cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
collar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒl.ə/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɑ.ləɹ/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒl.əɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɔl.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɒl.ə/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
homophone: caller (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: collars
form: collaring
form: collared
form: collared
Etymology: From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse. Doublet of collet.
Senses: glosses: To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
examples: text: Collar and leash aggressive dogs.
text: (Follow me, don't follow me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush.
(Collar me, don't collar me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush.
ref: 1988 November 8, R.E.M., “Orange Crush”, in Green:
glosses: To place a collar on, to fit with one.
glosses: To surround or encircle.
glosses: To seize, capture or detain.
examples: text: "Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah,
Rollin" home across the line,
The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat
And threw it in the brine.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 52:
glosses: To steal.
glosses: To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
examples: text: Britain’s police are especially zealous. Officers spend thousands of hours sifting through potentially offensive posts and arrest 30 people a day. Among those collared were a man who ranted about immigration on Facebook and a couple who criticised their daughter’s primary school.
ref: 2025 May 15, “Europe’s free-speech problem”, in The Economist:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: To arrest.
examples: text: I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
text: They go in and lobby, collar the representatives and ask: are you for or against?
ref: 1981 December 19, Nancy Wechsler, Christine Delphy, “Politics In France”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 8:
glosses: To bind in conversation.
glosses: To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
Derived terms: collar the bowling
collar up
collaring
recollar
between
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈtwiːn/
ipa: /bəˈtwin/
ipa: /bɪˈtwin/
ipa: [bɪˈtʰwin]
ipa: /biˈtwin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: betweens
form: betweene
form: betwene
form: b/w
form: btwn
form: btw
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English betwene, from Old English betwēonum (“between, among”, dative plural, literally “by the two, near both”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”) + *twīhnaz (“two each”), corresponding to be- + twain. Cognate with Scots between (“between”), Scots atween (“between”), Gothic 𐍄𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌹 (tweihnai, “two each”), Old English betweoh (“between”), Old English twinn (“double, twofold”). More at betwixt, twin.
More distantly related to Ancient Greek διά (diá, “through, across, by, over”) whence English dia- (“through, across, between”).
For the meaning development also compare with Mongolian хооронд (xoorond, “between”), connected with Mongolian хоёр (xojor, “two”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics.
iron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æːn/
ipa: /æən/
ipa: /ˈaɪən/
enpr: ī'ərn
ipa: /ˈaɪ(ə)ɹn/
ipa: /ˈaɪɹən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈajə(r)n/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈajrən/
homophone: ion stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)n
Etymology: From Middle English iren, from Old English īsern, īsærn, īren, īsen, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną (“iron”), from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom (“iron”), a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots airn, ern (“iron”), Yola eeren (“iron”), Saterland Frisian Iersen (“iron”), West Frisian izer (“iron”), Bavarian Eisn (“iron”), Cimbrian aizarn (“iron”), Dutch ijzer (“iron”), German, Luxembourgish Eisen (“iron”), German Low German Isen (“iron”), Limburgish iezer (“iron”), Mòcheno aisn (“iron”), Vilamovian ȧjza (“iron”), West Flemish yzer (“iron”), Yiddish אײַזן (ayzn, “iron”), Danish jern, jærn (“iron”), Faroese jarn (“iron”), Icelandic járn (“iron”), Jamtish járn, jáðn (“iron”), Norwegian Bokmål jern (“iron”), Norwegian Nynorsk jarn, jern, jønn (“iron”), Swedish jern, jaͤrn, järn (“iron”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍂𐌽 (eisarn, “iron”).
Senses: glosses: Made of the metal iron.
examples: text: She had an iron will.
text: He held on with an iron grip.
text: an iron constitution
text: Iron men
text: […]the fruit-garden, where every tree and walk had a remembrance—those iron links of affection.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 201:
text: The faces of the gods are iron and their mouths set hard. There is no hope from the gods.
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 64:
text: And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though — or perhaps because — his occasional efforts to ingratiate himself with his adopted hero have met with iron rebuff.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
text: But in her speech, Truss said she would exert an “iron discipline” over public spending, hinting at possible austerity to come. “I believe in sound money and a lean state,” she said.
ref: 2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, quoting Liz Truss, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: adamant
adamantine
brassbound
glosses: Strong (as of will), inflexible.
Hypernyms: sense: made of the metal iron
word: metal
sense: made of the metal iron
word: metallic
Hyponyms: sense: made of the metal iron
word: wrought-iron
Derived terms: iron cap
iron chink
Iron Cross
Iron Curtain
Iron Duke
iron-faced
iron-fisted
Iron Guard
iron gum
iron gum tree
iron hand
iron horse
iron jubilee
Iron Lady
iron law
iron lung
ironly
iron mike
iron oak
iron paper
iron sleep
iron slumber
iron walls
iron wedding
iron-willed
iron-witted
iron-worded
Related terms: ferrous
ferric
buzzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌzəɹd/
Forms: form: buzzards
Etymology: From Middle English bosart, from Anglo-Norman buisart, from Old French busart, busard, a derivative ( + -ard) of Old French buison, buson (French buse), possibly from Latin būteō (“hawk”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
glosses: Any scavenging bird, such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) or the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
examples: text: Perhaps the crusty old buzzard loved his only child more than anyone had given him credit for all these years — maybe even more than he himself had realized.
ref: 1995, LaRee Bryant, Forever, My Love, page 88:
qualifier: often preceded by "old"; the "old buzzard"; often preceded by "old"; the "old buzzard"
glosses: In North America, a curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
examples: text: 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 142,
An old man’s shadow is better than a young buzzard’s sword.
text: It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard.
ref: 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Animated Nature, volume 6, Index:
glosses: A blockhead; a dunce.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of double bogey.
synonyms: word: double bogey
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A fighter plane.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The insignia of a colonel, or a petty officer within the navy.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military discharge (due to the military discharge certificate).
Synonyms: buteo
broadwing
turkey vulture
vulture
Coordinate terms: bogey
par
birdie
eagle
albatross
condor
ostrich
Derived terms: augur buzzard
Buteo augur
belled buzzard
buzzard bait
buzzard-eagle
buzzardet
buzzardlike
common buzzard
Buteo buteo
crested honey buzzard
eastern buzzard
Buteo japonicus
European honey buzzard
forest buzzard
Buteo trizonatus
gag a buzzard off a gut wagon
grasshopper buzzard
Butastur rufipennis
grey-faced buzzard
Butastur indicus
honey buzzard
jackal buzzard
Buteo rufofuscus
knock a buzzard off a gut wagon
knock a buzzard off a shit wagon
lizard buzzard
Kaupifalco monogrammicus
long-legged buzzard
Buteo rufinus
Madagascar buzzard
Buteo brachypterus
moor buzzard
mountain buzzard
Buteo oreophilus
red-necked buzzard
Buteo auguralis
rough-legged buzzard
rufous-winged buzzard
Butastur liventer
stink a buzzard off a gut wagon
turkey buzzard
upland buzzard
Buteo hemilasius
white-eyed buzzard
Butastur teesa
buzzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌzəɹd/
Forms: form: buzzards
Senses: glosses: A bastard.
bitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitter
bitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitters
Senses: glosses: A liquid used in mixed drinks or as a tonic into which bitter herbs have been steeped (it can also be found in powdered form for adding to mixed drinks).
Derived terms: Angostura bitters
Swedish bitters
bitters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bitter
stork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stôrk
ipa: /stɔɹk/
ipa: /stɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
homophone: stalk (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: storks
Etymology: From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.
Senses: glosses: A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
examples: text: My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The seventeenth Lenormand card.
Derived terms: adjutant stork
black-necked stork
black stork
giant stork
hair-crested stork
maguari stork
marabou stork
milky stork
Oriental stork
saddle-billed stork
stork-billed
stork bite
storky
white stork
wood stork
Related terms: crane
egret
heron
rock dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒk dʌv/
Forms: form: rock doves
Senses: glosses: The dove/pigeon species Columba livia.
Synonyms: rock pigeon
Related terms: sense: Columba
word: speckled pigeon
sense: Columba
word: Columba guinea
sense: Columba
word: or African rock pigeon
sense: Petrophassa
word: chestnut-quilled rock pigeon
sense: Petrophassa
word: Petrophassa rufipennis
sense: Petrophassa
word: white-quilled rock pigeon
sense: Petrophassa
word: Petrophassa albipennis
GNP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GNPs
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of gross national product.
Related terms: GDP
fricative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: frĭk'ətĭv
ipa: /ˈfɹɪkətɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfɾɪkətɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /fɾɪˈkeʈɪv/
Forms: form: fricatives
Etymology: From New Latin fricatīvus, from Latin fricāre (“to rub”).
Senses: examples: text: Watt listened for a time, for the voice was far from unmelodious. The fricatives in particular were pleasing.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: word: spirant
hypernyms: obstruent
coordinate_terms: approximant
lateral
nasal
trill
plosive
glosses: Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.
Derived terms: dental fricative
groove fricative
lateral fricative
slit fricative
fricative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: frĭk'ətĭv
ipa: /ˈfɹɪkətɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfɾɪkətɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /fɾɪˈkeʈɪv/
Forms: form: more fricative
form: most fricative
Etymology: From New Latin fricatīvus, from Latin fricāre (“to rub”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.
Derived terms: fricatively
fricativeness
fricativisation
fricativization
fricativise
fricativize
nonfricative
prefricative
Related terms: friction
affricate
approximant
lateral
nasal
plosive
sibilant
SAMPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: săm'pə
ipa: /ˈsæmpə/
rhymes: -æmpə
Etymology: Acronym of Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet.
Senses: glosses: An alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), but using only 7-bit ASCII characters.
wikipedia: Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet
Derived terms: X-SAMPA
Related terms: SAMPA chart for English
jackdaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒækˌdɔː/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækˌdɔ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækˌdɑ/
rhymes: -ækdɔː
rhymes: -ækdɑ
Forms: form: jackdaws
Etymology: Compound of jack + daw. The first element, also present in Low German (North Saxon) Jöker (“jackdaw”), may refer either to its characteristic call, often represented as tchak-tchak, maybe influenced by association with the name Jack. The second element means “jackdaw” in itself, from Old English *dāwe, from Proto-Germanic *dēhǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰēk- (“a daw, starling, thrush, similar birds”). Cognate with Old Prussian doacke (“starling”), Latin faccilāre (“the sound or timbre of the thrush”), and German Dohle (“jackdaw”).
Senses: synonyms: caddow
daw
western jackdaw
Eurasian jackdaw
sea crow
glosses: A European bird (Coloeus monedula) of the crow family, often nesting in church towers and ruins.
glosses: A Daurian jackdaw, a closely related Asian bird (Coloeus dauuricus).
cuckoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊk.uː/
ipa: /ˈkuː.kuː/
rhymes: -ʊkuː
rhymes: -uːkuː
Forms: form: cuckoos
Etymology: From Middle English cokkou, kokkow, cukkuk, gokkouȝ, probably from Old French cocu, coquu, cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”).
Compare dialectal English gowkoo (“cuckoo”). Displaced Middle English gnokken (“cuckoo”) and native Middle English yeke, ȝek (from Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”)), see English gowk.
The UK sense is by analogy from the bird's practice of brood parasitism.
Senses: examples: text: He knows me, as the blind man knows the cuckoo, / By the bad voice.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae within the order Cuculiformes, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call.
glosses: The sound of that particular bird.
glosses: The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.
glosses: The cuckoo clock itself.
glosses: A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
glosses: Someone who is crazy.
glosses: Alternative form of coo-coo (Barbadian food).
Derived terms: word: African emerald cuckoo
word: Asian emerald cuckoo
word: black cuckoo-shrike
word: brush cuckoo
word: channel-bill cuckoo
word: channel-billed cuckoo
word: cloud cuckoo land
word: cloud cuckoo-land
word: cloud-cuckoo-land
word: cuckoo bee
word: cuckoo bread
word: cuckoo-bread
word: cuckoobud
word: cuckoo catfish
word: cuckoo clock
word: cuckoo cry
word: cuckoo-dove
taxonomic: Columbinae spp.
word: cuckoo dove
word: cuckoo-finch
word: cuckooflower
word: cuckoo hashing
word: cuckoo-hawk
word: cuckoo-pint
english: Arum italicum
translation: Arum italicum
word: cuckoo pint
word: cuckoo-roller
word: cuckoo's egg
word: cuckoo shrike
taxonomic: Campephagidae spp.
word: cuckooshrike
word: cuckoo sign
word: cuckoo spit
word: cuckoo-spittle
word: cuckoo theory
word: cuckoo wasp
word: drongo cuckoo
word: drongo-cuckoo
word: emerald cuckoo
word: ground cuckoo
word: hawk-cuckoo
word: Jacobin cuckoo
word: lesser cuckoo
word: little bronze cuckoo
word: mangrove cuckoo
word: Maynard's cuckoo
word: pallid cuckoo
word: Philippine cuckoo-dove
word: pied crested cuckoo
word: pied cuckoo
word: red-chested cuckoo
word: rufous-vented ground-cuckoo
Related terms: word: cuculine
cuckoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊk.uː/
ipa: /ˈkuː.kuː/
rhymes: -ʊkuː
rhymes: -uːkuː
Forms: form: cuckoos
form: cuckooing
form: cuckooed
form: cuckooed
Etymology: From Middle English cokkou, kokkow, cukkuk, gokkouȝ, probably from Old French cocu, coquu, cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”).
Compare dialectal English gowkoo (“cuckoo”). Displaced Middle English gnokken (“cuckoo”) and native Middle English yeke, ȝek (from Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”)), see English gowk.
The UK sense is by analogy from the bird's practice of brood parasitism.
Senses: examples: text: Switzerland is the home of many musical toys and here were carved whistles in the shapes of birds. These cuckooed realistically when blown into, with the beak opening and shutting, and the tail moving up and down to produce the 'cuck' and the 'oooh'.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 174:
glosses: To make the call of a cuckoo.
synonyms: parrot
glosses: To repeat something incessantly.
examples: text: She'll have been cuckooed. That'll be the Knezevics. They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did.
ref: 2023, Sally Wainwright, 26:06 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire):
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: To take over the home of a vulnerable person for the purposes of carrying out organized crime in a concealed way.
cuckoo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊk.uː/
ipa: /ˈkuː.kuː/
rhymes: -ʊkuː
rhymes: -uːkuː
Forms: form: more cuckoo
form: most cuckoo
Etymology: From Middle English cokkou, kokkow, cukkuk, gokkouȝ, probably from Old French cocu, coquu, cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”).
Compare dialectal English gowkoo (“cuckoo”). Displaced Middle English gnokken (“cuckoo”) and native Middle English yeke, ȝek (from Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”)), see English gowk.
The UK sense is by analogy from the bird's practice of brood parasitism.
Senses: examples: text: I think I'm going cuckoo!
glosses: Crazy; not sane.
Derived terms: cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
cuckooness
great spotted woodpecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪt ˈspɒtəd ˈwʊdpɛkəɹ/
Forms: form: great spotted woodpeckers
Senses: glosses: A species of woodpecker, Dendrocopos major.
lesser spotted woodpecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛsə(ɹ)ˈspɒtəd ˈwədpɛkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: lesser spotted woodpeckers
Senses: glosses: Any of species Dryobates minor of woodpeckers, principally of cooler regions of Eurasia.
black woodpecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækˈwʊdpɛkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: black woodpeckers
Senses: glosses: Any of species Dryocopus martius of woodpeckers (family Picidae).
robin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒ.bɪn/
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.bɪn/
rhymes: -ɒbɪn
Forms: form: robins
Etymology: Short for robin redbreast. Also from Middle English robynet, robynett (“robin (bird)”), from the Middle English name Robynett, a diminutive of the Middle English name Robyn (“Robin”).
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Senses: examples: text: As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
glosses: Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
An American robin, Turdus migratorius.
glosses: A trimming in front of a dress.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: redbreast
sense: all senses
word: robin redbreast
sense: the European robin
word: ruddock
Derived terms: American robin
Australasian robin
cock-robin
cock-robin shop
eastern yellow robin
forest robin
Japanese robin
magpie-robin
mangrove robin
Natal robin
North American robin
Peking robin
Pekin robin
ragged robin
robin-breast
robin-chat
robin dipper
robin egg blue
robin redbreast
robin-run-in-the-grass
robin-run-in-the-hedge
robin-run-the-hedge
robin snipe
robin snow
rose robin
round robin
round-robin story
rufous bush robin
rufous scrub robin
rufous-tailed scrub robin
scrub robin
sea robin
wake robin
wake-robin
white-throated robin
robin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒ.bɪn/
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.bɪn/
rhymes: -ɒbɪn
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxalbumin obtained from the locust tree.
Derived terms: antirobin
Related terms: robinin
round-robin
IPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪ.piːˈeɪ/
ipa: [ˌaɪ.pʰiːˈeɪ]
rhymes: -eɪ
Senses: examples: text: However, beyond lexis, the Macmillan range includes other adaptations, such as IPA encoding which reflects Indian English pronunciation, and etymologies that distinguish between "tatsama" and "tadbhava" terms, based on McGregor (1992).
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297:
text: Those two proposals included a few retired and para-IPA letters, but consideration of historical and para-IPA modifiers was largely deferred until the IPA could more fully discuss the desired scope of such encoding through the newly established Alphabet, Charts and Fonts Committee. […] By ‘para-IPA,’ we mean symbols that are commonly used within IPA notation but that are not themselves part of the IPA alphabet.
ref: 2024 June 6, Kirk Miller, “L2/24-171: Miscellaneous historical and para-IPA modifier letters”, in UTC Document Registry, page 1:
coordinate_terms: extIPA
para-IPA
glosses: Initialism of International Phonetic Alphabet.
coordinate_terms: JIPA
glosses: Initialism of International Phonetic Association.
glosses: Initialism of International Police Association.
IPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪ.piːˈeɪ/
ipa: [ˌaɪ.pʰiːˈeɪ]
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: IPAs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of isopropyl alcohol.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of isophthalic acid.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of isopropyl acetate.
examples: text: Not bad for an amber or pale ale, but India pale ale, I don't think so. So why does Bass put IPA on the label?
ref: 1998, Pete Slosberg, Beer for Pete's Sake: The Wicked Adventures of a Brewing Maverick, page 128:
topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of India pale ale.
glosses: Transcription written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
glosses: An IPA file, or an iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, or tvOS app distributed via IPA files.
altimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: əltĭmētər
ipa: /ælˈtɪm.ɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: altimeters
form: altimetre
Etymology: Coined based on Latin altus (“high”) + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: For that reason, if you do any mountain climbing, allow a generous margin of error of extra altitude—not only for possible altimeter error, but also for downdrafts that are particularly prevalent if high winds are encountered.
ref: 2000, Paul E. Illman, The Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: An apparatus for measuring altitude.
Derived terms: absolute altimeter
altimetric
altimetry
pressure altimeter
radio altimeter
applaud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈplɔːd/
ipa: /əˈplɔd/
ipa: /əˈplɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: applauds
Etymology: From Middle English applauden, from Latin applaudere (“to clap the hands together, applaud”), from ad (“to”) + plaudere (“to strike, clap”).
Senses: glosses: Applause; applauding.
glosses: Plaudit.
Related terms: applause
applaud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈplɔːd/
ipa: /əˈplɔd/
ipa: /əˈplɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: applauds
form: applauding
form: applauded
form: applauded
Etymology: From Middle English applauden, from Latin applaudere (“to clap the hands together, applaud”), from ad (“to”) + plaudere (“to strike, clap”).
Senses: examples: text: After the performance, the audience applauded for five minutes.
glosses: To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.
examples: text: Although we don't like your methods, we applaud your motives.
text: Now by the Gods, I do applaude his courage.
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 v]:
text: It moved him to within one goal of Thierry Henry's 34 in 2004 and Henry - honoured with a statue outside the stadium on Friday - rose from his seat in the stands to applaud Van Persie.
ref: 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To praise, or express approval for something or someone.
Synonyms: beclap
Derived terms: applaudable
applauder
applaudingly
applaud to the echo
reapplaud
unapplauded
unapplauding
Related terms: explosion
implausible
implode
plaudit
plausible
bacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bakˈtɪə̯.ri.ə/
ipa: /bækˈtɪɹ.i.ə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin bacteria, plural of bactērium, from Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion, “little rod”).
Senses: glosses: plural of bacterium
bacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bakˈtɪə̯.ri.ə/
ipa: /bækˈtɪɹ.i.ə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: bacterias
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin bacteria, plural of bactērium, from Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion, “little rod”).
Senses: examples: text: Anaerobic bacteria function in the absence of oxygen, where as aerobic bacteria require sunlight and also oxygen. Both these bacterias are capable of breaking down the organic matter […]
ref: 2002, A.C. Panchdhari, Water Supply and Sanitary Installations, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: A type, species, or strain of bacterium.
glosses: Alternative form of bacterium.
glosses: Lowlife, slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
Derived terms: word: Archaebacteria
word: Archebacteria
word: archaebacteria
word: archebacteria
word: Bacteria
word: bacterialess
word: bacterin
word: bacteriosis
word: bacteriuria
word: bacterivore
word: bacterize
word: Eubacteria
word: eubacteria
english: Chloroflexi
translation: Chloroflexi
word: green non-sulfur bacteria
english: Chlorobiaceae
translation: Chlorobiaceae
word: green sulfur bacteria
word: pseudobacteria
alt: Pseudomonadota
word: purple bacteria
english: Myxococcales
translation: Myxococcales
word: slime bacteria
word: spherobacteria
Related terms: word: culture
bacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bakˈtɪə̯.ri.ə/
ipa: /bækˈtɪɹ.i.ə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: bacteriae
Etymology: From New Latin bactēria, from Ancient Greek βακτηρίᾱ (baktēríā, “rod, stick”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.
relaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlækst/
rhymes: -ækst
Etymology: From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relax
belly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛli/
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: bellies
form: bellying
form: bellied
form: bellied
form: bellie
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows.
For the belly — bellows connection compare typologically Macedonian мев (mev, “abdomen, belly; bellows”). Also compare Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows; bladder; ...”), Latin venter — vēsīca, Russian пу́зо (púzo) — пузы́рь (puzýrʹ), пузырёк (puzyrjók).
Senses: examples: text: Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “The Sounding of the Call”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
examples: text: The Pow'r appeaſ'd, with Winds ſuffic'd the Sail, / The bellying Canvaſs ſtrutted with the Gale; […]
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 213:
text: The halliards twanged against the tops, the bunting bellied broad,
ref: 1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Rhyme of the Three Captains:
text: There were trees whose trunks bellied into huge swellings.
ref: 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, chapter 6, in Through the Brazilian Wilderness:
text: 1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
winds from sternward
Bore us onward with bellying canvas ...
text: 1930, Otis Adelbert Kline, The Prince of Peril, serialized in Argosy, Chapter 1,
The building stood on a circular foundation, and its walls, instead of mounting skyward in a straight line, bellied outward and then curved in again at the top.
glosses: To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
examples: text: Your breath of full consent bellied his sails; […]
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat-lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter I, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause to swell out; to fill.
Derived terms: bellying
belly out
belly up
bestow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈstəʊ/
ipa: /bɪˈstoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: bestows
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁epi
The verb is derived from Middle English bestowen, bistouen, bistowen (“to give, bestow; to apply (something to something else); to arrange or have control over (something); to place (someone) in a position; to use (for some purpose); (reflexive) to find (oneself) a place to live or shelter”) [and other forms], from bi- (prefix forming verbs, often with a completive, figurative, or intensive meaning) + stouen, stowen (“to pack (cargo) in a ship, stow; to place (someone) in a certain position; to provide quarters for, lodge; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to place; to stand (up)”)). The English word is analysable as be- (intensifying prefix forming verbs) + stow (“to put (something) away in a suitable place; etc.”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: The Muſes bacely begge, or bibbe, or both, and muſt, for vvhy? / They finde as bad Beſtoe as is their Portage beggerly: / Yea novv by melancholie vvalkes and thred-bare coates vve geſſe / At Clyents and at Poetes: none vvorke more and profit leſſe, […]
ref: 1602, William Warner, “The Fifth Booke. Chapter XXVII.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 134:
synonyms: bestowing
bestowment
glosses: An act of presenting a thing to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; a bestowal.
blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæŋkɪt/
ipa: [ˈblæŋkɪt]
ipa: [ˈble(ɪ)ŋkɪt]
ipa: [ˈblaŋkɪt]
ipa: [ˈblæːŋkɪt]
ipa: [ˈblaŋkɪt]
rhymes: -æŋkɪt
Forms: form: blankets
Etymology: From Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”), Norwegian kvitel (“blanket”).
Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).
Senses: examples: text: The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
text: The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
glosses: A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
examples: text: The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
text: In this case, the excavations were carried down to a depth of 3 ft. 9 in. below rail level, and pre-cast concrete slabs were laid between a 12 in. blanket of quarry waste and the ballast.
ref: 1948 March and April, “Noes and News: Slab Blanketing at Clapham Junction”, in Railway Magazine, page 131:
glosses: A covering layer of anything.
examples: text: A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
glosses: A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
glosses: A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Derived terms: big blue blanket
biliblanket
blanket ass
blanket ballot
blanket ban
blanket bath
blanket bog
blanket bush
blanket chest
blanket-coat
blanket finish
blanketflower
blanket flower
blanket head
blanket insulation
blanketless
blanket lien
blanketlike
blanket loan
blanketly
blanketmaker
blanketmaking
blanketman
blanket octopus
blanket order
blanket party
blanket sheet
blanket statement
blanket stitch
blanket-stitch
blanket term
blanketweed
blankety
blankie
blanky
blue blanket
California blanket
Chilkat blanket
dog in a blanket
electric blanket
fire blanket
Hoover blanket
horse blanket
Hudson's Bay blanket
Linus blanket
Murrumbidgee blanket
on the blanket
on the wrong side of the blanket
overblanket
pig in a blanket
point blanket
put a blanket over
quarter blanket
reblanket
receiving blanket
saddle blanket
sauna blanket
security blanket
Slanket
space blanket
split the blanket
stick like shit to a blanket
throw a wet blanket on
throw blanket
tyre blanket
unblanketed
underblanket
wet blanket
wet-blanket
Related terms: comforter
doona
duvet
quilt
blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæŋkɪt/
ipa: [ˈblæŋkɪt]
ipa: [ˈble(ɪ)ŋkɪt]
ipa: [ˈblaŋkɪt]
ipa: [ˈblæːŋkɪt]
ipa: [ˈblaŋkɪt]
rhymes: -æŋkɪt
Etymology: From Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”), Norwegian kvitel (“blanket”).
Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).
Senses: examples: text: Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.
ref: 1994, Deborah Dash Moore, To the Golden Cities:
text: Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach
ref: 2009, Gayle Letherby, Kate Williams, Philip Birch, Sex as Crime, page 57:
text: Disenchanted with socialism, they unleashed free enterprise (or tried to) and backed it up with a more-or-less blanket endorsement of the old ways.
ref: 2010, Jay Cassell, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, page 428:
text: By contrast, any emotional or motivational explanation of autism would seem to predict too blanket a degree of social disinterest.
ref: 2013, Eric Schopler, Gary B. Mesibov, Learning and Cognition in Autism, page 187:
text: The second reason offered for blanket nonprosecutions for crimes committed at the megabanks involves the possibility that such prosecutions could harm the economy.
ref: 2017, Mary Kreiner Ramirez, Steven A. Ramirez, The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty, page 207:
text: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday wrote to his counterparts in Delhi, Haryana, Odisha and Rajasthan urging them to reconsider the blanket ban on sale of firecrackers in their respective States.
ref: 2021 October 15, “Stalin writes to four States CMs against blanket ban on firecrackers”, in The Hindu:
synonyms: word: all-encompassing
word: exhaustive
word: across-the-board
word: all around
word: all-embracing
word: all-encompassing
word: blanket
word: broad
word: comprehensive
word: exhaustive
word: overall
word: sweeping
word: thorough
glosses: General; covering or encompassing everything.
microbe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəʊb/
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊb/
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊb/
ipa: [ˈmʌɪkɹoʊb]
ipa: /ˈmɑɪkɹəʉb/
ipa: /ˈmɑɪkɹɐʉb/
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹɐʉb/
Forms: form: microbes
Etymology: From French microbe, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) and βίος (bíos, “life”). By surface analysis, micro- + -obe.
Senses: examples: text: We humans and other complex animals are full of microbes, gajillions of them. People have so many that microbe cells living in our bodies outnumber our own vastly.
ref: 2015 March 13, Ben Brumfield, “You may be your germs: Microbe genes slipped into human DNA, study says”, in CNN:
text: Yes, there are microbes everywhere and most are just fine for us, perhaps even beneficial to our microbiomes and immune systems. We don’t care about those.
ref: 2019 October 7, Sandee LaMotte, “The germiest place in your home and the best way to combat those microbes”, in CNN:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any microorganism; (loosely, nonscientifically) especially, a harmful bacterium.
Derived terms: antimicrobe
microbeless
microbial
microbian
microbic
microbicide
microbiosis
microbism
microbivore
microbivorous
mimivirus
nanobe
pseudomicrobe
radiobe
supermicrobe
Related terms: microorganism
jeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪə/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jeers
Etymology: From earlier gyr, probably from Dutch gieren (“to roar with laughter, laugh loudly”) (related to German gieren (“to gape, snap”)); or from Dutch gekscheren (“to jeer”, literally “to shear the fool”), from gek (“a fool”) (see geck) + scheren (“to shear”) (see shear (verb)). The OED states no verifiable connection to English cheer.
Senses: examples: 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Fable of Midas, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5,
Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears.
synonyms: scoff
taunt
flout
jibe
mockery
glosses: A mocking remark or reflection.
jeer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪə/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jeers
form: jeering
form: jeered
form: jeered
Etymology: From earlier gyr, probably from Dutch gieren (“to roar with laughter, laugh loudly”) (related to German gieren (“to gape, snap”)); or from Dutch gekscheren (“to jeer”, literally “to shear the fool”), from gek (“a fool”) (see geck) + scheren (“to shear”) (see shear (verb)). The OED states no verifiable connection to English cheer.
Senses: examples: text: But when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, / And passe the bonds of modest merimake, / Her dalliance he despisd, and follies did forsake.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:
text: At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
raw_tags: with at
examples: text: And if we cannot jeer them, we jeer ourselves.
ref: 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.
Synonyms: sense: to utter sarcastic remarks
word: scoff
sense: to utter sarcastic remarks
word: sneer
sense: to treat with scoffs
word: deride
sense: to treat with scoffs
word: flout
sense: to treat with scoffs
word: gibe
sense: to treat with scoffs
word: mock
sense: to treat with scoffs
word: ridicule
word: mock
word: deride
Derived terms: jeerer
jeeringly
jeerleader
jeery
outjeer
jeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪə/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jeers
Etymology: Compare gear.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A gear; a tackle.
examples: text: In the nineteenth century, 1811 to be exact, the jeers were unrove after the yard was slung, the weight of the yard being borne by chain slings. The jeers used then were a treble block lashed to the mast head through a hole in the center of the top
ref: 1984, James Lees, The masting and rigging of English ships of war, 1625-1860, page 65:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
Derived terms: jeer capstan
vel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vel (“or”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The ∨ symbol used to represent the inclusive or, which is a logical connective.
Related terms: vel non
journey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝni/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni
Forms: form: journeys
form: journeying
form: journeyed
form: journeyed
Etymology: From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.
Senses: examples: text: The arrangement for certain long-distance trains to call at suburban stations (saving passengers the trouble of journeying to the termini), which proved popular last year, is being extended.
ref: 1951 June, “British Railways Summer Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 419:
glosses: To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
Synonyms: wayfare
journey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝni/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝni/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni
Forms: form: journeys
Etymology: Reborrowing from French journée (day's activities), originally an unadapted borrowing from French journée, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The total time spent melting and working one piece.
Synonyms: word: fare
word: journey
word: sith
word: trip
Hyponyms: word: constitutional
word: course
word: drive
word: excursion
word: exodus
word: expedition
word: flight
word: hegira
word: hike
word: jaunt
word: outing
word: peregrination
word: pilgrimage
word: raik
word: ramble
word: ride
word: tab
word: tour
word: tramp
word: travel
word: trek
word: trudge
word: voyage
word: walk
word: wayfare
word: yomp
Meronyms: word: departure
word: launch
word: outset
word: takeoff
word: change
word: landfall
word: leg
word: passage
word: stage
word: final approach
word: home straight
word: home stretch
word: arrival
Related terms: word: move
word: vehicle
venom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛnəm/
rhymes: -ɛnəm
Forms: form: venoms
form: venoming
form: venomed
form: venomed
Etymology: From Middle English venym, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venīmen, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum (“drug; poison; a charm”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”). Doublet of venin and venene.
Senses: examples: text: 1566, Thomas Blundeville (translator and editor), The Fower Chiefyst Offices Belongyng to Horsemanshippe, London, Chapter 36,
[…] washe all the filth away with warme water, and annoynte the place with Hony and Fytch flower myngled together. But beware you touche none of the kirnelles with your bare finger, for feare of venoming the place, which is very apt for a Fistula to breede in.
text: Let’s leave the hermit pity with our mothers, / And when we have our armours buckled on, / The venom’d vengeance ride upon our swords, / Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: The Dragon is a venemous beast, and poisoneth all where he lieth; he beats the Earth bare, and venoms it, that it will bear no grass […]
ref: 1669, John Bunyan, “The Holy Citie, or, The New-Jerusalem”, in Commentary, London: Francis Smith, Chapter 21, Verse 25, pp. 229-230:
text: Our Fountains too a dire Infection yield,
For Crowds of Vipers creep along the Field,
And with polluted Gore, and baneful Steams,
Taint all the Lakes, and venom all the Streams.
ref: 1717, “The Story of Ants chang’d to Men”, in William Stonestreet, transl., edited by Samuel Garth, Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most eminent hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 7, p. 239:
glosses: To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
Derived terms: venomer