cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sires
form: siring
form: sired
form: sired
Etymology: From Middle English sire, from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, and sir. Cognate with French monsieur.
Senses: examples: text: In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 6:
glosses: To father; to beget.
raw_tags: of a male
examples: text: “Do you think they were wannabes, then? Groupies who found a willing vamp to sire them?”
ref: 2008, Yasmine Galenorn, Darkling, page 34:
text: He wondered if she regretted siring him. Or marrying him.
ref: 2009, Michelle Rowen, Stakes & Stilettos, page 53:
text: I'd never sired another vampire before and I was at a loss of what to do with the rats.
ref: 2014, J. C. Diem, Death Conquers, page 33:
topics: fantasy
synonyms: turn
vampirize
glosses: To turn (another person) into a vampire.
sisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪsəl/
rhymes: -aɪsəl
Forms: form: sisals
Etymology: Named after Sisal, Yucatán.
Senses: glosses: A Central American plant, Agave sisalana, cultivated for its sword-shaped leaves that yield fibers used for rope.
glosses: The fibre of the plant.
examples: text: Our bedding consisted of a single sisal or straw mat.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 456:
glosses: A sisal mat.
siskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪskɪn/
rhymes: -ɪskɪn
Forms: form: siskins
Etymology: From dialectal German Sisschen, Zeischen, diminutive form of Middle High German zīsec, apparently ultimately from Proto-Slavic *čižь (compare e.g. Polish czyżyk).
Senses: examples: text: I sat there on a bench in dappled shade, beside an aviary full of brightly feathered finches and siskins fluttering about.
ref: 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 2:
text: Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
ref: 2013 January 24, Paul Bartell, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, pages 47–48:
glosses: A small green and yellow European finch, Carduelis spinus spinus or Carduelis spinus, now Spinus spinus.
glosses: Any of various similar birds in subfamily Carduelinae, principally in the genus Spinus.
Synonyms: sense: Spinus spinus
word: aberdevine
sense: Spinus spinus
word: Eurasian siskin
Derived terms: black-chinned siskin
pine siskin
red siskin
spruce siskin
Related terms: Carduelinae
Spinus
serin
situs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪtəs/
rhymes: -aɪtəs
Forms: form: situses
form: situs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin situs (“position, site”). Doublet of site and sitio.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged.
topics: law
glosses: The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes.
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: The portion of an address comprising the street number and the street name, such as 3912 Park Drive.
Derived terms: analysis situs
common-situs picketing
geometria situs
situs ambiguous
situs ambiguus
situs inversus
situs oppositus
situs transversus
Related terms: in situ
site
situate
situation
situational
skeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: skeets
Etymology: Pseudo-archaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta; compare Scots skite (“to dart, to shoot”). The name for a form of trapshooting is attested from the 1920s, see quotations below. Senses related to ejaculation of semen likely derive from this, but compare also squirt, skite, or scoot. The word skeet is attested in reference to working class persons in US English from the 19th century, or the Newfoundland and Labrador regionalism may derive from other terms such as skite or skeeter; see quotation below.
Senses: examples: text: THE ARTICLE on the sport of Skeet that appeared in the June issue of WILD LIFE described the layout of the Skeet field, installation of the traps, and the rules and regulations for Skeet shooting.
ref: 1929, “Skeet”, in West Virginia Wildlife, volume 7, page 22:
text: The longer I shoot skeet the more convinced I am that it is the greatest game ever devised for the users of shotguns. Skeet has brought home to shooters the need of properly fitting guns and the benefit of straighter stocks
ref: 1932, Charles Askins, “Notes on skeet”, in Outdoor Life, page 40:
text: To Mrs. Gertrude Hurlbutt, Montana rancher’s wife, went a $100 prize in 1926 from National Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing magazines for christening their newly sponsored shotgun sport “skeet” – Scandinavian derivation, meaning “to shoot.”
ref: [1940, “In the Spring—Skeet”, in Scientific American, page 363:
text: Skeet started informally in 1920 as off-season practice for bird hunting, so it needed few rules. It became more formally organized in 1926 when the National Skeet Shooting Association (NSSA) was formed.
ref: 2007, King Heiple, Mastering Skeet, page 163:
glosses: A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: The ejaculation of semen.
examples: text: A small part at least of the language associated with younger speakers originates in local words that appear to have undergone local meaning change. A good example is skeet. This term may be related to skite which in neighbouring Prince Edward Island can mean a 'young scoundrel' (Pratt 1988), or to the American terms skeester/skeeter, definied by the Dictionary of American Regional English (Cassidy and Hall 1985) as 'rascal, rogue'. If older NLE speakers know this word at all, they would probably use it in this sense. Among younger speakers, however, it has much the same meaning as such British slang terms as chav, charver or scally, or even the North American white trash.
ref: [2010, Sandra Clarke, Newfoundland and Labrador English, page 151:
qualifier: Labrador
glosses: A young working-class person who may be loud, disruptive and poorly educated.
Derived terms: skeet shooting
skeet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: skeets
form: skeeting
form: skeeted
form: skeeted
Etymology: Pseudo-archaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta; compare Scots skite (“to dart, to shoot”). The name for a form of trapshooting is attested from the 1920s, see quotations below. Senses related to ejaculation of semen likely derive from this, but compare also squirt, skite, or scoot. The word skeet is attested in reference to working class persons in US English from the 19th century, or the Newfoundland and Labrador regionalism may derive from other terms such as skite or skeeter; see quotation below.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Aoow! You skeeted the water right in my ear. It’s busted my eardrum. I can’t even hear.’
‘Gimme here. Let me skeet some.’
ref: 1940, Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, page 203:
text: When her left hook connected with his nose, blood skeeted out and stained her top.
ref: 2004, Camika C Spencer, He Had It Coming, page 160:
glosses: To shoot or spray.
raw_tags: of fluids
examples: text: To the window (To the window). To the wall (To the wall). Till the sweat drop down my balls (My balls). Till all these bitches crawl (Crawl). Till all skeet skeet motherfucker (Motherfucker).
ref: 2002 October 8, “Get Low” (track 19), in Kings of Crunk, performed by Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz:
text: "Good, then," I said, my joint about to skeet like a water pistol. I was surprised too. I was known for having supreme dick control, and I could usually last a lot longer than this.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 17:
text: I just don’t understand how women get pregnant nowadays, especially while they have no intention on making a baby, […] yet and still letting some dude, boyfriend, or friend with benefits slide in for a 7-10 split, and not exactly advising him to pull out before he accidentally skeets .
ref: 2011, Deborah Carter, Wildflower, Lulu/self-published, →ISBN, page 177:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To ejaculate.
Synonyms: squirt
skeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: skeets
Etymology: Unknown. Compare Icelandic skeið (“spoon”), from Old Norse skeið (“a sheath”). Attested from the 15th century; see quotation below.
Senses: examples: text: My werk & labour schal be to tellyn what is þis wose of þe vij. dedly synnes, & how ʒe schul caste out þis wose, ffirst wyth with a skeet of contricyoun, and after wyth a skauell of confession, and þanne schouelyn out clene þe crummys, wyth þe schouele of satisfaccyoun.
ref: c. 1440, Arthur Brandeis, editor, Jacob's well : an Englisht treatise on the cleansing of man's conscience, published 1900, page 2:
english: My work and labor shall be to tell what is this ooze of the deadly sins, and how they shall cast out this ooze, first with the skeet of contrition and after with the spade of confession, and then shovel out the crumbs cleanly with the shovel of satisfaction.
translation: My work and labor shall be to tell what is this ooze of the deadly sins, and how they shall cast out this ooze, first with the skeet of contrition and after with the spade of confession, and then shovel out the crumbs cleanly with the shovel of satisfaction.
bold_translation_offsets: 127
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glosses: A long-handled shovel or scoop.
examples: text: The best method for wetting the after sails is with a garden syringe or small engine[…] For the head sails a skeet made of tough ash, having a good long handle ; the head or skeeting part curves scimitar fashion, to be about three and a half feet in length, and scooped out an inch and a half in width by two and a half inches in depth
ref: 1862, Vanderdecken [William Cooper], The Yacht Sailor, page 131:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
skeet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: skeets
form: skeeting
form: skeeted
form: skeeted
Etymology: Unknown. Compare Icelandic skeið (“spoon”), from Old Norse skeið (“a sheath”). Attested from the 15th century; see quotation below.
Senses: examples: text: It is a customary rule in all sailing matches that the sails of competing vessels should not be skeeted (i.e. wetted), except when the vessel is on a wind
ref: 1870, Henry Coleman Folkard, The Sailing Boat, page 161:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To wet the sails or deck of a vessel.
skeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare Manx skeetagh (“nosy”, adverb). Compare also English peek (“to look slyly; a quick glance”, verb or noun) or skit (“to caper; to be skittish”, verb).
Senses: qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: news or gossip
skeet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: skeets
form: skeeting
form: skeeted
form: skeeted
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare Manx skeetagh (“nosy”, adverb). Compare also English peek (“to look slyly; a quick glance”, verb or noun) or skit (“to caper; to be skittish”, verb).
Senses: qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: to spy through the front windows of somebody else's house
skeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: skeets
Etymology: Blend of sky + tweet, from the resemblance to tweets posted on Twitter. Strongly discouraged by CEO Jay Graber.
Senses: examples: text: Bluesky’s users appear to be having fun with the app’s similarities to Twitter, including calling posts on the app “skeets,” as a play on tweets. Not even a plea from Ms. Graber on Thursday to change that name seems to have deterred them.
ref: [2023 April 29, Sheera Frenkel, “Interest Builds Over Bluesky, A Social Site Akin to Twitter”, in New York Times, page B3:
text: At first, it was kind of fun when Bluesky broke.[…] When threading broke – causing people to receive tonnes of notifications if they replied to a long enough chain of skeets – users created the "hellthread", an infinitely long, chaotic conversation
ref: 2023 June 10, Annalee Newitz, “And now for something completely familiar”, in New Scientist, volume 258, page 22:
text: My last ‘toot’, as Mastodon’s users call tweets, was in December. I’ve never even done a ‘skeet’, the unfortunate name of the Bluesky version.
ref: 2023 July 22, Max Chafkin, “What if the next big social media app is ... Nothing?”, in Irish Examiner, Cork:
text: Bluesky’s faithful have playfully dubbed posts “skeets” in contrast to tweets – although Bluesky’s own CEO Jay Graber has begged users to stop using that term.
ref: [2024 July 2, “X alternative Bluesky finally opens up for all: What’s the hype about?”, in Indian Express, Mumbai:
text: Another skeet! Blue Sky^([sic]) is clearly taking off – not content with picking up a million new accounts on Friday, and another million on Saturday, it has now played its part in two posts on the OBO.
ref: 2024 November 17, Tim de Lisle, “West Indies v England: fifth men’s T20 cricket international – match abandoned”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A post on the Bluesky social media platform.
skeet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: skeets
form: skeeting
form: skeeted
form: skeeted
Etymology: Blend of sky + tweet, from the resemblance to tweets posted on Twitter. Strongly discouraged by CEO Jay Graber.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, and there's a new social media app called Blue Sky, and on it, Senator Brian Schatz from Hawaii, Democrat, he just skeeted, quote, the only way to prevent default with a bipartisan majority and 60 in the Senate is a clean anti-default bill.
ref: 2023 May 1, “Yellen Predicts Debt Limit Could Be Reached By June”, in The Lead with Jake Tapper, spoken by Jake Tapper:
text: Bluesky is a bit like the retro Twitter, same colour scheme, similar way of building content etc, and so it reminds people of early Twitter. I am not sure if that’s enough to make people fall in love with Bluesky and go skeeting all day.
ref: 2024 February 9, Ubaid Zargar, quoting Naresh Gupta, “Is Jack Dorsey's Bluesky another Threads in the making?”, in afaqs!, Mumbai:
glosses: To create a skeet.
skiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪdi/
rhymes: -ɪdi
Forms: form: skiddier
form: skiddiest
Etymology: From skid + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I suggested that it might be a good idea to get [the motorbike] in midsummer so that I could get plenty of practice in before the skiddy weather set in, but he thought there might be too much tourist traffic going through the town […]
ref: 1984, Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory:
glosses: Likely to skid, or cause skidding.
examples: text: “I thought those skiddy pants of yours would have been enough to frighten her away!” said Frank.
The man did not look pleased that his underpants, which he’d washed only last month, had been described as skiddy. He sat up to inspect them.
“Whose pants are you calling—? Oh dear.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Containing skidmarks.
Derived terms: skiddily
skiddiness
skyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He miskicked and skyed the ball over the goal.
glosses: simple past and past participle of sky
skyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skyed
form: most skyed
Senses: glosses: Surrounded by sky.
skyway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪ.weɪ/
rhymes: -aɪweɪ
Forms: form: skyways
Etymology: From sky + way.
Senses: glosses: An aeroplane route.
glosses: An elevated road.
examples: text: Iʼd taken to swinging past the fourth floor skyway at random intervals.
ref: 2020, Ben Aaronovitch, False Value, Gollancz, page 23:
glosses: Synonym of skybridge: an elevated corridor connecting buildings above ground level.
synonyms: word: skybridge
extra: an elevated corridor connecting buildings above ground level
Related terms: jetway
slat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: slats
Etymology: From Middle English slatte, sklatte, sklat, sclat, from Old French esclat (“piece broken or split off, shiver, splinter”), from Old French esclater (“to split, burst”), from Frankish *slaitijan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to rend, split”). Doublet of slate and éclat.
Senses: examples: text: slats of a window blind
text: To keep people out, the Nature Conservancy, which owns the cave, has blocked off the entrance with huge iron slats.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 208:
synonyms: billet
flitch
spline
glosses: A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.
examples: text: I never got down that hill without losing at least one of my skis! Clarence didn't lose his slats. The straps went over his boots and held them in place. If he fell, he risked breaking a foot or leg, but the slats stayed on.
ref: 2005, Richard V. Shriver, Gold to Refine, page 31:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A ski.
glosses: A thin piece of stone; a slate.
examples: text: […] slats of rain broke upon the surface.
ref: 1907, Dixon Scott, Liverpool, page 36:
text: A slat of rain drove into his face. It was pitch dark but the sea was calmer and the bucking of the ship had lessened.
ref: 1937 04, Collier's:
text: […] a slat of rain. The River-Woman grasped the pouch with her left hand and touched the mouth of it with her right.
ref: 1939, Richard Matthews Hallet, Michael Beam:
text: […] a slat of rain and wind gusts which whitened the water where the river made its bend. Then the squall was gone as swiftly as it had come and the sun began to break through the clouds as Mike went slowly along the trail.
ref: 1956, The Saturday Evening Post:
glosses: A drop (of rain or water), a splash.
Derived terms: slatback
slatless
slat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: slats
form: slatting
form: slatted
form: slatted
Etymology: From Middle English slatte, sklatte, sklat, sclat, from Old French esclat (“piece broken or split off, shiver, splinter”), from Old French esclater (“to split, burst”), from Frankish *slaitijan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to rend, split”). Doublet of slate and éclat.
Senses: glosses: To construct or provide with slats.
examples: text: Men[dozo]. How did you kill him? / Mal[evole]. Slatted his braines out, then ſowſt him in the brinie ſea. / Men. Braind him and drownd him too?
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:
glosses: To slap or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently.
examples: text: […] a nudge o' kissing-crust After thy leeky broth: I've warmed thy porridge on tha trivet, Jimmy, zay prayers avore 'e have it, And doant 'e slat tha clath.
ref: 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon, page 35:
text: […] slatting water over everything in the dory.
ref: 1921, Raymond McFarland, Sons of the Sea, page 147:
text: […] by the sound she knew that he was slatting water from his oilskins. "Thanks. A wet day, sir." The door closed. He must have entered without invitation and shut the door behind him.
ref: 1923 August 11, The Saturday Evening Post, page 88:
text: Mac stood over me, slatting water off his arms, his face purple.
ref: 1953, Rogers Terrill, The Argosy Book of Sea Stories, page 136:
text: The hose came in hand over hand, as the sailormen say, and in a few moments the end came switching down on them, slatting water in all directions.
ref: 2011 October 1, William Hope Hodgson, The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates & Other Revenants of The Sea, Start Publishing LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: To throw (something, especially water or liquid) down; to slam or splash (something) down.
examples: text: […] sending solid grey water slatting against her wheelhouse windows.
ref: 1938, Outdoor Life:
text: […] water slatting over the rail. The salt caked on her face and when the sun came up, it was as though her face was being pot-roasted - with salt.
ref: 1943 04, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine:
text: […] rain slatting down in the weed-grown garden.
ref: 2003, Jean Lee Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 8:
text: […] rain slatting against the outside of the window.
ref: 2008 September 30, Zoe Sharp, Second Shot: A Charlie Fox Mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: To fall; to beat (against something).
raw_tags: of rain or other water
examples: text: Both head-peeces and habergeons were slat and dashed a peeces.
ref: 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC:
glosses: To split; to crack.
glosses: To set on; to incite.
slewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: (drunk): A drunken person may stagger like a ship slewing.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slew
slewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slewed
form: most slewed
Etymology: (drunk): A drunken person may stagger like a ship slewing.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat drunk; tipsy.
Synonyms: drunk
sloe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊ/
ipa: /ˈsloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: slow
Forms: form: sloes
Etymology: From Middle English slo, sla, sloo, from Old English slā, slāh, from Proto-West Germanic *slaihā, from Proto-Germanic *slaihǭ, *slaihwō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”). Doublet of Sliwa.
Senses: examples: text: There is also a dryness in the mouth from the increased action of the absorbent vessels, when a sloe or a crab-apple are masticated...
ref: 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic Life, part II.I.I.III:
text: The dew-drops fell like water, leaf after leaf dropped from the trees, the sloe-thorn alone still bore fruit, but the sloes were sour, and set the teeth on edge. Oh, how dark and weary the whole world appeared!
ref: 1872, The Snow Queen by H. C. Andersen, translation by Paull
text: Katúsha, with her eyes black as sloes, her face radiant with joy, was flying towards him, and they caught hold of each other's hands.
ref: 1900, Leo Tolstoy, “Twelve Years before”, in Louise Maude, transl., Resurrection: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, book I, page 46:
glosses: The small, astringent, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).
glosses: The tree Prunus spinosa.
glosses: Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.
Derived terms: sloebush
sloe gin
sloe-eyed
slurry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌɹ.i/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈslʌɹ.i/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈslɝ.i/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: slurries
Etymology: Unclear; probably related to Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”); compare slur. From mid-15th c.
Senses: examples: text: 1981, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Feeding Value of Ethanol Production By-products, page 26,
While little information is available, it probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry.
text: The most important application of fluid flow techniques in the mineral processing industry is the transportation of slurries. Whenever solid materials are in particulate form transportation in the form of a slurry is possible.
ref: 2002, R. Peter King, Introduction to Practical Fluid Flow, page 81:
text: Magnesium hydroxide slurry consists of an aqueous suspension of particulate magnesium hydroxide. The principle sources of slurry are from seawater- or brine-produced magnesium hydroxide, natural brucite, or from the slaking of magnesium oxide powder. Magnesium hydroxide slurry is gaining in popularity as a replacement for caustic soda and lime in waste-water treatment applications.
ref: 2006, Mark A. Shand, The Chemistry and Technology of Magnesia, page 146:
text: 2011, Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press staff (translators), Advanced Well Completion Engineering, page 259,
The other properties of cement slurry and set cement are also related closely to cement slurry density.
glosses: Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
examples: text: Slurry tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for slurry tailings.
ref: 2006, Raymond N. Yong, Catherine N. Mulligan, Masaharu Fukue, Geoenvironmental Sustainability, page 145:
topics: business
mining
glosses: Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
examples: text: In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry.
ref: 2004, W. H. Rulkens, “11: Overview of resource recovery techmologies for biowaste”, in Piet Lens, B. Hamelers, Harry Hoitink, Werner Bidlingmaier, editors, Resource Recovery and Reuse in Organic Solid Waste Management, page 249:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A thickener.
Derived terms: coal slurry
meat slurry
slurry pit
slurry wall
slurry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌɹ.i/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈslʌɹ.i/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈslɝ.i/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: slurries
form: slurrying
form: slurried
form: slurried
Etymology: Unclear; probably related to Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”); compare slur. From mid-15th c.
Senses: glosses: To make a slurry (of some material).
examples: text: Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.
glosses: To apply a slurry (to).
slurry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌɹ.i/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈslʌɹ.i/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈslɝ.i/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
ipa: /ˈslɝi/
ipa: /ˈslɜːɹi/
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
ipa: /ˈslʌɹ.i/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈslʌɹ.i/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈslɝ.i/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: slurrier
form: slurriest
Etymology: From slur (“run together; articulate poorly”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He spoke with a slurry voice.
text: His voice became progressively slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.
glosses: Slurred, tending to slur.
sloven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌvən/
rhymes: -ʌvən
Forms: form: slovens
Etymology: From Middle English sloveyn, from Middle Flemish sloovin (“a scold”). Related to Middle Dutch sloef (“untidy, shabby”), from Proto-Germanic *slup- + Old French -ain, from Latin -anus.
Senses: glosses: A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut.
examples: text: The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […]
ref: a. 1530 (date written), John Skelton, “Poems against Garnesche. Skelton Laureate Defendar ageinst Lusty Garnyshe Well Beseen Crystofer Chalangar, et cetera.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 130, lines 145–147:
english: The foullest sloven under heaven, / Proud, peevish, lither, and lewd, / Malapert, meddler, nothing well thewed, […]
translation: The foullest sloven under heaven, / Proud, peevish, lither, and lewd, / Malapert, meddler, nothing well thewed, […]
bold_translation_offsets: 13
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glosses: A low, base, lewd person.
glosses: An immoral woman.
Synonyms: sense: man or boy habitually negligent of neatness and order
word: cutterman
word: scruff
word: slob
Derived terms: slovenliness
slovenly
slovenness
slovenry
snell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: sneller
form: snellest
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English snell (“quick, fast”) from Old English snel, snell (“lively, quick”) from Proto-West Germanic *snell, from Proto-Germanic *snellaz (“active, swift, brisk”).
Akin to Old Saxon snel, snell (“active, strenuous”), Dutch snel, Old High German snel (whence German schnell (“quick, swift”), Yiddish שנעל (shnel, “quick, swift”), Italian snello (“quick, nimble”), Old French esnel, isnel (“snell”), and Occitan isnel, irnel (“snell”)), Old Norse snjallr (“skilful, excellent”) (whence Danish snild (“clever”)).
Senses: examples: text: That in ilk action, wise and snell / You may shaw Manly fire.
ref: 1720, Allan Ramsay, Edinburgh's Salutation to Lord Carnarvon:
text: That horny-handed, snell, peremptory little man.
ref: 1852, John Brown, Rab and his Friends:
text: Amos is a lithe, keen, snell man.
ref: 1889, James Robertson, The Early Religion of Israel:
glosses: Quick, smart; sharp, active, brisk or nimble; lively.
examples: text: With all this heavy artillery, somewhat slow and cumbrous, on great questions, he had no want, when he was speaking off-hand, of quick, snell remark, often witty and full of spirit, and often too unexpected, like lightning—flashing, smiting, and gone.
ref: 1861, John Brown, Horæ Subsecivæ:
glosses: Quick-witted; clever.
examples: text: Conscience is a rough lad, I grant you, and I am keen and snell also; but never mind, take his advice, and you’ll be some credit to your freens yet, ye scoonrel.
ref: 1833, Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log:
text: Fortunately, we were well prepared for such an emergency, and being sheltered in a safe creek, we roofed the ship with canvas against the snow; and so, with land on every side of us, plenty of moss fuel ashore, a good stock of provisions, and firearms for hunting, we held our trouble, and passed the snell season without the loss of a single soul aboard.
ref: 1881, Robert Buchanan, God and the Man:
glosses: Harsh, severe, or stinging.
snell
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: more snell
form: most snell
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English snell (“quick, fast”) from Old English snel, snell (“lively, quick”) from Proto-West Germanic *snell, from Proto-Germanic *snellaz (“active, swift, brisk”).
Akin to Old Saxon snel, snell (“active, strenuous”), Dutch snel, Old High German snel (whence German schnell (“quick, swift”), Yiddish שנעל (shnel, “quick, swift”), Italian snello (“quick, nimble”), Old French esnel, isnel (“snell”), and Occitan isnel, irnel (“snell”)), Old Norse snjallr (“skilful, excellent”) (whence Danish snild (“clever”)).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snelly.
Derived terms: snelly
snell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: snells
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: He tied on new baited snells and recovered the current with the oars.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 194:
glosses: A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook or lure is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line.
Related terms: snell knot
snell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: snells
form: snelling
form: snelled
form: snelled
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: Can you show me how to snell a hook?
glosses: To tie a hook to the end of a fishing line with a snell knot.
snick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: SNCC
Forms: form: snicks
form: snicking
form: snicked
form: snicked
Etymology: Probably from snick or snee.
Senses: examples: text: I reached out and snicked a white thread that hung from her sleeve.
ref: 1966, John Fowles, The Magus:
glosses: To cut or snip.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit (the ball) with the edge of the bat, causing a slight deflection.
snick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: SNCC
Forms: form: snicks
Etymology: Probably from snick or snee.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: edge
glosses: A small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch.
examples: text: Once the furore had been dampened, the minuscule snick on Billy's knee covered in a Superman plaster[…], I found my mind flashing through multiple matters, like that of a drowning person, only more optimistic.
ref: 2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, →ISBN:
glosses: A small cut or mark.
glosses: A knot or irregularity in yarn.
snick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: SNCC
Forms: form: snicks
form: snicking
form: snicked
form: snicked
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To make something click, to make a clicking noise.
snick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: SNCC
Forms: form: snicks
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Then it grew louder, and suddenly there came from the window a sharp metallic snick.
ref: 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty, Norton, published 2005, page 698:
glosses: A sharp clicking sound.
snick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: SNCC
Forms: form: snicks
form: snicking
form: snicked
form: snicked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sneck
snider
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snide: more snide
sod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒd/
ipa: /sɑd/
ipa: /sɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: sawed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: sods
Etymology: From Middle English sod, sodde first attested in the mid-15th century, from Middle Dutch zoden (“turf”) or Middle Low German sôde, soede (“turf”), both related to Dutch zode (“turf”), German Sode (“turf”), Old Frisian sātha (“sod”), all being of uncertain ultimate origin.
Senses: examples: text: She there shall dress a sweeter sod / Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
ref: 1746, William Collins, Ode written in the year 1746:
glosses: The stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
examples: text: The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.
glosses: Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
examples: text: In Walachia, green sods are laid on the window-sills and on the lintels of the doors to avert the uncanny crew [i.e. witches].
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 338:
glosses: A piece of this.
Related terms: sod poodle
soddie
sodless
sod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒd/
ipa: /sɑd/
ipa: /sɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: sawed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: sods
form: sodding
form: sodded
form: sodded
Etymology: From Middle English sod, sodde first attested in the mid-15th century, from Middle Dutch zoden (“turf”) or Middle Low German sôde, soede (“turf”), both related to Dutch zode (“turf”), German Sode (“turf”), Old Frisian sātha (“sod”), all being of uncertain ultimate origin.
Senses: examples: text: He sodded the worn areas twice a year.
text: The innermore walls were sod inlayed with roots from trees, plants and weeds.
ref: 2006, Paul Vela, Sealed with a Kiss, page 97:
glosses: To cover with sod.
sod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒd/
ipa: /sɑd/
ipa: /sɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: sawed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: sods
Etymology: Clipping of sodomite or sodomize.
Senses: examples: text: The Empire, in particular, was always thick with sods: they strolled side-by-side with the gay girls of the promenade, or stood, in little knots, exchanging gossip, comparing fortunes, greeting one another with flapping hands and high, extravagant voices.
ref: 1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 207:
glosses: Sodomite; bugger.
examples: text: You mean old sod!
text: poor sod
text: unlucky sod
text: You silly sod.
qualifier: formerly considered vulgar
glosses: A person; often qualified with an adjective.
examples: text: I don’t care a sod.
glosses: Any trifling amount, a bugger, a damn, a jot.
Derived terms: old sod
sod all
Sod’s law
sod
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒd/
ipa: /sɑd/
ipa: /sɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: sawed (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: Clipping of sodomite or sodomize.
Senses: glosses: expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
sod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒd/
ipa: /sɑd/
ipa: /sɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: sawed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: sods
form: sodding
form: sodded
form: sodded
Etymology: Clipping of sodomite or sodomize.
Senses: glosses: Bugger; sodomize.
examples: Sod him!, Sod it!, Sod that bastard!
glosses: Damn, curse, confound.
Derived terms: sod a dog
sod it
sod off
sod that for a game of soldiers
sod this for a game of soldiers
sod this for a lark
sod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒd/
ipa: /sɑd/
ipa: /sɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: sawed (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: From the Old English plural past tense, or a back-formation from the past participle sodden.
Senses: examples: text: Iacob ſod potage ⁊ Eſau came from the feld ⁊ was faine […]
ref: 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Genesis xxv:[29], folio xxxiiij, verso:
glosses: simple past of seethe
sod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒd/
ipa: /sɑd/
ipa: /sɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: sawed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: more sod
form: most sod
Etymology: From the Old English plural past tense, or a back-formation from the past participle sodden.
Senses: examples: text: Beer, if it be over-new, or over-stale, over-strong, or not sod,[…]is most unwholesome, frets, and galls, etc.
glosses: Boiled.
examples: text: sod damper
glosses: Sodden; incompletely risen.
raw_tags: of bread
sod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒd/
ipa: /sɑd/
ipa: /sɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: sawed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: sods
Etymology: From the Old English plural past tense, or a back-formation from the past participle sodden.
Senses: examples: text: And Mart the cook the shovel took / And swung the damper to and fro. / 'Another sod, so help me God, / That's fourteen in a flamin' row.
ref: 1954, Tom Ronan, Vision Splendid; quoted in Tom Burton, Words in Your Ear, Wakefield Press, 1999, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: A damper (bread) which has failed to rise, remaining a flat lump.
sod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒd/
ipa: /sɑd/
ipa: /sɔd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: sawed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: sods
Senses: glosses: The rock dove.
sofar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SOFAR
Etymology: Shortened from sound fixing and ranging. Compare sonar.
Senses: glosses: A system for determining the position of vessels lost at sea by means of explosive sounds.
Derived terms: sofar bomb
sofar channel
soffit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒf.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɑ.fɪt/
rhymes: -ɒfɪt
Forms: form: soffits
Etymology: From French soffite, from Italian soffitto, from Vulgar Latin *suffīctus, perfect passive participle of Latin suffīgō (“to fasten or fix onto”).
Senses: examples: text: From 1945 onwards, deterioration in the condition of the brickwork in the arch soffits was kept under close observation, and in 1951 it was decided that strengthening must be undertaken.
ref: 1954 January, “Strengthening of Coquet Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
text: If the soffit is to be sloping, simply attach the soffit board(s) to the underside of the rafters, butting the edges tight against the fascia board in front and the barn siding in the back.
ref: 1983, Monte Burch, Building Small Barns, Sheds & Shelters, page 110:
text: A soffit is the underside of any part of a building's structure. Most people know about the soffit boards below their fascia boards (which cap off the ends of a roof's rafters). But if you walk through a brick-built tunnel and glance upwards, for example, you will be looking at the soffit of the arch.
ref: 2014 September 11, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: The dangers of abestos roofs [print version: Where can I find help – at the double?, 6 September 2014, p. P13]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):
topics: architecture
glosses: The visible underside of an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, staircase, vault or any other architectural element.
examples: text: The elevation of the pipe soffit is 10.4 meters above mean sea level.
text: The vents on the bottom of the soffit should be open, and the vents on the side of the soffit should be closed.
qualifier: pipe technology
glosses: The top point of the inside open section of a pipe or box conduit.
soiree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌswɑːˈɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: soirees
form: soirée
Etymology: Borrowed from French soirée (“evening activity”).
Senses: examples: text: An invite to a party / Or watching The Price Is Right / Opting for a soiree / For the first time in a year
ref: 1987, “Hope Road”, in Hopeless Cases, performed by Anne Clark:
glosses: A formal evening party.
Related terms: matinee
solute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒljuːt/
Forms: form: more solute
form: most solute
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin solutus, past participle of solvo.
Senses: examples: text: a solute interpretation
text: The Interpretations of the Scriptures are of two ſorts: Methodical, and Solute, or at large, […]
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 112, verso:
glosses: Free; liberal; loose.
examples: text: So ſung Philander, as his Friend went round / In the rich Ichor, in the gen'rous Blood / Of Bacchus, purple God of joyous Wit, / A Brow ſolute, and ever-laughing Eye.
ref: 1742, [Edward Young], “Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 44:
synonyms: word: easygoing
word: laid-back
word: airy
word: at ease
word: at peace
word: carefree
word: careless
word: casual
word: chill
word: cool
word: devil-may-care
word: easy-breezy
word: easygoing
word: happy-go-lucky
word: indifferent
word: insouciant
word: laid-back
word: leisurely
word: lighthearted
word: loose
word: mellow
word: nonchalant
word: pococurante
word: relaxed
word: serene
word: solute
word: tranquil
word: unanxious
word: unbothered
word: unconcerned
word: undisturbed
word: unruffled
word: untroubled
word: unworried
word: wanton
word: berserk
word: blissed out
word: blithe
word: buoyant
word: blithesome
word: bonnie
word: bright
word: cheerful
word: cheerly
word: cheery
word: chuffed
word: cock-a-hoop
word: content
word: contented
word: convivial
word: delighted
word: ebullient
word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: excited
word: exhilarated
word: exuberant
word: exultant
word: fat and happy
word: gassed
word: gay
word: gayful
word: glad
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: gleesome
word: happy
word: hearty
word: high on life
word: jovial
word: joyful
word: merry
word: merry as a cricket
word: merry as a grig
word: mirthsome
word: on cloud nine
word: overjoyed
word: overjoyous
word: over the moon
word: pacific
word: perky
word: placated
word: pleased
word: satisfied
word: thrilled
word: tickled pink
word: triumphant
word: vivacious
word: wealful
word: happy as a clam
word: happy as a clam at high water
word: happy as a lark
word: happy as a pig in mud
word: happy as a pig in shit
word: happy as a prince
word: happy as Larry
word: happy as the day is long
glosses: Relaxed; hence, cheerful, merry.
examples: text: a solute salt
glosses: Able to be dissolved; soluble.
examples: text: a solute stipule
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
antonyms: adnate
glosses: Not adhering; loose.
solute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒljuːt/
Forms: form: solutes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin solutus, past participle of solvo.
Senses: examples: Holonym: solution
antonyms: solvent#Noun
dissolver
related: word: solvent#Noun
word: dissolver
glosses: Any substance that is dissolved in a liquid solvent to create a solution.
soma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊmə/
ipa: /ˈsəʊmə/
rhymes: -əʊmə
Forms: form: somas
form: somata
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The body of an organism in contrast to the germ cells.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: word: bod
word: body
word: flesh
word: likam
word: quarrons
word: soma
glosses: The corporeal body, as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit.
Derived terms: resomation
somal
somatic
somite
Related terms: prosoma
somaclone
somaesthetics
somascope
somato-
-some
somesthesis
soma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊmə/
ipa: /ˈsəʊmə/
rhymes: -əʊmə
Forms: form: Soma
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit सोम (soma). Doublet of haoma.
Senses: examples: text: Once he had drunk the intoxicating soma, he experienced an ascent to the gods without having to die a violent death, as in the old ritual.
ref: 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books, published 2007, page 82:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ritual drink in ancient Vedic culture, obtained by pressing the Soma plant.
examples: text: […] there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon […]
ref: 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Any kind of intoxicating drug.
Related terms: haoma
sonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sōnʹənt
ipa: /ˈsoʊ̯n.ənt/
rhymes: -əʊnənt
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sonāns, sonantis.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: surd
glosses: Voiced.
Derived terms: english: ancient music
translation: ancient music
word: equisonant
word: multisonant
word: unisonant