cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
labyrinth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/
ipa: /ˈlæb.ɹɪnθ/
Forms: form: labyrinths
Etymology: From Middle English laberynt, laberynthe, from Latin labyrinthus, from Ancient Greek λᾰβύρῐνθος (lăbúrĭnthos, “a maze”).
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Churchill liked the interminable labyrinths of the Cyrus and the Cassandra, because she had liked them in the days of her girlhood. Youth identifies itself with the romance; it is the heroic knight, or the lovely lady, of which it reads; it lives amid those fine creations; its sweetest hours are given to dreams which soon "Fade into the light of common day."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 264–265:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.
A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
synonyms: maze
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.
A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.
A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths
examples: text: Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.
ref: 2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.
Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tortuous anatomical structure:
A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance, consisting of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth).
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A tortuous anatomical structure:
An accessory respiratory organ of certain fish.
glosses: Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.
Derived terms: bony labyrinth
ethmoidal labyrinth
labyrinthal
labyrinthectomy
labyrinth fish
labyrinthial
labyrinthian
labyrinthic
labyrinthical
labyrinthiform
labyrinthine
labyrinthitis
labyrinthlike
labyrinthopathy
labyrinth organ
labyrinthosis
labyrinth seal
labyrinth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/
ipa: /ˈlæb.ɹɪnθ/
Forms: form: labyrinths
form: labyrinthing
form: labyrinthed
form: labyrinthed
Etymology: From Middle English laberynt, laberynthe, from Latin labyrinthus, from Ancient Greek λᾰβύρῐνθος (lăbúrĭnthos, “a maze”).
Senses: glosses: to enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth
examples: text: It is said to have been labyrinthed by secret exits and cunning contrivances to facilitate the escape of fugitives from the law.
ref: 1898, Missionary Review of the World - Volume 21, page 178:
text: By labyrinthing, close axial running clearances can be increased without reducing efficiency.
ref: 1963, Water & Sewage Works - Volume 110, page 43:
text: In the ports the transmission path is often labyrinthed through shielding but the peculiar requirement of straight beams has been considered.
ref: 1998, Peter E. Stott, Giuseppe Gorini, Paolo Prandoni, Diagnostics for Experimental Thermonuclear Fusion Reactors:
text: The element illustrated has been 'labyrinthed' to improve its performance.
ref: 2011, Peter Capper, James Garland, Mercury Cadmium Telluride: Growth, Properties and Applications:
glosses: to arrange in the form of a labyrinth
examples: text: We labyrinthed through it, meeting scores of panty-clad and moccasined Indians and barefoot women and girls toiling marketward under atrocious burdens; for the day was Sunday.
ref: 1917, Harry Alverson Franck, Vagabonding Down the Andes, page 313:
text: Hands clasped together, Linda and Ron walked through the huge doorway leading to the hall that would labyrinth it's^([sic]) way to the parking lot.
ref: 2000, James Cook, Counter-Clockwise, page 90:
text: I'm far from home, labyrinthing through unfamiliar alleys, before I find the right house.
ref: 2017, Mahvesh Murad, Jared Shurin, Neil Gaiman, The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories:
glosses: to twist and wind, following a labyrinthine path
examples: text: They arrive at their different destinations long before day, and make their attack about day-break, and seldom fail to kill or make prisoners of the whole family, as the people know nothing of the matter until they are thus labyrinthed.
ref: 1886, Pliny A. Durant, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, page 52:
text: He favored, he said, "a kind of half-sleep where I labyrinthed myself."
ref: 1951, New Mexico Quarterly - Volumes 21-22:
text: Above all, he flatters the men by emphasising their numerical victory: a British regiment may have turned into a troop, but it left behind it 'labyrinthed legions' of dead Russians.
ref: 1995, Patrick Waddington, Theirs but to do and die, page 148:
glosses: to render lost and confused, as if in a labyrinth
lavatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæv.ə.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈlæv.ə.təɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈlæv.ə.t(ɔ)ɹ.i/
Forms: form: lavat'ry
Etymology: From Latin lavātōrius.
Senses: glosses: Washing, or cleansing by washing.
Related terms: lavatorial
lune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːn/
ipa: /lɪu̯n/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: lunes
Etymology: From Latin lūna (“moon”).
Senses: examples: text: Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 54, column 1:
text: Theſe dangerous, vnſafe Lunes i'th' King, beſhrew them: / He muſt be told on't, and he ſhall[…]
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 283, column 2:
text: A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
ref: 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:
glosses: A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
lune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːn/
ipa: /lɪu̯n/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: lunes
Etymology: From French lune, from Latin luna.
Senses: examples: text: What he worried about was any eventual convexity, a shrinking, it might be, of the planet itself to some palpable curvature of whatever he would be standing on, so that he would be left sticking out like a projected radius, unsheltered and reeling across the empty lunes of his tiny sphere.
ref: 1984, Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
glosses: Anything crescent-shaped.
Derived terms: demi-lune
lune of Hippocrates
semilune
spherical lune
lune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːn/
ipa: /lɪu̯n/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: lunes
Etymology: Alteration of lyon.
Senses: examples: text: And thenne was he ware of a Faucon came fleynge ouer his hede toward an hyghe elme / and longe lunys aboute her feet / and she flewe vnto the elme to take her perche / the lunys ouer cast aboute a bough / And whanne she wold haue taken her flyghte / she henge by the legges fast / and syre launcelot sawe how he henge
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:
topics: falconry
hawking
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A leash for a hawk.
Related terms: lunar
lunatic
lunacy
loon
Monday
universe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/
ipa: /ˈjuːniːˌvɜ(ɹ)s/
ipa: /ˈjuːnəˌvɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: Universe
Etymology: From Middle English universe, from Old French univers, from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe”), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one”), from uni-, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”). Analyzable as uni- + -verse through backformation of -verse.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe.
Synonyms: word: universe
word: Universe
word: cosmos
Meronyms: word: galaxy filament
word: supercluster
word: galaxy cluster
word: galaxy
word: star cluster
word: constellation family
word: constellation
word: star
word: Milky Way
word: Solar System
word: Earth
word: outer space
word: celestial body
word: observable universe
word: Zodiac
word: Bayer Family
word: Heavenly Waters
word: Hercules Family
word: La Caille Family
word: Orion Family
word: Perseus Family
word: Ursa Major Family
word: celestial hemisphere
word: Celestial North Pole
word: Celestial South Pole
word: celestial equator
Related terms: word: alternate universe
word: parallel universe
word: celestial sphere
downstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊnˈstɛɹz/
ipa: /daʊnˈstɛəz/
ipa: /daʊnˈsteːz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /daʊnˈstiəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /daʊnˈsteəz/
ipa: /daʊnˈsteɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /daʊnˈstɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Forms: form: further downstairs
form: farther downstairs
form: furthest downstairs
form: farthest downstairs
Etymology: From down- + stair + -s.
Senses: examples: text: The kids sleep in the downstairs bedroom; we sleep in the upstairs one.
glosses: Located on a lower floor.
Derived terms: upstairs-downstairs
downstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊnˈstɛɹz/
ipa: /daʊnˈstɛəz/
ipa: /daʊnˈsteːz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /daʊnˈstiəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /daʊnˈsteəz/
ipa: /daʊnˈsteɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /daʊnˈstɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Forms: form: further downstairs
form: farther downstairs
form: furthest downstairs
form: farthest downstairs
Etymology: From down- + stair + -s.
Senses: examples: text: I have to walk downstairs to leave the building.
text: The lodger lives downstairs.
glosses: Down the stairs.
glosses: In or to hell.
examples: text: something wrong downstairs
glosses: Regarding the genitalia.
downstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊnˈstɛɹz/
ipa: /daʊnˈstɛəz/
ipa: /daʊnˈsteːz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /daʊnˈstiəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /daʊnˈsteəz/
ipa: /daʊnˈsteɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /daʊnˈstɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Forms: form: downstairs
Etymology: From down- + stair + -s.
Senses: examples: text: We looked over the house; downstairs was spacious, but upstairs really cramped.
glosses: The lower floor of a house, at ground level, or sometimes below.
examples: text: The family tried to ignore gossip from downstairs.
text: Now the two of them rattled around in the old house, even with his office and small clinic sharing the downstairs with the kitchen, parlor, and dining room.
ref: 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices:
glosses: The lower floor of a house, at ground level, or sometimes below.
In particular, especially historically, the servants’ quarters.
examples: text: The wind lifted up her skirt and I caught a glimpse of her downstairs.
glosses: The genitalia.
upstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌstɛɹz/
ipa: /ˌʌpˈstɛəz/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌstɛəz/
ipa: /ɐpˈsteːz/
ipa: /ˈɐpsteːz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɐpˈstiəz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈɐpˌstiəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɐpˈsteəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈɐpˌsteəz/
ipa: /ʌpˈsteɹz/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌsteɹz/
ipa: /ˌʊpˈstɛːz/
ipa: /ˈʊpˌstɛːz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ʊpˈstɜː(ɹ)z/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈʊpˌstɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: upstares
homophone: upstirs (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: further upstairs
form: farther upstairs
form: furthest upstairs
form: farthest upstairs
form: up stairs
form: up-stairs
Etymology: From up- + stair + -s.
Senses: examples: text: We rent out the upstairs bedroom to a student.
glosses: Located on a higher floor or level of a building.
examples: text: That fastball was upstairs for a ball.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Pertaining to a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone.
Derived terms: upstairs-downstairs
upstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌstɛɹz/
ipa: /ˌʌpˈstɛəz/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌstɛəz/
ipa: /ɐpˈsteːz/
ipa: /ˈɐpsteːz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɐpˈstiəz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈɐpˌstiəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɐpˈsteəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈɐpˌsteəz/
ipa: /ʌpˈsteɹz/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌsteɹz/
ipa: /ˌʊpˈstɛːz/
ipa: /ˈʊpˌstɛːz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ʊpˈstɜː(ɹ)z/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈʊpˌstɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: upstares
homophone: upstirs (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: further upstairs
form: farther upstairs
form: furthest upstairs
form: farthest upstairs
form: up stairs
form: up-stairs
Etymology: From up- + stair + -s.
Senses: examples: text: I’ll take my shoes and put them away the next time I go upstairs.
text: I hate the people who live upstairs, and I especially hate their piano.
text: The woman upstairs told the people outside to stop reveling.
text: There was more dancing and singing up stairs, more wit and conversation below; all were at liberty, and all stayed late; and all talked so much of the happiness they had enjoyed, that Lady Anne felt herself exceedingly tempted to give another party before the season finally closed.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 255:
text: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; […]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:
text: Marsha, let’s go upstairs!
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text: On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: Up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level.
examples: text: After Joe did a hula dance on the kitchen table, his friends wondered if he didn’t have a lot going on upstairs.
glosses: In the brain or mind.
glosses: In heaven, especially with regard to where a deity might be found.
Derived terms: boot upstairs
check upstairs
go upstairs
kick upstairs
Man Upstairs
upstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌstɛɹz/
ipa: /ˌʌpˈstɛəz/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌstɛəz/
ipa: /ɐpˈsteːz/
ipa: /ˈɐpsteːz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɐpˈstiəz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈɐpˌstiəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɐpˈsteəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈɐpˌsteəz/
ipa: /ʌpˈsteɹz/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌsteɹz/
ipa: /ˌʊpˈstɛːz/
ipa: /ˈʊpˌstɛːz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ʊpˈstɜː(ɹ)z/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈʊpˌstɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: upstares
homophone: upstirs (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: upstairs
form: up stairs
form: up-stairs
Etymology: From up- + stair + -s.
Senses: glosses: An upper storey.
glosses: A woman's breasts.
daily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dāli
ipa: /ˈdeɪli/
ipa: /ˈɖeli/
ipa: /ˈɖɛjli/
ipa: /ˈɖe(j)li/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: dayly
Etymology: From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: circadianly, diurnally
text: daily life
text: on a daily basis
text: daily routine
text: He follows a strict daily routine.
text: The daily newspaper arrives each morning.
text: Give us this day our daily bread.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew vi:11:
text: Bunyan has told us […] that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
ref: 1831, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Bunyan:
text: Man hath his daily work of body or mind / Appointed, which declares his dignity, / And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: semiweekly
weekly
semimonthly
monthly
bimonthly
biannually
semiannually
biyearly
yearly
annually
biennially
glosses: That occurs every day, or at least every working day.
antonyms: nightly
at night
glosses: Diurnally: by daylight.
Synonyms: word: journal
word: quotidian
Derived terms: bidaily
dailily
dailiness
daily-able
daily average revenue trades
daily beater
daily bread
daily-breader
daily devotional
daily double
daily drive
daily grind
daily life
daily necessities
daily strip
daily torpor
interdaily
intradaily
multidaily
nondaily
non-daily
on a daily basis
on the daily
President's Daily Briefing
Saturdaily
semi-daily
semidaily
subdaily
Sundaily
tridaily
daily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dāli
ipa: /ˈdeɪli/
ipa: /ˈɖeli/
ipa: /ˈɖɛjli/
ipa: /ˈɖe(j)li/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: dailies
form: dayly
Etymology: From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).
Senses: examples: text: In the home office these dailies may be filed under one of two methods. Geographically by the territory controlled by an Agency, filing the dailies by their numbers back of the guide indicating the locality. Geographically as above, but filing the dailies by expiration date instead of by their numbers.
ref: 1920, James Newton McCord, A Textbook of Filing, page 124:
text: The dailies, or abstracts of the dailies, of the other companies and other departments are also checked, as has been said, in the Impaired Record department. For these coverages it is necessary to check for honesty or undesirable reputation of any kind. These dailies, and abstracts, are also taken by the "impaired record girls" when they have completed their checking, to the various departments.
ref: 1946, The American Archivist, volumes 9-10, page 341:
text: The popular "dailies" format builds a broad range of knowledge by covering Tennessee Basics, Geography, History, People, and Government essential facts through interesting texts and visuals + reading comprehension activities, skill activities, map activities, and more.
ref: 2011, Carole Marsh, Tennessee Dailies: 180 Daily Activities for Kids, →ISBN, page 39:
text: I do not let these experiences disrupt my focus in my daily or my responsibility for my family.
ref: 2013, Charles Steinbach, Schizophrenia's Gift, →ISBN:
glosses: Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
glosses: Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
A newspaper or comic strip etc. that is published every day.
glosses: Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
A cleaner who comes in daily.
glosses: Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
A daily disposable.
topics: video-games
glosses: Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
A daily driver.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
Raw, unedited footage traditionally developed overnight and viewed by the cast and crew the next day.
Synonyms: sense: cleaner who comes daily
word: daily help
sense: cleaner who comes daily
english: woman only
translation: woman only
word: daily maid
sense: newspaper published every day
word: daily paper
daily
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dāli
ipa: /ˈdeɪli/
ipa: /ˈɖeli/
ipa: /ˈɖɛjli/
ipa: /ˈɖe(j)li/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: dailies
form: dailying
form: dailied
form: dailied
form: dayly
Etymology: From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.
daily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: dāli
ipa: /ˈdeɪli/
ipa: /ˈɖeli/
ipa: /ˈɖɛjli/
ipa: /ˈɖe(j)li/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: dayly
Etymology: From Middle English dayly, from Old English *dæġlīċe (found only as dæġhwāmlīċe), equivalent to day + -ly.
Senses: glosses: quotidianly, every day
glosses: diurnally, by daylight
Related terms: annual
everyday
hebdomadal
monthly
nightly
quotidian
weekly
yearly
dartboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːtbɔːd/
ipa: /ˈdɑɹtbɔːɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tbɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: dartboards
Etymology: From dart + board.
Senses: glosses: A board used as a target for throwing darts.
dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːns.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdæns.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdæns.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːnsə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ænsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dancers
form: dauncer
form: dawncer
Etymology: From Middle English dauncer, dawncere, dancere, equivalent to dance + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I'm a terrible dancer.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: stepper
glosses: A person who dances, usually as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.
synonyms: exotic dancer
glosses: A stripper.
examples: text: [A]bout 40 were burglars, "dancers," "garreters," and other adepts with the skeleton keys.
ref: 1889, Charles Tempest Clarkson, J. Hall Richardson, Police!, page 260:
glosses: Synonym of garreter (“a thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows”).
synonyms: word: garreter
extra: a thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows
Hyponyms: ballerina
ballerino
Billy Elliot
breakdancer
chorus girl
co-dancer
Fred Astaire
jiver
John Travolta
krumper
majorette
moonwalker
twerker
twinkle toes
waltzer
Derived terms: ballet dancer
belly dancer
break dancer
break-dancer
cage dancer
dad dancer
danceress
dancerette
dancerly
devil dancer
exotic dancer
fan dancer
fire dancer
folk dancer
gandy-dancer
gandy dancer
go-go dancer
grave dancer
gravedancer
lap-dancer
lap dancer
macho dancer
morris dancer
morris-dancer
nondancer
pole dancer
rope dancer
ropedancer
saffron shadow dancer
slamdancer
Spanish dancer
square dancer
stepdancer
street dancer
table dancer
tap-dancer
tap dancer
taxi-dancer
taxi dancer
temple dancer
tightrope dancer
wire-dancer
Related terms: dancing
dawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːn/
ipa: /dɔn/
ipa: /dɑn/
ipa: /doːn/
homophone: don
homophone: Don (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: dawns
form: dawning
form: dawned
form: dawned
Etymology: From Middle English dawnen, either a back-formation from dawnynge or a modification of dawen (“to dawn”) after it. The noun is from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: A new day dawns.
text: In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene[…]to see the sepulchre.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew xxviii:1:
glosses: To begin to brighten with daylight.
examples: text: I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
text: The realization dawned on him that few would pass that final exam.
text: Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: glimpse
glosses: To start to appear or become obvious.
examples: text: when life awakes, and dawns at every line
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
text: in dawning youth
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: Leave the time of war behind and let a time of peace dawn!
ref: 2023 February 3, Pope Francis, “Address of His Holiness”, in Apostolic Journey of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan:
glosses: To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
Derived terms: dawn on
dawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːn/
ipa: /dɔn/
ipa: /dɑn/
ipa: /doːn/
homophone: don
homophone: Don (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: dawns
Etymology: From Middle English dawnen, either a back-formation from dawnynge or a modification of dawen (“to dawn”) after it. The noun is from the verb.
Senses: glosses: The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
examples: text: Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 209:
synonyms: break of dawn
break of day
daybreak
day-dawn
dayspring
sunrise
light
glosses: The rising of the sun.
examples: text: She rose before dawn to meet the train.
synonyms: break of dawn
break of day
crack of dawn
daybreak
day-dawn
dayspring
sunrise
sunup
glosses: The time when the sun rises.
examples: text: The dawn of civilization didn't imply twilight of barbarity.
text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
synonyms: beginning
onset
start
glosses: The earliest phase of something.
Synonyms: word: ass crack of dawn
word: break
word: break of dawn
word: break of day
word: butt crack of dawn
word: cockcrow
word: crack of dawn
word: dawn
word: daybreak
word: daylight
word: dayspring
word: first light
word: lauds
topics: Christianity
word: solrise
topics: science-fiction
literature
publishing
media
word: sparrow-fart
word: sun
word: sunlight
word: sunrise
word: sunrising
word: sunup
Hypernyms: twilight
Hyponyms: astronomical dawn
civil dawn
nautical dawn
Derived terms: word: crack of dawn
word: dawn ape
word: dawn choir
word: dawn chorus
alt: Eohippus spp.
word: dawn horse
word: dawnless
word: dawnlight
word: dawnlike
alt: Eoanthropus spp. et al.
word: dawn man
word: dawn of a new day
word: dawn of time
word: dawn patrol
taxonomic: Eomecon chionantha
word: dawn poppy
word: dawn prayer
word: dawn raid
taxonomic: Metasequoia glyptostroboides
word: dawn redwood
word: dawn stone
taxonomic: Aphyocharax paraguayensis
word: dawn tetria
word: dawntime
word: dawn to dusk
word: dawn upon
word: dawny
word: false dawn
word: foredawn
word: dusk to dawn
word: handbags at dawn
word: it is always darkest before the dawn
word: it is always darkest just before the dawn
word: it is darkest before the dawn
word: it is darkest just before the dawn
word: new dawn
word: northern dawn
word: pistols at dawn
word: predawn
word: sundawn
word: the darkest hour is always just before the dawn
word: the darkest hour is just before the dawn
word: yesterdawn
Related terms: word: dawning
word: crepuscular
word: early morning
word: postdawn
word: morning
word: midday
word: afternoon
word: evening
word: night
word: midnight
word: dawn chorus
Athens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæθənz/
ipa: /ˈeɪθənz/
Etymology: From Middle English Athens, from Old French Athenes, Atenes, from Latin Athēnae pl (acc. Athēnās), from Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι pl (Athênai), the plural form of Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athena”) (q.v.), the goddess. More at Athena. Doublet of Athina.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon.
ref: 1976, L[ilian] H[amilton] Jeffery, “Kylon and Drakon”, in Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, section II (Central and Northern Greece), subsection 7 (Athens and Attica), page 86:
synonyms: Athina
glosses: The capital city of Greece.
glosses: The Greek government.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Limestone County, Alabama.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Howard County, Arkansas.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A large unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A sizable city, the county seat of Clarke County, Georgia, consolidated with Clarke County as Athens-Clarke County.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A city in Menard County, Illinois.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and hamlet in Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A small unincorporated village outside of Lexington, Kentucky.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A village in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town in Somerset County, Maine.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A village in Calhoun County, Michigan.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A ghost town in Clark County, Missouri.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A former mining settlement and ghost town in Nye County, Nevada.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town and village in Greene County, New York.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Athens County, Ohio.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A borough of Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Henderson County, Texas.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town in Windham County, Vermont.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town in Mercer County, West Virginia.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A township in Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Athens County
Athens of the North
Athens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæθənz/
ipa: /ˈeɪθənz/
Forms: form: Athenses
Etymology: Americanized form of Greek Αθηναίος (Athinaíos).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
handcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌklɒθ/
Forms: form: handcloths
Etymology: From Middle English handcloth, from Old English handclāþ (“handcloth”), equivalent to hand + cloth. Cognate with Danish håndklæde (“handtowel”), Icelandic handklæði (“handcloth”).
Senses: glosses: A handkerchief.
glosses: A washcloth.
handcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌkɹæft/
Forms: form: handcrafts
Etymology: From Middle English handcrafte, handecraft, hond-craft, from Old English handcræft, equivalent to hand + craft. Cognate with Dutch handkracht, German Handkraft.
Senses: glosses: handicraft
examples: text: These are, in redecraft, the English language and literature, mathematics, psychology; in handcraft, the physical sciences, physics, chemistry, biology; with regular and ample laboratory work in each.
ref: 1895, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Proceedings of the Annual Convention - Issues 8-12, page 78:
text: Accordingly, that institution or school is best which enforces habits of order, attention, obedience, discrimination, memory ; which then secures skill in handcraft and redecraft, and likewise shows how these habits and this skill may be applied in useful avocations.
ref: 1897, Daniel Coit Gilman, A Study in Black and White, page 8:
glosses: The class of subjects for study that rely upon experimentation and observation.
handcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌkɹæft/
Forms: form: handcrafts
form: handcrafting
form: handcrafted
form: handcrafted
Etymology: From Middle English handcrafte, handecraft, hond-craft, from Old English handcræft, equivalent to hand + craft. Cognate with Dutch handkracht, German Handkraft.
Senses: glosses: To engage in handcraft or handicraft.
Related terms: handcrafter
Paris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.ɹɪs/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪs/
rhymes: -æɹɪs
homophone: Perris (Mary–marry–merry merger)
note: after French
ipa: /pəˈri/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πάρις (Páris).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Trojan prince who eloped with Helen.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, from the Trojan hero.
Paris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.ɹɪs/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪs/
rhymes: -æɹɪs
homophone: Perris (Mary–marry–merry merger)
note: after French
ipa: /pəˈri/
Forms: form: Parise
form: Pariset
form: Parez
form: Paresse
form: Parisot
form: Pariseau
form: Parizeau
form: Parris
form: de Paris
form: Parizot
form: Parizet
Senses: glosses: A French surname originating as a patronymic, ultimately from Latin Patricius.
Derived terms: Paris-Trousseau syndrome
Paris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.ɹɪs/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪs/
rhymes: -æɹɪs
homophone: Perris (Mary–marry–merry merger)
note: after French
ipa: /pəˈri/
Senses: glosses: An English surname of Celtic origin, a variant of Parris.
Paris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.ɹɪs/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪs/
rhymes: -æɹɪs
homophone: Perris (Mary–marry–merry merger)
note: after French
ipa: /pəˈri/
Senses: glosses: A Belgian surname, a variant of Parys.
Paris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.ɹɪs/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪs/
rhymes: -æɹɪs
homophone: Perris (Mary–marry–merry merger)
note: after French
ipa: /pəˈri/
Senses: glosses: A Sicilian surname, a variant of Parigi.
Paris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.ɹɪs/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪs/
rhymes: -æɹɪs
homophone: Perris (Mary–marry–merry merger)
note: after French
ipa: /pəˈri/
Senses: glosses: A Spanish surname, a variant of Aparicio.
handcraftsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handcraftsmen
Senses: glosses: A handicraftsman.
Derived terms: handcraftsmanship
Related terms: handcraftswoman
stud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stŭd
ipa: /stʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: studs
Etymology: From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-West Germanic *stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōdą. Cognate with Middle Low German stōt, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð.
Senses: synonyms: sire
glosses: A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
glosses: A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
examples: text: He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: In freight working a considerable stud of ex-N.E.R. 3-cylinder 4-6-0s of Class "B16" is used, some of which include the Thompson modifications to the front end.
ref: 1949 November and December, O. S. Nock, “Twenty-Four Hours at York—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
text: At that time, therefore, L.M.S. motive power for the increased loads of the Birmingham trains was less than adequate, whereas the G.W.R. route had an ample stud of Churchward and Collett 4-6-0s, and timekeeping was good.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:
glosses: A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
glosses: An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
examples: text: In the studs of persons of quality in Ireland, where care is taken, […]we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.
ref: 1673, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland:
glosses: A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
examples: text: Well, I'll tell you the truth now. I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud!
ref: 1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Joe Buck (Jon Voight):
text: Maverick, you big stud… Take me to bed or lose me forever.
ref: 1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Charlie (Kelly McGillis):
text: Wow, Julia! Sounds like to me like you got your pick of any man in this room to dance with so I want you to take your time and find amongst all these young studs here tonight the coolest, most un-losery guy in the bunch
ref: 1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler):
text: Those soap-opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?
ref: 1999 December 16, Mark Wolf, “The V-chip has arrived with little fanfare”, in The Coshocton Tribune:
synonyms: he-man
hunk
stallion
glosses: A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
examples: text: Down and lonely stud, 23 years old, wants comfort from sweet-hearted fem.
ref: 1983 August 13, Lisa Smith, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 22:
glosses: A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
Derived terms: stud book
studding
stud farm
studly
stud mare
stud muffin
stud puppy
studs up
stud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stŭd
ipa: /stʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: studs
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stude, from Old English studu, from Proto-West Germanic *stuþ, from Proto-Germanic *stuþs.
Senses: examples: text: a collar with studs
text: A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber studs.
ref: c. 1587, Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love:
text: Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems / And studs of pearl.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
examples: text: She's wearing studs in her ears.
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
glosses: A cleat on a shoe.
examples: text: Seest not this same hawthorn stud?
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Aegloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A stem; a trunk.
examples: text: At an old saloon on a street of mud / There at a table, dealing stud / Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me "Sue"
ref: 1969, Shel Silverstein, “A Boy Named Sue”, performed by Johnny Cash:
topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: stud poker
glosses: A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A stud bolt.
glosses: An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
Derived terms: collar stud
five-card stud
mud and stud
nose stud
press stud
seven-card stud
shirt-stud abscess
spring stud
studded
stud finder
stud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stŭd
ipa: /stʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: studs
form: studding
form: studded
form: studded
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stude, from Old English studu, from Proto-West Germanic *stuþ, from Proto-Germanic *stuþs.
Senses: glosses: To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
examples: text: The fruit [of Loranthus vestitus] is yellowish and fleshy, and is almost sessile on the stem, which it thickly studs.
ref: 1910, E. B. Stebbing, “The Loranthus Parasite of the Moru and Ban Oaks”, in Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 192:
glosses: To decorate as a stud does.
examples: text: [S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]
ref: 2012, Antony Cooke, Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts, page 82:
glosses: To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
examples: text: Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.
ref: 2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes:
text: Stud the onion with cloves and add to the pan.
ref: 2016, Mary Price, Vincent Price, Mary and Vincent Price's Come Into the Kitchen Cook Book, page 70:
glosses: To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
stud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stŭd
ipa: /stʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: studs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of student.
MP3
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MP3s
Etymology: An initialism of MPEG Audio Layer 3. First use appears c. 1994. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: I should download her audio on MP3 / And show the whole world how you gave Eminem VD
ref: 2000, “The Real Slim Shady”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem:
glosses: A digital sound recording in MP3 format; a song file.
MP3
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An initialism of MPEG Audio Layer 3. First use appears c. 1994. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Also, mpeg audio streams are usually identified by mp1, mp2 and mp3 extensions, all from MPEG-1 (layer 1 , 2 or 3).
ref: 1994 November 6, Francois Dion, “Does anyone know of .mpa to .wav conversion software.”, in comp.multimedia (Usenet):
text: A smartphone is not the best camera, notebook, word processor, audio recorder, radio, MP3 player, map reader, pedometer and so on, but it is good enough replace numerous separate devices for most people most of the time.
ref: 2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: audio file format
glosses: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, an audio data compression format.
Derived terms: MP3 CD
MP3 player
Related terms: MP4
MIDI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdi/
rhymes: -ɪdi
Senses: examples: text: MIDI channel number 10 is reserved for percussion.
text: The podules Acorn plans to release include network cards (for Econet and Ethernet), ROM cards containing application software, a MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) sound card, an extended I/O card, […]
ref: 1987, Byte, volume 12, numbers 10-11, page 126:
glosses: Abbreviation of Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
MIDI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdi/
rhymes: -ɪdi
Forms: form: MIDIs
Senses: examples: text: When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist.
ref: 1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer:
qualifier: file format
glosses: A computerized music file in the MIDI format.
NBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “The NBA and FIBA are uniquely positioned to build on the rich tradition of European basketball. We look forward to collaborating with FIBA to explore the creation of a new league for fans across the continent,” Silver added.
ref: 2025 March 27, Matias Grez, “NBA and FIBA in talks with European soccer teams over new basketball league”, in CNN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of National Basketball Association.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of National Boxing Association.
Derived terms: NBAer
Related terms: FIBA
WNBA
FF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Fianna Fáil, an Irish political party.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Final Fantasy.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The Ferrari FF (Ferrari Four), an all-wheel drive grand tourer by Ferrari.
glosses: Initialism of Family First, an Australian political party.
glosses: Initialism of Firefox.