cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rusk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌsk/
ipa: /ɹʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: rusks
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish or Portuguese rosca (“a twist or roll of bread”)
Senses: examples: text: […] he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
glosses: a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
examples: text: A newly-arrived couple at the next table […] admitted that “this was more like” and that if the Alpenrose could also produce a proper cup of tea it would be just like home. Bill Andreyef, who was eating a lightly-boiled egg and a rusk, regarded the other diners with resentment.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
glosses: a weaning food for children
glosses: a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture
Synonyms: Brussels biscuit
twice-baked bread
zwieback
rut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌt/
ipa: /ɹʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: ruts
Etymology: From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: heat
glosses: Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.
examples: Near-synonyms: grunt, roar
glosses: The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
glosses: Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
examples: text: Proximity to an omega in heat can sometimes cause alphas go into rut, an aggressive need for sexual intercourse usually triggered by the scent of an omega in heat.
ref: 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega?: Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 36
text: All the characters in this story pressure Dean to help Castiel through his rut, and clearly consider Dean’s resistance to be immature and an overreaction.
ref: 2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 34
text: Early in Wicked Game, Steve goes into his first-ever rut.
ref: 2019, Chris van der Vegt, "The Second Genders: Utopia and Dystopia in Stranger Things Omegaverse Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 23
topics: lifestyle
glosses: In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
Related terms: heat
rut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌt/
ipa: /ɹʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: ruts
Etymology: Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.
Senses: synonyms: groove
furrow
glosses: A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
synonyms: routine
glosses: A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
examples: text: Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.
text: Some people might say my life is in a rut / I'm quite happy with what I got
ref: 1980, Paul Weller, “Going Underground”, in Setting Sons, performed by The Jam:
glosses: A dull routine.
Derived terms: in a rut
rutway
stuck in a rut
rut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌt/
ipa: /ɹʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: ruts
form: rutting
form: rutted
form: rutted
Etymology: Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.
Senses: glosses: To make a furrow.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: rut roh
ruth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
homophone: Ruth
Forms: form: ruths
Etymology: From Middle English reuþe, ruthe, reuthe, rewthe, reowthe, corresponding to rue + -th (abstract nominal suffix), perhaps after early Scandinavian (compare Old Norse hrygð, hryggð (“ruth, sorrow”)).
Senses: examples: text: It was my fortune to be at Rome, upon a day that one Catena, a notorious high-way theefe, was executed: at his strangling no man of the companie seemed to be mooved to any ruth[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: […]under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth[…].
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 57:
text: 2011, Turisas (Mathias Nygård), Hunting Pirates
Scum they are! —Foe of mankind!
Clear the sea! —Show no ruth!
synonyms: word: commiseration
word: rue
word: bowels
word: commiseration
word: compassion
word: empathy
word: fellow feeling
word: mercy
word: pity
word: remorse
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sympathy
word: tenderheartedness
word: loving-kindness
glosses: Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
examples: 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLIV, 2005, The Works of A. E. Housman [1994, The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman], page 61,
Now to your grave shall friend and stranger
With ruth and some with envy come […].
~1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
He mourned too late
In ruth for the rending of the Round Table.
synonyms: word: contrition
word: agenbite
word: remorse
word: rue
word: ruth
word: compunction
word: contrition
word: penitence
word: repentance
word: self-reproach
word: sorriness
glosses: Repentance; regret; remorse.
synonyms: word: dejection
word: unhappiness
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: Sorrow; misery; distress.
synonyms: word: hardship
word: sorrow
word: affliction
word: aggrievance
word: distress
word: grief
word: grievance
word: hardship
word: misery
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: undelight
word: vexation
word: woe
word: wrong
glosses: Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.
Derived terms: ruthful
ruthless
unruth
rutile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rutiles
Etymology: From Latin rutilus (“red”) because of its common color, named in 1803.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide, crystalizing in the tetragonal system, TiO₂.
Derived terms: pseudorutile
Related terms: anatase
brookite
rutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: ruttier
form: ruttiest
Etymology: From rut + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a rutty country road
text: But I’m oblig’d each day to roam
Many a furlong from my home,
And cry, good luck, whene’er I pick
From off the ground a single stick;
Or, in some long and rutty lane,
I find by chance a single grain.
ref: 1767, George Saville Carey, “The Peasant and Ant. A Fable”, in The Hills of Hybla, London: for the author, page 14:
text: […] old acquaintances separated by long rutty distances, or cooled acquaintances separated by misunderstandings concerning runaway calves […]
ref: 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 174:
text: We drove way out to the desert the other side of town and turned on a rutty dirt road that made the car bounce as never before.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 5, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
synonyms: rutted#Adjective
glosses: Imprinted with ruts.
examples: text: Constantly vary your way of doing things; avoid humdrum, rutty, and monotonous ways.
ref: 1893, Frederick S. Parkhurst, Work and Workers: Practical Suggestions for the Junior Epworth League, New York: Hunt & Eaton, page 63:
text: Everywhere we see men who have gone to seed early, become rutty and uninteresting, because they worked too much and played too little.
ref: 1913, Orison Swett Marden, The Joys of Living, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, page 97:
text: We get lazy, then the church becomes rutty.
ref: 1922, Edgar Hurst Cherington, chapter 23, in The Line is Busy,, New York: Abingdon Press, page 26:
glosses: In a rut (dull routine).
examples: text: I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell
ref: 1970, Ramon Guthrie, “Loin de Moi …”, in Maximum Security Ward, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 45:
text: You may even get picked up by a German soldier. They’re a rutty bunch now that they’re away from their fat frauleins and meeting some real French women.
ref: 2001, Fred Mustard Stewart, chapter 30, in The Savages in Love and War,, New York: Forge, page 275:
synonyms: ruttish
lustful
glosses: Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.
rutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: ruttier
form: ruttiest
Senses: examples: text: […] the shoare of siluer streaming Themmes,
Whose rutty Bancke, the which his Riuer hemmes,
Was paynted all with variable flowers,
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion, London: William Ponsonby:
text: […] whistling reeds, that rutty Iordan laues,
And with their verdure his white head embraues,
To chide the windes,
ref: 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, Over, and After Death, Cambridge, page 47:
synonyms: rooty
glosses: Full of roots.
rutty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: rutties
form: ruttys
form: ruttees
Etymology: From Hindi रत्ती (rattī), literally “the seed of the plant Abrus precatorius.”
Senses: examples: text: […] they immediately desired to capitulate, and sent him, by way of ransom, a perfect diamond weighing two hundred and twenty four ruttys […]
ref: 1768, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, The History of Hindostan, London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, Volume 2, Section 12, p. 112:
text: 1858, Henry Yule, Narrative of the Mission … to the Court of Ava, London: Smith, Elder, Appendix, “Note on Metals, Minerals, &c., of Burma,” p. 348,
[Sapphires] of ten to fifteen rutties without a flaw are common, whereas a perfect ruby of that size is hardly ever seen.
text: […] vast numbers of infatuated wretches have accustomed themselves to consume from 6 rutties (9 grains) to a rupee’s weight (180 grains) of nearly pure opium daily […]
ref: 1870, Norman Chevers, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for India, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, page 227:
glosses: A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+¹⁄₂ grains.
sabra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabras
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sabra.
Related terms: sabra dermatitis
sachem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪt͡ʃəm/
ipa: /ˈsæt͡ʃəm/
Forms: form: sachems
Etymology: Borrowed from Narragansett sachem; compare Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”) and Unami sakima (“chief”), all ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *sa·kima·wa. Doublet of sagamore.
Senses: examples: text: Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like the top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachem’s head.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XVI, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: If a sachem was too harsh, a tribesman might leave and join another tribe.
ref: 1983, Howard S. Russell, Indian New England Before the Mayflower, page 19:
glosses: A chief of one or several Native American tribe(s), especially of the Algonquians; a sagamore.
synonyms: word: administrator
word: boss
word: chief
word: commander
word: director
word: governor
word: jefe
word: head
word: head man
word: higher-up
word: honcho
word: leader
word: manager
word: master
word: overseer
word: sachem
word: suit
word: superintendent
word: superior
word: supervisor
glosses: A boss, a leader.
glosses: An eminent member of a group, or an eminent person in society; a sagamore.
examples: text: The society elects annually thirteen sachems, which represent the original thirteen States. […] The other officers of the society are a Secretary, Treasurer, Sagamore, and Wiskinkie.
ref: 1865, R. G. Horton, “The History of Tammany Society, or, Columbian Order. Chapter V. From 1834 to 1840.”, in D. T. Valentine, Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, New York, N.Y.: Edmund Jones & Co. [for the Common Council], →OCLC, page 876:
text: Aboriginal titles were adopted and the head of each tribe was called a sachem. […] Its proprietor, Abraham Martling, was elected a sachem on several occasions and members of Tammany were often called Martling Men.
ref: 1983, Virgil W. Peterson, The Mob: 200 Years of Organized Crime in New York, page 4:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A high-ranking officer of the Tammany Hall political organization.
Derived terms: sachemdom
sachemic
sachemship
Related terms: sagamore
sagamoreship
sadist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪdɪst/
ipa: /ˈsædɪst/
rhymes: -eɪdɪst
rhymes: -ædɪst
Forms: form: sadists
Etymology: From the name of the Marquis de Sade; see sadism.
Senses: glosses: One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others.
wikipedia: Marquis de Sade
Derived terms: sadistic
Related terms: sadism
sadomasochist
masochist
mysoped
sage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: sager
form: sagest
Etymology: From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Vulgar Latin *sapium, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”).
The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.
Senses: examples: text: Harry the fift is crownd, vp vanitie, / Downe royall ſtate, all you ſage counſailers, hence, / And to the Engliſh Court aſſemble now / From euery region, apes of idleneſſe: […]
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], signature I, recto:
text: Howbeit the Caledonians with great preparation, and by rumor, as of things unknown much greater, taking Armes, and of thir own accord begining Warr by the aſſault of ſundry Caſtles, ſent back ſome of thir fear to the Romans themſelves: and there were of the Commanders, who cloaking thir fear under ſhew of ſage advice, counſel’d the General to retreat back on this ſide Bodotria.
ref: 1670, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 72:
text: CHAPTER VII. In which Jack makes some very sage reflections, and comes to a very unwise decision.
ref: 1836, [Frederick Marryat], “In which Jack makes some very sage reflections, and comes to a very unwise decision”, in Mr. Midshipman Easy […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: Wise.
glosses: Grave; serious; solemn.
Synonyms: sense: wise
word: wise
sense: grave
word: serious
Derived terms: sagely
sageness
Related terms: sagacious
sagacity
sage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: sages
Etymology: From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Vulgar Latin *sapium, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”).
The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.
Senses: examples: text: ’Tis certain, that, while we aſpire to the magnanimous Firmneſs of the philoſophic Sage, and endeavour to confine our Pleaſures altogether within our own Minds, we may, at laſt, render our Philoſophy, like that of Epictetus and other Stoics, only a more refin’d Syſtem of Selfiſhneſs, and reaſon ourſelves out of all Virtue, as well as ſocial Enjoyment.
ref: 1748, [David Hume], “Essay V. Sceptical Solution of these Doubts.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, part I, page 69:
text: All sages and physicians agree in saying that the ills which afflict man originate with the abuse of coition.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 91:
glosses: A very wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
Synonyms: word: loremaster
topics: fantasy
word: oracle
word: philosopher
word: sage
word: savant
Hypernyms: word: deep thinker
word: egghead
word: intellectual
word: person
Hyponyms: word: wise man
word: wise woman
word: guru
word: mentor
word: scholar
Meronyms: word: wisdom
Derived terms: sacred sage
sage on a stage
sage on the stage
Seven Sages
Related terms: word: rishi
word: maharishi
word: muni
word: genius
sage
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
other: /sɑɡɛ/
other: /seɪdʒ/
ipa: /seɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese sage (sage), from 下げる (sageru, “to lower”). From 2channel.
Senses: examples: text: sage in all fields
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: Word used in the email field of imageboards to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software.
Related terms: age
sage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
other: /sɑɡɛ/
other: /seɪdʒ/
ipa: /seɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: sages
form: saging
form: saged
form: saged
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese sage (sage), from 下げる (sageru, “to lower”). From 2channel.
Senses: examples: text: Reminder to sage and report.
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply.
Derived terms: polite sage
sago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪɡəʊ/
ipa: /sɐˈɡo/
rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
Forms: form: sagos
form: sagoes
Etymology: From Malay sagu, via Portuguese sagu or Dutch sago.
Senses: glosses: A powdered starch obtained from certain palms (Metroxylon spp., esp. Metroxylon sagu), used as a flour and food thickener and for sizing textiles.
glosses: A similar starch obtained from palm-like cycad, especially Cycas revoluta.
glosses: Any of the palms and cycads from which sago starch is extracted.
Derived terms: word: Portland sago
taxonomic: Metroxylon sagu etc.
word: sago palm
word: sago pudding
word: sago spleen
Related terms: sago palm
sago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪɡəʊ/
ipa: /sɐˈɡo/
rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
Forms: form: sagos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sego.
saker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sāʹkə
ipa: /ˈseɪkə/
enpr: sāʹkər
ipa: /ˈseɪkɚ/
rhymes: (UK) -eɪkə
Forms: form: sakers
form: sacar
form: sacker
Etymology: From Middle English sacre, from Middle French sacre, from Old Spanish sacro, from Arabic صَقْر (ṣaqr).
Senses: synonyms: Saker falcon
glosses: A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
examples: text: This place of strength vvas furnished of sixe great peeces, demi-Culuerins, and Sakers, vvhich shot directlie in front vpon vs as vve approched.
ref: 1589, Walter Bigges, A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage:
text: Let Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie.
ref: 1616, M. Robert Anton, “The Philosophers fovrth Satyr of Mars”, in The Philosophers Satyrs, London: Printed by T[homas] C[reede] and B[ernard] A[lsop] for Roger Iackſon, page 36:
text: Of warlike engines he was author, / Devised for quick despatch of slaughter: / The cannon, blunderbuss, and saker, / He was th' inventor of, and maker: […]
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:
glosses: A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century.
salina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlaɪnə/
rhymes: -aɪnə
Forms: form: salinas
Etymology: From Latin salīna.
Senses: glosses: A salt marsh, or salt pond, enclosed from the sea.
salvor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvors
Senses: examples: text: A salvor is a risktaker. […] The shores of Europe were littered with wrecks from the First World War. Sorima [la Società Ricuperi Marittimi] collected "no cure, no pay" (the equivalent of "no win, no fee") contracts from governments and insurers, seeking to recoup their losses.
ref: 2024-11-04, Sam Knight, “The shipwreck detective”, in The New Yorker:
synonyms: salvager
coordinate_terms: salvee
glosses: One who salvages; especially, one who voluntarily assists in saving a distressed ship or its goods at sea.
Related terms: savior
El Salvador
samba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑmbə/
rhymes: -ɑmbə
Forms: form: sambas
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba.
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
examples: text: And when the samba played, the sun would set so high / Ring through my ears and sting my eyes, your Spanish lullaby
ref: 1986, “La Isla Bonita”, in True Blue, performed by Madonna:
text: They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”
ref: 2007 September 20, Eric Wilson, “Blame It on Rio and Gisele”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2020:
text: Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888; until then, Bahia had been a major hub of the country’s slave trade. Samba started there for a reason—a fact that Veloso has returned to, obsessively, throughout his career. […] “A samba parade had turned into a brawl,” a reviewer wrote in the Times, adding that the music “suggested a more cool-headed, grown-up epilogue to the shocks of Tropicália.”
ref: 2022 February 7, Jonathan Blitzer, “How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2022:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
Derived terms: samba school
samba whistle
Related terms: sambista
samba
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑmbə/
rhymes: -ɑmbə
Forms: form: sambas
form: sambaing
form: sambaed
form: sambaed
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba.
Senses: examples: text: In front of an audience, he tends to have a freer conversation with himself. The right conditions turn him into an extrovert. He sambas, in the Santo Amaro style.
ref: 2022 February 7, Jonathan Blitzer, “How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2022:
glosses: To dance the samba.
sambar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sambars
form: sambhar
form: sambhur
form: sambur
form: sambre
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi सांभर (sāmbhar), साँभर (sāmbhar), from Sanskrit शम्बर (śambara, “a kind of deer”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).
Synonyms: sense: Rusa unicolor
word: Cervus unicolor
sambar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tamil சாம்பார் (cāmpār), from Marathi सांभार (sāmbhār)/सांबार (sāmbār, “curry”), from Old Marathi सांबार (sāṃbāra), from Sanskrit सम्भार (sambhārá, “materials required for a particular purpose, provision; collection of spices”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *sambʰārás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sambʰārás, from Proto-Indo-European *sem-bʰor-ó-s, from *sem- (“together, one”) + *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”) + *-ós (deverbal suffix). Doublet of Anbar and ambar.
Senses: examples: text: A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. A non-vegetarian version of the “meals” can be found in “Military” hotels.
ref: 2017 July 12, Sanjiv Khamgaonkar, “40 Mumbai foods we can’t live without”, in CNN:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A food preparation common in southern India and Sri Lanka, made of vegetables and lentils (usually pigeon peas, also called toor dal) in a spicy tamarind and lentil flour soup base.
sapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: săpʹər
ipa: /ˈsæpɚ/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sappers
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sappeur (French sapeur). By surface analysis, sap + -er.
Senses: examples: text: his knowledge of Arabic and freedom from the theories of the ordinary sapper-school enabled him to teach the art of demolition to unlettered Beduin in a quick and ready way.
ref: 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 114:
text: A vast minefield trapped Ukrainian troops for weeks as infantry sappers slowly cleared an assault route on foot.
ref: 2023 September 2, Emma Graham-Harrison, “‘Everything is ahead of us’: Ukraine breaks Russian stronghold’s first line of defence”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.
examples: text: By a remarkable piece of railway reconstruction work on the part of the Allied Forces—mainly South African railway construction troops—mines laid along the track by the retreating enemy were removed by sappers, and the German damage made good, within 7 days.
ref: 1944 March and April, “The Western Desert Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 73:
text: Billinge, from St Austell, was one of the first soldiers to land on 'Gold' beach on June 6 1944. He was a sapper attached to the 44 Royal Engineer Commandos and was one of only four to survive from his unit.
ref: 2020 October 21, “Network News: GWR train naming honours D-Day veteran Harry”, in Rail, page 17:
glosses: An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
saran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a trade name coined by the Dow Chemical Co. for a number of monomers and polymers made from vinylidene chloride (especially polyvinylidene chloride).
Senses: glosses: A plastic resin used to make packaging films.
Derived terms: saran-wrap
saranwrap
sault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːlt/
homophone: salt
Forms: form: saults
Etymology: Aphetic form of assault.
Senses: glosses: Assault.
sault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːlt/
homophone: salt
enpr: so͞o
ipa: /suː/
rhymes: -uː
ipa: /ˈsɔːlt/
homophone: salt
Forms: form: saults
Etymology: In the sense "jump (made by a horse)", from Middle French sault, saut (and in the sense "waterfall", from that word's Colonial-era descendant, 17th-century French sault, corresponding to modern French saut (“jump”)), from Latin saltus.
Senses: glosses: A leap or jump, especially one made by a horse.
glosses: A waterfall; a rapid.
scat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: skat
Forms: form: scats
form: scatt
form: skatt
Etymology: From Middle English scet, schat, from Old English sċeatt (“property, goods, owndom, wealth, treasure; payment, price, gift, bribe, tax, tribute, money, goods, reward, rent, a tithe; a piece of money, a coin; denarius, twentieth part of a shilling”) and Old Norse skattr (“wealth, treaure, tax, tribute, coin”); both from Proto-Germanic *skattaz (“cattle, kine, wealth, owndom, goods, hoard, treasure, geld, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *skatn-, *skat- (“to jump, skip, splash out”). Cognate with Scots scat (“tax, levy, charge, payment, bribe”), West Frisian skat (“treasure, darling”), Dutch schat (“treasure, hoard, darling, sweetheart”), German Schatz (“treasure, hoard, wealth, store, darling, sweetheart”), Swedish skatt (“treasure, tax, duty”), Icelandic skattur (“tax, tribute”), Latin scateō (“gush, team, bubble forth, abound”).
Senses: glosses: A tax; tribute.
glosses: A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
scat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: skat
Forms: form: scats
form: skat
form: skatt
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster suggest derivation from Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”), compare English scato-, but Random House Dictionary suggests that the popular character of the word makes this unlikely. Perhaps from English dialectal scat (“to scatter, fling, bespatter”), or an alteration of shit, which is also used for "drugs, heroin".
Senses: examples: text: They turned to polar bear feces, or scat, as it is commonly called. […] She and Quinoa [a dog] worked with Dr. Rockwell to collect and study samples of polar bear scat for several years and found that the bears were eating lots of geese.
ref: 2014 September 22, James Gorman, “For polar bears, a climate change twist [print version: For hungry polar bears, a climate change twist, International New York Times, 24 September 2014, p 12]”, in The New York Times:
text: 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
glosses: Heroin.
glosses: Whiskey.
examples: text: Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth.
ref: 1988, “Pete”, quoted in Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America, Macmillan, page 183
text: “[…] I hear he’s into S&M and scat and all kinds of kinky shit. […]”
ref: 1998, Dennis Cooper, Guide, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 170:
text: In short, when venturing into the realm of extreme fetish, ensure you have an extreme understanding of a partner’s boundaries before laying down a plastic tarp for scat play.
ref: 2004, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 72:
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: Coprophilia, scatophilia.
Synonyms: sense: excrement
word: feces
sense: heroin
word: shit
word: scag
word: heroin
sense: rain driven by wind
word: storm
Related terms: english: dung
translation: dung
word: scatology
word: scatological
scat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: skat
Forms: form: scats
Etymology: Uncertain. The OED, which connects the senses "blow" and "shower" only tentatively, suggests that at least the former might be onomatopoeia. Dialectally, the word can also refer to "a spell" of any kind of weather, e.g. "a scat of fine weather", "a scat of frost".
Senses: examples: text: ... a shot rang out, followed immediately by the "scat" of a bullet against the rock behind which he lay concealed. A tramp of heavy Galloway brogans was heard, and a half-hearted kicking about among the heather bushes, and at last[…]
ref: 1895, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Bog-myrtle and Peat: Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895, London, Bliss, Sands and Foster, page 294:
text: ... the soft and pitying eyes seemed to shame him, "like a scat in the face," he said to himself. But who was he that he should care for any blow across the cheek now, if it was not hard enough to hurt?
ref: 1901, Ethel Lilian Voynich, Jack Raymond, page 173:
glosses: A blow; a hit, an impact.
examples: text: Low black Clouds on it being ſoppoſed to prognoſticate Rain in the Places beneath it, it has been a ſtanding old Saw, When Haldon hath a Hat, Kenton beware a Skat.
ref: 1759, Andrew Brice, The Grand Gazetteer, or Topographic Dictionary, page 677:
text: ... a scat of heavy rain on a squall of wind shut out the harbour for a time. Mrs. Tregenza waited until Joan had disappeared, then went back to her kitchen, closed the door, sat in Grey Michael's great chair by the hearth,[…]
ref: 1897, Eden Phillpotts, Lying Prophets: A Novel, page 187:
text: "I am never away." The tail end of a scat of rain beat on their faces. From the hollow on their left, the wind came booming up.
ref: 2019 December 9 [????], E. Phillips Oppenheim, Nobody's Man: A Thrilling Tale of Espionage and Betrayal, Good Press:
glosses: A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
scat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: skat
Forms: form: scats
Etymology: Probably imitative.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: jazz
glosses: Scat singing.
scat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: skat
Forms: form: scats
form: scatting
form: scatted
form: scatted
Etymology: Probably imitative.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: jazz
glosses: To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.
scat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: skat
Forms: form: scats
form: scatting
form: scatted
form: scatted
Etymology: From scoot, from the root of shoot. Alternatively, from the expression quicker than scat (“in a great hurry”), perhaps representing a hiss followed by the word cat. Compare Swedish schas (“shoo, begone”).
Senses: examples: text: Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.
text: We have to scat! Oh-oh—I forgot to look at the clock!
ref: 2013, Eldot, The Champions, page 245:
text: Her mother looked at me in fright and quickly scatted with her daughter back down the hall.
ref: 2013, Cecilia Spiros, The Montoya Saga: Premonitions, page 57:
text: Ali tried talking to this short boy but he quickly scatted away from her.
ref: 2015, Alice McCurdy, A Million Dollar Man Not a Dime From a Dozen, page 115:
text: One last word, then I have to scat.
ref: 2019, William Walling, Memo to the Leader, page 85:
glosses: To leave quickly.
scat
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: skat
Etymology: From scoot, from the root of shoot. Alternatively, from the expression quicker than scat (“in a great hurry”), perhaps representing a hiss followed by the word cat. Compare Swedish schas (“shoo, begone”).
Senses: examples: text: Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
text: Scat! Shoo! Scat! Geet up! Geet on! Nobody's sick in this house! Nobody wants you here!
ref: 1903, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Though Life Us Do Part, page 223:
text: “Scat! Shoo bird!” The bird merely stared, its dark eyes glinting.
ref: 2009, Coleen D'Andrea, The Harbinger, page 30:
text: 'Scat! Go on, scat!' she called, trying to shoo it away.
ref: 2014, Marita Conlon-McKenna, The Hat Shop On The Corner, page 24:
glosses: An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.
scat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: skat
Forms: form: scats
Etymology: From the taxonomic name of the family.
Senses: glosses: Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.
scaup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔːp/
rhymes: -ɔːp
Forms: form: scaups
form: scaup
Etymology: See scalp (“a bed of oysters or mussels”).
Senses: examples: text: Or spot gaggles of Canada geese, ducks and scaups flying over schools of bluefish.
ref: 2009 March 29, Deborah Baldwin, “A Waterside Village With a Big-City Backdrop”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya.
glosses: Alternative form of scalp (“a bed or stratum of shellfish”).
Derived terms: greater scaup
Aythya marila
lesser scaup
Aythya affinis
New Zealand scaup
Aythya novaeseelandiae
Related terms: Aythya
Aythya marila
Aythya affinis
Aythya novaeseelandiae
schema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skēʹmə
ipa: /ˈskiːmə/
ipa: /ˈskimə/
ipa: /ˈskiːmə/
rhymes: -iːmə
Forms: form: schemata
form: schemas
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin schēma, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). Doublet of scheme.
Senses: glosses: An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).
examples: text: The database schema defines how the tables are organized.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
qualifier: markup languages
glosses: A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A formula in the metalanguage of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.
Synonyms: sense: universally-applicable image or outline
word: schemat
topics: databases
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: schemat
topics: logic
mathematics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: axiom schema
topics: logic
mathematics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: schemat
Derived terms: baby schema
chameleon schema
conceptual schema
image schema
logical schema
physical schema
snowflake schema
star schema
Related terms: schematic(al)(ly)
schematism
schematist
schematization
schematize
schematologetically
schematomancy
scheme
schist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: schists
Etymology: From French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχιστός (skhistós, “splittable”), from σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”).
Senses: examples: text: Although it shows under the microscope traces of the original gabbro structure and of the original gabbro minerals, no one would hesitate from a microscopical examination to class it with the schists.
ref: 1890, George Huntington Williams, “The Greenstone Schist Areas of the Menominee and Marquette Regions of Michigan”, in US Geological Survey, number 62, page 74:
text: 1915, Charles Will Wright, Geology and Ore Deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 87, page 29,
Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists.
text: Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
ref: 2012, Amy Schoeman, Skeleton Coast, page ii:
glosses: Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
Derived terms: alum schist
blueschist
grayschist
greenschist
green schist
quartz schist
whiteschist
Related terms: mica-schist
schistaceous
schistic
schistose
schistosity
schistous
schisty
gneiss
scoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɔː.ɹɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈskɔɹ.i.ə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiə
Forms: form: scorias
form: scoriae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”).
Senses: examples: text: The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but which will not.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
examples: text: To the south lay broken shapes of scoria in a lava bed as far as the eye could see.
ref: 1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter XVII, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:
text: An excellent guidebook by Drs Kilburn and McGuire of University College London reveals that these unpromising pieces of debris are scoria and lithic fragments of the March 1944 eruption.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 10:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater.
Derived terms: scoriac
scoriaceous
scoriated
scoriation
scorification
scorified
scorifier
scoriform
scorify
scoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskəʊ.tə/
ipa: /ˈskoʊ.tɚ/
rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scoters
form: scooter
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: When I went birdwatching, I saw lots of scoters.
glosses: Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Melanitta.
Derived terms: word: American scoter
taxonomic: Melanitta americana
word: black scoter
taxonomic: Melanitta nigra
word: common scoter
taxonomic: Melanitta perspicillata
word: surf scoter
taxonomic: Melanitta fusca
word: velvet scoter
taxonomic: Melanitta deglandi
word: white-winged scoter
scrim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: scrims
Etymology: Attested since the end of the 18th century. Origin unknown.
In one of the earliest mentions, "The Statistical Account of Scotland", 1793, by John Sinclair, page 593, we read in a paragraph devoted to weavers: "Besides these, they are now much employed in working a thin kind of coarse linen called Silesias, vulgarly Scrims, whereof each piece is 27 or 30 inches broad".
Senses: glosses: A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, used for curtains, etc,.
glosses: A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf.
glosses: A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes.
examples: text: Mummified mannequins dangling above the set, illuminated from within, were a heavy-handed touch, but the designer George Tsypin’s translucent scrims and painted drops beautifully conveyed the passage of sun-blasted days and bone-chilling nights on the edge of civilization.
ref: 2007 January 22, Steve Smith, “In Austin, Echoes of a Distant War in an Opera’s American Premiere”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A sheet of gauze etc. used to reduce the intensity of light.
glosses: Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.
scrim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: scrims
form: scrimming
form: scrimmed
form: scrimmed
Etymology: Attested since the end of the 18th century. Origin unknown.
In one of the earliest mentions, "The Statistical Account of Scotland", 1793, by John Sinclair, page 593, we read in a paragraph devoted to weavers: "Besides these, they are now much employed in working a thin kind of coarse linen called Silesias, vulgarly Scrims, whereof each piece is 27 or 30 inches broad".
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To use a scrim.
scrim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: scrims
Etymology: From scrimmage.
Senses: examples: text: As a team, the players decided to focus less on streaming (a major source of income) and more on in-house scrims, VOD review and practice, hoping to become a better team.
ref: 2016, Blog of Legends, "The Gap hasn’t closed: Comparing the LCS and LCK at Worlds"
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament.
scrim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: scrims
form: scrimming
form: scrimmed
form: scrimmed
Etymology: From scrimmage.
Senses: examples: text: Accusations of him drinking instead of scrimming with the team, not attending practices at all and playing guitar instead of scrimming surfaced.
ref: 2016, The Inquirer, The EE Blog: EternalEnvy Accuses Former Team, Team Secret, of Delayed Payments and Monetary Indiscretion:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: To participate in a scrim.
scutum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskjuːtəm/
Forms: form: scuta
form: scutums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scūtum (“shield”). Doublet of escudo, scudo, scute, and écu.
Senses: glosses: An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A scute.
examples: text: A tick's eye, if present, is a mere roundish lucent area at the margin of the scutum about opposite the second coxa.
ref: 2009, Dwight D. Bowman, Georgis' Parasitology for Veterinarians:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum)
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The kneecap.
Synonyms: scuta
secant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sē'kənt
ipa: /ˈsiːkənt/
rhymes: -iːkənt
Forms: form: secants
Etymology: From Latin secāns, present participle of secō (“to cut”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points.
topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle. Symbol: sec
Derived terms: hyperbolic secant
secant method
Related terms: cosecant
section
sector
secant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sē'kənt
ipa: /ˈsiːkənt/
rhymes: -iːkənt
Etymology: From Latin secāns, present participle of secō (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: That cuts or divides.
seidel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪd(ə)l/
enpr: sīdʹl
enpr: zīdʹl
ipa: /ˈsaɪdl̩/
ipa: /ˈzaɪdl̩/
rhymes: -aɪdəl
Forms: form: seidels
Etymology: From German Seidel (“beer mug or a serving of beer of about a third of a liter”).
Senses: examples: text: Others, I swear, crossed themselves at least mentally, and whispered a prayerish aside into their seidels.
ref: 1941, Norman Alley, I Witness, page 175:
glosses: A large beer mug or tankard, especially one with a lid.
sen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: From a syncopation of Middle English selven, selfen, variants of selfe, self. More at self.
Senses: examples: text: "Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ivver tha does owt fer nowt, mek sure tha does it fer thi sen."
glosses: Self.
Derived terms: mi sen
mysen
thee sen
thysen
yoursen
yersen
sen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: sens
form: sen
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 銭(せん) (sen).
Senses: glosses: A unit of Japanese currency, worth one hundredth of a yen.
examples: text: Before leaving the Kyndam I had bought in exchange what I thought to be enough yens and sens to see me through.
ref: 2013, Charles F. C. Ladd, Jr., Around the World at Seventeen, page 70:
glosses: A coin of this value.