cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fibrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪbɹɪn/
Forms: form: fibrins
form: fibrine
Etymology: From fibre + -in (used to form chemical names of proteins, etc).
Senses: glosses: A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood.
glosses: An elastic, insoluble, whitish protein produced by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen and forming an interlacing fibrous network in the coagulation of blood.
glosses: An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.
Synonyms: topics: medicine
sciences
word: factor Ia
Derived terms: antifibrin
defibrinate
fibrinase
fibrination
fibrinlike
fibrinogen
fibrinogenesis
fibrinogenic
fibrinogenous
fibrinoid
fibrinopeptide
fibrinoplastin
fibrinosuppurative
fibrinous
vegetable fibrin
fibrin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪbɹɪn/
Forms: form: fibrins
form: fibrining
form: fibrined
form: fibrined
form: fibrine
Etymology: From fibre + -in (used to form chemical names of proteins, etc).
Senses: glosses: To apply fibrin sealant to a surgical site to either stop bleeding or for surgical flap closure.
fife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: fifes
Etymology: From German Pfeife (“whistle, smoking pipe”). Doublet of pipe.
Senses: glosses: A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
Derived terms: fife major
fifer
fife-rail
fife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: fifes
form: fifing
form: fifed
form: fifed
Etymology: From German Pfeife (“whistle, smoking pipe”). Doublet of pipe.
Senses: glosses: To play this instrument.
fife
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Senses: examples: text: “Change course to two fife zero and reduce height to fifteen hundred feet.” That “fife,” thought Alan, sounded very affected; but it had a good survival value in a noisy background.
ref: 1963, Arthur C Clarke, chapter 6, in Glidepath, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 66:
glosses: Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire or nine.
Related terms: niner
fifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fifers
Etymology: From fife + -er. Piecewise doublet of piper.
Senses: glosses: One who plays on a fife.
filet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭ'lā
enpr: fĭlā'
ipa: /ˈfɪleɪ/
ipa: /fɪˈleɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɪlɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɪleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: filets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fillet.
filet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭ'lā
enpr: fĭlā'
ipa: /ˈfɪleɪ/
ipa: /fɪˈleɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɪlɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɪleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: filets
form: fileting
form: fileted
form: fileted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fillet.
flam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: flams
Etymology: 17th century; from flim-flam, itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).
Senses: glosses: A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
examples: text: all Pretences, or Pleas of Conscience, to the contrary, are nothing but Cant and Cheat, Flam and Delusion.
ref: 1692, Robert South, "A Further Account of the Nature and Measures of Conscience", in Forty Eight Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions (published 1697)
text: a perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
synonyms: deception
delusion
glosses: A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext
flam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: flams
form: flamming
form: flammed
form: flammed
Etymology: 17th century; from flim-flam, itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).
Senses: examples: text: God is not to be flammed off with Lyes.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To deceive with a falsehood.
flam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: flams
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: qualifier: drumming
glosses: Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
Derived terms: flam paradiddle
flamadiddle
flam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: flams
form: flamming
form: flammed
form: flammed
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: We will commence to flam the notes now, as most of them are flammed when you play a March.
ref: 1923, Edward B. Straight, The Straight System of Modern Drumming: The "Natural Way" to Play Drums, page 10:
text: Drums ruffled and flammed.
ref: 1975, George Shipway, Free Lance, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, →ISBN:
qualifier: drumming
glosses: To play (notes as) a flam.
Related terms: flam-new
flange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flænd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ændʒ
Forms: form: flanges
Etymology: From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve; side, flank”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.
Senses: glosses: An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
glosses: The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
examples: text: [The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [players] can't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just flange it back to the original plot line.
ref: 1998, Mr MI Pennington, “Can the Players be Trusted?”, in rec.games.frp.live-action (Usenet):
text: 2007, "balor", Changing the metaphysics on Rule 7 https://web.archive.org/web/20071014193135/http://forums.rule7.co.uk/Topic28357-44-2.aspx
'Oh look, the amulet of flange has been activated, this means all Paladins now only have one heal per day instead of two.'
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
examples: text: I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange. Imagine my surprise when she got up went downstairs to my toolbox and brought me up a metal looking object called a flange!!!!! Needless to say when she asked to see my nuts the next time I obliged by doing exactly the same as her.
ref: 2001, tedfat, “Flange!!!!”, in alt.society.nottingham (Usenet):
text: 'God, she's got a tight flange!' the plumber gasped, splaying the girl's buttocks and focusing on her O-ring.
ref: 2003, Ray Gordon, Hot Sheets:
glosses: The vulva.
examples: text: it's a flange of baboons
ref: 1980s (first use), Not the Nine O'clock News, Rowan Atkinson (actor):
text: I suspect they hired a flange of baboons to mind the house.
ref: 2006, Rick Crosier, Getting Away with Murder:
synonyms: troop
congress
glosses: A group of baboons.
glosses: The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
Derived terms: flange greaser
flangeless
flangelike
flange lubricator
flange oiler
flangetail
flangeway
flange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flænd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ændʒ
Forms: form: flanges
form: flanging
form: flanged
form: flanged
Etymology: From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve; side, flank”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.
Senses: glosses: To be bent into a flange.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
qualifier: sound engineering
glosses: To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.
Derived terms: flangeable
flax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæks/
ipa: /flɛks/
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: flaxes
Etymology: From Middle English flax, from Old English fleax, from Proto-Germanic *flahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait”). Cognate with Old Frisian flax, Dutch vlas, Old High German flahs (German Flachs); the Northern Germanic (and most likely the Gothic too) stem is different.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds.
glosses: The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles.
glosses: A flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps.
Derived terms: word: blue flax
word: earthflax
word: false flax
word: flax bow
word: flaxbush
word: flaxcomb
word: flax cotton
word: flax dodder
word: flax-dresser
word: flaxen
word: flax-leaved daphne
word: flaxlike
word: flax milk
word: flaxseed
word: flax seed
word: flax-stick
word: flaxweed
word: flaxwort
word: flaxy
word: holy flax
word: Lewis flax
word: mountain flax
taxonomic: Phormium spp.
word: New Zealand flax
word: toadflax
Related terms: Flax Bourton
linen
tow
fledge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: fledges
form: fledging
form: fledged
form: fledged
form: flidge
form: flig
form: flish
form: flitch
form: flush
Etymology: From Middle English flegge, fligge, flygge, from Old English *flyċġe (“able to fly, fledged”) (attested in *unflyċġe, unfligge (“unfledged”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flugi, from Proto-Germanic *flugjaz (“able to fly, fledged”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to run, flow, be swift, flee, fly”).
Cognates
From Proto-Germanic: Dutch vlug (“fledged, able to fly, nimble, swift”), Low German flügg (“fledged”), German flügge, German flücke (“fledged”), Icelandic fleygur (“able to fly, fledged”)
Senses: glosses: To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
glosses: To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
glosses: To decorate with feathers.
glosses: To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.
Derived terms: fledgeless
fledgling
full-fledged
postfledging
unfledged
Related terms: fletch
fletcher
fligger
fledge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: flidge
form: flig
form: flish
form: flitch
form: flush
Etymology: From Middle English flegge, fligge, flygge, from Old English *flyċġe (“able to fly, fledged”) (attested in *unflyċġe, unfligge (“unfledged”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flugi, from Proto-Germanic *flugjaz (“able to fly, fledged”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to run, flow, be swift, flee, fly”).
Cognates
From Proto-Germanic: Dutch vlug (“fledged, able to fly, nimble, swift”), Low German flügg (“fledged”), German flügge, German flücke (“fledged”), Icelandic fleygur (“able to fly, fledged”)
Senses: examples: text: his shoulders, fledge with wings
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
fleer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪə/
ipa: /flɪɚ/
ipa: /fliɹ/
ipa: /fliə/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /flɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: flair
homophone: flare (both cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: fleers
form: fleering
form: fleered
form: fleered
Etymology: Possibly from a Scandinavian source, compare Norwegian bokmål flire (“to giggle”), Jutish Danish flire.
Senses: examples: text: LEONATO. Tush, tush, man! never fleer and jest at me:
I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
As, under privilege of age, to brag
What I have done being young, or what would do,
Were I not old.
ref: 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, scene 1:
text: [I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way[.]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History:
synonyms: word: deride
word: sneer
word: mock
word: gibe
word: badger
word: bam
word: barrack
word: brock
word: bullyrag
word: chiack
word: deride
word: fleer
word: fligger
word: flite
word: geck
word: heckle
word: hound
word: jeer
word: nip
word: outlaugh
word: poke borack
word: ridicule
word: scoff
word: sneer
word: taunt
word: twit
glosses: To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn
examples: text: In the time of popery, before the gospel came amongst us, we went to burials with weeping and wailing, as though there were no God: but since the gospel came unto us, I have heard say, that in some places they go with the corses grinning and flearing, as though they went to a bear-baiting;[…]
ref: 1552, Hugh Latimer, The Fifth Sermon Preached on the Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Trinity, 1552; republished in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, volume 2, London: James Duncan, 1824, page 212:
synonyms: fligger
glosses: To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
Derived terms: fleerer
fleer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪə/
ipa: /flɪɚ/
ipa: /fliɹ/
ipa: /fliə/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /flɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: flair
homophone: flare (both cheer–chair merger)
Etymology: Possibly from a Scandinavian source, compare Norwegian bokmål flire (“to giggle”), Jutish Danish flire.
Senses: examples: text: […] And flattery tipt with nauseous fleer,
And guilty shame, and servile fear,
Envy, and cruelty, and pride,
Will in your tainted heart preside.
ref: 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, visiting me in my sickness:
glosses: Mockery; derision.
fleer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪə/
ipa: /flɪɚ/
ipa: /fliɹ/
ipa: /fliə/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /flɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: flair
homophone: flare (both cheer–chair merger)
ipa: /ˈfliːə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -iːə(ɹ)
ipa: /flɪə/
ipa: /flɪɚ/
ipa: /fliɹ/
ipa: /fliə/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /flɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: flair
homophone: flare (both cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: fleers
Etymology: From flee + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Which fear of the fleers away was no less ignominious, then if[…]they had turned their backs to the enemie.
ref: 1598, R. Grenewey, Annales, translation of original by Tacitus:
glosses: One who flees.
fletch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: fletches
Etymology: A modification of fledge (“to acquire feathers”) due to the influence of fletcher (“arrow-maker”). Compare flèche.
Senses: topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The vane toward the back of an arrow, used to stabilise the arrow during flight.
topics: biology
ecology
fisheries
natural-sciences
glosses: A large boneless fillet of halibut, swordfish or tuna.
Synonyms: sense: vane of arrow
word: feather
sense: vane of arrow
word: flight
fletch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: fletches
form: fletching
form: fletched
form: fletched
Etymology: A modification of fledge (“to acquire feathers”) due to the influence of fletcher (“arrow-maker”). Compare flèche.
Senses: glosses: To feather, as an arrow.
Derived terms: fletching
Related terms: fletcher
floc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒk/
homophone: flock
Forms: form: flocs
form: flocc
Etymology: From Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), or from French floc (“floc”), from the same Latin source.
Senses: examples: text: It might seem that Mr. Holl, whose initial sketches are glorious watercolors, was an unlikely candidate for a job that is all about hydrodynamics. But he credits much of his inspiration to repeated meetings with engineers -- as many as 30 at a time -- to discuss topics like "flocculation" (the process by which particles form coagulated masses, or flocs).
ref: 2005 February 27, Fred A. Bernstein, “In My Backyard, Please: The Infrastructure Beautiful Movement”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.
examples: text: This can happen for a few reasons, such as adding too much floc or adding too much algaecide prior to floccing.
ref: 2023, Kristine Blanchard, Pool Care For Dummies, page 291:
glosses: A flocculant, as used in swimming pools to make particles clump together so they are trapped by the filter.
floc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒk/
homophone: flock
Forms: form: flocs
form: floccing
form: flocced
form: flocced
form: flocc
Etymology: From Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), or from French floc (“floc”), from the same Latin source.
Senses: examples: text: This can happen for a few reasons, such as adding too much floc or adding too much algaecide prior to floccing.
ref: 2023, Kristine Blanchard, Pool Care For Dummies, page 291:
glosses: To use a flocculant in (a swimming pool).
floe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləʊ/
ipa: /floʊ/
homophone: flow
homophone: Flo
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: floes
Etymology: Early 19th century. Probably from Norwegian Nynorsk flo (“layer, slab”), from Old Norse fló (“layer”).
Senses: synonyms: ice floe
glosses: A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Derived terms: floeberg
floe rat
icefloe
fluter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluters
Etymology: From flute + -er.
Senses: glosses: A flute player.
glosses: One who makes grooves or flutings.
flyway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyways
Etymology: From fly + way.
Senses: glosses: A migratory route used by birds between breeding areas.
fob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŏb
ipa: /fɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: fobs
Etymology: From Low German Fobke (“pocket”) or High Prussian Fuppe (“pocket”), probably related to Swedish ficka (“pocket”), Old Danish fikke, Alemannic German figge, Middle Dutch vicke, all from Proto-Germanic *fikkja, of uncertain ultimate origin:
* possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to assail, strike”), related to *fukkōną (“to strike”);
* or of Romance origin, from Latin figere (“to fix, fasten”), possibly via an old form of Italian ficcare.
Also see Ficke.
Senses: examples: text: With a saint at his chin and a seal at his fob.
ref: 1711, Jonathan Swift, Windsor Prophecy:
text: As soon as they had confined my arms they left me, and remembering the bank-notes which I had in my fob, I began to fear they had come to the knowledge of this circumstance […].
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume VII, Fragment:
glosses: A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold money or valuables, especially a pocket watch.
glosses: A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.
glosses: A small ornament attached to such a chain.
glosses: A hand-held electronic device that can be used as a remote control or as a key to unlock motor cars, doors, etc., and thus, modern car keys.
Derived terms: fob watch
key fob
fob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fŏb
ipa: /fɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: fobs
form: fobbing
form: fobbed
form: fobbed
form: fub
Etymology: From German foppen (“to mock”).
Senses: examples: text: I think it is scurvy, and begin to find myself fobbed in it.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone.
glosses: To beat; to maul.
Derived terms: to fob off
fob
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fŏb
ipa: /fɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FOB (“free on board”).
focal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.kl̩/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.kl̩/
rhymes: -əʊkəl
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin focālis. By surface analysis, focus + -al.
Senses: antonyms: nonfocal
widespread
glosses: Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: nonfocal
locoregional
systemic
widespread
glosses: Limited to a small area.
Derived terms: afocal
autofocal
bifocal
confocal
dynafocal
epifocal
exofocal
extrafocal
focal adhesion
focal depth
focalism
focality
focalization
focalize
focal length
focally
focal plane
focal point
hyperfocal
interfocal
intrafocal
matrifocal
microfocal
monofocal
multifocal
oligofocal
patrifocal
perifocal
polyfocal
quadrifocal
trifocal
ufocal
unifocal
varifocal
fogey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊɡi/
ipa: /ˈfəʊɡi/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊɡi
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊɡi
Forms: form: fogies
form: fogeys
form: fogy
form: fogie
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots foggie, fogie (noun), perhaps derived from Scots foggie (“covered with moss or lichen; mossy", hence "old, antiquated, decrepit”, adjective), from Scots fog (“moss; lichen”), equivalent to fog (“moss”) + -y. Further origin uncertain. More at fog.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he old fogies, as you call them, at Bays’s, are some of the first gentlemen in England, of whom you youngsters had best learn a little manners, and a little breeding, and a little modesty.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 45, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
synonyms: old fogey
glosses: A dull person (especially an old man) who is behind the times, holding antiquated, over-conservative views.
Derived terms: fogeydom
fogeyhood
fogeyish
fogeyism
old fogey
young fogey
forcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)
Forms: form: forcers
Etymology: From force + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of force.
glosses: The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
glosses: A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
glosses: A bell-shaped lidded pot for growing rhubarb, used to limit photosynthesis by excluding light, encouraging early-season growth and blanched stems.
Related terms: brute-forcer
formic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪk
Etymology: Formed from the root of Latin formīca (“ant”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ants.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or derived from formic acid (or from methane).
Synonyms: antly
Derived terms: chloroformic
formamide
formate
formication
performic
foss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑs/
ipa: /fɔs/
ipa: /fɒs/
Forms: form: fosses
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fosse.
foss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑs/
ipa: /fɔs/
ipa: /fɒs/
Forms: form: fosses
Etymology: From Icelandic or Norwegian foss, both from Old Norse fors (“waterfall”). Doublet of force (“waterfall”).
Senses: examples: text: Another of his flock was spotted garrotted, one found twisted and drowned at the bottom of a foss and a third split cleanly from scut to teeth.
ref: 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 101:
glosses: A waterfall.
fovea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.vi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊviə
Forms: form: foveas
form: foveae
form: foveæ
Etymology: From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”). Doublet of foiba.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: fossa
fissure
sulcus
cleft
lacuna
vallecula
glosses: A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.
Derived terms: foveate
foveiform
foveole
parafovea
parafoveal
perifovea
postfoveal
pseudofovea
subfovea
Related terms: foveal
fossa
fray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: frā
ipa: /fɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: frays
Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English fraien (“to beat so as to cause bruising, to bruise; to crush; to rub; to wear, wear off”), borrowed from Old French fraier, freier, freiier (modern French frayer (“to clear, open up (a path, etc.); (figuratively) to find one’s way through (something); (obsolete) to rub”)), from Latin fricāre, the present active infinitive of fricō (“to chafe; to rub”), an intensive form of friō (“to break into pieces, crumble; to rub”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut”). Sense 1.2 (“to force or make (a path, way, etc.) through”) is derived from modern French frayer: see above.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: The laces frayed at the cut end.
text: "And pray, sir, what do [you] think of Miss Morland's gown?" / "It is very pretty, madam," said he, gravely examining it; "but I do not think it will wash well; I am afraid it will fray."
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, pages 38–39:
text: [T]here's no woman made without a flaw; / Your purest lawns have frays, and cambrics bracks.
ref: c. 1613 (date written; published 1630), Thomas Middleton, “A Chaste Maid in Cheapside”, in A[rthur] H[enry] Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton […] (The English Dramatists), volume V, London: John C. Nimmo […], published 1885, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 7, lines 34–35:
text: 'Tis like a Lawnie-Firmament as yet / Quite diſpoſſeſt of either fray, or fret.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “To the Fever, Not to Trouble Julia”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 91:
synonyms: frazzle
glosses: A consequence of rubbing, unravelling, or wearing away; a fraying; also, a place where fraying has occurred.
fray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: frā
ipa: /fɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: frays
form: fraying
form: frayed
form: frayed
Etymology: An aphetic variant of defray.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he charge of my moſt curious, and coſtly ingredients fraide, amounting to ſome ſeaventeene thouſand crovvnes, a trifle in reſpect of health, vvriting your noble name in my Catalogue, I ſhall acknovvledge my ſelfe amply ſatisfi'd.
ref: 1631 (first performance), Philip Massinger, The Emperour of the East. A Tragæ-comœdie. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, published 1632, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:
glosses: To bear the expense of (something); to defray.
fro
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹəʊ/
ipa: /fɹoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: 'fro
homophone: froe
Etymology: From Middle English fro, fra, from Old English fra (“from”), from Old Norse frá (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fram (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“forth, forward”). Cognate with Scots frae (“fro, from”), Icelandic frá (“from”). More at from.
Senses: glosses: From; away; back or backward.
Derived terms: froward
to and fro
fro
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹəʊ/
ipa: /fɹoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: 'fro
homophone: froe
Etymology: From Middle English fro, fra, from Old English fra (“from”), from Old Norse frá (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fram (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“forth, forward”). Cognate with Scots frae (“fro, from”), Icelandic frá (“from”). More at from.
Senses: examples: text: The preest that hawkys so,
All grace is far hym fro.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 15–16:
glosses: From.
fro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹəʊ/
ipa: /fɹoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: 'fro
homophone: froe
Forms: form: fros
form: 'fro
Etymology: Clipping of afro.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of afro (hairstyle).
Derived terms: frohawk
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: fro-yo
fugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːɡəl/
Etymology: From fugue + -al.
Senses: topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
medicine
music
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: relating to a fugue
glosses: Relating to flight (fleeing)
Derived terms: cerebellofugal
fugally
hepatofugal
striatofugal
tectofugal
fumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːmə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fumers
Senses: glosses: One who makes or uses perfumes.
examples: text: The best fumer concepts evaluated to date employ pyrotechnic type mixes with additives (burning rate modifiers, gaseous output modifiers) and/or gas flow-restricting baseplates.
ref: 1977, Frankford arsenal, Robert Trifiletti, Gas Generators for Base Drag Reduction, page 1:
text: Tracers and fumers are small, smoke producing charges that are placed in projectiles. […] A fumer produces smoke at the proper rate to fill the partial vacuum that movement through the air creates behind the projectile.
ref: 1990, United States Department of the Army, Military Explosives, page 3-3:
glosses: That which fumes, something that produces or emits smoke or other vapor.
fungal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌŋɡəl/
Etymology: From fungus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Doctors determined that the cause of the itchy rash was fungal rather than bacterial.
synonyms: fungous#Adjective
mycotic#Adjective
antonyms: nonfungal#Adjective
nonmycotic#Adjective
coordinate_terms: fungoid#Adjective
;
fungusy#Adjective
mushroomy#Adjective
mushroomoid#Adjective
mushroomlike#Adjective
fungiform#Adjective
;
antifungal#Adjective
antimycotic#Adjective
glosses: Of or pertaining to a fungus or fungi.
Derived terms: word: endofungal
word: fungally
word: -fungin
word: interfungal
word: macrofungal
word: microfungal
word: monofungal
word: nonfungal
word: panfungal
word: perifungal
word: polyfungal
fungal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌŋɡəl/
Forms: form: fungals
Etymology: From fungus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Fungals are distinguished from Lichens by their more fugitive nature, their more succulent texture, their want of a thallus or expansion independent of the part that bears the reproductive matter, […]
ref: 1847, John Lindley, The Vegetable Kingdom: Second Edition, with Corrections, page 30:
text: Fungals are, however, among the more useful friends of man as food, and among his most dangerous enemies as parasites, destroying the sources of his food.
ref: 1856, John Lindley, Medical and Oeconomical Botany: With Numerous Illustrations, page 9:
glosses: A fungus.
furl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜːl/
ipa: /fɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: furls
form: furling
form: furled
form: furled
Etymology: Perhaps from Old French ferlier, modern French ferler.
Senses: examples: text: With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 14, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 71:
text: When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.
ref: 1866, Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man:
text: "'Oh yes, that's all very well, but we haven't done with it yet,' said the lad, 'we shall have it worse directly,' and he ordered them to furl every rag but the mizen."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 191:
glosses: To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
Derived terms: furlable
furler
refurl
upfurl
gabbro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡabɹəʊ/
Forms: form: gabbros
Etymology: From Italian gabbro.
Senses: examples: text: It is known as gabbro and is thought to form the lower layer of the oceanic crust at about four kilometres depth and to comprise a layer up to six kilometres thick, making it one of the most abundant, if least recognisable, materials on earth.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 59:
text: Against the dark Ordovician gabbro, the black volcanic base, Rhynie is a streak of technicolour.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 205:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite.
Derived terms: gabbroic
gabbroid
gabbronite
gabbronorite
leucogabbro
melagabbro
metagabbro
microgabbro
gadder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡædə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gadders
Etymology: From gad (“gallivant”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was no gadder abroad, credible Authors avouching that he never went out of his Cell; though both Cambridge and Rome pretend to his habitation.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Durham”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 293:
glosses: One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.
gadder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡædə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gadders
Etymology: From gad (“pointed metal tool”) + -er.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A drilling or perforating machine or apparatus for mining and mineral exploration.
gage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
homophone: gauge
Forms: form: gages
form: gaging
form: gaged
form: gaged
Etymology: From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.
Senses: examples: text: Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
examples: text: O doe not goe, this feaſt (I'le gage my life) / Is but a plot to trayne you to your ruine, / Be rul'd, you ſha'not goe.
ref: c. 1626 or 1629–1633 (first performance), [John Ford], ’Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore […], London: […] Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act V, signature I2, verso:
glosses: To bet or wager (something).
examples: text: A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.
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 I, scene i]:
glosses: To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.
gage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
homophone: gauge
Forms: form: gages
Etymology: From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.
Senses: examples: text: “But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat — there lies my gage.” She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity…
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: The gage was down for a duel that would split the Democratic party and ensure the election of a Republican president in 1860.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 166:
glosses: Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
examples: text: [I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in that hand by the most remarkable woman in Europe.... [T]he superior piece of work he had done after seeing her last, in the immediate heat of his emotion, turned into a kind of proof and gage, as if a ghost, in vanishing from sight, had left a palpable relic.
ref: 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
glosses: Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
gage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
homophone: gauge
Forms: form: gages
Etymology: See gauge.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gauge.
Derived terms: crusher gage
Pirani gage
rain gage
gage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
homophone: gauge
Forms: form: gages
form: gaging
form: gaged
form: gaged
Etymology: See gauge.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gauge.
Derived terms: disgage
gage pressure
tire gage
gage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
homophone: gauge
Forms: form: gages
Etymology: Back-formation from greengage.
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
Derived terms: blue gage
frost gage
golden gage
goldengage
greengage
gage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
homophone: gauge
Forms: form: gages
Senses: examples: text: Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.
ref: 1951 December 20, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 98:
text: Black faces, white tablecloth, gleaming very sharp knives lined up by the saucers... tobacco and "gage" smoke richly blended, eye-reddening and tart as wine, yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a proccess!
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 1: Beyond the Zero, page 62:
glosses: Marijuana
glosses: A pint pot.
glosses: A drink.
examples: text: Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry
ref: 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, page 353:
glosses: A tobacco pipe.
glosses: A chamber pot.
examples: text: GAGE, a small quantity of anything; as “a gage of tobacco,” meaning a. pipeful; “a gage of gin,” a glassful.
ref: 1864, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, page 140:
glosses: A small quantity of anything.
examples: text: I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.
ref: 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2:
text: Harry. To pay, Moll, for I must hike.
Moll. Did you call me, Master?
Harry. Ay, to pay, in a Whiff.
Moll. Let me see. There's a Grunter's Gig, is a Si-Buxom; two Cat's Heads, a Win; a Double Gage of Rum Slobber, is Thrums; and a Quartern of Max, is three Megs: — That makes a Traveller all but a Meg.
Harry. Here, take your Traveller, and tip the Meg to the Kinchin.
ref: 1747, Helen Berry, anonymous quotee, The Life and Character of Moll King, late mistress of King's Coffee House in Covent Garden, quoted in "Rethinking Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, published 2001, page 75, volume 11, series 6:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A quart pot.
gager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gagers
Etymology: From gage + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gauger.
gagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gaggers
Etymology: From gag + -er.
Senses: glosses: A piece of iron embedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.
glosses: An actor or performer who relies on gags (quips).
glosses: A hoaxer; a deceiver.
examples: text: When it is known that the patient is a gagger, dentures should not be constructed or even impressions made until after several therapeutic hypnotic sessions.
ref: 2016, William S. Kroger, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis in Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology:
glosses: One who exhibits a gag reflex.
gait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: gate
Forms: form: gaits
Etymology: From Middle English gate (“way”), from Old Norse gata (“road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Doublet of gate.
Senses: examples: text: Carrying a heavy suitcase, he had a lopsided gait.
glosses: Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving on legs.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
Synonyms: word: gait
Hyponyms: word: walk
word: trot
word: canter
word: gallop
Derived terms: double-gaiter
gait apraxia
midgait
multigait
square-gaiter
tandem gait
Related terms: word: :Category:Horse gaits
gait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: gate
Forms: form: gaits
form: gaiting
form: gaited
form: gaited
Etymology: From Middle English gate (“way”), from Old Norse gata (“road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Doublet of gate.
Senses: glosses: To teach a specific gait to a horse.
gait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: gate
Forms: form: gaits
Senses: glosses: A sheaf of corn.
glosses: A charge for pasturage.
Synonyms: word: gait
Hyponyms: word: walk
word: trot
word: canter
word: gallop
Related terms: word: :Category:Horse gaits
gaiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: gater
homophone: gator
Forms: form: gaiters
Etymology: Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres, guestes pl, from Old French *gueste, from Frankish *wastiju, from Proto-Germanic *wastijō (“garment; dress”).
Cognate with Middle High German wester (“a child's chrisom-cloth”), Middle High German westebarn (“godchild”), Old English wæstling (“a coverlet”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (wasti, “garment; dress”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: spats
glosses: A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.
examples: text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
examples: text: [He] stood and pulled up the gaiter around his neck to mask his mouth and nose. “People are careful around here, so you'll want to put your mask on,” she told Perry.
ref: 2022 June 14, D. Jackson Leigh, Forever Comes in Threes, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: A neck gaiter.
glosses: Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A protective flexible sleeve covering a moving part, intended to keep the part clean.
Derived terms: gaiterless
gaiterlike
neck gaiter
supergaiter
Related terms: spat
gaiter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: gater
homophone: gator
Forms: form: gaiters
form: gaitering
form: gaitered
form: gaitered
Etymology: Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres, guestes pl, from Old French *gueste, from Frankish *wastiju, from Proto-Germanic *wastijō (“garment; dress”).
Cognate with Middle High German wester (“a child's chrisom-cloth”), Middle High German westebarn (“godchild”), Old English wæstling (“a coverlet”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (wasti, “garment; dress”).
Senses: glosses: To dress with gaiters.
gaiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: gater
homophone: gator
Forms: form: gaiters
Etymology: From Middle English gaytre, from Old English gāte-trēow (“the common dogwood”), equivalent to gāt (“goat”) + trēow (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: The dogwood, or a similar shrub.
gala
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑːlə
rhymes: -ælə
rhymes: -eɪlə
ipa: /ˈɡɑːlə/
ipa: /ˈɡælə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪlə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑlə/
ipa: /ˈɡælə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪlə/
Etymology: From French gala, or directly from that word's etymon, which is either Italian gala, or Spanish gala, both meaning "festive occasion", and derived from Old French gale (“rejoicing”). (The French word likely kept the final -a to avoid homophony with gale (“scabies”).) Ultimately cognate to gallant and hence probably from Frankish *wala (“good, well”).
Senses: glosses: Celebratory; festive.
gala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑːlə
rhymes: -ælə
rhymes: -eɪlə
ipa: /ˈɡɑːlə/
ipa: /ˈɡælə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪlə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑlə/
ipa: /ˈɡælə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪlə/
Forms: form: galas
Etymology: From French gala, or directly from that word's etymon, which is either Italian gala, or Spanish gala, both meaning "festive occasion", and derived from Old French gale (“rejoicing”). (The French word likely kept the final -a to avoid homophony with gale (“scabies”).) Ultimately cognate to gallant and hence probably from Frankish *wala (“good, well”).
Senses: glosses: Pomp, show, or festivity.
examples: text: a swimming gala
glosses: A competition
glosses: A showy and festive party.
glosses: A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
Derived terms: gala dress
galalike
gala pie
gala-series
obligala
royal gala