cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
volume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒl.juːm/
ipa: /ˈvɒl.jʊm/
ipa: /ˈvɑ.ljum/
ipa: /ˈvɑ.ljəm/
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /ˈvɒlɪu̯m/
rhymes: -ɒljuːm
rhymes: -ɒljʊm
Forms: form: volumes
form: voluming
form: volumed
form: volumed
form: vol.
Etymology: From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).
Senses: examples: text: […] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.
ref: 1867, George Meredith, chapter 30, in Vittoria, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 258:
text: […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
ref: 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 2, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
glosses: To be conveyed through the air, waft.
examples: text: We lay leaning over the bows, now looking up at the mist blown in never-ending volumed sheets, now at the sail swelling in the wind before which it fled, and again down at the water through which our boat was ploughing its evanescent furrow.
ref: 1872, George Macdonald, chapter 15, in Wilfrid Cumbermede, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 243:
text: The censer, voluming upwards its ash-gray smoke, was now passed from hand to hand three times round the patient, and finally deposited on the floor at his feet.
ref: 1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic, London: Macmillan, page 420:
text: The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 219:
glosses: To cause to move through the air, waft.
glosses: To swell.
everyone
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛv.ɹi.wʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: every one
form: arrywun
Etymology: From Middle English everichon. By surface analysis, every + one.
Senses: examples: text: She was really hungry, so the chicken and tarts served to divert her attention for a time. It was well I secured this forage; or both she, I and Sophie, to whom I conveyed a share of our repast, would have run a chance of getting no dinner at all: every one down stairs was too much engaged to think of us.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter II, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 32:
text: Everyone’s heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 22:
text: Hello, everyone!
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain), archived from the original on 30 Sep 2017:
glosses: Every person.
Synonyms: sense: every person
word: everybody
sense: every person
word: the world and his wife
Derived terms: and then everyone clapped
and then everyone on the bus clapped
everyone and his brother
everyone and his cousin
everyone and his dog
everyone and his grandma
everyone and his mother
everyone and their brother
everyone and their cousin
everyone and their dog
everyone and their grandma
everyone and their mother
everyone clapped
everyone else
everyone who is anybody
everyone who is anyone
everyone who's anybody
everyone who's anyone
there for everyone to see
you cannot please everyone
Related terms: anyone
everybody
everything
everywhere
no one
someone
quantifier
someone
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmwʌn/
rhymes: -ʌmwʌn
Forms: form: some one
Etymology: From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.
Senses: examples: text: Can someone help me, please?
text: Can you get me someone more knowledgeable?
glosses: One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
Synonyms: anybody
anyone
somebody
Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation s.o.
so for someone
someone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmwʌn/
rhymes: -ʌmwʌn
Forms: form: someones
form: some one
Etymology: From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.
Senses: examples: text: Do you need a gift for that special someone?
text: His ultimate concern is with being and beings, with saying something about something and not with the someones who say it and hear it—and not even with the someones whose beings are in conflict about beings in their being.
ref: 2013, James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 213:
text: It had never happened, it wasn't that there hadn't been any 'someones', there had actually been numerous 'someones', but not one that had gotten between him and his work.
ref: year unknown, T A Smallwood, Reflections Of A Murder, Lulu.com →ISBN, page 2
text: Or rather, to someone. Many someones, in fact. But which someones? Well, the someones that benefited while wage controls were in place had to be people for whom salary was not the primary form of income.
ref: 2010, Michael E Kanell, Michael E. Kanell, Mike Kimel, Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the Issues We Care About, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A partially specified but unnamed person.
examples: text: He thinks he has become someone.
glosses: An important person.
Related terms: no one
everyone
anyone
somewhere
something
none
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nɔn/
ipa: /nʌn/
homophone: nun
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: non
Etymology: From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + one. (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.)
Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen, keen (“no, none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).
Senses: examples: text: None of those is a good example. None are even acceptable.
text: None of this meat tastes right.
glosses: Not any of a given number or group.
examples: text: None of those people is my father.
glosses: Not any of a given number or group.
No one, nobody.
examples: text: None of those people are my parents. None shall pass.
text: Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews.
ref: 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, page 253:
glosses: Not any of a given number or group.
No person.
Derived terms: all-or-none
bar none
Buckley's and none
half a loaf is better than none
have none of it
have none of something
it's none of your business
noneism
noneist
none of someone's business
none of these words are in the Bible
none of your bee's wax
none of your bees' wax
none of your beeswax
none other than
none-so-pretty
nonesuch
none the less
none the wiser
none the worse
none too soon
none to the worse
religious none
say none
second to none
there are none so blind as those who will not see
there's none so blind as those who will not see
two's company and three is none
none
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nɔn/
ipa: /nʌn/
homophone: nun
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: non
Etymology: From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + one. (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.)
Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen, keen (“no, none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).
Senses: examples: text: Thou shalt have none other gods but me.
text: the foles toke their lampes, but toke none oyle with them.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
text: None lasses were in the dunces' row. If one had been there people would have looked at her and felt sorry but not boys.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 138:
qualifier: archaic outside Scotland
glosses: Not any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h)
none
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nɔn/
ipa: /nʌn/
homophone: nun
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: non
Etymology: From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + one. (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.)
Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen, keen (“no, none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).
Senses: examples: text: I felt none the worse for my recent illness.
text: my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
ref: 1973, Paul Simon, “Kodachrome”:
glosses: To no extent, in no way.
examples: text: He was none too pleased with the delays in the program that was supposed to be his legacy.
text: We could hear none too well from the back.
glosses: Not at all, not very.
glosses: No, not.
none
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nɔn/
ipa: /nʌn/
homophone: nun
rhymes: -ʌn
ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nɒn/
rhymes: -ʌn
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: nun
homophone: non-
ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nɔn/
ipa: /nʌn/
homophone: nun
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: nones
Etymology: From the first sense, since they respond “none” when asked about their religion; also a play on words on nun.
Senses: examples: text: Both the religiously dis-identified ("nones") and the religiously committed report mystical experiences.
ref: 2003, Jacob A. Belzen, Antoon Geels, Mysticism: A Variety of Psychological Perspectives, page 50:
text: Stable nones, that is, people who report in both years that they have no religious affiliation, are, in fact, much less religious
ref: 2010, Robert D. Putnam, David E Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, page 591:
text: we have grouped people into nones (no religion), Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical protestants.
ref: 2013, Michael Corbett, Politics and Religion in the United States:
qualifier: chiefly American
glosses: A person without religious affiliation.
none
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nɔn/
ipa: /nʌn/
homophone: nun
rhymes: -ʌn
ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nɒn/
rhymes: -ʌn
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: nun
homophone: non-
ipa: /nəʊn/
ipa: /noʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
rhymes: -oʊn
homophone: known
ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nɔn/
ipa: /nʌn/
homophone: nun
rhymes: -ʌn
ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nɒn/
rhymes: -ʌn
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: nun
homophone: non-
Forms: form: nones
Etymology: From French none, from Latin nōna (“ninth; ninth hour”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nones: the ninth hour after dawn; (Christianity) the religious service appointed to this hour.
examples: text: None of the day, is the third quarter of the day beginning at Noon and lasting till the Sun be gone half way towards setting.
ref: 1656, T. Blount, Glossographia:
text: The last, which began at the middle of the Afternoon, i.e. at half the Time between Noon and Sun-setting, was called None, because it began at the Ninth Hour.
ref: 1706, L.E. Dupin, “v, 43”, in D. Cotes, transl., A New Ecclesiastical History of the 16th Century, volume II:
glosses: Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.
synonyms: word: midafternoon
extra: the time around or following noon or nones
Related terms: quantifier
somebody
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmbˌɒdi/
ipa: /ˈsʌmˌbədi/
note: stressed form, US
ipa: /ˈsʌmbˌʌdi/
note: stressed form, US
ipa: /ˈsʌmˌbɑdi/
ipa: /ˈsʌmˌbədi/
Forms: form: some body
form: some-body
form: somebuddy
form: sombuddy
form: sombudy
form: sumbody
form: sumbuddy
form: sby
form: sb
Etymology: From Middle English sum body, equivalent to some + body.
Senses: examples: text: Somebody has to clean this mess up.
glosses: Some unspecified person.
Synonyms: someone
Derived terms: somebody else
Related terms: nobody
everybody
anybody
somewhere
something
somebody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmbˌɒdi/
ipa: /ˈsʌmˌbədi/
note: stressed form, US
ipa: /ˈsʌmbˌʌdi/
note: stressed form, US
ipa: /ˈsʌmˌbɑdi/
ipa: /ˈsʌmˌbədi/
Forms: form: somebodies
form: somebodys
form: some body
form: some-body
form: somebuddy
form: sombuddy
form: sombudy
form: sumbody
form: sumbuddy
form: sby
form: sb
Etymology: From Middle English sum body, equivalent to some + body.
Senses: examples: text: So there, I know, was somebody or a combination of somebodys who did not know what the heck they were doing or dealing with.
ref: 1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and the Fuel Crisis: Hearings..., page 88:
glosses: Any person.
examples: text: I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.
glosses: A recognised or important person, a celebrity.
nobody
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: note: stressed form, UK
ipa: /ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/
note: stressed form, UK
ipa: /ˈnəʊ.bə.di/
note: stressed form, US
ipa: /ˈnoʊˌbʌd.i/
note: stressed form, US
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.bɑ.di/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.bə.di/
Forms: form: no body
form: nobuddy
form: nobudy
Etymology: From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).
Senses: examples: text: I asked several people, but nobody knew how.
text: As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.
text: Nobody phoned, did they?
glosses: Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.
Synonyms: no one
small fry
small potatoes
Derived terms: it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
like it's nobody's business
like nobody else
like nobody's business
like nobody's watching
nobodaddy
nobodiness
nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people
nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American public
nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people
nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public
nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people
nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public
nobody's
nobody's fool
nobody's perfect
on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog
the lights are on but nobody's home
Related terms: anybody
everybody
nofuckingbody
nothing
nowhere
somebody
nobody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: stressed form, UK
ipa: /ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/
note: stressed form, UK
ipa: /ˈnəʊ.bə.di/
note: stressed form, US
ipa: /ˈnoʊˌbʌd.i/
note: stressed form, US
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.bɑ.di/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.bə.di/
Forms: form: nobodies
form: no body
form: nobuddy
form: nobudy
Etymology: From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).
Senses: examples: text: “‘The nobody you once thought me!’ I repeated, and my face grew a little hot; but I would not be angry: of what importance was a school-girl’s crude use of the terms nobody and somebody?”
ref: 1835, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XXVII, in Villette:
glosses: Someone who is not important or well-known.
glosses: Something that has no body or an especially small one.
Derived terms: word: nobody crab
taxonomic: Pycnogonida spp.
word: no-body crab
Related terms: nonentity
wow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waʊ/
ipa: /wɑw/
ipa: /waw/
ipa: /wəw/
Forms: form: wows
form: wowing
form: wowed
form: wowed
Etymology: Attested since the 16th century; borrowed from Scots wow; ultimately a natural exclamation.
Senses: examples: text: He really wowed the audience.
text: If all of us can remember how great it felt to be wowed, why don't we make it a habit to do it more often for others? People remember you when you wow them, so to differentiate yourself with your clients and customers, think of doing something that would make them remember you.
ref: 2015, Joe Sweeney, Mike Yorkey, Moving the Needle, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 200:
text: We have the worst of both worlds: the royal family gives us nothing, and we in turn legitimise it, give it meaning and audience and pay, through subsidies and tax exemptions, for its ability to wow us.
ref: 2023 May 8, Nesrine Malik, “The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation – just as intended”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To amaze or awe.
wow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waʊ/
ipa: /wɑw/
ipa: /waw/
ipa: /wəw/
Forms: form: wows
Etymology: Attested since the 16th century; borrowed from Scots wow; ultimately a natural exclamation.
Senses: examples: text: ‘And say, Jimmy, wait till you see me in my new outfit...It’s a wow, kid.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 144:
text: ‘Jesus suffering fuck,’ said Adrian. ‘It’s not half a thought.’
‘Face it, it’s a wow.’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:
glosses: Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc.
examples: text: On this trip, we talked with fellow cruisers about their travels and boats, and many were curious about the Beneteau Swift Trawler. Gow graciously gave tours, during which we heard many wows, oohs and aahs.
ref: 2009 April, MotorBoating, page 43:
text: One woman took a seat nearer the front for a closer look at my maps. Several people exhaled loudly. I heard a wow now and then.
ref: 2021 August 25, Jason King, The Climate Planner: Overcoming Pushback Against Local Mitigation and Adaptation Plans, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: An utterance of "wow".
Derived terms: wowless
wow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waʊ/
ipa: /wɑw/
ipa: /waw/
ipa: /wəw/
Forms: form: wows
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Sound films have to be loaded so that the sound is 5 seconds before the sound drum so a wow does not result when the film is punched up on the air.
ref: 1970, Larry G. Goodwin, Thomas Koehring, Closed-circuit Television Production Techniques, page 80:
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
Related terms: sense: other terms containing the word "wow", probably etymologically unrelated
word: bow chicka wow wow
sense: other terms containing the word "wow", probably etymologically unrelated
word: bow-wow
sense: other terms containing the word "wow", probably etymologically unrelated
word: wow-wow
sense: other terms containing the word "wow", probably etymologically unrelated
word: wow-wow sauce
many
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛni/
ipa: /ˈmɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
ipa: /ˈmɪni/
homophone: mini (pin–pen merger)
ipa: /ˈmæni/
rhymes: -æni
homophone: mannie
homophone: Mannie
homophone: manny
homophone: Manny
Forms: form: manie
Etymology: From Middle English many, mani, moni, from Old English maniġ, moniġ, maneġ (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *manag, from Proto-Germanic *managaz (“some, much, many”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots mony (“many”), Yola many (“many”), Alemannic German meng (“many”), Dutch menig (“many”), German manch (“many, some”), Low German männich, männig (“many”), Luxembourgish muench, munch, munnech (“many”), Danish mangen (“many”), Faroese mangur (“many”), Icelandic margur (“many”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk mang, mange (“many”), Swedish mången (“many”), French maint (“many”), Russian мно́гий (mnógij, “much; many”), Serbo-Croatian and Polish mnogi (“numerous; plural”), Czech mnohý (“many, numerous”), Scottish Gaelic minig.
The noun is from Middle English manye, *menye, from Old English manigeo, menigu (“company, multitude, host”), from Proto-West Germanic *managu, *managī, from Proto-Germanic *managō, *managį̄ (“multitude”), from the same root as the determiner. Cognate with Middle Low German menige, menie, menje (“multitude”), Russian много (mnogo), Serbo-Croatian mnogo.
Senses: examples: text: Many are called, but few are chosen.
text: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1:
text: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,[…].
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
glosses: A large, indefinite number of people or things.
Derived terms: many-to-many
many-to-one
one-to-many
Related terms: how many
many a
so many
many
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛni/
ipa: /ˈmɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
ipa: /ˈmɪni/
homophone: mini (pin–pen merger)
ipa: /ˈmæni/
rhymes: -æni
homophone: mannie
homophone: Mannie
homophone: manny
homophone: Manny
Forms: form: manies
form: manie
Etymology: From Middle English many, mani, moni, from Old English maniġ, moniġ, maneġ (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *manag, from Proto-Germanic *managaz (“some, much, many”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots mony (“many”), Yola many (“many”), Alemannic German meng (“many”), Dutch menig (“many”), German manch (“many, some”), Low German männich, männig (“many”), Luxembourgish muench, munch, munnech (“many”), Danish mangen (“many”), Faroese mangur (“many”), Icelandic margur (“many”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk mang, mange (“many”), Swedish mången (“many”), French maint (“many”), Russian мно́гий (mnógij, “much; many”), Serbo-Croatian and Polish mnogi (“numerous; plural”), Czech mnohý (“many, numerous”), Scottish Gaelic minig.
The noun is from Middle English manye, *menye, from Old English manigeo, menigu (“company, multitude, host”), from Proto-West Germanic *managu, *managī, from Proto-Germanic *managō, *managį̄ (“multitude”), from the same root as the determiner. Cognate with Middle Low German menige, menie, menje (“multitude”), Russian много (mnogo), Serbo-Croatian mnogo.
Senses: examples: text: Democracy must balance the rights of the few against the will of the many.
synonyms: word: crowd
word: mob
word: canaille
word: commonality
word: commonalty
word: crowd
word: demos
word: everyone
word: general public
word: great unhosed
word: great unwashed
word: herd
word: hoi polloi
word: lower class
word: many
word: masses
word: mob
word: multitude
word: odds and sods
word: peasantry
word: plebs
word: populace
word: proletariat
word: rabble
word: rank and file
word: riffraff
word: third estate
word: trash
word: unwashed
word: unwashed masses
word: working class
glosses: A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
examples: text: I know that my mother cried a many of times from decisions I made.
ref: 2005, Florence Dyer, A Mother's Cry!: Touches the Very Heart of God, page 22:
synonyms: word: abundance
word: buttload
word: deal
word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A considerable number.
many
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛni/
ipa: /ˈmɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
ipa: /ˈmɪni/
homophone: mini (pin–pen merger)
ipa: /ˈmæni/
rhymes: -æni
homophone: mannie
homophone: Mannie
homophone: manny
homophone: Manny
Forms: form: more
form: most
form: manie
Etymology: From Middle English many, mani, moni, from Old English maniġ, moniġ, maneġ (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *manag, from Proto-Germanic *managaz (“some, much, many”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots mony (“many”), Yola many (“many”), Alemannic German meng (“many”), Dutch menig (“many”), German manch (“many, some”), Low German männich, männig (“many”), Luxembourgish muench, munch, munnech (“many”), Danish mangen (“many”), Faroese mangur (“many”), Icelandic margur (“many”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk mang, mange (“many”), Swedish mången (“many”), French maint (“many”), Russian мно́гий (mnógij, “much; many”), Serbo-Croatian and Polish mnogi (“numerous; plural”), Czech mnohý (“many, numerous”), Scottish Gaelic minig.
The noun is from Middle English manye, *menye, from Old English manigeo, menigu (“company, multitude, host”), from Proto-West Germanic *managu, *managī, from Proto-Germanic *managō, *managį̄ (“multitude”), from the same root as the determiner. Cognate with Middle Low German menige, menie, menje (“multitude”), Russian много (mnogo), Serbo-Croatian mnogo.
Senses: examples: text: Let’s take these fears about a rich, strong China to their logical extreme. The U.S. and Chinese governments are always disagreeing—about trade, foreign policy, the environment. Someday the disagreement could be severe. Taiwan, Tibet, North Korea, Iran—the possibilities are many, though Taiwan always heads the list.
ref: 2008 January/February, James Fallows, “The $1.4 Trillion Question”, in The Atlantic Monthly:
glosses: Existing in large number; numerous.
Synonyms: multiple
several
manifold
Related terms: quantifier
rotten
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒtn̩/
ipa: /ˈɹɑtn̩/
ipa: [ˈɹɑʔn̩]
rhymes: -ɒtən
Forms: form: more rotten
form: most rotten
Etymology: From Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn (“decayed, rotten”), past participle of an unrecorded verb related to Old Norse rotna (“to rot”) and Old English rotian (“to rot”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”). See rot. By surface analysis, rot + -en (past participle).
Senses: examples: text: That kid is spoilt rotten.
text: The girls fancy him something rotten.
text: "It's old man Challenger's show and we are here by his good will, so it would be rotten bad form if we didn't follow his instructions to the letter."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: "You're not only crazy," Oscar said bitterly, "you're rotten jealous. You can go to hell." He stomped away.
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 53:
glosses: To an extreme degree.
correct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: more correct
form: most correct
Etymology: Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from con- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
Senses: examples: text: Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10
text: We all agreed they'd made the correct decision.
synonyms: right
faithful
antonyms: incorrect
inaccurate
wrong
glosses: Free from error; true; accurate.
synonyms: well-mannered
well-behaved
antonyms: uncouth
glosses: With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: all correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: anatomically correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: autocorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: come correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: conservatively correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: const-correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: correctamundo
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: correctify
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: correctitude
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: correctly
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: correctness
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: corright
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: hypercorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: hypocorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: incorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: k'rect card
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: noncorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: patriotically correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: politically correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: pseudocorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: recorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (adjective)
word: uncorrect
correct
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Etymology: Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from con- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
Senses: examples: text: Hope I spelt your name correct.
glosses: Correctly.
correct
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Etymology: Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from con- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
Senses: synonyms: OK
glosses: Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
correct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: corrects
Etymology: Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from con- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
Senses: examples: text: Having each day's rates of corrects and incorrects written next to the graph also makes it easier for you to check the […] If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or […]
ref: 2013, Julie Vargas, Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching:
glosses: A correct response.
correct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: corrects
form: correcting
form: corrected
form: corrected
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: correct
form: correct
form: corrected
form: correct
form: correctest
form: corrected
form: correctedst
form: corrects
form: correcteth
form: corrected
form: correct
form: corrected
form: correct
form: corrected
form: correct
form: -
form: correcting
form: corrected
Etymology: From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.
Senses: examples: text: You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.
text: The navigator corrected the course of the ship.
text: Her millions of adoring fans had yet to hear her speak, and when she finally did, she sounded more like a sailor than a starlet, spewing a profanity-laced, G-dropping Brooklynese that no amount of dialect coaching could correct.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
glosses: To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
examples: text: The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.
glosses: To grade (examination papers).
examples: text: It's rude to correct your parents.
glosses: To inform (someone) of their error.
glosses: To discipline; to punish.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: correctability
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: correctable
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: correctedness
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: correcting fluid
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: correctingly
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: correction
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: correct me if I'm wrong
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: corrector
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: correctory
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: correctrix
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: course-correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: error correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: geocorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: hypocorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: incorrected
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: miscorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: noncorrected
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: noncorrecting
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: overcorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: politically correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: precorrect
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: self-correct
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: self-correcting
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: uncorrectable
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: uncorrected
sense: Terms derived from correct (verb)
word: undercorrect
snow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: snō
ipa: /snəʊ̯/
enpr: snō
ipa: /snoʊ̯/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: snows
form: snaw
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch snauw, snaauw, or Low German snau; further etymology uncertain, possibly from Low German snau (“beak”), related to Middle Low German snute (“snout”) (whence English snout), from Proto-West Germanic *snūt (“snout”), from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz (“snout”), possibly imitative.
Senses: examples: text: An ESTIMATE made of the Annual Expence of a Snow of 120 Tons, and 48 Men (Officers included) Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, beſides Swivels.
ref: 1763, Stephen Theodore Janssen [i.e., Sir Stephen Janssen, 4th Baronet], Smuggling Laid Open in All Its Extensive and Destructive Branches; […], London: […] W. Owen, and W. Nicoll, →OCLC, page 263:
topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: brig
glosses: A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.
meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mē′tər
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmitəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmiɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmiːtə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmiːʈəʳ/
enpr: mĕt′ər
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
note: Indic, less commonly
ipa: /mĕʈ.ɜʳ/
Forms: form: meters
Etymology: From Middle English metere (“one who measures, measurer”), perhaps (with change in suffix) from Old English metend (“one who measures or metes”), equivalent to mete (“to measure”) + -er. The transference from "person who measures" to "device that measures" was probably assisted by association with -meter, as in barometer, etc.
Cognate with Scots mettar, metter (“meter, measurer”), Saterland Frisian Meter, Meeter (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), West Frisian mjitter (“measurer”), Dutch meter (“measurer, gauge”), German Low German Meter (“measuring device, gauge”), German Messer (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), Swedish mätare (“measurer”).
Senses: glosses: A device that measures things.
examples: text: gas meter
glosses: A device that measures things.
A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
examples: text: a labouring coal-meter
glosses: One who metes or measures.
glosses: A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
Derived terms: Ampère meter
anglemeter
bimeter
coal-meter
cover meter
digital meter
drift meter
dry meter
electricity meter
electric meter
E-meter
energy meter
exposure meter
feed the meter
flowmeter
gas meter
gas meter bandit
glossmeter
gravity meter
light meter
meterable
meterage
meter attendant
meterful
meterless
meter maid
meterman
meter stamp
meter stick
mismeter
nuclear hydrogen detection meter
parking meter
paymeter
peak flow meter
pH meter
pin the meter
pressuremeter
Q meter
rainmeter
smart meter
S meter
Stimpmeter
submeter
survey meter
teslameter
thrustmeter
time-of-use meter
torque meter
trip meter
VU meter
water meter
watt-hour meter
wet meter
Related terms: metster
meter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mē′tər
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmitəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmiɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmiːtə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmiːʈəʳ/
enpr: mĕt′ər
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
note: Indic, less commonly
ipa: /mĕʈ.ɜʳ/
Forms: form: meters
form: metering
form: metered
form: metered
Etymology: From Middle English metere (“one who measures, measurer”), perhaps (with change in suffix) from Old English metend (“one who measures or metes”), equivalent to mete (“to measure”) + -er. The transference from "person who measures" to "device that measures" was probably assisted by association with -meter, as in barometer, etc.
Cognate with Scots mettar, metter (“meter, measurer”), Saterland Frisian Meter, Meeter (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), West Frisian mjitter (“measurer”), Dutch meter (“measurer, gauge”), German Low German Meter (“measuring device, gauge”), German Messer (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), Swedish mätare (“measurer”).
Senses: glosses: To measure with a metering device.
glosses: To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
glosses: To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).
meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mē′tər
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmitəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmiɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmiːtə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmiːʈəʳ/
enpr: mĕt′ər
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
note: Indic, less commonly
ipa: /mĕʈ.ɜʳ/
Forms: form: meters
Etymology: Borrowed from French mètre, itself borrowed from Latin metrum, borrowed from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).
Senses: examples: text: No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
ref: 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:
glosses: US standard spelling of metre (“unit of measure”).
Derived terms: 1000 meter
1,000 meter
1000-meter
100-meter dash
100 meter dash
atto-meter
attometer
centimeter
cubic meter
decimeter
exameter
femtometer
gigameter
kilogram-meter
kilometer
linear meter
megameter
metergram
meter-kilogramme-second
meter-kilogram-second
meter stick
meter-tonne-second
meter-ton-second
meter-wide
metric
metrical
micrometer
millimeter
nanometer
newton meter
newton-meter
perimeter
petameter
picometer
quettameter
ronnameter
running meter
square meter
terameter
teslameter
yoctometer
yottameter
zeptometer
zettameter
μmeter
meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mē′tər
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmitəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmiɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmiːtə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmiːʈəʳ/
enpr: mĕt′ər
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
note: Indic, less commonly
ipa: /mĕʈ.ɜʳ/
Forms: form: meters
Etymology: From Middle English meter, metre, from Old English meter and Old French metre; both from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of metre (“the rhythm or measure in language”).
examples: text: A meter of […]berses in the Utopian tongue
ref: 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A poem.
Derived terms: asymmetrical meter
asymmetric meter
bimeter
common meter
compound meter
duple meter
hendecameter
heptameter
heroic meter
hexameter
hypermeter
long meter
meterless
metric
metrical
mismeter
monometer
octameter
pentameter
polymeter
quintuple meter
sexameter
short meter
simple meter
sloka meter
trimeter
whooping crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whooping cranes
Senses: glosses: Grus americana, a species of crane native to North America.
Synonyms: word: trumpeter crane
Related terms: sandhill crane
sandhill crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandhill cranes
Etymology: Compound of sandhill + crane.
Senses: synonyms: sandhiller
trumpeter crane
glosses: A crane native to North America and parts of Siberia (Antigone canadensis, syn. Grus canadensis).
wikipedia: sandhill crane
Hyponyms: Mississippi sandhill crane
Florida sandhill crane
ice floe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪs.fləʊ/
ipa: /ˈaɪs.floʊ/
Forms: form: ice floes
form: icefloe
Etymology: From ice + floe.
Senses: glosses: Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.
glosses: An ice dam (ice jam), a blockage of ice in a river starting with an ice floe in the river.
glosses: An ice stream (ice flow), a type of fast moving glacier
glosses: A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field.
Synonyms: ice float
Coordinate terms: iceberg
castling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkæstlɪŋ/
Forms: form: castlings
Etymology: From cast + -ling.
Senses: examples: 1646: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a castling’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5
glosses: An abortion, or a premature birth.
glosses: The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
examples: text: From the Celeste's own image was the first castling molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate [...]
ref: 2009, Danielle Devon, Divinity in Chains - Page 6:
glosses: A miniature cast or mould.
examples: text: […] ſhift for themselves, and ſeek out new habitations; ſuch caſtlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (moſt of the Oriental Iſlands being formerly inhabited by their Off-ſpring) fall with the coaſt of Peru, […]
ref: 1678, Claude Saumaise, Funus linguae hellenisticae, pages 121–122:
glosses: One that is cast.
castling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkæstlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːsəlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkæsəlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkæstlɪŋ/
Forms: form: castlings
Etymology: From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Castling is prevented temporarily: […] If there is any piece between the king and the rook with which castling is to be effected.
ref: 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, pages 7, 8:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.
topics: board-games
games
shogi
glosses: The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車).
castling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkæstlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːsəlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkæsəlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkæstlɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of castle
pos
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒz/
ipa: /pɔz/
ipa: /pɑz/
Forms: form: more pos
form: most pos
Senses: examples: text: I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.
glosses: Clipping of positive.
glosses: Alternative spelling of poz (“HIV positive”).
glosses: Clipping of possessive.
Derived terms: pos pron
pos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒz/
ipa: /pɔz/
ipa: /pɑz/
ipa: /pəʊz/
ipa: /poʊz/
ipa: /pɒz/
ipa: /pɔz/
ipa: /pɑz/
Senses: glosses: plural of po
lil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: Lil
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of li'l.
Derived terms: lil bro
lil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: Lil
Forms: form: lils
Senses: examples: text: [H]e'll have quite enough to do in writing his own lils, and telling the world how handsome and clever he was; and who can blame him? Not I. If I could write lils, every word should be about myself and my own tacho Rommanis — my own lawful wedded wife, which is the same thing.
ref: 1851, George Borrow, Lavengro: The Scholar-The Gypsy-The Priest:
qualifier: gypsy slang
glosses: A book.
lig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: ligs
form: ligging
form: ligged
form: lag
form: lay
form: ligged
form: lag
form: lay
form: laggen
form: lain
Etymology: From Middle English liggen, from Old English licgan (“to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain”) and Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). More at lie.
Senses: examples: text: His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
glosses: To lay.
Derived terms: lig down
lig on
lig out
Related terms: ligger
lig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: ligs
Etymology: From Middle English liggen, from Old English licgan (“to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain”) and Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). More at lie.
Senses: examples: text: And the Muse of Arts that never told a lig, / Whirls in her mid-air flight to sing of Twigg; […]
ref: 1867, James Torrington Spencer Lidstone, The Fourteenth Londoniad, page 85:
glosses: A lie; an untruth.
lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭft
ipa: /lɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: lifts
Etymology: From Middle English lifte, luft, lefte (“air, sky, heaven”), from Old English lyft (“atmosphere, air”), from Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“roof, sky, air”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”).
Cognate with Old High German luft (“air”) (German Luft), Dutch lucht (“air”), Old Norse lopt, loft (“upper room, sky, air”). Doublet of loft and luft.
Senses: glosses: Air.
examples: text: No, no, Leddy! the sun maun be up in the lift whan I venture to her den.
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 1, page 13:
glosses: The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
Synonyms: sense: gas or vapour breathed
word: air
sense: firmament, ethereal region surrounding the earth
word: atmosphere
sense: the heavens, sky
word: welkin
kral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krals
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of kraal.