cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
graft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːft/
ipa: /ɡɹæft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
rhymes: -æft
Forms: form: grafts
Etymology: Uncertain. Some lexicographers suggest an extended use of Etymology 2, above, expanding from “digging” to work more generally, and from there to dishonest work. Others, however, suggest an extension from Etymology 1, shifting from “a shoot or scion” to the notion of corruption through the idea of excrescence.
Senses: glosses: Corruption in official life.
glosses: Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
glosses: A criminal’s special branch of practice.
glosses: A con job.
glosses: A cut of the take (money).
examples: text: If policemen take graft now from the liquor dealers for the privilege of keeping open on Sunday, what is to prevent them, if this bill is passed, from taking graft from the liquor men for the privilege of selling liquor before 1 p.m. on Sunday[…]?
ref: 1910, O.R. Miller, The Reform Bulletin:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
examples: text: We had to put in a lot of hard graft to get the job done.
text: Liz Truss, now the Tory leadership frontrunner, launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed “more graft” and suggesting they lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal.
ref: 2022 August 16, Pippa Crerar, quoting Liz Truss, “Leaked audio reveals Liz Truss said British workers needed ‘more graft’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Work; labor requiring effort.
glosses: A job or trade.
graft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːft/
ipa: /ɡɹæft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
rhymes: -æft
Forms: form: grafts
form: grafting
form: grafted
form: grafted
Etymology: Uncertain. Some lexicographers suggest an extended use of Etymology 2, above, expanding from “digging” to work more generally, and from there to dishonest work. Others, however, suggest an extension from Etymology 1, shifting from “a shoot or scion” to the notion of corruption through the idea of excrescence.
Senses: glosses: To work hard.
glosses: To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
Derived terms: english: grifter
translation: grifter
word: grafter
word: grift
handicap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændikæp/
Forms: form: handicaps
Etymology: From hand-in-cap, in reference to holding the game stakes in a cap.
Senses: examples: text: Age is often a handicap.
text: Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
examples: text: The older boy won, even though his opponent had been granted a handicap of five meters.
text: A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.
text: Eventually the elephant and camel were depatched by themselves with two laps start of the bicyclist and horse, the motor car being scratch. It was a sensational race owing to the conduct of the field, but on the handicap the elephant won, bicycle second, motor car third.
ref: 1901, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 1, page 31:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
qualifier: sometimes considered offensive
glosses: The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
glosses: A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
examples: text: Here some of us fell to handicap, a sport that I never knew before, which was very good.
ref: 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, page 95:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: An old card game, similar to lanterloo.
glosses: Synonym of hand-in-cap (“old English trading game”).
synonyms: word: hand-in-cap
extra: old English trading game
Derived terms: Benghazi Handicap
handicamp
handicapism
handicapitalism
handicappable
handicapper
handicap principle
handiphobia
nonhandicap
overhandicap
polyhandicap
prehandicap
re-handicap
rehandicap
self-handicap
handicap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændikæp/
Forms: form: handicaps
form: handicapping
form: handicapped
form: handicapped
Etymology: From hand-in-cap, in reference to holding the game stakes in a cap.
Senses: glosses: To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
examples: text: The candidate was handicapped by her lack of experience.
glosses: To place at disadvantage.
examples: text: Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.
glosses: To estimate betting odds.
polydactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: polydactyl
Etymology: From polydactyl + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: A polydactylous cat may have six or more toes on its paw.
text: Our results also identified the causative mutation of polydactylous Silkie was not exist in other nonpolydactyly chickens, suggesting that SNP of polydactyly in Silkie has fully penetrated all other indigenous Chinese chicken breeds.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Parallel Evolution of Polydactyly Traits in Chinese and European Chickens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having more than the normal number of digits.
polydactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολυδάκτυλος (poludáktulos), equivalent to poly- + -dactyl.
Senses: glosses: Polydactylous.
polydactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydactyls
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολυδάκτυλος (poludáktulos), equivalent to poly- + -dactyl.
Senses: glosses: A polydactylous animal.
Related terms: polydactyly
polydactylism
pyramis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɹəmɪs/
Forms: form: pyramides
Etymology: From Middle English piramis, from Latin pȳramis, from Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís).
Senses: examples: text: And from hence also shall be the geodesy of the Icosaedrum. For the finding out of the heighth of the pyramis, there is the semidiagony of the side of the decangle and the halfe ray of the circle: But the side of the decangle is a right line subtending the halfe periphery of the side of the quinquangle, or else the greater segment of the ray proportionally cut.
ref: 1636, Peter Ramus, translated by Peter Bedwell, The Way To Geometry: [Being Necessary and Usefull for Astronomers, Enginees, Geographers,. Architects, Land-meaters, Carpenters, Sea-men & Etc.], pages 277–278:
text: For as a Pyramis, beginning at a point, by little and little dilateth into all parts[…]
ref: 1838, Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford, Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land, volume 1, page 95:
glosses: A pyramid.
pyramidoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈɹæmɪdɔɪd/
Forms: form: pyramidoids
form: pyramoid
Etymology: From pyramid + -oid.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solid resembling a pyramid.
pyramoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyramoids
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of pyramidoid.
unvicar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unvicars
form: unvicaring
form: unvicared
form: unvicared
Etymology: From un- + vicar.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of the position or office of a vicar.
upbreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈbɹiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: upbreeds
form: upbreeding
form: upbred
form: upbred
Etymology: From up- + breed.
Senses: examples: text: upbred in a foreign country
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: To rear, or bring up; to nurse.
vox humana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vox humanas
Etymology: From Latin vōx hūmāna.
Senses: examples: text: Let me take this other glove off / As the vox humana swells, / And the beauteous fields of Eden / Bask beneath the Abbey bells.
ref: 1940, John Betjeman, “In Westminster Abbey”, in Old Lights for New Chancels:
text: While on maneuvers in South Carolina, Billy played hymns he knew from childhood, played them on a little black organ which was waterproof. It had thirty-nine keys and two stops — vox humana and vox celeste.^([sic])
ref: 1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage edition (1991 paperback), London: Vintage Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: An organ stop having some resemblance to the human voice.
tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: to͞oth
ipa: /tuːθ/
ipa: /tʊθ/
ipa: /tuθ/
note: South Wales (usually), Midlands (especially Birmingham)
ipa: /tʊθ/
ipa: /tʉθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
rhymes: -ʊθ
homophone: twoth
Forms: form: tooths
form: toothing
form: toothed
form: toothed
Etymology: From Middle English tothe, toth, tooth, from Old English tōþ (“tooth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Related to tusk and tine. Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian Ter, tus, täis (“tooth”), Bavarian Zåhn (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Low German Tähn (“tooth”), Luxembourgish Zant (“tooth”), Vilamovian cōn (“tooth”), Yiddish צאָן (tson, “tooth”), Danish, Swedish tand (“tooth”), Faroese tonn (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Norwegian Bokmål tann (“tooth”), Norwegian Nynorsk tann, tonn (“tooth”), Welsh dant (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Lithuanian danti̇̀s (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús)/ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Armenian ատամ (atam), Persian دندان (dandân), Sanskrit दत् (dát), दन्त (danta, “tooth”).
Senses: examples: text: His Wife sate near him, teasing matted wool, / While, from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire / He fed the spindle […]
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, The Brothers:
glosses: To provide or furnish with teeth.
examples: to tooth a saw
glosses: To indent; to jag.
examples: text: Whereas if the Header of one side of the wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing, and the joints of the Header on one side, would be in the middle of the Headers of the course they lie upon of the other side
ref: 1678, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: or the Doctrine of Handy-works, page 260:
glosses: To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
wisdom tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wisdom teeth
Etymology: From wisdom + tooth, calque of Latin dēns sapientiae, which is itself a calque of Ancient Greek σωφρονιστῆρες (sōphronistêres, “prudent or self-controlled ones (i.e. teeth)”), because they arrive approximately when one has reached the age of prudence or wisdom. Compare also German Weisheitszahn (“wisdom tooth”), Danish visdomstand (“wisdom tooth”), Swedish visdomstand (“wisdom tooth”), Icelandic vísdómstönn (“wisdom tooth”), Dutch verstandskies (“wisdom tooth”, literally “intellect molar”), German Low German Verstandskuus (“wisdom tooth”, literally “wisdom molar”). Chinese 智齒 /智齿 (zhìchǐ), Russian зуб мудрости (zub mudrosti), Hebrew שן בינה (shen biná) and Finnish viisaudenhammas also mean “tooth of wisdom”.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the four (one upper and one lower on each side) rearmost molars in humans, which typically develop between ages 18-24.
wisdom teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wisdom tooth
ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪə̯/
ipa: [ɪː]
ipa: [iː.ə]
ipa: /ɪɹ/
ipa: /iɹ/
ipa: /i˞/
ipa: /ɪə̯/
ipa: [ɪː]
ipa: [ɪə̯~ɪɐ̯]
ipa: /iə̯/
ipa: [iːə̯]
ipa: [ɪə̯~eə̯]
ipa: /iɹ/
ipa: [iːɹ]
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɛː/
homophone: air
homophone: heir (both cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ears
form: earing
form: eared
form: eared
Etymology: From Middle English ere, eare, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”) (compare Scots ear, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish øre), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausi̇̀s, Russian у́хо (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), and Old Armenian ունկն (unkn).
Senses: examples: text: I eared her language.
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To take in with the ears; to hear.
examples: text: Sometimes, the helper eared the horse down; and sometimes he used a blindfold.
ref: 1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40:
text: The general technique was to rope the horse around the neck, and, while one or two men eared the horse down (held him by the ears), the rider saddled the animal and stepped above him.
ref: 2013, Fay E. Ward, The Cowboy at Work:
glosses: To hold by the ears.
Related terms: aural
ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪə̯/
ipa: [ɪː]
ipa: [iː.ə]
ipa: /ɪɹ/
ipa: /iɹ/
ipa: /i˞/
ipa: /ɪə̯/
ipa: [ɪː]
ipa: [ɪə̯~ɪɐ̯]
ipa: /iə̯/
ipa: [iːə̯]
ipa: [ɪə̯~eə̯]
ipa: /iɹ/
ipa: [iːɹ]
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɛː/
homophone: air
homophone: heir (both cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ears
Etymology: From Middle English eere, er, from Old English ēar (Northumbrian dialect æhher), from Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
See also West Frisian ier, Dutch aar, German Ähre; also Latin acus (“needle; husk”), Tocharian B āk (“ear, awn”), Old Church Slavonic ость (ostĭ, “wheat spike, sharp point”). More at edge.
Senses: examples: text: He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.
glosses: The fruiting body of a grain plant.
Synonyms: word: head
word: spike
word: ear
word: earball
word: King Lear
word: listener
word: lug
word: shell-like
Hypernyms: word: body part
word: organ
Hyponyms: word: cauliflower ear
word: jug ears
Meronyms: word: auricle
word: outer ear
word: pinna
word: auditory canal
word: eardrum
word: malleus
word: incus
word: stapes
word: cochlea
Derived terms: corn earworm
earshoot
ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪə̯/
ipa: [ɪː]
ipa: [iː.ə]
ipa: /ɪɹ/
ipa: /iɹ/
ipa: /i˞/
ipa: /ɪə̯/
ipa: [ɪː]
ipa: [ɪə̯~ɪɐ̯]
ipa: /iə̯/
ipa: [iːə̯]
ipa: [ɪə̯~eə̯]
ipa: /iɹ/
ipa: [iːɹ]
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɛː/
homophone: air
homophone: heir (both cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ears
form: earing
form: eared
form: eared
Etymology: From Middle English eere, er, from Old English ēar (Northumbrian dialect æhher), from Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
See also West Frisian ier, Dutch aar, German Ähre; also Latin acus (“needle; husk”), Tocharian B āk (“ear, awn”), Old Church Slavonic ость (ostĭ, “wheat spike, sharp point”). More at edge.
Senses: examples: text: This corn ears well.
glosses: To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪə̯/
ipa: [ɪː]
ipa: [iː.ə]
ipa: /ɪɹ/
ipa: /iɹ/
ipa: /i˞/
ipa: /ɪə̯/
ipa: [ɪː]
ipa: [ɪə̯~ɪɐ̯]
ipa: /iə̯/
ipa: [iːə̯]
ipa: [ɪə̯~eə̯]
ipa: /iɹ/
ipa: [iːɹ]
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɛː/
homophone: air
homophone: heir (both cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ears
form: earing
form: eared
form: eared
Etymology: From Middle English eren, from Old English erian, from Proto-West Germanic *arjan, from Proto-Germanic *arjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).
Senses: examples: text: That power I have, discharge; and let them go
To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,
For I have none.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 21:4:
glosses: To plough.
Derived terms: earable
nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nōz
ipa: [nəʊ̯z]
enpr: nōz
ipa: [nəwz]
enpr: nōz
ipa: [noːz]
enpr: nōz
ipa: [noʊ̯z]
ipa: [nəʊ̯z]
enpr: nōz
ipa: [noʊ̯z]
homophone: knows
homophone: noes
homophone: nos
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: noses
form: nosing
form: nosed
form: nosed
Etymology: From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”).
See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), Low German Nääs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”).
Senses: examples: text: The ship nosed through the minefield.
glosses: To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
examples: text: She was nosing around other people’s business.
glosses: To snoop.
raw_tags: followed by around or about
in which case
examples: text: […] if you finde him not this moneth, you ſhall noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 273:
text: Dogs hurried out to nose Edmund[.]
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 18:
text: Real connoisseurs know that to nose and taste properly you have to add still water to your tulip-shaped glass so that the alcohol doesn't overwhelm you.
ref: 2002 October 20, Bob Morris, “Connoisseurship Runneth Over”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To detect by smell or as if by smell.
examples: text: [L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […]
ref: 1868, Alfred Tennyson, “Lucretius”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], published 1870, →OCLC, page 211:
glosses: To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
glosses: To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
examples: text: to nose a prayer
text: It makes far better musick when you nose Sternold's, or Wisdom's meeter.
ref: c. 1635, William Cartwright, The Ordinary:
glosses: To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
examples: text: to nose a stair tread
glosses: To furnish with a nose.
glosses: To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive
examples: text: The plane is nosing up!
text: We have to get it nosing down.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.
Derived terms: brown-nose
nosey
nose about
nose around
nose out
nose over
leg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛɡ/
note: some US dialects
ipa: /leɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: legs
form: legging
form: legged
form: legged
Etymology: From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).
Senses: glosses: To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
glosses: To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
glosses: To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
glosses: To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
Derived terms: leg around
leg it
leg out
leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛɡ/
note: some US dialects
ipa: /leɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leg..
Synonyms: word: drumstick
word: gam
word: leg
Hypernyms: word: limb
Meronyms: word: thigh
word: knee
word: calf
word: ankle
Related terms: word: foot
leg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛɡ/
note: some US dialects
ipa: /leɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leg..
foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͝ot
ipa: /fʊt/
ipa: [fʊt]
ipa: [fʊt̚]
ipa: [fʊt̚]
ipa: [fʊtʰ]
ipa: [fɵʔt]
ipa: [fʉt]
ipa: [fʊt̚]
ipa: [fɤ̈t̚]
ipa: [fʷʊt̚]
ipa: [fɯ̽t̚]
note: Cape Flats, Indian South African
ipa: [fɤt]
rhymes: -ʊt
Forms: form: foots
form: footing
form: footed
form: footed
form: foote
form: feets
form: foots
Etymology: From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous.
Cognates
*Scots fit (“foot”)
*Yola voote (“foot”)
*North Frisian fut, fötj (“foot”)
*Saterland Frisian Fout (“foot”)
*West Frisian foet (“foot”)
*Cimbrian buus, vuaz, vuus (“foot”)
*Dutch voet (“foot”)
*Dutch Low Saxon voot (“foot”)
*German Fuß, Fuss (“foot”)
*German Low German Faut, Foot (“foot”)
*Gottscheerish vúəs (“foot”)
*Luxembourgish Fouss (“foot”)
*Mòcheno vuas (“foot”)
*Vilamovian füs (“foot”)
*Yiddish פֿוס (fus, “foot”)
*Danish fod (“foot”)
*Faroese, Icelandic fótur (“foot”)
*Jamtish fót (“foot”)
*Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish fot (“foot”)
*Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus, “foot”).
Senses: glosses: To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
glosses: To pay (a bill).
examples: text: There's time enough, I hope, To foot a measure with the bonnie bride,
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1 (Dramas 2, p.217)
text: He saw a Quire of Ladies in a round,
That featly footing seem'd to skim the Ground
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book The Wife of Bath's Tale:
glosses: To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
examples: text: thieves do foot by night
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, 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 walk.
examples: text: […] Or shepherd-boy, they featly foot the green
ref: 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens:
text: People who would not have dared to foot the place before crept in and did not come to the house.
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 84:
glosses: To set foot on; to walk on.
examples: text: What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom?
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
glosses: To set on foot; to establish; to land.
examples: text: I'll sew nether stocks and mend them and foot them too
ref: 19th century, William Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth Part 1 (modern edited version)
glosses: To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
examples: text: to foot (or foot up) an account
glosses: To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
glosses: To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
Derived terms: foot the bill
knee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nē
ipa: /niː/
ipa: /ni/
ipa: /kniː/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: nee
Forms: form: knees
form: kneeing
form: kneed
form: kneed
Etymology: From Middle English kne, from Old English cnēow, from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéw-o-m, a thematic derivative of *ǵónu.
See also West Frisian knibbel, Low German Knee, Knie, Dutch knie, German Knie, Danish knæ, Norwegian kne, Swedish knä; also Hittite 𒄀𒉡 (genu), Latin genū, Tocharian A kanweṃ (dual), Tocharian B kenī, Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), Welsh glin (“knee”), Old Armenian ծունր (cunr), Avestan 𐬲𐬥𐬎𐬨 (žnum), Sanskrit जानु (jā́nu).
The obsolete plural kneen is from Middle English kneen, knen, kneon, kneuwene.
Senses: examples: text: I could as well be brought / To knee his throne and, squire-like, pension beg / To keep base life afoot
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To kneel to.
examples: text: When I blocked her from leaving, she kneed me in the groin.
glosses: To poke or strike with the knee.
examples: text: Hassan kneed himself up, over, in, soundlessly, feet on floor, knife out, eyes like blunter knife trying to cut darkness.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 489:
glosses: To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.
neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: necks
form: necking
form: necked
form: necked
Etymology: From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”). Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).
Senses: examples: text: Go neck yourself.
glosses: To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
examples: text: Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
text: Molly had been in love with Sick Boy since he necked with her in a seedy disco-bar in Leith a few weeks ago. Sick Boy had made a drunken point about HIV transmission and to illustrate it had spent most of the night french-kissing her.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 326:
synonyms: word: make out
word: French kiss#Verb
word: grope#Verb
word: pet#Verb
word: smoodge#Verb
word: snog#Verb
word: buss
word: goozer
word: kiss
word: lallygag
word: lips
word: lock lips
word: osculate
word: pash
word: play tonsil hockey
word: smooch
word: snog
word: suck face
word: swap spit
coordinate_terms: make love#Verb
glosses: To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
examples: text: Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself.
ref: 2005, Stephen Price, Monkey Man, page 146:
text: In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
ref: 2006, Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London:
text: The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.
ref: 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019:
synonyms: chug
glosses: To drink or swallow rapidly.
examples: text: Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.
ref: 2007, John H. Bickford, Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints, page 272:
glosses: To decrease in diameter.
Derived terms: necking
neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: necks
Etymology: From Danish nøkke, Swedish näck.
Senses: examples: text: The Neck no more upon the river sings.
And no Mermaid to bleach her linen flings
Upon the waves in the mild solar ray.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 234:
text: The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]
ref: 1876, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest, volume I, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 391:
topics: arts
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synonyms: nis
nix
nixie
nixy
glosses: A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
canary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛəɹi/
ipa: /kəˈnɛəɹi/
Forms: form: more canary
form: most canary
Etymology: From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).
Senses: glosses: Of a light yellow colour.
canary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛəɹi/
ipa: /kəˈnɛəɹi/
Forms: form: canaries
form: canarying
form: canaried
form: canaried
Etymology: From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).
Senses: examples: text: but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], line 11:
glosses: To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).
glosses: To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
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software
glosses: To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
Synonyms: sense: to inform
word: rat out
Related terms: serin
yellowhead
phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: frāz
ipa: /fɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: fraise
homophone: frays
Forms: form: phrases
form: phrasing
form: phrased
form: phrased
Etymology: From Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “I tell, express”).
Senses: examples: text: I wasn't sure how to phrase my condolences without sounding patronising.
text: These suns — for so they phrase 'em.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:
glosses: To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To perform (a passage) with a particular phrasing.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To divide into melodic phrases.
Derived terms: phraser
phrasing
Related terms: paraphrase
rephrase
snail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: snāl
ipa: /sneɪl/
ipa: [sn̥eɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: snails
form: snailing
form: snailed
form: snailed
Etymology: From Middle English snayl, snail, from the Old English sneġel, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel,
Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.
Senses: examples: text: The cars were snailing along the motorway during the rush hour.
glosses: To move or travel very slowly.
angel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ānʹjəl
ipa: /ˈeɪn.d͡ʒəl/
rhymes: -eɪndʒəl
ipa: /ˈeɪn.d͡ʒɛl/
enpr: ănʹjəl
ipa: /ˈæn.d͡ʒəl/
Forms: form: angels
form: angeling
form: angelling
form: angeled
form: angeled
form: angelled
form: angelled
form: Angel
form: angell
Etymology: Two Baroque angels from southern Germany, from the mid-18th century
From Middle English angel, aungel, ængel, engel, from Old English anġel, ænġel, enġel, enċġel (“angel, messenger”), from Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”); and also in part from Anglo-Norman angele, angle, from the same Latin source. The religious sense of the Greek word first appeared in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew word מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ, “messenger”) or יהוה מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ YHWH, “messenger of YHWH”). Doublet of Angelus.
Use of the term in some churches to refer to a church official derives from interpreting the "angels" of the Seven churches of Asia in Revelation as being bishops or ministers rather than angelic beings.
Senses: examples: text: Six years ago, he lost $20,000 in the first show he angelled, a turkey called Dance Night.
ref: 1944, Maurice Zolotow, Never Whistle in a Dressing Room; Or, Breakfast in Bedlam, page 59:
text: You've got to come to Chicago to meet Duell, and see Wilson, who's going to angel the show.
ref: 1984, “American Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 118, page 88:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To support by donating money.
angel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ānʹjəl
ipa: /ˈeɪn.d͡ʒəl/
rhymes: -eɪndʒəl
ipa: /ˈeɪn.d͡ʒɛl/
enpr: ănʹjəl
ipa: /ˈæn.d͡ʒəl/
Forms: form: angels
Etymology: Clipping of Angelman.
Senses: glosses: A person who has Angelman syndrome; often capitalized.
Related terms: 😇
👼
predicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kət/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kɪt/
Forms: form: predicates
form: prædicate
Etymology: From Middle English predicat(e), from Old French predicat (French prédicat), from Medieval Latin praedicātum (“thing said of a subject, predicate”), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of praedicātus, the perfect passive participle praedicō (“to proclaim”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix); see also Etymology 2 below.
The adjective was derived from the noun by metanalysis, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In the light of this observation, consider Number Agreement in a sentence like:
 (120) They seem to me [_S — to be fools/^✽a fool]
 Here, the Predicate Nominal fools agrees with the italicised NP they, in spite of the fact that (as we argued earlier) the two are contained in different Clauses at S-structure. How can this be? Under the NP MOVEMENT analysis of seem structures, sentences like (120) pose no problem; if we suppose that they originates in the — position as the subordinate Clause Subject, then we can say that the Predicate Nominal agrees with the underlying Subject of its Clause. How does they get from its underlying position as subordinate Clause Subject to its superficial position as main Clause Subject? By NP MOVEMENT, of course!
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 8, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 438:
text: Thus, in (121) (a) persuade is clearly a three-place Predicate — that is, a Predicate which takes three Arguments: the first of these Arguments is the Subject NP John, the second is the Primary Object NP Mary, and the third is the Secondary Object S-bar [that she should resign]. By contrast, believe in (121) (b) is clearly a two-place Predicate (i.e. a Predicate which has two Arguments): its first Argument is the Subject NP John, and its second Argument is the Object S-bar [that Mary was innocent].
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 323:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
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coordinate_terms: subject
glosses: The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
examples: text: A propositional variable may be treated as a nullary predicate.
text: A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
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glosses: An operator or function that returns either true or false.
predicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kət/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kɪt/
Forms: form: more predicate
form: most predicate
form: prædicate
Etymology: From Middle English predicat(e), from Old French predicat (French prédicat), from Medieval Latin praedicātum (“thing said of a subject, predicate”), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of praedicātus, the perfect passive participle praedicō (“to proclaim”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix); see also Etymology 2 below.
The adjective was derived from the noun by metanalysis, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: grammar
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sciences
glosses: Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
glosses: Predicated, stated.
topics: law
glosses: Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
Derived terms: compound predicate word
monadic predicate logic
nominal predicative
predicatable
predicate adjective
predicate calculus
predicate logic
predicate noun
predicative adjective
predicatively
predicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kət/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛdɪˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kət/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kɪt/
Forms: form: predicates
form: predicating
form: predicated
form: predicated
form: prædicate
Etymology: From Latin praedicātus, perfect passive participle of praedicō (“to publish, declare, proclaim”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from prae- (“before”) + dicō (“to proclaim, dedicate”), related to dīcō (“to say, tell”). Doublet of preach.
Senses: glosses: To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
examples: text: There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Wine-shop”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 21:
text: Of anyone else it would have been said that she was finding the afternoon rather dreary in the vast halls not of her forefathers: but of Miss Power it was unsafe to predicate so surely.
ref: 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the third (De Stancy), page 59:
glosses: To assume or suppose; to infer.
examples: text: The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.
ref: 1978, Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, page 81)
glosses: to base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
topics: grammar
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sciences
glosses: To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
examples: 1911, Encyclopedia Britannica, Conceptualism
This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is predicated of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
clause
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɔːz/
ipa: /klɔz/
ipa: /klɑz/
homophone: claws
rhymes: -ɔːz
Forms: form: clauses
form: clausing
form: claused
form: claused
Etymology: From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close, its doublet.
Senses: examples: text: The question of clausing the bills of lading, so as to avoid "dirtying", which impairs its negotiability, may also be looked into
ref: 1970, Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, Report of the session, number 11:
text: Any attempt to clause a Bill of Lading will be strenuously resisted by shippers, and they will obtain clean bills in the usual ways
ref: 1978, Samir Mankabady, The Hamburg rules on the carriage of goods by sea, page 215:
text: It was held that the bills of lading presented were in this case 'clean' as they contained no reservations by way of endorsement, clausing or otherwise to suggest that the goods were defective
ref: 1990, Alan Mitchelhill, Bills of lading: law and practice:
text: There is little authority in English law dealing with the liability of a carrier who unnecessarily clauses a bill of lading.
ref: 2004, Martin Dockra with Katherine Reece Thomas, Cases & materials on the carriage of goods by sea, page 104:
topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).
mariposa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæɹɪˈpəʊ.sə/
ipa: /ˌmæɹɪˈpoʊ.sə/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌmɛɹɪˈpoʊ.sə/
rhymes: -əʊsə
Forms: form: mariposas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mariposa (“butterfly”).
Senses: glosses: A mariposa lily (Calochortus spp.).
pico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of pico de gallo.
Related terms: pico projector
pico-
IMF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Now I tried to make amends, small talk, but he was busy with a huge sheaf of papers, on which I spotted graphs I couldn’t follow, sets of statistics from the IMF.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 194–195:
text: The prospects for the global economy as outlined by the IMF are the third weakest since 2001, behind only the 2008 financial crisis and the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Global growth has fallen below 2% just five times since 1970.
ref: 2022 October 11, Julia Horowitz, “‘The worst is yet to come’: IMF issues stark recession warning”, in CNN:
text: The OECD expects inflation to remain above 9% this year among advanced economies. It’s then forecast to fall back to 6.6% in 2023, slightly above levels forecast by the IMF.
ref: 2022 November 22, Hanna Ziady, “If the world avoids a recession, it’ll have India and China to thank”, in CNN:
qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of International Monetary Fund.
examples: text: Since 1996 and over six installments, special IMF (The Impossible Missions Force) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has been spectacularly ‘figuring things right in the face of danger, often without a plan.
ref: 2018, Deborah Cornelious, “‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’ review: mission successful”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2022:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Initialism of Impossible Mission Force, a fictional spy organization from the Mission: Impossible franchise.