cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
precipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/
ipa: /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/
ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/
ipa: /pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/
ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/
ipa: /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/
Forms: form: more precipitate
form: most precipitate
form: præcipitate
Etymology: From Latin praecipitātus (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).
Senses: examples: text: When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
ref: 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, book 2, lines 853–854:
synonyms: headlong
precipitant
precipitous
glosses: headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
synonyms: brant
glosses: Very steep; precipitous.
examples: text: Though thoughtful far beyond your years, you are very inexperienced; and I would not have a preference that may originate in your little knowledge of others, or a romantic exaggeration of slight kindnesses, lead you into a precipitate union with me, unless you most seriously examine your own heart, and weigh the various consequences.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 145:
synonyms: word: hotheaded
word: impetuous
word: rash
word: daring
word: devil-may-care
word: headstrong
word: heedless
word: impetuous
word: imprudent
word: impulsive
word: precipitant
word: precipitate
word: precipitous
word: quick-and-dirty
word: rash
word: reckless
word: sudden
word: temeritous
glosses: With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
examples: text: The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
text: a precipitate case of disease
text: Being a trifle precipitate in his entry, he trod on a bottle, and was instantly extinguished by a Japanese screen, which appeared to collapse on him out of pure decrepitude.
ref: 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 5:
text: 'One moment!" said Malone. "I beg, sir, that you will not be precipitate. I value your friendship too much to risk the loss of it if it can, in any way, be avoided."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
examples: text: It had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that I was shut inside I had a momentary longing for precipitate retreat.
ref: 1931, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
synonyms: word: abrupt
word: precipitous
word: subitaneous
word: abrupt
word: precipitant
word: precipitate
word: precipitous
word: spontaneous
word: subitaneous
word: sudden
word: suddent
glosses: Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
Derived terms: precipitately
precipitateness
precipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/
ipa: /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/
ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/
ipa: /pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/
Forms: form: precipitates
form: præcipitate
Etymology: From New Latin praecipitatum. Equivalent to Latin praecipitō + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 381:
glosses: A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
Derived terms: yellow precipitate
hammada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammadas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hamada.
yardang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yardangs
Etymology: From yardan, ablative of Turkish yar ("cliff", "precipice").
Senses: examples: text: My Chinese guide and I were standing in the Yardang National Geopark, on the border between Gansu Province and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China’s extreme northwest. The nearest town was Dunhuang, 110 miles to the southeast. Enormous yardangs — curving sandstone and mudstone strata carved by winds — towered over us. Others floated on the far horizon.
ref: 2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2020:
glosses: A large wind-eroded mass of soft or poorly consolidated rock in a desert region which lies parallel to the prevailing winds, often with an unusual shape.
wikipedia: Dunhuang Yardang National Geopark
Related terms: ventifact
reg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕj
enpr: rĕg
ipa: /ɹɛd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ɹɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: regs
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: examples: text: I've been going to that chat room for months, and I know most of the regs by now.
glosses: A regular.
examples: text: It makes me sad to see a prisoner complain about another prisoner not writing. His or her mailroom (or yours!) might have just tossed the letter; besides the rules and regs for prisoners writing each other are different in every state, and may change for no reason. Or, the rules may be ignored (especially for gay prisoners) also, even prisons that do accept mail from other prisoners, may not deliver it to people in isolation or on certain security levels.
ref: 1990 December 16, “Prisoners Writing Prisoners”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 18:
glosses: A regulation.
glosses: registrar
glosses: registration
examples: text: What's your reg and where are you parked?
glosses: registration
Clipping of registration number.
glosses: registry
Derived terms: on the reg
reg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕj
enpr: rĕg
ipa: /ɹɛd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ɹɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
rhymes: -ɛɡ
rhymes: -ɛɡ
enpr: rĕj
enpr: rĕg
ipa: /ɹɛd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ɹɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: regs
Etymology: From regolith.
Senses: examples: text: As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel. We call this sort of gravelly stuff reg.
ref: 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 66:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert.
Synonyms: sense: hard surface of rock in sand
word: hammada
sense: hard surface of rock in sand
word: serir
sense: hard surface of rock in sand
word: yardang
sense: hard surface of rock in sand
word: desert pavement
Related terms: erg
koum
zeugen
property
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ti/
ipa: [ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ɾi]
enpr: prŏʹpərdē
Forms: form: properties
form: propertying
form: propertied
form: propertied
form: propretie
Etymology: From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietās (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Equivalent to proper + -ty. Doublet of propriety.
Senses: examples: text: His voyce was propertied
As all the tuned Spheres, and that to Friends
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: To invest with properties, or qualities.
examples: text: Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:
I am too high-born to be propertied,
To be a secondary at control,
Or useful serving-man and instrument,
To any sovereign state throughout the world.
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 V, scene ii]:
glosses: To make a property of; to appropriate.
Related terms: physical property
serir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: serirs
Senses: examples: text: Immediately south of Tejerri, the most southern village of the Gatrun oasis, the sandy desert disappears, and great serirs, large fields covered by fine gravel, slowly lead up into a succession of broad valleys and ridges of an unsurpassed wildness.
ref: 1909, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), The Geographical Journal, page 256:
glosses: A desert of pebbles or larger stones.
Synonyms: reg
Related terms: reg
such
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌt͡ʃ/
ipa: /sɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: /sɛt͡ʃ/
ipa: /sʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: sich
form: sech
form: soch
form: soche
Etymology: From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Low German sülk, sulk, suk (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.
Senses: examples: text: Such is life, such as it is.
text: When applied to women, 'handsome' is used mostly of such as are middle-aged or elderly.
text: These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction of such as run astray after their lost goods : but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate of such as have chances in the public lottery.
ref: 1804, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler, C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315
text: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Some are just no-good locals—drunks and such—who’d just as soon beg or steal as work.
ref: 2000, Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
such
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌt͡ʃ/
ipa: /sɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: /sɛt͡ʃ/
ipa: /sʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: suches
form: sich
form: sech
form: soch
form: soche
Etymology: From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Low German sülk, sulk, suk (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.
Senses: examples: text: But granted that Plato does not accept the this-such distinction, why saddle him with the view that all things are thises, rather than all suches or perhaps even neither?
ref: 1991, Frank A. Lewis, Substance and Predication in Aristotle:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something being indicated that is similar to something else.
Derived terms: and such
as such
many such cases
no such luck
no such thing
some such
such-and-such
such and such
such as
such a waste
suchlike
such like
suchness
such or such
such that
there's no such thing as a free lunch
thus and such
until such time as
tight
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: tīt
ipa: /taɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: tighter
form: tightest
Etymology: From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”).
Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur (“dense”), Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht (“dense”), German dicht (“dense”).
The current form with t- /t/ rather than etymologically-expected th- /θ/ arose in Middle English under the influence of the etymologically-unrelated verbs tighten and tight, which come from a different Proto-Indo-European root (starting with *d- and thus regularly having t-).
Senses: examples: text: Hold on tight to the rope.
text: 'I had my eyes tight shut.'
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 100:
glosses: Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
examples: text: Good night, sleep tight.
glosses: Soundly.
Synonyms: sense: firmly
word: fast
sense: firmly
word: firmly
sense: firmly
word: securely
sense: firmly
word: tightly
sense: soundly
word: soundly
sense: soundly
word: well
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the adverb tight
word: hold tight
sense: Terms derived from the adverb tight
word: sit tight
sense: Terms derived from the adverb tight
word: sleep tight
tight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tīt
ipa: /taɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: tights
form: tighting
form: tighted
form: tighted
Etymology: From Middle English tighten, thyhten (“to make tight”); see tighten.
Senses: glosses: To make tight; tighten.
glosses: To make water-tight.
raw_tags: of a vessel
elute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈluːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: elutes
form: eluting
form: eluted
form: eluted
Etymology: First attested in 1731. Borrowed from Latin ēlūtus, from the verb ēluō (“I wash away”).
Senses: examples: text: A mixture of isooctane and ethyl acetate can be used to elute triglycerides from a complex lipid solution.
text: 1969, D'Arcy R. George, J. Richard Ross, Improved Eluex Process for Eluting Uranium from Ion Exchange Resins, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Report of Investigations 7227, page 6,
Under these conditions the organic was loaded to 4.96 grams U₃0₈ per liter and the resin was eluted to 2.0 grams and 0.6 gram per liter in stages 3 and 4, respectively.
glosses: To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse.
Derived terms: coelute
electroelute
elutor
reelute
uneluted
Related terms: eluant
eluate
eluent
eluotropic
elutable
elution
desorb
leach
rumba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʊmbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʌmbə/
Forms: form: rumbas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish rumba.
Senses: examples: text: The music of Cuba has had a worldwide influence on forms of song and dance. René Buch who conceived and directed a musical “collage” called “¡Habana!” at the Repertorio Español on East 27th Street, points out the influence on Spain, for example, which received ‘habaneras’ and ‘contradanzas’ from Cuba; in this century, in the 1920's, the “rumba” and such songs as “El Manisero” and “Siboney” made their way north to become part of United States culture.
ref: 1982 December 27, Edward Rothstein, “Music: 40 Songs of Cuba”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2023, page C12:
glosses: A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time.
rumba
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʊmbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʌmbə/
Forms: form: rumbas
form: rumbaing
form: rumbaed
form: rumbaed
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish rumba.
Senses: glosses: To dance the rumba.
squitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈskwɪ.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: squitters
Etymology: From squit (“to squirt”) + -er. Compare skitter.
Senses: glosses: Watery stool.
examples: text: Mlat triangulates a moving aircraft's position from a number of fixed ground stations at known locations receiving and time stamping an aircraft-transponder squitter.
ref: 2011, Lionel K Anderson, Virtual Radar - Using the SBS-1er and Basestation Software, page 119:
topics: communications
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A random broadcast of data occurring either intentionally or in response to noise.
apeshit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪp.ʃɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: more apeshit
form: most apeshit
form: ape shit
Etymology: From ape + shit, possibly from the tendency of certain primate species to throw faeces when extremely annoyed.
Senses: examples: text: I told him the bad news, and he went apeshit.
text: Naturally, the touchy airline crew went apeshit and when the plane landed, the LAPD was waiting for Mr. Zizza.
ref: 2003 May 1, Ann Romano, “One Day at a Time: The Week in Review”, in The Portland Mercury, retrieved 16 Jun 2009:
glosses: Out of control due to anger or excitement.
examples: text: This dope is apeshit.
glosses: awesome
Synonyms: bananas
batshit
berserk
insane
nuts
Derived terms: go apeshit
fabrica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabricas
form: fabricae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fabrica. Doublet of fabric and forge.
Senses: glosses: A workshop in an ancient Roman fort.
plaquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaquets
Senses: examples: text: To the back-piece of the cuirass for the protection of the loins, was hooked on a piece of armour, called Garde des Reins, or culettes; and the breast-piece was occasionally strengthened by an additional plate called a Plaquet.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:
text: […] The plate of steel used as additional defence, and specifically the doubling of the lower part of the breastplate; a similar plaquet was used for the back.
ref: 1899, Leicester (England), Records of the Borough of Leicester: 1103-1327, page 340
glosses: Synonym of placard, a metal plate reinforcing the lower part of an armor breastplate or backplate.
synonyms: word: placard
extra: a metal plate reinforcing the lower part of an armor breastplate or backplate
pouldron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊl.dɹən/
ipa: /ˈpoʊl.dɹən/
Forms: form: pouldrons
Senses: examples: text: To the cuirass were buckled the armour for the shoulders and arms, the first called pouldrons, the second brassarts, garde bras, les avant bras, and corruptly in English, Vambraces.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of pauldron.
vambrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvæm.bɹeɪs/
Forms: form: vambraces
form: vantbrace
form: vanbrace
form: vantbrass
form: vantbras
Etymology: From Middle English vambrace, vauntbras, from Anglo-Norman vambras, avantbras.
Senses: glosses: The piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
examples: text: To the cuirass were buckled the armour for the shoulders and arms, the first called Pouldrons, the second Brassarts, Garde bras, les avant bras, and corruptly in English, Vambraces. The vambraces included all the defence for the arms, from the pouldrons to the wrist. At the joint, or bending of the arm, the vambraces were cut obliquely, […]
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
text: Thorin reached out for the vambrace and gauntlet that made up the armour's right arm.
ref: 2003, John Marco, The Devil's Armour, 2010, Electronic Edition, unnumbered page
glosses: The pieces of armor protecting the arm from the shoulder to the wrist.
Hyponyms: sense: protection from elbow to wrist
word: couter
sense: protection from elbow to wrist
word: cowter
sense: protection from elbow to wrist
word: lower cannon of vambrace
sense: protection from shoulder to wrist
word: couter
sense: protection from shoulder to wrist
word: cowter
sense: protection from shoulder to wrist
word: lower cannon of vambrace
sense: protection from shoulder to wrist
word: rerebrace
sense: protection from shoulder to wrist
word: upper cannon of vambrace
Derived terms: guard of vambrace
Related terms: vantbras
vambraced
pauldron
gusset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌsɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡasət/
rhymes: -ʌsɪt
Forms: form: gussets
form: gousset
Etymology: From Middle English gusset, gysset, from Old French gosset, gousset (“the hollow of the armpit”), diminutive of gose, gosse (“bean pod, hull, husk”).
Senses: glosses: A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.
glosses: A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of bracket, or angular part, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: An ordinary on a coat of arms, resembling a gusset (see usage notes).
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An intercellular space at an angle where more than two cells meet.
Derived terms: gussetless
gusset plate
gusset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌsɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡasət/
rhymes: -ʌsɪt
Forms: form: gussets
form: gusseting
form: gusseted
form: gusseted
form: gousset
Etymology: From Middle English gusset, gysset, from Old French gosset, gousset (“the hollow of the armpit”), diminutive of gose, gosse (“bean pod, hull, husk”).
Senses: glosses: To make with a gusset; to sew a gusset into.
gousset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goussets
form: gusset
Etymology: Borrowed from French gousset.
Senses: examples: text: At the joint, or bending of the arm, the vambraces were cut obliquely, the vacancies on the inside, when the arms were streightened, were covered by pieces of mail callet [sic] Goussets, and afterwards by a contrivance of plates resembling hearts.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
glosses: A small piece of mail, providing some protection where two plates of armor are joined, usually at the elbows, under the shoulders, and behind the knees.
greeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greeves
form: greave
form: grieve
Etymology: From Middle English gryve, grayve, from Old Norse greifi (“a count, earl, steward”), akin to Swedish and Danish greve (“a count, earl”), Old English ġerēfa (“reeve”). More at reeve.
Senses: glosses: A reeve; steward.
Derived terms: greeveship
greeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greeves
Etymology: From Middle English greve, grayve, see greave.
Senses: examples: text: For the defence of the legs were worn a sort of iron boots, called Greeves.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of greave.
Tizona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sword of Rodrigo Díaz, known as El Cid ("the Lord" or "the Master"). Also called just Cid or Campeador, a famous Castilian knight born in Vivar, Spain.
shield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Forms: form: shields
form: shielding
form: shielded
form: shielded
Etymology: From Middle English shelden, from Old English scildan.
Senses: examples: text: Sunscreen shields against the harmful effects of solar rays.
text: Shots rang out and a 15-year-old boy, shielding a woman from the line of fire, was killed.
ref: 2004, Chris Wallace, “Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To protect, to defend.
examples: text: The government has updated its guidance for people who are shielding taking into account that COVID-19 disease levels have decreased over the last few weeks.
ref: 2020 May 31, “Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from COVID-19”, in GOV.UK:
glosses: To shelter; to protect oneself.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To protect from the influence of.
Derived terms: beshield
target
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːɡɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹɡɪt/
ipa: [ˈtʰɑɹɡɪt̚]
ipa: /ˈtɐːɡɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɐːɡət/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈɑ(r).ɡɛʈ/
note: proscribed, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /-dʒɛʈ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡɪt
Forms: form: targets
form: targeting
form: targetting
form: targeted
form: targeted
form: targetted
form: targetted
Etymology: From Middle French targette, targuete, diminutive of targe (“light shield”), from Old French, from Frankish *targa (“buckler”), akin to Old Norse targa (“small round shield”) (whence also Old English targe, targa (“shield”)) from Proto-Germanic *targǭ (“edge”), from Proto-Indo-European *derǵʰ- (“fenced lot”). Akin to Old High German zarga (“side wall, rim”) (German Zarge (“frame”)), Spanish tarjeta (“card”).
Senses: glosses: To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
examples: text: The advertising campaign targeted older women.
glosses: To aim for as an audience or demographic.
examples: text: This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To produce code suitable for.
Derived terms: targetability
targetable
epiglottis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛp.ɪˈɡlɒt.ɪs/
ipa: /ˌɛp.ɪˈɡlɑ.tɪs/
ipa: [ˌɛp.ɪˈɡlɑ.ɾɪs]
ipa: /ˌep.ɪˈɡlɔt.ɪs/
ipa: [ˌep.ɪˈɡlɔɾ.ɪs]
rhymes: -ɒtɪs
Forms: form: epiglottises
form: epiglottides
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin epiglōttis, from Ancient Greek ἐπῐγλωττῐ́ς (epĭglōttĭ́s, “valve covering the larynx”), from ἐπῐ- (epĭ-, “upon, over”) + γλωττῐ́ς (glōttĭ́s, “glottis, mouth of the windpipe”); equivalent to epi- (“upon; above”) + glottis.
Senses: examples: text: My epiglottis is full of bees!
ref: 2004, Top Gear, season 5, episode 9, Jeremy Clarkson (actor):
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea, and in Homo sapiens also a speech organ.
Derived terms: epiglottal
epiglottic
epiglottidean
epiglottidectomy
epiglottitis
epiglotto-
Related terms: glottis
glottis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɒt.ɪs/
ipa: /ˈɡlɑ.tɪs/
ipa: [ˈɡlɑ.ɾɪs]
ipa: /ˈɡlɔt.ɪs/
ipa: [ˈɡlɔɾ.ɪs]
rhymes: -ɒtɪs
Forms: form: glottises
form: glottides
Etymology: Late 16th century borrowing from New Latin glōttis, from Ancient Greek γλωττῐ́ς (glōttĭ́s, “mouth of the windpipe”), from γλῶττᾰ (glôttă, “tongue”) + -ῐς (-ĭs, feminine noun suffix). Cognates include Latin gula.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The opening between the true vocal cords which is located in the larynx and affects voice modulation through expansion or contraction.
Derived terms: diglottism
epiglottis
glottal
glottic
glotto-
glott-
subglottis
supraglottis
Related terms: glottalise
glottalize
-glot
proglottis
buckler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk.lə/
ipa: /ˈbʌk.lɚ/
Forms: form: bucklers
Etymology: From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bucler, (French bouclier) from Vulgar Latin *bucculārius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”). Merged with buckle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Bucklers will be assigned to buckle up drivers in the morning and make sure they stay buckled up.
ref: 1986, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service, page 6724:
glosses: One who buckles something.
examples: text: I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose, my buckler cut through and through; my sword hacked like a hand-saw -- ecce signum!
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], line 166:
glosses: A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
examples: text: The target or buckler was carried by the heavy armed foot, it answered to the scutum of the Romans; its form was sometimes that of a rectangular parallelogram, but more commonly had it's bottom rounded off; it was generally convex, being curved in it's breadth.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
glosses: A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
examples: text: Most zeids have spiny projections or bucklers at the dorsal- and anal-fin bases and bony plates on the ventral surface of the abdomen.
ref: 2000, Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 186:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
Derived terms: buckler fern
buckler plate
knee-buckler
rushbuckler
swashbuckler
buckler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk.lə/
ipa: /ˈbʌk.lɚ/
Forms: form: bucklers
form: bucklering
form: bucklered
form: bucklered
Etymology: From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bucler, (French bouclier) from Vulgar Latin *bucculārius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”). Merged with buckle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right, / Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: To shield; to defend.
roundel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊn.dəl/
Forms: form: roundels
form: roundle
Etymology: From Middle English roundel, rundel, rondel, from Old French rondel (“something round and flat”), a diminutive of rond (“round”). More at round.
Senses: examples: text: the London Underground roundel
text: The Overground has been given a seat at the Underground table. It has the roundel, the Johnston typeface, and it is on the Tube map.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
examples: text: Come, now a roundel and a fairy song ... Fairies sing.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, 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, [Act II, scene ii], line 1:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A roundelay or rondelay.
examples: text: The roundel or rondache derived its name from its circular figure, it was made of oziers boards of light wood, sinews or ropes, covered with leather, plates of metal, or stuck full of nails in concentric circles or other figures.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 26:
glosses: A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: cockade
glosses: A circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service.
glosses: A bastion of a circular form.
examples: text: […] a Roundel-boy; whose business, is, to walk by his master, and defend him with his Roundel or Umbrella from the heat of the sun.
ref: 1773, Edward Ives, A Voyage from England to India, page 21:
glosses: An umbrella.
rondache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æʃ
Forms: form: rondaches
Senses: examples: text: The roundel or rondache derived its name from its circular figure, it was made of oziers boards of light wood, sinews or ropes, covered with leather, plates of metal, or stuck full of nails in concentric circles or other figures.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 26:
glosses: A circular shield carried by foot soldiers.
pavais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavaises
Etymology: From Middle French pavais, Old French pavaix (see modern French pavois); see pavis for more.
Senses: examples: text: The pavais, pavache, or tallevas was a large shield, or rather a portable mantlet, capable of covering a man from head to foot, and probably of sufficient thickness to resist the missive weapons then in use.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 27:
glosses: Alternative form of pavis.
pavache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavaches
Senses: examples: 1786: Pavaches were sometimes supported by props; they were also used at sea to defend the sides of vessels, like the present netting of our ships of war; this defence was called a pavisade, it may be seen in the representation of ancient ships. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 27.
glosses: A large shield, similar to a pavais.
tallevas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The pavais, pavache, or tallevas was a large shield, or rather a portable mantlet, capable of covering a man from head to foot, and probably of sufficient thickness to resist the missive weapons then in use.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 27:
glosses: A pavais.
pavisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavisors
Senses: examples: text: In the list of the army that accompanied K. Edward III., to Calais, we find many pavisors, these were probably men trained to the use of the pavais, which must have required dexterity as well as courage.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 27:
glosses: A foot soldier trained in the use of the pavais.
pavisade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavisades
Senses: examples: text: Pavaches were sometimes supported by props; they were also used at sea to defend the sides of vessels, like the present netting of our ships of war; this defence was called a pavisade, it may be seen in the representation of ancient ships.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 27:
glosses: A row of shields hung on the side of a ship to protect it at war and discourage boarding by enemies.
Related terms: pavis
bullet train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullet trains
Etymology: Calque from Japanese 弾(だん)丸(がん)列(れっ)車(しゃ) (dangan ressha).
Senses: glosses: A Shinkansen train; a Japanese high-speed rail train.
glosses: Any high-speed train which resembles such a train.
Related terms: bullet-nose
intrada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːdə
Forms: form: intradas
form: intrata
Senses: examples: text: We listened to Telemann's intrada for two flutes.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of music that serves as an introduction.
intrata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intratas
form: intrada
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin intrata.
Senses: examples: text: She likes the intrata from Bach's fifth 'cello suite.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of music which serves as an introduction.
badmash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌdˈmɑːʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːʃ
Forms: form: badmashes
form: badmaash
form: budmash
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani بدمعاش (badm'āś) / बदमाश (badmāś) and its source, Persian بدمعاش (badma'âš), from بد (bad, “bad, evil”) + معاش (ma'âš, “life, livelihood”), ultimately from Arabic عَاشَ (ʕāša, “to live”). Compare lowlife, which is a similar formation in English.
Senses: examples: text: ‘However big a badmash one is – if one's happy in consequence, that's some justification.’
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 102:
text: Once the five had left for the village, the Dutchman had immediately begun working on the badmash who had stood up to the havildar.
ref: 2013, Garry Douglas Kilworth, Rogue Officer:
text: His wife laughed. “You'll see purdahs when we reach Port Said.” “And a bazaar?” “That's a market!” “Who's a badmash?” “A bad man is called a badmash. I'm not a badmash. Am I?”
ref: 2014, Dr. Ulhas R. Gunjal, Home, Again!: A Novel of Identity, Self-Discovery, and Tragedy:
qualifier: British Pakistani
glosses: A rogue, ruffian or miscreant.
budmash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budmashes
Senses: examples: text: ‘His name,’ said Imam Din, as though the name were part of the crime, ‘is Muhammad Din, and he is a budmash.’
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Story of Muhammad Din”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2004, page 194:
glosses: Alternative spelling of badmash.
csardas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑːdæʃ/
ipa: /ˈzɑːdəs/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹdɑʃ/
Forms: form: csardases
form: csárdás
form: czardas
Etymology: From Hungarian csárdás, adjectival form of csárda (“tavern”), from Ottoman Turkish چارطاق (çardak, “arbour, summerhouse”), from Persian چارتاق (čârtâq, “four-arch”), from چار (čâr, “four”) + طاق (tâq, “arch”).
Senses: examples: text: `When you danced the czardas with Admiral Horthy?'
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 229:
glosses: An intricate Hungarian folk dance characterized by variations in tempo. The two main parts are called lassú (slow) and friss (quick).
glosses: The music for such a dance.
dubash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubashes
form: debash
form: dobash
Etymology: From Hindi दो (do, “two”) + भाषा (bhāṣā, “languages”).
Senses: examples: text: This I learnt was the captain's dubash, a native man acting as general steward who provides every household article as well as of merchandise, and engages all inferior servants.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90
text: […] inhabitants complain to him, and as he does not understand the language he is obliged to call for his dubash to interpret what they say; […]
ref: 1844, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, John Gurwood, The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, page 1625:
glosses: An Indian translator or interpreter, particularly in their role as a household steward for British colonizers.
ferash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferashes
form: farash
form: faraz
form: farrash
form: ferosh
form: ferrash
form: frash
form: frass
Etymology: From Arabic فِرَاش (firāš, “to spread a carpet”).
Senses: glosses: A menial domestic servant responsible for spreading carpets, pitching tents, etc.
Kizilbash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kizilbash
form: Kizilbashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qizilbash.
sabretache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.bə(ɹ)ˌtæʃ/
ipa: /ˈsæ-/
ipa: /-b(ɹ)ə-/
Forms: form: sabretaches
form: sabretash
Etymology: From French sabretache, from German Säbeltasche, from Säbel (“sabre”) and Tasche (“pocket”).
Senses: examples: text: There were five buttons blown off my dress jacket; the slings of my sabretache were cut off, but my sword belts were not touched.
ref: 1877, John Doyle, A Descriptive Account of the Famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava:
text: 1896, Letter from Winston Churchill, on Army duty in India, to his mother
Two years in Europe—with a campaign thrown in—would I think qualify me to be allowed to beat my sword into a paper cutter & my sabretache into an election address.
text: A hand-stitched black sabretache rested on the chair beside her, together with a wide cartwheel hat of gold straw, its crown encircled by a thin black velvet ribbon which tied at the back in a short bow.
ref: 1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, page 32:
glosses: A leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt.
beth hamidrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beth midrash
form: beit midrash
Etymology: From Hebrew בית המדרש, from Hebrew בית (bet, “house of”) + המדרש [ ה־ (ha-, “the”) + מדרש (midrash, “Midrash”) ].
Senses: glosses: A Jewish house of study where the study of the Torah is undertaken.
grazier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪziə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪʒə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: graziers
Senses: examples: text: Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock.
glosses: One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property.
examples: text: They came ungraciously, but after his dark, bodeful hints as to the necessity of their attending service at the grazier's homestead next day, he was invited inside and a place was cleared for him at the table.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 66:
text: As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted.
ref: 1963, Colin Clark, Australian Hopes and Fears, page 75:
text: They have been here, the bora rings, for over twenty thousand years, it is believed; it is only in the past hundred, a hiccup in time, that indifferent graziers and the treads of their four-wheel drives have scattered the stones and have imprinted zippered cars across their sacred clay skin.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 44:
text: The ‘grazier’ image can be contrasted to that of the ‘cocky’. Graziers have tended to own large tracts of land, have inherited family wealth from the heady days of high wool prices, often reside in stately homes, possess a good education, and have taken leadership roles in the industry.
ref: 2000, Bill Pritchard, Phil McManus, Land of Discontent: The Dynamics of Change in Rural and Regional Australia, page 34:
glosses: The owner of a large property on which sheep or cattle graze.
Derived terms: grazierdom
wees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wee
wees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wee
orphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːfən/
ipa: /ˈɔɹfən/
ipa: /ˈɔːɹfənt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fən
homophone: often (non-rhotic, lot–cloth split)
Forms: form: orphans
form: orphane
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos.
 PIE word
 *h₃órbʰos
Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.
Senses: examples: text: Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
glosses: A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
glosses: A young animal with no mother.
glosses: Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
topics: media
publishing
typography
antonyms: widow
glosses: A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
examples: text: An orphan isn't harmful in a language that has garbage collection, such as Java. However, reducing the number of orphans can be expected to improve code performance.
ref: 2003, David D. Riley, The Object of Data Abstraction and Structures Using Java, page 234:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any unreferenced object.
Derived terms: deorphanized
double orphan
elder orphan
half-orphan
half orphan
maternal orphan
nonorphan
orphanage
orphanarium
orphan asylum
orphan-crushing machine
orphancy
orphan disease
orphandom
orphan drug
orphaner
orphanet
orphanhood
orphan initialism
orphanish
orphanism
orphanity
orphanize
orphan John
orphanlike
orphan medicine
orphanotrophism
orphanotrophy
orphan page
orphan receptor
orphanry
orphanship
orphan source
orphan star
orphan tears
orphan train
orphan work
orphany
paper orphan
paternal orphan
social orphan
war orphan
orphan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːfən/
ipa: /ˈɔɹfən/
ipa: /ˈɔːɹfənt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fən
homophone: often (non-rhotic, lot–cloth split)
Forms: form: orphane
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos.
 PIE word
 *h₃órbʰos
Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.
Senses: examples: text: She is an orphan child.
glosses: Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
examples: text: With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.
glosses: Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
Derived terms: orphan acronym
orphan work
Related terms: orphan drug
orphan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːfən/
ipa: /ˈɔɹfən/
ipa: /ˈɔːɹfənt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fən
homophone: often (non-rhotic, lot–cloth split)
Forms: form: orphans
form: orphaning
form: orphaned
form: orphaned
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: orphan
form: orphan
form: orphaned
form: orphan
form: orphanest
form: orphaned
form: orphanedst
form: orphans
form: orphaneth
form: orphaned
form: orphan
form: orphaned
form: orphan
form: orphaned
form: orphan
form: -
form: orphaning
form: orphaned
form: orphane
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos.
 PIE word
 *h₃órbʰos
Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.
Senses: examples: text: What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
glosses: To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive).
examples: text: When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
text: Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
Derived terms: orphan off