipa: /ˈsu-/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soumak.
surtax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝː.tæks/
Forms: form: surtaxes
Etymology: From French surtaxe.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An additional or extra tax.
surtax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝː.tæks/
Forms: form: surtaxes
form: surtaxing
form: surtaxed
form: surtaxed
Etymology: From French surtaxe.
Senses: glosses: To impose a surtax upon.
Related terms: surcharge
swabby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɒbi/
rhymes: -ɒbi
Forms: form: swabbies
form: swabbie
Etymology: From swab + -y.
Senses: glosses: A sailor.
swag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: swags
form: swagging
form: swagged
form: swagged
Etymology: From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”).
Senses: examples: text: 1790, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Argument, p. 1,
Hungry clouds swag on the deep
text: Soap/soak the mop into the mop bucket, squeeze it out slightly, swag it back and forth across the piss stained concrete, mop it dry.
ref: 2013, Odie Hawkins, Zola Salena-Hawkins, Kwanzaa for Conrad & the Survival Tango, →ISBN, page 104:
synonyms: sway
lurch
glosses: To (cause to) sway.
examples: text: so laid, they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Posture
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
text: I swagge as a fatte persos belly swaggeth as he goth.
ref: 1530, John Palsgrave, L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse:
glosses: To droop; to sag.
examples: text: Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the swagged ball gown[…].
ref: 2009 January 29, Cathy Horyn, “In Paris, a Nod to Old Masters”, in New York Times:
glosses: To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
examples: text: Hooks come with screws for use in plaster or wood and toggles for use in wallboard. One hook should be sufficient to swag a lamp from a ceiling outlet.
ref: 1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting, page 19:
glosses: To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
Derived terms: swagbelly
swag light
swag-shop
swag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: swags
Etymology: From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”).
Senses: examples: text: He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
qualifier: window coverings
glosses: A loop of draped fabric.
examples: text: Detective Inspector Douglas Browne, the flesh of whose cheeks hung in swags, had the friendly aspect of a large brown-eyed dog.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 18:
glosses: Something that droops like a swag.
examples: text: Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag the water from the well in question would become muddy[…] After the water in the swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.
ref: 1902, D. G. Simmons, “The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases”, in The American Practitioner and News, 34: 182:
text: This peach tree is th' big tree that allus bore so many peaches. It's th' one in th' low swag by th' old rotted white oak stump.
ref: 1941, Jesse Stuart, Men of the Mountains, page 273:
glosses: A low point or depression in land; especially:
A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
examples: text: […] the Stoll household were hoeing corn high up on a bench or "swag" of the mountain facing the home, where there was newer and richer ground than in the abandoned fields in its rear.
ref: 1927, Lucy S. Furman, The Lonesome Road, page 3:
text: Finally he managed to grab hold of [the turkey's] legs, but as he did so, the turkey "riz" up into the air and carried him across a "swag" (gap) to the next mountain and courteously dropped him.
ref: 1960, Joseph S. Hall, Smoky Mountain Folks, page 19:
text: We dropped our packs in the low swag and began ascending the steep sides of the "puzzle" mountain.
ref: 1970, Harvey Broome, Earth Man, page 24:
text: Sometimes men would get on either side of a gap or swag, set the dogs loose, and let them drive the deer through between them. Another way was for one man to take the dogs and drive the ridge. Other men would go to gaps or stands at[…]
ref: 1972 February 17, Foxfire Fund, Inc., The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining, Anchor, →ISBN, page 258:
glosses: A low point or depression in land; especially:
A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
Derived terms: swagger
swag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Etymology: Clipping of swagger. A common folk etymology is that the word derives from an acronym for "she wants a gentleman", "secretly we are gay" or other phrases.
Senses: examples: text: Now this dude got swag, and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!
ref: 2009, Mark Anthony Archer, Exile, page 119:
text: They've got those dumb Kanye sunglasses that are $3 a pair at any skanky old market, they've go the word SWAG airbrushed onto them; these kids are hanging around listening to crunk records, throwing around sayings like “Swag it out”, “Turn my swag on”, “Flip the swag switch and homie” and even “Get out your sweaty swag length and push it deep inside me”. Let me tell you something - if I ever see those kids out in Gangnam I'll be caving their sorry heads in with my swag bat, or I'll be making out with their swag girlfriend while they're too busy smoking crack behind a brick wall because that's how we do things in Gangnam, sucker.
ref: 2012, Jack Goldstein, Jimmy Russell, 10 Amazing Gangnam Style Tips, →ISBN:
glosses: Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
Derived terms: swag it out
swag it up
swag out
swag up
swag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: swags
form: swagging
form: swagged
form: swagged
Etymology: From 18th c. British thieves' slang.
Senses: examples: text: He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.
ref: 1880, James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia, page 259:
text: That such a man was swagging in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation.
ref: 1976, Pembroke Arts Club, The Anglo-Welsh Review, page 158:
text: The plot is straightforward. A swagman is settling down by a billabong after a hard day′s swagging.
ref: 2006, Inga Clendinnen, The History Question: Who Owns the Past?: Quarterly Essay, number 23, page 3:
text: Over the Christmas of 1939, just three months after Britain and Australia had declared war on Germany, they went swagging together for a week and slept out under the stars in the Adelaide Hills, talking, walking and reading.
ref: 2011, Penelope Debelle, Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston QC, page 21:
glosses: To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
examples: text: Well, one night we were rather hard up and we wanted a good feed, so five or six of us set out, along with a great stout fellow, and we actually stole a whole sheep that was hanging at a butcher's door, and the big chap swagged it home.
ref: 1869, Frank Henderson, Six years in the prisons of England, page 225:
glosses: To transport stolen goods.
examples: text: 17 I was cooking crack, turned Abz' flat to a science lab
18, when my door got banged
Like servery knows and throws them bags
Two handcuffs on the hands on a circle van when I got swagged
Seven day lost in cell, confinement, disobey lawful order
ref: 2024 August 2, “Why” (3:03 from the start), VD/Dripz of 67 (lyrics):
glosses: To transport in the course of arrest.
Derived terms: swaggie
swagman
swag it
swag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: swags
Senses: examples: text: I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
swage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsweɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈswɛd͡ʒ/
homophone: suage
homophone: swedge
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: swages
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English swage, from Old French souage (“decorative groove”), from soue (“rope”), from Vulgar Latin *soca, from Gaulish *souca (“cord”), from Proto-Celtic *soukā, from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to twist, bend”).
Senses: examples: text: "I made a swage and hammered out the test bars to the required .615 inch plus or minus .003, the thickness of a sheet of paper. […]
ref: 2003, Gene Logsdon, The Pond Lovers, University of Georgia Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 45:
text: If he were making round or square-sectioned nails, the blacksmith also kept a "swage" near the anvil. If different sizes, shapes, and heads were required, the nailor had a number of swages or a number of holes in the one swage.
ref: 2005, Mike McCarthy, Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship, Texas A&M University Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 87:
text: […] The blacksmith let me help out, hold the horse while he was putting the shoe on, turn the hand forge, clean up the shop. And after awhile he taught me names of everything. He'd say, 'Boy, hand me the three-inch swage,' and I had to know just what he wanted. I learned that way."
ref: 2008, Wilbur Cross, Gullah Culture in America, Praeger, published 2008, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for shaping of a metal item.
Derived terms: swage block
swage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsweɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈswɛd͡ʒ/
homophone: suage
homophone: swedge
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: swages
form: swaging
form: swaged
form: swaged
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English swage, from Old French souage (“decorative groove”), from soue (“rope”), from Vulgar Latin *soca, from Gaulish *souca (“cord”), from Proto-Celtic *soukā, from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to twist, bend”).
Senses: glosses: To bend or shape through use of a swage.
swage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsweɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈswɛd͡ʒ/
homophone: suage
homophone: swedge
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: swages
form: swaging
form: swaged
form: swaged
form: suage
Etymology: From assuage by aphesis.
Senses: examples: text: apt words have power to swage
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of assuage.
swami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɑːmi/
rhymes: -ɑːmi
Forms: form: swamis
form: swamee
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi स्वामी (svāmī), from Sanskrit स्वामिन् (svāmín).
Senses: glosses: A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher.
raw_tags: used as a title
swank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: swanker
form: swankest
Etymology: From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”).
Senses: examples: text: The fish house or shack is built without windows, covered with tar paper to keep out the light and wind, and set on the ice over about ten feet of water in a spot off shore where fish have been known to habitate habitually. […] A couple of boxes to sit on and a plank or mat for your feet and a small airtight stove, if you want swank comfort.
ref: 1939 January 13, Norrie Jackson, “With the Alumni”, in The Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume XXXIX, number 13, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 307, columns 1–2:
text: "You live in that swank apartment round the corner."
"Yes."
"Hey you must be rich."
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 28:
text: You know it's swank when … It's very shiny / It's very tan / It's got Royale in its name
ref: 1995 December 18, Alexandra Lange, “Now That’s Swanky: Eurotrash, Caviar, Shiny Mega-baubles, and Super-glitzy Weddings—the Gold-plated Set is Once Again Making New York Its Playpen”, in Kurt Andersen, editor, New York, volume 28, number 50, New York, N.Y.: K-III Magazine Corporation, →ISSN, page 30:
text: [T]he Montgomery Block was the commercial and social center of San Francisco. […] Above [the ground floor] were a law library, the three rooms of the Mercantile Library Association, and a swank billiard room that ran nearly the entire length of the second floor.
ref: 1998, Robin W. Winks, “The Montgomery Block”, in Frederick Billings: A Life, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Mr. Heinz belonged to a very swank club in Pittsburgh.
ref: 2009, Alan Reed, Ben Ohmart, Yabba Dabba Doo!: The Alan Reed Story, page 64:
text: She arrived at a very swank studio, where Mr. Feldman introduced himself as the director of auditions.
ref: 2010, Maximus Tonelli, The Pilot and the Actress, page 77:
text: As we were enjoying this lovely meal, a very swank and sophisticated older woman came over to our table and excused herself, more so to Jerry than me.
ref: 2010, Shirley Butts Wilson, Light in the Darkest Hours:
text: Warren, Emerald City's owner, had thrown a swank party at his house and invited the whole staff, along with about fifty others.
ref: 2011, Richelle Mead, Succubus Dreams:
glosses: Fashionably elegant, posh.
swank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: swanks
Etymology: From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”).
Senses: examples: text: Us Morans don't like swanks, and that girl was a swank. Stuck-up rich girl. She wore a practically new gabardine with the same paper Union Jack flag as me, only hers was tucked into her coat buttonhole, behind a gold cat pasted with jewels.
ref: 2007, Frances McNeil, “Sophie”, in Sisters in Fortune, Sutton, Surrey: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN; republished as Frances Brody [pseudonym; Frances McNeil], Halfpenny Dreams, London: Piatkus, Little, Brown Book Group, 2016, →ISBN:
glosses: A fashionably elegant person.
examples: text: 'It is mere swank sending it to us,' said he. 'We have to be there whatever happens, as the hangman said to the murderer.'
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
text: Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7:
text: Huge waves keep coming in over the front and I have seen the boat nearly go under any number of times. All the others pretend to take no notice of this, either from swank or because Harold says one of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to Facts.
ref: 1952, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, chapter 2, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC:
glosses: Ostentation; bravado.
swank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: swanks
form: swanking
form: swanked
form: swanked
Etymology: From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”).
Senses: examples: text: Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.
text: He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: [Peter] O'Toole does for this movie [My Favorite Year] what [Alan] Swann does for the cast and crew of Comedy Cavalcade: he swanks in whenever there's a lull in the action and with a dapper flare of his cuffs sets off smiles, sighs, palpitations.
ref: 1982 November, James Wolcott, “Your Flick of Flicks: My Favorite Year Recalls the Comical Days of Early TV, when the Programs were so Good You Didn’t Want to Go to the Movies”, in Texas Monthly, volume 10, number 11, Austin, Tx.: Texas Monthly, Inc., →ISSN, page 219:
text: With their innuendos and condemnations, with their loud-mouthed gabble, what a frighteningly learned lot they are – not quite clever, and not quite skilled. But still, it's woman's nature to swank; they swank because they're women, so let them swank. We won't take offence.
ref: 1985, Hla Pe, quoting Ù Tò (J[ohn William Alan] Okell, transl., Yamá Yagan (1933), volume I, page 5), “Burmese Poetry, 1450–1885: Its Scope and Nature”, in Burma: Literature, Historiography, Scholarship, Language, Life, and Buddhism, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, →ISBN, page 14:
text: He hung up my coat – my shabby, two-seasons-old Gap coat – and it looked like the scruffy kid in class next to the fawn cashmere number swanking on the neighbouring peg.
ref: 2007, Lucy Diamond, chapter 2, in Any Way You Want Me, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To swagger, to show off.
Related terms: swankily
swankiness
swanky
swatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɒtʃ/
ipa: /swɔt͡ʃ/
ipa: /swɑt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: swatches
form: swatching
form: swatched
form: swatched
Etymology: From earlier Northern England dialectal swache (“the counterfoil or counterstock of a tally”) (1512); further etymology unknown. Cognate with Scots swach, swatch. Compare English swath, swathe. Compare also Old English swæcc (“taste; flavour; odour; fragrance”).
Senses: examples: text: Swatching is important in knitting to obtain the correct gauge.
text: This season, before you even think about the makeup you need, think about the beige/grey/rust/brown colors—and the clothes—you've been seeing on the preceding pages (to remind you, we've swatched some of them here).
ref: 1976, Vogue, volume 166, London: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 482:
text: Swatching may seem like a tedious chore when you're trying the gauge for a commercial yarn. But when you've just dyed your first skein of handpainted yarn, you'll be more than eager to see what it looks like worked up into a pattern.
ref: 2010, Gail Callahan, “Show-off Patterns”, in Hand Dyeing Yarn and Fleece: Dip-Dyeing, Hand-Painting, Tie-Dyeing, and Other Creative Techniques, North Adams, Mass.: Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 159:
text: When I first learned how to knit, it didn't occur to me that beads could be incorporated into knitting. […] I swatched and ripped, then swatched and ripped again—until I figured out how to get the beads to lie exactly where I wanted them to be.
ref: 2014, Laura Nelkin, “Beaded Beauties”, in Knockout Knits: New Tricks for Scarves, Hats, Jewelry, and Other Accessories, Potter Craft, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: To create a swatch, especially a sample of knitted fabric.
swatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɒtʃ/
ipa: /swɔt͡ʃ/
ipa: /swɑt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: swatches
Etymology: Unknown; originally used chiefly in the East of England.
Senses: examples: text: It muſt be obſerved, that the paſſages, called Cockerlees, are no other than ſwatches through the Long-Sand.
ref: 1801, John Ritchie, “Instructions for Sailing in the Northern Part of the Bay of Bengal. Part I. Survey of the Coast from Point Palmiras to the Braces; of the Outlets of the Ganges, and of the Interjacent Rivers from Hughly River to Roymongul”, in [Joseph Huddart], editor, The Oriental Navigator; or, New Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, &c. &c. &c. …, 2nd edition, London: Printed and published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, map, chart, & printsellers, No. 53, Fleet-Street, →OCLC, page 281:
text: The Swatch, or Swatch of no ground, a chaſm in the bank, is ſituated between the latitudes of 21° and 21° 22′ North, and the middle of it lies about 50 leagues Weſt of the meridian of the White Cliffs.
ref: 1804, Captain Ritchie [i.e., John Ritchie], “Directions for Crossing the Head of the Bay of Bengal”, in William Herbert, William Nicholson, Samuel Dunn, Gabriel Wright, editors, A New Nautical Directory for the East-India and China Navigation: …, 7th edition, London: Printed by S. Couchman, Throgmorton-Street, for and sold by William Gilbert, No. 148, Leadenhall-Street: Sold by A. Arrowsmith, Rathbone-Place; and Blacks and Parry, Leadenhall-Street, →OCLC, page 265:
text: Opposite the middle of the delta, at the distance of thirty or forty miles from the coast, a deep submarine valley occurs, called the "swatch of no ground," about fifteen miles in diameter, where soundings of 180, and even 300, fathoms fail to reach the bottom. […] As the mud is known to extend for eighty miles farther into the gulf, an enormous thickness of matter must have been deposited in "the swatch."
ref: 1853, Charles Lyell, chapter XVIII, in Principles of Geology […] , 9th edition, Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., Book II, page 279:
glosses: A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore.
synod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭn'əd
ipa: /ˈsɪn.əd/
Forms: form: synods
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos, “assembly, meeting”) – from σύν (sún, “with”) (English syn-) + ὁδός (hodós, “way, path”).
Compare also with the term סַנְהֶדְרִין (“sanhedrin”) common throughout Hebrew Talmudic literature.
Senses: examples: text: Addressing a number of previously taboo topics, this synod could result in several liberalizing reforms, though there is no guarantee that it will produce anything at all.
ref: 2023 October 2, Jason Horowitz, Elisabetta Povoledo, “What Is a Synod in the Catholic Church? And Why Does This One Matter?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: Christianity
glosses: An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
topics: Christianity
glosses: An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
examples: text: It hath in solemn synods been decreed.
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 I, scene i]:
text: A third part of the Gods, in synod met / Their deities to assert; who, while they feel / Vigour divine within them, can allow / Omnipotence to none.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Parent of Gods and Men, propitious Jove! / And you bright ſynod of the Pow'rs above; / On this my ſon your gracious gifts beſtow; / Grant him to live, and great in arms to grow, [...]
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of the Iliad.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 455:
glosses: An assembly or council having civil authority (formal); a legislative body.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
Hypernyms: council
Derived terms: antisynod
general synod
holy synod
synodal
synodality
synodic
tabooed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæˈbuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: more tabooed
form: most tabooed
Senses: glosses: Forbidden; prohibited.
tabooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæˈbuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of taboo
tabued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of tabooed.
tad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: tads
Etymology: 1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915.
Senses: examples: text: Could you lean the picture to the left just a tad more?
synonyms: word: jot
word: whit
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small amount; a little bit.
synonyms: gamin
gurrier
guttersnipe
street child
street urchin
glosses: A street boy; an urchin.
Derived terms: a tad
talc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tælk/
rhymes: -ælk
Forms: form: talcs
Etymology: From Middle French talc, from Arabic طَلْق (ṭalq), from Persian تلک (talk), from Middle Persian [Term?] (“medicament”).
Senses: glosses: Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Medieval writers adopted the term from the Arabic.
examples: text: M. [Antonie van] Leeuwenhoek fixed his objects, if they were ſolid, to the foregoing point with glue; if they were fluid, he fitted them on a little plate of talc, or exceeding thin blown glaſs, which he afterwards glued to the needle, in the ſame manner as his other objects.
ref: 1787, George Adams, Essays on the Microscope; containing a Practical Description of the most Improved Microscopes: a General History of Insects, their Transformations, Peculiar Habits, and Œconomy: an Account of the Various Species and Singular Properties of the Hydræ and Vorticellæ: a Description of Three Hundred and Seventy-nine Animalcula; with a Concise Catalogue of Interesting Objects: a View of the Organization of Timber, and the Configuration of Salts when under the Microscope, London: Printed for the author, by Robert Hindmarsh, Printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, No. 32, Clerkenwell-Close; and sold by the author, at his Shop, Tycho Brahe's Head, No. 60, Fleet-Street, →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium.
examples: text: The abeer is often mixed with powdered talc to make it glitter, and then, if it gets into the eyes, it causes a good deal of pain.
ref: 1856, Life in Brazil, page 103:
text: With this background and experience we feel justified in stating that not all talcs contain, or are associated with, asbestos.
ref: 1978, C. J. Parmentier with G. J. Gill, “Practical Aspects of Talc and Asbestos”, in C. C. Gravatt, Philip D. LaFleur, Kurt F. J. Heinrich, editors, Proceedings of Workshop on Asbestos, Definitions and Measurement Methods, page 406:
text: For example, Montana talcs approximate the theoretical composition, while California talcs often contain calcite (CaCO₃) and dolomite (CaCO₃ • MgCO₃).
ref: 1987, Joseph A. Radosta with Nikhil C. Trivedi, “Talc”, in H. S. Katz, J. V. Mileski, editors, Handbook of Fillers For Plastics, page 217:
text: Micronized talcs and, to an even higher degree, submicrometer talcs significantly influence the processing parameters.
ref: 2003, Harutun Karian, Handbook of Polypropylene and Polypropylene Composites, revised & expanded edition, page 573:
glosses: A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.
glosses: Talcum powder.
Derived terms: oil of talc
Venice talc
talc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tælk/
rhymes: -ælk
Forms: form: talcs
form: talcing
form: talced
form: talced
Etymology: From Middle French talc, from Arabic طَلْق (ṭalq), from Persian تلک (talk), from Middle Persian [Term?] (“medicament”).
Senses: examples: text: "Generous talcing" is applied not only to the naked bale, but to the inside of the wrapper, and after stenciling, to the interior of the package. This talcing is repeated, "if necessary, dependent upon the number of handlings up to and into stores for steamer loading."
ref: 1940, Rubber Journal, volume 99, page 479:
text: Three manufacturers have now produced separate designs for talcing boxes; one uses conventional techniques of brushing and vibrators, one is a fluidised bed and the third is an electrostatic applicator.
ref: 1977, Great Britain Health, Safety Executive, Manufacturing & Service Industries, page 43:
text: Then he talced his hands, slipped on a new pair of rubber gloves, went to the shapeless thing at the other end of the table, and began to work.
ref: 1983, Aaron Elkins, The Dark Place, published 2010, page 107:
glosses: To apply talc to.
Related terms: soapstone
steatite
taler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talers
Etymology: From Middle English taler, equivalent to tale + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Earth writes from the point of view of " 'Baylor' the Taler of Behler the Failer" who tells Scheherazade's story (to Death, her "familiar stranger") of Somebody's last voyage.
ref: 2000, Taimi Anne Olsen, Transcending Space:
text: She had a series of aliases: “longa mariona wode alias Birde alias taler” [long Mariona Wode, alias Birdie, alias taler, perhaps tale teller].
ref: 2007, Barbara A. Hanawalt, The Wealth of Wives:
glosses: A talker; a teller
taler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑlɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɑːlə/
rhymes: -ɑːlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: talers
form: thaler
Etymology: From German Taler, (older) Thaler. Doublet of dollar.
Senses: glosses: Germanic unit of currency used between the 15th and 19th centuries.
talkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔːki/
rhymes: -ɔːki
Forms: form: talkies
Etymology: Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.
Senses: examples: text: On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
text: “We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.”
ref: 2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (0:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou):
glosses: A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.
examples: text: "[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 292:
glosses: A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung.
Derived terms: handy talkie
walkie-talkie
talus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪləs/
rhymes: -eɪləs
Forms: form: tali
form: tallus
Etymology: From Latin tālus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bone of the ankle.
Synonyms: anklebone
astragalus
Derived terms: talar
Related terms: bone
talus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪləs/
rhymes: -eɪləs
Forms: form: taluses
form: tallus
Etymology: From French talus.
Senses: examples: text: By the time he reached the first talus slides under the tall escarpments of the Pilares the dawn was not far to come.
ref: 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
text: Above here is what is known as a talus slope - sandstone that has gradually disintegrated and tumbled down to create a menacing sloping pile of loose rock.
ref: 2024 May 29, Nick Brodrick, “Between a rock and a wet place...”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 39:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
topics: architecture
glosses: The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.
Coordinate terms: colluvium
scree
tannin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɪn/
rhymes: -ænɪn
Forms: form: tannins
Etymology: From French tannin, from Latin tannum (“oak bark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“oak”). Related to tan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.
Synonyms: E181 when used as a food colouring
tannin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɪn/
rhymes: -ænɪn
Forms: form: tannins
form: tanninim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תַּנִּין (tannīn).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An evil sea monster in Canaanite and Hebrew mythology.
tapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːpə/
rhymes: -ɑːpə
Forms: form: tapas
form: tappa
Etymology: ]
Borrowed from Tongan tapa.
Senses: examples: text: For many of these cultures, clothing — or at least coverings for basic modesty such as loincloths and G-strings — is the main use of tapa.
ref: 2005, Roger Neich, Mick Pendergrast, Pacific Tapa, University of Hawaii Press, unnumbered page:
synonyms: kapa
glosses: A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
tapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːpə/
rhymes: -ɑːpə
Forms: form: tapas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tapa. Doublet of tap.
Senses: glosses: Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.
tapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːpə/
rhymes: -ɑːpə
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog tapa.
Senses: examples: text: Cusinera serves stupendous silog (traditional Filipino breakfast, $5.61) — eggs with garlic rice and a protein of your choice, such as daing (crispy dried fish), longaniza (juicy, garlicky pork sausage) and tapa (cured beef steak).
ref: 2021 February 27, Rebecca King, “Bountiful Bergenfield”, in Daily Record, volume 34, number 92, Rockaway, N.J., →OCLC, page 2D, column 1:
glosses: Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.
Related terms: tapsilog
tapir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
homophone: taper
Forms: form: tapirs
Etymology: Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Senses: examples: text: Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Any species of large odd-toed ungulates of the genus Tapirus with a long prehensile upper lip.
Synonyms: word: bush cow
word: mountain cow
Hyponyms: word: Asian tapir
taxonomic: Tapirus bairdii
word: Baird's tapir
taxonomic: Tapirus terrestris
word: Brazilian tapir
word: hog tapir
word: Indian tapir
taxonomic: Tapirus indicus
word: Malayan tapir
taxonomic: Tapirus pinchaque
word: mountain tapir
word: tapir frog
tapis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtapɪs/
ipa: /taˈpiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: tapises
Etymology: From French, from Old French tapiz, from Vulgar Latin *tapēs, from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.
Senses: examples: text: The tapises and blankets woven in Bontoc are similar in color and design to those of northern Lepanto where the method of weaving them probably originated.
ref: 1916, Philippine Craftsman, volume 5, page 393:
glosses: A tapestry.
glosses: Carpeting.
glosses: The cover of a council table.
Derived terms: on the tapis
upon the tapis
tappet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æpɪt
Forms: form: tappets
Etymology: From tap + -et, possibly influenced by homophony with "tap it."
Senses: synonyms: follower
lifter
glosses: A lever or projection which is moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, in order to produce change or regulate motion.
tared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight.
tared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tare
taring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛə.ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tare
taring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛə.ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: tarings
Senses: glosses: A common tern (Sterna hirundo).
Synonyms: sense: Sterna hirundo
word: tarret
tarpon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)pən
Forms: form: tarpons
form: tarpon
Etymology: Compare Dutch tarpoen. Suggestions that the term derives from a Native American term are unlikely.
Senses: examples: text: You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--
ref: 2021, Edward Stratemeyer, Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom:
glosses: Any of several fishes of the family Elopidae or Megalopidae, especially a large silvery game fish.
Derived terms: Atlantic tarpon
Indo-Pacific tarpon
Pacific tarpon
tas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tass.
taster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪstɚ/
rhymes: -eɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tasters
Etymology: From Middle English taster; equivalent to taste + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A flight of tasters was served to the people who would vote on the next soda flavor to be released.
glosses: An object in which, or by which, food or drink is tasted, such as a small cup.
examples: text: Big companies such as P&G or Kraft Heinz employ or contract with professional tasters who help with product development.
text: Being a cook for protectees also entails being a taster for them.
text: Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
hypernyms: tester#Etymology_2
glosses: Someone who tastes something; especially, either (1) to check its quality (in food science, winemaking, etc.) or (2) as a security measure to prevent assassination of a protectee.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophorae, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.
examples: text: The Kraft Heinz exhibit at the trade fair was a taster of new snack products set to hit the market soon.
text: The Samsung exhibit at the trade fair was a taster of new consumer electronic products set to hit the market soon.
glosses: A sample of something bigger or grander intended for future use.
antonyms: nontaster
glosses: A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide.
Derived terms: ale-taster
supertaster
winetaster
Related terms: word: tastebuds
word: tasting
word: winetasting
tat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: tats
Etymology: From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”).
Senses: glosses: Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
examples: text: tourist tat
text: And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever."
ref: 2004 May 28, Thomas Sutcliffe, “Why Britart is a burning issue”, in The Independent:
glosses: Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
glosses: Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
tat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: tats
form: tatting
form: tatted
form: tatted
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: To make (something by) tatting.
tat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: tats
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: She's so swishy in her satin and tat / In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
ref: 1971, David Bowie, “Queen Bitch”, in Hunky Dory:
glosses: Clipping of tatting.
tat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: tats
form: tattoo
form: tatt
Etymology: From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū, “pony”).
Senses: examples: text: And so each morning before daybreak I am up, and having dispatched my luggage on the backs of coolies after much noise and bustle, without which no natives can work, I mount my tat as the sun begins to touch the higher hills, and start on my morning ride of twelve miles.
ref: 1879, Val Cameron Prinsep, Glimpses of Imperial India, page 206:
glosses: A pony.
tat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: tats
Etymology: Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.
Senses: examples: text: Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tats, right away I want it now.
ref: 1998 November 17, “Americana” (track 22), in Supercharged: Worldwide in '25, performed by The Offspring:
text: I'm diplomatic playing pen and pad. Rat-a-tat, you're a scaredy-catcause I have a tat put you up like that. You can't stand that cause you've got to scat.
ref: 1999 September 14, “I Can't Wait” (track 2), in Nigga Please, performed by Ol' Dirty Bastard:
text: Me and my thugs clock G's, sippin' naughty thangs. Real as these tats on my body, and it's Killuminati.
ref: 1999 December 21, “Killuminati” (track 11), in Still I Rise, performed by Tupac and Outlawz:
glosses: A tattoo.
Derived terms: bitch tat
knuckle-tat
tat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: tats
form: tatting
form: tatted
form: tatted
Etymology: Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.
Senses: examples: 2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music
Write on me / Love the way you tat me up
glosses: To apply a tattoo.
Derived terms: tat up
tat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: tats
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”).
tat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: tats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).