cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eclipse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈklɪps/
ipa: /iˈklɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Forms: form: eclipses
form: eclipsing
form: eclipsed
form: eclipsed
Etymology: From Old French eclipse, from Latin eclīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “eclipse”), from ἐκλείπω (ekleípō, “I abandon, go missing, vanish”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and λείπω (leípō, “I leave behind”). Doublet of eclipsis.
Senses: examples: text: The Moon eclipsed the Sun.
text: She turned to the casement on which the moon was shining; for the high wind had driven aside the clouds, whose huge dark masses threatened soon to eclipse the pale and dim circle of passing light.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: Of astronomical or atmospheric bodies, to cause an eclipse.
examples: text: For, till I see them here, by doubtful fear / My joy of liberty is half eclips'd.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
text: [H]is ſupercilious glances grevv humbled, yea, his dazeling ſplendor (eclipſt in the ſetting [i.e., death] of his Maſter) becomes quickly darkned: […]
ref: 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book II, page 206:
text: I wish I could prevail on Ethel to come up to London, if it were but for the sake of eclipsing her rival. I will stand godmother to the town's admiration, and promise and vow three things in its name:—first, that she will forget her faithless swain in the multitude of new ones; secondly, that she will be universally ran after; and, thirdly, that she will be brilliantly married.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Coronation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 8:
text: The name of the eclipsing girl, whatever it was, has not been handed down; but she was envied by all as the first who enjoyed the luxury of a masculine partner that evening.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 25:
text: The Util.System namespace eclipses the top-level System namespace.
ref: 2005, Sean Campbell, Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for developers, page 56:
text: Everything about her year-old restaurant […] reflects her love of bringing people to the table for good, simple food that's not eclipsed by bells and whistles.
ref: 2007, Cincinnati Magazine, page 81:
synonyms: upstage
glosses: To overshadow; to be better or more noticeable than.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To undergo eclipsis.
Derived terms: eclipsable
eclipser
noneclipsed
noneclipsing
uneclipsed
Space Shuttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Space Shuttles
Senses: glosses: A space transportation system developed by NASA consisting of a reusable winged orbiter, a set of recoverable booster rockets, and a fuel tank.
glosses: The reusable winged orbiter of this system.
Related terms: word: Buran
STS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STSs
Senses: examples: text: In the third chapter, Lars Fuglsang, with a sketch of three general approaches to STS in relation to public policy formation, considers two versions of determinism: one in which science and technology shape society, another in which society shapes science and technology.
ref: 2012, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Carl Mitcham, editors, Visions of STS: Counterpoints in Science, Technology, and Society Studies, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Initialism of science and technology studies.
examples: text: Secondary traumatic stress (STS) is a form of post-traumatic stress disorder that has also been linked to burnouts. For Brendel, mindfulness is a way to simultaneously “mediate the risks and heal the healer”.
ref: 2017 September 18, Camille Darroux, “How yoga and meditation can help social care workers deal with trauma”, in The Guardian:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of secondary traumatic stress.
topics: engineering
government
metallurgy
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of special treatment steel (a type of homogenous armor plate).
STS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of Space Transportation System (a Space Shuttle program run by NASA).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of SharePoint Team Services (the first name given to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Spring Tool Suite.
legend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənd/
ipa: /ˈliːd͡ʒ.ənd/
Forms: form: legends
form: legending
form: legended
form: legended
Etymology: From Middle English legende, from Old French legende, from Medieval Latin legenda (“a legend, story, especially the lives of the saints”), from Latin legenda (“things which ought to be read”), from lego (“I read”).
Senses: examples: text: Nor ladie's wanton love , nor wand'ring knight,
Legend I out in rymes all richly dight
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: To tell or narrate; to recount.
better
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɛt.ə/
ipa: [ˈbɛtʰ.ə]
ipa: [ˈbeɾ.ə]
ipa: [ˈbeɾ.ɐ]
note: UK, t-glottalization
ipa: [ˈbeʔ.ə]
note: Dublin
ipa: [ˈbɛʔ.ɐ]
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɛt.əɹ/
ipa: [ˈbɛɾ.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈbɛtʰ.ɚ~ˈbɛθ̠.ɚ~ˈbɛt̪.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈbɛʔ.ɚ~ˈbɛʔ.əɾ]
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English better, bettre, betre, from Old English betera (“better”), from Proto-West Germanic *batiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *batizô (“better”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed-rós, from *bʰed- (“good”).
Cognate with Sanskrit भद्र (bhadrá, “blessed, fortunate, happy, good”) (from *bʰn̥d-ró-s). For Germanic cognates: see Proto-Germanic *batizô. Related to best and battle (“getting better, improving, fruitful, fertile”). Compare also Icelandic batna (“to improve”), bót (“improvement”), German besser. More at batten, boot.
Persian بهتر (behtar) is a false cognate.
Senses: examples: text: The engine runs better now that I've given it some oil.
text: I could never better stead thee than now.[…]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: “I’ve had enough of cycling with you chaps. I can spend my Sundays better than in tormenting cats and quarrelling and fighting.”
ref: 1901, Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Small Souls:
glosses: comparative form of well: more well
Derived terms: better the devil you know
had better
'd better
bettern't
better
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɛt.ə/
ipa: [ˈbɛtʰ.ə]
ipa: [ˈbeɾ.ə]
ipa: [ˈbeɾ.ɐ]
note: UK, t-glottalization
ipa: [ˈbeʔ.ə]
note: Dublin
ipa: [ˈbɛʔ.ɐ]
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɛt.əɹ/
ipa: [ˈbɛɾ.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈbɛtʰ.ɚ~ˈbɛθ̠.ɚ~ˈbɛt̪.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈbɛʔ.ɚ~ˈbɛʔ.əɾ]
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: betters
Etymology: From Middle English better, bettre, betre, from Old English betera (“better”), from Proto-West Germanic *batiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *batizô (“better”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed-rós, from *bʰed- (“good”).
Cognate with Sanskrit भद्र (bhadrá, “blessed, fortunate, happy, good”) (from *bʰn̥d-ró-s). For Germanic cognates: see Proto-Germanic *batizô. Related to best and battle (“getting better, improving, fruitful, fertile”). Compare also Icelandic batna (“to improve”), bót (“improvement”), German besser. More at batten, boot.
Persian بهتر (behtar) is a false cognate.
Senses: examples: text: He quickly found Ali his better in the ring.
text: Their betters would hardly be found.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
Derived terms: get the better of
better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɛt.ə/
ipa: [ˈbɛtʰ.ə]
ipa: [ˈbeɾ.ə]
ipa: [ˈbeɾ.ɐ]
note: UK, t-glottalization
ipa: [ˈbeʔ.ə]
note: Dublin
ipa: [ˈbɛʔ.ɐ]
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɛt.əɹ/
ipa: [ˈbɛɾ.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈbɛtʰ.ɚ~ˈbɛθ̠.ɚ~ˈbɛt̪.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈbɛʔ.ɚ~ˈbɛʔ.əɾ]
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Etymology: Shortening of had better ('d better)
Senses: examples: text: It's getting late. You better get on home.
text: Nobody better hurt any of my kids.
glosses: Had better.
Related terms: best
better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɛt.ə/
ipa: [ˈbɛtʰ.ə]
ipa: [ˈbeɾ.ə]
ipa: [ˈbeɾ.ɐ]
note: UK, t-glottalization
ipa: [ˈbeʔ.ə]
note: Dublin
ipa: [ˈbɛʔ.ɐ]
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɛt.əɹ/
ipa: [ˈbɛɾ.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈbɛtʰ.ɚ~ˈbɛθ̠.ɚ~ˈbɛt̪.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈbɛʔ.ɚ~ˈbɛʔ.əɾ]
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: betters
form: bettering
form: bettered
form: bettered
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: better
form: better
form: bettered
form: better
form: bettered
form: betters
form: bettered
form: better
form: bettered
form: better
form: bettered
form: better
form: -
form: bettering
form: bettered
Etymology: From Middle English beteren, from Old English beterian, betrian, from Proto-Germanic *batizōną. Cognate with West Frisian betterje (“to better”), Dutch beteren (“to better”), German bessern (“to better”), Danish bedre (“to better”), Swedish bättra (“to better”).
Senses: examples: text: This government will better our society.
text: Love betters what is best.
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, From the same (To the Supreme Being):
text: He thought to better his circumstances.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: the constant effort of every man to better himself
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: To improve.
glosses: To become better; to improve.
examples: text: The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
synonyms: top
glosses: To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
examples: text: Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
Derived terms: betterable
betterer
betterment
unbetterable
unbettered
better
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɛt.ə/
ipa: [ˈbɛtʰ.ə]
ipa: [ˈbeɾ.ə]
ipa: [ˈbeɾ.ɐ]
note: UK, t-glottalization
ipa: [ˈbeʔ.ə]
note: Dublin
ipa: [ˈbɛʔ.ɐ]
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɛt.əɹ/
ipa: [ˈbɛɾ.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈbɛtʰ.ɚ~ˈbɛθ̠.ɚ~ˈbɛt̪.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈbɛʔ.ɚ~ˈbɛʔ.əɾ]
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: betters
Etymology: Alternative spelling of bettor or modern formation from the verb to bet + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bettor.
locust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.kəst/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.kəst/
rhymes: -əʊkəst
rhymes: -oʊkəst
Forms: form: locusts
form: locusting
form: locusted
form: locusted
Etymology: From Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster”). Doublet of langouste.
The tree sense, originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís).
The sense in "Mainlander" is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".
Senses: examples: text: This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
The hardest, cruellest people in the world,
Come locusting upon us, eat us up,
Confiscate lands, goods, money […]
ref: 1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To come in a swarm.
moth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒθ/
enpr: môth
ipa: /mɔθ/
ipa: /mɑθ/
enpr: mŏth
rhymes: -ɒθ
rhymes: -ɔːθ
Forms: form: moths
form: mothing
form: mothed
form: mothed
Etymology: From Middle English moth, moththe, motthe, moght, mohþe, mouȝte, from Old English moþþe, mohþe, mohþa (“any destructive insect larva”), from Proto-West Germanic *moþþō, *mottō, from Proto-Germanic *muþþô, *muttô (“moth, worm”), from Proto-Indo-European *mutn-, *mut- (“worm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Motte (“moth”), West Frisian mot (“moth”), Dutch mot (“moth”), German Low German Motte, Mott (“moth”), German Motte (“moth”), Swedish mott (“moth”) and Norwegian Nynorsk mott (“moth”).
Senses: glosses: To hunt for moths.
Related terms: butterfly
caterpillar
worm
moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒθ/
enpr: môth
ipa: /mɔθ/
ipa: /mɑθ/
enpr: mŏth
rhymes: -ɒθ
rhymes: -ɔːθ
ipa: /məʊt/
enpr: mōt
ipa: /moʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: moat
homophone: mote
ipa: /mɒθ/
enpr: môth
ipa: /mɔθ/
ipa: /mɑθ/
enpr: mŏth
rhymes: -ɒθ
rhymes: -ɔːθ
Forms: form: moths
Etymology: From Hindi मोठ (moṭh); see moth bean.
Senses: glosses: A moth bean plant (Vigna aconitifolia).
Synonyms: sense: Vigna aconitifolia
word: Turkish gram
sense: Vigna aconitifolia
word: mat bean
sense: Vigna aconitifolia
word: matki
Derived terms: moth bean
moth flour
moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒθ/
enpr: môth
ipa: /mɔθ/
ipa: /mɑθ/
enpr: mŏth
rhymes: -ɒθ
rhymes: -ɔːθ
ipa: /məʊt/
enpr: mōt
ipa: /moʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: moat
homophone: mote
Forms: form: moths
Etymology: Alternative form of mot (“woman; wife”), likely under influence from Irish maith (“goodness”).
Senses: glosses: A girlfriend.
moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒθ/
enpr: môth
ipa: /mɔθ/
ipa: /mɑθ/
enpr: mŏth
rhymes: -ɒθ
rhymes: -ɔːθ
ipa: /məʊt/
enpr: mōt
ipa: /moʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: moat
homophone: mote
Forms: form: moths
Senses: examples: text: So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, / A moth of peace, and he go to the war, / The rites for which I love him are bereft me, / And I a heavy interim shall support / By his dear absence. Let me go with him.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Obsolete form of mote.
examples: text: To remove moth patches, wash the spots with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water several times a day, until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours.
ref: 1895, Good Housekeeping, page 196, ISSN: 0731-3462
text: Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek.
ref: 1999, R. L. Gupta, Directory of Diseases & Cures: In Homoeopathy, →ISBN, page 254:
text: There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose.
ref: 2005, J. D. Patil, Textbook of Applied Materia Medica, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.
mot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: mots
Etymology: From French mot. Doublet of motto.
Senses: examples: text: Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.
ref: 1859, unknown author, “Literary Adventure. Life of Douglas Jerrold”, in North British Review:
text: ‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.
ref: 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 32:
glosses: A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
examples: text: 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
With his big title, an Italian mot
text: Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A word or a motto; a device.
examples: text: Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A note or brief strain on a bugle.
mot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /mɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
ipa: /məʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: mots
Etymology: Probably from Dutch mot (“woman”). See also mort (“woman”) and moth (“girlfriend”).
Senses: examples: text: Come wed, my dear, and let's agree, / Then of the booze-ken you'll be free; / No sneer from cully, mot, or froe / Dare then reproach my Bess for Joe; / For he's the kiddy rum and queer, / That all St. Giles's boys do fear.
ref: 1789, G. Parker, “The Sandman's Wedding”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896:
text: And we shall caper a-heel-and-toeing, / A Newgate hornpipe some fine day; / With the mots, their ogles throwing, / Tol lol, &c. / And old Cotton humming his pray.
ref: 1829 July 23, Vidocq, Eugène François with Maginn, William, transl., “Noctes Ambrosiana [En roulant de vergne en vergne]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 45, translation of En roulant de vergne en vergne, page 133:
english: En roulant de vergne en vergne
translation: En roulant de vergne en vergne
glosses: A woman; a wife.
glosses: A prostitute.
examples: text: After some altercation with the "mot" of the "ken" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange "ground," &c., for the night's work.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217:
glosses: A landlady.
Czechia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛk.i.ə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛk.jə/
rhymes: -ɛkiə
Etymology: From Czech + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: “Kłodzko Land,” as the basin is also called, forms a rectangular jut into Czechia that is sealed at its southwestern back by a fifty-kilometer-long ridge known as the Orlické (Eagle) Mountains […]
ref: 2020, Alan E. Sparks, Into the Carpathians:
glosses: A country in Central Europe. Official name: Czech Republic. Capital and largest city: Prague.
Synonyms: Czechland
Czechlands
Meronyms: word: Bohemia
word: Moravia
english: cf. Silesia
translation: cf. Silesia
word: Czech Silesia
soleil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French soleil.
Senses: examples: text: Divine. ... Disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.
ref: 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12:
glosses: sun
Related terms: brise soleil
missense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missenses
Etymology: From mis- + sense.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
Derived terms: missense mutation
Related terms: topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: nonsense
missense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missenses
form: missensing
form: missensed
form: missensed
Etymology: From mis- + sense.
Senses: examples: text: One possibility is that if G6PT is a G6P sensor, it may be missensing the intracellular concentrations and misdirecting further accumulation.
ref: 2012, Stefan Bröer, Carsten A. Wagner, Membrane Transporter Diseases, page 194:
glosses: To sense incorrectly.
prequel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːkwəl/
rhymes: -iːkwəl
Forms: form: prequels
Etymology: Patterned after sequel using pre- (“before”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Prequels' are sequels that relate the story that preceded the original film.
ref: 1980, Patrick Robertson, Movie Facts and Feats: A Guinness Record Book, New York: Sterling Publishing, page 43:
text: 2008, 26 February, Andrew Pierce, "JRR Tolkien's estate to sue Lord of the Rings filmmakers New Line Cinema over profits, in The Daily Telegraph
They are also threatening to block the production of the long-awaited prequel, The Hobbit, which may now be cancelled.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: In a series of works, an installment that is set chronologically before its predecessor, especially the original narrative or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative work with at least one sequel.
wikipedia: Star Wars prequel trilogy
Coordinate terms: midquel
Related terms: midquel
sequel
interquel
threequel
sequel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːkwəl/
rhymes: -iːkwəl
Forms: form: sequels
Etymology: From Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequī (“to follow”). Doublet of sequela.
Senses: examples: text: Now here Chriſtian was worſe put to it then in his fight with Apollyon, as by the ſequel you ſhall ſee.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 75:
text: In its sixty-year history here, some 4,170 engines of the 4-6-0 type have been constructed. This is the vast sequel of that bold experimental step of the Highland Railway in 1894.
ref: 1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 747:
glosses: The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.
examples: text: It greatly resembles the Rabbinical account of the origin of the Mazckeen, which the reader will meet in the sequel.
ref: 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 159:
glosses: Any text that continues on from another text.
examples: text: In the sequel we restrict ourselves to “nice” cases without going into details about the nicety conditions which have to be fulfilled (see, e.g., Freudenthal [1]).
ref: 1964, Hans Freudenthal, “Lie Groups in the Foundations of Geometry”, in Advances in Mathematics, volume 1, number 2, page 146:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
glosses: Thirlage.
glosses: A person's descendants.
Coordinate terms: midquel
Derived terms: direct sequel
distant sequel
interquel
midquel
prequel
pre-sequel
requel
sequel hook
sequelitis
sequelize
spiritual sequel
squeakquel
threequel
intermission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɚˈmɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: intermissions
Etymology: From Latin intermissiō, from intermittō.
Senses: examples: text: We ordered some drinks for the intermission.
text: The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.
ref: 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
glosses: A break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.
Derived terms: intermissionless
preintermission
Related terms: intermit
intermittent
interquel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interquels
Etymology: Patterned after prequel, as pre- meaning "before" and inter- meaning "between."
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: An installment in a series of works set chronologically between two of its predecessors.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: Any middle sequel with an earlier and a later installment. This usage may not be proper.
Related terms: prequel
sequel
midquel
threequel
arbor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːbə/
ipa: /ˈɑɹbɚ/
ipa: /ˈaːbə/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Forms: form: arbors
form: arbores
form: arbour
Etymology: From Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”) (English herb). (Compare Late Latin herbārium, although erbier is possibly an independent formation.) The spelling was influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
Senses: examples: text: Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed.
ref: 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 24:
glosses: A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
glosses: A grove of trees.
Derived terms: Ann Arbor
arborcide
arbor Dianae
arbored
arborist
arbor vine
arborway
Related terms: arboreal
arboreous
arborescent
arboretum
arbor vitae
herb
arbor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːbə/
ipa: /ˈɑɹbɚ/
ipa: /ˈaːbə/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Forms: form: arbors
form: arbores
Etymology: Borrowed from French arbre (“tree, axis”), spelling influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
glosses: A bar for supporting cutting tools.
glosses: A spindle of a wheel.
Derived terms: arbor knot
moo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: moue
Forms: form: moos
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
examples: text: You silly moo! What did you do that for?
text: 'Aurora House does not expel,' said the sanctimonious moo, 'but you will be medicated, if your behaviour warrants it, for your own protection.'
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: A foolish woman.
Derived terms: moo-cow
moof
moo juice
moolike
moo-moo
moo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /muː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: moue
Forms: form: moos
form: mooing
form: mooed
form: mooed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.
Synonyms: word: low
word: boo
moo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /muː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: moue
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The cow says moo.
glosses: The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.
Derived terms: mooer
mooey
mooingly
Related terms: moo goo gai pan
moo shu
flor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flors
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish flor. Doublet of fleur, flour, and flower.
Senses: glosses: A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, induced deliberately during the production of sherry.
fleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleurs
Etymology: An ellipsis of fleur-de-lis from French fleur (“flower”). Doublet of flor, flour, and flower.
Senses: glosses: fleur-de-lis
Related terms: pot-et-fleur
dunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: dunches
form: dunching
form: dunchin
form: dunched
form: dunched
form: dunsh
Etymology: From Middle English dunchen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from the noun (see below); or of North Germanic origin, related to Old Swedish diunga (“to hit, knock”), dialectal Swedish dunka (“to beat”); or from Middle English dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan (“to knock, ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to bang, knock”). Compare English dinge.
Senses: glosses: To knock against; to hit, punch
glosses: To crash into; to bump into.
glosses: To gore with the horns, as a bull.
glosses: To push, jog, or nudge, especially with the elbow.
dunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: dunches
Etymology: From Middle English dunche, perhaps from Old English *dynċ, from Proto-Germanic *dunkiz.
Compare Old Norse dykr, dynkr (“a crashing noise”), Danish dunk (“a blow”), Swedish dunk (“a thump, clap”), Norwegian dunk (“a knock, bump”).
Senses: examples: text: And just at the same time the tide caught the brig, and threw the wind out of her sails. She came round into the wind like a top, and the next moment struck the reef with such a dunch as threw us all flat upon the deck, and came near to shake Mr. Riach from his place upon the mast.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: A push; knock; bump.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fat hit from a claggy lie.
dunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Etymology: Blend of dinner + lunch, probably in imitation of brunch.
Senses: examples: text: I have a lunchtime meeting tomorrow, so let's have dunch together instead.
glosses: A leisurely meal between lunch and dinner in the late afternoon or early evening (about 3-5 p.m.), usually instead of lunch or dinner.
Synonyms: linner
lupper
Related terms: brinner
brunch
brupper
musique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musiques
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of music.
Related terms: musique concrète
Buch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
colore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colores
Senses: examples: text: Euyll men ſeke many tymys to thꝛowe downe good men into the bꝛyꝛis hedlynge: whyle they reherſe falſe thynges vnder the name and coloꝛe of good playne foꝛthrightnes.
ref: [1520?], Dominicus Mancinus, anonymous translator, The Englysshe of Mancyne apon the Foure Cardynale Vertues, [London]: [Richard Pynson], →OCLC, signature f.i., verso:
text: And ther ſhalbe an hole for the heed in the myddes of it [the tunicle], ãd let there be a bonde of wouen worke rounde aboute the colore of it: as it were the colore of a partlet, that it rent not.
ref: 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Exodus xxviij:[32], folio lii, recto:
text: He alwaie claddeth yⁿ a blak Cote with Trunkhose o yᵉ lyke Colore, wi Shoos and Siller Buckels, a spuddish coroned Hatte, wi a Bruarte o muche brodeneſse, an tached vppe atte yᵉ Rear, wi a Cordige an Tassle.
ref: 1660, “Walter Brockett, 1660”, in William A[nderson] Gunnell, compiler, Sketches of Hull Celebrities: Or Memoirs and Correspondence of Alderman Thomas Johnson, (Who was Twice Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull.) And Four of His Lineal Descendants, from the Year 1640 to 1858. […], Hull, Yorkshire: […] Walker & Brown, […] [for] William Anderson Gunnell, […], published 1876, →OCLC, page 176:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of color.
couleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couleurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French couleur. Doublet of color.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A suit of cards, in certain French card games.
Related terms: couleur de rose
cor
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹ/
ipa: /kɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: corps
homophone: core (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: caw (non-rhotic)
Etymology: A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.
Senses: examples: text: […] She perused it with an interested eye and having mastered its contents said, “Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree,” adding that you never knew what was going to happen next these days.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Expression of surprise.
Synonyms: wow
Related terms: cor blimey
cor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹ/
ipa: /kɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: corps
homophone: core (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: caw (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: cors
form: kor
form: core
Etymology: Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).
Senses: topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Any of various former units of volume
A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Any of various former units of volume
Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.
synonyms: word: homer
extra: approximately the same volume as a dry measure
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Any of various former units of volume
A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.
Synonyms: homer
omer
Meronyms: sense: liquid volume
word: log (1⁄720 cor)
sense: liquid volume
word: cab
sense: liquid volume
word: kab (1⁄180 cor)
sense: liquid volume
word: hin (1⁄60 cor)
sense: liquid volume
word: bath (1⁄10 cor)
sense: dry volume
word: homer
Related terms: sense: terms unrelated etymologically
word: cor bovinum
sense: terms unrelated etymologically
word: cor pulmonale
sense: terms unrelated etymologically
word: cor triatriatum
honing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -oʊnɪŋ
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hone
honing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -oʊnɪŋ
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: honings
Senses: examples: text: In future honings, you'll assume the tip is touching the stone on the back when it is, in fact, above the stone's surface.
ref: 2007, Fine Woodworking, numbers 195-201, page 57:
glosses: The process by which something is honed.
Derived terms: honing steel
alpha
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælfə/
ipa: [ˈæɫ.fə]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈalfɑ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɑlfɑ/
note: Indic
ipa: /əlˈfɑ/
rhymes: -ælfə
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”). Doublet of alif and aleph.
Senses: examples: text: I am the alpha male.
glosses: Designates the first in an order of precedence.
examples: text: And thank you. Seriously. I'll call you later.
You better. I'm feeling pretty alpha now.
Yes, you are.
ref: 2015, Life Is Strange, Square Enix:
qualifier: object or action
glosses: Exhibiting characteristics of the alpha male/female archetype.
raw_tags: of person
examples: text: When interstellar travel becomes feasible, I plan to visit Alpha Centauri.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Designates some bright star, usually the brightest star, of a constellation.
examples: text: Sort the list in alpha order.
glosses: Clipping of alphabetical.
Derived terms: Alpha Centauri
alpha female
alpha geek
alpha strike
alpha test
beta
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bēʹtə
ipa: /ˈbiːtə/
enpr: bāʹtə
ipa: /ˈbeɪtə/
ipa: [ˈbeɪɾə]
note: Indic
enpr: bēʹtä
note: Indic
enpr: bāʹtä
ipa: /ˈbiʈɑ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbeʈɑ/
note: Indic
enpr: bĕʹtə
ipa: /ˈbɛtə/
rhymes: -iːtə
rhymes: -eɪtə
rhymes: (Philippines) -ɛtə
homophone: beater (UK, non-rhotic)
homophone: baiter (US, non-rhotic)
Forms: form: betas
form: betaing
form: betaed
form: betaed
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
examples: 1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.x-files.creative/msg/29d32d27e61755f2?dmode=source
My thanks to Heather; who read it and betaed it. Thank you.
2000, Elizabeth Durack, quoted in Angelina I. Karpovich, “The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities” (essay), in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (editors), Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, McFarland (2006), →ISBN, page 180,
Beta’ing is time-consuming, so asking a lot of people to give you a detailed analysis isn’t the most polite thing to do.
2002, Jane Davitt, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative/msg/9301606b391212c0?dmode=source
The next part is written and beta'd (thanks, Jen!), ready to go but <shuffles feet> I haven't even started what should be the final part yet.
2002, Karmen Ghia, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated http://groups.google.com/group/alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated/msg/8405f53e8acbb0c1?dmode=source
I had the honor of betaing this story and as I was doing the first read through I had the odd, but lovely, experience when a story suspends the reader in its own rhythm and flow, its own reality.
glosses: To beta-read a text.
beta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bēʹtə
ipa: /ˈbiːtə/
enpr: bāʹtə
ipa: /ˈbeɪtə/
ipa: [ˈbeɪɾə]
note: Indic
enpr: bēʹtä
note: Indic
enpr: bāʹtä
ipa: /ˈbiʈɑ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbeʈɑ/
note: Indic
enpr: bĕʹtə
ipa: /ˈbɛtə/
rhymes: -iːtə
rhymes: -eɪtə
rhymes: (Philippines) -ɛtə
homophone: beater (UK, non-rhotic)
homophone: baiter (US, non-rhotic)
Forms: form: betas
Etymology: From Hindi बेटा (beṭā)
Senses: examples: text: Don't pick that up, beta, it's dirty.
glosses: a term of endearment, used towards someone of equal or lower standing such as a friend or child, similar to brother or son
gamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæ.mə/
rhymes: -æmə
Forms: form: gammas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γάμμα (gámma). Doublet of gimel.
Senses: glosses: The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A gamma ray or gamma-ray photon.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A constant approximately equal to 0.57721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A non-SI unit of measure of mass, equal to 1 microgramme.
qualifier: industries
glosses: Slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Flight path angle; the angle by which an aircraft's flight path deviates from the horizontal plane.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change in delta with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of gamma correction.
synonyms: word: gamma correction
Hypernyms: sense: measure of derivative price sensitivity
english: includes list of coordinate terms
translation: includes list of coordinate terms
word: Greeks
Coordinate terms: alpha
beta
theta
Derived terms: alphabetagamma
baby gamma
cross gamma
des-gamma-carboxyprothrombin
digamma
Gacrux
gamma-aminobutyric acid
gamma-angio-encephalography
gamma bomb
gamma-butyrolactone
gamma camera
gammachirp
gammacism
gamma city
gamma correction
gamma decay
gamma distribution
gamma-encephalography
gamma female
gamma garden
gamma globulin
gamma-glutamyltransferase
gamma-hydroxybutyrate
gamma-hydroxybutyric acid
gamma iron
gamma-iron
gamma knife
gamma male
gamma of the gamma
gamma particle
gamma pulsar
gamma radiation
gamma-ray astronomy
gamma-ray burst
gamma ray
gamma-ray
gammaretrovirus
gammatone
gamma wave
gammopathy
Goodman and Kruskal's gamma
multigamma
nongamma
soft-gamma repeater
volga
vomma
Hu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hu/
enpr: ho͞o
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Chinese 胡 (hú). Doublet of Wu. For less common variants, see Hu.
Senses: examples: text: At the center of it all was Hu Shuo-Chieh, a decorated Taiwanese superstar who soon followed up his standout moment (his team would fall short in the finals) with an even more surprising move. In November, Mr. Hu, known in gaming as SwordArt, announced that he was leaving his base in China, […]
ref: 2021 January 30, Kellen Browning, “They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2021:
glosses: A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.
Hu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hu/
enpr: ho͞o
rhymes: -uː
Senses: glosses: Any of several peoples of China, for example the Tatars of northwestern China, whom the Chinese considered barbarians.
Hu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hu/
enpr: ho͞o
rhymes: -uː
Senses: glosses: The god of the creation word in Egyptian mythology.
Related terms: Huh
Hu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hu/
enpr: ho͞o
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Arabic هُو (hū), from the town's ancient name, Egyptian ḥwt-sḫm.
Senses: examples: text: [...] portion of a dagger-blade(?) of flint, finely-worked and delicately serrated, prehistoric, Hu, Egypt; pottery table of offerings to the dead, Diospolis Parva. The following of the prehistoric period, Egypt: small curved flint knife, worked along one[…]
ref: 1900, University of Oxford, Oxford University Gazette, page 699:
text: The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, Egypt Exploration Fund
ref: 2013 November 11, Linda Manzanilla, Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: A town in Egypt, located on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt.
half and half
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: half-and-half
Senses: glosses: In equal parts; half
half and half
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: half-and-half
Senses: examples: text: She ordered her coffee with cream and a splash of half and half.
text: They went half and half on the cost of dinner.
text: The solution was made of water and milk in equal half and half parts.
glosses: In two equal parts.
half and half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half and halfs
form: half-and-half
Senses: glosses: A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A mixture of cream and milk often used in coffee, defined by the US Food and Drug Administration to contain between 10.5% and 18% milk fat.
coordinate_terms: double double
triple triple
glosses: A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A mixture of two alcoholic beverages, most frequently those brewed from malt, such as porter and ale or mild and bitter beers, in about equal parts; also used for equal parts of an alcoholic beverage and water.
glosses: A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A pizza with two different sets of toppings, one on each half.
glosses: A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A person of mixed race or with dual nationality.
glosses: A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A combination of both rice and chips as an accompaniment to a curry, as opposed to one or the other.
glosses: A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A combination of beer and ale (or similar alcoholic drinks) in equal quantities.
glosses: A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
Both oral sex and vaginal sex performed in sequence by a prostitute
glosses: A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A mixture of half lemonade and half iced tea.
synonyms: Arnold Palmer
glosses: A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A cup of coffee with the equivalent of half a packet of sugar and half a creamer of cream.
Related terms: fifty-fifty
go Dutch
go halfsies
go halves
halfsies
six of one, half a dozen of the other
coke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊk/
ipa: /koʊk/
ipa: /koʉk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: coak
Etymology: The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).
Senses: examples: text: The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
text: At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.
ref: 1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333:
glosses: Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
Derived terms: word: biocoke
word: coke breeze
word: cokeless
word: cokelike
word: cokeman
word: coke oven gas
word: coker
word: cokery
word: cokeworks
word: coky
english: pet coke
translation: pet coke
word: petroleum coke
alt: semi-coke
word: semicoke
Related terms: coking coal
coke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊk/
ipa: /koʊk/
ipa: /koʉk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: cokes
form: coking
form: coked
form: coked
form: coak
Etymology: The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).
Senses: glosses: To produce coke from coal.
glosses: To turn into coke.
examples: text: In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.
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glosses: To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
Derived terms: coking
coking coal
decoke
decoking