cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
frozen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹəʊzn̩/
ipa: /ˈfɹoʊzn̩/
rhymes: -əʊzən
Forms: form: more frozen
form: most frozen
Etymology: From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). By surface analysis, freeze + -n.
Senses: examples: text: The mammoth has been frozen for ten thousand years.
text: frozen pizza
text: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
glosses: Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.
examples: text: I just stood frozen in terror as the robber pointed at me with his gun.
glosses: Immobilized.
glosses: In a state such that transactions are not allowed.
raw_tags: of a bank account or assets
examples: text: "Dice" is a frozen plural.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Retaining an older, obsolete syntax of an earlier version of a language, which now operates only on a specific word or phrase.
Derived terms: cryofrozen
deep-frozen
enfrozen
frogurt
frosé
frozen binomial
frozen cow juice
frozen custard
frozen daiquiri
frozen dinner
frozen food
frozenly
frozenness
frozen peaches
frozen robot syndrome
frozen rope
frozen shoulder
frozen star
frozen stiff
frozen tail
frozen yoghurt
frozen yogurt
nonfrozen
permafrozen
quick-frozen
semifrozen
unfrozen
frozen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹəʊzn̩/
ipa: /ˈfɹoʊzn̩/
rhymes: -əʊzən
Etymology: From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). By surface analysis, freeze + -n.
Senses: examples: text: The mammoth was frozen shortly after death.
glosses: past participle of freeze
froze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹəʊz/
ipa: /ˈfɹoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: simple past of freeze
examples: text: I have froze a whole flask full of Water, by gradually pouring it into a Pan; which confirms what Olearius ſays of making huge heaps of Ice to preſerve Bodies.
ref: 1699, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Eſq, […] , page 176:
text: Had the water been fresh our clothes would have froze into coverings of ice.
ref: 1891, William Clark Russell, Round the Galley Fire, page 131:
text: He saw it clear enough, now that the lordling had pointed it out. “They couldn't have froze. Not if the Wall was weeping. It wasn't cold enough."
ref: 1996 August 1, George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire; 1), HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: past participle of freeze
Derived terms: frozar
frozon
get
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛt/
note: regionally restricted, less formal
ipa: /ɡɪt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: gets
Etymology: From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną. Cognate with Old English ġietan (whence also English yet), Old Saxon getan (“to get, to gain sth.”), Old High German pigezzan (“to uphold”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bigitan, “to find, discover”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize”).
Senses: examples: text: At the time when I am making these observations, one of his colts is the first favourite for the Derby; and it will be recollected, that a filly of his get won the Oaks in 1808.
ref: 1810, Thomas Hornby Morland, The genealogy of the English race horse, page 71:
text: You must admit that the bastard get of Paul Atreides would be no more than juicy morsels for those two [tigers].
ref: 1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune:
text: ‘You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
ref: 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 755:
glosses: Offspring, especially illegitimate.
glosses: Lineage.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A difficult return or block of a shot.
examples: text: I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.
ref: 2008, Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion, page 73:
glosses: Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
get
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛt/
note: regionally restricted, less formal
ipa: /ɡɪt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: gets
Etymology: Variant of git.
Senses: examples: text: Kylie: Oi, Bono! You lazy get! Have you finished my song yet?
ref: 1990 January 13, David Quantick, Steven Wells, “Is It Rock Art Or Is It Nart?”, in New Musical Express:
glosses: Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
synonyms: word: git
extra: contemptible person
get
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛt/
note: regionally restricted, less formal
ipa: /ɡɪt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: gets
form: gittim
form: gitten
form: gett
form: ghet
Etymology: From Hebrew גֵּט (gēṭ).
Senses: examples: text: In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grant gets to their wives.
ref: 2013, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, George D. Chryssides, Dawoud El-Alami, Love, Sex and Marriage, page 143:
glosses: A Jewish writ of divorce.
got
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒt/
ipa: /ɡɔt/
ipa: /ɡɑt/
note: African-American
ipa: /ɡaʔ/
ipa: /ɡʌt/
ipa: /ɡɒt/
ipa: /ɡɔt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: got
form: gots
form: had
Senses: examples: text: I can’t go out tonight: I’ve got to study for my exams.
glosses: Expressing obligation; used with have.
examples: text: I got to go study.
text: We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!
ref: 1971, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, in Tapestry, Ode Records:
glosses: Must; have/has (to).
raw_tags: with to
examples: text: They got a new car.
text: He got a lot of nerve.
glosses: Have/has.
got
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒt/
ipa: /ɡɔt/
ipa: /ɡɑt/
note: African-American
ipa: /ɡaʔ/
ipa: /ɡʌt/
ipa: /ɡɒt/
ipa: /ɡɔt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Senses: examples: text: We got the last bus home.
glosses: simple past of get
examples: text: By that time we’d got very cold.
text: I’ve got two children.
text: How many children have you got?
glosses: past participle of get
Synonyms: sense: must, have (to), have got to
word: gotta
Derived terms: gotcha
gotten
ungot
got
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒt/
ipa: /ɡɔt/
ipa: /ɡɑt/
note: African-American
ipa: /ɡaʔ/
ipa: /ɡʌt/
ipa: /ɡɒt/
ipa: /ɡɔt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology: Analogous to Chinese 有, such as Hokkien 有 (ū), Cantonese 有 (jau⁵), Mandarin 有 (yǒu). Sense 1 is also comparable to Malay ada.
Senses: examples: text: Got problem is it?
text: Got ants over here.
text: “Got lighter or not?”
ref: 1999, Alfian Sa'at, Corridor, Singapore: SNP Editions, →OCLC, page 122:
text: She sure got a lot of costume change, make-up, wig long long…
ref: 2010, Haresh Sharma, Those Who Can't, Teach, Epigram Books, Act II, scene iv:
text: “There is no such thing as president of the world. But there is one king of the world. I am king of the world. Bigger than you!”
“Where got king, one? Who say so? You play cheat.”
“My mother say got. You don’t believe me you ask her.”
ref: 2022, Daren Shiau, chapter VIII, in Heartland, Ethos Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Have; there is (indicates possession or existence).
examples: text: You got shower?
translation: Have you showered?
english: Have you showered?
bold_translation_offsets: 0
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text: I got ski.
translation: I went skiing.
english: I went skiing.
bold_translation_offsets: 2
6
text: I got ski before.
translation: I have skied before.
english: I have skied before.
bold_translation_offsets: 2
6
text: You got send [e-mail] meh? I never receive leh.
ref: 2010 August 22, Fiona Chan, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 13:
text: I got find it a bit weird lah, to be honest with you—it’s just a small cup!
ref: 2021, Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier, Epigram Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: ever
english: Singlish, experiential aspect only
translation: Singlish, experiential aspect only
glosses: Marks the completive or experiential aspect.
examples: text: I got go Taiwan next year.
translation: I’m already/actually going to Taiwan next year.
english: I’m already/actually going to Taiwan next year.
glosses: Used as a marker of realis modality.
examples: text: I got tell them just now.
glosses: Used to emphasize that an action has been done.
examples: text: I got cook meals for them.
translation: I cook meals for them; I would cook meals for them (now and then or regularly).
english: I cook meals for them; I would cook meals for them (now and then or regularly).
text: You got play badminton?
translation: Do you play badminton?
english: Do you play badminton?
glosses: Marks the habitual aspect in the present or past tense.
Derived terms: where got
gotten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒt.n̩/
ipa: /ˈɡɑ.tn̩/
ipa: [ˈɡɑ.tn̩]
ipa: [ˈɡɑ.ʔn̩]
ipa: [ˈɡɑ.t̚n̩]
rhymes: -ɒtən
Forms: form: getten
Etymology: Morphologically got + -en.
Senses: examples: text: And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:1:
glosses: past participle of get
gotten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒt.n̩/
ipa: /ˈɡɑ.tn̩/
ipa: [ˈɡɑ.tn̩]
ipa: [ˈɡɑ.ʔn̩]
ipa: [ˈɡɑ.t̚n̩]
rhymes: -ɒtən
Forms: form: getten
Etymology: Morphologically got + -en.
Senses: glosses: obtained, acquired
Derived terms: ill-gotten
misgotten
ungotten
gave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gāv
ipa: /ɡeɪv/
ipa: [ɡeːv]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɡeːv]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɡɛːv]
rhymes: -eɪv
Etymology: From Middle English gaf, yaf, ȝaf, from Old English ġæf, ġeaf.
Senses: examples: text: I gaue thee Life, and rescu'd thee from Death.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: The superior degree of confidence towards Harriet, which this one article marked, gave her severe pain.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
text: With the Oxford canal at the bottom of his garden, regular canoeing excursions gave him enormous pleasure.
ref: 2011 July 31, Bob Woffinden, The Guardian:
glosses: simple past of give
examples: text: Well I suppose you will wonder what has happened to change my mind and if somebody has gave me a birthday present of $600.00 or something.
ref: c. 1916, Ring W. Lardner, The Courtship of T. Dorgan; republished in George W. Hilton, The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919, Stanford University Press, 1995, →ISBN, page 297:
text: Mr. Green. No; not to my recollection, Senator. I may have gave Frank Prince some for his wife, or something like that.
ref: 1951, “Influence in Government Procurement”, in Hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee of Expenditures in the Executive Departments […] , U.S. Government Printing Office, page 678:
text: I'm talking about redundancies, he said, that's what I'm talking about. And yous better get bloody used to the idea. One of the men shrugged: Ach well, we knew it was coming. That's as maybe but they should've gave us notice. Formal.
ref: 2012 August 10, James Kelman, A Chancer, Birlinn, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: past participle of give
Related terms: given
given
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪv.n̩/
enpr: gĭvʹən
rhymes: -ɪvən
Forms: form: giv'n
Etymology: Morphologically give + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of give
given
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪv.n̩/
enpr: gĭvʹən
rhymes: -ɪvən
Forms: form: giv'n
Etymology: Morphologically give + -n.
Senses: examples: text: Given the current situation, I don't think that's possible.
glosses: Considering; taking into account.
given
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪv.n̩/
enpr: gĭvʹən
rhymes: -ɪvən
Forms: form: givens
form: giv'n
Etymology: Morphologically give + -n.
Senses: examples: text: When evaluating this math problem, don't forget to read the givens.
glosses: A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.
given
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪv.n̩/
enpr: gĭvʹən
rhymes: -ɪvən
Forms: form: more given
form: most given
form: giv'n
Etymology: Morphologically give + -n.
Senses: examples: text: If eventually we can't make it at the given time, we'll phone you to let you know, don't worry.
glosses: Already arranged.
glosses: Currently discussed.
examples: text: No more than three people can be in that space at a given time.
glosses: Particular, specific.
examples: text: Given that we will get the resources, what do we want to achieve?
glosses: Assumed as fact or hypothesis.
examples: text: He was given to taking a couple of glasses of port at his club.
glosses: Prone, disposed.
raw_tags: with to
Derived terms: aforegiven
at any given moment
given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
given man
given name
givenness
given that
given time
given to
God-given
pregiven
ungiven
zero fucks given
went
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛnt/
ipa: /wɛnt/
ipa: [wɛnʔ(t̚)]
ipa: /wɪnt/
ipa: /went/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology: Originally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion.
Senses: glosses: simple past of go
examples: text: When they arrived whither they were bent, / He made as if he farther would have went. / But they conſtrain'd him, ſaying, Night is near; / Abide with us; and ſo he tarry'd there.
ref: 1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 7, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church, page 22:
text: I went from Filley's to Fitch's house, to talk of oxen; no one went with me; might have went to the mill; don,t remember whether I rode back to Laycock's or not to dinner.
ref: 1851, Abel F. Fitch, Report of the Great Conspiracy Case […] , Advertiser and Free Press, page 145:
text: I just sat around and watched, then decided to go see Safid; we planned to study that day, but first we had a good ride around town. We must have went fifteen miles, and Safid was ready to sit and study; we went to a little park and started working.
ref: 2010 June 14, Douglas Nix, Al-Qaeda Hunter, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: past participle of go
glosses: simple past and past participle of wend
Derived terms: word: wentest
word: wenteth
went
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛnt/
ipa: /wɛnt/
ipa: [wɛnʔ(t̚)]
ipa: /wɪnt/
ipa: /went/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: wents
Etymology: Originally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion.
Senses: examples: text: But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A course; a way, a path; a journey.
Synonyms: word: gaed
word: eode
word: yead
word: yede
word: yode
word: gone
sense: wend
word: wended
gone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏn
ipa: /ɡɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
ipa: /ɡɔːn/
enpr: gôn
ipa: /ɡɔn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
enpr: gŏn
ipa: /ɡɑn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Etymology: From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
Senses: glosses: past participle of go
gone
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏn
ipa: /ɡɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
ipa: /ɡɔːn/
enpr: gôn
ipa: /ɡɔn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
enpr: gŏn
ipa: /ɡɑn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Etymology: From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
Senses: examples: text: You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
glosses: Past, after, later than (a time).
Derived terms: arse has gone clean out of 'er
arse has gone out of 'er
arse has gone right out of 'er
arse is gone right out of 'er
be gone
boldly go where no man has gone before
bygone
da arse is gone right out of 'er
day gone by
dead and gone
downgone
far gone
get you gone
gone aloft
gone bad
gone by lunchtime
gone case
gone coon
gone fishing
gone goose
gone north about
goner
goneski
gonesome
Gonesville
gone with the wind
gone wrong
gone-zo
just gone
real gone
to hell and gone
too far gone
ungone
waygone
yesterday is gone
yesterday's gone
you never know what you've got till it's gone
gone
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏn
ipa: /ɡɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
ipa: /ɡɔːn/
enpr: gôn
ipa: /ɡɔn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
enpr: gŏn
ipa: /ɡɑn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Senses: examples: text: Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.
held
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold
Derived terms: hand-held
land-held
lapheld
unheld
hidden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hĭdʹn
ipa: /ˈhɪd(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈhɪdn/
rhymes: -ɪdən
Etymology: Morphologically hid + -en.
Senses: glosses: past participle of hide
hidden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hĭdʹn
ipa: /ˈhɪd(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈhɪdn/
rhymes: -ɪdən
Forms: form: more hidden
form: most hidden
Etymology: Morphologically hid + -en.
Senses: examples: text: hidden treasure; hidden talents
text: It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, The Lonely Pyramid, chapter 7:
text: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
glosses: Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
glosses: Obscure.
Synonyms: word: covered
word: concealed
word: dark
word: dern
word: hidden
word: invisible
word: latent
word: private
word: obfuscated
word: obfuscatory
word: obscure
word: obscured
word: occluded
word: occulted
word: recondite
word: unapparent
word: secluded
word: secret
word: secreted
word: silent
word: snug
word: tect
word: underground
word: undisclosed
word: veiled
Hyponyms: word: covert
Derived terms: hidden agenda
hidden asset
hidden-ball trick
hidden champion
hidden city
hidden code
hidden curriculum
hidden forest chipmunk
hidden gem
hidden in plain sight
hidden layer
hiddenly
hidden Markov model
hiddenmost
hiddenness
hidden quantity
hidden tax
hidden track
hidden variable
nonhidden
semihidden
Related terms: word: crypto-
word: hide
hidden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĭdʹn
ipa: /ˈhɪd(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈhɪdn/
rhymes: -ɪdən
Forms: form: hiddens
Etymology: Morphologically hid + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Hiddens are indicated thus; (e.g.) Grow (maraudinG ROWdies).
ref: 1975, Games & Puzzles:
text: The two types of clue which everyone should aim to solve at first reading are anagrams and hiddens.
ref: 1987, The Listener:
text: 16 of the 30 clues in this puzzle are hiddens; these are asterisked.
ref: 2020 August 20, Telegraph Media Group Ltd, The Telegraph: How To Solve a Cryptic Crossword: Mastering cryptic crosswords made easy, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 3:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A hidden answer clue; one in which the letters of the solution appear consecutively in the wordplay.
forgave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fər-gāv'
enpr: fôr-gāv'
ipa: /fə(ɹ)ˈɡeɪv/
ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈɡeɪv/
ipa: /fɚˈɡeɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Senses: glosses: simple past of forgive
go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: gō
ipa: /ɡoʊ/
note: Black Country
ipa: /ɡu/
ipa: /ɡæn/
ipa: /ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ɡoʊ/
ipa: [ɡoː]
ipa: [ɡəʉ]
ipa: [ɡɐʉ]
homophone: geaux
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: gan
Etymology: From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).
The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots gae, gan, gang, ging, gyang (“to go”), Yola go, goe, goeth, gow (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Alemannic German gaa, go (“to go, walk, step”), Bavarian geh (“to go”), Cimbrian ghéenan, gian (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Dutch Low Saxon gan, gaon (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), German Low German gahn (“to go”), Limburgish gaon, goëne (“to go”), Luxembourgish goen (“to go”), Yiddish גיין (geyn, “to go, walk”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gå (“to go, walk”), Crimean Gothic geen (“to go”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (gaggan, “to go”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti).
Senses: examples: text: John Glenn reports all systems are go.
ref: 1962, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the […] Congress, page 2754:
text: "Life support system is go," said the earphone.
ref: 1964, Instruments and Control Systems:
text: “Green One has four starts and is go.”
ref: 2011, Matthew Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor: Star Wars Legends, Del Rey, →ISBN:
text: “Weapons ready?” Sam and I pull our loaded BB guns out of the bag and slot them into place in the longholsters on our backs.“ Weapons are go,” Sam replied.
ref: 2016, Tim Brewster, Stuck: It's About to Get Very Weird […] , Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 118:
qualifier: chiefly military and space flight
glosses: Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.
go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gō
ipa: /ɡoʊ/
note: Black Country
ipa: /ɡu/
ipa: /ɡæn/
ipa: /ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ɡoʊ/
ipa: [ɡoː]
ipa: [ɡəʉ]
ipa: [ɡɐʉ]
homophone: geaux
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Go
Etymology: From Japanese 碁(ご) (go), shorter variant of Japanese 囲碁(いご) (igo), from Chinese 圍棋 /围棋 (wéiqí, literally “encirclement board game”).
Senses: synonyms: weiqi
baduk
qualifier: board games
glosses: A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
Derived terms: go stone
grind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: grinds
Etymology: From Middle English grynden, from Old English grindan, from Proto-West Germanic *grindan, from Proto-Germanic *grindaną.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gríende, griene (“to grind, mill”), Dutch grinden (“to grind”, rare) and grind (“gravel, shingle”), Albanian grind (“to brawl, fight”).
Senses: glosses: The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
glosses: Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
examples: text: This bag contains espresso grind.
glosses: A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
examples: text: This homework is a grind.
text: Running again in more open agricultural country, the Harrogate line encounters a short downgrade before the stiff uphill grind to Harrogate begins.
ref: 1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:
synonyms: chore
glosses: A tedious and laborious task.
glosses: A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
examples: text: If you are at all bright, don't be a grind. Grinding may make a second-hand genius of you (for all the real things are dead), and if you become a genius you will be sure to smoke dope or swallow laudanum. They all did it.
ref: 1900, “Gifford Arthur Nelson”, in The Naughty-Naughtian, page 118:
text: […] I suppose I don't know much about books, compared with you—”
“Oh, I was never much of a grind,” the other cut in hastily.
ref: 1911, Sunset, volume 27, page 440:
synonyms: swot
glosses: One who studies hard.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
examples: text: I've been on the grind all week, trying to make ends meet.
text: Everyone has to work, they mourned, and that takes its toll. They weren't glamourising the grind because they knew their effort didn't match the supposed rewards.
ref: 2023 September 20, Lucy Ford, “How pop-music's hustle culture anthem was made redundant”, in GQ:
glosses: Hustle; hard work.
Derived terms: daily grind
grind joint
grind line
nose grind
grind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: grinds
Etymology: From Faroese grind (“pilot-whale meat”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
Synonyms: grindadráp
grew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹuː/
ipa: /ɡɹuʊ̯/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Middle English grew, from Old English grēow (first and third person past tense of grōwan), from West Germanic *greu, from Northwest Germanic *grerō, from Proto-Germanic *gegrō (first and third person past tense of *grōaną), reduplication of *grōaną.
Senses: glosses: simple past of grow
glosses: past participle of grow
grew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹuː/
ipa: /ɡɹuʊ̯/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: grews
form: grewing
form: grewed
form: grewed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”).
grown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəʊn/
ipa: /ɡɹoʊn/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɐʉn/
note: some speakers
ipa: /ˈɡɹɐʉən/
rhymes: -əʊn
rhymes: (New Zealand, some speakers) -əʊən
homophone: groan stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From Middle English growen.
Morphologically grow + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of grow
grown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəʊn/
ipa: /ɡɹoʊn/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɐʉn/
note: some speakers
ipa: /ˈɡɹɐʉən/
rhymes: -əʊn
rhymes: (New Zealand, some speakers) -əʊən
homophone: groan stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more grown
form: most grown
Etymology: From Middle English growen.
Morphologically grow + -n.
Senses: examples: text: What once was a farm was grown with trees.
glosses: Covered by growth; overgrown.
glosses: Of a person: adult.
Synonyms: sense: adult
word: grown-ass
word: grown up
word: mature
word: full-grown
Derived terms: Empire-grown
full-grown
fully-grown
grass-grown
grownish
grown-up
grown-up-ness
grown-upness
half-grown
high-grown
homegrown
home-grown
ingrown
intergrown
lab-grown
liver-grown
lung-grown
moss-grown
mossgrown
pregrown
regrown
undergrown
ungrown
weedgrown
hang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hăng
ipa: /hæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: From hang sangwich, Irish colloquial pronunciation of ham sandwich.
Senses: glosses: Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
hang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hăng
ipa: /hæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”).
hang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hăng
ipa: /hæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: hangs
Etymology: Alteration of dang, itself a minced oath of damn.
Senses: examples: text: I don't give a hang.
text: They don't seem to care a hang about the consequences.
glosses: The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
hung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hang (except when referring to the method of execution; there, hanged is used instead)
examples: text: They fructify a barren, and render barren a very luxurious Soil; and, if you will believe them, they’ll tell you the Tree whereon Judas hung himſelf, and more than the Natives know themſelves, or ever ſaw in their own Country.
ref: 1731, John Taperell, A New Miscellany: Containing the Art of Conversation, and Several Other Subjects, page 6:
text: I am purſuaded, that if even Bradford himſelf, that day, had ventured to check the violence of the people, in any way that was not agreeable to them ; and had betrayed the leaſt partiality for the exciſe law ; or perhaps even a remiſſion of his zeal againſt it, he would have ſunk, in an inſtant, from his power, and they would have hung him on the firſt tree.
ref: 1795, Hugh Brackenridge, chapter VIII, in Incidents of the Insurrection in the Weſtern Parts of Pennſylvania In the Year 1794, volume I, Philadelphia: John M‘Culloch, page 55:
text: A MURDERER HUNG IN TIME SAVES NINE.
ref: 1884 April 12, Harper’s Weekly. […], volume XXVIII, number 1425, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 237:
glosses: simple past and past participle of hang (in any sense)
hung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: more hung
form: most hung
Senses: glosses: Suspended by hanging.
glosses: Having hanging additions or appendages.
topics: law
glosses: Of a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial.
examples: text: hung parliament
glosses: Of a legislature, lacking a majority political party.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.
qualifier: slightly vulgar
glosses: Having a large penis (often well hung).
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: sense: having a large penis
word: macrophallic
Derived terms: alderman hung in chains
axle-hung
behung
double-hung
horse-hung
hung beef
hung jury
hung like a donkey
hung like a horse
hung over
hung parliament
hung up
pre-hung
prehung
underhung
unhung
until the last dog is hung
well-hung
well hung
you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope
Related terms: hanged
have
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: strong form
ipa: /hæv/
note: weak form
ipa: /həv/
note: weak form
ipa: /əv/
note: weak form
ipa: /ə/
ipa: /hæf/
ipa: /hæv/
ipa: /heɪv/
homophone: halve stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æv
Forms: form: haves
Etymology: From have on (“to deceive”).
Senses: examples: text: They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
text: "Open your eyes" is the company's tagline and part of its mission is to wake us up to the area's history, to the fact that New Zealand's '100% pure' marketing is a bit of a have, as well as to share the encouraging conservation efforts under way.
ref: 2017 November 14, Joanna Davis, “Go with the flow in Abel Tasman National Park”, in stuff.co.nz:
glosses: A fraud or deception; something misleading.
had
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæd/
ipa: /hæt/
ipa: /həd/
ipa: /əd/
rhymes: -æd
Etymology: From Middle English hadde (preterite), yhad (past participle), from Old English hæfde (first and third person singular preterite), ġehæfd (past participle), from Proto-Germanic *habdaz, past and past participle stem of *habjaną (“to have”), equivalent to have + -ed. Cognate with Dutch had, German hatte, Swedish hade, Icelandic hafði.
Senses: examples: text: This morning I had an egg for breakfast.
text: A good time was had by all.
text: About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton,[…].
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: simple past and past participle of have
examples: text: I felt sure that I had seen him before.
text: When I'd (already) done some exercise, I had a cappuccino.
text: Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?
ref: 2011 April 15, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, London:
glosses: Used to form the past perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past.
raw_tags: followed by a past participle
examples: text: To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute[…].
ref: 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
text: Julius Cæsar had escaped death, if going to the Senate-house, that day wherein he was murthered by the Conspirators, he had read a memorial which was presented unto him.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: If all was good and fair we met, / This earth had been the Paradise / It never look’d to human eyes / Since our first Sun arose and set.
ref: 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, section 24:
text: CAESAR (smiling). Of course I had rather you stayed.
ref: 1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:
glosses: As past subjunctive: would have.
Derived terms: chad
had best
had better
unhad
heard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːd/
ipa: /hɔːd/
ipa: /ˈhɝd/
ipa: /hiːɹd/
ipa: /hɛrd/
ipa: /hærd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: herd
Forms: form: 'eard
form: heerd
form: hoid
form: yeard
form: yerd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hear
heard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːd/
ipa: /hɔːd/
ipa: /ˈhɝd/
ipa: /hiːɹd/
ipa: /hɛrd/
ipa: /hærd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: herd
Forms: form: 'eard
form: heerd
form: hoid
form: yeard
form: yerd
Senses: examples: text: [T]he following are some examples of the types of heard information that can be used to distinguish some of the languages in Singapore, namely Malay and Singapore English.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:
glosses: That has been perceived aurally.
Derived terms: underheard
unheard
heard
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːd/
ipa: /hɔːd/
ipa: /ˈhɝd/
ipa: /hiːɹd/
ipa: /hɛrd/
ipa: /hærd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: herd
Forms: form: 'eard
form: heerd
form: hoid
form: yeard
form: yerd
Senses: glosses: I understand; gotcha.
heard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːd/
ipa: /hɔːd/
ipa: /ˈhɝd/
ipa: /hiːɹd/
ipa: /hɛrd/
ipa: /hærd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: herd
Forms: form: heards
Senses: examples: text: Their power is […] to […] unfructify Trees, parch and wither Grasse and Hearbes; bring scabs and diseases upon men, and murraine and rot upon Heards and Flockes […]
ref: 1649, Edmund William Ashbee, Occasional Fac-simile Reprints of Rare English Tracts, page 112:
glosses: Obsolete form of herd.
sandbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænd.bɒks/
ipa: /ˈsæn(d).bɑks/
Forms: form: sandboxes
form: sand box
form: sand-box
Etymology: From sand + box.
Senses: examples: text: Her children were playing in the sandbox.
synonyms: sandpit
glosses: A children's play area consisting of a box filled with sand.
glosses: A box filled with sand that is shaped to form a mould for metal casting.
glosses: A container for sand or pounce, used historically before blotting paper.
glosses: An animal's litter box.
examples: text: For the most part they were small standard gauge 0-6-0 side tanks of the type illustrated, with long tapered chimneys and an unusual feature for the Continent in the shape of domeless boilers, the protuberance just behind the chimney being a sandbox.
ref: 1941 August, “Notes and News: The Swiss South Eastern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 376:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs onto the rails in front of the driving wheels, to prevent slipping.
examples: text: Running a program in a sandbox can prevent it from doing any damage to the system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available.
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: usually "The Sandbox"
glosses: The Middle East.
Synonyms: sense: play enclosure with sand
word: sandpit:
Derived terms: sandbox game
sandbox tree
Related terms: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: sand dome
sandbox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænd.bɒks/
ipa: /ˈsæn(d).bɑks/
Forms: form: sandboxes
form: sandboxing
form: sandboxed
form: sandboxed
form: sand box
form: sand-box
Etymology: From sand + box.
Senses: examples: text: Although you can use standard JavaScript and AJAX in sandboxed iframe pages to your heart's content, the Facebook Platform places restrictions over the amount of scripting capabilities you can add to the more tightly integrated FBML pages.
ref: 2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To restrict (a program, etc.) by placing it in a sandbox.
examples: text: Their team has been sandboxing some ideas recently.
glosses: To brainstorm; to prototype.
Derived terms: unsandboxed
hide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hīd
ipa: /haɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: hides
form: hyde
Etymology: From Middle English hyde, from Old English hȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *kéw(H)tis (“skin, hide”) (compare Latin cutis (“skin, rind, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew(H)- (“to cover”), ultimately the same root as the above etymology. More at sky.
Cognates
See also West Frisian hûd, Dutch huid, German Haut, Welsh cwd (“scrotum”), Latin cutis (“skin”), Lithuanian kutys (“purse, money-belt”), Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “hollow vessel”), σκῦτος (skûtos, “cover, hide”).
Senses: synonyms: pelt
skin
glosses: The skin of an animal.
examples: text: O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: The human skin.
examples: text: to save his own hide
text: better watch his hide
text: The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of money and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide—as I think he will.
ref: 1957, Ayn Rand, Francisco d'Anconia's speech in Atlas Shrugged
coordinate_terms: ass
glosses: One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
examples: text: A Forest Trail and wild life hides lie 2 miles to the north-east. Blue hares, deer, wild geese, herons and duck can be discreetly observed from the hides.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 382, about Tighnabruaich:
glosses: (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
examples: text: In the early days of American settlement, hides were built into houses to provide protection from the Indians and to conceal merchandise from the threat of taxation or thievery.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 125:
topics: architecture
glosses: A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway.
glosses: A covered structure to which a pet animal can retreat, as is recommended for snakes.
Derived terms: bird hide
boarhide
bring one's own hide to market
calfhide
carry one's own hide to market
chap someone's hide
cowhide
damn your hide
dragonhide
greenhide
green hide
green-hide
have someone's hide
hidage
hide beetle
hidebound
hide-bound
hideless
hideworker
hideworking
hidy
hoghide
horsehide
moosehide
oxhide
rawhide
take one's own hide to market
tan someone's hide
hide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hīd
ipa: /haɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: hides
form: hiding
form: hided
form: hided
form: hyde
Etymology: From Middle English hyde, from Old English hȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *kéw(H)tis (“skin, hide”) (compare Latin cutis (“skin, rind, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew(H)- (“to cover”), ultimately the same root as the above etymology. More at sky.
Cognates
See also West Frisian hûd, Dutch huid, German Haut, Welsh cwd (“scrotum”), Latin cutis (“skin”), Lithuanian kutys (“purse, money-belt”), Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “hollow vessel”), σκῦτος (skûtos, “cover, hide”).
Senses: examples: text: He ran last week, and he was hided, and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.
ref: 1891, Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown, Riding:
glosses: To beat with a whip made from hide.
hide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hīd
ipa: /haɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: hides
form: hyde
Etymology: From Middle English hide, from Old English hīd, hȳd, hīġed, hīġid (“a measure of land”), for earlier *hīwid (“the amount of land needed to support one family”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *hīwaz, *hīwō (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie with, store, be familiar”). Related to Old English hīwisc (“hide of land, household”), Old English hīwan (“members of a family, household”). More at hewe, hind.
Senses: examples: text: The exact size of hides varied with soil quality, but each one generally encompassed 24 to 26 hectares.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 488:
synonyms: carucate
glosses: A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents.
Hypernyms: sense: 100 hides
word: barony
Hyponyms: alt: 1⁄4 hide
word: virgate
alt: 1⁄8 hide
word: oxgang
alt: 1⁄16 hide
word: nook
word: farundel
Derived terms: hidate
hidation
hid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hĭd
ipa: /hɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past of hide
examples: text: Foꝛ nothing is ſecret, that ſhall not be made manifeſt: neither any thing hid, that ſhall not be knowen, and come abꝛoad.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 8:17:
text: Oh! here it is. I was sure it could not be far off; but I had put my huswife upon it, you see, without being aware, and so it was quite hid, but I had it in my hand so very lately that I was almost sure it must be on the table.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 6:
text: To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
ref: 1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English, volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490:
glosses: past participle of hide
hit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish hitte (“to find”), Faroese, Icelandic, Swedish hitta (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk hitta, hitte (“to meet; to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).
Senses: examples: text: The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
glosses: Very successful.
hit
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: hit
form: hitself
form: hits
Etymology: From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it; also note 'it.
Senses: examples: text: But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
ref: 1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, volume 130:
text: Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.
ref: 1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:
glosses: It.
Derived terms: hits
hitself
hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hōld
ipa: /həʊld/
ipa: [həʊɫd]
ipa: /hæd/
ipa: /haʊɫd/
enpr: hōld
ipa: /hoʊld/
ipa: [hoəɫd]
ipa: [hoːɫd]
homophone: holed
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: holds
Etymology: Alteration (due to hold) of hole. Cognate with Dutch hol (“hole, cave, den, cavity, cargo hold”), Dutch holte (“cavity, hollow, den”).
Senses: examples: text: We watched our luggage being loaded into the hold of the plane.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
Derived terms: forehold
hold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hōld
ipa: /həʊld/
ipa: [həʊɫd]
ipa: /hæd/
ipa: /haʊɫd/
enpr: hōld
ipa: /hoʊld/
ipa: [hoəɫd]
ipa: [hoːɫd]
homophone: holed
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: more hold
form: most hold
Etymology: From Middle English hold, holde, from Old English hold (“gracious, friendly, kind”), from Proto-West Germanic *holþ, from Proto-Germanic *hulþaz (“favourable, gracious, loyal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to tend, incline, bend, tip”).
Cognate with German hold (“gracious, friendly, sympathetic, grateful”), Danish and Swedish huld (“fair, kindly, gracious”), Icelandic hollur (“faithful, dedicated, loyal”), German Huld (“grace, favour”).
Senses: examples: text: at the proper moment, I stepped forward with a gay heart and a hold one
ref: 1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Passages from a Relinquished Work”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.