cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
GUI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒiːjuːaɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡuː.i/
homophone: gooey
rhymes: -aɪ
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: GUIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: TUI
glosses: Initialism of graphical user interface.
YMCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Young Men's Christian Association.
YMCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: YMCAs
Senses: examples: text: In Houston, the YMCA downtown has offered dormitorylike rooms since 1908. The current building was built in 1941. Over the years it drew such fledgling business leaders as Gerald Hines and Fayez Sarofim.
ref: 2008 August 24, Tara Dooley, “It's been fun to stay at the Y”, in Chron:
text: The title of Smith’s first magic film is to the point: The Vanishing Lady (1898). Blackton operated the camera while Smith hocused and pocused one of their wives away. Presumably there were no trap doors through which a woman could disappear in the stages of the YMCAs and churches where Smith entertained, but thanks to moving pictures he was able to add this most basic of illusions to his repertoire.
ref: 2021, Andrew A. Erish, “1875–1904”, in Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 19:
synonyms: word: Y
glosses: A hostel or other facility operated by the Young Men's Christian Association.
qualifier: preceded by definite article
glosses: A particular dance in which the arms and body are used to imitate the letters Y, M, C, and A, in succession, danced to the Village People song Y.M.C.A.
Related terms: YWCA
OS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ ˈɛs/
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Owen Sound.
glosses: The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Old Saxon.
OS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ ˈɛs/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of outsize, clothes for large people.
glosses: Initialism of oversize.
glosses: Initialism of Old Style, a term used in English language historical studies to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian calendar instead of the modern Gregorian calendar.
glosses: Abbreviation of offscreen, indicating a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Initialism of over shoulder.
OS
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ ˈɛs/
Senses: examples: text: You did the overseas trip. You went OS.
ref: 2015, Mick Houghton, I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny:
text: I kind of expanded my circle a bit more when I went OS [overseas].
ref: 2022, The Betoota Advocate, The Australian Dream: Sell everything and move to Betoota, page 33:
glosses: Initialism of overseas.
OS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ ˈɛs/
Forms: form: OSes
form: OSs
Senses: examples: text: We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
text: Calton Hill in Edinburgh is located at OS grid ref NT262741.
glosses: An Ordnance Survey map.
examples: text: I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.
text: Some vendors do now have a variant of the per-unit royalty (usually termed a “shared risk,” or similar approach), but it is not strictly the same as for those proprietary embedded OSes mentioned before […]
ref: 2008, Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems:
text: A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000 […]
ref: 2010, Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference:
text: In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).
ref: 2009, Emmett Dulaney, CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of operating system.
glosses: Initialism of ordinary seaman.
glosses: Initialism of oppidan scholar.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: AROS
sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: iOS
sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: iPadOS
sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: JeOS
sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: macOS
sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: OS/2
sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: OS X
sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: RTOS
sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: tvOS
sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: watchOS
sense: Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
word: webOS
Related terms: OS diaper
OS nappy
AD
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪˈdi/
Forms: form: A.D.
form: A. D.
Senses: examples: text: They had a vibrant culture from the 3rd century BC to the 2nd century AD.
text: Today is 23 November AD 2025.
text: Founded Aᴼ.Dᴵ. 1728 by Benj. Franklin
ref: 1916 September 23, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 189, number 13, page 3:
text: There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century AD recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library.
ref: 1979, Paul Hulton, Lawrence Smith, “Naturalism in Sung China”, in Flowers in Art from East and West, Jarrold and Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: But keep on the lookout for the 1st-century-a.d. stele on the right wall, with symbols of the deceased’s civic scribely duties (a scroll and codex), and the fresco remnants around to the left.
ref: 2010, John Moretti, “Perugia, Assisi & Northern Umbria”, in Florence, Tuscany & Umbria (Frommer’s), 7th edition, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, section 2 (Assisi: An Artistic Pilgrimage), page 393:
qualifier: often punctuated
glosses: Initialism of Anno Domini (borrowed from Latin); in the year of our Lord.
Synonyms: sense: anno Domini
word: AC
sense: anno Domini
english: anno Christi
translation: anno Christi
word: A.C.
sense: anno Domini
word: anno Domini
sense: anno Domini
word: Anno Domini
sense: anno Domini
word: CE
sense: anno Domini
word: Christian Era
sense: anno Domini
word: in the year of our Lord
AD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪˈdi/
Forms: form: ADs
form: A.D.
form: A. D.
Senses: examples: text: A few moments later, the A.D. reappears. "They need you," she says. "And could you stop by Wardrobe?" Shannen rolls her eyes. "O.K.!" she snaps.
ref: 1993 November, Lynn Hirschberg, “Brat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in Vanity Fair:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Initialism of assistant director.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of air defence or air defense.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of antidepressant.
glosses: Initialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
examples: text: Many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), involve pathological protein deposits.
ref: 2015 December 23, Stéphane Larochelle, “STOMPing at the bits”, in Nature Methods, volume 12, number 12, →DOI, →ISSN, page 1114:
text: What the person with AD chooses to enunciate, ‘may capture something important in the way the person makes sense of his or her life and also make meaning-based connections’ (Hydén and Örulv 2009: 206).
ref: 2021, Pramod K. Nayar, Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs: Poetics of the Forgetting Self, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 76:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Alzheimer's disease.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of airworthiness directive.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Abbreviation of audio description.
glosses: Initialism of after dark.
Hyponyms: sense: airworthiness directive
word: EAD
Coordinate terms: sense: destroyer tender
word: AS
AD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪˈdi/
Forms: form: A.D.
form: A. D.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of antidumping.
AD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪˈdi/
Forms: form: A.D.
form: A. D.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Abu Dhabi.
glosses: Initialism of Andhra Pradesh.
FBI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛf.biː.aɪ/
Senses: examples: text: For a while, nearly every girl at school on whom I had a crush had a father in the FBI.
ref: 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN, page 36:
text: The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.
ref: 2021 September 27, Priya Krishnakumar, “Murders rose sharply in 2020 but data is lacking across much of the country”, in CNN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
related: word: F.B.I.
glosses: Initialism of Federal Bureau of Investigation.
glosses: Federation of British Industry (1916–1965), forerunner of CBI (Confederation of British Industry).
topics: climatology
firefighting
government
meteorology
natural-sciences
weather
glosses: fire behaviour index
Derived terms: english: California Bureau of Investigation
translation: California Bureau of Investigation
word: CBI
english: Georgia Bureau of Investigation
translation: Georgia Bureau of Investigation
word: GBI
FBI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛf.biː.aɪ/
Senses: glosses: Fixed-bit index.
examples: text: Groups of Heterosexuals gather in Daytona Beach to tan their normally pale skin, eat fried shrimp, and buy novelty T-shirts that say things like Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee! and FBI: Female Body Inspector.
ref: 2013, Jeffery Self, Straight People: A Spotter's Guide to the Fascinating World of Heterosexuals, Running Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Female body inspector.
Buckley's chance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Uncertain. Candidates are:
* A reference to William Buckley (1780–1856), a convict who escaped in Victoria in 1803 and lived with an Australian Aboriginal tribe for 30 years (non-Aboriginal people in the bush were considered to have "no chance" of survival). This is the most popular candidate, but earliest known usages date from the 1890s, some 30 years after his death. Nonetheless, this was soon after Buckley's story was publicised in 1889 by E. W. Cole in his book Savage Life in Australia: The Story of William Buckley the Runaway Convict who Lived Thirty-two Years Among the Blacks of Australia, so this etymology remains plausible.
* From Buckley's and none, presuming that expression derives from a Melbourne department store, Buckley & Nunn.
* A reference to Mr Buckley of the Bombala region of southern New South Wales, who sued the government over title to land, the action seeming to have little prospect of success.
* Again a reference to Mars Buckley, not in connection with Crumpton Nunn (as above, re Buckley's and none), but rather in relation to an 1893 run on banks, when Buckley ensured that the Bank of Australasia would have no chance of using his money to pay other depositors. The bank thus had "Buckley's chance" of getting his money. This etymology is arguably somewhat likely since the phrase was first cited three years after this incident.
Senses: examples: text: "So he has a chance," said Connie. "Buckley's chance, the way his luck is. Fell out with his girl he did, and lost his job, and now 'e's goin' to lose 'is life. The unluckiest man that ever lived."
ref: 1936, Andrew Barton ("Banjo") Paterson, The Shearer′s Colt:
glosses: A very small chance; no chance at all.
Synonyms: Buckley's
Buckley's hope
Related terms: Buckley's and none
ALPAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee, a 1964 US government committee who issued a report about automated translation.
seme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːm/
homophone: seam
homophone: seem
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: semes
form: semata
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation, sign, or symbol.
Related terms: word: homosemic
word: homosemous
word: homosemy
word: polyseme
word: polysemic
word: polysemous
word: polysemy
english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: semantic
word: semantics
word: semasiology
word: sematology
word: sememe
word: sememics
word: semiotic
word: semiotics
seme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːm/
homophone: seam
homophone: seem
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: semes
form: seming
form: semed
form: semed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of seem.
seme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːm/
homophone: seam
homophone: seem
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: semes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of seam.
seme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːm/
homophone: seam
homophone: seem
rhymes: -iːm
Senses: examples: text: I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 46, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 150:
glosses: Obsolete form of semé.
seme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːm/
homophone: seam
homophone: seem
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: semes
form: seme
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 攻め (seme), derived from the verb 攻める (semeru, “to attack”).
Senses: examples: text: […] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme […]
ref: 2008, Dru Pagliassotti, “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company (2008), →ISBN, page 73:
text: Sebas has always been the seme.
ref: 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press (2012), →ISBN:
text: The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.
ref: 2011, Robin E. Brenner, Snow Wildsmith, “Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers”, in Timothy Perper, Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World, Libraries Unlimited (2011), →ISBN, page 97:
topics: fiction
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
glosses: An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
KGB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the KGB
Etymology: From Russian КГБ (KGB), acronym of Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности (Komitét gosudárstvennoj bezopásnosti, “State Security Committee”).
Senses: examples: text: President Putin's KGB roots have sadly informed a style of governance that is neither reformist nor particularly democratic. The common thread throughout his domestic and foreign policies is his effort to trade on fear -- the fears of Russians that their country is under attack from hostile external forces (Chechens, NATO or free marketeers); and the fears of Westerners that if not for a strong, pragmatic leader, Russia will again become unruly, unstable and potentially aggressive.
ref: 2001 January 4, Garry Kasparov, “The Russian President Trades on Fear”, in The Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2015, International:
text: But in 1967 Treholt's trenchant opposition to the Vietnam War attracted the attention of the KGB.
ref: 2019 [2018], Ben Macintyre, chapter 4, in The Spy and the Traitor, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: The Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union (the Soviet security service).
glosses: The security service of Belarus.
Related terms: FSB
NKVD
Cheka
KGB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KGBs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of known good board.
crude
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kro͞od
ipa: /kɹuːd/
ipa: /kɹʉd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: crewed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: cruder
form: crudest
Etymology: From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”). Doublet of crudo, from Italian. Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”) via Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw blood”); more at raw.
Senses: examples: text: crude oil
synonyms: raw
unrefined
unprocessed
glosses: In a natural, untreated state.
examples: text: a crude shelter
text: a crude estimate
text: a crude guess
synonyms: primitive
rough
rude
rudimentary
glosses: Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
examples: text: a crude truth
synonyms: obvious
plain
unadorned
undisguised
glosses: Lacking concealing elements.
examples: text: a crude remark
text: You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.
text: At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.
ref: 2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: blunt
coarse
earthy
gross
stark
uncultivated
vulgar
glosses: Lacking tact or taste.
synonyms: immature
unripe
glosses: Immature or unripe.
examples: text: Her mete was very crude,
She had not wel endude; […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 77–78:
glosses: Uncooked, raw.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
Synonyms: topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: raw
word: crude
word: primitive
word: rough
word: rude
word: rudimental
word: rudimentary
word: undeveloped
word: unrefined
Hyponyms: word: rough-hewn
Derived terms: crude birth rate
crude carrier
crude death rate
crude form
crudeform
crudely
crude material
cruden
crudeness
crude oil
crude sap
crudesome
crudy
ultra large crude carrier
uncrude
very large crude carrier
Related terms: word: crudity
word: cruel
word: cruelty
word: basic
word: coarse
word: common
word: raw
word: simple
word: immature
word: inelegant
word: inferior
word: unfinished
word: unpolished
word: bare-bones
crude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kro͞od
ipa: /kɹuːd/
ipa: /kɹʉd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: crewed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: crudes
Etymology: From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”). Doublet of crudo, from Italian. Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”) via Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw blood”); more at raw.
Senses: glosses: Any substance in its natural state.
examples: text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022:
glosses: Ellipsis of crude oil.
Derived terms: biocrude
Brent crude
sour crude
sweet crude
syncrude
spacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪsɚ/
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spacers
Etymology: From space + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It was the futile throwing back in the face of the Spacers their most keenly felt insult: their insistence on considering the natives of Earth as disgustingly diseased.
ref: 1954, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel:
text: "How do I know I can trust you?" asked BKR.
Grakker hesitated. "Spacer's oath," he said at last.
ref: 2014 [1993], Bruce Coville, Aliens Ate My Homework, page 134:
text: Shepard: What are you running for?
Charles Saracino: I'm seeking one of the five spacer seats in Parliament. They have certain baroque conditions for a citizen to be able to vote for them.
Charles Saracino: You have to spend more than six months a year in space. But you can't have stayed in any one settled system for more than a month.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
text: He was thankful that he still had his suit on when the ship had a catastrophic decompression, a spacer's worst nightmare.
ref: 2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 20:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A person who works or lives in space.
glosses: An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
glosses: A bushing.
glosses: A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
glosses: An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.
Derived terms: intergenic spacer
spacer DNA
spacer oligonucleotide typing
proper noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proper nouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: proper name[Appendix:Glossary#strictly|strictly]] coordinate>
nomen proprium
noun substantive proper
proper substantive
substantive proper
selfname
glosses: A word or phrase that is a noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity.
wikipedia: kd lang
Coordinate terms: common noun
appellative noun
nomen appellativum
i
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
ipa: /ɪ/
ipa: /i/
enpr: ī
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
Forms: form: I
form: is
form: i's
Etymology: From Latin i, minuscule of I.
Senses: glosses: The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.
Related terms: word: letter
word: A
word: a
word: B
word: b
word: C
word: c
word: D
word: d
word: E
word: e
word: F
word: f
word: G
word: g
word: H
word: h
word: I
word: i
word: J
word: j
word: K
word: k
word: L
word: l
word: M
word: m
word: N
word: n
word: O
word: o
word: P
word: p
word: Q
word: q
word: R
word: r
word: S
word: s
word: T
word: t
word: U
word: u
word: V
word: v
word: W
word: w
word: X
word: x
word: Y
word: y
word: Z
word: z
i
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
ipa: /ɪ/
ipa: /i/
enpr: ī
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
Forms: form: I
Etymology: From Latin i, minuscule of I.
Senses: glosses: The ordinal number ninth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.
raw_tags: number
i
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
ipa: /ɪ/
ipa: /i/
enpr: ī
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
Forms: form: ies
form: eye
Etymology: From Latin i, minuscule of I.
Senses: examples: the position of an i-dot (the dot of an i)
i-mutation, i-umlaut
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.
Derived terms: dot the i's and cross the t's
i-adjective
i-breve
i-dotter
i-dotting
i-mutation
i-stem
ith
i-umlaut
i-word
long i
short i
Related terms: word: letter
word: a
word: bee
word: cee
word: dee
word: e
word: ef
word: gee
word: aitch
word: jay
word: kay
word: el
word: em
word: en
word: o
word: pee
word: cue
word: ar
word: ess
word: tee
word: u
word: vee
word: double-u
word: ex
word: wye
word: zee
word: zed
i
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
ipa: /ɪ/
ipa: /i/
enpr: ī
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
ipa: /aɪ/
ipa: /ɪ/
ipa: /i/
enpr: ī
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
Etymology: From Old English iċ.
Senses: examples: text: Here follow ſome few lines in the original, which not underſtanding i have omitted. […] Laſtly that amidſt ſo many viciſſitudes of fortune, to which I have been expoſed, amongſt all the goods, i ſay, and evils, the joyfull and gloomy, the pleaſing, and diſagreeable circumſtances of life, thou endowedſt me with an equal, conſtant, manly, and ſuperior ſpirit on every occaſion.
ref: 1762, Benj[amin] Stillingfleet, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick. To Which Is Added the Calendar of Flora., 2nd edition, London: […] R. and J. Dodsley, […]; S. Baker, […]; and T. Payne, […], pages 30 and 32:
text: As YouTuber Alex Elmslie tweeted, “ ‘once COVID is over’ is starting to sound a lot like ‘when i fix my sleep schedule.’ ”
ref: 2021 January 26, Travis M. Andrews, “‘When covid is over’ sounds like ‘when I meet Harry Styles’: The new pandemic meme, explained”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2021:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of I.
i
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
ipa: /ɪ/
ipa: /i/
enpr: ī
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: a word-initial letter ⟨i⟩
glosses: the long vowel /aɪ/ at the end of a word, or before a final consonant that is not /dʒ, v, z/. (Note: the final consonant is not written.)
glosses: the words if, is, it, its
Roman numeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman numerals
form: roman numeral
Senses: glosses: A numeral represented using a Roman system involving the letters I, V, X, L, C, D, and M.
glosses: The system using such letters.
Derived terms: romanette
Roman numeraled
Related terms: Arabic numeral
Chinese numeral
letter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛtə/
ipa: /ˈlɛtɚ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈletə/
ipa: [-ɾə]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈlɛʈ(ː)əʳ/
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: letters
form: lettering
form: lettered
form: lettered
form: lettre
Etymology: From Middle English letter, lettre, from Old French letre, from Latin littera (“letter of the alphabet"; in plural, "epistle”). Displaced Old English bōcstæf (literally “book staff”) in sense 1 and ǣrendġewrit (literally “message writing”) in sense 2.
Senses: glosses: To print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.
examples: text: I think Mom lettered in shot put her junior year.
ref: 1992 September 23, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes:
qualifier: scholastic
glosses: To earn a varsity letter (award).
letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛtə/
ipa: /ˈlɛtɚ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈletə/
ipa: [-ɾə]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈlɛʈ(ː)əʳ/
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: letters
form: lettor
Etymology: From Middle English letere, equivalent to let + -er.
Senses: examples: text: the letter of a room
text: a blood-letter
glosses: One who lets, or lets out.
glosses: One who retards or hinders.
Derived terms: bloodletter
letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛtə/
ipa: /ˈlɛtɚ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈletə/
ipa: [-ɾə]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈlɛʈ(ː)əʳ/
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: letters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of litter.
medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: med′-sǐn
enpr: med′-sn
ipa: /ˈmɛd.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/
ipa: /ˈmɛd.s(ɪ)n/
enpr: medʹĭ-sĭn
ipa: /ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈmɛdəs(ə)n/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛɖɪsən/
rhymes: -ɛdɪsɪn
rhymes: (weak vowel merger) -ɛdəsən
Forms: form: medicines
form: medicining
form: medicined
form: medicined
form: medicin
Etymology: From Middle English medicin, from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicīnus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”). The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe mashkiki (“medicine”) or mide (or cognates in related languages) when used in compounds such as Grand Medicine Society, medicine lodge, medicine dance, medicine bag, medicine wheel, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc.
Senses: examples: text: And we shall find, under the head of the medicining of the body, some things on the subject of medicine in general, which could be better said there than here, because of the wrath of professional dignitaries,- the eye of the 'basilisk,' was not perhaps quite so terrible in that quarter then, as it was in some others.
ref: 1857, Delia Bacon, The philosophy of the plays of Shakspere unfolded:
glosses: To treat with medicine.
Related terms: therapy
panacea
year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɪə/
enpr: yîr
ipa: /jɪɹ/
ipa: /jiə/
ipa: /jir/
ipa: /jøː/
note: Wales, other regions
ipa: /jɜː/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /jɛː/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈ(j)ɪjə(r)/
homophone: ear (implicit onglide)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: yeah (non-rhotic with cheer–chair merger)
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of here.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hear.
Synonyms: word: twelvemonth
word: orb
word: year
Hypernyms: word: eon
word: period
Hyponyms: word: academic year
word: astronomical year
word: base year
word: calendar year
word: common year
word: civil year
word: dog year
word: equinoctial year
word: fiscal year
word: gap year
word: leap year
word: legal year
word: liturgical year
word: human year
word: school year
word: solar year
word: tropical year
Meronyms: word: season
word: quarter
word: month
word: week
word: day
word: spring
word: summer
word: autumn
word: winter
word: equinox
word: solstice
word: sunstead
word: synodic month
word: lunation
word: lunar month
Related terms: word: anomalistic year
word: Gaussian year
word: lunar year
word: sidereal year
word: Sothic year
decrypt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹɪpt/
ipa: /diːˈkɹɪpt/
ipa: /ˈdiːkɹɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
rhymes: -iːkɹɪpt
Forms: form: decrypts
form: decrypting
form: decrypted
form: decrypted
Etymology: From de- + -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).
Senses: synonyms: decipher
decode
antonyms: encipher
encode
encrypt
glosses: To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.
Derived terms: decryptable
decrypter
decryptor
undecrypted
Related terms: decryption
decrypt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹɪpt/
ipa: /diːˈkɹɪpt/
ipa: /ˈdiːkɹɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
rhymes: -iːkɹɪpt
Forms: form: decrypts
Etymology: From de- + -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).
Senses: examples: text: The decrypts were being obtained from the traffic of 78 German stations by the end of 1941, and of 147 stations by the end of 1942.
ref: 1979, Francis Harry Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War, page 182:
glosses: A decoded communication.
tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tāʹbəlz
ipa: /ˈteɪbl̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of table
tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tāʹbəlz
ipa: /ˈteɪbl̩z/
Senses: examples: text: Hervor proceeded to the court of King Gudmund, and there one day as she was playing at tables with the king, one of the servants chanced to take up and draw Tirfing, which shone like a sunbeam.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 124:
glosses: Backgammon.
topics: backgammon
games
glosses: The halves or quarters of a backgammon board.
glosses: Any backgammon-like board game, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points".
tables
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tāʹbəlz
ipa: /ˈteɪbl̩z/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of table
Related terms: turn the tables
Irish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ī'rĭsh
ipa: /ˈaɪɹɪʃ/
enpr: īə'rĭsh
ipa: /ˈaɪəɹɪʃ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈaɪɹəʃ/
Etymology: From Middle English Irish (12th c.), from Old English *Īrisċ, from Old English Īras (“Irishmen”), from Old Norse Írar, from Old Irish Ériu (modern Irish Éire (“Ireland”)), further origin heavily debated but probably from Proto-Celtic *Φīweriyū (“fat land, fertile”), from Proto-Indo-European *péyh₂wr̥ (“fat, swelling”), from *peyh₂- (“to swell; to be fat”), akin to Ancient Greek πίειρα (píeira, “fertile land”), Sanskrit पीवरी (pīvarī, “fat”).
Senses: examples: text: Irish is the first official and national language of Ireland.
glosses: The Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.
examples: text: Many Irish are actually darkhaired as a result of the many invaders and migrants over the centuries.
text: America used to love dams... Yes, and we built those dams with ingenuity and brawn and, of course, piles and piles of dead Irish.
ref: 2015 March 1, “Infrastructure”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 4, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
glosses: The Irish people.
raw_tags: as plural
glosses: A surname originating as an ethnonym.
glosses: A female given name of chiefly Philippine usage.
Derived terms: black Irish
Connacht Irish
Irish English
Munster Irish
Scotch Irish
Scotch-Irish
Scots-Irish
smoked Irish
Ulster Irish
Irish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ī'rĭsh
ipa: /ˈaɪɹɪʃ/
enpr: īə'rĭsh
ipa: /ˈaɪəɹɪʃ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈaɪɹəʃ/
Forms: form: Irish
form: Irishes
Etymology: From Middle English Irish (12th c.), from Old English *Īrisċ, from Old English Īras (“Irishmen”), from Old Norse Írar, from Old Irish Ériu (modern Irish Éire (“Ireland”)), further origin heavily debated but probably from Proto-Celtic *Φīweriyū (“fat land, fertile”), from Proto-Indo-European *péyh₂wr̥ (“fat, swelling”), from *peyh₂- (“to swell; to be fat”), akin to Ancient Greek πίειρα (píeira, “fertile land”), Sanskrit पीवरी (pīvarī, “fat”).
Senses: glosses: A board game of the tables family.
examples: text: But her Irish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, Nebraska, published 1987, page 65:
text: Whenever he got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom.
ref: 1947, Hy Heath, John Lange, Clancy Lowered the Boom:
text: The Priest is as fierce a fighter as I am when he gets his Irish up.
ref: 1997, Andrew M. Greeley, Irish Lace, page 296:
glosses: Temper; anger, passion.
examples: text: Harris said he'd had enough oratory for one night, and proposed that we should go out and have a smile, saying that he had found a place, round by the square, where you could really get a drop of Irish worth drinking.
ref: 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :
glosses: Whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.
Derived terms: bicycle Irish
archaeastronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː(ɹ)ki.əsˈtɹɒnəmi/
rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: archæastronomy
form: archaeoastronomy
form: archæoastronomy
form: archeastronomy
form: archeoastronomy
Etymology: From archae- + astronomy.
Senses: examples: text: Archaeoastronomy is an endeavor to find out something about ancient astronomy and related matters through the use of archeological data and the study of ancient texts.
ref: 1979, John Howland Rowe, “Review: Archaeoastronomy in Meso America and Peru”, in Latin American Research Review, volume 14, number 2, page 227:
text: The current fashion is to call the subject archaeoastronomy, as if it were more the business of astronomers or historians of astronomy than of archaeologists.
ref: 1989, John Michell, A Little History of Astro-Archaeology, page 6:
topics: archaeology
astronomy
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The historical, especially archeological, study of astronomy; the study of the astronomical systems and methods of ancient cultures often embracing the astrology and cosmology of the past.
defining vocabulary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defining vocabularies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A restricted set of words used to define all other terms in a dictionary.
second
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkənd/
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛkɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
Forms: form: 2nd
form: 2ⁿᵈ
form: 2d
form: 2ᵈ
form: IInd
form: II
form: II.
Etymology: From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secund and secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).
Senses: examples: text: Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.
glosses: After the first; at the second rank.
raw_tags: with superlative
examples: text: He is batting second today.
glosses: After the first occurrence but before the third.
second
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkənd/
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛkɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
Forms: form: seconds
form: seconding
form: seconded
form: seconded
form: 2nd
form: 2ⁿᵈ
form: 2d
form: 2ᵈ
form: IInd
form: II
form: II.
Etymology: From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secund and secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).
Senses: examples: text: I second the motion.
text: Though seconding (or fifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”
ref: 2017, Critics Pick the TV Shows That Get Mental Health Right — IndieWire Survey:
glosses: To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
examples: text: In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
text: Sin is usually seconded with sin.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To follow in the next place; to succeed.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To climb after a lead climber.
Derived terms: secondable
second
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkənd/
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛkɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nt/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
enpr: səkŏnd'
ipa: /səˈkɒnd/
ipa: /səˈkɑnd/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒnd
rhymes: (General American) -ɑnd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nt/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛkənd/
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛkɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nt/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
Forms: form: seconds
form: seconding
form: seconded
form: seconded
Etymology: From Middle French seconder, from Latin secundō (“assist, make favorable”).
Senses: examples: text: The army officer was seconded while he held civil office.
text: Things changed quickly from 1892 when Sam Fay was seconded from the L.S.W.R. as General Manager & Secretary.
ref: 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 585–586:
text: Daniel had still been surprised, however, to find the lab area deserted, all the scientists apparently seconded by Cleomides's military friends.
ref: 1998, Paul Leonard, chapter 9, in Dreamstone Moon:
synonyms: detail#Verb
glosses: To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
examples: text: Wee haue Supplyes, to ſecond our Attempt:[…]
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 91, column 1:
text: In human works, tho’ labour’d on with pain, / A thouſand movements ſcarce one purpoſe gain; / In God's, one ſingle can its End produce, / Yet ſerves to ſecond too ſome other Uſe.
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 6, line 61:
glosses: To assist or support; to back.
examples: text: I second the motion.
glosses: To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To accompany by singing as the second performer.
Derived terms: secondment
secondee
second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkənd/
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛkɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nt/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
enpr: səkŏnd'
ipa: /səˈkɒnd/
ipa: /səˈkɑnd/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒnd
rhymes: (General American) -ɑnd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nt/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛkənd/
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛkɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nt/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
Forms: form: seconds
Etymology: From Middle French seconder, from Latin secundō (“assist, make favorable”).
Senses: examples: text: The dogs however parted, and after a little handling by their seconds immediately returned to the charge
ref: 1820, Pierce Egan, Sporting Anecdotes, page 414:
text: They find ways to take advice from their seconds or they arrange the schedule against you as they did to me in the finals of the 1962 World Tournament
ref: 1973, Frank Brady, Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy, page 201:
text: Vaguely reminiscent of the use of "seconds" among duelists, this provision required that the two hostile nations stop threatening each other and, instead, to let two appointed countries (their "seconds") try and solve their difficulties
ref: 1992, Mark W. Janis, International Courts for the Twenty-First Century, page 10:
text: Theodore's practice is described as a model for the housemasters and their seconds
ref: 2009, David Brakke, Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early ...:
glosses: One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
examples: text: If we want the motion to pass, we will need a second.
glosses: One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
examples: text: Give second, and my love / Is everlasting thine.
ref: 1608, J. Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess:
glosses: Aid; assistance; help.
clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒk/
enpr: kläk
ipa: /klɑk/
note: Liverpool
ipa: [kl̥ɒχ]
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: clocks
Etymology: Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.
Senses: examples: text: But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand,
and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks),
crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle
ref: 1882, W.S. Gilbert, “When you're lying awake”, in Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri:
text: She'd a gown wi' girt flowers lik' hollyhocks
An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks
ref: 1894, William Barnes, “Grammer's Shoes”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, page 110:
text: Most decoration involved the ankle clocks, and several are shown on p.15 in the form of charts.
ref: 2004, Sheila McGregor, Traditional Scandinavian Knitting, Courier Dover, →ISBN, page 60:
text: Clocks: These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.
ref: 2006, J. Munslow, Kathryn McKelvey, Fashion Source Book, →ISBN, page 231:
text: his stockings with silver clocks were ravished from him
ref: c. 1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on Modern Education:
glosses: A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
clock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒk/
enpr: kläk
ipa: /klɑk/
note: Liverpool
ipa: [kl̥ɒχ]
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: clocks
form: clocking
form: clocked
form: clocked
Etymology: Uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.
Senses: glosses: To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
Related terms: meter
watch
clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒk/
enpr: kläk
ipa: /klɑk/
note: Liverpool
ipa: [kl̥ɒχ]
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: clocks
Senses: glosses: A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
clock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒk/
enpr: kläk
ipa: /klɑk/
note: Liverpool
ipa: [kl̥ɒχ]
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: clocks
form: clocking
form: clocked
form: clocked
Etymology: From Middle English clokken, from Old English cloccian, ultimately imitative; compare Dutch klokken, English cluck.
Senses: glosses: To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
glosses: To hatch.
Derived terms: clocker
millisecond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/
Forms: form: milliseconds
Etymology: From milli- + second.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
text: Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond
text: The suggestion that pulsars were rotating neutron stars was put forth independently by Thomas Gold and Franco Pacini in 1968, and was soon proven beyond reasonable doubt by the discovery of a pulsar with a very short (33-millisecond) pulse period in the Crab nebula.ᵂ
text: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref: 2012 January 23, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:
text: The internal NES clock must accurately measure down to milliseconds for its games to work properly.
ref: 2023 December 1, Evelynn Kersting, “GAMES AND TIME”, in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, page 11, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2025:
topics: metrology
related: word: mul:ms
word: mul:msec
glosses: An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻³ seconds. Symbol: ms
Derived terms: millisecond pulsar
submillisecond