cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
plasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæzmə/
enpr: plăz'mə
rhymes: -æzmə
Forms: form: plasmas
form: plasmata
Etymology: From Late Latin plasma (“mold”), from Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”).
Senses: examples: text: plasma arc cutter
text: plasma cutter
text: Oxygen and hydrogen nuclei are intermixed with free electrons. The whole mix is electrically neutral. This is actually considered a new stage of matter called a plasma. You can see an example of an electrically produced plasma in a fluorescent light bulb or in a plasma television.
ref: 2020, Don Lincoln, The Large Hadron Collider, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 198:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas and electrons.
examples: text: blood plasma
text: lymph plasma
topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of green quartz, used in ancient times for making engraved ornaments.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Protoplasm.
examples: text: Has anyone here written a plasma demo in C/C++ who would be willing to explain to me exactly how it works?
ref: 1999, Rage Matrix, “Coding plasma demos....HELP!”, in comp.programming (Usenet):
text: However, it displayed some unique copper magic routines and plasma effects.
ref: 2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: The Brief History of the Demoscene, volume 1, page 126:
text: This creates the classic 'plasma' effect seen in many demoscene videos.
ref: Jonathan Weinel, Explosions in the Mind (page 139)
topics: computer-graphics
computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A visual effect in which cycles of changing colours are warped in various ways to give the illusion of liquid organic movement.
Derived terms: antiplasma
bioplasma
blood plasma
burning nuclear plasma
burning plasma
convalescent plasma
dusty plasma
glasma
haemoplasma
hemoplasma
human seminal plasma protein hypersensitivity
hydroplasma
hyperplasma
laser-plasma accelerator
lymphoplasma
magnetoplasma
microplasma
mycoplasma
nanoplasma
nuclear plasma
ovoplasma
phytoplasma
plasma acceleration
plasma accelerator
plasmablast
plasma cell
plasmacyte
plasma display
plasmadynamics
plasma gem
plasma gemstone
plasmagenic
plasma globe
plasma lamp
plasmalemma
plasmaless
plasmalike
plasma membrane
plasmapause
plasmapheresis
plasmaphysics
plasma rifle
plasma screen
plasmasonic
plasmasphere
plasma therapy
plasmatron
plasma wakefield acceleration
plasma wakefield accelerator
plasmid
plasmin
plasmogamy
plasmogen
plasmogenous
plasmoid
plasmon
preplasma
quark-gluon plasma
subplasma
superplasma
Related terms: plasmic
plasma
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæzmə/
enpr: plăz'mə
rhymes: -æzmə
Forms: form: plasmas
form: plasmaing
form: plasmaed
form: plasmaed
Etymology: From Late Latin plasma (“mold”), from Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”).
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: plasmify
glosses: To transform something into plasma.
melt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: melts
form: melting
form: melted
form: molt
form: melted
form: molt
form: molten
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: melt
form: melt
form: melted
form: molt
form: melt
form: meltest
form: melted
form: molt
form: meltedst
form: melts
form: melteth
form: melted
form: molt
form: melt
form: melted
form: molt
form: melt
form: melted
form: molt
form: melt
form: -
form: melting
form: melted
form: molten
Etymology: From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
Senses: examples: text: I melted butter to make a cake.
text: When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.
glosses: To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
examples: text: His troubles melted away.
text: I gave him a couple of Advil and, after a few minutes, urged him back onto the track. Over the next few laps his pained expression slowly melted, although he still shuffled with a slight limp.
ref: 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 110:
glosses: To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
examples: text: Thou would'st have […] melted down thy youth.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: For pity melts the mind to love.
ref: 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day:
text: The traveller hears me now and then,
⁠And sometimes harshly will he speak:
⁠‘This fellow would make weakness weak,
And melt the waxen hearts of men.’
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
glosses: To be discouraged.
examples: text: She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
text: My heart melted when I first heard the song.
glosses: To be emotionally softened or touched.
examples: text: I need shade! I'm melting!
glosses: To be very hot and sweat profusely.
Synonyms: sense: change from solid to liquid
word: to found
sense: change from solid to liquid
word: to thaw
Derived terms: brain-melting
butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
chain-melted state
deadmelt
face-melting
formelt
high-melting
low-melting
meld
meltability
meltable
meltage
melt away
meltaway
melt down
melter
melting moment
melting-pot
melting pot
melt in the mouth
melt into
meltoff
melt out
meltproof
melt someone's butter
melt up
meltwater
melty
overmelt
premelt
remelt
unmelt
zone melting
Related terms: smelt
sublimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌblɪmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈsʌblɪmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈsʌblɪmət/
Forms: form: sublimates
Etymology: From Middle English sublymate, from Latin sublīmātus, past participle of sublīmāre (“to raise, elevate”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A product obtained by sublimation.
Related terms: freeze-dry
condense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Forms: form: condenses
form: condensing
form: condensed
form: condensed
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French condenser, from Latin condēnsō.
Senses: examples: text: An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
text: Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
text: In what shape they choose,
 Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: The secret course pursued both at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
ref: 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: thicken
word: simplify
word: reduce
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
word: astringe
word: compact
word: compactify
word: condense
word: densitize
word: pack
word: press
word: mash
word: scrunch
word: smush
word: squoosh
word: squash
word: squish
word: squeeze
word: thring
word: thrutch
antonyms: dilute
glosses: To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
examples: text: Water condenses on the window on cold days because of the warm air inside.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state.
Derived terms: condensability
condensable
condensate
condenseness
condensery
condensible
condensin
condensing locomotive
decondense
polycondense
recondense
Related terms: word: condensate
word: condensation
word: condenser
condense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Forms: form: more condense
form: most condense
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French condenser, from Latin condēnsō.
Senses: examples: text: The huge condense bodies of planets.
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
glosses: Condensed; compact; dense.
evaporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹæɪt/
Forms: form: more evaporate
form: most evaporate
Etymology: First attested in 1545, borrowed from Latin ēvapōrātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvapōrō (“to evaporate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also Middle English evaporaten (“to draw off humors or "spirits" as "vapor"”) and evaporen (“to draw off bodily fluid, an excess or toxic matter by converting it into "vapor"; to treat (a part of the body) by drawing off toxic matter converted into "vapor"”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: evaporated
fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfluːɪd/
ipa: /ˈfluɪd/
ipa: /ˈflɪu̯ɪd/
ipa: /ˈfljuːɪd/
rhymes: -uːɪd
Forms: form: more fluid
form: most fluid
Etymology: From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus (“flowing; fluid”), from Latin fluō (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell; surge; overflow; run”). Akin to Ancient Greek φλύειν (phlúein, “to swell; overflow”). Not related to English flow, which is a native, inherited word from *plew-.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to fluid.
examples: text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: In a state of flux; subject to change.
examples: text: Tom of the fluid pelvis, undulating about the living room in defiance of Michael's taboo on sensuality.
ref: 1983 December 31, Kenneth Hale-Wehmann, “The Business of Sex and Affection”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 8:
glosses: Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
glosses: Convertible into cash.
raw_tags: of an asset
examples: text: Oh, Loki made sure of that. My mortal parents blamed him for the way I was, for being fluid.
ref: 2017, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor, page 274 (the genderfluid character Alex Fierro is speaking)
text: As do renewals in genres such as romcoms and teen movies, which have updated sexist, heteronormative tropes to reflect audiences’ fluid, inclusive, queer realities.
ref: 2021 April 24, Adrian Horton, “‘The uprisings opened up the door’: the TV cop shows confronting a harmful legacy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Genderfluid.
Synonyms: sense: of or relating to fluid
word: fluidical
word: liquid
word: fluidic
sense: subject to change
word: unstable
word: variable
word: changeable
sense: moving smoothly
word: fluent
word: fluxive
word: flowing
word: runny
Derived terms: fluidly
fluidness
fluid-S
unfluid
Related terms: fluctuate
fluctuation
fluency
fluent
fluidal
fluidic
fluidics
fluidify
fluidise
fluidity
fluidize
fluidous
flux
semifluid
linacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linac
loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒs/
ipa: /lɔs/
ipa: /lɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: losses
Etymology: From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-West Germanic *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose”).
Cognate with Icelandic los (“dissolution, looseness, break-up”), Old English lor, forlor (“loss, ruin”), Middle High German verlor (“loss, ruin”). More at lose.
Senses: examples: text: loss of limb; weight loss; loss of cognitive functions; loss of appetite.
text: In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said.
synonyms: expense
antonyms: gain
glosses: The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
glosses: The destruction or ruin of an object.
examples: text: It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.
glosses: Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
examples: text: The match ended in their first loss of the season.
antonyms: win
victory
glosses: Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
examples: text: We mourn his loss.
text: The battle was won, but losses were great.
glosses: The death of a person or animal.
examples: text: Her daughter's sense of loss eventually led to depression.
glosses: The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
examples: text: The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.
topics: business
finance
financial
antonyms: profit
glosses: The sum an entity loses on balance.
examples: text: The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
Synonyms: word: deperdition
word: forlesing
word: loss
Hypernyms: word: decrement
Hyponyms: word: forfeiture
word: misplacement
Derived terms: at a loss
at a loss for words
blood loss
bloodloss
bone loss
capital loss
core loss
dead loss
deadweight loss
ego loss
for a loss
for the loss
generation loss
habitat loss
hair loss
headloss
head loss
hearing loss
hull loss
instant loss 2koma
lossage
loss and damage
loss and gain are brothers twain
loss condition
lossful
loss function
loss leader
lossless
lossmaker
loss-maker
loss-making
loss of consortium
loss of face
loss of life
loss of supply
loss prevention
lossproof
loss ratio
lossy
net loss
net operating loss
one man's loss is another man's gain
operating loss
packet loss
path loss
pregnancy loss
profit and loss
profit and loss statement
sightloss
stop loss
stop-loss
stop loss order
stop-loss order
tackle for loss
total loss
vision loss
wake loss
weight loss
without loss of generality
Related terms: lose
loss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒs/
ipa: /lɔs/
ipa: /lɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lost.
knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏl′ij
ipa: /ˈnɒlɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
enpr: nōl′āj
ipa: /nɔ.lɛ(ɖ)dʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /nɔ.le(ɖ)dʒ/
note: Indic
enpr: nōl′ij
ipa: /ˈnoʊlɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒlɪdʒ
Forms: form: knowledges
form: knowledging
form: knowledged
form: knowledged
form: knolege
form: knowlage
form: knowleche
form: knowledg
form: knowlege
form: knowliche
form: knowlych
form: knowlech
form: knaulege
form: knaulage
form: knawlage
form: knoleche
form: knoleige
form: knowlache
form: knolych
form: knawlache
Etymology: From Middle English knowleche, knaweleche, cnawlece (“knowledge”), from knowen (“to know, recognise”) + -leche. Related to Middle English knowlechen (“to find out, acknowledge”). For more on the Middle English suffix -leche, compare freelage. Compare also Old English cnāwelǣċ, cnāwelǣċing (“acknowledging, acknowledgement”).
Senses: examples: text: Then went oute to hym Jerusalem, and all Jury, and all the region rounde aboute Jordan, and were baptised of hym in Jordan, knoledging their synnes.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew iij:
glosses: To confess as true; to acknowledge.
Related terms: data
erudition
information
know-how
perception
wisdom
house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hous
ipa: /haʊs/
ipa: /hʌʊs/
ipa: /huːs/
ipa: /hæʊs/
ipa: /haʊs/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /hæʊs/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /hɛʊs/
ipa: /hɐʏs/
ipa: /hɛʉs/
ipa: /hɐʊs/
ipa: /hʌʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
enpr: houz
ipa: /haʊz/
rhymes: -aʊs
rhymes: -aʊz
homophone: how's
Etymology: Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.
Senses: examples: text: […] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.
ref: 1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 73:
text: And while hard, minimal techno has become increasingly influenced by house and Oval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school on Strength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno purists Surgeon and Oliver Ho.
ref: 2001 March, Philip Sherburne, “Exos, Strength [album review]”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 91, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, →ISSN, page 66:
text: The first genre of American dance music to become popular in the United Kingdom was Chicago house. Although music from Detroit was soon imported as well, it was often treated as subcategory of house, and for many years the most common English term for electronic dance music in general was "house" or "acid house". […] During the formative years of techno and house, the musicians involved interacted in various ways.
ref: 2006, Mark Jonathan Butler, Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 45:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: House music.
hospital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈhɑs.pɪ.ɾl̩/
Forms: form: more hospital
form: most hospital
form: hospitale
Etymology: From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”).
Senses: examples: text: At last the Ocean, that hospital friend to the wretched, opened her capacious arms to receive him; and he instantly resolved to accept her kind invitation.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Hospitable.
doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdɑktɚ/
ipa: /ˈdɔktə/
ipa: /ˈdɒktə/
ipa: /ˈdɒktəɹ/
rhymes: -ɒktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: doctors
form: doctoring
form: doctored
form: doctored
form: doctour
Etymology: From Middle English doctor, doctour (“an expert, authority on a subject”), from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“to teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English lǣran, lēran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English lārēow (“teacher, master”)). Displaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”).
Senses: examples: text: Her children doctored her back to health.
glosses: To act as a medical doctor to.
examples: 2017, "Do No Harm", season 8, episode 2 of Adventure Time
Doctor Princess: Put this on. [gives her lab coat to Finn] OK, you're a doctor now. Good luck.
Finn: Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! I don't know how to doctor!
glosses: To act as a medical doctor.
glosses: To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
examples: text: They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.
text: We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
glosses: To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
examples: text: Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
glosses: To genetically alter an extant species.
examples: text: To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
text: That picture – the one that Andrew claimed on BBC’s Newsnight might have been doctored, since he had “no recollection” of then or ever meeting Giuffre at Tramp nightclub in London – will likely serve as both a prequel and postscript of the saga.
ref: 2022 February 15, Edward Helmore, “How a picture came to symbolize the Prince Andrew sexual abuse case”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Catherine, the Princess of Wales, apologized on Monday for doctoring a photo of her with her three children, which was recalled by several news agencies on Sunday after they determined the image had been manipulated.
ref: 2024 March 11, Mark Landler, Lauren Leatherby, “Princess of Wales Apologizes, Saying She Edited Image”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
glosses: To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
glosses: To take medicine.
Derived terms: misdoctor
Related terms: surgeon
knife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪf/
ipa: /nɑɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: knifes
form: knifing
form: knifed
form: knifed
form: knyfe
form: knive
Etymology: From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”) from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel.
The verb knife is attested since the 1860s; the variant knive is attested since 1733.
Cognates
Cognate with Yola kunnife (“knife”), North Frisian knif (“knife”), Dutch knijf (“long pointy knife, poniard”), German Knifte (“rifle; thick slicebread”), German Low German Knief (“knife”), Luxembourgish Knäip (“paring knife”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kniv (“knife”), Faroese knívur (“knife”), Icelandic hnífur, knífur (“knife”), Swedish knif, kniv (“knife”).
Senses: glosses: To cut with a knife.
examples: text: She was repeatedly knifed in the chest.
text: One day his sergeant began to cane him, on which, seizing his knife, he knifed the sergeant : he knifed the privates : he knifed until he was finally overpowered, and, brought before a court-martial, was condemned to fifteen years at the galleys.
ref: 1843, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 31, Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, page 236:
text: The plane has been hijacked. They've already knifed a guy.
ref: 2012, Robert Biswas-Diener, The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Naw, they found him in the pissery of some gin mill near the Mohawk West terminal—he'd been knifed.
ref: 2015, Ross H. Spencer, The Fedorovich File, Diversion Books, →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
examples: text: The boat knifed through the water.
glosses: To cut through as if with a knife.
glosses: To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
glosses: To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
Derived terms: knife up
metal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛ.təl/
rhymes: -ɛtəl
homophone: medal (t-flapping)
homophone: meddle (t-flapping)
homophone: mettle
Forms: form: more metal
form: most metal
Etymology: From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
examples: text: The beast will destroy everything in his path
 With this song on the upcoming brawl
 It sure is a long one and tough to pronounce but
 It's the most metal title of all
ref: 2008, Lich King, “Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught:
text: Top tip: Bowling gloves are for sissies, although they look metal as fuck.
ref: 2012 August, “Tested Bowling Balls”, in Front, number 171, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
Related terms: heavy metal
metal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛ.təl/
rhymes: -ɛtəl
homophone: medal (t-flapping)
homophone: meddle (t-flapping)
homophone: mettle
Forms: form: metals
form: metaling
form: metalling
form: metaled
form: metaled
form: metalled
form: metalled
Etymology: From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
Senses: glosses: To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
salt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏlt
enpr: sôlt
ipa: /sɒlt/
ipa: /sɔːlt/
enpr: sôlt
ipa: /sɔlt/
enpr: sält
ipa: /sɑlt/
ipa: [sɑɫt]
ipa: [sɑɫʔ]
enpr: sŏlt
ipa: /sɔlt/
ipa: [sɔɯ̯t]
rhymes: -ɒlt
rhymes: -ɔːlt
Forms: form: more salt
form: most salt
Etymology: PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".
Senses: examples: text: Why the Sea is Salt
text: After a few days of north-west wind, the waters of the Gordon will be found salt for twelve miles up from the bar.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 97:
glosses: Of water: containing salt, saline.
examples: text: salt beef
text: Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
examples: text: a salt marsh
glosses: Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
examples: text: salt grass
glosses: Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
examples: text: a salt mine
text: The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
glosses: Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
examples: text: I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me […].
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
examples: text: It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
ref: 1653, Thomas Urquhart, transl., The First Book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153:
glosses: Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
glosses: Costly; expensive.
Derived terms: saltness
salt spray
salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏlt
enpr: sôlt
ipa: /sɒlt/
ipa: /sɔːlt/
enpr: sôlt
ipa: /sɔlt/
enpr: sält
ipa: /sɑlt/
ipa: [sɑɫt]
ipa: [sɑɫʔ]
enpr: sŏlt
ipa: /sɔlt/
ipa: [sɔɯ̯t]
rhymes: -ɒlt
rhymes: -ɔːlt
Forms: form: salts
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin saltus.
Senses: examples: text: […] he hath the skill to draw
Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make
More wanton salts from this brave promontory,
Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page 67
glosses: A bounding; a leaping; a prance.
sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/
enpr: sho͝ogʹər
ipa: /ˈʃʊɡɚ/
rhymes: -ʊɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shugar
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā)
Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.
Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.
Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.
Old Italian zuccherobor.
Old French çucrebor.
Middle English sugre
English sugar
Inherited from Middle English sugre, borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Italian zucchero, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”).
 Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”), whence the words crocodile and krokodil are derived. Doublet of jaggery, sucro-, crocodile, and krokodil.
The verb is from Middle English sugren, from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, sugar!
text: "Oh, sugar! I suppose that's so," reflected Tobias, filling his pipe.
ref: 1920, James A. Cooper, Tobias O' the Light: A Story of Cape Cod:
text: But they do not even hope for such a thing in '08, and fear far worse: Sister Suzanne Thibault, a lifelong Republican so mild she shouts, “Oh, sugar!” when annoyed, posits that if Hillary Clinton were nominated, “She'd get killed, literally assassinated. We have too many right-wing people out there who would do that."
ref: 2007, Melinda Henneberger, If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear:
text: “Oh, sugar.” His room was empty.
ref: 2012, Macy Beckett, Sultry with a Twist:
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Shit!
Derived terms: sugar honey ice tea
Related terms: glyco-
-ose
tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tāl
ipa: /teɪl/
homophone: tale
homophone: tael
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: tails
form: tailing
form: tailed
form: tailed
Etymology: From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Saterland Frisian Tail (“tail, end”), West Frisian teil (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.
Senses: examples: text: Tail that car!
glosses: To follow and observe surreptitiously.
topics: architecture
glosses: To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
examples: text: This vessel tails downstream.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
examples: text: Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
examples: text: The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid,
First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: To pull or draw by the tail.
tail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tāl
ipa: /teɪl/
homophone: tale
homophone: tael
rhymes: -eɪl
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, probably from a shortened form of entail.
Senses: examples: estate tail
topics: law
glosses: Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tāl
ipa: /teɪl/
homophone: tale
homophone: tael
rhymes: -eɪl
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, probably from a shortened form of entail.
Senses: examples: text: tail male
translation: limitation to male heirs
english: limitation to male heirs
text: in tail
translation: subject to such a limitation
english: subject to such a limitation
topics: law
glosses: Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
Related terms: entail
blade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: blād
ipa: /bleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: blades
form: blading
form: bladed
form: bladed
Etymology: From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”).
See also West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt, Danish blad, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.
Senses: examples: text: Want to go blading with me later in the park?
glosses: To skate on rollerblades.
glosses: To furnish with a blade.
examples: text: As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.
ref: 1633, Phineas Fletcher, “Elisa”, in Piscatorie Eclogues and other Poetical Miscellanies:
glosses: To put forth or have a blade.
examples: text: The gang member got bladed in a fight.
glosses: To stab with a blade
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To cut a person (usually oneself) so as to provoke bleeding.
Derived terms: hydroblade
sword
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [sɔɹd]
ipa: [sɔːd]
ipa: [soːd]
ipa: [soːɹd]
note: Indic
ipa: /s(w)o(r)ɖ/
note: horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /s(w)ɔ(r)ɖ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /so(ː)ɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /soəd/
note: obsolete, African-American Vernacular
ipa: /swɔːrd/
homophone: soared
homophone: (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger) sawed
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
ipa: /s(w)ɔːrd/
ipa: /s(w)uːrd/
note: from Old English sword, ancestral to most modern pronunciations
ipa: /swɔrd/
note: from Old English swurd
ipa: /swʊrd/
ipa: /swɛrd/
note: ord, corresponding to the spelling swerd, sweard
ipa: /swɛːrd/
Forms: form: swords
form: swording
form: sworded
form: sworded
form: swerd
form: sweard
form: swoord
form: swoorde
form: sworde
Etymology: From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ (svĭrdĭlŭ, “drill”).
Senses: glosses: To stab or cut with a sword
boiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪlɪŋ
Etymology: From boil + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boil
boiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: boilings
Etymology: From boil + -ing.
Senses: antonyms: freezing#Noun
coordinate_terms: evaporating
sublimating
superheating#Noun
glosses: The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
coordinate_terms: steaming#Noun
sautéing
broiling#Noun
frying#Noun
baking#Noun
glosses: The cooking (of food) or cleaning (of an object) by immersing it in liquid (usually water) that is boiling.
glosses: A turmoil; a disturbance like that of bubbling water.
glosses: An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
Derived terms: boiling-house
global boiling
whole boiling
boiling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more boiling
form: most boiling
Etymology: From boil + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: boiling kettle  boiling oil
glosses: That boils or boil.
examples: text: The radiator is boiling – I’m going to turn it down a bit.
text: With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which now, in mid-morning, was in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Conference in the Morning”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 130:
text: As I collected some individuals from a nest, an alarm was sent and a boiling mass of ants issued from the colony.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Of a thing: extremely hot or active.
examples: text: I’m boiling – can’t we open a window?
synonyms: steaming
cooking
baking
frying
glosses: Of a person: feeling uncomfortably hot.
examples: text: It’s boiling out today!
glosses: Of the weather: very hot.
Derived terms: boiling frog
boiling hot
boilingly
boiling mad
nonboiling
boiling
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪlɪŋ
Etymology: From boil + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: He was boiling mad.
glosses: Extremely
raw_tags: of adjectives associated with heat
brass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɑːs/
ipa: /bɹas/
ipa: /bɹas/
ipa: /bɹæs/
rhymes: -ɑːs
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: brasses
form: brassing
form: brassed
form: brassed
Etymology: From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *brasō (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small controlled fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”).
In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats.
Senses: glosses: To coat with brass.
Derived terms: brass off
brass out
brass up
brass wool
Related terms: braze
brazen
brazier
brass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɑːs/
ipa: /bɹas/
ipa: /bɹas/
ipa: /bɹæs/
rhymes: -ɑːs
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: brasses
Etymology: By ellipsis from brass nail, in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen"); and also shortened from Cockney Rhyming slang brass flute for "prostitute".
Senses: examples: text: Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses.
ref: 1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 2:
glosses: A prostitute.
brass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɑːs/
ipa: /bɹas/
ipa: /bɹas/
ipa: /bɹæs/
rhymes: -ɑːs
rhymes: -æs
Etymology: By ellipsis from brass nail, in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen"); and also shortened from Cockney Rhyming slang brass flute for "prostitute".
Senses: glosses: Brass monkey; cold.
Related terms: althorn
chalcography
cornet
euphonium
flugelhorn
French horn
mellophone
Muntz metal
saxhorn
sousaphone
trombone
trumpet
tuba
brass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɑːs/
ipa: /bɹas/
ipa: /bɹas/
ipa: /bɹæs/
rhymes: -ɑːs
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: brasses
Etymology: From Portuguese braça and Spanish braza, from Old Galician-Portuguese and Old Spanish braça, from Latin brachia, variant of bracchium (“arm, cubit”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “upper arm”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brace, a traditional unit of measure equivalent to a fathom (6 feet) or about 1.6 m, especially as the Spanish braza and Portuguese braça, also French brasse.
synonyms: word: brace
extra: a traditional unit of measure equivalent to a fathom (6 feet) or about 1.6 m, especially as the Spanish braza and Portuguese braça, also French brasse.
heavy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: hevʹi
ipa: /ˈhɛv.i/
ipa: /ˈhev.i/
rhymes: -ɛvi
Forms: form: more heavy
form: most heavy
Etymology: From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Related to have.
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Saterland Frisian heeuwich, häwich (“violent, angry”), West Frisian hevich (“violent”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), German Low German hevig (“violent, fierce, intense, angry”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).
Compare typologically Russian объёмный (obʺjómnyj), ёмкий (jómkij) (akin to име́ть (imétʹ), взять (vzjatʹ)).
Senses: examples: Heavy-laden with their sins, time hung heavy
glosses: In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
examples: text: Olive: What was it - booze? Barney: Yeh. Been hitting it pretty heavy.
ref: 1957, Ray Lawler, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Sydney: Fontana Books, published 1974, page 35:
glosses: To a great degree; greatly.
glosses: very
Derived terms: hang heavy
heavy-laden
heavy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hevʹi
ipa: /ˈhɛv.i/
ipa: /ˈhev.i/
rhymes: -ɛvi
Forms: form: heavies
form: heavying
form: heavied
form: heavied
Etymology: From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Related to have.
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Saterland Frisian heeuwich, häwich (“violent, angry”), West Frisian hevich (“violent”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), German Low German hevig (“violent, fierce, intense, angry”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).
Compare typologically Russian объёмный (obʺjómnyj), ёмкий (jómkij) (akin to име́ть (imétʹ), взять (vzjatʹ)).
Senses: examples: text: They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load.
glosses: To make heavier.
raw_tags: with "up"
glosses: To sadden.
examples: text: The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.
text: […]the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong.
ref: 1985, Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives Weekly Hansard, Issue 11, Part 1, page 1570:
text: 2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, Spinifex Press, Australia, page 557,
But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone′s tapped. Well, he won′t find anything.
text: 2005, David Clune, Ken Turner (editors), The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005, Volume 3: 1901-2005, page 421,
But the next two days of the Conference also produced some very visible lobbying for the succession and apparent heavying of contenders like Brereton, Anderson and Mulock - much of it caught on television.
glosses: To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
heavy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hevʹi
ipa: /ˈhɛv.i/
ipa: /ˈhev.i/
rhymes: -ɛvi
ipa: /ˈhiːvi/
enpr: hevʹi
ipa: /ˈhɛv.i/
ipa: /ˈhev.i/
rhymes: -ɛvi
Forms: form: more heavy
form: most heavy
Etymology: From heave + -y.
Senses: examples: a heavy horse
glosses: Having the heaves.
Related terms: heavy cake
liver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪvə/
ipa: /ˈlɪvɚ/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: livers
Etymology: From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”), West Frisian lever (“liver”), Dutch lever (“liver”), German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish lever (“liver”) (the last three from Old Norse lifr (“liver”)). Related to live.
Senses: examples: text: Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
examples: text: I'd like some goose liver pate.
text: You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.
text: "I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver."
ref: 1993, Philippa Gregory, Fallen Skies, →ISBN, page 222:
glosses: This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
glosses: A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
examples: text: He gave his horse some liver of antimony.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
Derived terms: antiliver
cat liver fluke
chicken liver
chopped liver
cod liver oil
fatty liver
Fried Liver Attack
frosted liver
hemiliver
hobnail liver
lily-livered
liver and onions
liver cancer
livered
liver-faced
liver fluke
liver function test
liver-grown
liver-hearted
livering
liverish
liverleaf
liverless
liverlike
liverloaf
livermush
liver of antimony
liver rot
liver salts
liver sausage
liver spot
liver wing
liverwort
liverwurst
livery
nonliver
nutmeg liver
sea liver
sheep liver fluke
sugar-coated liver
xenoliver
yellow liver