cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
abyssus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abyssi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abyssus.
Senses: examples: text: He was, when there were yet no Abyssi, no depths, nor no mountaines vpon the Earth, nor the Earth it selfe […]
ref: 1613 November 5, Lancelot Andrewes, “A Sermon Preached before the King’s Maiestie, at White-hall […]”, in XCVI. sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrevves […], published 1629, page 935:
glosses: Archaic form of abyss.
rip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭp
ipa: /ɹɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: rips
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a variant of rep (“reprobate”).
Senses: glosses: A worthless horse; a nag.
examples: text: Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.
ref: 1922, The Saturday Review, volume 133, page 359:
text: If there were, in clubs and places where men talk, unpleasant rumours as to himself he preferred it to be thought that he was the rip, not his wife the strumpet.
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 76:
glosses: An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.
rip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭp
ipa: /ɹɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: rips
Senses: glosses: A handful of unthreshed grain.
rip
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭp
ipa: /ɹɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Senses: examples: text: lmfao rip your dms
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of RIP.
buffet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͝o'fā
enpr: bŭ'fā
ipa: /ˈbʊ.feɪ/
ipa: /ˈbʌ.feɪ/
enpr: bəfā'
ipa: /bəˈfeɪ/
ipa: /bʌˈfeɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /bəˈfe/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbʊf.e/
rhymes: (US) -eɪ
Forms: form: buffets
form: beaufet
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet.
Senses: examples: text: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
synonyms: word: sideboard
word: smorgasbord
word: cupboard
glosses: A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
examples: text: We'll be serving supper buffet style.
text: "We got a big buffet coming up soon. Bacon, eggs, fresh fruit you wouldn't believe."
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 312:
synonyms: buffet meal
smorgasbord
glosses: Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
glosses: A small low stool; a hassock.
Derived terms: autobuffet
buffet bowling
buffet car
buffeteria
finger buffet
fork buffet
scatter buffet
tea buffet
buffet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͝o'fā
enpr: bŭ'fā
ipa: /ˈbʊ.feɪ/
ipa: /ˈbʌ.feɪ/
enpr: bəfā'
ipa: /bəˈfeɪ/
ipa: /bʌˈfeɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /bəˈfe/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbʊf.e/
rhymes: (US) -eɪ
enpr: bŭfʹĭt
ipa: /ˈbʌf.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈbʌf.ət/
enpr: bo͝o'fā
enpr: bŭ'fā
ipa: /ˈbʊ.feɪ/
ipa: /ˈbʌ.feɪ/
enpr: bəfā'
ipa: /bəˈfeɪ/
ipa: /bʌˈfeɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /bəˈfe/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbʊf.e/
rhymes: (US) -eɪ
Forms: form: buffets
Etymology: From Middle English buffet (“buffet”), from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen (“to jostle, to hustle”).
Senses: examples: text: On his cheek a buffet fell.
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: October 30, 1795, Edmund Burke, letter to Lord Auckland
those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay
text: Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII and XIV:
synonyms: word: blow
word: collision
english: by any solid object
translation: by any solid object
word: cuff
english: with the hand
translation: with the hand
glosses: A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
examples: text: The aircraft configuration was such that there was little or no warning of the stall onset. The inboard slats were extended, and therefore, the flow separation from the stall would be limited to the outboard segment of the left wing and would not be felt by the left horizontal stabilizer. There would be little or no buffet. The DFDR also indicated that there was some turbulence, which could have masked any aerodynamic buffeting. Since the roll to the left began at V₂ + 6 and since the pilots were aware that V₂ was well above the aircraft's stall speed, they probably did not suspect that the roll to the left indicated a stall. In fact, the roll probably confused them, especially since the stickshaker had not activated.
ref: 1979 December 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “Aircraft and Flightcrew Performance”, in Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc., DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, May 25, 1979, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2022, page 54:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
Derived terms: pluck-buffet
Farsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: färʹsē
ipa: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)si/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)si
Forms: form: Parsee
form: Parsi
Etymology: Apparently first used widely in English in the late 1960s or early 1970s. From Persian فارسی (fârsi), meaning "relating to Fars", the Arabicized form of the name of the province of Pars (Early New Persian پَارْس (pārs)) which was adopted in Iran following the Arab conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The sense for the hijra argot is from Hindi फ़ारसी (fārsī) from the same word.
Senses: examples: text: That the Farsi or Persian is not a language derived from the Pehlevi, but a collateral and independent tongue, seems to be sufficiently certain.
ref: 1820, William Erskine, “On the sacred books and religion of the Parsis”, in Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, volume II, page 315:
text: In July 1984, Radio Iran Toilers began broadcasting in Farsi from Afghanistan; by the end of 1988 it was transmitting twenty-one hours a week.
ref: 1991, Richard Felix Staar, Foreign Policies of the Soviet Union, page 91:
text: The method of writing Farsi is logical, although reading can be trickier, as one has to guess at the unwritten consonants of unfamiliar words.
ref: 1999, Maria O'Shea, Culture shock! Iran, page 75:
text: We chatted away in Farsi.
ref: 2001, Dan Baumann, Imprisoned in Iran: Love's Victory Over Fear, page 20:
text: For instance, in Farsi pošt means 'back' (noun) as in pošt=am dard mikonad 'my back hurts' […]
ref: 2009, Vit Bubenik, "The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian", page 97 in Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 305
glosses: Synonym of Persian (“The Persian language”).
synonyms: word: Persian
extra: The Persian language
glosses: Iranian Persian, as opposed to Dari (Afghan Persian) and Tajik (Tajik Persian)
Farsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: färʹsē
ipa: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)si/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)si
Forms: form: Parsee
form: Parsi
Etymology: Apparently first used widely in English in the late 1960s or early 1970s. From Persian فارسی (fârsi), meaning "relating to Fars", the Arabicized form of the name of the province of Pars (Early New Persian پَارْس (pārs)) which was adopted in Iran following the Arab conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The sense for the hijra argot is from Hindi फ़ारसी (fārsī) from the same word.
Senses: glosses: An argot of hijras, or catamites, in North India and Pakistan.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Persian
Derived terms: Hijra Farsi
Related terms: Persia
Farsi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: färʹsē
ipa: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)si/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)si
Forms: form: more Farsi
form: most Farsi
form: Parsee
form: Parsi
Etymology: Apparently first used widely in English in the late 1960s or early 1970s. From Persian فارسی (fârsi), meaning "relating to Fars", the Arabicized form of the name of the province of Pars (Early New Persian پَارْس (pārs)) which was adopted in Iran following the Arab conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The sense for the hijra argot is from Hindi फ़ारसी (fārsī) from the same word.
Senses: glosses: Persian
influenza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.fluˈɛn.zə/
rhymes: -ɛnzə
Forms: form: influenzas
form: influenze
Etymology: From Italian influenza (“influence”), from Latin influentia. Doublet of influence.
Senses: examples: text: In early 1919 the Board also issued a film, Dr Wise on Influenza, in which a character called 'Brown' spreads the disease by enacting poor behaviours.
This did address transport - by boarding a crowded omnibus, "Brown may be scattering germs throughout the carriage and giving influenza to a number of people".
ref: 2020 April 8, Dr David Turner, “How railway staff were conduits and victims of a pandemic”, in Rail, page 32:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
Synonyms: flu
grippe
grip
Derived terms: affluenza
Asian influenza
avian influenza
Hong Kong influenza
influenzal
influenzalike
influenzavirus
Mexican influenza
parainfluenza
postinfluenza
Spanish influenza
superinfluenza
swine influenza
Related terms: affluence
affluent
circumfluence
circumfluent
circumfluous
confluence
confluent
conflux
defluent
defluxion
diffluence
diffluent
difluence
difluent
effluent
flu
fluctuance
fluctuant
fluctuate
fluctuation
fluctuous
fluency
fluent
fluid
fluidity
flume
flumen
fluor
fluorian
fluoric
fluoride
fluorinate
fluorination
fluorine
fluorite
fluvial
fluviality
flux
fluxion
influence
influent
influx
mellifluous
profluence
profluent
refluence
refluency
refluent
superfluous
transfluence
transfluent
miraculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/
ipa: /mɪˈɹæk.jə.ləs/
ipa: /məˈɹæk.jə.ləs/
Forms: form: more miraculous
form: most miraculous
Etymology: From Middle French miraculeux. Displaced native Old English wundorlīċ.
Senses: glosses: By supernatural or uncommon causes, e.g. by a god; that cannot be explained in terms of normal events.
examples: text: If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.
ref: 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Very surprising; amazing.
Derived terms: mirabolic
miraculous berry
miraculous fruit
miraculously
miraculousness
nonmiraculous
pseudomiraculous
quasimiraculous
unmiraculous
Related terms: miracle
miracle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/
ipa: [ˈmɪɹ.ə.kl̩]
ipa: /ˈmiɹ.ə.kəl/
ipa: [ˈmiɹ.ə.kl̩]
note: Indic
ipa: /mɪˈra.kl̩/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɪr.ə.kl̩/
Forms: form: miracles
form: miracling
form: miracled
form: miracled
Etymology: From Middle English miracle, from Old French miracle, from Latin mīrāculum (“object of wonder”), from mīror (“to wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meyh₂- (“to smile, to be astonished”). Doublet of milagro and miraculum. Partially displaced native wonder, from Old English wundor (“miracle, wonder”).
Senses: examples: text: When a patient declares that he has been "miracled," the other pilgrims are apt to rush to him (or her) and ask details; this is not permitted; the miracled invalid is borne or carted away to the Bureau of Medical Certification […]
ref: 1925, The Medical Critic and Guide, volume 25, page 103:
text: Deleuze and Guattari are right in miracling fleas into the bestiary, but it is already rich enough to do without them.
ref: 1998, Gary Genosko, Undisciplined Theory, page 117:
text: They think I've miracled the dogs, as the Eucharist miracled my mother. That I, Bonne, am pulsing with holy spirit.
ref: 2001, Susann Cokal, Mirabilis, page 33:
text: I did not shake as vigorously as you do when there is ill will Nadia, however I miracled the onlooker into a path of reflection, which was very dangerous, as you are noticing that reflection of self(s) before you brings to you love or anger.
ref: 2007, Nadia Khalil Bradley, “I Am Here”, in Origins of Truth: Words That Will Awaken You to the Truth of Your Heart, Pasadena, Calif.: Three Corners Press, →ISBN, part 2 (The Book of Christ), page 377:
glosses: To affect by a miracle; to work a miracle upon.
corpse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːps/
ipa: /koɹps/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹps]
ipa: /koːps/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ps
note: rhotic
ipa: /kɔːɹps/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /kɔːps/
Forms: form: corpses
form: corps
form: corse
Etymology: From Middle English, from earlier corse, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”).
Displaced native English likam and English lich. The ⟨p⟩ was inserted due to the original Latin spelling. Doublet of corps and corpus, and distantly of riff. The verb sense derives from the notion of being unable to control laughter while acting as dead body.
Senses: examples: text: I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, / And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, / I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, […]
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
glosses: A dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal.
examples: text: Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
ref: 1885, Alexander Wynter Blyth, Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, volume I, New York: William Wood and Co., page 430:
text: Near Smeinogorsk an octagonal tumulus has been found containing the corpse of a horse near a rectangular one with a human corpse, both within stone circles.
ref: 1898, Friedrich Ratzel, The History of Mankind, volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., page 325:
text: Nelson and I landed next to the half rotted corpse of a horse full of maggots.
ref: 2005, J. C. Arlington, A Red Horse Rode Out, West Conshohoken, PA: Infinity Publishing, page 91:
glosses: The dead body of any animal with flesh; the dead body of a vertebrate; a carcass.
synonyms: word: bod
word: body
word: flesh
word: likam
word: quarrons
word: soma
glosses: A human body in general, whether living or dead.
Synonyms: word: anatomy
word: body
word: cadaver
word: carcass
word: carrion
word: corpse
word: corse
word: DB
word: dog meat
word: dust
word: lich
topics: fiction
literature
publishing
media
fantasy
word: offal
word: relics
word: reliquiae
word: remains
word: stiff
word: worm food
Hyponyms: word: ashes
word: corpsicle
word: cremains
word: floater
word: fossil
word: mummy
word: whalefall
Meronyms: word: bone
word: skeleton
Derived terms: corpse camp
corpse camper
corpse candle
corpse flower
corpsefucker
corpse-gate
corpsehood
corpse hounds
corpseless
corpselike
corpse paint
corpsepaint
corpse plant
corpse pose
corpse powder
corpser
corpse reviver
corpse road
corpse run
corpse-to-be
corpsey
corpsicle
corpsy
exquisite corpse
megacorpse
stinking corpse lily
the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral
walking corpse syndrome
Related terms: word: corporate
word: corporation
word: corporeal
word: corps
word: corpulent
word: corpus
word: ghost
word: manes
word: shade
word: spirit
word: undead
word: vampire
word: zombie
word: cemetery
word: death
word: interment
corpse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːps/
ipa: /koɹps/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹps]
ipa: /koːps/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ps
note: rhotic
ipa: /kɔːɹps/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /kɔːps/
Forms: form: corpses
form: corpsing
form: corpsed
form: corpsed
form: corps
form: corse
Etymology: From Middle English, from earlier corse, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”).
Displaced native English likam and English lich. The ⟨p⟩ was inserted due to the original Latin spelling. Doublet of corps and corpus, and distantly of riff. The verb sense derives from the notion of being unable to control laughter while acting as dead body.
Senses: examples: text: The rest of the day and the week were spent blocking and learning the lines. The only drama was the predictable one of being ticked off for corpsing. Rupert was quite as bad as me when it came to giggling and the tea-party scene which took place between Rupert, David Parfitt, Piers Flint-Shipman and I, was too much.
ref: 1989, Kenneth Branagh, Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 94:
text: There were still moments when she would halt suddenly, like an actor stranded in the middle of the stage, lines forgotten, staring goggle-eyed and making fish-mouths...Corpsing: that was the word.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
text: Poor Damian corpsed and almost forgot his next lines. The director gave him a terrific lecture, and Alan caught hell from stage management.
ref: 1993, Bevan Amberhill, The Bloody Man, Mercury Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To laugh uncontrollably during a performance.
raw_tags: of an actor
glosses: To cause another actor to do this.
raw_tags: of an actor
dung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
text: Audio stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: dungs
Etymology: From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).
Senses: examples: text: Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool[…]
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 129:
text: Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Malachi 2:3:
text: The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.
ref: 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496:
glosses: Manure; animal excrement.
glosses: A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: bedung
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: bulldung
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: cowdung
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: cow-dung
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: cow dung
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: devil's dung
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dingle
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dingy
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dungball
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dung beetle
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dunger
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dung fly
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dungfly
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dung fork
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dungfork
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dung funnel
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dung heap
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dungheap
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dunghill
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dunghole
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dung-hunter
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dunglike
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dungmere
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dungmixen
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dung moss
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dungstead
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dungy
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: dungyard
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: horsedung
sense: terms derived from dung (noun)
word: tumbledung
dung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
text: Audio stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: dungs
form: dunging
form: dunged
form: dunged
Etymology: From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).
Senses: examples: text: a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.
ref: 1993, Henry Leach, Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections:
glosses: To fertilize with dung.
qualifier: calico printing
glosses: To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
examples: text: […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
ref: 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:
glosses: To release dung: to defecate.
Synonyms: sense: to shit
word: defecate
dung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
text: Audio stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: See ding
Senses: glosses: past participle of ding
dung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
text: Audio stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: dungs
form: dunging
form: dunged
form: dunged
Etymology: unknown
Senses: glosses: To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
dung
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
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Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”).
Related terms: dung tag
doo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: do͞o
ipa: /duː/
enpr: do͞o
ipa: /du/
ipa: /dʉː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: do
homophone: dew
homophone: due (yod-dropping)
Etymology: 1950s, from child speak.
Senses: synonyms: BM
doo-doo
doody
poo
poo-poo
poop
glosses: feces, particularly that of a dog.
doo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: do͞o
ipa: /duː/
enpr: do͞o
ipa: /du/
ipa: /dʉː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: do
homophone: dew
homophone: due (yod-dropping)
Senses: examples: text: (Ever feel like you've just entered... The Twilight Zone? Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo....)
ref: 1995, Phil Farrand, The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers: Volume 2:
text: […] the bloke who sang about coloured girls going 'doo de doo de doo doo d'de doo de doo de doo' had once had this thing with the guy who produced the debut albums by the Stooges and Patti Smith.
ref: 2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music, page 272:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Used as a scat word in singing.
Related terms: doo-wop
doo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: do͞o
ipa: /duː/
enpr: do͞o
ipa: /du/
ipa: /dʉː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: do
homophone: dew
homophone: due (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: doos
Etymology: Clipping of Skidoo.
Senses: examples: text: If you know what it means to be a “fidlet” going for a “jolly” in your “doo”, then you are part of an exclusive club that speaks colloquial Antarctic English.
ref: 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: A snowmobile.
Derived terms: cock-a-doodle-doo
dog-doo
doo-dad
doo-hickey
doo wop
doo-wopper
doo-woppy
fuck-a-doodle-doo
in deep doo-doo
whoop de doo
whoop-de-doo
whoopdee doo
whoop-dee-doo
whoop dee doo
whoopee doo
whoopee-doo
whoopy doo
whoopy-doo
woopty doo
woopy doo
woopy-doo
yaba daba doo
yabba dabba doo
yabba-dabba-doo
zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Related terms: king of the doos
OFries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Old Frisian.
phantasmophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Based on the Ancient Greek roots φάντασμα (phántasma, “ghost”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: glosses: An abnormal or irrational fear of ghosts and phantoms.
Related terms: phantasmophobic
clairvoyant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌklɛəˈvɔɪ.ənt/
ipa: /ˌklɛɹˈvɔɪ.ənt/
rhymes: -ɔɪ.ənt
Forms: form: more clairvoyant
form: most clairvoyant
Etymology: From French clairvoyant, from clair (“clear”) + voyant (“seeing”), present participle of voir (“see”).
Senses: examples: text: Then there is the very large class of casual clairvoyant visions which have no traceable cause — which are apparently quite meaningless, and have no recognizable relation to any events known to the seer.
ref: 1899, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Clairvoyance^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Clairvoyance_(Leadbeater)/Chapter_6):
glosses: Of, relating to, or having clairvoyance.
glosses: Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
glosses: Able to foresee the future.
examples: text: …his vision of the future so far-reaching and clairvoyant as that of many who have lived before him and since…
ref: 1895, John Ames Mitchell (ed.), Aristopi^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Aristopia_(1895).pdf/8):
glosses: Having great insight; sagacious.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.
Derived terms: clairvoyantly
nonclairvoyant
semiclairvoyant
Related terms: clairvoyance
clairvoyancy
clairvoyee
visionary
clairvoyant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌklɛəˈvɔɪ.ənt/
ipa: /ˌklɛɹˈvɔɪ.ənt/
rhymes: -ɔɪ.ənt
Forms: form: clairvoyants
Etymology: From French clairvoyant, from clair (“clear”) + voyant (“seeing”), present participle of voir (“see”).
Senses: glosses: A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses
glosses: A person able to foresee the future
Synonyms: sense: person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses
word: medium
sense: person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses
word: mystic
sense: person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses
word: seer
sense: person able to foresee the future
word: fortune teller
Derived terms: clairvoyante
apian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪpi.ən/
Forms: form: more apian
form: most apian
Etymology: 19th century, from Latin apiānus, from apis (“bee”).
Senses: examples: text: In fact, apian, formican, vespal, and termital government is not a monarchy, but a pure democracy. The queens of ants, bees, wasps, and termites wear the crown of maternity — no other.
ref: 1904, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 108, page 559:
glosses: Relating to bees.
Synonyms: beelike
beely
apian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪpi.ən/
Forms: form: apians
Etymology: 19th century, from Latin apiānus, from apis (“bee”).
Senses: examples: text: The largest of all the apians is the humble-bee, or humming-bee (Bombus).
ref: 1858, Friedrich Schoedler, The Book of Nature: An Elementary Introduction to the Sciences:
text: Whether in the world of apians or Homo sapiens, this highly concentrated super-food is indeed fit for a queen.
ref: 1998, Robert C. Atkins, Dr. Atkins' Vita-nutrient Solution: Nature's Answers to Drugs, page 243:
glosses: A bee.
pipis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipi
treble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛbəl/
rhymes: -ɛbəl
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.
Senses: examples: text: He put his cigar in his mouth, and, with his right hand, up in the treble keys, he began to play, in octaves, the melody of a song called "The Kinkajou," which, somewhat notably, had shifted into and ostensibly out of popularity before he was born.
ref: 1957, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:
synonyms: high-pitched
strident
antonyms: deep
glosses: High in pitch.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
examples: text: A lofty tower, and strong on every side / With treble walls.
ref: 1697, John Dryden, chapter 6, in The Aeneid by Virgil:
text: Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is sixty years of age, or upwards, and under four-score, to be entitled to receive treble his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and twice as much more.
ref: 1806, The Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine and Review; or, A Treasury of Divine and Useful Knowledge, volume X, London: […] J. G. Barnard, […], and sold by F[rancis,] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], page 140:
text: The treble walls and ditches on the land side … diminish the extent of ground covered with houses.
ref: 1837 Penny Cyclopedia, vol. 7, s.v. "Constantinople"
synonyms: word: tern
word: ternary
word: threefold
word: treble
word: triadic
word: trinary
word: trine
word: triple
glosses: Threefold, triple.
Derived terms: treble C
treble clef
treble-heading
treble hook
treble recorder
treble staff
treble
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛbəl/
rhymes: -ɛbəl
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.
Senses: examples: text: Whose deserts might buy him treble
ref: 1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
synonyms: word: thrice
word: threefold
word: thrice
word: thricely
word: threefold
word: treble
word: trebly
word: triply
glosses: Trebly; triply.
treble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛbəl/
rhymes: -ɛbəl
Forms: form: trebles
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.
Senses: examples: text: He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.
ref: 1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:
text: The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.
ref: 1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:
text: The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.
ref: 2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
glosses: The highest tuned in a ring of bells.
glosses: Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
glosses: A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
glosses: A drink with three portions of alcohol; a triple
topics: darts
games
glosses: Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
examples: text: As for City, a domestic treble is off the cards and they must haul themselves off the floor quickly with the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie against Barcelona on Wednesday.
ref: 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
A win in the top league, top national cup and top continental cup in the same season.
treble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛbəl/
rhymes: -ɛbəl
Forms: form: trebles
form: trebling
form: trebled
form: trebled
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.
Senses: examples: text: There is increasing evidence that cannabis use can act as a risk factor for the development of bipolar as well as psychotic disorders. A recent systematic review by Gibbs and colleagues identified several studies supporting a link between cannabis use and subsequent relapse of manic symptoms. This review also included a meta-analysis of two large prospective cohort studies, which found that cannabis use almost trebled the risk of new-onset subthreshold manic symptoms after adjusting for potential confounding factors.
ref: 2018 April 26, Tobias A Rowland, Steven Marwaha, “Epidemiology and risk factors for bipolar disorder”, in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, volume 8, number 9, →DOI, pages 251–269:
text: German climate minister says speed of carbon cuts needs to be trebled [title]
ref: 2022 January 11, Kate Connolly, “German climate minister says speed of carbon cuts needs to be trebled”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: triple
glosses: To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
examples: text: I am more ſerious then my cuſtome; you
Muſt be ſo too, if heed me: which to do
Trebbles thee o're.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 8:
glosses: To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
synonyms: keen
screech
shrill
glosses: To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
examples: text: He outrageously / (When I accused him) trebled his reply.
ref: 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Hermes:
glosses: To utter in a treble key; to whine.
Synonyms: word: treble
word: triple
word: triplicate
Hypernyms: word: multiply
treble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛbəl/
rhymes: -ɛbəl
Forms: form: trebles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tribble (“frame for drying paper”).
cattleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattlemen
Etymology: From cattle + man.
Senses: glosses: A man who raises or tends cattle, as:
A cattle rancher.
glosses: A man who raises or tends cattle, as:
A cowboy.
coordinate_terms: cowhand
cowperson
cowman
herdsman
boar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bô
ipa: /bɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: bôr
ipa: /boɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: bōr
ipa: /bo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /boə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: bore
homophone: Bohr
homophone: boor (pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: boars
form: boar
Etymology: From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.
Senses: examples: text: And drivers on local roads have encountered traveling boars, which can run at up to 30 miles an hour, according to one local resident, who said a friend’s car collided with a 132-pound animal, totaling the vehicle, as well as killing the boar.
ref: 2024 August 24, Stephen Castle, “The Loch Ness Monster Has Company in the Neighborhood: Wild Boars”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
examples: text: "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone.
ref: 2000 May 24, Jon Nordheimer, “Hunting for Pigs, And Florida's Past”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A male pig.
glosses: A male boar (sense 1).
glosses: A male bear.
glosses: A male guinea pig.
Coordinate terms: sow
Derived terms: barling
boarfish
boarhide
boarhound
boarish
boarlike
boar-spear
boar taint
hedgy-boar
herd boar
useless as tits on a boar hog
wereboar
wild boar
Related terms: hog
pig
swine
rival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪvəl/
rhymes: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: rivals
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”).
Senses: examples: text: Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
text: Every day is like survival / You're my lover, not my rival
ref: 1983, “Karma Chameleon”, in Colour by Numbers, performed by Culture Club:
text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
glosses: A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
examples: text: As a social historian, he has no rival.
glosses: Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
examples: text: If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
Hyponyms: rivaless
Derived terms: rivaless
rivalry
archrival
arch-rival
Related terms: rivulet
rival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪvəl/
rhymes: -aɪvəl
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”).
Senses: examples: text: rival lovers
text: rival claims or pretensions
text: The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
Derived terms: rivalrous
rival
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪvəl/
rhymes: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: rivals
form: rivaling
form: rivalling
form: rivaled
form: rivaled
form: rivalled
form: rivalled
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”).
Senses: examples: text: to rival somebody in love
glosses: To oppose or compete with.
examples: text: But the Waverley is still the best-placed station of any British city, and gives the arriving stranger a first impression rivalled in Europe only by the exclusively watery station approach at Venice.
ref: 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:
text: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
examples: text: to rival thunder in its rapid course
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
guide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gīd
ipa: /ɡaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: guides
form: guiding
form: guided
form: guided
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: guide
form: guide
form: guided
form: guide
form: guidest
form: guided
form: guidedst
form: guides
form: guideth
form: guided
form: guide
form: guided
form: guide
form: guided
form: guide
form: -
form: guiding
form: guided
Etymology: From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Senses: examples: text: And that you'd guide me to your Soueraignes Court,
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Kolyat: I brought a prayer book, Commander. Would you care to join me?
Kolyat: Kalahira, this one's heart is pure, but beset by wickedness and contention.
Shepard: Guide this one to where the traveler never tires, the lover never leaves, the hungry never starve.
Shepard: Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
glosses: To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
examples: text: A good man sheweth fauour and lendeth: he will guide his affaires with discretion.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 112:5:
glosses: To exert control or influence over someone or something.
glosses: To supervise the education or training of someone.
glosses: To act as a guide.
Derived terms: autoguide
beguide
foreguide
guidable
guidably
guidage
guidee
guider
guiding
guiding light
guiding star
misguide
trench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: trenches
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche. Doublet of tranche and traunch. Possible doublet of English: truncate
Senses: examples: text: The trenches for installing the underground cables were dug with a trencher.
text: The milling action of the bucket line enables the trencher to cut through difficult materials, such as stone rubble and brick filling, and to leave a good trench with clean side walls.
ref: 1956 January, “New Permanent Way Equipment on British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:
text: Figure 114 shows how pegs driven into the bottom of a foundation trench to establish a horizontal level for the concreter to work to, can be levelled with a boning rod held upright on the pages at either end of the trench.
ref: 1981, Peter Brett, Carpentry and Joinery for Building Craft Students, →ISBN:
glosses: A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
examples: text: The soldiers in the trenches rely on logistical support.
text: Following in the tank's wake, the cameliers reached the first line of Turkish trenches, where they confronted a handful of Ottoman soldiers too wounded to retreat.
ref: 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 331:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
examples: text: I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench.
ref: 1999, April 24, Xiphias Gladius, "Re: trenchcoat mafia", ne.general.selected, Usenet
text: A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything.
ref: 2007, Nina Garcia, The Little Black Book of Style, HarperCollins, as excerpted in Elle, October, page 138
glosses: A trench coat.
Hyponyms: fire trench
Java Trench
Mariana Trench
oceanic trench
slit trench
stench trench
Sunda Trench
Tonga Trench
Derived terms: entrench
entrenching tool
in the trenches
micro trenching
mini-trench
palisade trench
trench art
trench binoculars
trench boot
trench broom
trench club
trench coat
trench cut
trench derby
trench dress
trench effect
trencher
trench fever
trench foot
trench knife
trench mentality
trench mortar
trench mouth
trench plate
trench-plough
trench-plow
trench stick
trench sweeper
trench warfare
Related terms: tranche
ditch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: ditches
form: ditching
form: ditched
form: ditched
Etymology: From Middle English dich, from Old English dīċ (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“dam”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin fīgō (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.
Senses: examples: text: Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.
text: Why did you ditch your last boyfriend? He was so nice to you.
glosses: To discard or abandon.
examples: text: When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
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glosses: To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
examples: text: The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine.
text: "No, instead, it just had enough power to transform me, overload, and force me to wait to change back! I had to ditch school!"
ref: 2005 December 2, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Dec 2, 2005:
glosses: To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
examples: text: Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging and ditching.
glosses: To dig ditches.
examples: text: The soldiers ditched the tent to prevent flooding.
glosses: To dig ditches around.
examples: text: The engine was ditched and turned on its side.
glosses: To throw into a ditch.
Synonyms: abandon
discard
dump
jettison
lose
shed
Derived terms: ditchable
ditch out