cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lacuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈk(j)uː.nə/
rhymes: -uːnə
Forms: form: lacunae
form: lacunæ
form: lacunas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lacūna (“a ditch, pit; a hollow, cavity; a gap, defect”). Doublet of lacune and lagoon.
Senses: coordinate_terms: fossa
fovea
fissure
sulcus
cleft
vallecula
qualifier: particularly anatomy
glosses: A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
coordinate_terms: fossa
fovea
fissure
sulcus
cleft
vallecula
qualifier: particularly anatomy; microscopy; microscopy
glosses: A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
examples: text: "Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunæ by some measure of primitive common sense," remarked Challenger.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
examples: text: Long lacunae in this inscription make interpretation difficult.
glosses: A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
examples: text: For Beatrice Nutter, there will always be conspicuous lacunae in our mutual understanding, but after almost 30 years here, the anomalies now delight rather than confound her.
ref: 2008 March 23, Elizabeth Day, “The great French love affair with la vie anglaise”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: If the researcher cannot adequately hear a specific conversation due to its low volume or other acoustic interference, then this data point can be passed over with the understanding that such lacunae will be randomly distributed over the data collecting period.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, volume 41, number 7, →DOI, page 577:
glosses: A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language.
synonyms: anisomorphism
Synonyms: gap
hiatus
Derived terms: lacunal
lacunar
lacunary
lacunate
lacunose
laired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: laird
Etymology: From lair + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a lair.
laired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: laird
Etymology: From lair + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lair; mired.
lakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laker
lander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈlændə]
ipa: [ˈlændɚ]
rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)
Forms: form: landers
Etymology: From land (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Faroese have been important landers of fish at Aberdeen for decades.
ref: 1997, Northern Scotland, volumes 17-18, page 94:
glosses: One who lands, or who lands something.
glosses: A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
glosses: An illegal immigrant.
glosses: Synonym of landing page.
synonyms: word: landing page
Derived terms: belandre
bilander
lunar lander
lander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈlændə]
ipa: [ˈlændɚ]
rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)
Forms: form: landers
Etymology: From land (noun) + -er. Compare Old English landwaru (“the people of a country”).
Senses: examples: text: La La Lander: Golden Globe nominee Emma Stone donned a grey ruffled pencil skirt with a white sheer blouse for the party.
ref: 2016, Mail Online:
glosses: A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander.
lappet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æpɪt
Forms: form: lappets
form: lappeting
form: lappeted
form: lappeted
Etymology: From lap + -et.
Senses: examples: text: I would fain merit your esteem, heedless of these pursy fellows from hulks and warehouses, with one ear lappetted by the pen behind it […]
ref: 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble”, in Imaginary Conversations, volume 1, London: Taylor and Hessey, page 58:
glosses: To decorate with, or as if with, lappets.
lapser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapsers
Etymology: From lapse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who lapses.
lar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
ipa: /lɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: lars
form: lares
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lār (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan.
Senses: examples: text: Would the great emperor’s lar, free of its soldierly body rheumatic from German mists and browned and grizzled by the Indus sun, haunt that pinedark road to Elefsis to taste again the essences on which it fed and gather with voluptuous fingers the ghosts of roses?
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.
glosses: A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).
lar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
ipa: /lɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: lars
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: An Etruscan title, properly peculiar to the eldest son, but often mistaken for an integral part of the name.
lar
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
ipa: /lɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lah.
larker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larkers
Etymology: From lark + -er.
Senses: glosses: A catcher of larks (the bird).
glosses: One who indulges in a lark or frolic.
lasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lashers
Etymology: From lash + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who whips or lashes.
glosses: A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another.
Synonyms: sense: rope for binding
word: lashing
Derived terms: father lasher
lasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lashers
Etymology: From lash + -er; see lash (“slack”).
Senses: examples: text: There is Basildon - and Hurley - and Pangbourne, with its roaring lasher
ref: 1869, Charles Kingsley, Madam How and Lady Why:
text: They paddled on in silence till they came to the lasher. Together they hauled the punt over the rollers ... Through the network of branches moonlight drifted, making ... water, rushing foam-streaked from the lasher, eerie and fantastic.
ref: 1914, Coningsby Dawson, chapter 3, in The Raft:
glosses: A weir in a river.
laster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
-æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lasters
Etymology: From last + -er.
Senses: glosses: A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.
glosses: A tool for stretching leather on a last.
examples: text: […] the Ambret; which Pear, though it neither grows to be so large in substance or size, as large Les Chasseries, yet bears more in number, comes sooner into bearing, tastes better in the mouth, and is commonly a long laster.
ref: 1818, Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, volume 2, page 51:
glosses: That which lasts or endures.
lavabo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈveɪbəʊ/
Forms: form: lavabos
form: lavaboes
Etymology: From the Christian ritual, which was traditionally accompanied in Catholicism by a recitation of Psalm 25:6 (Psalm 26:6, in the Hebrew and in most modern translations) which in Latin begins with the word lavābō (“I will wash”). The sense of "room with a toilet" developed under the influence of lavatory and lav.
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: lavatory
glosses: A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.
examples: text: These small liturgical towels got […] the name of Lavabo cloths or Lavaboes.
ref: 1870, Daniel Rock, Textile Fabrics, page 203:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
examples: text: […] the […] pontiff, as he […] moved his hands […] at the Lavabo, or at the various benedictions […]
ref: 1885, Walter Horatio Peter, Marius the Epicurean, Bk. iv, Ch. xxiii:
synonyms: washbasin
glosses: A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.
topics: architecture
glosses: A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
examples: text: Mr. Pond fussed out and she heard the door of the little lavabo in the passage open with a loud creak.
ref: 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter XIV, in Strong Poision, page 177:
synonyms: word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
glosses: A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
lawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawings
Etymology: From law + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: And in this distresse and necessitie it had beene verie requisit and needfull that the souldiers should haue taken vp their weapons , serued against the enimie , and haue defended Lawing woorse the common state
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: Going to law; litigation.
examples: text: A shilling for breakfast, three shillings for dinner, including a pint of old port, eighteen-pence for a snug supper — such were the charges of the inn of Saint Ronan's under this landlady of the olden world, even after the nineteenth century had commenced ; and they were ever tendered with the pious recollection, that her good father never charged half so much, but these weary times rendered it impossible for her to make the lawing less.
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well, page 9:
text: Late at e'en, drinking the wine, And ere they paid the lawing, They set a combat them between, To fight it in the dawing.
ref: 1925, George Wharton Edwards, The Book of Old English Ballads, →ISBN:
text: A Spanish legend has it, that there was a cave at Salamanca, where he constantly maintained seven scholars, on condition that when they had finished their studies, the seventh should pay the lawing.
ref: 2012, Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, →ISBN, page 1024:
glosses: Money owed for a service rendered.
lawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From law + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of law
lawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lawe
lea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liː/
ipa: /leɪ/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: lee
homophone: Lee
homophone: Leigh
Forms: form: leas
form: leigh
form: ley
form: lay
Etymology: From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”).
Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”).
Senses: examples: text: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
ref: 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:
text: 19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
Two children in two neighbor villages
Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
glosses: An open field, meadow, pasture.
Derived terms: Halton Lea Gate
Lea Green
Lea Hall
Lea Marston
Related terms: -leigh
lea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liː/
ipa: /leɪ/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: lee
homophone: Lee
homophone: Leigh
Forms: form: leas
Etymology: From Middle English le, lee, ley, of uncertain origin. Compare Old French lier (“to bind”), Old French laisse (“leash, cord”), Old French lïace, lïaz (“bundle”).
Senses: synonyms: rap
glosses: Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
glosses: A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
leaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːsə/
rhymes: -iːsə
homophone: Lisa
Forms: form: leasers
Etymology: From lease + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The owner of the property is the leaser when they rent it by lease to a lessee.
glosses: One who leases or gleans; lessor.
glosses: Leaseman.
Derived terms: subleaser
underleaser
Related terms: sub-leaser
leaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːvd/
rhymes: -iːvd
Etymology: From Middle English leuued, levyd, equivalent to leaf + -ed.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having a leaf, leaves or folds.
Synonyms: leafed
Derived terms: alder-leaved
ash-leaved maple
birch-leaved bellflower
broad-leaved
crinkle-leaved poison
cross-leaved
cut-leaved
fig-leaved
fig-leaved goosefoot
flax-leaved daphne
fork-leaved sundew
four-leaved clover
hawkweed-leaved saxifrage
heart-leaved globe daisy
heart-leaved poison
holly-leaved banksia
holly-leaved barberry
holly-leaved cherry
ivy-leaved
kite-leaved poison
long-leaved
maple-leaved
narrow-leaved mallee
narrow-leaved poison
net-leaved poison
nettle-leaved goosefoot
nettle-leaved horsemint
oak-leaved
parsley-leaved hawthorn
rue-leaved
silver-leaved bloodwood
silver-leaved ironbark
silver-leaved nightshade
small leaved lilly pilly
strawberry-leaved
tea-leaved
thick-leaved
thick-leaved poison
twin-leaved
unleaved
wavy-leaved eremophila
well-leaved
willow-leaved justicia
Related terms: leafed
leaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːvd/
rhymes: -iːvd
Etymology: Equivalent to leave + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave (in the sense "to produce leaves or foliage")
examples: text: He left a landmine and he leaved… "He leaved"? Left.
ref: 2024 May 9, SMii7Y, 7:55 from the start, in We Played The Weird Steam Game Again, spoken by SMii7Y:
glosses: Obsolete form of left.
legume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡ.juːm/
ipa: /lɪˈɡjuːm/
ipa: /ləˈɡjuːm/
ipa: /ləˈɡuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: legumes
Etymology: Borrowed from French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”). Doublet of legumen.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
Synonyms: word: legumen
word: legume
Hypernyms: word: vegetable
Hyponyms: word: alfalfa
word: clover
word: chickpea
word: pea
word: bean
word: lentil
word: lupin
word: mesquite
word: carob
word: peanut
Derived terms: legumelin
legumey
legumin
legumine
nonlegume
Related terms: legumen
legumin
legumine
leguminoid
leguminose
leguminous
lemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĕm'ə
ipa: /ˈlɛmə/
ipa: /ˈlɪmə/
rhymes: -ɛmə
Forms: form: lemmas
form: lemmata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”), from the same root as λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Senses: examples: text: "We finally did it, but we found the proof very, very hard," [Dr. Conway] said. "I remember my wife and I spending one entire afternoon just working on some tiny little lemmas involved in the proof."
ref: 1988 August 30, Malcolm W. Browne, “Intellectual Duel: Brash Challenge, Swift Response”, in The New York Times:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
A proposition originally used for such a purpose, but having later acquired a greater, independent, importance; a fundamental (often pithy) and widely-used result.
raw_tags: in phrases
examples: text: Holonym: lexeme (holonymous sense)
text: For the second sense, where "word" means "item that should have its own dictionary entry," lexicographers sometimes use the term "lemma," but that has other meanings too, so among linguists the term lexeme is now standard, and I'll use it. For the different forms or shapes that belong to a lexeme we can use the term word-form.
ref: 2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 17:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:lemma.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: lexeme
glosses: The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
psycholinguistics
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: lexeme
glosses: The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.
Synonyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
alt: lexicography: canonical form of a word
word: citation form
Derived terms: Bézout's lemma
Euclid's lemma
five lemma
lemmatize
Neyman-Pearson lemma
pentalemma
pumping lemma
Riemann-Lebesgue lemma
Sperner's lemma
Teichmüller-Tukey lemma
Tukey's lemma
Urysohn's lemma
Yao's lemma
Yoneda lemma
Zorn's lemma
Related terms: dilemma
lemmatic
lemmatical
lemmatically
Margulis lemma
pentalemma
sublemma
tetralemma
trilemma
basic form
canonical form
citation form
dictionary form
headword
infinitive
lemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĕm'ə
ipa: /ˈlɛmə/
ipa: /ˈlɪmə/
rhymes: -ɛmə
Forms: form: lemmas
form: lemmata
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek λέμμα (lémma), from λέπω (lépō, “I peel”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
Derived terms: cytolemma
karyolemma
myolemma
neurilemma
neurolemma
oolemma
plasmalemma
sarcolemma
leones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leone
lessee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛˈsiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: lessees
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman lessié, past participle of lessier (“to permit, to let”).
Senses: examples: text: These automobiles will be covered for the three excluded perils, if loss is caused by the lessee or the rentee.
ref: 1989, Harry F. Brooks, Donald S. Malecki, Insuring the Lease Exposure, Cincinnati, OH: National Underwriter Co., →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: An individual or a corporation who has the right of use of something of value, gained through a lease agreement with the real owner of the property.
glosses: The entity to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
glosses: Someone who is allowed to use a house, building, land etc. for a period of time in return for payment to the owner.
Synonyms: leasee
renter
tenant
Hyponyms: subtenant
undertenant
sublessee
underlessee
Derived terms: colessee
lesseeship
lessee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛˈsiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: Contraction.
Senses: examples: text: Lessee now, who else does the old master know?
ref: 1947, Benjamin Appel, But Not Yet Slain, page 83:
text: Huh? My name? Lessee... I just came outta that egg, so I guess I don'thave a name yet.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of let's see.
levee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛvi/
ipa: /ˈlɛveɪ/
rhymes: -ɛvi
rhymes: -ɛveɪ
homophone: levy stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
enpr: lev'i
ipa: /ˈlɛvi/
ipa: /ləˈvi/
ipa: /ləˈveɪ/
rhymes: -ɛvi
homophone: levy
homophone: Levy
Forms: form: levees
form: levée
Etymology: From French levée, from lever (“to raise, rise”).
Senses: glosses: An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed by the river's overflow at times of high discharge.
glosses: An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
examples: text: The purchaser of a riparious estate under the words "front to the levee," does not acquire the alluvion or batture, when there is land susceptible of separate ownership beyond the levee.
ref: 1826, William Christy, A Digest of Martin's Reports:
glosses: The steep bank of a river.
glosses: The border of an irrigated field.
glosses: A pier or other landing place on a river.
Synonyms: sense: embankment
word: dike
sense: embankment
word: floodwall
Derived terms: palaeolevee
paleolevee
levee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛvi/
ipa: /ˈlɛveɪ/
rhymes: -ɛvi
rhymes: -ɛveɪ
homophone: levy stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
enpr: lev'i
ipa: /ˈlɛvi/
ipa: /ləˈvi/
ipa: /ləˈveɪ/
rhymes: -ɛvi
homophone: levy
homophone: Levy
Forms: form: levees
form: leveeing
form: leveed
form: leveed
form: levée
Etymology: From French levée, from lever (“to raise, rise”).
Senses: examples: to levee a river
glosses: To keep within a channel by means of levees.
levee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛvi/
ipa: /ˈlɛveɪ/
rhymes: -ɛvi
rhymes: -ɛveɪ
homophone: levy stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
enpr: lev'i
ipa: /ˈlɛvi/
ipa: /ləˈvi/
ipa: /ləˈveɪ/
rhymes: -ɛvi
homophone: levy
homophone: Levy
Forms: form: levees
form: levée
Etymology: From French levé variant of the noun lever (“the act of getting up in the morning”).
Senses: examples: text: c. 1763, Thomas Gray, letter to Mr. Nichols
And look before you were up in the morning, though you were a punctual courtier at the sun's levee
text: The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 414:
glosses: The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
glosses: A reception of visitors held after getting up.
examples: text: I must take my leave, for the Cardinal holds a levee to-day, and let those fail in attendance who want nothing.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 179:
text: At the King's levee on the morning of the 13th, Philippe was first ignored; then asked by His Majesty (rudely) what he wanted; then told, ‘Get back where you came from.’
ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, published 1993, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
levee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛvi/
ipa: /ˈlɛveɪ/
rhymes: -ɛvi
rhymes: -ɛveɪ
homophone: levy stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
enpr: lev'i
ipa: /ˈlɛvi/
ipa: /ləˈvi/
ipa: /ləˈveɪ/
rhymes: -ɛvi
homophone: levy
homophone: Levy
Forms: form: levees
form: leveeing
form: leveed
form: leveed
form: levée
Etymology: From French levé variant of the noun lever (“the act of getting up in the morning”).
Senses: examples: text: He levees all the great.
ref: 1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC:
glosses: To attend the levee or levees of.
leveed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From levee + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a levee.
levier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leviers
Etymology: From levy + -er (“agent suffix”).
Senses: glosses: One who levies.
levy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛ.vi/
rhymes: -ɛvi
homophone: levee
Forms: form: levies
form: levying
form: levied
form: levied
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).
Senses: examples: text: to levy a tax
text: In August, the company also announced that it would begin to levy fines on other vendors on its platform who over-package their products.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
examples: text: If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
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 IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
glosses: To draft someone into military service.
examples: text: Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
glosses: To wage war.
examples: text: Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
ref: 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To raise, as a siege.
examples: text: The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills
ref: 1619, Michael Dalton, The Countrey Justice:
topics: law
glosses: To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
Derived terms: leviable
levier
relevy
unlevied
levy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛ.vi/
rhymes: -ɛvi
homophone: levee
Forms: form: levies
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).
Senses: glosses: The act of levying.
examples: text: 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece
A levy of all the men left under sixty.
glosses: The act of levying.
A conscription action.
examples: text: The Irish levies.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: The first is that French people are more concerned about the poor health of their democracy – since the carbon levy they have campaigned for democratic reform (though this has proven harder to deliver than the tax U-turn).
ref: 2023 November 17, Oliver Haynes, “Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The things or people so levied.
A tax.
A tax paid in money.
glosses: The things or people so levied.
A tax.
A tax in kind.
glosses: The things or people so levied.
Requisitioned supplies.
examples: text: To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals were the levies: farmers and peasants, for the most part, who had been straggling in from all over the southern counties during the previous few days [before the Battle of Hastings in 1066].
ref: 1978, James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: The things or people so levied.
A body of conscripts.
glosses: A shilling.
Derived terms: latte levy
levy en masse
workplace parking levy
levy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛ.vi/
rhymes: -ɛvi
homophone: levee
Forms: form: levies
Etymology: Contraction of elevenpence.
Senses: qualifier: Maryland
glosses: The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
Related terms: Levi
lien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːn/
ipa: /ˈliːən/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -iːən
homophone: lean (
Forms: form: liens
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“a bond”), from ligō (“tie, bind”).
Senses: glosses: A tendon.
examples: text: […] every youth movement presents itself as loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.
ref: 1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:
text: Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 7:
topics: law
glosses: A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.
Derived terms: accountant's lien
agricultural lien
architect's lien
attorney's lien
banker's lien
blanket lien
lienable
liened
lienholder
lienholding
lienor
liensman
mechanic's lien
vendor's lien
lien
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːn/
ipa: /ˈliːən/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -iːən
homophone: lean (
ipa: /ˈlaɪən/
rhymes: -aɪən
ipa: /liːn/
ipa: /ˈliːən/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -iːən
homophone: lean (
Forms: form: lyen
Senses: examples: text: And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done vnto vs? one of the people might lightly haue lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest haue brought guiltinesse vpon vs.”
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 26:10:
text: And the Priest shall charge her by an othe, and say vnto the woman, If no man haue lyen with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to vncleannesse with another in stead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 5:19:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of lain.
lien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːn/
ipa: /ˈliːən/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -iːən
homophone: lean (
ipa: /ˈlaɪən/
rhymes: -aɪən
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.in/
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.ən/
rhymes: -aɪin
rhymes: -aɪən
ipa: /liːn/
ipa: /ˈliːən/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -iːən
homophone: lean (
ipa: /ˈlaɪən/
rhymes: -aɪən
Forms: form: lienes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin liēn (“spleen”). Doublet of spleen.
Senses: examples: text: Li'enal. Pertaining to the lien or spleen; splenic.
ref: 1892, John Marie Keating, Henry Hamilton, John Chalmers Da Costa, A New Pronouncing Dictionary of Medicine:
text: The lien or spleen (figs. 282 to 285) is a soft, highly vascular contractile and very elastic organ of a dark purplish colour. It is placed obliquely behind the stomach, …
ref: 1914, Quain's Elements of Anatomy, volume 1, page 312
synonyms: milt
glosses: The spleen.
Related terms: lienal
lienic
lieno-
liens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lien
ligand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪɡ.ənd/
ipa: /ˈlɪɡ.ənd/
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.ɡənd/
rhymes: -ɪɡənd
Forms: form: ligands
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ligandus, gerundive of ligo (“bind”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
holonyms: complex
glosses: A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially:
Such an entity that binds to a central metal atom to form a coordination complex.
qualifier: coordination chemistry
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
physiology
sciences
holonyms: complex
glosses: A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially:
Such an entity that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose.
topics: media
publishing
typography
holonyms: ligature
glosses: A letter that orthography requires or allows to be ligated with one or more other letters to form a ligature, such as a in æ or o in œ.
Derived terms: backbonding ligand
bidentate ligand
biligand
bioligand
bisligand
bridging ligand
coligand
counterligand
glycoligand
heteroligand
homoligand
immunoligand
interligand
intraligand
ligandable
liganded
ligand field theory
ligandin
liganding
ligandless
ligandlike
ligandome
ligandomic
ligandomics
macroligand
monodentate ligand
multidentate ligand
multiligand
neuroligand
nonligand
phospholigand
postligand
proligand
pseudoligand
radioligand
sialoligand
unliganded
Related terms: coordination compound
lilied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lilied
form: most lilied
Etymology: From lily + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Nymphs and Shepherds, dance no more / By sandy Ladon's lilied banks;
ref: 1634, John Milton, Arcades, III. Song:
text: 1906, Percy MacKaye, Jeanne d'Arc, Act III, New York: Macmillan, p. 114, https://archive.org/details/jeannedarcadrama00mack
She drives you from the bridge. Her armour!— Now— / Oh, she is blown about and fluttered o'er / By clouds of little golden butterflies, / And where she thrusts her lilied banner through, / She glitters double—in the air and river.
text: The summer term had been busy and stuffy, and to a Rugby player there were few attractions in punts among lilied backwaters.
ref: 1935, John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds, Prologue:
glosses: Covered with, or having many, lilies.
lilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: lilts
form: lilting
form: lilted
form: lilted
Etymology: From Middle English lilten, lulten.
Senses: examples: text: Whether the bird flit here or there,
O'er table lilt , or perch on chair
ref: a. 1851, William Wordsworth, “The Redbreast”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC:
glosses: To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
glosses: To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.
examples: text: A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, / With scraps of thunderous epic lilted out / By violet-hooded doctors.
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 utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
lilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: lilts
Etymology: From Middle English lilten, lulten.
Senses: glosses: Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
glosses: A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
examples: text: Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
ref: July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club, The Dark Knight Rises (review)
glosses: A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking.
Related terms: brogue
drawl
lisp
twang
limbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪmbɪk/
Etymology: From French limbique, from Latin limbus (“edge, border”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Relating to the limbic system.
Derived terms: corticolimbic
frontolimbic
infralimbic
intralimbic
limbically
limbic lobe
limbic ring
limbic system
limbic-thalamo-cortical
mesolimbic
mesolimbocortical
nonlimbic
paralimbic
prelimbic
retrolimbic
supralimbic
temporolimbic
ventrolimbic
linter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linters
Etymology: From lint + -er.
Senses: glosses: The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.
synonyms: delinter
glosses: A machine for removing these fibres.
glosses: A person or device that collects lint for use in making hats etc.
Related terms: lint doctor
lint roller
linter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linters
Etymology: From lint + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A linter checks your source code for syntax and style errors.
ref: 2021, Felix Zumstein, Python for Excel, page 73:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: sanitizer
glosses: A program or algorithm that performs linting.
lipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪpɪd/
rhymes: -ɪpɪd
Forms: form: lipids
Etymology: Borrowed from French lipide, coined 1923 by Gabriel Bertrand from Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos, “animal fat”) + French -ide.
Senses: examples: text: Without lipids your body eats your fat and then your muscles, and the brain is pure fat and the heart is a muscle. You become a feedback loop, and then you fall over.
ref: 2009, Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Virago Press (2020), page 384:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body.
wikipedia: Gabriel Bertrand
Derived terms: aminolipid
antilipid
archaeolipid
arsenolipid
bilipid
biolipid
chlorolipid
chlorosulfolipid
chromolipid
cyanolipid
delipidize
dyslipidemia
epoxylipid
exolipid
galactolipid
geolipid
glucolipid
glycerolipid
glycerophospholipid
glycolipid
glycopeptidolipid
glycosyllipid
guggulipid
heterolipid
hydrolipid
hyperlipidemia
hypolipidemia
intralipid
lipidaceous
lipidated
lipidation
lipidemia
lipidic
lipidized
lipidogenic
lipidogram
lipidoid
lipidology
lipidolysis
lipidome
lipidomics
lipidopathy
lipidophilic
lipidosis
lipidostasis
lipiduria
lipoplatin
lysolipid
mycolipid
nitrolipid
nonlipid
nucleolipid
oncolipid
phosphoglycerolipid
phospholipid
phytolipid
proteolipid
reinforced lipid
saccharolipid
sulfolipid
sulpholipid
lister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: listers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leister (“fish spear”).
lister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: listers
Etymology: From list + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A good program lister is helpful here, since many language processors allow multi-statement lines. For BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and similar languages, the lister can split multi-statement lines, ensure there are blanks between keywords […]
ref: 1984, John C. Nash, Effective scientific problem solving with small computers, page 113:
synonyms: listmaker
antonyms: listee
glosses: One who, or that which, lists or produces a listing.
synonyms: listmaker
antonyms: listee
glosses: A person or organisation that creates or maintains lists.
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A birdwatcher who keeps track of birds using different checklists.
Derived terms: nonlister
Related terms: A-lister
B-lister
C-lister
List 99
List X
Z-lister
lister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: listers
Etymology: Compare list (“a strip, border”), probably applied to the furrow or the ridge of earth along the furrow.
Senses: glosses: A double-mouldboard plough that throws a deep furrow and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.
lither
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪðə/
ipa: /ˈlɪðɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈlaɪðə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪðɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɪðə/
ipa: /ˈlɪðɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lithe: more lithe
lithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪθɪk/
rhymes: -ɪθɪk
Forms: form: more lithic
form: most lithic
Etymology: From lith- + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: lithic architecture
glosses: Relating to stone.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to rock.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to lithium.
examples: text: lithic diathesis
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the formation of uric acid concretions (stones) in the bladder and other parts of the body.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Paleo-Indian
glosses: pertaining to Native American culture before circa 8,500 BCE.
Derived terms: abyssolithic
antilithic
cystolithic
endolithic
heliolithic
lithate
lithic acid
lithic mulch
paralithic
polylithic
siderolithic
lithic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪθɪk/
rhymes: -ɪθɪk
Forms: form: lithics
Etymology: From lith- + -ic.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stone tool or projectile.
glosses: A medicine that prevents stone in the bladder.
examples: text: Silty fine sandstone: poorly sorted; 50% quartz, 30% fossils, 10% lithics, 10% feldspar
ref: 1983, Richard Squires, Mark Filewicz, Cenozoic Geology of the Simi Valley Area, Southern California:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A lithic fragment: a piece of another rock eroded down to sand size.
litmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtməs/
rhymes: -ɪtməs
Forms: form: litmuses
Etymology: From Middle English litmose, lytmose, litemose, from Old Norse litmosi (“moss used for dyeing”), from lita (“to dye, stain”) + mosi (“moss”), the former from litr (“colour, dye, blee”), from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlituz (“appearance, blee”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Old English wlite (“appearance, form, brightness, countenance”). More at moss.
Senses: glosses: A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens, that changes color when exposed to pH levels greater than or less than certain critical levels.
glosses: A simple test of acidity in a liquid using litmus, usually in the form of litmus paper.
glosses: A simple test of any attribute; a litmus test.
Synonyms: sense: dyestuff from lichen
word: lacmus
Derived terms: azolitmin
litmus milk
litmus paper
litmus test
Related terms: Roccella tinctoria
Roccella fuciformis
Roccella pygmaea
Roccella phycopsis
Lecanora tartarea
Variolaria dealbata
Ochrolechia parella
Ochrolechia tartarea
Parmotrema tinctorum
Parmelia
Roccella montagnei
Dendrographa leucophoea
loam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊm/
ipa: /loʊm/
ipa: /lum/
ipa: /lʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: loams
Etymology: From Middle English lome, lame, lam, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime.
Senses: examples: text: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander
returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make
loam, and of why that loam whereto he was converted
might they not stop a beer-barrel?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
Derived terms: loamless
Loamshire
loamy
loam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊm/
ipa: /loʊm/
ipa: /lum/
ipa: /lʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: loams
form: loaming
form: loamed
form: loamed
Etymology: From Middle English lome, lame, lam, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime.
Senses: glosses: To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
Derived terms: loamer
loam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊm/
ipa: /loʊm/
ipa: /lum/
ipa: /lʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
rhymes: -uːm
Etymology: From Middle English lome, lame, lam, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime.
Senses: glosses: Made of loam; consisting of loam.
loamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: loamier
form: loamiest
Etymology: From loam + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
Derived terms: loamily
loaminess
lobar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lobe + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a lobe.
Derived terms: alobar
bilobar
extralobar
infralobar
interlobar
intralobar
lobar pneumonia
monolobar
multilobar
nonlobar
panlobar
paralobar
perilobar
quadrilobar
semilobar
sublobar
supralobar
translobar
trilobar
unilobar
Related terms: lobate
lobular
lobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lobbers
Etymology: From lob + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who throws or hits/kicks a ball in a high arc.
Related terms: lob