cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: [pʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: pinks
form: pinking
form: pinked
form: pinked
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked.
Senses: examples: text: The woman’s pale skin pinked as she shook her head. “No. It’s out of my budget. Come on, Sammy”
ref: 2014, Teresa Carpenter, Her Boss by Arrangement, page 136:
glosses: To become pink in color, to redden.
examples: text: They are all nearly nude, pinked and bronzed by the sun.
ref: 1961, Tennessee Williams, The Night of the Iguana, New Directions Publishing, published 2009, act II, page 46:
text: The rabbits, still lining the roadside, but now pinked by dawn, craned their necks to follow her departure.
ref: 1985, Carl Sagan, chapter 3, in Contact, Simon & Schuster, published 1997, page 57:
glosses: To turn (something) pink.
examples: text: Because heating is relatively easy to perform once one is trained to do it, it can be assumed that any pink topaz from Brazil, the gem’s main modern producer, is colored more by man than nature.[…] Relatively few stones from Brazil have this trace element in enough quantity for what dealers call “pinking.”
ref: 2012, David Federman, Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones, page 227:
glosses: To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: [pʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: pinks
Etymology: Unknown. Some lexicographers suggest comparison to regional German Pinke (“minnow; small salmon”), but this is not widely accepted.
Senses: glosses: The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
glosses: A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: [pʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: pinks
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Dutch pincke. Compare French pinque.
Senses: glosses: A narrow boat.
pink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: [pʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: pinks
form: pinking
form: pinked
form: pinked
Etymology: Probably ultimately imitative, or from Dutch pingelen (“to do fine needlework”) or Low German [Term?]; compare Low German pinken (“hit, peck”) and Pinke (“big needle”).
Senses: glosses: To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
examples: text: ‘Pugh!’ says she, ‘you have pinked a man in a duel, that's all.’
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: Within three seconds D'Artagnan pinked him thrice, dedicating each thrust as he dealt it. “One for Athos!" he cried. “One for Porthos!" and at the last, “one for Aramis!”
ref: 1999 [1844], Jacques Le Clercq, The Three Musketeers, translation of original by Alexandre Dumas, page 187:
synonyms: word: draw blood
word: jab
word: prick
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To prick with a sword.
examples: text: “Young man, if you have no authority, let me speak to someone who has! Put me through to Mr. Berquist.” The stooge suddenly lost his smile and Jubal thought gleefully that he had at last pinked him.
ref: 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 127:
synonyms: draw blood
glosses: To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
Derived terms: pinkers
pinking shears
pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: [pʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: pinks
Etymology: Probably ultimately imitative, or from Dutch pingelen (“to do fine needlework”) or Low German [Term?]; compare Low German pinken (“hit, peck”) and Pinke (“big needle”).
Senses: examples: text: At a great word she will her poynard draw, Looke for the pincke if once thou giue the lye.
ref: 1601, Weever, Mirr. Mart., C j
text: A freebooter’s pink, sir, three or four inches deep.
ref: 1607, Thomas Middleton, Your Five Gallants, iii 5:
text: The fellow's a shrewd fellow at a pink.
ref: 1638, “Lady's Trial”, in Ford, III. i:
text: He is spotted with marks of stabs and revolver 'pinks', and he takes all his wounds quite as matter of course.
ref: 1885 May 13, Pall Mall G., 4/I:
glosses: A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.
A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.
examples: text: Item,..for iiil* powdringis and pinkis to the sam goune, .xij s
ref: 1512, Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot, IV 215:
text: small pinks, cuts or iagges in clothes
ref: 1598, Florio, Tagliuzzi:
text: Is this pinke of equall proportion to this cut?
ref: 1599, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Rev., volume iv:
text: You had rather have / An ulcer in your body than a pink / More in your clothes.
ref: c. 1632–1641, Ben Jonson, Magnetick Lady, iii. 4
glosses: A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.
A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.
pink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: [pʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: pinks
form: pinking
form: pinked
form: pinked
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare ping.
Senses: glosses: Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
examples: text: And then the record changed, a piano pinking high a Poulenc-like theme.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 590:
glosses: Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
pink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: [pʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: pinks
form: pinking
form: pinked
form: pinked
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch pinken.
Senses: examples: text: A Hungry Fox that had got a Cock in his Eye, and could not tell how to come at him ; cast himself at his Length upon the Ground, and there he lay winking and pinking as if he had Sore Eyes.
ref: 1692, Roger L'Estrange, “A Fox and a Cock”, in Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, page 409:
glosses: To wink; to blink.
pink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: [pʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch pinken.
Senses: examples: text: Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
In thy vats our cares be drowned,
With thy grapes our hairs be crowned.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
glosses: Half-shut; winking.
pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: [pʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Etymology: Unknown. Attested from the late 15th century.
Senses: examples: text: To make Dutch pink, boil the stems of woad in a solution of alum, and then mix the liquor with clay, marl, or chalk, which will become mixed with the colour of the decoction
ref: 1816, Pierre François Tingry, The Painter and Varnisher's Guide, page 245:
text: Carlyle (2001) lists from her study of nineteenth century British documentary sources yellow carmine, Dutch pink, English pink and yellow lake in descending order of intensity.
ref: 2008, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Pigment Compendium, page 156:
glosses: Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
red
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕd
ipa: /ɹɛd/
ipa: [ɻʷɛˑd̥]
homophone: read stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology: From the colors used on traffic lights; red being the one that tells vehicles to halt.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
coordinate_terms: green#Interjection
yellow#Interjection
qualifier: procedure word
glosses: Used to indicate that the speaker wishes current sexual activity to stop immediately.
red
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕd
ipa: /ɹɛd/
ipa: [ɻʷɛˑd̥]
homophone: read stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology: From the archaic verb rede.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rede
red
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕd
ipa: /ɹɛd/
ipa: [ɻʷɛˑd̥]
homophone: read stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: reds
form: redding
form: redded
form: redded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of redd.
silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪl.və/
enpr: sĭl'vər
ipa: /ˈsɪl.vɚ/
rhymes: -ɪlvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: silvers
Etymology: From Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.
cognates and etymology discussion
Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown.
Adjective sense of twenty-fifth wedding anniversary generalized from silver wedding, from German Silberhochzeit, silberne Hochzeit.
Senses: synonyms: ☽
☾
glosses: A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
examples: text: […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
ref: 1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King, page 136:
glosses: Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
glosses: Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
glosses: Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
examples: text: I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.
ref: 2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: A shiny gray color.
glosses: a silver medal
examples: text: And next morning they found him dead, with his neck broken, in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody, and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond. But his face was a face of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.
ref: 1909 April 10, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “[The Time Machine and Other Stories]. The Beautiful Suit.”, in The Short Stories of H. G. Wells, London: Ernest Benn Limited […], published September 1927, →OCLC, pages 162–163:
glosses: Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.
Synonyms: sense: metallic element
word: argyr-
sense: white-metal coins
word: argyr-
sense: cutlery and other eating utensils
word: silverware
word: E174
silver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪl.və/
enpr: sĭl'vər
ipa: /ˈsɪl.vɚ/
rhymes: -ɪlvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more silver
form: most silver
Etymology: From Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.
cognates and etymology discussion
Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown.
Adjective sense of twenty-fifth wedding anniversary generalized from silver wedding, from German Silberhochzeit, silberne Hochzeit.
Senses: examples: text: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: Made from silver.
glosses: Made from another white metal.
glosses: Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
examples: text: Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.
ref: 1994, “Mate matching” in Accent on Living, v 38, n 4 (Spring), p 52
glosses: Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
glosses: Premium, but inferior to gold.
raw_tags: of commercial services
coordinate_terms: silver-haired#Adjective
senior#Adjective
glosses: Pertaining or relating to elderly persons.
examples: text: a silver-voiced young girl
glosses: Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
Synonyms: sense: made from silver
word: silvern
sense: having a color like silver
word: silvery
Related terms: argent
argentaffin
argental
argentan
argentane
argentate
argenteous
argentian
argentic
argentiferous
argentific
argentify
Argentina
Argentine
argentine
argentite
argento-
argentometer
argentous
argentry
argentum nitricum
argyria
electrum
hydrargyrum
litharge
piastre
plateresque
polybasite
proustite
pyrargyrite
Rio de la Plata
sylvanite
violet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪ.ə.lət/
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.lət/
rhymes: -aɪlət
Forms: form: violeter
form: violetest
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin viola
Old French -ette
Old French violettebor.
Middle English violet
English violet
Inherited from Middle English violet, vyolet, vyolette, from Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet”). Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”). Doublet of viola.
Senses: glosses: Of a violet colour.
Derived terms: word: ultraviolet
word: violet aphid
word: violet-backed starling
word: violet box
taxonomic: Xylocopa violacea
word: violet carpenter bee
taxonomic: Cattleya violacea
word: violet cattleya
alt: Limoniscus violaceus
word: violet click beetle
word: violet gold
taxonomic: Tachycineta thalassina
word: violet-green swallow
taxonomic: Epipactis purpurata
word: violet helleborine
word: violet noise
word: violet phosphorus
word: violet red
word: violet red bile agar
taxonomic: Epitoniidae spp.
word: violet shell
taxonomic: Epitoniidae spp.
word: violet snail
taxonomic: Lambis violacea
word: violet spider conch
taxonomic: Polygonia interrogationis
word: violet-tip
taxonomic: Musophaga violacea
word: violet turaco
word: violet wand
taxonomic: Phoeniculus damarensis
word: violet wood hoopoe
taxonomic: Peltogyne spp.
word: violet wood
taxonomic: Oxalis violacea
word: violet wood-sorrel
Related terms: gentamicin
iodine
iodopsin
iolite
ionone
adder’s tongue
cudbear
rainbow
rocket
trout lily
wild pansy
white
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wīt
ipa: /waɪt/
note: without the wine–whine merger
enpr: hwīt
ipa: /ʍaɪt/
note: without the wine–whine merger
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: wight
homophone: Wight
homophone: wite (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whites
form: whiting
form: whited
form: whited
form: whight
form: whyte
form: whyght
form: White
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”).
Cognates
* West Frisian wyt
*Dutch wit
* German weiß
* German weiss
* Norwegian Bokmål hvit
* Norwegian Nynorsk kvit
* Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”)
* Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”)
* Persian سفید (sefid, “white”), Persian سپید (sepid, “white”)
* Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)
* Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”).
Senses: examples: text: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 23:27:
text: so as no fuller on earth can white them
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 9:3:
text: In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199:
glosses: To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
Derived terms: white out
Related terms: blanco
leucite
leukoma
leukosis
Sauvignon blanc
Svetambara
terra alba
yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: yello
ipa: /ˈjɛl.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈjɛl.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈjɛlə/
ipa: /ˈjælə/
ipa: /ˈjɑlə/
ipa: /ˈjɪlə/
ipa: /ˈjʌlə/
ipa: /ˈjɛl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈjæl.ɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈjɛlːo(ʊ)/
note: without the toe–tow merger
ipa: /-ɔʊ/
ipa: /ˈjɛlo(w)/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈjɛlo(w)]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈjɤlʊ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ə(w)]
ipa: /ˈjɛl.əʊ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈjɛl.ʌo̞/
ipa: /ˈjel.əʉ/
ipa: /ˈjæl.əʉ/
note: salary–celery merger
ipa: /ˈjæl.əʉ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: yellows
form: yellowing
form: yellowed
form: yellowed
form: yeallow
form: yeller
Etymology: From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).
Cognate with Scots yella (“yellow”), North Frisian gööl, güül (“yellow”), Saterland Frisian jeel (“yellow”), West Frisian giel (“yellow”), Cimbrian gel, ghéel (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”), Dutch Low Saxon gael, gel (“yellow”), German gelb, gehl (“yellow”), German Low German gel, geel, gęl, gäl (“yellow”), Luxembourgish giel (“yellow”), Vilamovian gaoł (“yellow”), Yiddish געל (gel), געלב (gelb, “yellow”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gul (“yellow”), Faroese and Icelandic gulur (“yellow”). Compare also Welsh gell (“bay, tawny”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Italian giallo (“yellow”) Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”).
The verb is from Middle English yelwen, ȝalowen, ȝolewen, from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 47:
text: Interviews, clippings, yellowing stories from foreign newspapers, notebooks with old scribblings. Salisbury called it the debris of a reporter always too much on the run to sort out the paper, but there it was, an investigator's dream, […]
ref: 2013, Robert Miraldi, Seymour Hersh, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 187:
glosses: To become yellow or yellower.
glosses: To make (something) yellow or yellower.
yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: homophone: yello
ipa: /ˈjɛl.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈjɛl.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈjɛlə/
ipa: /ˈjælə/
ipa: /ˈjɑlə/
ipa: /ˈjɪlə/
ipa: /ˈjʌlə/
ipa: /ˈjɛl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈjæl.ɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈjɛlːo(ʊ)/
note: without the toe–tow merger
ipa: /-ɔʊ/
ipa: /ˈjɛlo(w)/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈjɛlo(w)]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈjɤlʊ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ə(w)]
ipa: /ˈjɛl.əʊ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈjɛl.ʌo̞/
ipa: /ˈjel.əʉ/
ipa: /ˈjæl.əʉ/
note: salary–celery merger
ipa: /ˈjæl.əʉ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: yeallow
form: yeller
Etymology: From the colors used on traffic lights; yellow being the one for warning vehicles to stop soon.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
coordinate_terms: green
red
qualifier: procedure word
glosses: Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.
Related terms: english: yellow
translation: yellow
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citrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹəs/
Forms: form: citruses
form: citri
form: citrusses
Etymology: From Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros); compare Middle English citurtre, cytyr tre. Thus a possible doublet of cedar.
Senses: glosses: Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae.
glosses: The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith or albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.
Hypernyms: sense: fruit
word: fruit
Derived terms: citral
citrange
citrantin
citric acid
citropten
citrus black spot
Citrus County
citrus fruit
citrus greening
citrusin
citruslike
noncitrus
Related terms: citrous
citrus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹəs/
Forms: form: more citrus
form: most citrus
Etymology: From Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros); compare Middle English citurtre, cytyr tre. Thus a possible doublet of cedar.
Senses: examples: text: Its nose is very citrus and fruity.
ref: 2001, Robin Shepard, Wisconsin's Best Breweries and Brewpubs, page 61:
text: […] and his cologne was more citrus than the usual leatherwood floating in formaldehyde.
ref: 2007, Eric Martin, The Virgin's Guide to Mexico: A Novel, page 176:
text: The problem with AG2 is that it's too citrus.
ref: 2008, Chandler Burr, The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York:
glosses: Of, relating to, or similar to citrus plants or fruit.
Synonyms: citric
citrous
fourth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːθ/
enpr: fôrth
ipa: /fɔɹθ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹθ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foəθ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
homophone: forth
Forms: form: fourths
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th (ordinal suffix).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði.
Senses: examples: text: We are one F and two M's seeking the company of a fourth (M or F) for our spacious and friendly Somerville apt.
ref: 1978 April 8, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: The person or thing in the fourth position.
synonyms: fourth part
quarter
farthing
glosses: A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
glosses: The fourth gear of an engine.
examples: text: Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
ref: 1984, Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah”, in Various Positions:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
examples: text: […] thirds (sixtieths of seconds), fourths (sixtieths of thirds) and so on, but then it becomes very cumbersome.
ref: 1994, John David North, The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology, page xxi:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One sixtieth of a third or tierce.
Derived terms: augmented fourth
diminished fourth
Fourth of July
perfect fourth
fourth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːθ/
enpr: fôrth
ipa: /fɔɹθ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹθ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foəθ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
homophone: forth
Forms: form: fourths
form: fourthing
form: fourthed
form: fourthed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th (ordinal suffix).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði.
Senses: examples: text: If he remembered rightly what took place in the House on the first night of the session, the Attorney General would have to file an information, not only against the noble Lord who proposed the address, and the hon. Member for London who seconded it, but also against the hon. Member who thirded, and the noble Lord who fourthed it, and indeed against every Member in the House.
ref: 1830 March 2, Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, volume XXII, London, page 1189:
text: A lisping young “Soundings,” or master’s assistant, sung out “I thecond the mothon,” instantly transferring his beer to our hero’s face. In short the resolution was thirded, fourthed, fifthed, and sixthed, all following suit with the swipes:[…]
ref: 1854 January, “Tregonhorke’s First Trip in a Man-of-War”, in Hunt’s Yachting Magazine, volume the third, London: Hunt and Son, […]; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., […], page 14:
text: It was then moved, seconded, thirded, fourthed, and fifthed, “that Jarman be, and is hereby hung, and ought to be kicked.”
ref: 1892 December 31, Talbot Baines Reed, “Tom, Dick, and Harry. A School Story.”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XV, number 729, page 212, column 2:
glosses: To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been thirded.
third
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɜːd/
enpr: thûrd
ipa: /θɚd/
ipa: /θɪɹd/
ipa: /θøːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /θeːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /θɛːd/
ipa: /tʊːɹd/
ipa: /t̪ɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: turd (th-stopping)
Forms: form: thirds
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.
Senses: examples: text: Jones came in third.
glosses: The person or thing in the third position.
examples: text: He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.
text: Around a third of both Black and White respondents said they believed the opposition Labour Party to be institutionally racist.
ref: 2020 June 22, Rob Picheta, “Most Black British people think the Conservative Party is institutionally racist, CNN poll finds”, in CNN:
text: Despite these uncertainties, Clarke told MPs he was convinced of the need to order trains powered by batteries. He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a future. We see them being fundable, financeable, similar cost to diesel trains, and we know that however much electrification we would aspire to do, there's always going to be at least a third of the network that isn't electrified.
ref: 2023 December 27, Philip Haigh, “All eyes are on the DfT as rolling stock concerns deepen”, in RAIL, number 999, page 19:
glosses: One of three equal parts of a whole.
examples: text: Now put it into third.
glosses: The third gear of a gearbox.
examples: text: They sing in thirds.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
examples: text: The play ended with Jones standing on third.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: third base
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
glosses: A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
examples: text: […] thirds (sixtieths of seconds), fourths (sixtieths of thirds) and so on, but then it becomes very cumbersome.
ref: 1994, John David North, The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology, page xxi:
synonyms: tierce
glosses: One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system.
Synonyms: sense: gear
word: third gear
sense: fractions
word: third part
sense: fractions
word: ⅓
Derived terms: augmented third
centre third
diminished third
goal third
lower third
neutral third
one third
one-third
Picardy third
rule of thirds
two-thirds
two thirds
twothirds
Related terms: riding
third
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɜːd/
enpr: thûrd
ipa: /θɚd/
ipa: /θɪɹd/
ipa: /θøːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /θeːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /θɛːd/
ipa: /tʊːɹd/
ipa: /t̪ɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: turd (th-stopping)
Forms: form: thirds
form: thirding
form: thirded
form: thirded
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.
Senses: glosses: To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
glosses: To divide into three equal parts.
Related terms: major third
minor third
third gear
third person
interval
fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭfth
ipa: /fɪfθ/
rhymes: -ɪfθ
enpr: fĭth
ipa: /fɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
enpr: fĭft
ipa: /fɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: fift
form: fiveth
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).
Senses: examples: text: On Friday, at a former Michelin factory in the north-east of the city, the finishing touches were being put in place for the fifth Dundee design festival, which opens on Monday.
ref: 2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The ordinal form of the number five.
Synonyms: word: 5th
word: Vth
sense: in names of monarchs and popes
word: V
word: V.
Derived terms: Fifth Amendment
fifth base
fifth column
fifth cousin
fifth cranial nerve
Fifth Cycle
fifth-day fits
fifth disease
fifth force
fifth freedom rights
fifth gear
fifth grade
fifthly
fifth nerve
fifthness
fifth normal form
fifth position
fifth quarter
fifth rate
fifth-rate
fifth slip
Fifth Sun
fifth wall
fifth wheel
Fifth World
plead the fifth
Revenge of the Fifth
seventy-fifth
fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭfth
ipa: /fɪfθ/
rhymes: -ɪfθ
enpr: fĭth
ipa: /fɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
enpr: fĭft
ipa: /fɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: fifths
form: fift
form: fiveth
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).
Senses: qualifier: ellipsis or nominalization
glosses: The person or thing in the fifth position.
qualifier: ellipsis or nominalization
glosses: The person or thing in the fifth position.
The fifth gear of a transmission.
glosses: One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
glosses: A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
examples: text: Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
ref: 1984, Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah”, in Various Positions:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
glosses: The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
Synonyms: sense: one of five equal parts
word: ⅕
Derived terms: augmented fifth
diminished fifth
flatted fifth
perfect fifth
plead the Fifth
take the fifth
typhoon fifth
fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭfth
ipa: /fɪfθ/
rhymes: -ɪfθ
enpr: fĭth
ipa: /fɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
enpr: fĭft
ipa: /fɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: fifths
form: fifthing
form: fifthed
form: fifthed
form: fift
form: fiveth
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).
Senses: examples: text: Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'. Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each musical phrase at the octave and proceeding mainly in fifths above the tune at others times.
ref: 1996, Music in Early English Religious Drama: Minstrels playing, page 510:
text: Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.
ref: 1978, Discant and the Theory of Fifthing:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
examples: text: Though seconding (or fifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”
ref: 2017, Critics Pick the TV Shows That Get Mental Health Right — IndieWire Survey:
glosses: To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
examples: text: 3/5 has been through fifthing. 2/3 has been through thirding. Therefore, 3/5 now needs thirding and 2/3 needs fifthing
ref: 2006, Mathematics for Dyslexics: Including Dyscalculia, page 188:
glosses: To divide by five.
metaphysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛtəˈfɪzɪks/
enpr: mĕ'təfĭziks
Forms: form: metaphysics
Etymology: 1560s; plural of metaphysic, from Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, metaphesyk, methephysyk, from Old French metafisique, methaphisique and Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká), from the title of the collection by Aristotle μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (metà tà phusiká, “Following The Natural World”), a collection that comes after (μετά (metá)) Aristotle's collection entitled τὰ φυσικά (tà phusiká, “The Natural World”), from φυσικός (phusikós, “natural”). By surface analysis, meta- + physics.
Senses: examples: text: The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, "Professor Cohen how do I know that I exist?" The keen old prof replied, "And who is asking?"
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 157:
text: Philosophers sometimes say that metaphysics is the study of the ultimate nature of the universe.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens).
examples: text: The metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas holds that all real beings have both essence and existence.
text: In Aristotelian metaphysics physical objects have both form and matter.
text: In his Pensées, Pascal mentioned some first principles recognized within his metaphysics: space, time, motion, and number.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
examples: text: Even other universes should be a result of different physics. Without rules, these universes wouldn't exist, because they will have an undefined, thus impossible, nature. We will never understand or guess all possible forms of physics. That's why we have to understand the generic metaphysics.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The metalogic of physics; the logical framework of physics.
raw_tags: from the philosophical sense
examples: text: The metaphysics of global power has changed. Markets are now more valuable than territory.
ref: 1990 January 1, Lance Morrow, “Gorbachev: The Unlikely Patron of Change”, in Time:
glosses: Any fundamental principles or rules.
raw_tags: from the philosophical sense
examples: text: I have a collection of books on metaphysics, covering astral projection, reincarnation, and communication with spirits.
glosses: The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world.
examples: text: This political polemic strikes me as a protracted piece of overwrought, fog-shrouded metaphysics!
glosses: Displeasingly abstruse, complex material on any subject.
metaphysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛtəˈfɪzɪks/
enpr: mĕ'təfĭziks
Etymology: 1560s; plural of metaphysic, from Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, metaphesyk, methephysyk, from Old French metafisique, methaphisique and Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká), from the title of the collection by Aristotle μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (metà tà phusiká, “Following The Natural World”), a collection that comes after (μετά (metá)) Aristotle's collection entitled τὰ φυσικά (tà phusiká, “The Natural World”), from φυσικός (phusikós, “natural”). By surface analysis, meta- + physics.
Senses: glosses: plural of metaphysic
Meronyms: ontology
Derived terms: antimetaphysics
metametaphysics
metaphysical
metaphysician
metaphysicist
metasearch engine
pseudometaphysics
Related terms: physics
SARS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: SARS set off a panic about global spread and contagion.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 182:
text: Coronaviruses are worrying because epidemics caused by other members of the viral family, SARS and MERS, have had high death rates: 10 percent for SARS, and about 35 percent for MERS.
ref: 2020 January 24, Denise Grady, “Chicago woman is second patient in U.S. with Wuhan coronavirus”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also Sars.
Derived terms: SARS mask
SARS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a Nigerian police unit known for police brutality and corruption.
glosses: Initialism of South African Revenue Service.
Related terms: MERS
COVID-19
trumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpɪt/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪt
Forms: form: trumpets
form: trumpeting
form: trumpeted
form: trumpeted
Etymology: From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.
Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.
Senses: examples: text: The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.
glosses: To sound loudly, be amplified
examples: text: Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.
glosses: To play the trumpet.
examples: text: The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.
text: The other, standing nearly head-on toward the hunters, had not proved so good a mark, and though every spear struck not one entered the great heart. For a moment the huge bull stood trumpeting in rage and pain, casting about with its little eyes for the author of its hurt.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 132:
glosses: Of an elephant, to make its cry.
examples: text: The bird trumpeted a second time. Dinah listened to the echo die around her.
ref: 2017, Gerhard Gehrke, Nineveh's Child:
glosses: To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
examples: text: Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.
text: They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
text: One Sings, the Other Doesn't trumpets a gladsome triumph for feminists who have awaited the advent of unflinching women in film.
ref: 1977 December 31, Sara Annie Fisher, “Film Shows Women Victimized And Victorious”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 9:
text: An anniversary summit in Washington in July is sure to trumpet a nearly eight-decade record of success.
ref: 2024 April 2, Howard LaFranchi, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “NATO has united the West for 75 years. Here’s why it still matters.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
Related terms: trumpet player
trumpeter
trumpetress
tuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuː.bə/
ipa: /ˈtu.bə/
rhymes: -uːbə
Forms: form: tubas
Etymology: Borrowed in the 19th century from French tuba (“tuba”), German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), or Italian tuba (“tuba”), from Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”). The Latin term is of obscure ultimate origin, but is possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”); see there.
Senses: examples: text: One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.
ref: 1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound, page 230:
glosses: A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
glosses: A large reed stop in organs.
Synonyms: grunt-horn
Derived terms: cumulonimbus tuba
sax tuba
tubaist
tubalike
tubist
Wagner tuba
war tuba
Related terms: word: euphonium
word: sousaphone
word: tube
word: tubular
english: keyed bass horn
translation: keyed bass horn
word: corno basso
word: bombardon
word: ophicleide
word: valve-ophicleide
word: bucina
word: cornu
tuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuː.bə/
ipa: /ˈtu.bə/
rhymes: -uːbə
ipa: /ˈtʊ.bə/
ipa: /ˈtjuː.bə/
ipa: /ˈtu.bə/
rhymes: -uːbə
Forms: form: tubas
form: tubae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tuba.
Senses: examples: text: Compared with skulls of darwini, skulls of andium are smaller with shorter tooth rows (fig. 13), have less globular bullae that taper more gradually to the tubae, and a shorter, proportionately narrower rostrum with nasals usually relatively blunt behind and seldom projecting posteriorly far behind the premaxillae (pl. 11).
ref: 1958, Oliver P[ayne] Pearson, “Phyllotis andium”, in A Taxonomic Revision of the Rodent Genus Phyllotis (University of California Publications in Zoology; volume 56, number 4), Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 437:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tube or tubular organ.
examples: text: From the eleventh century onwards, the trumpets, which had till then been modelled on the Roman tubae with their straightforward and somewhat rough sound, began to grow longer and thinner as their bells widened.
ref: 1968, Roger Bragard, Ferdinand J[oseph] de Hen, translated by Bill Hopkins, “Wind Instruments”, in Musical Instruments in Art and History (A Studio Book), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, part II (The Middle Ages), page 60:
text: This depicts trumpet blowing angels gripping instruments, of the Roman tubae variety, halfway down with the right hand, the left hand covering their mouth and the mouthpiece.
ref: 1986, Raymond Buniak, A Twentieth-Century Treatise on the Trombone, [Bartlett, Ill.]: Raymond Buniak, →OCLC:
text: As he drew nearer to Worms, he heard the brassy blare of Roman tubae from the ruddy sandstone walls of the city.
ref: 1994 April, Stephan Grundy, “Along the Rhine”, in Rhinegold, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, book III (The Death of Athelings), page 451:
glosses: A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
tuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuː.bə/
ipa: /ˈtu.bə/
rhymes: -uːbə
ipa: /ˈtʊ.bə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay tuba.
Senses: glosses: A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.
tuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuː.bə/
ipa: /ˈtu.bə/
rhymes: -uːbə
ipa: /ˈtʊ.bə/
ipa: /tuˈbə/
ipa: /tuˈbaʔ/
ipa: /ˈtjuː.bə/
ipa: /ˈtu.bə/
rhymes: -uːbə
ipa: /ˈtʊ.bə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Cebuano tubâ.
Senses: glosses: A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.
cowbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊˌbɛl/
rhymes: -aʊbɛl
Forms: form: cowbells
form: cow bell
Etymology: From cow + bell.
Senses: glosses: A bell worn by cows; sometimes with an ornate strap.
examples: text: This song would sound better with the addition of a cowbell.
text: It's good, but it really needs more cowbell.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument, typically found without a clapper.
examples: text: The Eagles don't have a cow-bell running back, like Gurley, but they have enough by-committee.
ref: 2018 December 17, Jeff McLane, “Eagles-Rams: What we learned from the surprising victory”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
glosses: Misconstruction of bell cow.
Derived terms: cowbellist