cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.kə/
enpr: ăngʹkər
ipa: /ˈæŋ.kɚ/
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: anchors
form: anchour
Etymology: Alternative form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anker.
cement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmɛnt/
ipa: /ˈsi.mɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: cements
form: caement
form: cæment
Etymology: From Middle English syment, cyment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“I cut, hew”). Doublet of cementum.
Senses: examples: text: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.
glosses: The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
glosses: Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
examples: text: the cement of our love
glosses: A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
Derived terms: asbestos cement
cementable
cemental
cement arm
cementation
cement board
cement car
cement copper
cementer
cement hands
cementhead
cementite
cementless
cementlike
cement mixer
cementoclast
cementoenamel
cementogenic
cementoid
cementopathia
cement shoes
cement steel
cement together
cement works
ferrocement
ferro-cement
fibre cement
hydraulic cement
iron cement
Keene's cement
Martin's cement
masonry cement
noncement
Parian cement
Portland cement
portland cement
re-cement
recement
Roman cement
rubber cement
uncement
water cement
Related terms: concrete
cement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmɛnt/
ipa: /ˈsi.mɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: cements
form: cementing
form: cemented
form: cemented
form: caement
form: cæment
Etymology: From Middle English syment, cyment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“I cut, hew”). Doublet of cementum.
Senses: glosses: To affix with cement.
examples: text: to cement a cellar floor
glosses: To overlay or coat with cement.
examples: text: For they have entertained cause enough
To draw their swords: but how the fear of us
May cement their divisions and bind up
The petty difference, we yet not know.
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 II, scene i]:
text: Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.
ref: 1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:
glosses: To unite firmly or closely.
examples: text: But friendſhip is a calm and ſedate affection, conducted by reaſon and cemented by habit; ſpringing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations; without jealouſies or fears; and without thoſe feveriſh fits of heat and cold, which cauſe ſuch an agreeable torment in the amorous paſſion.
ref: 1758, David Hume, “Essay XXII. Of Polygamy and Divorces.”, in Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, new edition, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand; and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh, →OCLC, page 115:
text: [Dele] Alli’s ability to break forward from midfield was a prominent feature and the 19-year-old must have gone a long way to cementing his place in the team.
ref: 2016 March 27, Daniel Taylor, “Eric Dier seals England’s stunning comeback against Germany”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2016:
text: Me and Mr. Wade, we are good friends. My respect for him has grown over these seven weeks of attacks. We are very good friends. I think but for these attacks, it would have been a friendship that, as life goes, we would have stopped having. I think that you have cemented that we'll be friends to the day we die.
ref: 2024 February 15, Fani Willis, 38:21 from the start, in See Fani Willis' entire defiant testimony in stunning courtroom moment, MSNBC, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2024:
glosses: To make permanent.
cemetery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɛm.əˌtɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈsɛm.əˌtɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈsem.ɘˌtʃɹi/
ipa: /ˈsem.ɘˌtiəɹ.i/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [ˈsɪm.əˌtɛ.ɪ]
ipa: [ˈsimətri]
Forms: form: cemeteries
form: cœmeterium
form: cœmetery
form: cemetary
Etymology: From Middle English cimiterie, from Old French cimitiere, from Medieval Latin cimitērium, from Late Latin coemētērium, from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion), from κοιμάω (koimáō, “I put to sleep”); compare cœmeterium. Displaced Middle English charnel (“mass grave, cemetery”) and Old English līctūn (“cemetery”).
Senses: examples: text: The plain around was interspersed with cemeteries, Turk, Greek, and Armenian, with their growth of cypress trees...
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: They were probably the work of individual craftsmen working to meet the chieftains' needs. Their place in the chronology of the big cemeteries is indicated by the less richly-decorated double-springed bronze brooches which are found here.
ref: 1970, Kazimierz Godłowski, “The chronology of the Late Roman and early migration periods in Central Europe”, in Acta scientiarum litterarumque: Schedae archeologicae, Nakładem Uniwersytetu Jagiellonśkiego, page 22:
text: […] the cemetery – which people of shattering wit like Sampson never tired of calling ‘the dead centre of town’ […]
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 26:
glosses: A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.
Synonyms: word: boneyard
word: Boot Hill
word: burial ground
word: camposanto
word: cemetery
word: churchyard
word: crypt
word: God's acre
word: gravestead
word: graveyard
word: kirkyard
word: lichyard
word: marble orchard
word: memorial park
Hyponyms: word: catacomb
word: necropolis
word: potter's field
word: war cemetery
Meronyms: word: burial chamber
word: casket
word: cist
word: coffin
word: columbarium
word: dargah
word: dolmen
word: footstone
word: grave
word: gravestone
word: headstone
word: kist
word: kistvaen
word: kofun
word: kurgan
word: lair
word: martyrium
word: mausoleum
word: mazar
word: ohel
word: ossuary
word: sepulchre
word: qubba
word: sarcophagus
word: tomb
word: tombstone
word: vault
word: turbeh
word: urn
Derived terms: car cemetery
cemeterial
cemeterian
cemeteryful
cemetery gun
cemeterylike
cemetery vote
cemetery voting
pet cemetery
union cemetery
war cemetery
Related terms: word: catacomb
word: charnel house
word: churchyard
word: columbarium
word: crypt
word: graveyard
word: mausoleum
word: morgue
word: mortuary
word: necropolis
word: ossuary
word: reliquary
word: sepulchre
word: tombstone
word: tumulus
word: barrow
word: cairn
word: cenotaph
word: charnel
word: croft
word: deadhouse
word: death
word: corpse
word: interment
mallard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæl.ɑː(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈmælɚd/
rhymes: -ælɑː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ælə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: mallards
form: mallard
form: maudelard
form: mawdelard
Etymology: From Middle English malard, mawlard, mawdelard, from Old French malard, malart, mallart (“male wild duck”), from Old French male, masle (“male”) + -ard, -art. Cognate with Medieval Latin maslardus, mallardus.
Senses: glosses: Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.
glosses: The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
Derived terms: manky mallard
mottled mallard
syllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪ.lə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈsɪ.lə.bɫ̩]
Forms: form: syllables
form: syllab
form: syllabe
Etymology: From Middle English syllable, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “I gather together”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.
ref: 2007, Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Classics, →ISBN, page 543:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
meronyms: onset
nucleus
coda
rime
glosses: A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.
glosses: The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
examples: text: Then let them caſt backe their eyes vnto former generations of men, and marke what was done in the prime of the world. Seth, Enoch, Noah, Sem, Abraham, Iob, and the reſt that liued before any ſyllable of the law of God was written, did they not ſinne as much as wee doe in euery action not commanded?
ref: 1594, Richard Hooker, “The fourth Scripture proofe”, in J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], 3rd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, book II, page 60:
text: Th'Archbyſhop
Is the Kings hand, and tongue, and who dare ſpeak
One ſyllable againſt him?
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 227, column 1:
text: In none of my travels did I ever meet him or learn a syllable of his whereabouts.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 22:
glosses: A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
Derived terms: ambisyllabic
closed syllable
decasyllable
disyllable
dodecasyllable
duodecasyllable
duosyllable
enneasyllable
foresyllable
hendecasyllable
heptasyllable
hexasyllable
intersyllable
in words of one syllable
midsyllable
monosyllable
multisyllable
octosyllable
oligosyllable
open syllable
pentasyllable
plurisyllable
polysyllable
protosyllable
quadrisyllable
quinquesyllable
semisyllable
septisyllable
sesquisyllable
syllabary
syllabatim
syllabic
syllabification
syllabify
syllable-timed
syllable timing
syllable weight
trisyllable
words of one syllable
Related terms: syllabus
syllable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪ.lə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈsɪ.lə.bɫ̩]
Forms: form: syllables
form: syllabling
form: syllabled
form: syllabled
form: syllab
form: syllabe
Etymology: From Middle English syllable, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “I gather together”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Senses: examples: text: [A] thouſand fantaſies
Begin to throng into my memorie
Of calling ſhapes, and beckning ſhadows dire,
And ayrie tongues, that ſyllable mens names
On Sands, and Shoars, and deſert Wilderneſſes.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 8:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: To utter in syllables.
greylag goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɹeɪlæɡ ˈɡuːs/
Forms: form: greylag geese
form: graylag goose
Senses: glosses: Anser anser, a goose that breads in northern Eurasia and winters in semitropical Asia.
golden eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gōld'ən ē'gəl
ipa: /ˈɡəʊl.dən ˈiː.ɡəl/
Forms: form: golden eagles
Etymology: From golden + eagle. Likely a calque of Ancient Greek χρῡσᾱ́ετος m (khrūsā́etos, “golden eagle”, a compound of Ancient Greek χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”) + Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ετός (āetós, “eagle”)).
Senses: glosses: A large bird of prey, Aquila chrysaetos, that hunts while soaring.
Synonyms: berkut
grey heron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪ ˈhɛɹ.ən/
Forms: form: grey herons
Senses: glosses: Ardea cinerea, an Old World wading bird of the heron family.
Related terms: great blue heron
phoenix
heron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹən/
rhymes: -ɛɹən
Forms: form: herons
Etymology: From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger and Danish hejre), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”). Compare also egret from the same Germanic etymon.
Senses: glosses: Any long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.
wikipedia: Grey heron
Coordinate terms: sense: a wading bird
word: egret
sense: a wading bird
word: bittern
sense: a wading bird
word: crane
sense: a wading bird
word: heronsew
sense: a wading bird
word: stork
Derived terms: American night heron
black-crowned night heron
great blue heron
great white heron
green heron
grey heron
heronlike
heronry
heronsbill
Japanese night heron
Malayan night heron
mangrove heron
night heron
Pacific reef heron
pond heron
purple heron
Rodrigues night heron
squacco heron
striated heron
tiger heron
white-faced heron
long-eared owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɒŋɪədˈaʊl/
Forms: form: long-eared owls
Senses: glosses: Asio otus, a species of owl which breeds in Europe, Asia, and North America. Long eared owls are partially migratory, moving south in winter from the northern parts of their range.
Synonyms: english: former taxonomic name
translation: former taxonomic name
word: Strix otus
word: medium-sized owl
english: former taxonomic name
translation: former taxonomic name
word: Owenus wilsonus
International Phonetic Alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈnæʃ(ə)nəl fəˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəˌbɛt/
ipa: [ˌɪntəˈnæʃ(ə)nəɫ fəˈnɛtɪk ˈæɫfəˌbɛt]
ipa: /ˌɪntɚˈnæʃ(ə)n(ə)l fəˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəˌbɛt/
ipa: [ˌɪntɚˈnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ɫ fəˈnɛtɪk ˈæɫfəˌbɛt]
ipa: [ˌɪɾ̃ɚ-]
Forms: form: the International Phonetic Alphabet
Senses: examples: text: The International Phonetic Alphabet is commonly used in books about Shanghainese because none of the existing romanizations are very popular.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A standardized set of symbols for representing the sounds of human speech.
Synonyms: IPA
Related terms: sense: Appendix
word: Pronunciation Key
sense: Appendix
word: IPA examples
act
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ăkt
ipa: /ækt/
ipa: [ækt]
ipa: [akt]
ipa: /æk/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: more act
form: most act
Etymology: Clipping of actually.
Senses: examples: text: james did u act enjoy that juice? looked like u were gagging icl
glosses: Clipping of actually.
coal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊl/
ipa: [kʰɒʊɫ]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /kɒl/
ipa: /kɐʉl/
ipa: [kʰɒʊɫ]
ipa: /koʊl/
ipa: [kʰoɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: cole
homophone: kohl
Forms: form: coalest
form: cole
form: coale
form: colle
form: coole
form: coell
form: coile
Etymology: From Middle English cole, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”).
Cognate with West Frisian koal (“coal”), Cimbrian kholl (“coal”), Dutch kool (“coal; carbon”), German Kohle (“coal”), Luxembourgish Kuel (“coal”), Vilamovian köła (“coal”), Yiddish קויל (koyl, “coal”), Danish kul (“coal”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish kol (“coal; carbon”), Jamtish kuł (“coal; carbon”). Compare Middle Irish gúal (“coal”), Lithuanian žvi̇̀lti (“to twinkle, glow”), Persian زغال (zoġâl, “live coal”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), all from the same root.
Senses: examples: text: ... his coal hair / the corners of his warm smile / the blue of his gentle eyes. I wanted to explore him as Sir Francis Drake explored the New World. I wanted to tell my secrets to him as a Roman Catholic does in confession.
ref: 2004, Terence Kingsley-Smith, Terry Kingsley-Smith, Thorp Green: A Tale of the Brontës:
text: His coal hair streaked through the gushing of freezing air and the base of the silk robe fluttered splendidly. The Lord of Blood, adorned with glossy armor and atop a stalwart steed, appeared to have the opulence of a king. White hills[…]
ref: 2010, Rhett C. Bruno, Isinda: Fallen Dagger, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Just entering the ballroom were a cat and a bird. The cat had black ears nestled in his coal hair and a purple mask over his violet eyes. He had a long ebony tail. 99 9.
ref: 2011, C. C. W. Henderson, Blue Heron and Pizzazz, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Nemesis walked out […], his coal hair slicked back followed by a few red highlighted fibers, and his eyes large. “Hey, what are you doing up here?” Nemesis asked, leaning his right elbow on the rail. Skullcrusher couldn't meet his eyes, he just stared off at[…]
ref: 2017 September 27, Jordan Raggio, Finance & Felony, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: He raked his fingers through his coal hair, sighing with frustration. He turned back to me. His fingers gently grazed my cheek." Look at me." At first, I resisted. I couldn't bear looking at his pity. After a moment, I slowly lifted my gaze to him.
ref: 2023 May 31, Jo Wilde, The Angel Series Collection - Books 1-3, Next Chapter:
text: His coal hair was brushed up, revealing his nice skin even at his time of life. “Wait, are his eyes green?” Her fingers flew to her lips as she now recalled who he looks like. He resembled the man that she encountered in the parking lot[…]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), AraBella, The CEO's Rebellious Woman, Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd:
glosses: Black like coal; coal-black.
little owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtəl ˌaʊl/
Forms: form: little owls
Senses: glosses: A species of small European owl, Athene noctua.
certain
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːtən/
ipa: /ˈsɜːtn̩/
ipa: /ˈsɝtən/
ipa: /ˈsɝtn̩/
ipa: /ˈsɝʔn̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tən
Forms: form: certaine
form: certayne
form: certeine
Etymology: From Middle English certeyn, certein, certain, borrowed from Old French certain, from a Vulgar Latin unattested form *certānus, extended form of Latin certus (“fixed, resolved, certain”), of the same origin as cretus, past participle of cernere (“to separate, perceive, decide”). Displaced native Middle English wis, iwis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”)) and alternative Middle English spelling sertane (“some, certain”).
Senses: examples: text: Certain people are good at running.
text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly-appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Having been determined but not specified.
certain
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːtən/
ipa: /ˈsɜːtn̩/
ipa: /ˈsɝtən/
ipa: /ˈsɝtn̩/
ipa: /ˈsɝʔn̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tən
Forms: form: certaine
form: certayne
form: certeine
Etymology: From Middle English certeyn, certein, certain, borrowed from Old French certain, from a Vulgar Latin unattested form *certānus, extended form of Latin certus (“fixed, resolved, certain”), of the same origin as cretus, past participle of cernere (“to separate, perceive, decide”). Displaced native Middle English wis, iwis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”)) and alternative Middle English spelling sertane (“some, certain”).
Senses: examples: text: She mentioned a series of contracts, of which certain are not cited.
text: […]certaine of the Jewes banded together[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 23:12, column 2:
synonyms: some#Pronoun
glosses: Unnamed or undescribed members (of).
ball
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: bôl
ipa: /bɔːl/
ipa: /baːl/
ipa: /bɔl/
ipa: /bɑl/
homophone: bawl
homophone: (cot–caught merger) Basle
rhymes: -ɔːl
Etymology: From Middle English bal, ball, balle, from an unattested Old English *beall, *bealla (“round object, ball”) or Old Norse bǫllr (“a ball”), both from Proto-Germanic *balluz, *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n- (“ball, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”).
Cognate with Old Saxon ball, Dutch bal, Old High German bal, ballo (German Ball (“ball”); Ballen (“bale”)). Related forms in Romance are borrowings from Germanic. See also balloon, bale.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
examples: text: A good tackle (and some bad ones) will bring a cry of "Ball!" from the crowd – a plea for a holding the ball free kick.
ref: 2007, “Laws Of The Afl 2007”, in AFL Sydney Swans Rules Zone, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2008:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
Related terms: fore
ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bôl
ipa: /bɔːl/
ipa: /baːl/
ipa: /bɔl/
ipa: /bɑl/
homophone: bawl
homophone: (cot–caught merger) Basle
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: balls
Etymology: From Middle French bal, from Middle French baler (“to dance”), from Old French baller, from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”).
Senses: examples: text: We still have pictures from the ball we had in August 2008.
glosses: A formal dance.
examples: text: I had a ball at that concert.
synonyms: blast
whale of a time
glosses: A very enjoyable time.
glosses: A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
Derived terms: ball-dress
ballgown
ballroom
have a ball
hunt ball
masked ball
open the ball
Related terms: ballad
ballade
brake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brāk
ipa: /bɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: break
Forms: form: brakes
form: braking
form: braked
form: braked
form: break
Etymology: Origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German brake (“nose ring, curb, flax brake”), which according to Watkins is related to sense 4 and from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”).
Senses: examples: text: Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler.
ref: 1950 November 23, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 781:
glosses: To operate a brake or brakes.
glosses: To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
Derived terms: aerobrake
braker
lithobrake
overbrake
unbrake
brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brāk
ipa: /bɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: break
Forms: form: brakes
Etymology: Apparently a shortened form of bracken. (Compare chick, chicken.)
Senses: glosses: Certain ferns, including
Any fern in the genus Pteris.
glosses: Certain ferns, including
Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pteris bahamensis
word: Bahama brake
taxonomic: Pteris buchananii
word: Buchanan's brake
taxonomic: Pellaea spp.
word: cliffbrake
taxonomic: Pteris comans
word: coastal brake
taxonomic: Pteris cretica
word: Cretan brake
taxonomic: Pteris friesii
word: Fries's brake
taxonomic: Pteris tripartita
word: giant brake
taxonomic: Pteris umbrosa
word: jungle brake
taxonomic: Pteris vittata
word: ladder brake
taxonomic: Pteris longifolia
word: longleaf brake
taxonomic: Pteris catoptera
word: long-tipped brake
taxonomic: Pteris epaleata
word: netted brake
taxonomic: Cryptogramma spp.
word: rockbrake
taxonomic: Pteris semipinnata
word: semi-pinnated brake
taxonomic: Pteris tremula
word: shaking brake
taxonomic: Pteris multifida
word: spider brake
taxonomic: Pteris dentata
word: toothed brake
taxonomic: Pteris wallichiana
word: Wallich's brake
brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brāk
ipa: /bɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: break
Forms: form: brakes
Etymology: From Old English *bracu, attested in a plural compound form fearnbraca (“thickets of fern”), probably from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”) and influenced by sense 2 (“fern”). Compare Middle Low German brake (“stump, branch”).
Senses: examples: text: Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
text: He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone.
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:
text: He halts, and searches with his eyes
Among the scatter’d rocks:
And now at distance can discern
A stirring in a brake of fern […]
ref: 1807, William Wordsworth, Poems, Fidelity:
text: The bird, with its fellow in the break, drummed, and whirred, and to the misfortune of its species made its plumage seem a prize to them.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 5, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
glosses: A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
Derived terms: cypress brake
canebrake
fernbrake
brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brāk
ipa: /bɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: break
Forms: form: brakes
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Middle Low German brake, Dutch braak, Old Dutch braeke; possibly related to sense 1.
Senses: glosses: A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: cataract
glosses: A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
Related terms: topics: textiles
manufacturing
business
word: hackle
word: ripple
word: scutch
word: swingle
brake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brāk
ipa: /bɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: break
Forms: form: brakes
form: braking
form: braked
form: braked
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Middle Low German brake, Dutch braak, Old Dutch braeke; possibly related to sense 1.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer’s son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
glosses: To bruise and crush; to knead.
glosses: To pulverise with a harrow.
Derived terms: brakeage
brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brāk
ipa: /bɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: break
Forms: form: brakes
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A cage.
examples: text: Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 83:
glosses: A type of torture instrument.
brake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brāk
ipa: /bɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: break
Etymology: Inflected forms.
Senses: examples: text: And all the people brake off the golden earrings […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 32:3:
glosses: simple past of break
cake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kāk
ipa: /keɪk/
ipa: [ˈk̟ʰeɪ̯k̚]
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: cakes
form: caking
form: caked
form: caked
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kakǭ
Old Norse kakabor.
Middle English cake
English cake
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).
Senses: examples: text: His shoes are caked with mud.
synonyms: crust
encrust
glosses: Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
glosses: To form into a cake, or mass.
examples: text: Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
Derived terms: anticaking
cake up
clean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːn/
ipa: [kʰl̥iːn]
enpr: klēn
ipa: /klin/
ipa: [kʰl̥ĩn]
enpr: klān
ipa: /kleːn/
ipa: [kʰl̥eːn]
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /kliːn/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: [kʰl̥iːn]
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: cleans
Etymology: From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), West Frisian klien (“small”), klean (“clean”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
Senses: examples: text: This place needs a clean.
text: Give the pan a thorough clean.
glosses: Removal of dirt.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
examples: text: When people complained the songs were too hard, Kyle's clean vocals could bail out the band. Adding cleans would set off a chain reaction though - Kyle's crisp, clear presence could be seen as "betraying" the raw assault that Mike inflicts on the fans with his screams and growls.
ref: 2014, T/James Reagan, Leeds House, Amazon Digital Services LLC, →ISBN, page 314:
text: Vocalist Kaan is impeccable in his performance engaging with the crowd and soulfully executing both searing screams and hauntingly melodic cleans.
ref: 2016, Jay Shields, “Tech Fest 2016”, in Fraser Mutch, editor, Elite Online Mag, number 78, page 155:
text: The band's more recent output has seen a small amount of cleans find their way in, but for the most part, the Pennsylvania boys rely on the kind of devastating vocal delivery that can be heard on monumental career highlights such as "Marianas Trench."
ref: 2023 April 17, Jake Richardson, “10 Best Clean Singers in Metalcore”, in Loudwire, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2024:
qualifier: metal music
glosses: Clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.
Derived terms: clean-up
deep clean
misclean
power clean
spring clean
clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːn/
ipa: [kʰl̥iːn]
enpr: klēn
ipa: /klin/
ipa: [kʰl̥ĩn]
enpr: klān
ipa: /kleːn/
ipa: [kʰl̥eːn]
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /kliːn/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: [kʰl̥iːn]
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: cleans
form: cleaning
form: cleaned
form: cleaned
Etymology: From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), West Frisian klien (“small”), klean (“clean”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
Senses: examples: text: Can you clean the windows today?
glosses: To remove dirt from a place or object.
examples: text: Clean your room right now!
glosses: To tidy up, make a place neat.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
examples: text: She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
glosses: To make things clean in general.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
topics: manga
glosses: To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of clean up.
synonyms: word: clean up
examples: text: The fishmonger cleaned the mackerel.
glosses: To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
Derived terms: cleanability
cleanable
clean down
cleaner
clean off
clean one's plate
clean out
clean someone’s clock
clean up
clean up after
dry-clean
get one's clock cleaned
houseclean
misclean
overclean
preclean
rage clean
reclean
self-cleaning
Related terms: dry-clean
vacuum-clean
clean
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːn/
ipa: [kʰl̥iːn]
enpr: klēn
ipa: /klin/
ipa: [kʰl̥ĩn]
enpr: klān
ipa: /kleːn/
ipa: [kʰl̥eːn]
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /kliːn/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: [kʰl̥iːn]
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: cleaner
form: cleanest
Etymology: From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), West Frisian klien (“small”), klean (“clean”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
Senses: examples: text: He was stabbed clean through.
text: You must be clean mad.
text: The wave went clean over the old lighthouse.
text: Moreover, I find there are some Words now in French which are turned to a Countersense […] Cocu is taken for one whose Wife is light, and hath made him a passive Cuckold; whereas clean contrary, Cocu, which is the Cuckow, doth use to lay her Eggs in another Bird's Nest.
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To the Right Honourable the Earl of Clare”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
text: So, since all my pains in his direction were clean thrown away, there was nothing left for me but to scurry back to Marjorie, — so I scurried, and I found the house empty, no one there, and Marjorie gone.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: A feat sometimes achieved by outstanding local athletes is to throw a cricket ball clean over the top [of the viaduct].
ref: 1951 October, William B. Stocks, “A Few Miles from Huddersfield”, in Railway Magazine, page 701:
text: Now they were faced with the problem of a northerly blow, which could soon send a heavy swell clean into the bay.
ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:
text: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Fully and completely.
Derived terms: arse has gone clean out of 'er
arse is clean out of 'er
clean-shaven
poetess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊ.ɪˈtɛs/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.ɪˌtɛs/
Forms: form: poetesses
Etymology: From poet + -ess. Compare Middle English poetresse (“poetess”).
Senses: examples: text: The ancient poetess singeth, that Hesperus all things bringeth, / Smoothing the wearied mind: bring me my love, Rosalind.
ref: 1830, Alfred Tennyson, “Leonine Elegiacs”, in Juvenilia:
glosses: A female poet.
Synonyms: word: poetress
clear
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪə/
ipa: /klɪɹ/
ipa: /kliə/
ipa: /kliːɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /klɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: Claire (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: Clare (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: CLR
Etymology: From Middle English clere, from Anglo-Norman cler, from Old French cler (Modern French clair), from Latin clarus. Displaced native Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr (“clear, bright”)), Middle English skere (“clear, sheer”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr (“sheer, clear, pure”)), Middle English smolt (“clear (of mind), serene”) (from Old English smolt (“peaceful, serene”)). Cognate with Danish klar, Dutch klaar, French clair, German klar, Italian chiaro, Norwegian klar, Portuguese claro, Romanian clar, Spanish claro, and Swedish klar.
Senses: examples: text: I threw it clear across the river to the other side.
glosses: All the way; entirely.
examples: text: Stand clear of the rails, a train is coming.
glosses: Not near something or touching it.
examples: text: Much soul-searching is going on at the west London club who, just seven weeks ago, were five points clear at the top of the table and playing with the verve with which they won the title last season.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: Free (or separate) from others.
examples: text: Now clear I understand
 What oft my steadiest thoughts have searched in vain
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: I want you to know how he spoke: he spoke loud, and he spoke clear.
ref: 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses:
text: Can't they see for themselves? Course not. Looks like dust to them, so they can't see it clear at all
ref: 1992, Orson Scott Card, Cruel Miracles:
text: I would get very short with people and speak clear of my feelings without consideration of their feelings.
ref: 2005, Sammatha Crosby Scott, There's a War Inside of Me, page 111:
text: Then I heard clear your mother's voice, crying out in distress!
ref: 2009, Stephen James Shore, Annalea A Princess in Exile, page 160:
text: Now when God called him, Moses told God immediately that he could not speak clear enough to be this leader.
ref: 2010, Jack Mayatt, A Better Man: An Inspirational Book, page 20:
glosses: In a clear manner; plainly.
Derived terms: steer clear
clear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪə/
ipa: /klɪɹ/
ipa: /kliə/
ipa: /kliːɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /klɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: Claire (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: Clare (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: clears
form: CLR
Etymology: From Middle English clere, from Anglo-Norman cler, from Old French cler (Modern French clair), from Latin clarus. Displaced native Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr (“clear, bright”)), Middle English skere (“clear, sheer”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr (“sheer, clear, pure”)), Middle English smolt (“clear (of mind), serene”) (from Old English smolt (“peaceful, serene”)). Cognate with Danish klar, Dutch klaar, French clair, German klar, Italian chiaro, Norwegian klar, Portuguese claro, Romanian clar, Spanish claro, and Swedish klar.
Senses: examples: text: a room ten feet square in the clear
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
examples: text: It took me weeks to achieve a one-credit clear (1CC).
topics: video-games
glosses: The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
examples: text: Neither of them had heard of Kelly or Kalki, but then neither of them had heard of Horace, Alexander Pope, [Blaise] Pascal, [Denis] Diderot, [Werner] Heisenberg’s law or entropy. Their lives were spent, successfully, repelling information. They were perfect “clears,” to use Scientologist jargon.
ref: 1978, Gore Vidal, chapter 2, in Kalki: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Today, clear status can be conferred only by high ranking ministers of the church, and clears are not presented for examination by outsiders.
ref: 1985, Rodney Stark, William Sims Bainbridge, The Future of Religion, page 269:
topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
Related terms: in the clear
base
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bās
ipa: /beɪs/
ipa: /beːs/
rhymes: -eɪs
homophone: bass
Forms: form: bases
form: basing
form: based
form: based
Etymology: From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.
Senses: examples: text: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
synonyms: ground
glosses: To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
examples: text: Take a look at that. This is where we are going to be basing this season.
ref: 2024 February 4, Grian, 23:40 from the start, in Hermitcraft 10: Episode 1 - THE START:
glosses: To be located (at a particular place).
examples: text: Apart from time taken out during radio- and chemotherapy, Maurs continued to participate in POW. She would base a flyer in a double balance and make the audience laugh with her clowning antics for two more shows.
ref: 2005, John T. Warren, Laura B. Lengel, Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Context, →ISBN, page 73:
topics: acrobatics
arts
cheerleading
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
examples: text: You know he started to base at a hell of a pace / And now it's a disgrace, he's got the pipe in his face
ref: 1984, “8 Million Stories”, in Ego Trip, performed by Kurtis Blow ft. Run-DMC:
glosses: To freebase.
Derived terms: base off
base on
rebase
base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bās
ipa: /beɪs/
ipa: /beːs/
rhymes: -eɪs
homophone: bass
Etymology: Probably a specific use of Etymology 1, above; perhaps also a development of the plural of bar.
Senses: examples: text: to run the country base
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: So ran they all, as they had bene at bace, / They being chased that did others chase.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The game of prisoners' bars.
base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bās
ipa: /beɪs/
ipa: /beːs/
rhymes: -eɪs
homophone: bass
Etymology: Variant forms.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of BASE.
Derived terms: base jumper
base jumping
cover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌvɚ/
ipa: /ˈkʌvə/
ipa: /ˈkʊvə/
ipa: /ˈkʌvəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkʊvəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɐvə/
rhymes: -ʌvə(ɹ)
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.