cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mous
enpr: mouz
ipa: /maʊs/
ipa: /maʊz/
ipa: /mʌʊs/
ipa: /mʌʊz/
rhymes: -aʊs
rhymes: -aʊz
Forms: form: mouses
form: mousing
form: moused
form: moused
form: mowse
Etymology: From Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.
Cognates
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Swedish mus, Danish mus, Norwegian mus, Icelandic mús, Faroese mús).
Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš), Northern Kurdish mişk, Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ).
The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal.
Senses: glosses: To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
glosses: To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.
examples: text: Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
examples: text: I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
ref: 1988, MacUser, volume 4:
text: Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.
ref: 2009, Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search, page 35:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
examples: text: [Death] mousing the flesh of men.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from mouse (verb)
word: mouse around
sense: terms derived from mouse (verb)
word: mouse over
sense: terms derived from mouse (verb)
word: mouser
Related terms: muscle
mussel
half past
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːf ˌpɑːst/
ipa: /ˈhɑːˌpɑːst/
ipa: /ˈhɑːpəs(t)/
ipa: /ˈhæf ˌpæst/
ipa: /ˈhæˌpæst/
Senses: examples: text: My train's supposed to arrive at 2. Let's plan on meeting at half past. -Sure, see you at half (past) two then.
glosses: Thirty minutes past any hour.
router
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊ.tɚ/
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: routers
Etymology: From route + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The router directed the movement of the company's trucks.
text: When the router receives the package, he places the route number on it as well as on the triplicate part of the attached salescheck.
ref: 1930, Edwin A. Godley, Alexander Kaylin, Control of Retail Store Operations, page 213:
text: Obviously, the production control department might consist of one man or it might occupy a score of production control experts: routers, schedulers, expediters, and dispatchers.
ref: 1963, Louis J. von Rago, Production Analysis and Control, page 476:
text: The system benefits include reduced delivery costs, increased vehicle use, and improved route decision making by dispatchers and routers.
ref: 1990, Mary Kay Allen, Omar Keith Helferich, Putting Expert Systems to Work in Logistics, page 66:
glosses: Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
examples: text: That’s one of the biggest hurdles of managing a router and your network security in general, it’s a massive chore that is fraught with technical jargon, hurdles and screens saying ‘no’, ‘invalid’ or ‘not available’.
ref: 2022 May 17, “Synology SRM 1.3 Software Review Part 4 – The Safe Access Application”, in NAS Compares:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
examples: text: The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.
glosses: A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: electronic design automation
glosses: In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
Derived terms: one-armed router
onion router
router on a stick
Related terms: firewall
router
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊ.tɚ/
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈɹaʊtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊtɚ/
rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊ.tɚ/
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: routers
Etymology: From rout + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He made an attractive edge on the table with a router.
glosses: A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
glosses: A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
glosses: A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
Derived terms: plunge router
router
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊ.tɚ/
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈɹaʊtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊtɚ/
rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊ.tɚ/
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: routers
form: routering
form: routered
form: routered
Etymology: From rout + -er.
Senses: examples: text: An alternative is shown in which the carcase ends are grooved by routering.
ref: 1952, John Hooper, Percy A. Wells, Modern Cabinetwork, Furniture and Fitments, page 132:
text: Figures 276: 10, 11 are typical sliding flush door pulls, the former routered out, but the latter can be turned in a lathe, while 276:12 is an oblong routered version.
ref: 2000, Ernest Joyce, Alan Peters, Patrick Spielman, Encyclopedia of Furniture Making, page 290:
text: Routered holes may also be filled with diluted maple syrup (1 part syrup to 9 parts water) to create a sap well for sapsuckers.
ref: 2007, Laurie J. Gage, Rebecca S. Duerr, Hand-Rearing Birds, page 352:
glosses: to hollow out or cut using a router power tool.
noon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: noons
Etymology: From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.
Senses: examples: text: On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
text: The race is due to start at noon sharp.
text: The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
ref: 1933, Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution:
text: The fire was put out by around 8:10 a.m. by the Rockdale County Fire Rescue. But around noon, another fire erupted, according to the CSB.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
glosses: The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
glosses: The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
examples: text: So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 116:
text: When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […].
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17:
glosses: The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
glosses: The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
examples: text: In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
ref: 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The highest point; culmination.
Synonyms: sense: ninth hour of daylight
word: nones
sense: midpoint of the day
word: midday
word: nones
word: noontide
word: twelve
word: midday
sense: midnight
word: noon of night
word: midnight
sense: highest point
word: capstone
word: apex
Derived terms: beforenoon
forenoon
good noon
high noon
Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon
John-go-to-bed-at-noon
midnoon
morning-noon-and-night
noon balloon
noonday
nooner
noonflower
noon-flower
noon fly
noon gun
noonish
noonlight
noonly
noonmark
noonmeat
noonsie
noonstead
noontime
noon-time
nuncheon
prenoon
sleep-at-noon
solar noon
noon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: noons
form: nooning
form: nooned
form: nooned
Etymology: From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.
Senses: examples: text: We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
ref: 1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle:
text: Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapter XX:
text: Well, we crossed and nooned, lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around
ref: 1906, Andy Adams, The Double Trail:
text: They nooned at a spring and squatted about the cold and blackened sticks of some former fire and ate cold beans and tortillas out of a newspaper.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: To relax or sleep around midday.
Synonyms: sleep
noon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: noons
Senses: glosses: The letter ن in the Arabic script.
keyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kē'bôrd
ipa: /ˈki.bɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈkiː.bɔːd/
Forms: form: keyboards
Etymology: From key + board.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of keys laid out in a grid-like pattern, used for typing on a typewriter, computer etc.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A component of many instruments, including the piano, organ, and harpsichord, consisting of usually black and white keys that cause different tones to be produced when struck.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: electronic keyboard
synthesizer
glosses: An electronic device containing a keyboard (preceding sense), especially one that is capable of producing musical sounds when the keys are played.
Derived terms: sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: butterfly keyboard
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: chiclet keyboard
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: extended keyboard
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: keyboard army
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: keyboard cowboy
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: keyboard diarrhea
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: keyboard distance
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: keyboarder
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: keyboard layout
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: keyboard shortcut
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: keyboard smash
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: keyboard warrior
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: kezboard
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: mechanical keyboard
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: membrane keyboard
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: policy keyboard
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: space-cadet keyboard
sense: typing-related terms (sense 1)
word: virtual keyboard
sense: music-related terms (sense 2 and sense 3)
word: Jankó keyboard
sense: music-related terms (sense 2 and sense 3)
word: keyboard bass
sense: music-related terms (sense 2 and sense 3)
word: keyboard instrument
sense: music-related terms (sense 2 and sense 3)
word: keyboardist
sense: music-related terms (sense 2 and sense 3)
word: keyboarder
sense: music-related terms (sense 2 and sense 3)
word: pedal keyboard
sense: unsorted terms
word: 40% keyboard
sense: unsorted terms
word: keyboardable
sense: unsorted terms
word: keyboardful
sense: unsorted terms
word: keyboard glockenspiel
sense: unsorted terms
word: keyboardism
sense: unsorted terms
word: keyboarditis
sense: unsorted terms
word: keyboardless
sense: unsorted terms
word: keyboardlike
sense: unsorted terms
word: keytar
sense: unsorted terms
word: multikeyboard
sense: unsorted terms
word: nonkeyboard
sense: unsorted terms
word: rekeyboard
sense: unsorted terms
word: thumbboard
Related terms: key
keypad
keys
keyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kē'bôrd
ipa: /ˈki.bɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈkiː.bɔːd/
Forms: form: keyboards
form: keyboarding
form: keyboarded
form: keyboarded
Etymology: From key + board.
Senses: examples: text: Keyboarding is the part of this job I hate the most.
text: The earliest hardcore hackers would not stumble in to their predawn keyboarding for another two hours.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 16:
glosses: To type on a computer keyboard.
dual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dyo͞oʹəl
enpr: jo͞oʹəl
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdʒuː.əl/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdjuː.əl/
enpr: d(y)o͞o'əl
ipa: /ˈdu.əl/
ipa: /ˈdju.əl/
rhymes: -uːəl
homophone: duel
homophone: jewel (yod-coalescence)
Forms: form: duals
form: du.
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
Senses: glosses: Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
examples: text: The octahedron is the dual of the cube.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The dual number.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
examples: text: Wrestling duals and meets take place at the Wisconsin Field House. There are no advance single event ticket sales.
ref: 2010 August 3, Kevin Revolinski, Insiders' Guide® to Madison, WI, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 137:
text: But Dave agreed to participate in the Bulgarian dual, and that trapped me into having to wrestle, too.
ref: 2014 November 18, Mark Schultz, David Thomas, Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Early in 2021, she became the first female to compete and win a match at the Ter-Hark Cup wrestling dual, helping her squad to victory.
ref: 2023 October 19, Jason Norman, American Women in Amateur Wrestling, 2000-2022, McFarland, →ISBN, page 203:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A head-to-head match or meet between two teams, such as two high schools or colleges.
Derived terms: categorical dual
first-person dual
second-person dual
self-dual
third-person dual
Related terms: unal
duel
dual
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dyo͞oʹəl
enpr: jo͞oʹəl
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdʒuː.əl/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdjuː.əl/
enpr: d(y)o͞o'əl
ipa: /ˈdu.əl/
ipa: /ˈdju.əl/
rhymes: -uːəl
homophone: duel
homophone: jewel (yod-coalescence)
Forms: form: duals
form: dualing
form: dualling
form: dualed
form: dualed
form: dualled
form: dualled
form: du.
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
Senses: examples: text: I have to declare an interest and I do so with some ambivalence because if the road is dualled it is likely to take half of my front garden.
ref: 1994, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates:
text: The power generation and propulsion systems are dualled to accommodate component failure and maintain propulsion at reduced speed should any part of one system be lost.
ref: 2006, David Lowe, Intermodal Freight Transport, page 163:
text: The investment will allow Nexus to increase service frequencies, reduce journey times, and improve reliability by dualling three sections of line between Pelaw and South Shields.
ref: 2021 September 22, “Network News: Nexus increases Tyne and Wear Metro train order to 46”, in RAIL, number 940, page 23:
glosses: To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway.
weekend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːˈkɛnd/
ipa: /ˈwiːˌkɛnd/
ipa: /ˈwiˌkɛnd/
ipa: /ˈwiːˌkend/
rhymes: -ɛnd
rhymes: -iːkɛnd
homophone: weakened stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: weekends
form: week-end
form: w/e
Etymology: From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).
Senses: examples: text: “They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.
ref: 1874 July–December, W. Senior, “With the Herring Fleet”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 704:
text: […] often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the week-end — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.
ref: 1903, Francis Markham with Sir Clements Robert Markham, Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 34:
text: I love a phrase of Dizzy's in one of his later letters to Lady Bradford, whom he reproaches for her addiction to what we now call week-end visits to country houses: “the monotony of organized platitude.”
ref: 1921 June 21, The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G., chapter XX, in Memories and Reflections 1852–1927, volume 2, Cassell and Company, published 1928, →OCLC, page 197:
glosses: The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
Derived terms: dirty weekend
freakend
Halloweekend
have a good weekend
hen weekend
like a wet weekend
long weekend
lost weekend
nonweekend
something for the weekend
stag weekend
weekend bag
weekend dad
weekend effect
weekender
weekendful
weekendly
weekend warrior
weekendy
Related terms: weekday
weekend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːˈkɛnd/
ipa: /ˈwiːˌkɛnd/
ipa: /ˈwiˌkɛnd/
ipa: /ˈwiːˌkend/
rhymes: -ɛnd
rhymes: -iːkɛnd
homophone: weakened stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: weekends
form: weekending
form: weekended
form: weekended
form: week-end
form: w/e
Etymology: From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).
Senses: examples: text: We'll weekend at the beach.
glosses: To spend the weekend.
weekend
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːˈkɛnd/
ipa: /ˈwiːˌkɛnd/
ipa: /ˈwiˌkɛnd/
ipa: /ˈwiːˌkend/
rhymes: -ɛnd
rhymes: -iːkɛnd
homophone: weakened stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: week-end
form: w/e
Etymology: From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm wearing my weekend shoes.
glosses: Of, relating to or for the weekend.
examples: text: a weekend break
glosses: Occurring at the weekend.
weekday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːkdeɪ/
rhymes: -iːkdeɪ
Forms: form: weekdays
form: week-day
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ. By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”).
Senses: examples: text: The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton.
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:
glosses: Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
glosses: Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
glosses: Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
glosses: Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).
Synonyms: word: workday
word: working day
sense: day on which work is done in legal and official usage
word: business day
Related terms: week
weeknight
leap year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːp ˌjɪə/
ipa: /ˈlip ˌjɪ(ə)ɹ/
Forms: form: leap years
form: leapyear
Etymology: PIE word
 *yóh₁r̥
From Late Middle English lepe-yer, lep-yer (“year with 366 days, leap year”), from lep, lepe (“act of jumping, jump, leap”) (from Old English hlīep, hlȳp, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *klewp- (“to spring; to stumble”)) + yer (“calendrical unit based on a complete revolution of the Earth around the Sun, year”) (from Old English ġēar, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year”)). The English term is analysable as leap (noun) + year, and possibly relates to the phenomenon that any fixed date of a 365-day calendar advances one weekday each year but every date of a 366-day year after February 29 (often seen as the leap day) advances by two weekdays instead. For example, Christmas (December 25) fell on a Saturday in 2004, a Sunday in 2005, a Monday in 2006, and a Tuesday in 2007 but then “leapt” over Wednesday to fall on a Thursday in 2008 which was a leap year.
Compare also Old English mōnan hlȳp (“moon’s leap”) and Medieval Latin saltus lūnae (literally “leap moon”), an additional day added every 19 years (a Metonic cycle) to bring the lunar and solar calendars into alignment.
Cognates
* Old Norse hlaup-ár (“leap year”)
Senses: examples: text: The additional day which occurred every fourth year [after the Julian Reform] was given to February, as being the shortest month, and was inserted in the calendar between the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth day. February having then twenty-nine days, the twenty-fifth was the sixth of the calends of March, sexto calendas; the preceding, which was the additional or intercalary day, was called bis-sexto calendas, hence the term bissextile, which is still employed to distinguish the year of 366 days. The English denomination of Leap-Year would have been more appropriate if that year had differed from common years in defect, and contained only 364 days. In the ecclesiastical calendar the intercalary day is still placed between the 24th and 25th of February; in the civil calendar it is the 29th.
ref: 1842, “CALENDAR”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. […], 7th edition, volume VI, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, →OCLC, page 5, column 2:
synonyms: bissext
bissextile
bissextile year
intercalary year
glosses: A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendar with an intercalary day added to February (in the Gregorian calendar, February 29), used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year.
glosses: Any other year featuring intercalation, such as a year in a lunisolar calendar with 13 months instead of 12, used to maintain its alignment with the seasons of the solar year.
Coordinate terms: common year
Meronyms: bissextile month
leap day
leap second
Derived terms: non-leap year
hourglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊəɡlɑːs/
Forms: form: hourglasses
Etymology: From hour + glass.
Senses: examples: text: After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player.
text: The sands of thy short life are spent this hour, / And no hand in the universe can turn / Thy hourglass, if these gummed leaves be burnt / Ere thou canst mount up these immortal steps.
ref: 1819, John Keats, “Canto I”, in The Fall of Hyperion:
synonyms: sandglass
sand timer
watch glass
meronyms: pinch
glosses: A clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows.
examples: text: When I right click the desktop display to check Display Properties, it hangs and shows me only the hourglass instead of the display menu.
ref: 2002, Maximum PC (Winter 2002, page 16)
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: egg timer
coordinate_terms: beach ball
glosses: A cursor, often shaped like an hourglass, indicating that the computer is busy.
Derived terms: hourglass corset
hourglass dolphin
hourglass drum
hourglassed
hourglass figure
hourglassing
hourglass-shaped
Related terms: ⏳
⌛
tempus fugit
hourglass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊəɡlɑːs/
Forms: form: hourglasses
form: hourglassing
form: hourglassed
form: hourglassed
Etymology: From hour + glass.
Senses: examples: text: I have an ADP that I use for reporting that I have used for about a year. I only use it every 3 months, and it has worked up until now. This morning I tried using it, but after trying to open the report, it hourglassed and then showed a "Timeout expired" error. I searched this message and found out how to set the timeout limit, and set it to 300 seconds. Still the same message.
ref: 2006 May 5, Drew, “Timeout Expired but worked 3 months ago”, in microsoft.public.access.adp.sqlserver (Usenet):
glosses: To display the cursor as an hourglass to indicate that the computer is busy.
been
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːn/
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: bean
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bin
rhymes: -ɪn
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: bin
rhymes: -ɪn
note: General American, particularly common in the Great Lakes, Midwest
ipa: /bɛn/
homophone: Ben
rhymes: -ɛn
ipa: /biːn/
homophone: bean
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From Middle English been (past participle), from Old English (ġe)bēon. By surface analysis, be + -en.
Senses: examples: text: All the fries have been eaten.
text: Postman been?
raw_tags: dialectal, e.g. AAVE, omitting have
text: They been here since yesterday. (dialectal, e.g. AAVE, omitting have)
glosses: past participle of be.
examples: text: He been had that job.
text: We been knew they was doing this.
text: She was disloyal, Casper was disloyal, so them muthafuckas gotta go. Like you said[,] we been knew we was going to have to kill Frost, so let's do it and Light too.” Star said. “Say no more. I'ma handle Kisha myself.” Max said walking to the door.
ref: 2013, DayQuan Miller, Back Blocks, StealthMode Entertainment, page 147
qualifier: Southern US or African-American Vernacular
glosses: remote past form of be.
been
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːn/
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: bean
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bin
rhymes: -ɪn
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: bin
rhymes: -ɪn
note: General American, particularly common in the Great Lakes, Midwest
ipa: /bɛn/
homophone: Ben
rhymes: -ɛn
ipa: /biːn/
homophone: bean
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: Either from Middle English been (“to be”, infinitive) (from Old English bēon, equivalent to be + -en (infinitive ending)), or from a dialectal use of the preceding past tense form as an infinitive form (compare dialectal use of (I)'s, (I) is in the first person, (he) am in the third person, etc).
Senses: examples: text: It useta been five foot long.
text: "Bones", says he, "I tink dey's a-goin' to been a war ober de Alabamy question[…]
ref: 1875, Minstrel Gags and End Men's Hand-book, New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, page 83; republished New York: Literature House, 1969:
text: Yur a boald 'un to tell the missus theer to hur feeace as how ya wur 'tossicatit whan ya owt to been duing yur larful business.
ref: 1888, Mary Augusta Ward, “Book I”, in Robert Elsmere, London: Macmillan and Company, page 20:
text: […]But one time it use' to been so cold right first of the winter.
ref: 1966, DARE Tape SC10, quotee, “be v”, in Frederic G. Cassidy, Joan Houston Hall, editors, Dictionary of American Regional English, volume 1, Harvard University Press, published 1985, page 178:
qualifier: Southern US or African-American Vernacular
glosses: Synonym of be (infinitival sense).
synonyms: word: be
extra: infinitival sense
been
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːn/
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: bean
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bin
rhymes: -ɪn
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: bin
rhymes: -ɪn
note: General American, particularly common in the Great Lakes, Midwest
ipa: /bɛn/
homophone: Ben
rhymes: -ɛn
ipa: /biːn/
homophone: bean
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From Middle English been (plural indicative form); equivalent to be + -en (plural present ending).
Senses: examples: text: My love is fair, my love is gay, / As fresh as been the flowers in May;
ref: 1584, George Peele, The Arraignment of Paris, I, ii:
text: Theſe Beaſtes been of higheſt Regard and Price / To pleaſure Princes and to murder vice.
ref: 1606, N[athaniel] B[axter], Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London: […] Ed. Allde, for Edward White, […], →OCLC, signature G, recto:
text: Where when men been, there's ſeldome eaſe,
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, prologue]:
text: O Friar, those are faults that are not seen, / Ours open, and of worse example been.
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, iii:
text: Some of green Boughs their slender Cabbins frame, / Some lodged were Tortoſa's streets about, / Of all the Hoſt the Chief of Worth and Name / Aſſembled been, a Senate grave and ſtout;
ref: 1686, Edward Fairfax, transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne: Or, The Recovery of Jerusalem, section 20, page 8:
glosses: plural simple present of be.
been
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːn/
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: bean
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bin
rhymes: -ɪn
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: bin
rhymes: -ɪn
note: General American, particularly common in the Great Lakes, Midwest
ipa: /bɛn/
homophone: Ben
rhymes: -ɛn
ipa: /biːn/
homophone: bean
rhymes: -iːn
ipa: /biːn/
ipa: /biːn/
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: bean
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bin
rhymes: -ɪn
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: bin
rhymes: -ɪn
note: General American, particularly common in the Great Lakes, Midwest
ipa: /bɛn/
homophone: Ben
rhymes: -ɛn
ipa: /biːn/
homophone: bean
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From Middle English been, bene, ben, beon, from Old English bēon (“bees”), equivalent to bee + -en (plural ending).
Senses: glosses: plural of bee
Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæksən/
rhymes: -æksən
Forms: form: Saxons
Etymology: Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.
Senses: examples: text: Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
ref: 1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford, volume 1, page 170:
glosses: A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
examples: text: [...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]
ref: 2002, Jonathan Grix, Paul Cooke, East German distinctiveness in a unified Germany, page 142:
text: The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.
ref: 2005, Judd Stitziel, Fashioning socialism: clothing, politics, and consumer culture, page 69:
text: Dealing with people there was different from the way I dealt with Saxons, Berliners and others back in Leipzig.
ref: 2008, Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk, From Leipzig to Venezuela, page 40:
text: Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […]
ref: 2014, Marco Polo, Dresden Marco Polo Guide, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.
examples: text: Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came.
ref: 1973, Sean McCarthy, “Shanagolden”:
glosses: An English/British person.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
glosses: A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
Derived terms: Transylvanian Saxon
Related terms: Anglo-Saxon
Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæksən/
rhymes: -æksən
Etymology: Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.
Senses: glosses: The language of the ancient Saxons.
examples: text: Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […]
ref: 2014, Marco Polo, Dresden Marco Polo Guide, →ISBN, page 21:
text: But does this mean that Germans nowadays speak Saxon? Far from it, in fact; Saxon is the most widely despised dialect in Germany, by a wide margin.
ref: 2014, Gaston Dorren, Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe, →ISBN:
glosses: The dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
glosses: A place name:
A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A municipality in Martigny district, Valais canton, Switzerland.
Related terms: word: Anglo-Saxon
word: Friso-Saxon
word: West Saxon
word: Semi-Saxon
word: Scoto-Saxon
english: Old Low Saxon, Old Low German
translation: Old Low Saxon, Old Low German
word: Old Saxon
english: Middle Low Saxon, Middle Low German
translation: Middle Low Saxon, Middle Low German
word: Middle Saxon
english: New Low German
translation: New Low German
word: New Saxon
word: Upper Saxon
word: Transylvanian Saxon
Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæksən/
rhymes: -æksən
Forms: form: more Saxon
form: most Saxon
Etymology: Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.
Senses: examples: text: But his bitch queen was Saxon to the bone and her legacy showed in the sons that Vortigern bred off her. Katigern Minor might be young, but he has become what his grandfather never was – more Saxon than Celt.
ref: 2009, M. K. Hume, King Arthur: Dragon’s Child, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 340:
text: Eadyth managed to make one of her beekeeping veils into a bridal veil hanging from a circlet of Drifa’s flowers. All this attire was more Saxon than Norse. So she wore her hair in one long braid, Viking style, and at her shoulder was a brooch in a writhing, intertwined animal design. / Her sisters looked just as lovely in their bright gowns, Tyra’s Saxon style, but the others pure Viking.
ref: 2010, Sandra Hill, Viking in Love, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 353:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons.
glosses: Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany.
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.
examples: text: He was a large, very Saxon type of man; that is to say, an English one, having shed the vices and cruelties and developed the patience and cool-headedness.
ref: 1987, Idries Shah, Adventures, Facts and Fantasy in Darkest England, London: The Octagon Press, →ISBN, page 325:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.
Related terms: Anglo-Saxon
Saxonian
penny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛni/
ipa: /ˈpɪni/
note: In compounds like twopenny, dated
ipa: /pəni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: pennies
form: pennying
form: pennied
form: pennied
form: peny
form: penie
form: pennie
Etymology: From Middle English peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.
Senses: examples: text: Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.
glosses: To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.
examples: text: You got pennied! Down it, fresher.
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to drop a penny in a person's drink with the expectation that they finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.
Related terms: english: British penny
translation: British penny
word: d
word: cent
nickel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭk'əl
ipa: /ˈnɪk.əl/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Etymology: Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.
Senses: examples: text: Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.
glosses: Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.
synonyms: word: cheap
extra: Low price and/or low value
nickel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭk'əl
ipa: /ˈnɪk.əl/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: nickels
form: nickeling
form: nickelling
form: nickeled
form: nickeled
form: nickelled
form: nickelled
Etymology: Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.
Senses: glosses: To plate with nickel.
examples: text: The 422d Bombardment Squadron extended the scope of its operations considerably in April and "attacked" Norwegian targets with the leaflet bomb. The number of cities nickeled per mission also increased until it was common for fifteen to twenty-five to be scheduled as targets for a five-plane mission.
ref: 1948, The Army Air Forces in World War II, volume 3, Office of Air Force History, →ISBN, pages 496–497:
text: We flew numerous nickeling missions over the population centers of Southern France, dropping thousands of pounds of leaflets.
ref: 1966, Monro MacCloskey, Secret Air Missions, R. Rosen Press, →OCLC, page 36:
text: From southern Greece to northern Italy, nickeling supplied both occupied peoples and their occupiers with fairly frequent and generally accurate reports of the war — in many cases, their only authoritative source of information.
ref: 2010, Richard H. Kraemer, The Secret War in the Balkans, Author House, →ISBN, page 136:
qualifier: World War II
glosses: To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.
Related terms: false copper
garnierite
nickelling
pentlandite
counterfeit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt/
Etymology: From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum.
Senses: examples: text: This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.
text: Finding out Irish people might have been slaves is kind of like finding a counterfeit bill where you're like, "You think I can use this for something?"
ref: 2023 October 28, Ryan Long, Irish Slaves:
glosses: False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
examples: text: counterfeit sympathy
glosses: Inauthentic.
examples: text: an arrant counterfeit rascal
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 vi]:
glosses: Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
Derived terms: anticounterfeit
counterfeitly
counterfeitment
counterfeitness
noncounterfeit
uncounterfeit
counterfeit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt/
Forms: form: counterfeits
Etymology: From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum.
Senses: examples: text: Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
ref: 1878, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Francis Atterbury”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition:
text: ‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.
ref: 1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD, published 2013, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: A non-genuine article; a fake.
glosses: One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
examples: text: Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
examples: text: I fear thou art another counterfeit; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
glosses: An impostor; a cheat.