cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
molding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊl.dɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmoʊl.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊldɪŋ
rhymes: -oʊldɪŋ
Forms: form: moldings
form: moulding
Etymology: From Middle English moldyng; equivalent to mold + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.
glosses: Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.
examples: text: A fine-scale denticulated molding in the cornice, repeated elsewhere in the exterior wood trim, lends an air of exceptional richness and refinement.
ref: 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
topics: architecture
glosses: A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.
qualifier: woodwork
glosses: A planing machine for making moldings.
qualifier: founding
glosses: A machine to assist in making molds for castings.
qualifier: milling
glosses: A mill for shaping timber.
qualifier: founding
glosses: A kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.
Derived terms: cove molding
crenelated molding
crown molding
injection molding
micromolding
molding flash
molding sand
nanomolding
picture molding
remolding
rotational molding
molding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊl.dɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmoʊl.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊldɪŋ
rhymes: -oʊldɪŋ
Forms: form: moulding
Etymology: From Middle English moldyng; equivalent to mold + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mold
scouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaʊə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈskaʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈskaʊɹ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: scourings
Senses: glosses: The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap and water.
examples: text: Another for a violent scouring. Take the Entrails of a Pullet, or great Chicken, all but the Gizzard, and mix with tbem of Spikenard one Ounce, ' and make him swallow it, and this will infallibly stay his Scouring, yea, though it be a Bloody-Flux.
ref: 1720, E. R. (Gent.), The Experienc'd Farrier: Or Farring Compleated. Containing Every Thing that Belongs to a Compleat Horseman, page 332:
text: For that kind of lax and scouring called bloody flux, see the article BLOODY FLUX.
ref: 1766, Thomas Wallis (surgeon), The Farrier's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary: Containing the Art of Farriery in All Its Branches
text: Thus in 1670 the London bills ascribe 142 deaths to “bloody flux, scouring, and flux,” and 3,690 to “griping in the guts.”
ref: 1840, London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, page 683:
text: Flux, bloody flux and scouring feature from the first, but were overtaken in the 1650s by 'plague in the guts', soon renamed 'griping in the guts'. An apparent decline in bloody flux was more than matched by high levels of 'griping in the guts'.
ref: 2011, V. Berridge, M. Gorsky, Environment, Health and History, Springer, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Diarrhea. (Now used only of livestock, though also sometimes used of humans into the 1600s.)
examples: text: It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.
ref: 1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
glosses: Erosion by water, especially in watercourses.
Derived terms: scouring brush
scouring pad
scouring powder
scouring rush
scouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaʊə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈskaʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈskaʊɹ.ɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: Scouring the entire area revealed nothing.
glosses: present participle and gerund of scour
lifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪf.tɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪftɪŋ
Forms: form: liftings
Senses: examples: text: For some moments he stood there contemplating the little fellows as they went about their work in their business-like way, taking no notice of his presence other than the liftings of their heads now and then, as if to ascertain if he were still there.
ref: 1946, Eugene E. Thomas, Brotherhood of Mt. Shasta:
glosses: The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
examples: 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
When I started lifting in 1970, I was the skinniest thirteen-year-old I knew.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: weightlifting
glosses: weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: facelift
glosses: plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance
examples: text: It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.
ref: 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:
glosses: Theft.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.
Derived terms: word: car-lifting
word: commutant lifting theorem
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: type lifting
word: ego lifting
word: heavy lifting
word: lifting agent
word: lifting chalk
word: lifting gas
word: lifting shop
word: lifting the exponent
word: shoplifting
word: star lifting
word: tracklifting
word: weightlifting
lifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪf.tɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪftɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lift
Derived terms: liftingly
powerlifting
shirtlifting
slifting
unlifting
abyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abymes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abysm.
abye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, page 455:
text: We doubt thee not; / Thy tale seems true, nor dost thou glorify / Thyself herein—certes thou wouldst abye / A heavy fate if thou shouldst lie herein— […]
ref: 1870, William Morris, “February: Bellerophon in Lycia”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part IV, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 339:
text: The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Wood by Silvermills”, in Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: Alternative form of aby.
hallux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæləks/
rhymes: -æləks
Forms: form: halluces
form: halluxes
Etymology: From Late Latin hallux, from Latin allus, hallus.
Senses: examples: text: His left foot winced. The hallux nail, ill-cut, / Assailed its neighbour toe with a shrewd nip.
ref: 1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A big toe.
Derived terms: hallucal
prehallux
Related terms: pollex
hallucinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈluː.sɪ.nə.tər.i/
ipa: /həˈluː.sɪ.nə.tɔːr.i/
Forms: form: more hallucinatory
form: most hallucinatory
Etymology: From hallucinate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: hallucinatory drug
text: hallucinatory image
text: hallucinatory state
text: hallucinatory vision
text: The painting had a hallucinatory quality, as if it were shifting.
text: High fever sometimes causes hallucinatory visions.
text: The film created a hallucinatory atmosphere with its colors and sounds.
glosses: Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.
Derived terms: antihallucinatory
hallucinatorily
hallucinatoriness
hallucinatory realism
nonhallucinatory
pseudohallucinatory
semihallucinatory
halm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔːm/
ipa: /hɔm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
Forms: form: halms
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of haulm.
halma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhalmə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma, “leap”).
Senses: examples: text: As a crowning dissipation, they all sat down to play progressive halma, with milk chocolate for prizes.
ref: 1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Christmas Revel”, in Reginald:
qualifier: board games
glosses: A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.
glosses: In the Greek pentathlon, the long jump with weights in the hands.
poor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /pɔː/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /pʊə/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /poɹ/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /pʊɚ/
ipa: /pʊɹ/
ipa: /pʉːɹ/
ipa: /puːɹ/
ipa: /poː/
note: Indic, rhotic
ipa: /pur/
note: Indic, non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈpʊwə(r)/
note: Indic, non-rhotic
ipa: [ˈpu(ː)(ʋ)ə(ɾ)]
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /po(r)/
note: non-rhotic, show–sure merger, African-American Vernacular
ipa: /poʊ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: pour
homophone: pore (pour–poor merger)
homophone: paw (paw–poor merger)
homophone: Poe (show–sure merger)
Forms: form: poors
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper.
Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
Senses: examples: text: The poors are at it again.
text: ...me vint of ane king to huam a poure acsede ane peny...
ref: 1340, Laurent du Bois, translated by Dan Michel, Ayenbite of Inwyt, page 195:
text: He had given somewhat to every poore in the Parish.
ref: 1625, Thomas Jackson, A Treatise Containing the Originall of Vnbeliefe, Pt. v, Ch. xvi, §6:
text: So what happened? It’s fun to point the finger. Some say it was the poors, or the uneducateds, or even the third-party voters. No matter the scenario, it’s always fun to blame someone else and throw up your hands (while a finger on each is pointed of course).
ref: 2018 May 28, Joel Edelman, “Primary election 2018 coverage for the deaf”, in Today's featured shit:
text: I don't understand, Simmons! I have all the money in the world, but I'm still unhappy! […] It must be the poors! Those leeches have been stealing my happiness somehow!
ref: 2023, James Sandoval, “Buying Happiness”, in But A Jape (webcomic):
glosses: A poor person.
glosses: Synonym of poor cod.
synonyms: word: poor cod
Derived terms: deserving poor
undeserving poor
Europoor
poor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /pɔː/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /pʊə/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /poɹ/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /pʊɚ/
ipa: /pʊɹ/
ipa: /pʉːɹ/
ipa: /puːɹ/
ipa: /poː/
note: Indic, rhotic
ipa: /pur/
note: Indic, non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈpʊwə(r)/
note: Indic, non-rhotic
ipa: [ˈpu(ː)(ʋ)ə(ɾ)]
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /po(r)/
note: non-rhotic, show–sure merger, African-American Vernacular
ipa: /poʊ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: pour
homophone: pore (pour–poor merger)
homophone: paw (paw–poor merger)
homophone: Poe (show–sure merger)
Forms: form: poors
form: pooring
form: poored
form: poored
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper.
Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
Senses: examples: text: It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.
ref: 2003 August 10, Dallas News, p. 3
glosses: Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
synonyms: word: impoverish
word: to make poor
examples: text: The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.
ref: 1467, Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, Vol. II, p. 88
glosses: To become poor.
examples: text: Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, book the, page 27:
glosses: To call poor.
burglary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː.ɡlə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈbɝ.ɡlɚ.i/
Forms: form: burglaries
Etymology: From New Latin burglaria. Equivalent to burglar + -y. Displaced native Old English hūsbryċe (literally “house-breach”).
Senses: examples: text: Essentially, Jarden makes anything that you’d find left behind after a burglary.
ref: 2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
text: It’s hard to say whether Corona was actually playing pickleball or was just nowhere near Slowjamastan at the time of the burglary and thinks it’s funny to say he was playing pickleball.
ref: 2025 February 1, Noah Goldberg, “He runs a desert micro-nation by the Salton Sea. Population Zero.”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2025:
glosses: The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
topics: law
glosses: The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
Under the common law, breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony.
topics: law
glosses: The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
Under the Model Penal Code, entering a building or occupied structure with purpose to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.
Derived terms: antiburglary
burglary tourism
cat burglary
hot burglary
knock-knock burglary
Related terms: burglar
burglar alarm
burglarize
burglarproof
burgle
cat burglar
breaking and entering
trespass
breaking and entering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: break-in, housebreaking, shopbreaking
topics: law
related: word: B&E
glosses: The crime of gaining unauthorized entry into another's property, usually by breaking part of a building (a lock, door, window, etc.)
Related terms: burglary
larceny
second-storey man
breaking and entering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: breaking in
glosses: present participle and gerund of break and enter
W3C
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of World Wide Web Consortium.
Synonyms: W3
WWW
Derived terms: non-W3C
Related terms: W3Techs
significant other
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: significant others
Senses: examples: text: Almost half of working women who are married or live with a partner are seeing their significant other only in passing because the two work different shifts, an AFL-CIO poll found.
ref: 2000 March 9, “Couples Working Different Shifts, Union Poll Finds”, in Deseret News, retrieved 27 Oct 2013, page D7:
text: More than half (57 percent) of consumers think it would be wonderfully romantic if their significant other booked tickets for a surprise international trip.
ref: 2006 February 12, Michelle Singletary, “Love and money go hand in hand”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 27 Oct 2013:
synonyms: word: better half
word: other half
word: partner
word: s/o
word: SO
glosses: One's exclusive romantic partner.
examples: text: Dr. Nogueira said it was always preferable to have coaches drawn from a school's staff because a coach "is a significant other" to a student.
ref: 1983 June 21, William E. Geist, “High Schools Struggle with Coach Shortage”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Oct 2013:
text: As in the rest of the hospital, a family member or "significant other" such as a lover or close friend, is allowed to spend the night in a patient's room on a cot.
ref: 1985 December 14, Katherine Bishop, “Ward 5B: A Model of Care for AIDS”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Oct 2013:
text: If your spouse, children or other significant others are still whining about all those holiday leftovers you made them eat, maybe it's time to spruce up your culinary skills.
ref: 1989 December 26, Graham Vink, “Not At Home On The Range”, in Spokesman-Review, retrieved 27 Oct 2013, page F1:
glosses: A person with whom one has an important bond of some kind.
acacine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of acacin.
pyrena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈɹiːnə/
Forms: form: pyrenae
Etymology: From New Latin pyrēna, from Ancient Greek πῡρήν (pūrḗn, “fruit-stone”).
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: pericarp < drupe, stone fruit
text: Meronyms: endocarp, seed
text: Near-synonym: pip
text: […] pericarp drupaceous, or baccate, 1—4 nuts (pyrena), which are sometimes enclosed in an utricular membrane […]
ref: 1848, Samuel Frederick Gray, Gray's Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
related: word: pyrene
synonyms: stone
pit
seed pit
glosses: A nutlet resembling a seed, or the stone of a drupe, comprising the endocarp and the kernel.
pyrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrenes
Etymology: From pyr- + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing four fused benzene rings; first isolated from coal tar
Derived terms: benzopyrene
circumpyrene
dibenzopyrene
polypyrene
pyrenic
pyrenoid
pyrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrenes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πῡρήν (pūrḗn, “fruit-stone”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of pyrena.
Pyrenean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪɹəˈniːən/
Etymology: From Latin Pȳrēnaeus + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Pierre held his berret ^([sic]) in his hand, and the boldness of the Pyrenean hunter was strangely overcome in the absence of all apparent danger: he really knew not what he did or what he said.
ref: 1845, Selina Bunbury, Evenings in the Pyrenées:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain
Derived terms: Pyrenean desman
Pyrenean chamois
Pyrenean Sheepdog
Pyrenean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪɹəˈniːən/
Forms: form: Pyreneans
Etymology: From Latin Pȳrēnaeus + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Pyrenees.
pyrenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrenoids
Etymology: From pyrene + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: any of several transparent structures found in the chloroplast of certain algae etc.; they are responsible for the fixation of carbon dioxide and the formation of starch
academical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪ.kl̩/
ipa: /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪ.kl̩/
rhymes: -ɛmɪkəl
Etymology: From Latin acadēmicus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the school of Plato; believing in Plato's philosophy; sceptical .
examples: text: This faithfull deputy of his maker and Maſter, entended no prepoſterous courſe againſt you. His breſt like the hart of a good Magiſtrate, is the Ocean whereinto all the cares of our Academicall causes empty themſelues, which hee ever ſendeth forth againe in a wiſe conveyance by the ſtreames of iuſtice
ref: 1610, Daniell Price, The Defence of Truth Against a booke falsely called The Triumph of Truth sent over from Arras A.D. 1609 by Humfrey Leech late Minister. […] , Oxford, Lib. 2 Cap. 3, page 234:
glosses: Pertaining to a university or other form of higher education.
Derived terms: academical clerk
academicalism
academically
unacademical
academical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪ.kl̩/
ipa: /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪ.kl̩/
rhymes: -ɛmɪkəl
Forms: form: academicals
Etymology: From Latin acadēmicus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Academic dress, consisting of a cap and gown.
academicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪ.kl̩z/
Etymology: From academic + -al + -s.
Senses: glosses: The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities, typically on special occasions such as graduation.
upcast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpkæst/
ipa: /ˈʌpkɑːst/
ipa: /ʌpˈkæst/
ipa: /ʌpˈkɑːst/
rhymes: -ʌpkæst
rhymes: -ʌpkɑːst
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -ɑːst
Forms: form: more upcast
form: most upcast
Etymology: From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.
Senses: examples: text: Old Saturn too with upcast eyes
Beheld his abdicated skies
ref: a. 1720 (date written), Joseph Addison, “To Sir Godfrey Knelle”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
glosses: Cast up; thrown upward.
upcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpkæst/
ipa: /ˈʌpkɑːst/
ipa: /ʌpˈkæst/
ipa: /ʌpˈkɑːst/
rhymes: -ʌpkæst
rhymes: -ʌpkɑːst
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -ɑːst
Forms: form: upcasts
Etymology: From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.
Senses: examples: text: When I kissed the jack, upon an upcast to be hit away
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cast; a throw.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A current of air passed along such a shaft.
glosses: An upset, as from a carriage.
examples: text: for what with the upcast and terror that I got a wee while syne, and what wi' the wee bit taste that I behoved to take of the plottie while I was making it, my head is sair eneugh distressed the night already.
ref: 1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A taunt; a reproach.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cast from subtype to supertype.
glosses: A message transmitted via upcasting.
Synonyms: topics: mining
business
word: upcast pit
topics: mining
business
word: upcast shaft
Coordinate terms: topics: mining
business
word: downcast
upcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpkæst/
ipa: /ˈʌpkɑːst/
ipa: /ʌpˈkæst/
ipa: /ʌpˈkɑːst/
rhymes: -ʌpkæst
rhymes: -ʌpkɑːst
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -ɑːst
Forms: form: upcasts
form: upcasting
form: upcast
form: upcast
form: upcasted
form: upcasted
Etymology: From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.
Senses: glosses: To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
glosses: To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
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antonyms: downcast
glosses: To cast from subtype to supertype.
glosses: To broadcast a message or data to aircraft or satellites, especially via radio waves; as opposed to uplinking to a specific satellite or aircraft
upclimb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈklaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: upclimbs
form: upclimbing
form: upclimbed
form: upclimbed
form: upclomb
form: upclomb
Etymology: From up- + climb.
Senses: glosses: To climb up; to ascend.
upcoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upcoils
form: upcoiling
form: upcoiled
form: upcoiled
Etymology: From up- + coil.
Senses: glosses: To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.
upcountry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Possibly a calque of French Pays d'en Haut, a designation from 1610 referring to the area of New France west of Montreal. By surface analysis, up + country.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: inland
text: an upcountry residence
text: The fourth company involved in the purchase, the Upper Mississippi Company (formed by Thomas Scott after he had withdrawn the bid of the Virginia Yazoo Company), apparently restricted its largess to a few upcountry Georgians.
ref: 2010 Fall, George R. Lamplugh, “James Gunn”, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume 94, number 3, pages 313–341:
antonyms: downcountry#Adjective
glosses: Living or situated remote from the seacoast.
upcountry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: further
Etymology: Possibly a calque of French Pays d'en Haut, a designation from 1610 referring to the area of New France west of Montreal. By surface analysis, up + country.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: backcountry, hinterland
text: To further this end, the speculators also distributed subshares to other prominent Georgians, particularly those whose actions might carry weight in the upcountry.
ref: 2010 Fall, George R. Lamplugh, “James Gunn”, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume 94, number 3, pages 313–341:
hypernyms: country#Noun
;
land#Noun
;
area#Noun
;
region#Noun
;
place#Noun
;
location#Noun
glosses: The interior of a country.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: high country, highlands, upland; plateau, tableland, mesa
text: Within the focus on the colonial South, there are works that detail regional differences in social organization between the backcountry (frontier), upcountry (Appalachia, Piedmont), and lowcountry (plantation).
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 153:
hypernyms: country#Noun
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land#Noun
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area#Noun
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region#Noun
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place#Noun
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location#Noun
glosses: The part of the country that is at high elevation.
Related terms: north country
upcountry
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: further upcountry
form: farther upcountry
form: furthest upcountry
form: farthest upcountry
Etymology: Possibly a calque of French Pays d'en Haut, a designation from 1610 referring to the area of New France west of Montreal. By surface analysis, up + country.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: inland
text: They went upcountry to visit their extended family.
text: According to Dr Christy in 1931, the authorities in Monrovia had deliberately banned all freelance travel upcountry by outsiders […]
ref: 2010 Oct, Tim Butcher, “Our Man in Liberia”, in History Today, volume 60, number 10, pages 10–17:
antonyms: downcountry#Adverb
glosses: Towards the interior of the country and away from the seacoast.
upcurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upcurls
form: upcurling
form: upcurled
form: upcurled
Etymology: From up- + curl.
Senses: examples: text: Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world / Like one great garden show'd, / And thro' the wreaths of floating dark upcurl'd, / Rare sunrise flow'd.
ref: 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “The Poet”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 48:
glosses: To curl up.
upcurl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upcurls
Etymology: From up- + curl.
Senses: examples: text: She notes an upcurl on the bottom stroke of the paraphs by 'a', and the absence of a bottom stroke in those of 'b'; […]
ref: 2016, Susanna Fein, The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, page 181:
glosses: An upward curl.
orient
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.ɹɪ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈɒɹ.ɪ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.i.ənt/
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English orient, oriente, oryent, oryente, oryentte (“the east direction; eastern horizon or sky; eastern regions of the world, Asia, Orient; eastern edge of the world”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman orient, oriente, and Old French orient (“east direction; Asia, Orient”) (modern French orient), or directly from its etymon Latin oriēns (“the east; daybreak, dawn; sunrise; (participle) rising; appearing; originating”), present active participle of orior (“to get up, rise; to appear, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originate”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”).
The adjective is derived from Middle English orient (“eastern; from Asia or the Orient; brilliant, shining (characteristic of jewels from the Orient)”), from Middle English orient (noun); see above.
Senses: examples: text: I, from the orient to the drooping weſt, / Making the wind my poſthorſe, ſtill unfold / The acts commenced on this ball of earth: […]
ref: c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “King Henry IV. Part II.”, in The Plays of William Shakespeare, volume IX, London: Printed for T[homas] Longman [et al.], published 1793, →OCLC, act I, induction [prologue], page 6:
text: God planted Paradise in Eden, in the orients; and placed there the man whom he had formed.
ref: 1834, “St. Basil’s Homily on Paradise”, in Hugh Stuart Boyd, transl., The Fathers not Papists: Or, Six Discourses by the Most Eloquent Fathers of the Church: […] Translated from the Greek, new edition, London: Samuel Bagster, […]; Sidmouth, Devon: John Harvey, →OCLC, page 70:
text: I pitch my tent upon the naked sands, / And the tall palm, that plumes the orient lands, / Can with its beauty satisfy my heart.
ref: 1855, Bayard Taylor, “Proem Dedicatory. An Epistle from Mount Tmolus.”, in Poems of the Orient, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, stanza IV, pages 10–11:
synonyms: East
east
antonyms: occident
ponent
West
west
glosses: Usually preceded by the: alternative letter-case form of Orient (“a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia)”)
orient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.ɹɪ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈɒɹ.ɪ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.i.ənt/
Forms: form: orients
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English orient, oriente, oryent, oryente, oryentte (“the east direction; eastern horizon or sky; eastern regions of the world, Asia, Orient; eastern edge of the world”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman orient, oriente, and Old French orient (“east direction; Asia, Orient”) (modern French orient), or directly from its etymon Latin oriēns (“the east; daybreak, dawn; sunrise; (participle) rising; appearing; originating”), present active participle of orior (“to get up, rise; to appear, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originate”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”).
The adjective is derived from Middle English orient (“eastern; from Asia or the Orient; brilliant, shining (characteristic of jewels from the Orient)”), from Middle English orient (noun); see above.
Senses: examples: text: Loe in the Orient when the gracious light,
 Lifts vp his burning head, each vnder eye
 Doth homage to his new appearing ſight, [...]
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 7”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: Morn in the white wake of the morning star / Came furrowing all the orient into gold.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part III”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
examples: text: The chambers of the East are opened in every land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth with orient pearl.
ref: 1825, James Anthony Froude, quoting Thomas Carlyle, “a.d. 1825. æt. 30.”, in Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 … Two Volumes in One (Harper’s Franklin Square Library; nos. 245 and 246), volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1882, →OCLC, page 174:
text: It is indeed an 'extensive Volume,' of boundless, almost formless contents, a very Sea of Thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will; yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Editorial Difficulties”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 5:
text: Henry II. wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 204:
glosses: A pearl originating from the Indian region, reputed to be of great brilliance; (by extension) any pearl of particular beauty and value.
glosses: The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl.
leafs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːfs/
rhymes: -iːfs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leaf
leafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːfs/
rhymes: -iːfs
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf
Related terms: autumn leafs
broadleafs
broad-leafs
doorleafs
dropleafs
drop-leafs
lace-leafs
leather leafs
leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːvz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf
glosses: from leave:
plural of leave (sense 1)
glosses: from leave:
plural of leave (sense 2)
Derived terms: parkleaves
leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːvz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave
devising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devisings
Senses: examples: text: I take some kind of comfort in the inexhaustibility of the devisings of nature, that it can keep coming up with new things.
ref: 1965, A. R. Ammons, Tape for the Turn of the Year:
glosses: the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will
Synonyms: fashioning
making
devising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devise
etcetera
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin et cetera (“etc.: and the other things”).
Senses: examples: text: “To create life, to use science itself, chemical galvanism, electrobiology, etcetera, etcetera. To reanimate dead tissue, now, whomever unlocks that mystery, is not a man, but a god.” “Like Frankenstein.” “Who?” “Like Dr. Victor Frankenstein.” “Never heard of him.” “Right.”
ref: 2024 October 21, Paul Simms, “The Return of Jerry” (4:09 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 1, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
glosses: Alternative form of et cetera.
etcetera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etceteras
Etymology: From Latin et cetera (“etc.: and the other things”).
Senses: examples: text: The Toorkmuns keep their money and little valuable etceteras in large purses made of the skins of camels' necks.
ref: 1834, Arthur Conolly, Journey to the North of India, page 42:
text: Now persons who are not clasified among those whom we have alluded to, have their own ideas on social subjects, and realise that billiard and card playing, loafing around pubs., patronising a play (when opportunity offers) with one’s “best girl,” and in the splenditude of Sunday attire, with a high collar and all the etceteras of masherdom, imagining that it is only a case of “look and conquer,” do not sum up the whole happiness in life.
ref: 1895 December 18, “Amusements”, in The Macleay Argus, number 656, Kempsey, N.S.W., page [3]:
text: "When did you leave Oklahoma? Where is Reddy McGill now? Why are you selling those impossible contraptions on the street?["] […] "A year ago," answered Kansas Bill systematically. "Putting up windmills in Arizona. For pin money to buy etceteras with.["]
ref: 1906 August, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “A Ruler of Men”, in H[arry] P[eyton] S[teger], editor, Rolling Stones, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., published 1915, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of et cetera.
Kannada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: original approximation
ipa: /ˈkʌn.(n)ə.də/
ipa: /ˈkɑːnədə/
ipa: /ˈkænədə/
homophone: Canada
Etymology: From Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa). Doublet of Canara.
Senses: glosses: The Dravidian language that is the official language of the state of Karnataka, India.
glosses: The alphasyllabary used to write the aforementioned language, along with Konkani and Tulu.
Synonyms: sense: Dravidian language
word: Canarese
Derived terms: Old Kannada
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kannada terms
menu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnjuː/
ipa: /ˈmɛnju/
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /ˈmɛnɪu̯/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛn(j)u/
note: Tanglish, also
ipa: /ˈmɛn(j)ʊ/
note: Tanglish, also
ipa: [mɛnɨ ~ mɛɲɨ]
rhymes: -ɛnjuː
Forms: form: menus
Etymology: Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.
Senses: examples: text: After the wedding celebration was over the menu was displayed for dinner.
glosses: The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
examples: text: The server handed us the menu.
text: We selected duck pâté and chicken goujons from the menu.
glosses: A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital.
examples: text: They took the chicken sandwich off their menu.
text: We've added a few new dishes to our menu.
glosses: The food or drinks that are available in a restaurant, café, or bar.
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glosses: A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface.
examples: text: What's on the menu for today's meeting?
glosses: A list or agenda.
Derived terms: burger menu
Chinese menu
context menu
degustation menu
dégustation menu
do you have a menu in English
drop-down menu
hamburger menu
main menu
mega menu
megamenu
menu bar
menu board
menu cost
menued
menuese
menu fatigue
menu hack
menuless
off menu
pie menu
pop-up menu
popup menu
radial menu
secret menu
set menu
Start menu
submenu
tasting menu
user menu
menu
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnjuː/
ipa: /ˈmɛnju/
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /ˈmɛnɪu̯/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛn(j)u/
note: Tanglish, also
ipa: /ˈmɛn(j)ʊ/
note: Tanglish, also
ipa: [mɛnɨ ~ mɛɲɨ]
rhymes: -ɛnjuː
Forms: form: menus
form: menuing
form: menued
form: menued
Etymology: Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.
Senses: examples: text: He created this prize-winning dish last December, to serve at a catered dinner that honored benefactors of Nashua Memorial Hospital. At that elaborate holiday repast, Quimby menued the seafood dish as a first course. However, he noted, his dish is substantial enough to serve as a satisfying entree.
ref: 1991, Food Management, volume 26, page 139:
text: […] held their own, then that child nutrition program would consider menuing the product in the future. Kater knew he was in trouble when he saw what he was up against that day: pizza and chicken nuggets, two of the most popular school lunches served in today’s schools.
ref: 1991, School Food Service Journal, volume 45, page 65:
text: “Menuing a bisque allows you to charge another dollar or two for the soup. Instead of $8, I can charge $11,” says Beacon’s chef and an owner, Waldy Malouf.
ref: 2001, Restaurant Business, volume 100, page 90, column 1:
text: He first menued the chop two years ago, expecting a short run, but has seen surprising customer loyalty: “If I took it off the menu, there would be an uprising.”
ref: 2002, Restaurant Business, volume 101, page 86, column 3:
text: […] scale chef who couldn’t resist menuing the classic. But unlike Regis, Gardner’s take has a few unexpected extras.
ref: 2003, Restaurant Business, volume 102, page 66, column 3:
text: Depending upon your customer base, you may want to menu options that are gluten-free (G-F), vegan, macrobiotic, organic or even create a healthful kids’ menu. In fact, none of these categories are mutually exclusive, so you might consider menuing a dessert like Brownies with Cashew Cream, a popular item fitting all those categories, served at the Cal Dining-sponsored “Raw Food Chef Night” at the University of California, Berkeley ([…]).
ref: 2009, Chef, volume 53, page 20:
text: Along with the meats, local Gnocchi, Borgotaro malfatti, made from ricotta, herbs, and spinach were menued. The mixture contained eggs and breadcrumbs to bind the ingredients, the chef optioning grated cheese. White truffles, Borgotaro mushrooms and stuffed tortellini bordered the fresh fish catch of the day. The bishop explained, “You’ll find our tastings vary significantly from the cuisine served at your restaurants in New York City– where the Neapolitan and Sicilian sauces are prevalent.[…]”
ref: 2019, Alan Paris, Filament II: Brighten the World, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
glosses: To include (something) in a menu.
organizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɹɡənaɪzɚ/
Forms: form: organizers
form: organiser
Etymology: From organize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Jennifer Pastore Monroy, executive director of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, emphasized that “the relationship that clients build with a professional organizer is a very personal one, and so your experience will depend on what you’re trying to get out of it.” […] “Professional organizers and productivity consultants work a whole spectrum of services to help people,” she explained.
ref: 2019 January 16, Jolie Kerr, “What Professional Organizers Really Do, and How They Can Help You”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person who arranges the details of a public event.
examples: text: I'll add that meeting to my organizer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
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glosses: A hand-held micro-computer that will perform specific tasks; can be used as an electronic diary, alarm clock, recorder of memos and notes, a portable database etc.
glosses: A non-electronic notebook or calendar or something similar, used to organize one's affairs.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A group of cells that, together with the evocator, control differentiation in the embryo; the inductor
examples: text: desk organizer
text: makeup organizer
glosses: a recipient, such as a box or a case, used for storing gadgets, trinkets and other knick-knacks; an organizer box
Synonyms: word: chief
word: controller
word: comptroller
word: foreman
word: head
word: head man
word: overseer
word: superintendent
word: supervisor
Derived terms: community organizer
coorganizer
co-organizer
desk organizer
desktop organizer
diaper organizer
personal organizer
hand-held
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌhɛld/
Forms: form: hand held
form: handheld
Etymology: From hand + held.
Senses: examples: text: He filmed the scene with a hand-held camera.
text: The hand-held game console became popular with children.
glosses: Held in one or both hands.
examples: text: This device is small and hand-held, perfect for travel.
glosses: Small and light enough to be operated while held in one or both hands.
hand-held
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌhɛld/
Forms: form: hand-helds
form: hand held
form: handheld
Etymology: From hand + held.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands.
Related terms: mobile
portable
note
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊt/
enpr: nōt
ipa: /noʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: notes
form: noting
form: noted
form: noted
Etymology: From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”).
Senses: examples: text: Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue:
I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe
Haue to their names tytles of dignitie,
And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
text: If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.
glosses: To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
examples: text: We noted his speech.
glosses: To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
examples: text: The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x⁻¹.
glosses: To denote; to designate.
glosses: To annotate.
glosses: To set down in musical characters.
examples: text: By noting the protest, notaries could date certificates when they were received, making it easier to comply with time restrictions associated with protesting.
ref: 2020 October 28, Kimberly Budd for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, case SJC-12769
topics: law
glosses: To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
Derived terms: misnote
note down
Related terms: notable
noteless
benote
note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊt/
enpr: nōt
ipa: /noʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: notes
form: noit
form: noyt
form: not
Etymology: From Middle English note (“use, usefulness, profit”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“enjoyment, utilisation”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop”), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure”), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof”), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility”), Icelandic not (“use”, noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ”), Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old High German niozan (“to use, enjoy”) (Modern German genießen (“to enjoy”)), Modern German benutzen (“to use”). Related to nait.
Senses: examples: text: And have thou that for thy note !
ref: 1838, William Marriott, “The Deluge”, in A Collection of English Miracle-Plays or Mysteries, Basel: Schweighauser & Co, page 11:
text: Tha'll keep me at this noit all day... Om always at this noit.
ref: 1897 May 27, Halifax Courier, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, volume IV, London: Henry Frowde, page 302
text: Thou canst do thy note; that have I espied.
ref: 1962, Arthur C. Cawley, Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays, page 125:
glosses: That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
examples: text: The supply of horned cattle at this fair was great, but the business done was confined to fleshy barreners of feeding qualities and superior new-calved heifers, and those at early note, with appearance of being useful; [...]
ref: 1843, The Farmer's Magazine, page 384:
text: For sale, a Kerry cow, five years old, at her note in May.
ref: 1875, Paper, Belfast:
text: A cow is said to be in note when she is in milk.
ref: 1888, S. O. Addy Gloss, Words Sheffield, page 160:
text: A man who drank spring water when his one cow was near note.
ref: 1922, P. MacGill, Lanty Hanlon, page 11:
text: Be at her note, be near note, come forward to her note, of a cow or sow, be near the time for calving or farrowing.
ref: 1996, C. I. Macafee Conc., Ulster Dict. at Note:
glosses: The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
Derived terms: english: partly
translation: partly
word: notable
word: noteful