cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
travel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹævəl/
rhymes: -ævəl
Forms: form: travels
form: travail
form: travell
Etymology: From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel. Doublet of travail.
Senses: examples: text: I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.
text: space travel
glosses: The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
examples: text: I’m off on my travels around France again.
text: But overall, I think the railway delivered very well on my travels. I'd give it 9/10 - there are just a few little rough edges that need smoothing off.
ref: 2023 November 29, 'Mystery Shopper', “Does the railway deliver for passengers?”, in RAIL, number 997, page 53:
glosses: A series of journeys.
examples: text: He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.
text: CALUAT, s. This in some old travels is used for Ar. khilwat, 'privacy, a private interview' (C. P. Brown, MS.).
ref: 1903, Henry Yule, Arthur Burnell, Hobson-Jobson:
glosses: An account of one's travels.
glosses: The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
examples: text: There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.
text: My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.
glosses: The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
examples: text: Hard Labour is when more vehement Pains and dangerous Symptomes happen to Women in Travel, and continue a longer time.
ref: 1667, John Tanner, The hidden treasures of the art of physick, page 208:
glosses: Labour; parturition; travail.
examples: text: The keys have great travel.
glosses: Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
Synonyms: sense: act of travelling
word: journey
sense: act of travelling
word: passage
sense: act of travelling
word: tour
sense: act of travelling
word: trip
sense: act of travelling
word: voyage
topics: traffic
transport
word: activity
topics: traffic
transport
word: traffic along a route
topics: traffic
transport
word: through a given point
sense: working motion of a piece of machinery
word: stroke
sense: working motion of a piece of machinery
word: movement
sense: working motion of a piece of machinery
word: progression
Derived terms: active travel
adventure travel
air travel
ancillary travel services
antitravel
A to B travel
cybertravel
ecotravel
e-travel
fast travel
foot-travel
hypertravel
it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive
nontravel
overtravel
pretravel
ramp travel index
range of travel
revenge travel
space travel
time of travel
time-travel
time travel
time travel debugging
travel adapter
travel agency
travel agent
travelator
travel bag
travelblog
travel book
travelbook
travel-book
travel bubble
travel bug
travel document
travel guide
travelholic
travel insurance
travelogue
travel sickness
travel-size
travel-sized
travel system
travel time
traveltime
travel trailer
travelworn
two-way travel time
orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.kɪd/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.kɪd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kɪd
Forms: form: orchids
Etymology: From New Latin Orchideae, Orchidaceae, an irregular formation from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “orchid, testicle”) (ostensibly from the shape of the roots). Supplanted Middle English ballokwort (literally “testicle plant”).
Senses: glosses: A plant of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), bearing unusually-shaped flowers of beautiful colours.
glosses: A light bluish-red, violet-red or purple colour.
Synonyms: orchidea
Derived terms: ant orchid
bird's-nest orchid
blue orchid
bog orchid
Brazilian orchid tree
bucket orchid
Christmas orchid
common spotted orchid
cup orchid
donkey orchid
dove orchid
duck orchid
early-purple orchid
early spider orchid
frog orchid
ghost orchid
hairy spider orchid
heath spotted orchid
helmet orchid
Hooker's bog orchid
Hooker's orchid
ironcaps spider orchid
leek orchid
leopard orchid
macroorchidism
man orchid
monorchid
moth orchid
naked man orchid
orchidarium
orchidelirium
orchideous
orchidist
orchidlike
orchidologist
orchidology
orchidomania
orchidomaniac
orchidophile
pansy orchid
phantom orchid
polyorchid
poor man's orchid
slipper-orchid
slipper orchid
snow orchid
snowy orchid
spider orchid
spotted orchid
stream orchid
sun orchid
swamp orchid
triorchid
triorchidism
triorchism
white frog orchid
yellowspike orchid
orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.kɪd/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.kɪd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kɪd
Etymology: From New Latin Orchideae, Orchidaceae, an irregular formation from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “orchid, testicle”) (ostensibly from the shape of the roots). Supplanted Middle English ballokwort (literally “testicle plant”).
Senses: glosses: Having a light purple colour.
Derived terms: word: bee orchid
taxonomic: Cymbidium spp.
word: boat orchid
english: Platanthera spp. et al.
translation: Platanthera spp. et al.
word: butterfly orchid
taxonomic: Ophrys insectifera
word: fly orchid
taxonomic: Gymnadenia conopsea
word: fragrant orchid
english: Platanthera spp. et al.
translation: Platanthera spp. et al.
word: fringed orchid
taxonomic: Dipodium spp.
word: hyacinth orchid
word: monkey orchid
taxonomic: Herminium monorchis
word: musk orchid
english: Odontoglossum
translation: Odontoglossum
word: odontoglossum
english: tribe Euglossini
translation: tribe Euglossini
word: orchid bee
word: orchid tree
word: orchidaceous
word: orchidectomy
word: orchidopexy
taxonomic: Orchis spp.
word: orchis
word: polyorchidism
word: scented orchid
taxonomic: Vanda spp.
word: vanda orchid
Related terms: word: orchis
word: Cattleya
word: clinandrium
taxonomic: Corallorhiza spp.
word: coralroot
english: Platanthera spp. et al.
translation: Platanthera spp. et al.
word: fringed orchis
word: gold bee
word: helleborine
word: labellum
english: Spiranthes spp. and Goodyera spp.
translation: Spiranthes spp. and Goodyera spp.
word: ladies' tresses
english: subfamily Cypripedioideae
translation: subfamily Cypripedioideae
word: lady's slipper
taxonomic: Aplectrum hyemale
word: puttyroot
taxonomic: Goodyera spp.
word: rattlesnake plantain
word: resupinate
word: salep
taxonomic: Helonias bullata
word: swamp pink
word: twayblade
olive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏl'ĭv
ipa: /ˈɒ.lɪv/
enpr: ä'lĭv
ipa: /ˈɑ.lɪv/
Forms: form: more olive
form: most olive
Etymology: From Middle English olyve, from Old French olive (“olive, olive tree”), from Latin olīva (“olive”), itself either from Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva), Pre-Classical Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa), Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía)), or the same source as those two. In any case, ultimately from a Mediterranean Pre-Greek source, possibly Proto-Berber *wlw (“wild olive”). More questionably, maybe from Proto-Indo-European *loiwom (compare Old Church Slavonic лои (loi, “tallow”), Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”)). Doublet of oliva. Displaced native Old English eleberġe, literally "oil berry."
Senses: examples: text: Appleby[…]rose from his seat when Morales came in. He shook hands urbanely, unbuckled his sword, and laid his kepi on the table, and then sat down with an expression of concern in his olive face which Appleby fancied was assumed.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶
ref: 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393:
glosses: Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.
Related terms: oil
oleaster
olivenite
olivewood
Olivia
olivine
à la grecque
Castile soap
Gethsemane
Wiktionary appendix of colours
plum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭm
ipa: /plʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
homophone: plumb
Forms: form: more plum
form: most plum
Etymology: From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune.
Senses: synonyms: plum-colored
glosses: Of a dark bluish-red colour.
examples: text: She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.
text: It is obviously a "plum" job, one distinction being that its motormen are granted an allowance of about 6s. [six shillings] towards the cost of Wagons-Lits food in the crew quarters of the train, [...]. Additionally, by the way, each man is allowed a quarter of a bottle of wine "on the house" per trip!
ref: 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146:
glosses: Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
Related terms: briolette
damson
greengage
mirabelle
myrobalan
prune
sapote
slivovitz
sloe
umeboshi
umesu
plum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭm
ipa: /plʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
homophone: plumb
Forms: form: more plum
form: most plum
Etymology: Phonetically based spelling of plumb.
Senses: glosses: Plumb
plum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭm
ipa: /plʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
homophone: plumb
Etymology: Phonetically based spelling of plumb.
Senses: examples: text: You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.
glosses: Completely; utterly.
plum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭm
ipa: /plʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
homophone: plumb
Forms: form: plums
form: plumming
form: plummed
form: plummed
Etymology: Phonetically based spelling of plumb.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: To plumb.
saffron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæfɹən/
ipa: /ˈsæfəɹn/
rhymes: -æfɹən
Etymology: Etymology tree
Aramaic צפרder.
Arabic زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān)bor.
Medieval Latin safranumbor.
Old French safranbor.
Middle English saffron
English saffron
Inherited from Middle English saffron, borrowed from Old French safran, borrowed from Medieval Latin safranum, borrowed from Arabic زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān), from Aramaic צפר.
Senses: examples: text: For ioyfull thoughts, vse funerall deedes
ref: 1624, Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History. Concerninge women inscribed by the names of the nine Muses, London, Book 3, “A Funerall Oade vpon the death of Anna Panareta” p. 123, Now Hymen change thy saffron weedes To roabe and habit sable
roman: Since nothing’s firme or stable;
text: 1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, London: G.G. & J. Robinson, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p. 256,
The sun was now set; but, under the dark branches of the almond trees, was seen the saffron glow of the west, spreading beyond the twilight of middle air.
text: […] it was half-past four, and the gray day was dying gloriously, its western clouds all broken into narrowing purple strata before a wide-spreading saffron clearness […]
ref: 1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 40, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: The jacket was brown but had turned saffron where it had been soaked by Lal’s sweat.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Part 1, Chapter 2:
glosses: Having an orange-yellow colour.
examples: text: Saffron voters will certainly respond to the Sena chief’s call to support this alliance.
ref: 2012 January 11, “Saffron alliance gives RPI 29 seats it never won”, in Hindustan Times:
text: That is when he decided it was time to turn saffron, though it took him another ten years to formally join the BJP in 2014.
ref: 2018 August 25, “Satpal Malik: BJP’s ticket to form a saffron government in J&K”, in National Herald:
qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Associated with Hinduism, Hindus or Hindu nationalism.
tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔɹ.təs/
ipa: /ˈtɔː.təs/
ipa: /ˈtɔːˌtɔɪs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təs
Forms: form: tortoises
Etymology: From Middle English tortuse, tortuce, tortuge, from Medieval Latin tortuca, of uncertain origin. May be from Late Latin tartarūcha, from tartarūchus, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “holder of Tartaros, Tartarus, the land of the dead in ancient stories”), because it used to be thought that tortoises and turtles came from the underworld and they were commonly paired with such infernal beasts; see Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Or, from Latin tortus (“twisted”). The French-looking Modern English spelling tortoise may be influenced by porpoise. Displaced native Old English byrdling.
Senses: examples: text: The tortoise, with its characteristic protrusion of the head and neck, was a symbol sacred to Venus. It represented the procreative principle.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 235:
synonyms: shellpad
glosses: Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.
glosses: Synonym of cat (sense 11, a wheeled shelter)
synonyms: word: cat
extra: sense 11, a wheeled shelter
Derived terms: African spurred tortoise
Aldabra giant tortoise
angonoka tortoise
Bolson tortoise
boofhead tortoise
Burmese star tortoise
desert tortoise
elephantine tortoise
Galapagos giant tortoise
Galápagos giant tortoise
Galápagos tortoise
Galapagos tortoise
geometric tortoise
giant tortoise
golden tortoise beetle
gopher tortoise
Hermann's tortoise
hinge-back tortoise
hinged-back tortoise
hinged tortoise
Horsfield's tortoise
Indian star tortoise
leopard tortoise
Madagascar tortoise
pancake tortoise
ploughshare tortoise
radiated tortoise
red-footed tortoise
red tortoise cake
Santa Fe Island tortoise
sculptured tortoise
sea tortoise
soft tortoise
tortoise beetle
tortoise core
tortoise-like
tortoiselike
tortoise-shell bamboo
tortoise shell bracket
tortoise shell
tortoise-shell
Related terms: terrapin
turtle
pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛn/
ipa: /pɪn/
homophone: pin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: pens
Etymology: From Middle English pen, penne (“enclosure for animals”), from Old English penn (“enclosure, fold, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *pennō, *pannijō (“pin, bolt, nail, tack”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pin.
Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to “enclosure for persons” (1845), later influenced by penitentiary (“prison”), being analyzed as an abbreviation (1884).
Senses: examples: text: There are two steers in the third pen.
glosses: An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
examples: text: They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
glosses: A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
examples: text: Two righties are up in the pen.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The bullpen.
Synonyms: word: biro
word: pen
Hypernyms: word: stationery
Hyponyms: word: ballpoint pen
word: cartridge pen
word: felt-tip pen
word: fountain pen
word: ruling pen
Derived terms: blast pen
bullpen
cowpen
crush pen
goose-pen
henpen
hogpen
impen
penkeeper
penkeeping
Pen Mill
pennage
pentrough
pigpen
playpen
potato pen
shuck pen
unpen
Related terms: word: pin
word: prison
pen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛn/
ipa: /pɪn/
homophone: pin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: pens
form: penning
form: penned
form: penned
form: pent
form: pent
Etymology: From Middle English pennen, from Old English *pennian (“to close, lock, bolt”, attested in onpennian (“to open”)), derived from penn (see above). Akin to Low German pennen (“to secure a door with a bolt”).
Senses: examples: text: Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, 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:
glosses: To enclose in a pen.
Derived terms: pen up
pent
pent-up
pen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛn/
ipa: /pɪn/
homophone: pin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: pens
form: penning
form: penned
form: penned
Etymology: From Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”) (from which petition). Proto-Indo-European base also root of *petra-, from which Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) (whence pterodactyl), Sanskrit पत्रम् (patram, “wing, feather”), Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “pen”), Old Norse fjǫðr, Old English feþer, feðer (Modern English feather); note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change.
Doublet of panne, penna, and pinna. See feather and πέτομαι (pétomai) for more.
Senses: examples: text: Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga's treatises. It is unlikely she penned it herself, but the flowing brushwork and intricate watercolor illustrations clearly show the hand of a master scribe.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nonuel:
text: His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
text: It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.
ref: 2021 December 29, Conrad Landin, “Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL, number 947, page 45:
glosses: To write (an article, a book, etc.).
Derived terms: copen
co-pen
mispen
pennable
penner
repen
re-pen
pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛn/
ipa: /pɪn/
homophone: pin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: pens
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Compare hen.
Senses: glosses: A female swan.
Synonyms: word: swaness
word: biro
word: pen
Hypernyms: word: stationery
Hyponyms: word: ballpoint pen
word: cartridge pen
word: felt-tip pen
word: fountain pen
word: ruling pen
Related terms: word: prison
pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛn/
ipa: /pɪn/
homophone: pin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: pens
Etymology: Clipping of penalty.
Senses: examples: text: England won 3-1 on pens.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Penalty.
Synonyms: word: biro
word: pen
Hypernyms: word: stationery
Hyponyms: word: ballpoint pen
word: cartridge pen
word: felt-tip pen
word: fountain pen
word: ruling pen
Related terms: word: prison
pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛn/
ipa: /pɪn/
homophone: pin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: pens
Etymology: Clipping of penetration.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Penetration.
Synonyms: word: biro
word: pen
Hypernyms: word: stationery
Hyponyms: word: ballpoint pen
word: cartridge pen
word: felt-tip pen
word: fountain pen
word: ruling pen
Derived terms: pen test
Related terms: word: prison
pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛn/
ipa: /pɪn/
homophone: pin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: By incorrect analogy with man → men.
Senses: glosses: plural of pan
Synonyms: word: biro
word: pen
Hypernyms: word: stationery
Hyponyms: word: ballpoint pen
word: cartridge pen
word: felt-tip pen
word: fountain pen
word: ruling pen
Related terms: word: pin-pen merger
word: prison
copper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /qʰɔpɑ/
note: of the US
enpr: kŏp'ə
ipa: /ˈkɒp.ə/
note: of the US
note: of Canada
enpr: kä'pər
ipa: /ˈkɑ.pɚ/
note: of Canada
enpr: kŏp'ə
ipa: /ˈkɔp.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɒp.ə/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more copper
form: most copper
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English coper, from Old English coper, copor (“copper”), from Late Latin cuprum (“copper”), contraction of Latin aes Cyprium (literally “Cyprian brass”), from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros, “Cyprus”). Doublet of kobo. Cognate with Dutch koper (“copper”), German Kupfer (“copper”), Icelandic kopar (“copper”).
Senses: glosses: Made of copper.
examples: text: All in a hot and copper sky, / The bloody Sun, at noon, / Right up above the mast did stand, / No bigger than the Moon.
ref: 1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC:
text: She seemed so alive, with her shining eyes and her copper hair and her jokes and funny stories, but there was always a mystery at the center of her life, the sound of wild sobbing my mother said she heard coming through the floor.
ref: 1999, Maria M. Gillan, Things My Mother Told Me, page 38:
glosses: Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
Synonyms: sense: made of copper
word: coppern
sense: having the colour/color of copper
word: coppery
copper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /qʰɔpɑ/
note: of the US
enpr: kŏp'ə
ipa: /ˈkɒp.ə/
note: of the US
note: of Canada
enpr: kä'pər
ipa: /ˈkɑ.pɚ/
note: of Canada
enpr: kŏp'ə
ipa: /ˈkɔp.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɒp.ə/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coppers
form: coppering
form: coppered
form: coppered
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English coper, from Old English coper, copor (“copper”), from Late Latin cuprum (“copper”), contraction of Latin aes Cyprium (literally “Cyprian brass”), from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros, “Cyprus”). Doublet of kobo. Cognate with Dutch koper (“copper”), German Kupfer (“copper”), Icelandic kopar (“copper”).
Senses: glosses: To sheathe or coat with copper.
Related terms: anna
azurite
bell metal
bluestone
blue vitriol
Bordeaux mixture
bornite
brass
bronze
chalcanthite
chalcid
chalcocite
chalcopyrite
chalcosis
chessylite
chrysocolla
covellite
ferrous sulphate
kipper
lentigohepatic degeneration
malachite
Monel
olivenite
ormolu
patina
peacock ore
soldo
speculum metal
tombac
verd antique
verdigris
widow's mite
Wilson's disease
copper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /qʰɔpɑ/
note: of the US
enpr: kŏp'ə
ipa: /ˈkɒp.ə/
note: of the US
note: of Canada
enpr: kä'pər
ipa: /ˈkɑ.pɚ/
note: of Canada
enpr: kŏp'ə
ipa: /ˈkɔp.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɒp.ə/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coppers
Etymology: From cop (“to take, capture, seize”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: One evening as I was lying down in Leicester Square / I was picked up by the coppers and kicked in the balls
ref: 1985, Shane MacGowan, “The Old Main Drag”, in Rum Sodomy & the Lash, performed by The Pogues:
topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: word: police officer
word: constable
word: cop
word: 5-O
word: alphabet
word: barney
word: beatsman
word: bizzie
word: bluebottle
word: bluecoat
word: blue heeler
word: blue meanie
word: bobby
word: body snatcher
word: bogey
word: boy in blue
word: bull
word: bullyman
word: buttons
word: centenier
word: charpering omi
word: chazzer
word: cobbler
word: cop
word: copper
word: cozzer
word: cracker
word: crusher
word: crowns
word: dibble
word: fed
word: filth
word: finest
word: finger
word: five-o
word: flatfoot
word: flatty
word: fuzz
word: garda
word: gendarme
word: glowie
word: guardian of the peace
word: harman
word: harman-beck
word: jack
word: jackboot
word: jake
word: John Law
word: John Q. Law
word: Johnny Hopper
word: lawman
word: mee-maw
word: monarch
word: Mr Plod
word: mutton shunter
word: nuthook
word: oinker
word: Officer Friendly
word: Old Bill
word: PC Plod
word: pig
word: piggy
word: peeler
word: plod
word: police
word: police officer
word: policeman
word: policeperson
word: polis
word: po-po
word: raw lobster
word: roller
word: rozzer
word: scufter
word: slop
word: swine
word: statie
word: twelve
word: tyre biter
word: unboiled lobster
word: walloper
word: wooden-top
glosses: A police officer.
Derived terms: bent copper
Related terms: cop
chair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: châr
ipa: /t͡ʃɛə/
ipa: /t͡ʃɛː/
ipa: /t͡ʃeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /t͡ʃɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /t͡ʃɛɚ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪəɹ/
ipa: [t͡ʃeːɹ]
ipa: [t͡ʃɛːɹ]
ipa: /t͡ʃeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /t͡ʃeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /t͡ʃiə/
note: Indic, rhotic
ipa: /t͡ʃejɾ/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /t͡ʃeːɾ/
note: Indic, non-rhotic
ipa: /t͡ʃeja/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /t͡ʃæː/
homophone: chare (pane–pain merger)
homophone: cheer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: chairs
form: chairing
form: chaired
form: chaired
form: chur
Etymology: From Middle English chayer, chaire, chaiere, chaere, chayre, chayere, from Old French chaiere, chaere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). Displaced native stool and settle, which now have more specialised senses. Doublet of cathedra and chaise.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
examples: text: Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
text: Greenwood told RAIL she was disappointed that Parliamentary rules prevented her from chairing the TSC [Transport Select Committee] beyond last December's General Election, [...] She added: "I'm gutted I'm no longer able to chair the committee, I'm not going to lie. But I know it's in good hands and I'm still able to play my part as a member in the work we're doing.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Merriman praised over handling of TSC's 'virtual' transition”, in Rail, page 12:
glosses: To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
examples: text: The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the marketplace.
ref: 1896, A. E. Houseman, “To An Athlete Dying Young,”, in A Shropshire Lad:
glosses: To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
examples: text: The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.
glosses: To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
lilac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪlək/
ipa: /ˈlaɪlək/
ipa: /ˈlaɪlæk/
ipa: /ˈlaɪlɑk/
ipa: /ˈlaɪlæk/
rhymes: -aɪlək
rhymes: -aɪlæk
Forms: form: lilacs
Etymology: From obsolete French lilac (now lilas), from Arabic لِيلَك (līlak).
Senses: examples: text: Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:
glosses: A large shrub of the genus Syringa, especially Syringa vulgaris, bearing white, pale-pink, or purple flowers.
examples: text: […] O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies, / But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first, / Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes, / With loaded arms I come, pouring for you, / For you and the coffins all of you O death.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
glosses: A flower of the lilac shrub.
glosses: A pale purple color, the color of some lilac flowers.
glosses: A cat having a lilac-colored (pale brown) coat.
Derived terms: California lilac
lilac chaser
lilacin
lilacwater
lilac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪlək/
ipa: /ˈlaɪlək/
ipa: /ˈlaɪlæk/
ipa: /ˈlaɪlɑk/
ipa: /ˈlaɪlæk/
rhymes: -aɪlək
rhymes: -aɪlæk
Forms: form: more lilac
form: most lilac
Etymology: From obsolete French lilac (now lilas), from Arabic لِيلَك (līlak).
Senses: glosses: Having a pale purple colour.
glosses: Of a cat or its fur: having a pale brown colour, lighter than chocolate.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Syringa afghanica
word: Afghanistan lilac
taxonomic: Hardenbergia monophylla
word: Australian lilac
taxonomic: Ceanothus spp.
word: California lilac
taxonomic: Melia azedarach
word: Cape lilac
word: Chinese lilac
taxonomic: Syringa vulgaris
word: common lilac
taxonomic: Syringa laciniata
word: cutleaf lilac
taxonomic: Syringa microphylla
word: daphne lilac
taxonomic: Syringa oblata
word: early lilac
taxonomic: Galega officinalis
word: French lilac
taxonomic: Centranthus ruber
word: German lilac
taxonomic: Syringa emodi
word: Himalayan lilac
taxonomic: Syringa josikaea
word: Hungarian lilac
taxonomic: Syringa hyacinthiflora
word: hyacinth lilac
taxonomic: Melia azedarach
word: Indian lilac
word: Japanese tree lilac
word: Japan tree lilac
taxonomic: Syringa reticulata
word: Japanese lilac
taxonomic: Syringa patula
word: Korean lilac
taxonomic: Syringa villosa
word: late lilac
taxonomic: Amazona finschi
word: lilac-crowned parrot
word: lilac daphne
taxonomic: Cittura cyanotis
word: lilac kingfisher
alt: Microsphaera alni
word: lilac mildew
word: lilac point
taxonomic: Hardenbergia violacea
word: lilac vine
word: lilacky
taxonomic: Syringa microphylla
word: littleleaf lilac
taxonomic: Ceanothus spp.
word: mountain lilac
taxonomic: Hardenbergia violacea
word: native lilac
alt: Hebe hulkeana
word: New Zealand lilac
taxonomic: Syringa reflexa
word: nodding lilac
taxonomic: Syringa pekinensis
word: Peking lilac
taxonomic: Melia azedarach
word: Persian lilac
alt: Buddleja davidii et al.
word: summer lilac
taxonomic: Ceanothus spp.
word: wild lilac
Related terms: syringa
bunchflower
salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: să'mən
ipa: /ˈsæmən/
rhymes: -æmən
ipa: /ˈsælmən/
ipa: /ˈsɑmən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈsamən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈsæmən/
ipa: /ˈsalmən/
ipa: /ˈsalmon/
Etymology: From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).
The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
Senses: examples: text: Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 155:
glosses: Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: să'mən
ipa: /ˈsæmən/
rhymes: -æmən
ipa: /ˈsælmən/
ipa: /ˈsɑmən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈsamən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈsæmən/
ipa: /ˈsalmən/
ipa: /ˈsalmon/
Forms: form: salmons
form: salmoning
form: salmoned
form: salmoned
Etymology: From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).
The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
Senses: examples: 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR
Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."
glosses: To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
Related terms: alevin
anadromous
arctic char
blackfish
coarse fish
gravlax
grilse
kelt
kipper
lox
parr
redfish
smolt
sockeye
trout
yolk fry
ochre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊkə/
ipa: /ˈoʊkɚ/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ochres
form: ocher
Etymology: From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).
Senses: glosses: A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.
glosses: A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour.
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: The stop codon sequence "UAA".
examples: text: ‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in Hard Times:
glosses: Money, especially gold.
glosses: Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
Derived terms: brown ochre
gold ochre
ochraceous
ochre-bellied boobook
ochreish
ochrey
ochrish
ochroid
ochroleucous
purple ochre
red ochre
uran-ochre
yellow ochre
ochre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊkə/
ipa: /ˈoʊkɚ/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ocher
Etymology: From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).
Senses: glosses: Having a yellow-orange colour.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
ochre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊkə/
ipa: /ˈoʊkɚ/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ochres
form: ochring
form: ochreing
form: ochred
form: ochred
form: ocher
Etymology: From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).
Senses: examples: text: […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter 14, in Capricornia, New York: Appleton, published 1943, page 229:
text: The sun gloats in the sky, casting a gleam on the pasture where there was so much umbering and ochreing only moments before.
ref: 2009 July 6, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “How the Thunder Sounds”, in New York Times:
glosses: To cover or tint with ochre.
Related terms: ochrous
ochreous
kokowai
ruddle
ochre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊkə/
ipa: /ˈoʊkɚ/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ochres
Etymology: From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ọ́kụ̀rụ̀, but compare Akan ŋkrũmã and ŋkrakra (“broth”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okra.
rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rōz
ipa: /ɹəʊz/
ipa: [ɹ̠ʷəʊz̥]
ipa: /ɹoʊz/
ipa: [ɻʷö̞ʊz̥]
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: rows
homophone: roes
homophone: rhos
Forms: form: roses
Etymology: From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa.
cognates and more remote and uncertain etymology
The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian [script needed] (ward), Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /⁠gul⁠/), Persian گل (gol, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard, “rose”), Aramaic וַרְדָּא (wardā) / ܘܪܕܐ (wardā), Arabic وَرْدَة (warda), Hebrew וֶרֶד (wéreḏ)), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰos (“sweetbriar”) (compare Old English word (“thornbush”), Latin rubus (“bramble”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”)). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardʰ-, compare Sanskrit वर्धति (vardhati), with relatives in Avestan).
Senses: glosses: A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
examples: text: Iu. 'Tis but thy name that is my Enemy:
Thou art thy ſelfe...
What's in a name? That which we call a Roſe,
By any other word would ſmell as ſweete...
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose:"
O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in june...
text: Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
ref: 1913, Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily:
glosses: A flower of the rose plant.
glosses: A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
glosses: Something resembling a rose flower.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A bouquet of circles.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
glosses: A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
glosses: A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
glosses: The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
glosses: Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph with only one vertex.
examples: text: The rose moves like a knight, but can continue making knight moves so long as there’s a 45-degree rotation between each jump. […] I can’t help but wonder if a full team of roses could even play against each other.
ref: 2018 October 12, aabicus, “My 7 Favorite Fairy Chess Pieces”, in The Daily SPUF:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
rose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rōz
ipa: /ɹəʊz/
ipa: [ɹ̠ʷəʊz̥]
ipa: /ɹoʊz/
ipa: [ɻʷö̞ʊz̥]
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: rows
homophone: roes
homophone: rhos
Forms: form: roses
form: rosing
form: rosed
form: rosed
Etymology: From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa.
cognates and more remote and uncertain etymology
The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian [script needed] (ward), Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /⁠gul⁠/), Persian گل (gol, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard, “rose”), Aramaic וַרְדָּא (wardā) / ܘܪܕܐ (wardā), Arabic وَرْدَة (warda), Hebrew וֶרֶד (wéreḏ)), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰos (“sweetbriar”) (compare Old English word (“thornbush”), Latin rubus (“bramble”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”)). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardʰ-, compare Sanskrit वर्धति (vardhati), with relatives in Avestan).
Senses: examples: text: A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
examples: text: the very nape of her white neck
Was rosed with indignation
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To perfume, as with roses.
rose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rōz
ipa: /ɹəʊz/
ipa: [ɹ̠ʷəʊz̥]
ipa: /ɹoʊz/
ipa: [ɻʷö̞ʊz̥]
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: rows
homophone: roes
homophone: rhos
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past of rise
examples: text: Chidley-Mount, Som. on the other ſide of the Parret, oppoſite to Bridgewater, which is ſuppoſed to have roſe from its ruins.
ref: 1775, The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales […] , volume 1, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, page 154:
text: Here the genius of agriculture seems to have rose above its dawn.
ref: 1805, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 8, page 89:
text: And, it has often been in the most oppressed of times that human beings have rose up and discovered their greatest potential.
ref: 2006 January 30, Timothy Stagich, Conscious Ascension: The Global Rise of Mankind Out of the Depths of Conflict, Global Leadership Resources, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: past participle of rise
Related terms: arisen
arose
risen
rising
rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rōz
ipa: /ɹəʊz/
ipa: [ɹ̠ʷəʊz̥]
ipa: /ɹoʊz/
ipa: [ɻʷö̞ʊz̥]
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: rows
homophone: roes
homophone: rhos
Forms: form: roses
Etymology: From French rosé (“pinkish”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rosé.
tin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭn
ipa: /tɪn/
ipa: [tʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: thin (th-stopping)
homophone: ten (pin–pen merger)
Etymology: From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
Senses: glosses: Made of tin.
examples: text: [I]n fact he was a big noise, literally, in the Baptist Chapel, known locally as the Tin Tab[ernacle] - whereas my family were 'church' and Uncle Ezekiel was an infidel at that.
ref: 1939, George Orwell, Coming up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz:
glosses: Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
Synonyms: word: tinnen
Derived terms: tin tabernacle
tin bath
tin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭn
ipa: /tɪn/
ipa: [tʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: thin (th-stopping)
homophone: ten (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tins
form: tinning
form: tinned
form: tinned
Etymology: From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
Senses: glosses: To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
glosses: To cover with tin.
glosses: To coat with solder
To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
glosses: To coat with solder
To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire
Coordinate terms: word: bronze
sense: to preserve
word: can
sense: to preserve
word: bottle
sense: to prepare for soldering
word: wet
sense: to prepare for soldering
word: flux
Derived terms: pre-tin
tinned dog
Related terms: Babbitt metal
bronze
bell metal
cassiterite
die-casting alloy
pewter
phosphor bronze
soft solder
stann-
stanno-
stannane
stannary
stannate
stannic
stannide
stanniferous
stannified
stannine
stannite
stannolite
stannotype
stannous
stannum
white metal
chairperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chairpersons
form: chairpeople
Etymology: From chair + person, after chairman and chairwoman.
Senses: examples: text: She was the chairperson of the board and she presided over the meeting.
glosses: A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.
Synonyms: chair
presiding officer
presider
Derived terms: chairpersonship
cochairperson
vice chairperson
alloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lɔɪ/
ipa: /əˈlɔɪ/
rhymes: -ælɔɪ
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: alloys
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman alai, from Old French aloi, from aloiier, from Latin alligō.
Senses: glosses: A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.
examples: text: gold without alloy
text: Many of these coins are preserved at the British Museum, in London, and at the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and are all of pure gold, without alloy, and in a good state of preservation. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is also said to have[…]
ref: 1888, Arthur Talbot Vanderbilt, Gold Not Only in Wales, But Also in Great Britain and Ireland: Facts and Figures, page 17:
glosses: A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value.
examples: text: Metrodorus said that in sadnesse there is some aloy of pleasure.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet’s welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 18:
glosses: An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
examples: text: SETH KITANGE TELEVISION AND RADIO Upheaval at CBS. […] Bill Moyers, a CBS News commentator and special correspondent, expressed his dismay in an interview with Newsweek in which he said, “Television news has never been pure. It has always been an alloy of journalism and show business.”
ref: 1986, 1987 Year Book:
glosses: Fusion, marriage, combination.
Synonyms: word: alloy
Hypernyms: word: mixture
Hyponyms: word: brass
word: bronze
word: steel
word: phosphor bronze
word: white gold
Meronyms: word: metal
Derived terms: alloyable
alloy steel
alloy wheel
bioalloy
Carboloy
ceramal
eutectic alloy
ferroalloy
Field's alloy
Graphalloy
Heusler alloy
high-entropy alloy
high entropy alloy
Lipowitz's alloy
magnesium alloy
microalloy
nanoalloy
nonalloy
octoalloy
permalloy
pyrophoric alloy
realloy
shape memory alloy
skin forming alloy
superalloy
ternary alloy
titanium alloy
Wood's alloy
Related terms: word: :Category:Alloys
alloy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lɔɪ/
ipa: /əˈlɔɪ/
rhymes: -ælɔɪ
rhymes: -ɔɪ
rhymes: -ɔɪ
ipa: /ˈæ.lɔɪ/
ipa: /əˈlɔɪ/
rhymes: -ælɔɪ
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: alloys
form: alloying
form: alloyed
form: alloyed
Etymology: From Old French aloiier (“assemble, join”), from Latin alligare (“bind to, tie to”), compound of ad (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”).
Senses: glosses: To mix or combine; often used of metals.
examples: text: to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper
glosses: To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance.
examples: text: to alloy pleasure with misfortunes
glosses: To impair or debase by mixture.
Related terms: word: Alloys in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
urls: https://www.onelook.com/?w=alloy&ls=a
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chainsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnˌsɔː/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnˌsɔ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnˌsɑ/
Forms: form: chainsaws
form: chain saw
Etymology: Compound of chain + saw in reference to the chain-cutting mechanism.
Senses: examples: text: He used a chainsaw to cut through the fallen tree on the roadway.
topics: business
forestry
qualifier: machinery
glosses: A power saw that has a power-driven and fast-revolving chain of metal teeth, usually used to cut trees.
Derived terms: chainsaw consultant
fuck me gently with a chainsaw
chainsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnˌsɔː/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnˌsɔ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnˌsɑ/
Forms: form: chainsaws
form: chainsawing
form: chainsawed
form: chainsawed
form: chainsawn
form: chain saw
Etymology: Compound of chain + saw in reference to the chain-cutting mechanism.
Senses: examples: text: She and Barber once stopped a developer from chainsawing mature trees on Mississauga Rd. by standing in front of them.
ref: 2009 September 9, Mike Funston, “Mississauga pulls green thorn from its paw”, in Toronto Star:
topics: business
forestry
glosses: To cut with a chainsaw.
glosses: To make quick and substantial spending cuts.