cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bulldozer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlˌdoʊzɚ/
ipa: /ˈbʊlˌdəʊzə/
Forms: form: bulldozers
Etymology: Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bullier and terrorizer sense; bulldoze + -er. The name for the earthmoving machine came later, figuratively, from that sense.
Senses: examples: text: The bulldozer is a caterpillar tractor on the front of which is mounted a heavy steel blade which can be moved up and down by hydraulic gear. By sheer brute force it can push down trees and hedges, remove obstructions (including light brickwork) and level and consolidate newly-tipped banks.
ref: 1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
text: Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
synonyms: dozer
hypernyms: heavy equipment
coordinate_terms: backhoe
front-end loader
grader
glosses: A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
glosses: One who bulldozes.
glosses: A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.
glosses: A bully; an overbearing individual.
Synonyms: sense: member of intimidating white US Southerners
word: regulator
english: 1940s and after
translation: 1940s and after
word: blade
Derived terms: angledozer
calfdozer
bulldozer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlˌdoʊzɚ/
ipa: /ˈbʊlˌdəʊzə/
Forms: form: bulldozers
form: bulldozering
form: bulldozered
form: bulldozered
Etymology: Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bullier and terrorizer sense; bulldoze + -er. The name for the earthmoving machine came later, figuratively, from that sense.
Senses: glosses: To bulldoze (demolish with a bulldozer).
examples: text: They bulldozered through the crowd.
glosses: To bulldoze (push through forcefully).
hangar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæŋə/
ipa: /ˈhæŋɚ/
rhymes: -æŋə(ɹ)
homophone: hanger
Forms: form: hangars
Etymology: Borrowed from French hangar (“shed, hangar”), from Middle French hanghart (“enclosure near a house”), from Old French hangart, *hamgart, from Old Frankish *haimgard (“fence around a group of houses”), from *haim (“home, village, hamlet”) + *gard (“yard”). Cognate with Old High German heimgart (“forum”). More at home, yard.
Senses: examples: text: The plane taxied on over to the hangar for repairs.
text: By the side of it ran an open hangar upheld by a score of rough tarred posts.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
text: "Yeah. That's only thing they're good for."
 "Let's do it the other way around," Juanita says. She gets up and walks off the hangar deck.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 402:
glosses: A large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept.
glosses: A covered shed for carriages.
Derived terms: hangarage
hangarkeeper
hangarless
hangarlike
hangar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæŋə/
ipa: /ˈhæŋɚ/
rhymes: -æŋə(ɹ)
homophone: hanger
Forms: form: hangars
form: hangaring
form: hangared
form: hangared
Etymology: Borrowed from French hangar (“shed, hangar”), from Middle French hanghart (“enclosure near a house”), from Old French hangart, *hamgart, from Old Frankish *haimgard (“fence around a group of houses”), from *haim (“home, village, hamlet”) + *gard (“yard”). Cognate with Old High German heimgart (“forum”). More at home, yard.
Senses: glosses: To store (an aircraft) in a hangar.
matinee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmætɪˌneɪ/
Forms: form: matinees
form: matinée
form: mat
Etymology: From French matinée.
Senses: examples: text: 59 sneak in some red Smuggle a bottle of wine, two glasses, and a corkscrew into a long matinee. Red wine is rich in life-extending antioxidants, and the caper will add zest even to a bad movie.
ref: 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
glosses: A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon.
examples: text: Empire matinees in lingerie stuffs with trimmings of lace and embroidery are shown in great variety.
ref: 1906, Dry Goods Guide, volumes 17-18, page 70:
glosses: A woman's dress to be worn in the morning or before dinner.
Derived terms: mat
matinee coat
matinée coat
matinee idol
matinée idol
matinee jacket
matinée jacket
Related terms: soiree
matinee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmætɪˌneɪ/
Forms: form: matinees
form: matineeing
form: matineed
form: matineed
form: matinée
form: mat
Etymology: From French matinée.
Senses: glosses: To put on a matinee performance (of).
bacteriophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəʊˌfeɪd͡ʒ/
enpr: bâk'tîr'ē'ə'fāj
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: bacteriophages
Etymology: Borrowed from French bactériophage, coined by microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle, from bacterio- (“bacteria”) + -phage (“eater”).
Senses: examples: text: Another possibility is to enlist a bacteriophage, a kind of virus, to hunt down and kill harmful bacteria for us.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 54:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
wikipedia: Félix d'Hérelle
Synonyms: phage
Derived terms: antibacteriophage
bacteriophagic
bacteriophagous
bacteriophagy
corynebacteriophage
cyanobacteriophage
enterobacteriophage
mycobacteriophage
Related terms: virophage
phage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: phages
form: phage
Etymology: From Ancient Greek -φάγος (-phágos, “eater”), from φαγ- (phag-), aorist stem of ἐσθίω (esthíō), ἔδω (édō, “to eat, to consume”).
Senses: examples: "The plural word phages refers to different types of phage, whereas in common usage the word phage can be both singular and plural, referring in the plural sense to particles of the same type of phage." Maloy et al: Microbial Genetics, 2nd ed., 1984, →ISBN, p. 81
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A virus that is parasitic on bacteria.
Synonyms: bacteriophage
Derived terms: sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: antiphage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: campylophage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: endophage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: enterophage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: erythrophage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: exophage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: fluorophage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: megaphage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: multiphage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: myophage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: nonphage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: pelagiphage
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: phage therapy
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: phagic
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: phagocidal
sense: some may be derived from -phage
word: prophage
Related terms: virophage
concubine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑŋkjəbaɪn/
Forms: form: concubines
Etymology: From Middle English concubine (first attested 1250–1300), from Anglo-Norman concubine, from Latin concubīna, equivalent to concub- (variant stem of concumbō (“to lie together”)) + feminine suffix -īna.
Senses: synonyms: word: mistress
word: sprunk
word: bedfellow
word: bedmate
word: fuck
word: hookup
word: lover
word: paramour
word: mate
word: root
word: sex partner
word: sexual partner
word: bit on the side
word: concubine
word: doxy
word: dulcinea
word: goomah
word: leman
word: loon
word: minx
word: mistress
word: number two
word: side bitch
word: side chick
word: side piece
word: side ting
word: sprunk
word: strumpet
word: wench
word: wifelet
glosses: A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
examples: text: And that is more than I will yield unto: / I know I am too mean to be your queen, / And yet too good to be your concubine.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
synonyms: cohabitor
cohabitant
domestic partner
glosses: A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
examples: text: He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch,
And in my Sarell tend my Concubines:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
text: And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 20:4–6:
text: Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.
ref: c. 1909, Mark Twain, “Letter VIII”, in Letters from the Earth:
synonyms: odalisque
glosses: A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.
Derived terms: concubinage
concubinal
concubinary
mancubine
Related terms: harem
polygamy
co-wife
seraglio
meow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /miˈaʊ̯/
ipa: /mjaʊ̯/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: miaow
form: miaou
form: meaw
form: meeow
Etymology: Alteration of earlier mew, from Middle English mewen, mouwen (“to mew, meow”), of onomatopoeic origin.
Compare Saterland Frisian mauje, miauje (“to meow”), West Frisian miaukje (“to meow”), Dutch miauwen (“to meow”), Middle Low German mauwen, mawen, mouwen (“to meow”) (whence modern German Low German mauen, miauen (“to meow”)), Middle High German mouen, modern German miauen (“to meow”). Some spellings were modelled on French miaou.
Meow and its spelling variants entered widespread currency in the 19th century, mostly replacing mew, possibly because phonetic change meant that word had ceased to approximate a cat's cry (contrast the pronunciation of Middle English mewen /ˈmɛu̯ən/ compared to modern /ˈmjuː/).
Senses: examples: text: “The last thing they had seen in 2012 before that break was a short from Simon’s Cat called ‘Cat Man Do,’” said Lamothe. “When you leave 800 people in the dark, they will do something. That’s what Fantasia is. But because they had just seen that cat go meow, they meowed.”
ref: 2024 January 8, Alison Foreman, “Why Do Audiences at Fantasia Fest … Meow?”, in IndieWire:
synonyms: mew
miaow
nya
nyaa
nyan
nyao
glosses: Used to indicate the cry of a cat.
glosses: Used in reply to a spiteful or catty comment.
glosses: Used to express seductiveness, mimicking a growl.
meow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miˈaʊ̯/
ipa: /mjaʊ̯/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: meows
form: miaow
form: miaou
form: meaw
form: meeow
Etymology: Alteration of earlier mew, from Middle English mewen, mouwen (“to mew, meow”), of onomatopoeic origin.
Compare Saterland Frisian mauje, miauje (“to meow”), West Frisian miaukje (“to meow”), Dutch miauwen (“to meow”), Middle Low German mauwen, mawen, mouwen (“to meow”) (whence modern German Low German mauen, miauen (“to meow”)), Middle High German mouen, modern German miauen (“to meow”). Some spellings were modelled on French miaou.
Meow and its spelling variants entered widespread currency in the 19th century, mostly replacing mew, possibly because phonetic change meant that word had ceased to approximate a cat's cry (contrast the pronunciation of Middle English mewen /ˈmɛu̯ən/ compared to modern /ˈmjuː/).
Senses: examples: text: A cat’s meow and a cow’s moo, I can recite them all / Just tell me where it hurts you, honey
ref: 1968, Bob Dylan, “Quinn the Eskimo”:
text: It’s from within that breathing room the meow finally emerged. […] These days every Fantasia screening begins with a cacophony of meows — timed by the audience to start and stop at black leader.
ref: 2024 January 8, Alison Foreman, “Why Do Audiences at Fantasia Fest … Meow?”, in IndieWire:
glosses: The cry of a cat.
synonyms: drone
meow meow
glosses: The drug mephedrone.
meow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /miˈaʊ̯/
ipa: /mjaʊ̯/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: meows
form: meowing
form: meowed
form: meowed
form: miaow
form: miaou
form: meaw
form: meeow
Etymology: Alteration of earlier mew, from Middle English mewen, mouwen (“to mew, meow”), of onomatopoeic origin.
Compare Saterland Frisian mauje, miauje (“to meow”), West Frisian miaukje (“to meow”), Dutch miauwen (“to meow”), Middle Low German mauwen, mawen, mouwen (“to meow”) (whence modern German Low German mauen, miauen (“to meow”)), Middle High German mouen, modern German miauen (“to meow”). Some spellings were modelled on French miaou.
Meow and its spelling variants entered widespread currency in the 19th century, mostly replacing mew, possibly because phonetic change meant that word had ceased to approximate a cat's cry (contrast the pronunciation of Middle English mewen /ˈmɛu̯ən/ compared to modern /ˈmjuː/).
Senses: examples: text: “The last thing they had seen in 2012 before that break was a short from Simon’s Cat called ‘Cat Man Do,’” said Lamothe. “When you leave 800 people in the dark, they will do something. That’s what Fantasia is. But because they had just seen that cat go meow, they meowed.”
ref: 2024 January 8, Alison Foreman, “Why Do Audiences at Fantasia Fest … Meow?”, in IndieWire:
text: The cat meows at me and bird-watches by the window facing the street. Sometimes I bird-watch with him because the older I get, the more interested I get in birds lol.
ref: 2024 May 8, R29 Team, “A Week In Boston On An $81,000 Salary”, in Refinery29:
glosses: Of a cat, to make its cry.
Synonyms: mew
miaow
Derived terms: cat's meow
meow button
Meower
meower
Meowese
meowingly
meowless
meowlike
meowy
poor little meow meow
snowmeow
Related terms: purr
miaow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miaows
Senses: glosses: British spelling of meow.
miaow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miaows
form: miaowing
form: miaowed
form: miaowed
Senses: glosses: British spelling of meow.
Derived terms: miaower
Related terms: miaow miaow
purr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜː/
ipa: /pɝ/
ipa: /pʌr/
ipa: /pøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /peː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /pɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /pɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: per (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: pair
homophone: pare
homophone: pear (all fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: purrs
form: purring
form: purred
form: purred
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: There was no one at home but a black cat, who was sitting quite content and purring on the hearth[.]
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278:
glosses: To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented or in certain other conditions.
raw_tags: of a cat
examples: text: "This is Cindy," she purred again, flashing a smile of perfect white teeth surrounded by full red lips.
ref: 2008, C. E. Osborne, Black Gold Death in the Sun, page 12:
glosses: To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner.
examples: text: He purred like a kitten when she massaged his neck.
glosses: To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure.
examples: text: No woman receiving her first mink would ever put it directly into storage. She would try it on and purr over it.
ref: 1971, Donald J. Sobol, More Two-Minute Mysteries, page 36:
glosses: To spend time enjoying and expressing pleasure (over something); to coo; to enthuse.
raw_tags: with over
examples: text: Beverly passed the city limits sign with the Porsche's motor purring contentedly after its two hundred and fifty-mile romp.
ref: 2001, E. C. Craver, Last Reunion, page 159:
glosses: To make a low and consistent rumbling sound.
raw_tags: of an engine
Derived terms: purrer
purr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜː/
ipa: /pɝ/
ipa: /pʌr/
ipa: /pøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /peː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /pɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /pɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: per (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: pair
homophone: pare
homophone: pear (all fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: purrs
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, the tiger looked around, and gave a purr, and then a growl. What did that mean? The man could not tell. Then the tiger just flung upon the man some of the sand from the side of the hollow.
ref: 1918, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, The wonders of the jungle - Volume 2, page 113:
glosses: The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented.
examples: text: The trill of her purr echoed inside his mouth when he kissed her again. Clutching at his shirt, her fingers traveled the muscles in his back.
ref: 2006, Brenda Williamson, Wolverton Blood, page 53:
glosses: A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person.
examples: text: I sat still in the car and listened to the soft purr of the engine and my beating heart. Then slowly, and as silently as possible, I drove the car back to camp.
ref: 1997, Susan Wood, A Fly in Amber, page 191:
glosses: The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed
Derived terms: purr word
purrfect
purrito
purrlike
purrer
purr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜː/
ipa: /pɝ/
ipa: /pʌr/
ipa: /pøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /peː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /pɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /pɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: per (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: pair
homophone: pare
homophone: pear (all fair–fur merger)
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Vibrating sound made by a cat.
glosses: Alternative form of period.
Related terms: meow
hiss
caw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
ipa: /kɔ/
ipa: /kɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: caws
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: glosses: The harsh cry of a crow.
Coordinate terms: chatter
caw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
ipa: /kɔ/
ipa: /kɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: caws
form: cawing
form: cawed
form: cawed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: examples: text: Rising and cawing at the gun's report.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven.
Derived terms: cawer
caw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
ipa: /kɔ/
ipa: /kɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: examples: text: "Amen," said M., in a grave and solemn tone. "Caw," croaked the jackdaw immediately, and with such a sonorous effect, that it disturbed our pious mien and upset our gravity.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 36:
glosses: A rendering of the vocalisation of a crow or other corvid.
croak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krōk
ipa: /kɹoʊk/
enpr: krōk
ipa: /kɹəʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: croaks
Etymology: From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin.
See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.
Senses: glosses: A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
synonyms: ribbit
glosses: The call of a frog or toad.
glosses: The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
Derived terms: croakless
croaky
croak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: krōk
ipa: /kɹoʊk/
enpr: krōk
ipa: /kɹəʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: croaks
form: croaking
form: croaked
form: croaked
Etymology: From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin.
See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.
Senses: glosses: To make a croak sound.
examples: text: The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
qualifier: toad; raven; or various other birds or animals; toad; raven; or various other birds or animals
glosses: To make its vocal sound.
raw_tags: of a frog
glosses: To die.
examples: text: He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.
text: "It was me. And I'm glad, damned glad, I didn't croak him. With this slick guy after me, it would be me for the chair."
ref: 1920 June 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 216, column 2:
text: If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it.
ref: 1925, G. K. Chesterton, The Arrow of Heaven (first published in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Jul 1925)
glosses: To kill someone or something.
examples: text: Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
examples: text: The accessor croaks if it's not an appropriate object reference.
ref: 2002, Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Perl, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 200:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.
Derived terms: croaker
croaking gourami
croakingly
neigh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nā
ipa: /neɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: nay
homophone: nee
homophone: Neagh
Forms: form: neighs
Etymology: From Middle English neyen, from Old English hnǣġan, from Proto-West Germanic *hnaijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnajjaną (“to neigh”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch neien, Middle Low German neigen, Swedish gnägga, Icelandic hneggja.
Senses: synonyms: neighing#Noun
glosses: The cry of a horse.
neigh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nā
ipa: /neɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: nay
homophone: nee
homophone: Neagh
Forms: form: neighs
form: neighing
form: neighed
form: neighed
Etymology: From Middle English neyen, from Old English hnǣġan, from Proto-West Germanic *hnaijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnajjaną (“to neigh”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch neien, Middle Low German neigen, Swedish gnägga, Icelandic hneggja.
Senses: examples: text: "I went into the stable first to see to the horse, and found him neighing and waiting for his hay, so I went up into the hay-loft for an armful[.]"
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 33:
glosses: To make its cry.
raw_tags: of a horse
glosses: To make a sound similar to a horse's cry.
examples: text: Yes, yes, 'tis he. I will assure you Uncle, the very he, the he your Wisdom plaid withal, I thank you for't, neighed at his Nakedness, and made his Cold and Poverty your Pastime; […]
ref: c. 1614, John Fletcher, “Wit Without Money, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:
glosses: To scoff or sneer.
Derived terms: neigher
roar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rô
ipa: /ɹɔː/
enpr: rôr
ipa: /ɹoɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: rōr
ipa: /ɹo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹoə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: raw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: roars
Etymology: From Middle English roren, raren, from Old English rārian (“to roar; wail; lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *rairōn, from Proto-Germanic *rairōną (“to bellow; roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to shout; bellow; yell; bark”), perhaps of imitative origin.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian roorje (“to roar”), German röhren (“to roar”).
Senses: glosses: A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
examples: text: The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
text: Tarzan could imagine how old Numa’s eyes were shining—how he was already sucking in his breath for the awful roar which would freeze his prey for the brief instant between the moment of the spring and the sinking of terrible fangs into splintering bones.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 120:
glosses: The cry of the lion.
glosses: The deep cry of the bull.
examples: text: the roar of a motorbike
text: I stand amid the roar / Of a surf-tormented shore, / And I hold within my hand / Grains of the golden sand—
ref: 1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 40:
text: Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting.
ref: 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107
glosses: A loud resounding noise.
glosses: A show of strength or character.
Derived terms: sense: from verb or noun
word: die roaring
sense: from verb or noun
word: die roaring for a priest
sense: from verb or noun
word: hell-roaring
sense: from verb or noun
word: rip-roaring
sense: from verb or noun
word: roar ahead
sense: from verb or noun
word: roar away
sense: from verb or noun
word: roar back
sense: from verb or noun
word: roaring boy
sense: from verb or noun
word: roaring cat
sense: from verb or noun
word: roaring drunk
sense: from verb or noun
word: roaring forties
sense: from verb or noun
word: roaring game
sense: from verb or noun
word: roaring success
sense: from verb or noun
word: roar off
sense: from verb or noun
word: roar on
sense: from verb or noun
word: roar out
sense: from verb or noun
word: space roar
sense: from verb or noun
word: within a bull's roar
grunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: grunts
Etymology: From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”).
Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself.
ref: 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter X:
glosses: A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
glosses: The snorting cry of a pig.
glosses: Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
synonyms: gofer
lackey
peon
glosses: A person who does ordinary and boring work.
examples: text: The poges stare at the grunts as though the grunts were Hell's Angels at the ballet.
ref: 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 39:
text: The events described are those encountered by only 160 men, though the adversity recounted is representative of that experienced by all grunts in Vietnam.
ref: 1984, Charles Robert Anderson, The Grunts, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page xii:
text: He can't make that kind of decision. He's just a grunt!
ref: 1986, James Cameron, Aliens, spoken by Burke (Paul Reiser):
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: pogue
glosses: An infantry soldier.
examples: text: The engine might not possess quite as much grunt as the later 24v six, but it delivers invigorating performance […]
ref: 1992, Autocar & Motor, volume 192, page 61:
text: With this much grunt, it is surprising that the engine is relatively quiet.
ref: 2006 February, Torque, page 56:
text: The lack of bottom-end grunt presents as a particular problem in hilly terrain where the five-speed manual gearbox really earns its keep.
ref: 2021 February 24, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 55, column 2:
glosses: The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.
synonyms: fungy
fungee
glosses: A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.
Derived terms: death grunt
grungy
grunt boy
grunt-horn
grunt level
grunt-level
gruntlike
gruntling
gruntometer
gruntspeak
gruntulous
grunt work
Margaret grunt
margate grunt
grunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: grunts
form: grunting
form: grunted
form: grunted
Etymology: From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”).
Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: to grunt and sweat under a weary life
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 III, scene i]:
text: The silhouette sharpens and fades as the carving is moved before the flames of the hearth, its maker grunts in perfect imitation of the ancestor - a human-lioness in oestrus.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 186:
glosses: To make a grunt or grunts.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: To make a grunt or grunts.
raw_tags: of a pig
examples: text: Who just grunted?
glosses: To break wind; to fart.
Derived terms: grunter
chattel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæt.l̩/
rhymes: -ætəl
Forms: form: chattels
Etymology: From Middle English chatel, from Old French chatel, from Medieval Latin capitāle (English capital), from Latin capitālis (“of the head”), from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”). Compare the doublet cattle (“cows”), which is from an Anglo-Norman variant. Compare also capital and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.
Senses: examples: text: […] although of course the firm had changed hands many times over the centuries, […] But the box has always been part of the chattels, as it were.
ref: 1990, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, Corgi, page 387:
glosses: Tangible, movable property.
examples: text: Not all his servants and chattels are wraiths!
ref: 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring [Book 2, Chapter 1 - Many Meetings]
glosses: A slave.
Derived terms: chattelhood
chattel house
chattelism
chattel paper
chattelship
chattel slavery
human chattel
Related terms: capital
cattle
tangible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænd͡ʒɪb(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈtænd͡ʒəbəl/
rhymes: -ændʒɪbəl
Forms: form: more tangible
form: most tangible
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere (“to touch”).
Senses: synonyms: word: palpable
word: palpable
word: tactile
word: tangible
word: touchable
glosses: Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch.
examples: text: While the SCP universe is, of course, filled with things that we would certainly not consider "real", most of the SCPs are tangible or perceivable in some way.
ref: 2019 January 7, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: Pattern Screamers” (0:11 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2023:
synonyms: word: conspicuous
word: detectable
word: discernable
word: noticeable
word: observable
word: perceivable
word: perceptible
word: sensable
word: sensible
glosses: Perceptible; able to be perceived.
examples: text: And for Rodgers, who cleaned up with Celtic in Scotland, this was another significant addition to his CV, as his expert guidance of Leicester - who are in a strong position to finish in the Premier League's top four and face Chelsea again at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday - now has a tangible reward in the shape of the FA Cup.
ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
text: Leaders say they have struggled with the latest generation's tangible challenges, including being late to work and meetings often, not wearing office-appropriate clothing, and [not] using language appropriate for the workspace.
ref: 2024 September 26, Orianna Rosa Royle, Bosses are firing Gen Z grads just months after hiring them—here’s what they say needs to change:
synonyms: word: actual
word: bodily
word: corporeal
word: concrete
word: material
word: meaty
word: physical
word: real
word: substantive
word: tangible
glosses: Able to be treated as fact; real or concrete.
synonyms: word: apprehensible
word: clear
word: comprehensible
word: explainable
word: explicable
word: explicatable
word: fathomable
word: graspable
word: illuminable
word: intelligible
word: lucid
word: pellucid
word: perspicuous
word: straightforward
word: tangible
word: understandable
glosses: Comprehensible by the mind; understandable.
Derived terms: tangible asset
tangible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænd͡ʒɪb(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈtænd͡ʒəbəl/
rhymes: -ændʒɪbəl
Forms: form: tangibles
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere (“to touch”).
Senses: glosses: A physical object; something that can be touched.
examples: text: Yes, but what are the tangibles?
glosses: Real or concrete results.
Related terms: real
palpable
touch
fils
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fēs
ipa: /ˈfiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Etymology: From French fils (“son”).
Senses: glosses: Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the son is being referred to rather than the father.
fils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fēs
ipa: /ˈfiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: fils
Etymology: From French fils (“son”).
Senses: glosses: The son referred to in the manner of the adjective above.
fils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fēs
ipa: /ˈfiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
ipa: /fɪls/
rhymes: -ɪls
enpr: fēs
ipa: /ˈfiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: fulus
Etymology: From Arabic فلس. Doublet of fool.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Subdivision of currency used in many Arab countries.
klavern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ævə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: klaverns
Etymology: Blend of Klan + tavern
Senses: examples: text: “I read a story about the klan in a national magazine. I decided, just for kicks, to see if I could obtain membership. Well, I got my membership card. And I was also appointed ‘Great Titan’ to organize and set up a klavern [local unit] here in Idaho.”
ref: 1965 February 25, Paul L. Bellesen, quotee, “The Klan's Man in Idaho A Card-Carrying Negro”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A local unit of the Ku Klux Klan.
Ku Klux Klan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn/
ipa: /ˌku klʌks ˈklæn/
Forms: form: the Ku Klux Klan
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) and clan, split syllabically into three words, with the first letter of clan changing to a 'k' in order to match the initial letters of the previous two words.
Senses: examples: text: The very suspicion of seditious utterances against the government, suspected complicity in the Ku Klux Klan, or complaint by a negro that a white man had been uppity to him were enough to land a citizen in jail.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 653:
synonyms: Klan
KKK
Klux
glosses: An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization.
Related terms: KKK
Klansman
Ku-Klux
nightrider
whitecapper
materialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˌtɪəɹ.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: more materialistic
form: most materialistic
Etymology: From material + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).
ref: 2019 August 20, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:
glosses: Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
examples: text: But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.
ref: 1852, Charles Kingsley, Phaeton, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers:
glosses: Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
Derived terms: amaterialistic
antimaterialistic
hypermaterialistic
immaterialistic
materialistically
nonmaterialistic
postmaterialistic
unmaterialistic
Related terms: materialism
materialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɪɹiəlɪzəm/
ipa: /məˈtɪəɹiəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: materialisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French matérialisme. By surface analysis, material + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: We accept that a third of the population live on the poverty line. We accept that only a handful of the most exceptional of the children of the poor will make it through to a third-level education. We accept massive examples of greed and dishonesty in public life. We except the values of materialism. What do we expect then—to be left un-harassed, we who have all the privileges?
ref: 2010, Nuala O'Faolain, “An Ugly Little War”, in A More Complex Truth:
antonyms: spirituality
glosses: Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
examples: text: The result of the labours of philosophy appeared to be a total scepticism on the most important subjects of hu man duty and expectation. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus; and this system—if system it may be called, which left them without a God, a providence, a morality, or a retribution—was the fashionable philosophy of the more cultivated classes.
ref: 1814, Joseph S. Buckminster, The Sermons by the Late Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster, Sermon I:
text: Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. ... All such mental over-tensions, it says, are, when you come to the bottom of the matter, mere affairs of diathesis (auto-intoxications most probably), due to the perverted action of various glands which physiology will yet discover.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: With the rise of Cartesian and Hobbesian mechanical philosophy and materialism in the 16th and 17th centuries, the classical argument for the immateriality of the intellect and will was simply ignored and then forgotten.
ref: 2015 January 26, Michael Egnor, “Aristotle on the Immateriality of Intellect and Will”, in Evolution News, retrieved 11 Jan 2021:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: physicalism
philosophical materialism
thingism
antonyms: idealism
glosses: The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
glosses: Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
Derived terms: antimaterialism
dialectical materialism
eliminative materialism
historical materialism
hypermaterialism
neo-materialism
new materialism
nonmaterialism
philosophical materialism
postmaterialism
scientific materialism
speculative materialism
transcendental materialism
Related terms: materialist
materialistic
idealism
physicalism
guile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: guiles
Etymology: From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.
Senses: examples: text: It was a result that owed a lot to a moment of guile from Ramires but more to a display of guts from the Brazilian and his team-mates after Terry's needless dismissal eight minutes before half-time for driving a knee into the back of Alexis Sanchez off the ball.
ref: 2012 April 24, Phil Dawkes, “Barcelona 2-2 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
text: Estonia were struggling to get to grips with the game while Ireland were showing a composure and guile that demonstrated their experience in play-off ties.
ref: 2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:
glosses: Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
examples: text: Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 1:47:
glosses: Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
Derived terms: guiler
guilesome
guile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: guiles
form: guiling
form: guiled
form: guiled
Etymology: From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.
Senses: examples: text: Who means no guile, be guiled soonest shall
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To deceive, beguile, bewile.
Derived terms: beguile
guileful
guileless
Related terms: wile
guile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Etymology: Variant forms.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gold.
glosses: Alternative form of gyle.
layoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: layoffs
form: lay-off
Etymology: Deverbal from lay off.
Senses: glosses: A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
examples: text: One of the muscles on the point of the shoulder was torn loose and it didn't need more than a glance to see that Mr. Hickey was in for a long lay-off. He wouldn't pitch again for quite a spell, if ever;
ref: 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
text: But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool
ref: 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
text: After a ten-month layoff, during which extensive testing had taken place in conjunction with AEI, the 'Blue Trains' resumed full operation on October 2 1961, [...].
ref: 2021 July 28, Ben Jones, “When BR got cracking after withdrawal of 'Blue Trains'”, in RAIL, number 932, page 32:
glosses: A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.
glosses: A bet that is laid off, i.e. placed with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
Synonyms: sense: dismissal of employees
word: downsizing
sense: dismissal of employees
word: reduction in force
sense: dismissal of employees
word: redundancy
Derived terms: postlayoff
Related terms: lay off
overall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹˈɔːl/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹɔːl/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈɔl/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚɔl/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈɑl/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: more overall
form: most overall
Etymology: From Middle English overall, overal, from Old English ofer eall, ofer ealle (“over all”), equivalent to over + all. Compare Saterland Frisian oural, uural (“everywhere”), West Frisian oeral (“everywhere”), Dutch overal (“everywhere”), German Low German overall, överall (“everywhere; all over”), German überall (“all over; everywhere”), Danish overalt (“everywhere”), Swedish överallt (“everywhere; overall”).
Senses: examples: text: We believe also that a controlled economy cannot be understood without some overall view of the controlling institutions: hence our short studies — shorter by far than the original drafts — of the central administration.
ref: 1949, W. Keith Hancock, Margaret M. Gowing, British War Economy:
glosses: All-encompassing, all around.
Synonyms: big
entire
total
whole
exhaustive
thorough
comprehensive
Derived terms: overally
overall
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹˈɔːl/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹɔːl/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈɔl/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚɔl/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈɑl/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Etymology: From Middle English overall, overal, from Old English ofer eall, ofer ealle (“over all”), equivalent to over + all. Compare Saterland Frisian oural, uural (“everywhere”), West Frisian oeral (“everywhere”), Dutch overal (“everywhere”), German Low German overall, överall (“everywhere; all over”), German überall (“all over; everywhere”), Danish overalt (“everywhere”), Swedish överallt (“everywhere; overall”).
Senses: examples: text: Overall, there is not enough evidence to form a clear conclusion.
glosses: Generally; with everything considered.
Synonyms: all things considered
mostly
Derived terms: length overall