cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: [ˈloː]
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: lows
form: lowing
form: lowed
form: lowed
Etymology: From Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Saterland Frisian läich (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”), German Low German leeg, leeg' (“low”), Danish lav (“low”), Faroese, Icelandic lágur (“low”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish låg (“low”). More at lie.
Senses: examples: text: I shall only say this, that all the other graces must low the sail to faith, and so it is faith must carry us through, being that last triumphing grace, […]
ref: 1654 (edition of 1762), Andrew Gray, The Works of … Andrew Gray [Edited by R. Trail and J. Stirling], page 112
text: Now to use these as Hypotheseis, as himself in his Word, is pleas'd to low himself to our capacities, is allowable:
ref: 1661 (edition of 1885), Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: … Vanity of Dogmatizing, page 85
text: The merry fowks that were the ben, / By this time 'gan to low their strain
ref: 1790, Andrew Shirrefs, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 219:
text: She was quite free of bad inventions, / But was a bitch o high pretenfions, / For the grit folk o' a dimensions, / Ran for her breed; / Dog-officers may low their pensions, / Since Venie's dead, 'Twas past the art o'man to cure her, / […]
ref: 1807, James Ruickbie, The Way-side Cottager; … Miscellaneous Poems, page 178:
text: Dat 'ill be somtin' ta hise an' low wi' a ütterly breeze.
ref: 1899 May 6, Shetland News:
glosses: To lower; to make low.
low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: [ˈloː]
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: From Middle English lough, from Old English hlōh, first and third person singular preterite of hliehhan (“to laugh”). More at laugh.
Senses: glosses: simple past of laugh.
low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: [ˈloː]
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ˈləʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: [ˈloː]
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: lows
form: lowing
form: lowed
form: lowed
Etymology: From Middle English lowen (“to low”), from Old English hlōwan (“to low, bellow, roar”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōaną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call”).
Cognate with Dutch loeien (“to low”), Middle High German lüejen (“to roar”), dialectal Swedish lumma (“to roar”), Latin calō (“I call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō), Latin clāmō (“I shout, claim”). More at claim.
Senses: examples: text: The cattle were lowing.
text: In peals of thunder now she roars--and now / She gently whimpers like a lowing cow
ref: 1726, Jonathan Swift, “The Lamentations of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of Grildrig”, in Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Brobdingnag:
text: The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
ref: 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
text: It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Honourable Mr. Glascock”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 107:
glosses: To moo.
low
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: [ˈloː]
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: lows
form: lowe
Etymology: From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”).
Cognate with Icelandic logi (“flame”), Swedish låga (“flame”), Danish lue (“flame”), German Lohe (“blaze, flames”), North Frisian leag (“fire, flame”), Old English līeġ (“fire, flame, lightning”). More at leye, light.
Senses: examples: text: She was, as one of them expressed himself, in a light low (bright flame) when they observed a king's ship, with her colours up, heave in sight from behind the cape. The guns of the burning vessel discharged themselves […]
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 85:
text: A boy fell aff his chair a' in a low, for the discharge had set him on fire […]
ref: 1843, John Wilson, The Noctes Ambrosianœ of "Blackwood"., page 478:
text: […] and he was sure to light of a verse blazing wi' a blue brimstone low that set all straight.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Mr. Yorke (continued)”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 76:
text: And methought the whole world was lighted in a lowe, and with a great cry I awoke out of the dream.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: A flame; fire; blaze.
low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: [ˈloː]
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: lows
form: lowing
form: lowed
form: lowed
form: lowe
Etymology: From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”).
Cognate with Icelandic logi (“flame”), Swedish låga (“flame”), Danish lue (“flame”), German Lohe (“blaze, flames”), North Frisian leag (“fire, flame”), Old English līeġ (“fire, flame, lightning”). More at leye, light.
Senses: examples: text: Driest wood will eithest low,
ref: 1724 (edition of 1788), Allan Ramsay, The Tea-Table Miscellany, page 23
text: They scarcely left to co'er their fuds,
 To quench their lowan drouth.
ref: 1785, Robert Burns, The Jolly Beggars:
text: […] in every crevice; and each individual brick shone and “lowed” with the intense heat. “As I am a Christian man,” thought he, “this is verily the mouth of the pit; and I am lost — lost for ever, for —”
ref: 1870, Edward Peacock, Ralf Skirlaugh, the Lincolnshire Squire: A Novel, page 197:
text: Sand, striking a light with his flint and steel, and transferring the flame when it lowed up to the bowl of his tiny elf's pipe, so small that it just let in the top of his little finger as he settled the tobacco in it as it began to burn.
ref: 1894, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Raiders, page 82:
text: The next I saw, James parried a thrust so nearly that I thought him killed; and it lowed up in my mind that this was the girl's father, and in a manner almost my own, and I drew and ran in to sever them.
ref: 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, Works, page 382:
glosses: To burn; to blaze.
low
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: [ˈloː]
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ˈləʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: [ˈloː]
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: lows
form: lawe
Etymology: From Old English hlāw, hlǣw (“burial mound”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw. Obsolete by the 19th century, survives in toponymy as -low.
Senses: examples: text: A barrow or Low, such as were usually cast up over the bodies of eminent Captains.
ref: 1686, Robert Plot, The natural history of Staffordshire:
glosses: Barrow, mound, tumulus.
examples: text: And some they brought the brown lint-seed, and flung it down from the Low.
ref: 1847, Mary Howitt, Ballads and other poems:
glosses: A hill.
low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: [ˈloː]
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /laʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ˈləʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ/
ipa: [ˈloː]
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: lo
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: lows
form: lowing
form: lowed
form: lowed
Etymology: Aphetic form of allow.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'low.
long
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒŋ/
ipa: /lɔːŋ/
note: Black Country
enpr: lo͝oŋg
ipa: /lʊŋɡ/
note: Black Country
ipa: /læŋ/
enpr: lông
ipa: /lɔŋ/
enpr: läng
ipa: /lɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: longs
form: longing
form: longed
form: longed
form: lang
Etymology: From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).
Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian lung, lüng (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), West Frisian lang (“long”), Cimbrian lång (“long”), Dutch, German and Low German lang, Luxembourgish laang (“long”), Mòcheno lònk (“long”), Vilamovian łaong (“long”), Yiddish לאַנג (lang, “long”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk lang (“long”), Faroese and Icelandic langur (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), French long, Italian lungo, Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj), до́лго (dólgo), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”).
The word shows the regular historical change of a to o before certain consonant clusters such as ng (compare with other examples in Middle and Modern English such as bond, song, throng, and wrong). The o-form may have also been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.
Senses: examples: text: The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.
ref: 2004, Thomas S. Y. Ho with Sang Bin Lee and Sang-bin Yi, The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling, page 84:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To take a long position in.
long
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒŋ/
ipa: /lɔːŋ/
note: Black Country
enpr: lo͝oŋg
ipa: /lʊŋɡ/
note: Black Country
ipa: /læŋ/
enpr: lông
ipa: /lɔŋ/
enpr: läng
ipa: /lɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: longs
form: longing
form: longed
form: longed
form: lang
Etymology: From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to long for, yearn after, grieve for, be pained, lengthen, grow longer, summon, belong”), from Proto-West Germanic *langōn, from Proto-Germanic *langōną (“to desire, long for”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“to be easy, be quick, jump, move around, vary”). Cognate with German langen (“to reach, be sufficient”), Swedish langa (“to push, pass by hand”), Icelandic langa (“to want, desire”), Dutch, German verlangen (“to desire, want, long for”).
Senses: examples: text: She longed for him to come back.
text: The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.
ref: 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
synonyms: ache
yearn
glosses: To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
Derived terms: belong
forlong
long for
longing
long
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒŋ/
ipa: /lɔːŋ/
note: Black Country
enpr: lo͝oŋg
ipa: /lʊŋɡ/
note: Black Country
ipa: /læŋ/
enpr: lông
ipa: /lɔŋ/
enpr: läng
ipa: /lɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: lang
Etymology: From Middle English long, lang, an aphetic form of Middle English ilong, ylong, from Old English ġelong, ġelang (“along, belonging, depending, consequent”); the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.
Senses: examples: text: I am of opinion, that in regarde of theſe debauches and lewde actions, fathers may, in ſome ſort, be blamed, and that it is onely long of them.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, II.8, page 224:
glosses: On account of, because of.
Synonyms: word: lengthful
word: lengthsome
word: lengthy
word: long
word: longsome
word: prolix
Hypernyms: word: large
Hyponyms: word: deep
word: tall
word: elongated
word: extended
long
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒŋ/
ipa: /lɔːŋ/
note: Black Country
enpr: lo͝oŋg
ipa: /lʊŋɡ/
note: Black Country
ipa: /læŋ/
enpr: lông
ipa: /lɔŋ/
enpr: läng
ipa: /lɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: longs
form: longing
form: longed
form: longed
form: lang
Etymology: From Middle English long, lang, an aphetic form of Middle English ilong, ylong, from Old English ġelong, ġelang (“along, belonging, depending, consequent”); the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.
Senses: examples: text: A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long’d to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Tis well, and hold your owne in any case / With such austeritie as longeth to a father.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
long
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒŋ/
ipa: /lɔːŋ/
note: Black Country
enpr: lo͝oŋg
ipa: /lʊŋɡ/
note: Black Country
ipa: /læŋ/
enpr: lông
ipa: /lɔŋ/
enpr: läng
ipa: /lɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: longs
form: lang
Etymology: Shortening of longitude.
Senses: coordinate_terms: lat
glosses: Abbreviation of longitude.
long
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒŋ/
ipa: /lɔːŋ/
note: Black Country
enpr: lo͝oŋg
ipa: /lʊŋɡ/
note: Black Country
ipa: /læŋ/
enpr: lông
ipa: /lɔŋ/
enpr: läng
ipa: /lɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: longs
form: longing
form: longed
form: longed
form: lang
Etymology: From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to belong, pertain”), from Old English *lang, which is of uncertain origin yet related to Old English ġelang (“dependent, attainable, present, belonging, consequent”), Old Saxon gilang (“ready, available”).
Senses: examples: text: Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges,
And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d:
From one that knew not what a King ſhould doe,
To one that can commaund what longs there to: […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:
glosses: To belong.
tall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːl/
ipa: [tʰoːɫ]
ipa: /taːl/
ipa: /tɔl/
ipa: /tɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: talls
Etymology: From Middle English tall, talle, tal (“seemly, becoming, handsome, good-looking, excellent, good, valiant, lively in speech, bold, great, large, big”), from Old English *tæl, ġetæl (“swift, ready, having mastery of”), from Proto-Germanic *talaz (“submissive, pliable, obedient”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, reckon”).
Cognate with Scots tal (“high, lofty, tall”), Old Frisian tel (“swift”), Old Saxon gital (“quick”), Old High German gizal (“active, agile”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌻𐍃 (untals, “indocile, disobedient”).
The Oxford English Dictionary notes: "The sense development [of tall] is remarkable, but is paralleled more or less by that of other adjectives expressing estimation, such as buxom, canny, clean, clever, cunning, deft, elegant, handsome, pretty, proper; German klein, as compared with English clean, presents the antithesis to modern tall as compared to tall in early Middle English. It has been conjectured that in the sense 'high of stature' it is a different word, adopted from the Welsh tal in some sense; but the latter is, according to Professor Rhŷs, merely a 16th-century borrowing of the English word (in Owen Pughe's Dictionary erroneously mixed up with the genuine Welsh word tal (“end, brow, forehead”), with which it has no possible connection.)"
Senses: examples: text: But in the second generation of hybrids (from seed of the first) talls and dwarfs were both present, and in the proportion of twelve talls to four dwarfs.
ref: 1912, George Francis Atkinson, Botany for High Schools, Henry Holt and Company:
text: The industries that best accommodate talls are those that have faced personal injury lawsuits.
ref: 2009, Arianne Cohen, The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High, page 197:
text: Fremantle remains unsure about the status a pair of key talls ahead of a defining clash with Adelaide at Optus Stadium.
ref: 2018 June 5, Chris Robinson, “Fremantle Dockers defender Alex Pearce faces fitness test on injured ankle”, in The West Australian:
glosses: Someone or something that is tall.
examples: text: Do you have this in a tall?
glosses: A clothing size for taller people.
glosses: A tall serving of a drink, especially one from Starbucks, which contains 12 ounces.
short
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: shôrt
ipa: /ʃɔːt/
ipa: /ʃoɹt/
note: St. Louis
ipa: [ʃɑɹt]
ipa: /ˈʃoːrt/
ipa: /ˈʃoːɻt/
ipa: /ʃoːt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ʃɔɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ʃɔːt/
note: Dublin, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈʃɒːɹt/
Etymology: From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Doublet of curt.
Cognates
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”) and Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.
Senses: examples: text: They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.
text: He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.
text: The boss got a message and cut the meeting short.
glosses: Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
examples: text: The recent developments at work caught them short.
glosses: Unawares.
examples: text: His speech fell short of what was expected.
glosses: Without achieving a goal or requirement.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
raw_tags: of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball
examples: text: We went short most finance companies in July.
topics: business
finance
glosses: With a negative ownership position.
short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shôrt
ipa: /ʃɔːt/
ipa: /ʃoɹt/
note: St. Louis
ipa: [ʃɑɹt]
ipa: /ˈʃoːrt/
ipa: /ˈʃoːɻt/
ipa: /ʃoːt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ʃɔɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ʃɔːt/
note: Dublin, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈʃɒːɹt/
Forms: form: shorts
form: shorting
form: shorted
form: shorted
Etymology: From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Doublet of curt.
Cognates
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”) and Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.
Senses: examples: text: You should short the poles of the capacitor to discharge it before you work on it.
glosses: To cause a short circuit in (something).
glosses: To short circuit.
raw_tags: of an electrical circuit
examples: text: This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.
text: It's hard now. The NEA, state and city budgets are messed up and it's the small artists like us that are the ones getting shorted.
ref: 1991 August 24, Maridee BonaDea, quoting Brian Freeman, “Pomo Afro Homos On The Road”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 9:
glosses: To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
topics: business
glosses: To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
glosses: To shorten.
shallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaləʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃæl.oʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: shallows
Etymology: From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
Senses: examples: text: The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
text: A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but […]upon shallows of gravel.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: dashed on the shallows of the moving sand
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting downstream.
ref: 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine:
text: He dipped his hand in the shallow:
Water ran over and under
Hair on a narrow wrist bone; […]
ref: 1941, Theodore Roethke, “The Premonition”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
glosses: A fish, the rudd.
examples: text: You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.
ref: 1871, Belgravia, volume 14, page 213:
glosses: A costermonger's barrow.
Related terms: sandbank
sandbar
shoal
shallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaləʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃæl.oʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: shallows
form: shallowing
form: shallowed
form: shallowed
Etymology: From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
Senses: examples: text: The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ).
ref: 2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 767–771:
glosses: To make or become less deep.
narrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈnæɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈnɛ(ə)ɹoʊ/
rhymes: -æɹəʊ
Forms: form: narrows
form: narrowe
Etymology: From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”).
Cognate with Scots naro, narow, narrow (“narrow”), North Frisian naar, noar, noor (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian noar (“bleak, dismal, meager, ghastly, unwell”), Saterland Frisian Naarwe (“scar”), West Frisian near (“narrow”), Dutch naar (“dismal, bleak, ill, sick”), Low German naar (“dismal, ghastly”), German Nehrung (“spit, narrow peninsula”), Norwegian norve (“a clip, staple”), Icelandic njörva- (“narrow-”, in compounds).
Senses: examples: text: the narrows of New York harbor
text: Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow.
ref: 1858, William Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age:
glosses: A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
narrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈnæɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈnɛ(ə)ɹoʊ/
rhymes: -æɹəʊ
Forms: form: narrows
form: narrowing
form: narrowed
form: narrowed
form: narrowe
Etymology: From Middle English narwen (“to narrow”); see there for more details, but ultimately derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: We need to narrow the search.
glosses: To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
examples: text: The road narrows.
glosses: To get narrower.
examples: text: He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.
text: She wagged her finger in his face, and her eyes narrowed.
glosses: To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
raw_tags: of a person or eyes
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
examples: text: to narrow an int variable to a short variable
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
antonyms: widen
glosses: To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
Synonyms: taper
Derived terms: narrowable
narrow down
narrow up
renarrow
wide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪd/
ipa: /wɑed/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: wider
form: widest
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.
Senses: examples: text: He travelled far and wide.
glosses: extensively
examples: text: He was wide awake.
glosses: completely
examples: text: The arrow fell wide of the mark.
text: A few shots were fired but they all went wide.
text: The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
ref: 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
glosses: away from or to one side of a given goal
examples: text: And with his knee the dore he opens wide
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, line 359:
glosses: So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
Derived terms: wide-ranging
wide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪd/
ipa: /wɑed/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: wides
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
high
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: hī
ipa: /haɪ/
ipa: [haɪ̯]
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: hi
homophone: Hi
homophone: hie
Forms: form: higher
form: highest
form: heigh
form: hi
Etymology: From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to elevate, height”).
Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), North Frisian hoog, huuch (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch, hoog (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Cimbrian hoach, hòach (“high”), Dutch hoog, hooge (“high”), German hoch (“high”), German Low German hooch (“high”), Luxembourgish héich (“high”), Mòcheno heach (“high”), Vilamovian huch (“high”), Yiddish הויך (hoykh, “high”), Danish høj (“high”), Gutnish haugar (“high”), Faroese háur, høgur (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Norwegian Bokmål høg, høy (“high”), Norwegian Nynorsk høg, håg, hå (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃 (hauhs, “high”), Vandalic *oas (“high”), Old French haut (“high”), Lithuanian kaukas (“bump, boil, sore”).
Senses: examples: text: How high above land did you fly?
text: The desks were piled high with magazines.
glosses: In or to an elevated position.
examples: text: Costs have grown higher this year again.
glosses: In or at a great value.
examples: text: I certainly can't sing that high.
glosses: At a pitch of great frequency.
high
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hī
ipa: /haɪ/
ipa: [haɪ̯]
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: hi
homophone: Hi
homophone: hie
Forms: form: highs
form: highing
form: highed
form: highed
Etymology: From Middle English hegen, heghen, heien, a conflation of Old English ġehēgan (“to perform, conduct”) (from Proto-West Germanic *hauwjan) and hēan (“to raise up, exalt”) (from *hauhijan), also influenced by heigh (“high”).
Senses: examples: text: The sun higheth.
glosses: To rise.
high
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hī
ipa: /haɪ/
ipa: [haɪ̯]
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: hi
homophone: Hi
homophone: hie
Forms: form: highs
form: highing
form: highed
form: highed
Etymology: See hie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hie (“to hasten”).
broad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔːd/
ipa: /bɹɔd/
ipa: /bɹɑd/
ipa: /bɹoːd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
other: /ɔː/
other: /əʊ/
other: /ɡɹɔːt/
Forms: form: broads
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Scots braid (“broad”), West Frisian breed (“broad”), Saterland Frisian breed (“broad”), Low German breed (“broad”), breet, Dutch breed (“broad”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål bred (“broad”), Norwegian brei (“broad”), Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”).
Senses: glosses: A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
glosses: A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
glosses: A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
examples: text: […] fresnel spotlights, old-type broads, sky-pans, cone-lights, etc.
ref: 1974, The Video Handbook, page 71:
text: Some broads have barn doors (see page 115) to block gross light spill into other set areas; others have even an adjustable beam, […]
ref: 1976, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook, volume 10, page 105:
text: Light bounced from large white surfaces (e.g., matte reflector boards, or a white ceiling). Floodlights include scoops, broads, floodlight, banks, internally reflected units, strip lights, and cyclorama lights.
ref: 2015, Jim Owens, Television Production, page 194:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A kind of floodlight.
examples: text: I reckon as old Sol couldn't ha' lived without a pack of broads. If he couldn't find anybody to play with him, he'd play alone, […]
ref: 1927, Arthur Morris Binstead, The works of A. M. Binstead, volume 2, page 118:
glosses: A playing card.
Derived terms: english: sense 1
translation: sense 1
word: Broadland
word: broadsman
english: sense 1
translation: sense 1
word: Oulton Broad
living
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪvɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English livynge, libbyng, livinde, livand, livende, libbinde, libbende, from Old English lifiġende, lifiende, libbende, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjandī, from Proto-Germanic *libjandz (“living”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), equivalent to live + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian libbend (“living”), Dutch levend (“living”), German lebend (“living”), Swedish levande (“living”), Icelandic lifandi (“living”).
Senses: glosses: present participle of live
living
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: livings
Etymology: From Middle English livynge, libbynge, equivalent to live + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch levinge, (whence Dutch leving (“way of life, living”)), Middle Low German lēvinge (“living”).
Senses: glosses: The state of being alive.
examples: text: it's a living
text: What do you do for a living?
text: Career opportunity […] is the one who never knocks — especially not on the doors of women, who are still hooking, housewifing and hairdressing for their livings.
ref: 1983 December 10, Jolanta Benal, “The Second Revolution”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14:
glosses: Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
examples: text: plain living
text: The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living.
glosses: A style of life.
examples: text: in the land of the living
text: Glad to see you're still among the living! [good-humored greeting]
text: Some say that the spirits of the departed walk among the living, though most of us do not see them.
synonyms: quick#Noun
antonyms: word: dead#Noun
word: ;
word: deceased#Noun
word: departed#Noun
glosses: Those who are alive: living people.
examples: text: A Rectory or Parſonage, is a Spirituall liuing, compoſed of Land, Tythe, and other Oblations of the people, ſeparate or dedicate to God in any Congregation, for the ſeruice of his Church there, and for the maintenance of the Gouernour or Miniſter thereof, to vvhoſe charge the ſame is committed.
ref: 1616, Henry Spelman, De Non Temerandis Ecclesijs [Churches Not to Be Violated]. A Tract of the Rights and Respect Due unto Churches. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Iohn Beale, →OCLC, pages 2–3:
text: The patron of the living who had the right to nominate a particular priest might make the choice, but the living was actually granted by the local bishop.
ref: 2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:
qualifier: canon law
glosses: A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
Derived terms: assisted living
coliving
cost of living
earn a living
it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
land of the living
living chamber
living conditions
living history
livingless
living quarters
living standard
living wage
make a living
misliving
scratch a living
simple living
sober living house
standard of living
the world owes one a living
life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪf/
enpr: līf
ipa: /læ̙ːf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: lifes
form: lifing
form: lifed
form: lifed
form: lyfe
Etymology: From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”).
Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), Saterland Frisian Lieuw (“body”), West Frisian liif (“body”), Cimbrian laip (“body”), Dutch lijf (“body”) and leven (“life”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Low German Lief (“body; life”), Luxembourgish Leif, Läif (“body”), Vilamovian łaowa (“life”), Yiddish לײַב (layb, “body”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Faroese lív (“life”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.
The sense "biography" is likely a semantic loan from Medieval Latin vīta (“biography; hagiography”).
Senses: examples: text: Now, the aim of the design is to extract more cycles from the component under study, at each new engine generation requirements are driving a reduction in the margin for the error, as parts cannot stand any drop in properties. Thus, the lifing procedures are refined by means of new models or additional specific testing for limiting features to increase the life of the components; […]
ref: Ignacio Fernandez, ACCENT: Adaptive Control of Manufacturing Processes for a New Generation of Jet Engine Components, in 2012, D. Knörzer, J. Szodruch, Innovation for Sustainable Aviation in a Global Environment (page 302)
text: A decision was made as a matter of internal policy that all 'lifed' components on the two Royal aircraft would be removed at half-life and fitted to the two support aircraft, where the remaining life would be used prior to overhaul at the normal time.
ref: 2013, Chris Clark, From Hitler's U-Boats to Kruschev's Spyflights, page 180:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired.
life
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪf/
enpr: līf
ipa: /læ̙ːf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: lyfe
Etymology: From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”).
Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), Saterland Frisian Lieuw (“body”), West Frisian liif (“body”), Cimbrian laip (“body”), Dutch lijf (“body”) and leven (“life”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Low German Lief (“body; life”), Luxembourgish Leif, Läif (“body”), Vilamovian łaowa (“life”), Yiddish לײַב (layb, “body”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Faroese lív (“life”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.
The sense "biography" is likely a semantic loan from Medieval Latin vīta (“biography; hagiography”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of God's life (an oath).
synonyms: word: God's life
extra: an oath
liquid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭk'wĭd
ipa: /ˈlɪkwɪd/
rhymes: -ɪkwɪd
Forms: form: more liquid
form: most liquid
Etymology: From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”).
Senses: examples: text: liquid nitrogen
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
raw_tags: of an asset
topics: business
finance
glosses: Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
raw_tags: of a market
examples: text: a liquid melody
glosses: Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
examples: text: /l/ and /r/ are liquid consonants.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
examples: text: the liquid air
glosses: Fluid and transparent.
Synonyms: sense: flowing freely like water
word: flowy
word: fluxive
word: runny
Derived terms: liquid refreshment
liquid sky
liquid soap
Related terms: liquefiable
liquefy
liquidity
liquidous
liquify
solid
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒl.ɪd/
enpr: sŏ'lĭd
ipa: /ˈsɑ.lɪd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒlɪd
Forms: form: more solid
form: most solid
Etymology: From Middle English solide, borrowed from Old French solide, from Latin solidus (“solid”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s (“entire”), suffixed form of root *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”). Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solidus, sou, and xu.
Senses: examples: text: True, not ten of these mines were yielding rock worth hauling to a mill, but everybody said, "Wait till the shaft gets down where the ledge comes in solid, and then you will see!"
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XLIV, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 306:
text: Hm-m-—These papers are complete—They make Mortimer and Matilda the legal guardians of Babs—ought to put me in more solid than ever with Miss Effie—and that home is good graft.
ref: 1937 March 7, Marsh, “Dan Dunn-Secret Operative 48”, in Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune:
text: Suppose, then, a whole family got sick with this flu, and no help around, and winter setting in solid and cold three weeks early?
ref: 1943, Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, →ISBN, page 246:
text: set a new high in baseball for the year, not only ending speculation as to when Durocher would be fired but putting him in more solid than ever before.
ref: 1943 July 16, “Dodger Rebellion Is Settled With One Dramatic Flourish”, in Youngstown (OH) Vindicator:
text: She was telling Bobbie about the time when Boko Fittleworth was trying to ingratiate himself with your Uncle Percy, and you very sportingly offered to go and call your Uncle Percy a lot of offensive names, so that Boko, hovering outside the door, could come in and stick up for him, thus putting himself in solid with him.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: If true, that means he deliberately risked American and French lives, and maybe the battle, in order to get in solid with Lafayette.
ref: 1997, David Ambrose, Superstition, →ISBN, page 239:
text: Then he drew a long-barreled revolver from under a coat that he had thrown aside and examined it carefully to see that the powder and ball were in solid and that none of the caps was missing
ref: 2008, James Oliver Curwood, The Courage of Captain Plum, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Soichi Yamazaki, chief analyst at Fukoku Capital Management said Nidec Corp's (6594.OS) earnings came in more solid than expected on Friday
ref: 2009 July 26, Rika Otsuka, “Nikkei hits 6-wk high on earnings hopes, Hitachi jumps”, in Reuters.com:
glosses: Solidly.
examples: text: Many long-established compounds are set solid.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Without spaces or hyphens.
solid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒl.ɪd/
enpr: sŏ'lĭd
ipa: /ˈsɑ.lɪd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒlɪd
Forms: form: solids
Etymology: From Middle English solid, from the adjective, Middle French solide, or Latin solidum. Doublet of solidum.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
examples: text: Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.
text: I owe him; he did me a solid last year.
text: Fortunately, the president of our illustrious institution has been after me for a year to get Francis Ford Coppola to speak at next year's commencement, and Francis owes me a solid.
ref: 2010, Loren D. Estleman, Frames, page 54:
text: You can't make a move till you have about a year in a precinct, but tell you what, stay in touch. Lots a people still owe me a solid or two on the Job.
ref: 2012, Robert Cea, No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop, page 61:
text: Thomas had seemed ready to spend the night on the couch, and now he couldn't get out of here fast enough. Hopping up, I followed after him. "Thanks again, Thomas," I said, opening the door for him. "I owe you a solid."
ref: 2013, Nicole Williams, Crush:
glosses: A favor.
examples: text: I prefer solids over paisleys.
glosses: An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
examples: text: The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.
glosses: Food which is not liquid-based.
Derived terms: Archimedean solid
Catalan solid
Johnson solid
Kepler solid
Platonic solid
quantum solid
solid of revolution
Steinmetz solid