cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Pegasus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕɡʹ-ə-səs
ipa: /ˈpɛɡ.ə.səs/
Forms: form: Pegasos
form: pegasus
Etymology: From Late Middle English Pegase, Pegasus, from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang. Some have dismissed this as folk etymology and suggest a pre-Greek origin because of the -ασος suffix. First attested in the 14th century.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.
topics: astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.
A constellation of the northern sky, near the vernal equinoctial point, representing the winged horse. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.
Synonyms: word: Pegasus
Hypernyms: word: constellation
Meronyms: sense: constellation
word: Algenib
sense: constellation
word: Alkarab
sense: constellation
word: Biham
sense: constellation
word: Enif
sense: constellation
word: Helvetios
sense: constellation
word: Homam
sense: constellation
word: Markab
sense: constellation
word: Matar
sense: constellation
word: Sadalbari
sense: constellation
word: Salm
sense: constellation
word: Scheat
word: Baham
word: Jih
word: Sadalpheretz
word: Kerb
Derived terms: sense: constellation
english: abbreviated form
translation: abbreviated form
word: Peg
sense: constellation
english: Latin genitive form
translation: Latin genitive form
word: Pegasi
Pegasus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕɡʹ-ə-səs
ipa: /ˈpɛɡ.ə.səs/
Forms: form: Pegasuses
form: Pegasi
form: Pegasos
form: pegasus
Etymology: From Late Middle English Pegase, Pegasus, from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang. Some have dismissed this as folk etymology and suggest a pre-Greek origin because of the -ασος suffix. First attested in the 14th century.
Senses: topics: fantasy
qualifier: occasionally proscribed
glosses: Any winged horse; pterippus.
examples: text: Confidence in Corinthian Pegasi grew up in the Greek zone of the island in such a way that Pegasi became the accepted coin of the realm.
ref: 2007 February 15, R. J. A. Talbert, Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily: 344-317 B.C., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 167:
topics: fantasy
qualifier: occasionally proscribed
glosses: Any winged horse; pterippus.
A coin of ancient Corinth with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.
glosses: Poetic inspiration, muse.
Derived terms: pegacorn
Pigasus
unisus
Related terms: Bellerophon
Enif
pell-mell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛlˈmɛl/
homophone: pall mall (US)
Forms: form: more pell-mell
form: most pell-mell
form: pell mell
form: pellmell
Etymology: From French pêle-mêle, from Old French pesle-mesle, apparently a rhyme based on the stem of mesler (“to mix, meddle”). Compare meddle, melee.
Senses: examples: text: Nor moody Beggars, ſtaruing for a time / Of pell-mell hauocke, and confusion.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 69, column 2:
text: These present the appearance of masses of water-worn gravel, mixed in the most pell mell confusion, the boulders being often of very large size; but I observed no striae, nor any of the blue tenacious clay of the Till, which it so much resembled.
ref: 1883, Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, volume 4, page 204:
text: The whole district presents the most pell-mell throwing together imaginable.
ref: 1924, Konrad Bercovici, Around the World in New York, page 134:
text: The pell mell, hell for leather traffic of Lagos was more pell mell, hell for leather than ever.
ref: 1961, Charles J. Patterson, Letters relating to Africa south of the Sahara, especially to Nigeria, page 18:
text: The cattle are less disciplined, more pell-mell, heavy-footed, their hooves stamping the ground to mud in several places.
ref: 2003, Audrey Joan Whitson, Teaching Places, page 50:
text: China’s pell-mell, brisk urbanization has in some ways made the challenge harder to face.
ref: 2021 July 26, Steven Lee Myers, Keith Bradsher, Chris Buckley, “As China Boomed, It Didn’t Take Climate Change Into Account. Now It Must.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Hasty and uncontrolled.
pell-mell
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛlˈmɛl/
homophone: pall mall (US)
Forms: form: pell mell
form: pellmell
Etymology: From French pêle-mêle, from Old French pesle-mesle, apparently a rhyme based on the stem of mesler (“to mix, meddle”). Compare meddle, melee.
Senses: examples: text: But ſeeing that there the murdring Enemie, / Peſle-meſle, purſued them like a ſtorme of hayle, / They gan retyre vvhere Iuba vvas encampt; […]
ref: [1594, Robert Garnier, translated by Thomas Kid [i.e., Thomas Kyd], Pompey the Great, His Faire Corneliaes Tragedie: […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Nicholas Ling, published 1595, →OCLC, act V:
text: Never was there a great battle fought more pell-mell, since war began; never was valor so completely thrown away.
ref: 1861, George Wilkes, The Great Battle, page 27:
text: The table was covered with a confusion of papers, books, pamphlets, all heaped upon one another pell-mell; […]
ref: [1884], [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘The Breaker has come up before Them’”, in Ishmael: […], volume I, London: John and Robert Maxwell, […], →OCLC, page 289:
text: Pell-mell they rushed for Inverness and safety, leaving the strange battlefield to the stalwart five.
ref: 1905, Charles Sanford Terry, The Young Pretender, page 81:
text: A group of the reapers whom we had seen running from the fields were lying all pell-mell, their bodies crossing each other, at the bottom of it.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: And the prompter our payments the more pell-mell the news came in and the more obligingly gruesome its detail.
ref: 1996, Rodney Hall, The Island in the Mind, page 400:
text: Some are already packed up well; / Others are at it, most pell mell.
ref: 2006, Marion Woods, “Getting Ready”, in A Spiritual Journey Through Poetry with Marion Woods, published 2009, page 48:
glosses: In haste and chaos; uncontrolledly, confusedly.
pell-mell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛlˈmɛl/
homophone: pall mall (US)
Forms: form: pell mell
form: pellmell
Etymology: From French pêle-mêle, from Old French pesle-mesle, apparently a rhyme based on the stem of mesler (“to mix, meddle”). Compare meddle, melee.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pall mall (“ball game”).
Related terms: helter-skelter
willy-nilly
pelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: pelts
form: pelting
form: pelted
form: pelted
Etymology: The noun is inherited from Middle English pelt (“skin of a sheep, especially without the wool”); further etymology uncertain, possibly:
* from Middle English pellet (“skin of an animal, especially a sheep”), from Anglo-Norman pelette, pellet, and Old French pelete, pelette (“thin layer, film, skin; epidermis; foreskin”), from pel (“skin; garment made of animal skin, pelisse”) (from Latin pellis (“animal skin, hide, pelt; leather; garment made of animal skin”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover; to wrap; hide; skin; cloth”)) + -ete (diminutive suffix); or
* from Late Latin peletta, pelleta, pelletta (“skin of an animal, especially a sheep”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Norwegian Bokmål pels (“fur; fur coat”)
* Norwegian Nynorsk pels (“fur; fur coat”)
Senses: examples: text: Let us take a typical case of a mink farmer here in Connecticut who is being forced to throw in the sponge this coming fall. […] He pelts from 3500 to 4000 minks a year and has a huge investment of several thousand dollars tied up in his mink business.
ref: 1967, James J. Critchley, “The Plight of the U.S. Mink Farmer”, in Import Quotas Legislation: Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session on Proposals to Impose Import Quotas on Oil, Steel, Textiles, Meat, Dairy Products, and Other Commodities: Part 1 […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 108:
glosses: To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.
examples: text: A gentleman (long agoe) lent him an old velvet ſaddle, […] [He] preſently untruſſeth, and pelts the out-ſide from the lining, […] with it he made him a caſe, or cover, for a dublet, which hath caſed and coverd his nakednes ever ſince: […]
ref: 1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with You to Saffron-Walden (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
examples: text: A Man took an Eagle, Pelted her VVings, and put her among his Hens. Somebody came and bought This Eagle, and preſently Nevv-Feather'd her.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] CVII. An Eagle and a Man.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: To remove feathers from (a bird).
pelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: pelts
Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English pelt, pelte; further origin uncertain, probably a variant of Late Middle English pilten (“to push, thrust; to strike; to cast down, humble; to incite, induce; to place, put; to extend, reach forward with”) [and other forms], possibly from Old English *pyltan, from Late Latin *pultiare, from Latin pultāre (“to beat, knock, strike”), the frequentative of pellere, the present active infinitive of pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to hurl; to banish, eject, expel, thrust out; to beat, strike; to set in motion”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to beat; to drive, push”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: [D]azed and blinded, she bent her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.
ref: 1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in To the Lighthouse, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], →OCLC, page 54:
text: Kas is awakened by the furious pelts of rain hitting the tin roof, and he rolls over, pulling his sleeping wife tightly into his arms.
ref: 2013 July 15, Karen-Anne Stewart, chapter 19, in Healing Rain (The Rain Trilogy; 2), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
examples: text: [T]he cripple, in falling, gave him ſuch a good pelt on the head vvith his crutch, that the blood follovved.
ref: 1771, [Tobias Smollett], “To Sir Watkin Phillips, Bart. of Jesus College, Oxon.”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume II, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 129:
qualifier: archaic except Ireland
glosses: A blow or stroke from something thrown.
qualifier: archaic except Ireland
glosses: A verbal insult; a jeer, a jibe, a taunt.
examples: text: The pope [Innocent IV] being in this pelt, Ægidus, a Spanish cardinal, thus interposed his gravity: […]
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section V. Thomæ Hanson, Amico Meo.”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), subsection 29, 30 (The Pope’s Fume against This Good Bishop Quenched by a Spanish Cardinal.), page 359:
qualifier: archaic except Midlands; Southern England (South West); archaic except Midlands; Southern England (South West)
glosses: A fit of anger; an outburst, a rage.
examples: text: It's a good day off us anyhow, and they're all going south-west by south full pelt as hard as they can go.
ref: 1907, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Battle of the North Atlantic”, in The War in the Air: […], London: George Bell and Sons, published 1908, →OCLC, § 1, page 146:
qualifier: chiefly Northern England except in at (full) pelt
glosses: An act of moving quickly; a rush.
Derived terms: full pelt
at full pelt
pelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: pelts
form: except Kent
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly related to pelting (“mean, paltry”) (obsolete), peltry (“rubbish, trash; an unpleasant thing”) (chiefly Scotland, obsolete), and paltry (“of little value, trashy, trivial; contemptibly unimportant, despicable”), possibly from a Germanic language such as Middle Low German palte, palter (“cloth; rag, shred”), from Old Saxon *paltro, *palto (“cloth; rag”), from Proto-Germanic *paltrô, *paltô (“patch; rag, scrap”). The ultimate origin is uncertain, but the word is possibly a wanderwort from [Term?] (“cloth”).
Senses: glosses: A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
glosses: Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
Related terms: peltry
paltry
pelting
pelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: pelts
form: pelting
form: pelted
form: pelted
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly related to palter (“to talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions; to haggle; to babble, chatter; (rare) to trifle”), further etymology unknown. The Oxford English Dictionary takes the view that any relation to pelting (“mean, paltry”) (obsolete) and paltry (“of little value, trashy, trivial; contemptibly unimportant, despicable”) is unlikely.
Senses: glosses: To bargain for a better deal; to haggle.
pelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: pelts
Etymology: A variant of pelta, borrowed from Latin pelta, from Ancient Greek πέλτη (péltē, “small crescent-shaped leather shield of Thracian design”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps either from Thracian, or ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover; to wrap; hide; skin; cloth”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pelta.
A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of pelta.
A flat apothecium with no rim.
pend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnd/
homophone: penned
ipa: /pɪnd/
homophone: pinned
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: pends
form: pending
form: pended
form: pended
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pendĕre, from Latin pendēre.
Senses: glosses: To hang down; to cause something to hang down
glosses: To arch over (something); to vault.
examples: text: pending upon certain powerful motives
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
glosses: To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
Related terms: append
independence
pinder
pinner
pend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnd/
homophone: penned
ipa: /pɪnd/
homophone: pinned
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: pends
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pendĕre, from Latin pendēre.
Senses: glosses: An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
Synonyms: alley
pend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnd/
homophone: penned
ipa: /pɪnd/
homophone: pinned
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: pends
form: pending
form: pended
form: pended
Etymology: Compare pen (“to shut in”).
Senses: examples: text: soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron
ref: 1564, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegms, translation of original by Erasmus:
glosses: To pen; to confine.
pend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnd/
homophone: penned
ipa: /pɪnd/
homophone: pinned
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: pends
form: pending
form: pended
form: pended
Etymology: Back-formation from pending.
Senses: examples: text: The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 817:
glosses: To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
pend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnd/
homophone: penned
ipa: /pɪnd/
homophone: pinned
rhymes: -ɛnd
Senses: glosses: oil cake
perscrutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəː.skɹuːˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /pɚ.skɹuːˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: perscrutations
Etymology: From Latin perscrūtātiō, from the past participle stem of perscrūtor.
Senses: examples: text: The first and universall reasons are of a hard perscrutation.
ref: 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 103
text: Such guessing, visioning, dim perscrutation of the momentous future: the very clothmakers, old women, all townsfolk speak of it
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 8, The Election”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
Related terms: perscrutate
perforce
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈfɔːs/
ipa: /pɚˈfɔɹs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Etymology: From Middle English par force, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French par force (“by force”).
Senses: examples: text: If ſhe denie, Lord Hastings goe with him,
And from her iealous Armes pluck him perforce.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother
Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require
My dukedom of thee, which, perforce, I know
Thou must restore.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: By force.
examples: text: Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could..
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 17, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: "Keep fast thy hold, for by such stairs as these,"
The Master said, panting as one fatigued,
"Must we perforce depart from so much evil."
ref: 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Inferno, canto 34:
text: So, bevelling around by Mullett's and the Signal House which they shortly reached, they proceeded perforce in the direction of Amiens street railway terminus
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Accordingly work perforce had to be begun. The first sod was cut at Anley, near Settle, in November, 1869, […]
ref: 1939 July, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: 1. Settle and Carlisle, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 35:
text: Adult immigrants must perforce learn some English, and their children are likely to become English monolinguals.
ref: 2006, Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Immigrant America: A Portrait, 3rd edition, page 239:
text: The central issue in this case is whether the procedures followed respected the applicants’ family life or constituted an interference with the exercise of the right to respect for family life which could not be justified as necessary in a democratic society. […] It is true that Article 8 contains no explicit procedural requirements, but this is not conclusive of the matter. The relevant considerations to be weighed by a local authority in reaching decisions on children in its care must perforce include the views and interests of the natural parents.
ref: 2013 August 1, European Court of Human Rights, A.K. and L. v. Croatia, number 37956/11, marginal 62–63:
synonyms: perforcely
perforcedly
glosses: By constraint of circumstances; of necessity, inevitably, unavoidably; as a matter of course.
perforce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈfɔːs/
ipa: /pɚˈfɔɹs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: perforces
form: perforcing
form: perforced
form: perforced
Etymology: From Middle English par force, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French par force (“by force”).
Senses: glosses: To force; to compel.
peripatetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.ɪ.pəˈtɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.ə.pəˈtɛt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more peripatetic
form: most peripatetic
form: peripatetick
form: Peripatetic
Etymology: From French péripatétique, from Latin peripatēticus, from Ancient Greek περιπατητικός (peripatētikós, “given to walking around”), from περιπατέω (peripatéō, “I walk around”), from περί (perí, “around”) (English peri-)+ πατέω (patéō, “I walk”).
Senses: glosses: Tending to walk about.
examples: text: After peripatetic upbringing that took her from America to Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium and England, [Mary-Kay] Wilmers read French and Russian at Oxford.
ref: 2014 March 9, Elizabeth Day, “Is the LRB the best magazine in the world?”, in The Observer:
synonyms: itinerant
nomadic
glosses: Constantly travelling.
examples: text: The true peripatetic school.
ref: 1642, James Howell, Instructions For Foreign Travel:
text: Demetreius of Phalerum, a peripatetic philosopher of the fourth century B.C., wrote an amatory treatise entitled Eroticus - no longer, however, extant.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 75:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Peripatetic.
Derived terms: peripatetically
peripateticate
peripateticism
peripatetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.ɪ.pəˈtɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.ə.pəˈtɛt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: peripatetics
form: peripatetick
form: Peripatetic
Etymology: From French péripatétique, from Latin peripatēticus, from Ancient Greek περιπατητικός (peripatētikós, “given to walking around”), from περιπατέω (peripatéō, “I walk around”), from περί (perí, “around”) (English peri-)+ πατέω (patéō, “I walk”).
Senses: synonyms: wayfarer
itinerant
pedestrian
nomad
glosses: One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
examples: text: He who would think clearly must think like a peripatetic even if he is unwilling to walk like one.
ref: 1961, Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics, section 11:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Peripatetic (“Aristotelian”).
philander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlændə/
ipa: /fɪˈlændəɹ/
Forms: form: philanders
Etymology: From the given name Philander, used as a name for flirtatious characters in several 18th century stories, from Ancient Greek Φίλανδρος (Phílandros), name of the mythological son of the nymph Acacallis and the god Apollo. Semantically disconnected from the adjective φίλανδρος (phílandros, “loving one’s husband; excessively attracted to males, slutty, boy crazy”).
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I'll baste you together, you and your Philander!
ref: 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: A lover.
glosses: A South American opossum, bare-tailed woolly opossum, of species Caluromys philander (syn. Didelphis philander).
glosses: A greater bilby, an Australian marsupial of species Macrotis lagotis (syn. Perameles lagotis).
Derived terms: philanderess
philanderous
Related terms: filander
philander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlændə/
ipa: /fɪˈlændəɹ/
Forms: form: philanders
form: philandering
form: philandered
form: philandered
Etymology: From the given name Philander, used as a name for flirtatious characters in several 18th century stories, from Ancient Greek Φίλανδρος (Phílandros), name of the mythological son of the nymph Acacallis and the god Apollo. Semantically disconnected from the adjective φίλανδρος (phílandros, “loving one’s husband; excessively attracted to males, slutty, boy crazy”).
Senses: examples: text: You can't be philandering after her again.
ref: 1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: To woo women; to play the male flirt.
Synonyms: womanize
womanise
Derived terms: philanderer
philandering
phlegmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛɡˈmætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: phlegmatics
form: phlegmatick
form: phlegmaticke
form: phlegmatique
Etymology: From Middle English fleumatik, flewmatik, flematik, fleumatyke, flewmatyk, from Old French fleumatique, from Latin phlegmaticus, from Ancient Greek φλεγματικός (phlegmatikós), from φλέγμα (phlégma). Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots, with modern pronunciation following this new spelling.
Senses: glosses: One who has a phlegmatic disposition.
pice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: pice
form: pices
Etymology: From Hindi पैसा (paisā, “money”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paisa, especially (historical) in the form of coins worth 20 cash.
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Derived terms: piceworth
pipette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈpɛt/
enpr: pī-pĕtʹ
ipa: /paɪˈpɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: pipettes
form: pipet
Etymology: From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.
Senses: topics: sciences
coordinate_terms: burette
glosses: A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
Derived terms: absorption pipette
autopipette
cytopipette
femtopipette
intrapipette
macropipette
micropipette
Mohr pipette
multipipette
nanopipette
Pasteur pipette
picopipette
pipettor
steripipette
pipette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈpɛt/
enpr: pī-pĕtʹ
ipa: /paɪˈpɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: pipettes
form: pipetting
form: pipetted
form: pipetted
form: pipet
Etymology: From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Thereʼs another man near him, pipetting something into a series of small glass vials.
ref: 2016, N. K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate, Orbit, page 95:
glosses: To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.
Related terms: word: pipe
piquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈkɛt/
ipa: /pɪˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: picquet
form: picket
Etymology: From French piquet.
Senses: examples: text: Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:
text: The two wedding parties met constantly in each other's apartments. After two or three nights the gentlemen of an evening had a little piquet, as their wives sate and chatted apart.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: They would kick off their shoes and play piquet by candle-light.
ref: 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:
text: We shall together challenge the Chevalier de Belleroche to piquet; and, while we are winning money from him, we shall have the even greater pleasure of hearing you sing with your charming teacher, to whom I shall propose it.
ref: 2007, Helen Constantine, translated by Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 35:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
piquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈkɛt/
ipa: /pɪˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: piquets
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Archaic form of picket.
piquet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈkɛt/
ipa: /pɪˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: piquets
form: piqueting
form: piqueted
form: piqueted
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Archaic form of picket.
plagiarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹɪst/
Forms: form: plagiarists
Etymology: From plagiary + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: plagiary
glosses: One who plagiarizes; or lifts the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his or her own, thus engaging in plagiarism; a literary thief
Derived terms: plagiaristic
planchette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plænˈʃɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: planchettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French planchette.
Senses: glosses: A small plank.
glosses: A type of Ouija board. (A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes interpreted as of oracular or supernatural import.)
glosses: A plane table.
examples: text: Some general security features to look for in both Canadian and American currency are . . .small green dots or "planchettes" randomly embedded throughout the paper that glow under ultraviolet light.
ref: 2009 November 26, “Warning issued about fake cash”, in CBCNews, Canada:
glosses: One of the round colored dots pressed into paper money, used to distinguish authentic currency from counterfeit currency.
Related terms: Ouija
planner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplænɚ/
rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)
Forms: form: planners
Etymology: From plan + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Johnny is a good planner. He starts his work in time to get it finished by the deadline.
text: Ms. Gunston is a planner for the county.
glosses: One who plans.
glosses: A notebook or software in which one keeps reminders of items such as appointments, tasks, projects, and contacts.
glosses: Synonym of filled pause.
synonyms: word: filled pause
Derived terms: daily planner
day planner
dayplanner
estate planner
meeting planner
nonplanner
paraplanner
personal planner
route planner
town planner
urban planner
wedding planner
plash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: plashes
Etymology: From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæsċ (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *plask, probably ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”). Related also to West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”), Dutch plassen (“to splash, splatter”), German platschen (“to splash”).
Senses: examples: text: Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Hereof Aesop framed the Fable of the two Frogs that consulted together in time of drowth (when many plashes that they had repayred to were dry) what was to be done.
ref: 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Coulers of Good and Evill, section 4:
text: Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXII:
text: These shallow plashes.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Consideration of our Latter End”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
examples: text: Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash, and as we listened we watched it in silence.
ref: 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers:
glosses: A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
examples: text: [...] down burst torrents of thick rain and muddied us to the skin. The valley began to run in plashes of water, and Dakhil-Allah urged us across it quickly. [...]
ref: 1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 206:
glosses: A sudden downpour.
plash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: plashes
form: plashing
form: plashed
form: plashed
Etymology: From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæsċ (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *plask, probably ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”). Related also to West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”), Dutch plassen (“to splash, splatter”), German platschen (“to splash”).
Senses: examples: text: plashing among bedded pebbles
ref: 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: Far below him plashed the waters, / Plashed and washed the dreamy waters; […]
ref: 1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Pau-Puk-Keewis”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 222:
text: […] heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her […]
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter IX, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To splash.
glosses: To cause a splash.
examples: text: to plash a wall in imitation of granite
glosses: To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
Derived terms: plap
plashet
plashy
plash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: plashes
Etymology: From Middle English *plasshen, *plaisshen, *plesshen, from Old French plaissier, plessier (“to bend”), from Latin plectere (“to plait, weave”).
For the noun, compare Middle English plaisshes (“hedges forming an enclosure, palisade of hedges or wattles”). Compare also pleach.
Senses: glosses: The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
plash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: plashes
form: plashing
form: plashed
form: plashed
Etymology: From Middle English *plasshen, *plaisshen, *plesshen, from Old French plaissier, plessier (“to bend”), from Latin plectere (“to plait, weave”).
For the noun, compare Middle English plaisshes (“hedges forming an enclosure, palisade of hedges or wattles”). Compare also pleach.
Senses: examples: text: to plash a hedge
text: plash'd hedges
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
examples: 1679, John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part: Some of the trees hung over the wall, and my brother did plash and eat.
glosses: To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it).
plasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæs.tɪs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈplɑːs.tɪs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈplæs.tɪs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [ˈpʰlæs.tɪs.ɪ.ti]
ipa: [ˈpʰlæs.tɪs.ɪ.ɾi]
ipa: /ˈplæs.tɪs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [ˈplæs.tɪs.ɪ.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɪsɪti
Forms: form: plasticities
Etymology: From plastic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In place of a stinger, a male bee or wasp has hardened genitalia […] used for grasping the female during mating and transferring sperm. Male genitalia are a showcase of structural plasticity.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: The quality or state of being plastic.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property of a solid body whereby it undergoes a permanent change in shape or size when subjected to a stress exceeding a particular value (the yield value).
Coordinate terms: elasticity
Derived terms: angioplasticity
ecoplasticity
elastoplasticity
electroplasticity
genomic plasticity
hyperplasticity
hypoplasticity
metaplasticity
microplasticity
neoplasticity
neuroplasticity
nonplasticity
pathoplasticity
phenoplasticity
phenotypic plasticity
pseudoplasticity
psychoplasticity
superplasticity
thermoplasticity
visco-elasto-plasticity
viscoplasticity
plausible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɔː.zɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈplɔː.zə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈplɑ.zɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈploː.zɪ.bəl/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈplaː.zə.bəl/
Forms: form: more plausible
form: most plausible
Etymology: From Latin plausibilis (“deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing”), from the participle stem of plaudere (“to applaud”).
Senses: examples: text: a plausible excuse
text: In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows (innately) or learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years).
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformative Grammar: A First Course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Russian SPETSNAZ are irregular forces that operate covertly, providing the Russian government plausible deniability.
ref: 2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 43:
synonyms: credible
believable
reasonable
tenable
specious
antonyms: implausible
incredible
unbelievable
far-fetched
glosses: Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely.
examples: text: a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion
glosses: Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
examples: text: capable of receiving a plauſible Anſwer
ref: 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams:
text: […] a coachman named Richard, who was described as a "sensible, well-behaved yellow boy, who is plausible and can read and write."
ref: 1955, William H. Townsend, Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky:
glosses: Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
Derived terms: implausible
nonplausible
overplausible
plausibility
plausible deniability
plausibleness
plausibly
semiplausible
unplausible
playmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌmeɪt/
Forms: form: playmates
Etymology: From play + mate. Compare earlier playfeer (“playmate”) of similar construction.
Senses: examples: text: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
synonyms: playfellow
glosses: A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.
glosses: A person's lover.
Derived terms: playmateship
plight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plīt
ipa: /plaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: plights
Etymology: From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk"; see Etymology 2) and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)).
Senses: examples: text: Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 243c:
text: Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.
ref: 2011 December 10, Arindam Rej, “Norwich 4-2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
text: Despite spending £1 billion of its own resources, that balanced budget became impossible and forced TfL to issue a 'Section 114' notice of impending financial plight and go to the government for support.
ref: 2020 June 17, Philip Haigh, “Capital for the capital to meet London's transport needs”, in Rail, page 28:
glosses: A dire or unfortunate situation.
examples: text: although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A (neutral) condition or state.
examples: text: All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Good health.
plight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plīt
ipa: /plaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: plights
Etymology: From Middle English plight (“risk, danger”), from Old English pliht (“peril, risk, danger, damage, plight”), from Proto-West Germanic *plihti (“care, responsibility, duty”). A suffixed form of the root represented by Old English pleoh (“risk, danger, hurt, peril"; also "responsibility”) and plēon (“to endanger, risk”). Akin to Old English plihtan (“to endanger, compromise”). Cognate with Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German Plicht (“duty”), German Pflicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht). More at pledge.
Senses: glosses: Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
glosses: An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
glosses: Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
glosses: One's office; duty; charge.
examples: text: Haply, when I shall wed,
That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
Derived terms: plightful
plightless
plightly
plighty
replight
trothplight
unplight
plight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: plīt
ipa: /plaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: plights
form: plighting
form: plighted
form: plighted
Etymology: From Middle English plight (“risk, danger”), from Old English pliht (“peril, risk, danger, damage, plight”), from Proto-West Germanic *plihti (“care, responsibility, duty”). A suffixed form of the root represented by Old English pleoh (“risk, danger, hurt, peril"; also "responsibility”) and plēon (“to endanger, risk”). Akin to Old English plihtan (“to endanger, compromise”). Cognate with Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German Plicht (“duty”), German Pflicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht). More at pledge.
Senses: glosses: To expose to risk; to pledge.
glosses: Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
examples: text: I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.
ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 226:
glosses: To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
Derived terms: plighter
plight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: plīt
ipa: /plaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: plights
form: plighting
form: plighted
form: plighted
Etymology: From Middle English plyghten, plyȝten, pleyȝten, pleiten, pliten, from the noun (see below).
Senses: examples: text: ſhe wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours,
ref: 1670, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
plight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plīt
ipa: /plaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: plights
Etymology: From Middle English pliȝt, plight, plyt, pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (“pleat, fold”). More at plait.
Senses: examples: text: Many a folded plight.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 26:
glosses: A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
plunge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Forms: form: plunges
Etymology: From Middle English plungen, ploungen, Anglo-Norman plungier, from Old French plongier, (Modern French plonger), from unattested Late Latin frequentative *plumbicō (“to throw a leaded line”), from plumbum (“lead”). Compare plumb, plounce.
Senses: glosses: The act of plunging or submerging.
examples: text: to take the water with a plunge
text: A plunge into the sea
glosses: A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
glosses: A swimming pool.
glosses: The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
synonyms: plunger
glosses: Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
glosses: An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.
Derived terms: bus plunge
plunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Forms: form: plunges
form: plunging
form: plunged
form: plunged
Etymology: Back-formation from plunger.
Senses: examples: text: to plunge a toilet
glosses: To remove a blockage by suction.
pollinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒlɪneɪt/
Forms: form: pollinates
form: pollinating
form: pollinated
form: pollinated
Etymology: From pollin- (compound form of "pollen") + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: pollinate plants
text: pollinate flowers
text: self-pollinate
text: Bees help pollinate flowers as they collect nectar.
text: Farmers often import bees to pollinate their crops.
glosses: To apply pollen to (a stigma).
Derived terms: cross-pollinate
nonpollinated
nonpollinating
pollinator
self-pollinating
unpollinated
pollinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒlɪneɪt/
Etymology: From pollin- (compound form of "pollen") + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pollinose.