cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
die
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dī
ipa: /daɪ/
ipa: [daj]
ipa: [dɑj]
ipa: [dɑj]
ipa: [daj]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [dəj]
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: dye
homophone: Di
homophone: Dai
homophone: daye
Forms: form: dies
form: dye
Etymology: From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum.
Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).
Senses: glosses: The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
glosses: A device for cutting into a specified shape.
glosses: A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
glosses: A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
glosses: An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
examples: text: The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.
ref: 2002, John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Once the wafer has undergone the wafer-probe test, it is separated into individual dice by sawing or scribing and breaking. The dice are visually inspected, sorted, and readied for assembly into packages.
ref: 2009, Paul R. Gray, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159:
topics: dice
games
qualifier: semiconductors
glosses: An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
examples: text: Some young creatures have learnt their letters and syllables, and the pronouncing and spelling of words, by having them pasted or written upon many little flat tablets or dies.
ref: 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Any small cubical or square body.
die
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dī
ipa: /daɪ/
ipa: [daj]
ipa: [dɑj]
ipa: [dɑj]
ipa: [daj]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [dəj]
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: dye
homophone: Di
homophone: Dai
homophone: daye
Forms: form: dice
form: dies
form: dye
Etymology: From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum.
Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).
Senses: examples: text: Most dice are six-sided.
text: I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
text: If a Dye were mark’d with one Figure or Number of Spots on four Sides, and with another Figure or Number of Spots on the two remaining Sides, ’twould be more probable, that the former ſhould turn up than the latter;
ref: 1748, [David Hume], “Of Probability”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 94:
text: When you roll two dies—or three, or four—the odds of obtaining a specific number becomes complex in a logarithmic progression.
ref: 2000, Richard Shoup, edited by Barry Lenson, Take Control Of Your Life: How to Control Fate, Luck, Chaos, Karma, and Life’s Other Unruly Forces, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 42:
text: We roll two dies repeatedly until we get the first double.
ref: 2012, Rinaldo B. Schinazi, “Probability Space”, in Probability with Statistical Applications, 2nd edition, Birkhäuser, →ISBN, “Independent Events”, “Exercises”, page 16:
text: Roll two dies 24 times. What is the probability of rolling at least one double 6?
ref: 2014, Ionut Florescu, Ciprian A. Tudor, Handbook of Probability, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN:
text: When this creature enters the battlefield, roll a six-sided die. You gain life equal to the result.
ref: 2017 December 8, “Adorable Kitten”, in Unstable, Wizards of the Coast:
glosses: An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
examples: text: […]For th'equall die of warre he well did know.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13, page 249:
glosses: That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
Synonyms: cube of chance
cube of fortune
Derived terms: beer die
coin die
counterdie
d10
d100
d1000
d12
d20
d4
d6
d66
d666
d8
die bonder
die cap
die-cast
die-casting
die-cut
die cutting
die grinder
dieless
dielike
diemaker
die plate
diesinker
diesinking
diestock
diework
doubling die
drugstore die
fuzzy die
loaded dice
on-die
poker die
precision die
straight as a die
the die is cast
tool and die
true as a die
die
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dī
ipa: /daɪ/
ipa: [daj]
ipa: [dɑj]
ipa: [dɑj]
ipa: [daj]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [dəj]
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: dye
homophone: Di
homophone: Dai
homophone: daye
Forms: form: dies
form: dye
Etymology: Variant spelling.
Senses: examples: text: He hath carried his friendship to this man to a blameable length, by too long concealing facts of the blackest die.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dye.
die
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: dī
ipa: /daɪ/
ipa: [daj]
ipa: [dɑj]
ipa: [dɑj]
ipa: [daj]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [dəj]
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: dye
homophone: Di
homophone: Dai
homophone: daye
Forms: form: dye
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin die (“[in a] day”), locative of Latin dies (“day”).
Senses: examples: text: Clozapine 100 mg die a.m.
translation: Clozapine, 100 milligrams per day, given in the morning
english: Clozapine, 100 milligrams per day, given in the morning
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: per day
Related terms: adjournment sine die
de die ad diem
de die in diem
sine die
in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
enpr: ĭn
ipa: /ɪn/
note: stressed form
enpr: ən
ipa: /ən/
ipa: /ɘn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: an (unstressed form)
homophone: and (unstressed form)
homophone: inn
Forms: form: ins
form: inning
form: inned
form: inned
form: i'
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁en
Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.
Sense 1/2 "in"/"into" are from the original PIE prefix, with locative/accusative case respectively. Sense 3/4 "qualification"/"means" are from the PIE metaphor of all infinitives coming from locatives.
Senses: glosses: To enclose.
examples: text: He that ears my land spares my team and gives me leave to in the crop.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To take in; to harvest.
in
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
enpr: ĭn
ipa: /ɪn/
note: stressed form
enpr: ən
ipa: /ən/
ipa: /ɘn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: an (unstressed form)
homophone: and (unstressed form)
homophone: inn
Forms: form: i'
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁en
Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.
Sense 1/2 "in"/"into" are from the original PIE prefix, with locative/accusative case respectively. Sense 3/4 "qualification"/"means" are from the PIE metaphor of all infinitives coming from locatives.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly a strange man walked in.
text: Would you like that to take away or eat in?
text: He ran to the edge of the swimming pool and dived in.
text: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
examples: text: They flew in from London last night.
text: For six hours the tide flows in, then for another six hours it flows out.
glosses: Towards the speaker or other reference point.
examples: text: Bring the water to the boil and drop the vegetables in.
glosses: So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
examples: text: The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.
text: The Black Cats had a mountain to climb after James Morrison's header and Shane Long's neat side-foot finish gave Albion a 2-0 lead five minutes in.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2-2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: After the beginning of something.
examples: sing-in, pray-in, hug-in; see also be-in, love-in, sit-in, teach-in.
glosses: Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
raw_tags: after a verb
in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
enpr: ĭn
ipa: /ɪn/
note: stressed form
enpr: ən
ipa: /ən/
ipa: /ɘn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: an (unstressed form)
homophone: and (unstressed form)
homophone: inn
Forms: form: ins
form: i'
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁en
Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.
Sense 1/2 "in"/"into" are from the original PIE prefix, with locative/accusative case respectively. Sense 3/4 "qualification"/"means" are from the PIE metaphor of all infinitives coming from locatives.
Senses: examples: text: His parents got him an in with the company.
text: Holleran's and White's diminishing capacities as writers does not affect their publishing ins': the writer the house knows is always better than the writer the house doesn't know.
ref: 1987 February 1, T. R. Witomski, “Zeitgeist or Poltergeist? Why Gay Books Are So Bad”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 9:
glosses: A position of power or influence, or a way to get it.
examples: text: This memoir has nothing to do with the question between the ins and the outs; it is intended neither to support nor to assail the administration; it is general in its views upon a general and national subject; […]
ref: 1827, Benjamin Chew, A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World, page 192:
antonyms: out
glosses: One who, or that which, is in; especially, one who is in office.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting; see innings.
Related terms: ins and outs
in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
enpr: ĭn
ipa: /ɪn/
note: stressed form
enpr: ən
ipa: /ən/
ipa: /ɘn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: an (unstressed form)
homophone: and (unstressed form)
homophone: inn
Forms: form: ins
form: in
form: in.
Senses: examples: text: Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself.
ref: 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
glosses: Abbreviation of inch or inches.
een
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Senses: examples: text: And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:
text: But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart, while his feet would impel him to flight.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: plural of eye
een
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From a contraction of even.
Senses: glosses: even.
een
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: eens
Etymology: From even (“evening”).
Senses: glosses: evening.
Synonyms: eve
eventide
forenight
evening
niet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Before if you wanted to make a request they said, ‘Niet.’ You would be shooting something, and they would say you were finished, and it was over.
ref: 1993, Douglas Thompson, quoting Sean Connery, “Michelle in Moscow”, in Pfeiffer: Beyond the Age of Innocence, London: Smith Gryphon, →ISBN, page 148:
text: Heedless of my cries of ‘Niet, niet!’, he grabbed poor Vladimir and hoisted him back aboard.
ref: 2003, John Oaksey, “‘Hope you get something to write about’”, in Mince Pie for Starters: A Racing Life, London: Headline, →ISBN, page 162:
text: “Sorry I have no change.” / “Niet,” No, she protested, unfolding the note and holding it up to the other women.
ref: 2015, Diane Chandler, chapter 5, in The Road to Donetsk, London: Blackbird Digital Books, →ISBN, pages 46–47:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nyet.
google
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: go͞o'g(ə)l
ipa: /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
homophone: Google
homophone: googol
homophone: gugel
rhymes: -uːɡəl
Forms: form: googles
form: googling
form: googled
form: googled
Etymology: Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
Derived terms: googler
google
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: go͞o'g(ə)l
ipa: /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
homophone: Google
homophone: googol
homophone: gugel
rhymes: -uːɡəl
Forms: form: googles
form: Google
Etymology: From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).
Senses: examples: text: Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.
ref: 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
examples: text: The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: Google hit
ghit
hypernyms: hit
result
glosses: A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
Derived terms: googlebomb
googlewhack
googlish
Related terms: googol
google
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: go͞o'g(ə)l
ipa: /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
homophone: Google
homophone: googol
homophone: gugel
rhymes: -uːɡəl
Forms: form: googles
form: googling
form: googled
form: googled
form: Google
Etymology: From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).
Senses: examples: text: Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
text: Have fun and keep googling!
ref: 1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups, archived from the original on 09 Oct 1999:
text: Willow: Have you googled her yet?
Xander: Willow! She's 17!
Willow: It's a search engine.
ref: 2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon):
text: Google it.
ref: 2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez):
text: Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]
ref: 2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021, page A-19:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
examples: text: I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
examples: text: His name googles.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
Derived terms: FGI
googlable
googleable
googler
google up
JFGI
LMGTFY
quod google
ungooglable
unGoogleable
ungoogleable
google
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: go͞o'g(ə)l
ipa: /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
homophone: Google
homophone: googol
homophone: gugel
rhymes: -uːɡəl
Etymology: See googol.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Misspelling of googol.
foreign debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign debts
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A debt that a country, an organization in a country, or a resident individual in a country owes to those in other countries.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An aggregate amount of such debts.
Synonyms: external debt
Coordinate terms: domestic debt
Related terms: debt
foreign
lens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛnz/
rhymes: -ɛnz
Forms: form: lenses
form: lensing
form: lensed
form: lensed
form: lense
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “lens”, a semantic loan from Arabic عَدْسَة (ʕadsa, “lentil; optic lens”).
Senses: examples: text: It’s set in an anonymous, upper-middle-class suburb, lensed in the generic gunmetal gray that will one day appear as dated as the fuzzy outlines of ’80s direct-to-video horror movies.
ref: 2020 May 7, Katie Rife, “If you’re looking to jump in your seat, make a playdate with Z”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 16 May 2020:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: To film, shoot.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To become thinner towards the edges.
whatever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wʌtˈɛv.ɚ/
ipa: [wʌɾˈɛv.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
other: /t/
Forms: form: whatevers
Etymology: From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
Senses: examples: text: As far as I'm concerned Alec is dead. Whatever they've got in there, that...whatever.
ref: 1965 January 2, Sidney Ellis (story), Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), “The Brain of Colonel Barham”, in The Outer Limits, season 2, episode 15, spoken by Jennifer Barham (Elizabeth Perry), speaking of her husband, whose brain is being kept alive in a vat, production code 46:
glosses: A thing or person whose actual name is unknown or forgotten.
whatever
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wʌtˈɛv.ɚ/
ipa: [wʌɾˈɛv.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
other: /t/
Etymology: From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Good heavens! Whatever time is it?!
glosses: What ever; emphatic form of 'what'.
examples: text: Whatever your choice, there will be consequences.
text: I will stick with you, whatever fate befalls us.
glosses: Regardless of the ... that; for any ... that.
examples: text: Whatever doubts I had were quickly dispelled.
text: Write down whatever thoughts come into your mind.
text: So may whatever tempest mars
⁠Mid-ocean, spare thee, sacred bark;
⁠And balmy drops in summer dark
Slide from the bosom of the stars.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 28:
text: As far as I'm concerned Alec is dead. Whatever they've got in there, that...whatever.
ref: 1965 January 2, Sidney Ellis (story), Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), “The Brain of Colonel Barham”, in The Outer Limits, season 2, episode 15, spoken by Jennifer Barham (Elizabeth Perry), speaking of her husband, whose brain is being kept alive in a vat, production code 46:
text: Whatever utility the work may have outside of its stated boundaries will be largely because of such a nonprovincial approach.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
text: In an expression that reflects the pathos of a person without memory of a recent past, Milner quotes H.M. as saying, "Every day is alone in itself, whatever enjoyment I've had, and whatever sorrow I've had Right now, I'm wondering. Have I done or said anything amiss? That's what worries me. It's like waking from a dream; I just don't remember."
ref: 1997, Warren S. Brown, Nancey C. Murphy, H. Newton Malony, Whatever Happened to the Soul?:, page 115:
glosses: Any ... that; of no matter what type or kind that.
examples: text: He must be stopped, whatever the cost.
glosses: Any; of no matter what type or kind.
Derived terms: Two Whatevers
whatever helps you sleep at night
whateverism
whateverist
whateverness
whatever next
whatever the case may be
whatever you do
whatsoever
what-so-ever
whatever
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wʌtˈɛv.ɚ/
ipa: [wʌɾˈɛv.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
other: /t/
Etymology: From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever do you mean?
text: Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?
He got an ice pick
That made his ears burn
ref: 1977, Hugh Cornwell, Jean-Jacques Burnel, Jet Black, “No More Heroes”, in No More Heroes, performed by The Stranglers:
glosses: What ever; emphasised form of 'what', used to ask which thing, event, circumstance, etc.
examples: text: Whatever he does, he will still lose the game.
text: Whatever happens, stay calm.
glosses: Regardless of anything that.
examples: text: Do whatever works.
text: I’ll do whatever I can.
text: And ſpight of Pride, and in thy Reaſon's ſpight, / One truth is clear; "Whatever Is, is Right."
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 16, lines 280–281:
text: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
qualifier: fused relative
glosses: Anything that; all that.
examples: text: I don't need any of this stuff, so take whatever.
text: "As far as I'm concerned, Alec is dead. Whatever they've got in there, that — whatever —."
ref: 1965 January 2, “The Brain of Colonel Barham”, in The Outer Limits, season 2, episode 15:
text: There's a pile of stuff on that table; clippings, pamphlets, posters, whatever, that needs to be sorted and filed.
ref: 2021, Michael Kurland, Whatever the Cost:
glosses: Anything; thing(s) of unspecified kind, or no matter what kind; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.
Related terms: whatever butters your biscuit
whatever butters your biscuits
whatever butters your bread
whatever butters your muffin
whatever butters your toast
whatever creams your twinkie
whatever floats your boat
whatever humps your camel
whatever it takes
whatever melts your butter
whatever sizzles your bacon
whatever tickles your pickle
whatever winds your clock
whatever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wʌtˈɛv.ɚ/
ipa: [wʌɾˈɛv.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
other: /t/
Etymology: From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
Senses: examples: text: There is no point whatever in going on with this discussion.
text: He is quite unconscious; and, though your presence is a relief to me, you must remember that there is no hope - no hope whatever.
ref: 1874, Dorothy Henrietta Boulger, True to her trust; or, 'Womanly past question', page 236:
text: So then arose the horrible confusion perpetuated ever since, of perversely different kinds of weights, jostling each other in Britain; Troy weight and Avoirdupois weight and Apothecaries' weight, wherein or whereamongst every one is at sea with regard to testing them, and no one whatever is satisfied.
ref: 1864, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, page 207:
text: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, “The Purchase Price”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.
ref: 1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
text: His repetitive toil is his life and reality, and it goes on forever, and it is without any meaning whatever.
ref: 1999, Louis P. Pojman, Life and Death: A Reader in Moral Problems, page 112:
glosses: At all; in any way; whatsoever.
raw_tags: with negative
examples: text: Whatever does it matter now?
coordinate_terms: however
glosses: In what way; to what extent.
Related terms: howsoever
whatever
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wʌtˈɛv.ɚ/
ipa: [wʌɾˈɛv.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
other: /t/
Etymology: From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: meh, so what
text: So you broke it? Whatever! Get a grip.
text: Go brush your teeth. – Whatever!
text: "... between you and Irene." "Iris." "Whatever."
ref: 1983 December 19, “The Looks of Love”, in Newhart, season 2, episode 9:
text: "... now it's Violet." "Iris." "Whatever."
ref: 1983 December 19, “The Looks of Love”, in Newhart, season 2, episode 9:
text: "It's not silk, it's muslin." "Whatever."
ref: 1991 January 23, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, page 66:
text: Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog.
ref: 1998 June 3, “Conjoined Fetus Lady”, in South Park, season 2, episode 5:
synonyms: whatev
whevs
what the fuck ever
whatever you say
;
whoopee do
;
if you say so
glosses: A holophrastic expression used to dismiss something that the speaker doesn't care about, doesn't think important, or doesn't want to consider or discuss any further. Sometimes conceived as an ellipsis of whatever you say, implying feigned deference: whatever you say [apparently must be true].
whatever
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wɒtˈɛv.ə/
ipa: /wʌtˈɛv.ɚ/
ipa: [wʌɾˈɛv.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
other: /t/
Forms: form: more whatever
form: most whatever
Etymology: From Middle English whatever. By surface analysis, what + ever.
Senses: examples: text: All in all, I guess I shouldn't be complaining, but the rest of the show, imho, was very whatever-ish.
ref: 1996, Mathias, “Lake Placid Comments”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet):
text: She's like so whatever / You can do so much better
ref: 2007, Avril Lavigne, “Girlfriend”, in The Best Damn Thing:
glosses: Unexceptional or unimportant; blah.
transvestite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈvɛs.taɪt/
rhymes: -ɛstaɪt
Forms: form: transvestites
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trāns + vestītus, form of vestiō (“I clothe, I dress”) (as in English vestment, vest). Literally, a "cross-dresser". From transvestitism, from German Transvestitismus, coined in 1910 by Magnus Hirschfeld (the practice itself is much older).
Senses: examples: text: Even though Steven used to dress up in his sister's clothes, it still came as a surprise he ended up as a transvestite.
synonyms: cross-dresser
TV
tranny
transy
glosses: A person who sometimes wears clothes traditionally worn by and associated with the opposite sex; typically a male who cross-dresses occasionally by habit or personal choice.
topics: clinical-psychology
human-sciences
medicine
pathology
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A person, typically a heterosexual male, who compulsively seeks and derives paraphilic sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
examples: text: "Proper" scorpion fly behavior entails the catching of an edible insect by the male, who then offers it to the female […] If she likes the gift, she mates with the male. Thornhill, however, has observed males approaching other males, assuming the female role until they get a grip on the food. Once they have it, they try to run away with it. The "transvestite" males, according to Thornhill, have an advantage over the other males because they have others do the hunting for them, leaving the "transvestites" more time to reproduce. In additon ^([sic]), the "transvestite" scorpion flies would avoid such hazards of the hunt as spider webs.
ref: 1979 August 18, “Get A Grip On The Food”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 2:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An animal that engages in sexual mimicry.
Derived terms: transvestic
transvestic fetishism
transvestism
transvestitism
Related terms: travesty
eonism
eonist
Fanny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: Fannys
form: Fannie
Senses: examples: text: "My name is Frances. Don't call me Fanny!" "Why not?" "Because it's too absurd to be endured! What does the mere sound of Fanny suggest? A flirting dancing creature - plump and fair, and playful and pretty!"
ref: 1883, Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science, Chatto and Windus, page 227:
text: They listened to the sound of Fanny’s retreating footsteps. ‘Well, well!’ said Marcus. ‘Oh, take no notice Jess. You know what our Frances Maud is like! It’s nothing to cry about!’ To her humiliation Jessamy found there were tears trickling down her cheeks. ‘Always getting worked up about something, Fanny is.’
– page 105:
As she did so Fanny put down her book , stood up and stretched her arms, and at once Jessamy noticed a difference. It was the same Fanny but not the Fanny who climbed trees and tore her frock playing in the garden. It was as though a young lady film had settled over her, neatening her unruly hair, which was tied back with a large black bow, and primly composing her small mouth.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 48:
text: "I spose you want to be a cattleboy," drawled the multicolored beard whose name was Carrol Day, a curiously feminine name, thought Martin, not yet acquaintanced with the bearded Marions, Fannys and Abbys of Texas who, saddled by their unthinking mothers with dainty names, built savagely masculine frames of character.
ref: 2002, Annie Proulx, That Old Ace in the Hole, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Frances, itself also becoming a given name.
Derived terms: my aunt Fanny
domestic debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domestic debts
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: debt owed to creditors resident in the same country as the debtor
Related terms: national debt
orange
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏrʹĭnj
enpr: ŏrʹənj
ipa: /ˈɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɒɹənd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɒɹɪnʒ/
ipa: /ˈɒɹənʒ/
enpr: ôrʹĭnj
ipa: /ˈɔɹənd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɔɹnd͡ʒ/
enpr: ärʹĭnj
enpr: ŏrʹĭnj
ipa: /ˈɑɹənd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɔɹəŋʒ/
enpr: ˈoɹeɪnd͡ʒ
homophone: Orange
rhymes: -ɒɹɪndʒ
rhymes: -ɒɹəndʒ stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: oranger
form: more orange
form: orangest
form: most orange
Etymology: Etymology tree
Doric Greek μῆλον (mêlon)bor.?
Latin mālum
Italian mela
Proto-Austroasiatic *ŋaːmder.?
Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga)bor.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Italian arancio
Italian arancia
Italian melaranciacalq.
Old French Orengeinflu.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj)bor.
Old Occitan auranjainflu.
Old French pomme d'orenge
Old French orenge
Middle French orangebor.
Middle English orenge
English orange
Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and color) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)).
Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the color in 1510. In the color sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.
Senses: antonyms: nonorange
glosses: Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.
Derived terms: nonorange
orange baboon tarantula
orangeberry
orange bitey thing
orangecello
Orange Clown
orange dwarf
orange Hokkaido
Orangeism
orangeite
orangelike
orangelo
orangely
orange man bad
orangeness
orangequit
Orange Shirt Day
orange site
orange-spotted roach
Orangewoman
orangie
orangishness
Orangism
orangite
yellow-orange
orange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏrʹĭnj
enpr: ŏrʹənj
ipa: /ˈɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɒɹənd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɒɹɪnʒ/
ipa: /ˈɒɹənʒ/
enpr: ôrʹĭnj
ipa: /ˈɔɹənd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɔɹnd͡ʒ/
enpr: ärʹĭnj
enpr: ŏrʹĭnj
ipa: /ˈɑɹənd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɔɹəŋʒ/
enpr: ˈoɹeɪnd͡ʒ
homophone: Orange
rhymes: -ɒɹɪndʒ
rhymes: -ɒɹəndʒ stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: oranges
form: oranging
form: oranged
form: oranged
Etymology: Etymology tree
Doric Greek μῆλον (mêlon)bor.?
Latin mālum
Italian mela
Proto-Austroasiatic *ŋaːmder.?
Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga)bor.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Italian arancio
Italian arancia
Italian melaranciacalq.
Old French Orengeinflu.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj)bor.
Old Occitan auranjainflu.
Old French pomme d'orenge
Old French orenge
Middle French orangebor.
Middle English orenge
English orange
Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and color) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)).
Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the color in 1510. In the color sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.
Senses: examples: text: It is this composition which reaches a colourist perfection in Le Bonheur with the complementarity of violet, purple and oranged gold
ref: 1986, Gilles Deleuze, Cinema: The movement-image, page 118:
text: Jeff winked his eyes sleepily open and looked out into the cool flush of early morning. The east was oranged over with daybreak.
ref: 1987, Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie, page 256:
text: I looked at him through my binoculars, his little lips oranged with Cheeto dust.
ref: 2009, Suzanne Crowley, The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous, page 117:
glosses: To color orange.
examples: text: Cranes in the distance against the background of the slowly oranging sky
ref: 2007, Terézia Mora, Day in day out, page 296:
text: It will be followed by a disappearance of the cash I had hidden in a sealed envelope behind the oranging Modigliani print over the living room couch.
ref: 2008, Wanda Coleman, Jazz & twelve o'clock tales: new stories, page 14:
text: "What about his eyes?" / "Nothing. No oranging at all, from what I could see.
ref: 2010, Justin Cronin, The Passage, page 330:
glosses: To become orange.
Related terms: citrus
clementine
Cointreau
curaçao
mandarin
marmalade
murcott
naartjie
ortanique
pomander
satsuma
satsuma mandarin
satsuma tangerine
secondary colour
tangerine
triple sec
zest
EBITA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Acronym of earnings before interest, taxes and amortization.
Coordinate terms: EBITDA
Polish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊlɪʃ/
enpr: pōʹlĭsh
ipa: /ˈpoʊlɪʃ/
rhymes: -əʊlɪʃ
Forms: form: Pl.
Etymology: From Pole + -ish. Doublet of Poylish.
Senses: examples: text: Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed.
ref: 2007, Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, Kai Struve, Shared History, Divided Memory, page 287:
text: As we mentioned the only chemical used in Polish meats or sausages was potassium nitrate even though the list of food additives allowed in Europe was long and impressive.
ref: 2009, Stanley Marianski, Adam Marianski, Miroslaw Gebarowski, Polish Sausages: Authentic Recipes and Instructions, page 13:
text: A far-right Polish MP has extinguished candles on a menorah lit for Hanukah in Poland’s parliament, disrupting proceedings before a planned vote of confidence in the new government.
ref: 2023 December 12, Shaun Walker, “Far-right Polish MP uses fire extinguisher to put out Hanukah candles”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.
Synonyms: word: Polandish
word: Polono-
Derived terms: anti-Polish
pan-Polish
Polish fire drill
Polish Lowland Sheepdog
Polishness
Polish notation
Polish overdrive
Polish victory lap
reverse Polish notation
Polish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊlɪʃ/
enpr: pōʹlĭsh
ipa: /ˈpoʊlɪʃ/
rhymes: -əʊlɪʃ
Forms: form: Pl.
Etymology: From Pole + -ish. Doublet of Poylish.
Senses: examples: text: The big advantage of learning Russian is that, once you’re proficient, you can understand other Slav languages such as Czech, Polish or Bulgarian.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
glosses: The language spoken in Poland.
glosses: A breed of chickens with a large crest of feathers.
Derived terms: Polglish
Ponglish
Related terms: Middle Polish
Old Polish
Pole
Wikibooks:Polish language course
Wiktionary’s coverage of Polish terms
bbl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bbl
form: bbls
Etymology: Often thought to be modified from bl for barrel (b⸺l), reflecting a way of abbreviating that was used especially in previous centuries (compare do for ditto), wherein a doubled letter indicated plural count, as also with p.=page but pp.=pages and l.=line but ll.=lines; this method was used not only in English but also in scholarly New Latin and other modern languages heavily affected thereby, such as with Spanish EE. UU. According to this idea, addition of the suffix -s, as sometimes seen (e.g., 5 bbls or 5 bbls.), would seem to have come from writers who left the unit abbreviation itself unanalyzed (unparsed), thus adding a venially redundant marker of plural, somewhat like with MPGs for miles per gallon.
Senses: examples: text: measured in 1000-bbl units
text: At present prices, cylindrical steel tankage in 55,000-bbl. units costs approximately 73c. per barrel storage.
ref: 1920 May 8, H. T. Carlton, “New design for oil tankage”, in Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 109, number 19, retrieved 05 Mar 2023, page 1079:
text: The overflush consisted of 100 bbls of uncrosslinked 3000 ppm polymer, followed by one wellbore volume (~150 bbls) plus 450 bbls crude behind pipe.
ref: 1995, Proceedings, International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, page 63:
glosses: Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular).
Volumes of crude oil pumped, stored, or sold (in bulk).
qualifier: most often
raw_tags: in the 20th and 21st centuries
examples: text: 5 bbls. flour
text: Quantity & quality of Beef to be put in a bbl.
ref: 1791 June 16, Government of New Hampshire, “An Act to Regulate the Exportation of Beef and Pork”, in The Laws of the State of New-Hampshire & c., United States: J. Melcher, page 334 (marginal heading):
text: […]5 hhds. rum/ 5 bbls. flour/ 1 bbl. sugar/ 9 do. pork/ 1 do. suett/ 3 do. cocoa/ 6 do. peas/ 2 ullage bbls. vinegar[…]
ref: 1815 Niles Weekly Register volume 8, Supplement, p. 152. From an inventory of the frigate Confiance
text: 4 bbl. vinegar $32.00, 3 bbl. cider part full $6.50
ref: 1881, Ulster County, New York, County Legislature, Minutes of the Board of Supervisors of Ulster County, page 234:
glosses: Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular).
Barrels (casks) transported or sold, or the volume that they represent.
coordinate_terms: hhd.
raw_tags: in previous centuries
examples: text: 1-bbl carburetor
text: 4-bbl carburetor
text: three 2-bbl carbs
glosses: Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular).
Venturis in carburetion.
synonyms: v
V
qualifier: internal combustion engines
bbl
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of BBL.
seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛvn̩/
note: casually also
ipa: [ˈsɛbm̩]
homophone: Severn (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɛvən
Forms: form: 7
form: VII
form: sev'n
Etymology: PIE word
 *septḿ̥
From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”).
Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).
Senses: examples: text: 1 Now Iericho was straitly shut vp, because of the children of Israel: none went out, & none came in.
2 And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, See, I haue giuen into thine hand Iericho, and the King thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3 And ye shall compasse the city, all yee men of warre, and goe round about the city once: thus shalt thou doe sixe dayes.
4 And seuen Priests shall beare before the Arke seuen trumpets of rams hornes: and the seuenth day yee shall compasse the city seuen times, and the Priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to passe that when they make a long blast with the rammes-horne, and when ye heare the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the citie shall fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp euery man straight before him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 6:1–5:
text: The cabbalism of the number seven is emphasized, for in hell seven judges at each of seven gates take one of these divine laws away from her.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
text: The seven hampers for four boys and three girls were personalised to each patient, including overnight hotel stays, colouring books and self care items.
ref: 2024 December 23, “Cancer survivor makes hampers for young patients”, in BBC:
glosses: A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.
Derived terms: four score and seven years ago
Related terms: seventh
Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
premature
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɛ.məˈtjʊə/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.mə.tjə/
ipa: /ˌpɹi.məˈtʊɹ/
ipa: /ˌpɹi.məˈt͡ʃʊɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /pri.mɛˈtʃur/
Forms: form: more premature
form: most premature
form: præmature
Etymology: From Latin praemātūrus, equivalent to pre- + mature. First use appears c. 1440 in a translation of Palladius's De Re Rustica.
Senses: examples: text: a premature birth
text: premature reports of the singer's death
glosses: Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived.
examples: text: I was lost in reveries of death, and the idea of premature burial held continual possession of my brain.
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:
glosses: Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired.
glosses: Suffering from premature ejaculation.
Synonyms: word: anticipatory
word: early
word: forward
word: hasty
word: precipitate
word: precocious
word: premature
word: prevenient
word: previous
word: unseasonable
word: untimely
Hyponyms: word: rathe
Derived terms: premature antifascist
premature birth
premature ejaculation
premature ejaculator
prematurely
premature optimisation
premature optimization
Related terms: word: unexpected
word: unprepared
word: prompt
word: prematurely
premature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɛ.məˈtjʊə/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.mə.tjə/
ipa: /ˌpɹi.məˈtʊɹ/
ipa: /ˌpɹi.məˈt͡ʃʊɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /pri.mɛˈtʃur/
Forms: form: prematures
form: præmature
Etymology: From Latin praemātūrus, equivalent to pre- + mature. First use appears c. 1440 in a translation of Palladius's De Re Rustica.
Senses: glosses: An infant born prematurely.
Related terms: get ahead of oneself
birth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːθ/
ipa: /bɜːð/
enpr: bûrth
ipa: /bɜɹθ/
ipa: /bɝð/
ipa: /bɪɹθ/
ipa: /bɪɹð/
ipa: /bøːθ/
ipa: /bøːð/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /beːθ/
ipa: /beːð/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bɛːθ/
ipa: /bɛːð/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
homophone: berth (fern–fir–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *bʰértisder.
Proto-Germanic *burþiz
Old Norse burðrbor.
Middle English birthe
English birth
From Middle English birthe (1250), from earlier burthe, burde, from Old Norse burðr, byrd (Old Swedish byrth, Swedish börd), replacing Old English ġebyrd (rare variant byrþ), equivalent to bear + -th (thus a piecewise doublet of berth). The Old Norse is from Proto-Germanic *burdiz (compare Old Frisian berde, berd); Old English ġebyrd is from prefixed *gaburþiz (compare Dutch geboorte, German Geburt), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰŕ̥tis (compare Latin fors (“luck”), Old Irish brith), from *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). More at bear.
Senses: examples: text: Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
glosses: A familial relationship established by childbirth.
Synonyms: biological
blood
consanguineous