cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
red-hot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒt
Forms: form: more red-hot
form: most red-hot
form: red hot
form: redhot
Senses: examples: text: The smith's apprentice was still wary of manipulating the red-hot metal.
text: The Iron of it ſelfe, though heate red hot, / Approaching neere theſe eyes, would drinke my teares, / And quench this fierie indignation, / Euen in the matter of mine innocence.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 14, column 1:
text: Heaped up upon the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chesnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 77:
text: Among this nation of necromancers there was also one who had in his veins the blood of the salamanders; for he made no scruple of sitting down to smoke his chibouc in a red-hot oven until his dinner was thoroughly roasted upon its floor.
ref: 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade:
text: [A] red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; […]
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 10:
text: The cat-heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred fathom of red-hot chain.
ref: 1898 September, Joseph Conrad, “Youth: a Narrative”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIV, number DCCCCXCV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., page 325, column 1:
glosses: Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color.
examples: text: That curry was red-hot.
glosses: Very hot.
examples: text: He really delivered a red-hot speech today.
glosses: Emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm.
examples: text: Did you see that red-hot bikini model in today's paper?
glosses: Having very strong sex appeal.
examples: text: Tune in at ten to catch this red-hot story!
text: She sits at the intersection of start-up investing and the fast-growing ecosystem of online creators, both of which are red hot.
ref: 2021 September 1, Taylor Lorenz, “She’s the Investor Guru for Online Creators”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Very fresh, exciting, and up-to-date.
Related terms: firehot
red heat
red-hot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒt
Forms: form: red-hots
form: red hot
form: redhot
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of red hot.
Related terms: white-hot
hackneyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækniːd/
enpr: hăkʹnēd
rhymes: -ækniːd
Forms: form: more hackneyed
form: most hackneyed
form: hacknied
Etymology: From hackney + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
text: It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.
ref: 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :
synonyms: banal
commonplace
clichéd
shopworn
stock
threadbare
timeworn
tired
trite
unoriginal
well-worn
glosses: Repeated too often.
glosses: Let out for hire.
Synonyms: word: banal
word: bromidic
word: quotidian
word: clichéd
word: commonplace
word: cookie-cutter
word: corny
word: dog-eared
word: everyday
word: hackneyed
word: hoary
word: meh
word: overdone
word: pat
word: played out
word: prosaic
word: shopworn
word: stale
word: stock
word: threadbare
word: timeworn
word: tired
word: trite
word: unoriginal
word: vapid
word: warmed-over
word: well-worn
Hypernyms: word: repeated
Derived terms: hackneyedness
unhackneyed
Related terms: word: boring
word: common
word: saying
hackneyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækniːd/
enpr: hăkʹnēd
rhymes: -ækniːd
Forms: form: hacknied
Etymology: From hackney + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hackney
pauper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː.pə/
ipa: /ˈpɔ.pɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.pɚ/
homophone: popper (cot–caught merger)
ipa: /ˈpoː.pə/
rhymes: -ɔːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: paupers
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pauper (“poor”). Originally a legal term. Doublet of poor.
Senses: examples: text: He has hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, and he lives like a pauper!
ref: 1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, New York: Pantheon Books, page 132:
glosses: One who is extremely poor.
glosses: One living on or eligible for public charity.
Synonyms: word: bankrupt
word: beggar
word: indigent
word: insolvent
word: have not
word: lack-all
word: Lazarus
word: pauper
word: penny-father
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: chav
word: dole bludger
word: welfare bum
word: welfare parasite
word: welfare queen
Derived terms: depauperate
dispauper
pauperdom
pauperess
pauperism
pauperize
pauper's funeral
pauper's grave
Related terms: word: pauci-
word: vagabond
word: impoverished
word: poverty
pauper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː.pə/
ipa: /ˈpɔ.pɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.pɚ/
homophone: popper (cot–caught merger)
ipa: /ˈpoː.pə/
rhymes: -ɔːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: paupers
form: paupering
form: paupered
form: paupered
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pauper (“poor”). Originally a legal term. Doublet of poor.
Senses: examples: text: “There's no sense in you paupering yourself because you're too stubborn to take my money.”
ref: 2017, Naomi Rawlings, Love's Christmas Hope:
glosses: To make a pauper of; to drive into poverty.
Related terms: in forma pauperis
sievert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.vət/
ipa: /ˈsiː.vɚt/
Forms: form: sieverts
Etymology: From Swedish Sievert. Named after the Swedish radiologist Rolf Sievert.
Senses: related: word: mul:Sv
glosses: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radiation dose: the dose received in one hour at a distance of 1 cm from a point source of 1 mg of radium in a 0.5 mm thick platinum enclosure, which in its biological effects corresponds to several different quantities: equivalent dose, effective dose, and committed dose.
wikipedia: en:Rolf Maximilian Sievert
Related terms: english: for absorbed dose
translation: for absorbed dose
word: gray
english: non-SI, for the same dose types as the sievert
translation: non-SI, for the same dose types as the sievert
word: rem
tesla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛslə/
ipa: /ˈtɛslə/
ipa: /ˈtɛzlə/
rhymes: -ɛslə
rhymes: -ɛzlə
Forms: form: teslas
form: tesla
Etymology: Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, from Serbo-Croatian Tesla /Тесла.
Senses: examples: text: In a draft paper, REBCO wiring has been reported to produce magnetic fields over 35 Tesla; the ARC design only needs 20T fields.
ref: 2015 August 18, John Timmer, “Small, modular nuke plant proposed—this time for fusion”, in Ars Technica:
related: word: mul:T
glosses: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity.
volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊlt/
ipa: /vɒlt/
ipa: /voʊlt/
ipa: /ˈvəʉlt/
ipa: /ˈvɐʉlt/
ipa: /ˈvɐʉlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
homophone: vault (in some accents)
Forms: form: volts
Etymology: Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.
Senses: examples: text: If the volt, ampere and ohm were taken as the absolute units, the practical units would be the ampere, begohm and begavolt, names just as convenient as ampere, coulomb and farad.
ref: 1900, Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume 149, page 461:
text: The system voltage is 630 volts d.c. and the supply to the trains is by top-contact third rail with running rail return.
ref: 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 659:
text: Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.5 Electrical Generation and Distribution System”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, pages 36–37:
glosses: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V
Derived terms: electron volt
gigaelectron volt
gigavolt
megaelectron volt
kilovolt
megavolt
microvolt
millivolt
nanovolt
picovolt
teraelectron volt
voltage
volt-ampere
voltmeter
volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊlt/
ipa: /vɒlt/
ipa: /voʊlt/
ipa: /ˈvəʉlt/
ipa: /ˈvɐʉlt/
ipa: /ˈvɐʉlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
homophone: vault (in some accents)
Forms: form: volts
Etymology: From French volte.
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A circular movement in which the horse goes round in a small circle.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A sudden movement to avoid a thrust; a parry.
volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊlt/
ipa: /vɒlt/
ipa: /voʊlt/
ipa: /ˈvəʉlt/
ipa: /ˈvɐʉlt/
ipa: /ˈvɐʉlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
homophone: vault (in some accents)
Etymology: From French volte.
Senses: glosses: A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.
glosses: A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.
volt:
volt
watt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒt/
enpr: wät
ipa: /wɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: wat
homophone: wot
homophone: what (Received Pronunciation, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: watts
Etymology: Named after Scottish engineer James Watt. For the surname, see Watt.
Senses: glosses: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W
Derived terms: gigawatt
kilowatt
megawatt
microwatt
milliwatt
nanowatt
picowatt
terawatt
watt-hour
watt-second
watt-year
weber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛbə/
ipa: /ˈveɪbə/
ipa: /ˈwɛbɚ/
ipa: /ˈveɪbɚ/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: webers
Etymology: Named after the German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Senses: glosses: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb.
Derived terms: microweber
Swahili
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /swəˈhiːli/
ipa: /swɑˈhili/
ipa: /swəˈhili/
rhymes: -hiːli
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili swahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”).
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83.
ref: 1983 December 30, Ron Alexander, “The Evening Hours”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022, page B7:
text: Similarly, Swahili evolved as the trading language in East Africa and is described as having an Arab vocabulary upon an African grammar.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
glosses: An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.
Synonyms: Kiswahili
Derived terms: Settler Swahili
Swahilian
Swahililand
Swahilization
Swahilize
Related terms: Sahel
Swahili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swəˈhiːli/
ipa: /swɑˈhili/
ipa: /swəˈhili/
rhymes: -hiːli
Forms: form: Swahilis
form: Swahili
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili swahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”).
Senses: examples: text: The Swahilis are a unique and important community that began to form before the arrival of Islam, as a result of intermarriage between Arab traders who came to the coast and women from local ethnic groups.
ref: 2000, Arye Oded, Islam and Politics in Kenya, page 12:
text: The final sources for the early history of the Swahili are the oral traditions related by them about their own past.
ref: 2017, Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear, The Swahili, page 29:
synonyms: word: Waswahili
glosses: A member of various ethnic groups — mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian — inhabiting the Swahili coast.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Swahili terms
shadow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: shăd′ō
ipa: /ˈʃædəʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃædoʊ/
ipa: [ˈʃæɾoʊ]
ipa: /ˈʃædəʉ/
ipa: [ˈʃæɾəʉ]
ipa: [ˈʃæɾɐʉ]
ipa: /ˈʃɛdɐʉ/
ipa: [ˈʃɛɾɐʉ]
rhymes: -ædəʊ
Forms: form: more shadow
form: most shadow
Etymology: From Middle English schadowe, schadewe, schadwe (also schade > shade), from Old English sċeaduwe, sċeadwe, oblique form of sċeadu (“shadow, shade; darkness; protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (“shade, shadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“darkness”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots scaddow, schaddow (“shadow”), Saterland Frisian Skaad (“shade, shadow”), Dutch schaduw (“shadow”), German Schatten (“shadow, shade”), Norwegian skodde (“fog, mist”), Irish scáth (“shadow”), Ancient Greek σκότος (skótos, “darkness, gloom”) (whence English scoto-).
Senses: examples: text: The human resources department has a shadow information technology group without headquarters knowledge.
glosses: Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were.
examples: The director has been giving shadow leadership to the other group's project to ensure its success.
The illuminati shadow group has been pulling strings from behind the scenes.
glosses: Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Part of, or related to, the opposition in government.
examples: The shadow cabinet cannot agree on the terms of the agreement due immediately after they are sworn in.
The insurgents’ shadow government is being crippled by the federal military strikes.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Acting in a leadership role before being formally recognized.
shadow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shăd′ō
ipa: /ˈʃædəʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃædoʊ/
ipa: [ˈʃæɾoʊ]
ipa: /ˈʃædəʉ/
ipa: [ˈʃæɾəʉ]
ipa: [ˈʃæɾɐʉ]
ipa: /ˈʃɛdɐʉ/
ipa: [ˈʃɛɾɐʉ]
rhymes: -ædəʊ
Forms: form: shadows
form: shadowing
form: shadowed
form: shadowed
Etymology: From Middle English schadowen, from Old English sċeadwian, from sċeadu (“shadow; shade”) + -ian (suffix forming verbs).
Senses: examples: text: The artist chose to shadow this corner of the painting.
glosses: To shade, cloud, or darken.
examples: text: Looks like that cloud's going to shadow us.
glosses: To block light or radio transmission from.
examples: text: Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
qualifier: particularly espionage
glosses: To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
examples: text: Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come? But rather are ye predictions than warnings, ye shadows!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 182:
glosses: To represent faintly and imperfectly.
glosses: To hide; to conceal.
examples: text: In most cases, interns have mainly observed, or “shadowed,” their Hands-On hosts, but some interns have been given real tasks to perform, […]
ref: 1980, “Study of the Career Intern Program”, in Alternative Education Models […] , U.S. Department of Labor […] , page 20:
text: I know you haven’t run a training before, but Irving will be there to shadow. Just stick to the flowchart and escalate properly depending on dialectics. You’ll be fine.
ref: 2022 February 18, Dan Erickson, “Good News About Hell”, in Severance, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette):
glosses: To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
examples: text: In this snippet, inside the for loop the a and b variables shadow variables from the outer scope, and while legal, this is almost certainly a programming error.
ref: 2012, Mark Summerfield, Programming in Go, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 189:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
Derived terms: beshadow
foreshadow
overshadow
unshadow
grain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: grains
form: graining
form: grained
form: grained
Etymology: From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.
Senses: examples: text: He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: To feed grain to.
glosses: To make granular; to form into grains.
glosses: To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
glosses: To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
glosses: To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
glosses: To soften leather.
glosses: To yield fruit.
Derived terms: grain up
grain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: grains
form: grane
Etymology: From Middle English grayn, from Old Norse grein (“bough, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“branch, twig, ramification”), of unknown origin. Related to English grove (“thicket”).
Senses: glosses: A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
glosses: A tine, prong, or fork.
One of the branches of a valley or river.
examples: text: Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains
ref: 4 May 1770, Stephen Forwood (gunner on H.M. Bark Endeavour), journal (quoted by Parkin (page 195)
glosses: A tine, prong, or fork.
An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
glosses: A tine, prong, or fork.
A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
glosses: A tine, prong, or fork.
An arm of a cross.
qualifier: founding
glosses: A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
glosses: A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
glosses: A fork in a river valley or ravine.
glosses: The branch of a family; clan.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The groin; crotch.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The fangs of a tooth.
Synonyms: word: grain
Hypernyms: word: food
Hyponyms: word: wheat
word: rye
word: rice
word: maize
word: barley
word: millet
word: oat
word: sorghum
Related terms: word: scythe
word: combine
word: field
word: granary
word: mill
violence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪ.(ə.)ləns/
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.(ə)ˌlɛns/
rhymes: -aɪələns
rhymes: -aɪləns
Forms: form: violences
Etymology: From Middle English violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent. Displaced native Old English stræc.
Senses: examples: text: The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.
text: Some others get a rotten wheele, all worne and cast aside,
Which covered round about with strawe, and tow, they closely hide:
And caryed to some mountaines top, being all with fire light,
They hurle it down with violence, when darke appeares the night
ref: 1570, Thomas Naogeorgus, translated by Barnabe Googe, The Popish Kingdome:
glosses: Extreme force.
examples: text: We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts.
text: There is nothing unique or magical about the Middle East; it shares xenophobias and violences with all the rest of the world!
ref: 2003, Diana Abu-Jaber, Arabian Jazz, page 329:
text: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref: 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
glosses: Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering.
examples: text: Violence between the government and the rebels continues.
text: But by the early 2000s, we were seeing fewer games like DOOM that dealt in the fantasia of ultraviolence and more games that tried to replicate the everyday violence of military encounters.
ref: 2021 October 29, Trevor Strunk, “How To Get Away With Making An Ultraviolent Video Game”, in Defector:
glosses: Widespread fighting.
examples: text: The translation does violence to the original novel.
text: Racism, classism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism are also wicked problems of structural violence […]
ref: 2017, Kevin J. O'Brien, The Violence of Climate Change:
glosses: Injustice, wrong.
Hypernyms: sense: extreme force
word: force
Derived terms: choose violence
do violence to
I choose violence
intimate partner violence
male-pattern violence
male pattern violence
non-violence
police violence
pornoviolence
self-violence
sexual violence
silence is violence
spiritual violence
ultraviolence
violence-ridden
Related terms: violent
violate
violation
domestic violence
reverse domestic violence
violence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪ.(ə.)ləns/
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.(ə)ˌlɛns/
rhymes: -aɪələns
rhymes: -aɪləns
Forms: form: violences
form: violencing
form: violenced
form: violenced
Etymology: From Middle English violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent. Displaced native Old English stræc.
Senses: examples: text: The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position ...
ref: 1996, Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Respectful Educators - Capable Learners: Children's Rights and Early Education, SAGE, →ISBN, page 36:
text: And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.
ref: 2011, Timothy D. Forsyth, The Alien, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 24:
text: He physically violenced my mother, physically violenced me and my brothers, and was sexually abusive to me until I was in second grade.
ref: 2012, Megan Sweeney, The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: To subject to violence.
beehive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːhaɪv/
rhymes: -iːhaɪv
Forms: form: beehives
form: beehiving
form: beehived
form: beehived
form: bee-hive
Etymology: From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.
Senses: examples: text: Quite naturally, if there are more ministers swarming the cabinet rooms and conference halls, then there will be a spate of civil servants beehiving the secretariat.
ref: 1958, T. S. Bawa, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nehru's India: An Analytical Study, page 25:
text: The patrons beehiving the place whooped and shouted.
ref: 1989, Craig Foley, Blood Knot, page 59:
text: This is not the first time that I learnt of a neighbor's death after a lapse of a few weeks. You just don't see people beehiving a home, like in India […]
ref: 2012, Satish C. Bhatnagar, Epsilons and Deltas of Life: Everyday Stories, volume 1, page 16:
glosses: To fill (a place) with busy activity.
glosses: To style the hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form.
Related terms: apiary
beekeeper
insect hotel
drone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəʊn/
ipa: /dɹoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: drones
form: droning
form: droned
form: droned
Etymology: From Middle English drane, from Old English drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēniz, *drēnuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, drone, hornet”). Cognate with Danish drone (“drone”), Dutch dar (“male bee or wasp”), German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”), Low German drone (“drone”), Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”).
The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.
Senses: examples: text: "I have a lot of advice for him," Ayers said in the interview, aired Tuesday night. "I want him to stop droning people. I want him to close Guantanamo. I want universal healthcare. Don't you think we deserve universal healthcare? Seriously."
ref: 2014, Colin Campbell, “Bill Ayers To Obama: 'Stop Droning People'”, in Business Insider:
text: “He won’t be waging wars all the world ― he’ll be waging ‘warsuits,’” Noah said. “Droning people with subpoenas all over the globe.”
ref: 2016, David Moye, “Trevor Noah: If Trump Is Elected, He’ll Wage ‘Warsuits’”, in Huffington Post:
text: “Are we still droning people? Yeah,” he said. “Are we still running covert operations that weren’t authorized by Congress? Yeah. Is the government still spying on Americans without warrants? Without due process. Yeah. When some libertarians talk about the great accomplishments we’re seeing on foreign policy, I don’t know what they’re talking about. Reaching out to these guys is one thing, but you have to move down the court. [Trump] actually made it harder for us to have a good relationship with Russia.”
ref: 2018, David Weigel, “The new ‘Dr. No’: Rep. Justin Amash, marooned in Congress”, in Washington Post:
text: Even Yemen's Houthi rebels can fuel global inflation by droning ships.
ref: 2025 June 28, Simon Kuper, “How war became contagious”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:
glosses: To kill or destroy with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
Derived terms: droningly
drone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəʊn/
ipa: /dɹoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: drones
form: droning
form: droned
form: droned
Etymology: From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”).
Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).
Senses: glosses: To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
glosses: To speak in a monotone.
Derived terms: drone on
drone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəʊn/
ipa: /dɹoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: drones
Etymology: From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”).
Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).
Senses: examples: text: He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone.
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
glosses: A low-pitched hum or buzz.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: drone music
glosses: A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
examples: text: The monotonous drone of the wheel.
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
glosses: A humming or deep murmuring sound.
drone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəʊn/
ipa: /dɹoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Senses: synonyms: meow
glosses: The drug mephedrone.
radius
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rā'-dē-əs
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.di.əs/
rhymes: -eɪdiəs
Forms: form: radiuses
form: radiusing
form: radiused
form: radiused
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.
Senses: examples: text: A comfortable grip is ensured by smoothing the surface of the handle and radiusing the edge.
ref: 2014, Anil Mital, Anoop Desai, Anand Subramanian, Product Development, page 358:
glosses: To give a rounded edge to.
Related terms: ulna
semidiameter
kim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gim (“edible seaweed”).
drawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɔɹz/
ipa: /dɹɔːz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
homophone: draws (non-rhotic)
Etymology: See drawer.
Senses: glosses: plural of drawer
Derived terms: chest of drawers
drawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɔɹz/
ipa: /dɹɔːz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
homophone: draws (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From draw (“to pull”), hence that which is pulled onto the body. Attested from the late 16th century. Compare drawer.
Senses: examples: text: Question. Where did they strike you?
Answer. Struck me in the face once, and struck four times across the legs.
Question.Was that after you had taken your drawers off, or before?
Answer. After I had taken my drawers off.
ref: 1871 October 21, [US] House of Representatives, quoting John Pool and Mary Neal, “Conditions of affairs in the southern states. Georgia sub-committee”, in Reports of Committees, page 386:
glosses: Clothing worn on the legs, especially that worn next to the skin, such as hose or breeches.
examples: text: They were armed and I was in my drawers still half asleep.
ref: 2016, John Avanzato, Claim Denied:
text: “It’s really aggressive,” Eliahu said of the incident. “While it was happening in real time, I thought it was a set up or a prank. Then it was clear they weren’t working together. I just felt bad. The Naked Cowboy he was just trying to keep his drawers up.”
ref: 2020 November 12, Tina Moore, quoting Elad Eliahu, “Someone tried to pants Times Square's Naked Cowboy”, in New York Post:
text: Aside from ridiculing women for their relationships with "O-keys," standing for American and British soldiers, the poem humorously asked them to wash long johns for Polish men because otherwise "UNRA would laugh seeing them wash their drawers" and they would not be clean when they come to make advances.
ref: 2023, Katarzyna Nowak, Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria, page 192:
glosses: Underpants, especially long underpants.
glosses: Any clothing covering the legs, such as shorts, trousers, or tights.
Synonyms: word: draws
Derived terms: angel-drawers
blue drawers
get the drawers
Maggie's drawers
mosquito drawers
underdrawers
glyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: glyphs
Etymology: First attested in 1727. Borrowed from French glyphe, from Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving”), from γλύφω (glúphō, “I carve, engrave”).
Senses: glosses: A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.
examples: text: human figures carved on the obverse and the reverse, and glyphs on the other faces. Slab-stelæ, on the other hand, are shorter and most of them bear inscriptions only on the reverse. Frequently associated with these stelæ are smaller monoliths known as "altars," which vary greatly in size, shape, and decoration, some bearing glyphs and others being without them.
ref: 1915, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs, Chapter 2:
glosses: A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.
Any of various figures used in Mayan writing.
glosses: Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information.
examples: text: The grid column header displays a sort glyph indicating an ascending or descending ordering.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.
topics: architecture
glosses: A vertical groove.
glosses: A land snail of the genus Glyphyalinia
glosses: Any of various black-and-white noctuid moths with figural-like wing patterns, such as those in Protodeltote, Deltote, and Maliattha.
Synonyms: topics: typography
publishing
media
word: sort
Derived terms: adermatoglyphia
aglyph
agriglyph
anaglyph
bioglyph
dendroglyph
dermatoglyph
diglyph
geoglyph
glyphlike
glyphography
glyphomancy
hemiglyph
hieroglyph
hoboglyph
homoglyph
interglyph
lithoglyph
opisthoglyph
petroglyph
petrosomatoglyph
phytoglyphic
phytoglyphy
proteroglyph
solenoglyph
triglyph
Related terms: ligature
childish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/
rhymes: -aɪldɪʃ
Forms: form: more childish
form: most childish
Etymology: From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + ish.
Senses: examples: text: Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.
glosses: Immature in thought or behaviour.
examples: text: This game is very childish.
text: She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]
ref: 1824, Susan Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 130:
text: As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones of which may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting in the crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, to the echo of Captain Hopkins’s voice!
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Suitable for or expected of a child.
Synonyms: sense: immature
word: infantile
word: immature
word: silly
word: unbecoming
word: juvenile
word: puerile
sense: belonging to or suitable for a child
word: childly
word: kiddish
english: as modifier
translation: as modifier
word: child
word: childlike
word: babish
word: babyish
word: bairnish
word: childish
word: dootsie
word: hissy
word: lactifluous
word: infantine
word: milky
Hypernyms: word: childlike
word: unsuitable
word: young
Hyponyms: word: brattish
word: bratty
word: petulant
Derived terms: childishly
childishness
overchildish
unchildish
Related terms: childlike
hold back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds back
form: holding back
form: held back
form: held back
Senses: examples: text: Don't hold back. Hit it as hard as you can.
text: The TSSA union, which along with the RMT represents many of the staff affected by the closures, hasn't held back on its criticism.
ref: 2023 October 4, Mel Holley, “Network News: Conservative MPs criticise ticket office closure plans”, in RAIL, number 993, page 23:
synonyms: pull punches
coordinate_terms: pull back
stand back
glosses: To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power.
examples: text: The dam can't hold back that much water.
text: Fabregas coolly slotted home after Ben Parker held back Theo Walcott and only a super Kasper Schmeichel save stopped Denilson winning it for the Gunners.
ref: 2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:
coordinate_terms: hold down
hold off
set back
glosses: To contain; stop.
examples: text: He's a year older than his classmates, because he was held back in second grade.
coordinate_terms: set back
glosses: To delay the progress of, especially in school.
hold one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds one's own
form: holding one's own
form: held one's own
form: held one's own
Senses: examples: text: At any rate, he was like John Bull in one respect: he was sturdy and square, and fit to hold his own with any man.
ref: 1877, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 6, in Erema:
text: At the receptions […] Antonia could hold her own in a discussion with two or three men at a time.
ref: 1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC:
text: If it came to blows, the younger man could not hope to hold his own with the huge policeman.
ref: 1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 19, in The Gem Collector:
text: In his view, this eminent locomotive engineer had very decided opinions of his own, and was not afraid of putting them into practice; but a weakness lay in the fact that there was no one on his staff in a position sufficiently strong to hold his own with Stroudley in argument.
ref: 1941 May, “Notes and News: William Stroudley”, in Railway Magazine, page 234:
text: Charlie: Are you a good pilot?
Maverick: I can hold my own.
ref: 1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture):
text: But Ford, and Chrysler continued to hold their own against the latest competition from the Japanese.
ref: 2007 April 4, David Runk, “Competition Heats Up In Truck Market”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 04 Nov 2010, page E8:
glosses: To demonstrate oneself to be capable; to provide a respectable performance or worthy competition; to stick up for oneself.
Synonyms: stand tall
Related terms: hold up one's end
hold over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of holdover.
hold over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds over
form: holding over
form: held over
form: held over
Senses: examples: text: These crisps should hold me over until supper.
glosses: (Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limited period.
examples: text: We will have to hold over these files until tomorrow.
glosses: To save, delay.
examples: text: We should hold over this report until the new department lead comes in.
glosses: To remain in office, possession, residency etc., beyond a certain date.
examples: text: He's holding those allegations over my head.
glosses: To be in a position to harm (someone); to have damaging information on (someone).
Synonyms: sense: to sustain someone
word: tide over
sense: to sustain someone
word: tide through
sense: to sustain someone
word: carry through
Derived terms: word: holdover
Related terms: hold over one's head
stopgap
hold over someone's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds over someone's head
form: holding over someone's head
form: held over someone's head
form: held over someone's head
Senses: examples: text: I get one parking ticket and he holds it over my head for six months.
glosses: To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat).
Related terms: hold
hold over
hold one's horses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hōld' wŭnz' hôrs′ĭz
Forms: form: holds one's horses
form: holding one's horses
form: held one's horses
form: held one's horses
Senses: examples: text: "I'm going to tell you, ain't I?" he said, gruffly. "Just hold your horses a minute, please."
ref: 1921, Booth Tarkington, chapter 24, in Alice Adams:
text: "I would ask everybody to hold their horses until we go through the process," ElBaradei said.
ref: 2007 September 17, “Force is last resort in Iranian crisis”, in forbes.com/Thomson Financial News, retrieved 05 Oct 2008:
synonyms: word: hold one's water
word: abide
word: back that train up
word: bide
word: bide one's time
word: expect
word: defer
word: hang on
word: hold on
word: hold one's breath
word: hold one's horses
word: hold one's water
word: hold out
word: mark time
word: stand by
word: stay
word: twiddle one's thumbs
word: wait
glosses: To be patient; to wait.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, one's, horses.
Related terms: back that train up
forte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːteɪ/
ipa: /fɔːˈteɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɔːti/
ipa: /fɔːt/
ipa: /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/
ipa: /ˈfoɹti/
ipa: /foɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoːɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoət/
Forms: form: fortes
Etymology: Borrowed 1640–50; earlier fort < Middle French; disyllabic pronunciation by association with Italian forte, from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and fortis.
Senses: examples: text: He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.
text: Between ourselves, the country is rather triste, and you have given me positively a sensation; yet my forte is not the Arcadian: however, I will do my petit possible to console you for the loss of le beau Lindor, who was my predecessor.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: A strength or talent; a strong point.
glosses: The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
Synonyms: word: bent
word: forte
word: gift
word: knack
word: long suit
word: métier
word: speciality
word: strength
word: strong suit
word: talent
Related terms: word: skill
word: skilled
forte
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːteɪ/
ipa: /fɔːˈteɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɔːti/
ipa: /fɔːt/
ipa: /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/
ipa: /ˈfoɹti/
ipa: /foɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoːɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoət/
ipa: /ˈfoɹteɪ/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoːɹteɪ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoəteɪ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ
ipa: /ˈfɔːteɪ/
ipa: /fɔːˈteɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɔːti/
ipa: /fɔːt/
ipa: /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/
ipa: /ˈfoɹti/
ipa: /foɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoːɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoət/
Forms: form: more forte
form: most forte
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”).
Senses: examples: text: (abbreviation) f
text: The musicians played the passage forte.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Loudly, as a dynamic in a piece of music.
Related terms: fortepiano
fortissimo
fortississimo
mezzo forte
pianoforte
forte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːteɪ/
ipa: /fɔːˈteɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɔːti/
ipa: /fɔːt/
ipa: /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/
ipa: /ˈfoɹti/
ipa: /foɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoːɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoət/
ipa: /ˈfoɹteɪ/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoːɹteɪ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoəteɪ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ
ipa: /ˈfɔːteɪ/
ipa: /fɔːˈteɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɔːti/
ipa: /fɔːt/
ipa: /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/
ipa: /ˈfoɹti/
ipa: /foɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoːɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoət/
Forms: form: more forte
form: most forte
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”).
Senses: examples: text: This passage is forte, then there's a diminuendo to mezzo piano.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Loud.
forte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːteɪ/
ipa: /fɔːˈteɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɔːti/
ipa: /fɔːt/
ipa: /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/
ipa: /ˈfoɹti/
ipa: /foɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoːɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoət/
ipa: /ˈfoɹteɪ/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoːɹteɪ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoəteɪ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ
ipa: /ˈfɔːteɪ/
ipa: /fɔːˈteɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɔːti/
ipa: /fɔːt/
ipa: /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/
ipa: /ˈfoɹti/
ipa: /foɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoːɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfoət/
Forms: form: fortes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”).
Senses: examples: text: This forte marks the climax of the second movement.
glosses: A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.
Synonyms: word: bent
word: forte
word: gift
word: knack
word: long suit
word: métier
word: speciality
word: strength
word: strong suit
word: talent
Related terms: sense: terms containing the word "forte" (could be from any etymology above, or etymologically unrelated)
word: dagesh forte
sense: terms containing the word "forte" (could be from any etymology above, or etymologically unrelated)
word: eau forte
sense: terms containing the word "forte" (could be from any etymology above, or etymologically unrelated)
word: peine forte et dure
sense: terms containing the word "forte" (could be from any etymology above, or etymologically unrelated)
word: piano-forte
sense: terms containing the word "forte" (could be from any etymology above, or etymologically unrelated)
word: powder-forte
word: piano
word: skill
word: skilled