cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
poop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: poops
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps a shortening of nincompoop.
Senses: examples: text: Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.
ref: 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 48, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 224:
synonyms: word: bum
word: couch potato
word: dawdler
word: deadbeat
word: dogfucker
word: do-naught
word: do-nothing
word: dosser
word: idler
word: idleton
word: faineant
word: flaneur
word: footler
word: get-nothing
word: goldbricker
word: goof-off
word: lallygag
word: lollygagger
word: laggard
word: layabout
word: lazy ass
word: lazybones
word: lazy louse
word: lidderon
word: lie-abed
word: loafer
word: loiter-sack
word: lounge lizard
word: lounger
word: morepork
word: poop
word: ragabash
word: shirker
word: slacker
word: slow belly
word: slugabed
word: slug-a-bed
word: slugabug
word: sluggabed
word: sluggard
word: sofa spud
word: tarrier
word: truant
glosses: A stupid or ineffectual person.
Derived terms: clenchpoop
poop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: poops
Etymology: Likely from French poupe; see poppyhead.
Senses: glosses: A poppyhead finial seen on church pews and occasionally on other types of seating benches.
dissociative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsoʊ.ʃi.ə.tɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈsoʊ.si.ə.tɪv/
Etymology: From dissociate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: It was a lonely, dissociative time in my life, when I stayed holed up in my apartment for weeks on end.
glosses: Removing or separating from some association.
examples: text: The dissociative techniques separated ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
glosses: Causing dissociation.
examples: text: He had to take a few weeks off school after a dissociative episode.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Related to or caused by dissociation or dissociative disorders.
Derived terms: dissociatively
nondissociative
photodissociative
Related terms: dissociate
dissociation
dissociative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsoʊ.ʃi.ə.tɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈsoʊ.si.ə.tɪv/
Forms: form: dissociatives
Etymology: From dissociate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: A dissociative drug.
kibitzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kibitzers
form: kibbitzer
Etymology: From kibitz + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Did I ask you what you thought about my cards, you kibitzer?
text: "Don't be a kibitzer!" Grampa snapped. "When I need help, I'll ask for it. No dad-blamed machine is gonna outthink Grampa!" He snorted indignantly.
ref: 1956 January, James E. Gunn, “The Gravity Business”, in Galaxy:
text: Neither good nor evil exactly, he is the ultimate catalyst or kibitzer, a blue-note howl of pain and laughter such as Charlie Parker might have blown.
ref: 1971 November 5, Anatole Broyard, “Updike Goes All Out at Last”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, Books of The Times:
glosses: A person who offers unsolicited views, advice, or criticism; one who kibitzes.
Synonyms: meddler
busybody
marplot
nosey parker
Related terms: gatecrasher
interloper
peeping tom
persona non grata
encroacher
backseat driver
buttinsky
browbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaʊ.biːt/
Forms: form: browbeats
form: browbeating
form: browbeat
form: browbeaten
form: brow-beat
Etymology: From brow + beat.
Senses: examples: text: Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.
text: Beware lest thy mind be swayed by the brow-beating of the Demons.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 26:
text: Dudley Fitts reared far back, pronouncing her [Laura Riding] with “few equals” when it came to “browbeating an audience into conviction by sheer force of arrogance, among any poets living or dead.”
ref: 1993 November 28, Carol Muske, quoting Dudley Fitts, “Laura Riding Roughshod”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: bully
word: cow
word: domineer
word: intimidate
word: buffalo
word: bulldoze
word: bully
word: browbeat
word: cow
word: dastardize
word: daunt
word: dishearten
word: do down
word: domineer
word: drive
word: hector
word: intimidate
word: menace
word: strong-arm
glosses: To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
Related terms: browbeater
build
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
homophone: billed
Forms: form: builds
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
Old English bytlan
Middle English bylden
English build
From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle.
Senses: examples: text: Rugby players are of sturdy build.
text: According to the prevailing adolescent criteria Roger was not good looking. He had no build and did not give off very assertive, let alone aggressive vibrations.
ref: 1981 February 7, Nancy Walker, “A Gentle Guy”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 13:
glosses: The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
examples: text: The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
examples: text: This new Lego set was a very nice build.
glosses: The process or period of constructing a physical object.
examples: text: I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest created by the player.
examples: text: I made a build centered around attack speed.
text: In fact, thousands of D&D players constantly debate the virtues of various character builds (combinations of race, class, feat, and spell choices) and share their efforts with each other in hundreds of message boards and mailing lists.
ref: 2005, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies, page 279:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A configuration of a character's items or skills created by the player.
Derived terms: sleeper build
built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
rhymes: -ɪld
Senses: examples: text: Wow! Your new boyfriend's really built.
glosses: well-built, muscular or toned.
Synonyms: voluptuous
Related terms: air-built
asbuilt
as built
as-built
built different
built environment
builtin
built-in
built-in function
built-in obsolescence
built-in type
built like a brick outhouse
built like a brick shipyard
built like a shit brickhouse
builtscape
built up
built-up
built-up roof
carvel-built
clench-built
clinch-built
clincher-built
clinker-built
cloud-built
coach-built
coachbuilt
composite built
custom-built
fair-built
half-built
handbuilt
homebuilt
in-built
jerry built
jerry-built
newbuilt
nonbuilt
prebuilt
purpose-built
scratch-built
self-built
stonebuilt
student-built
well built
built
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
rhymes: -ɪld
Forms: form: builts
Senses: examples: text: the built of a ship
text: The sailor sees the burthen, the built, and the distance of a ship at sea, while she is a great way off.
ref: 1764, Thomas Reid, Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense:
glosses: Shape; build; form of structure.
Related terms: built in
built like a brick shithouse
built like a tank
built
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
rhymes: -ɪld
Senses: synonyms: word: builded
glosses: simple past and past participle of build.
burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bûn
ipa: /bɜːn/
ipa: /bɔːn/
enpr: bûrn
ipa: /bɝn/
homophone: Bern
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: burns
form: born
Etymology: From Middle English burn, bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”), Proto-West Germanic *brunnō, from Proto-Germanic *brunnô, *brunō.
Cognate with Scots burn (“stream”), Cimbrian, Mòcheno prunn (“well, spring”), Dutch bron (“well”), German Bronnen, Brun, Brunnen (“well”), Luxembourgish Buer, Bur (“well”), Yiddish ברונעם (brunem, “well”), Danish brønd (“well”), Faroese brunnur, bruður (“well”), Icelandic brunnur (“well”), Norwegian Bokmål, Scanian brønn (“well”), Norwegian Nynorsk brunn, brønn (“well”), Swedish brunn (“well”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰 (brunna, “source, wellspring”), Crimean Gothic brunna (“spring, fountain, source”). Also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fount”). Doublet of bourn. More at brew.
Senses: examples: text: This darksome burn, horseback brown, / His rollrock highroad roaring down, / In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam / Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
ref: 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 53:
text: He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
text: At this place, the clay in the 52 ft. embankment had been under water pressure for some weeks before the water level could be lowered, and the burn diverted through a temporary culvert.
ref: 1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, pages 708-709:
text: When it was too heavy rain the burn ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 105:
glosses: A large stream.
Derived terms: word: Burn Bridge
word: Burnmouth
word: Burnside
Related terms: bourn
burnt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːnt/
ipa: /bɝnt/
ipa: /bɔːnt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nt
Forms: form: burned
Etymology: From burn + -t.
Senses: examples: text: I burnt the toast.
text: The house burnt down.
glosses: simple past and past participle of burn
burnt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːnt/
ipa: /bɝnt/
ipa: /bɔːnt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nt
Forms: form: more burnt
form: most burnt
form: burned
Etymology: From burn + -t.
Senses: examples: text: The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
examples: text: The toast was too burnt to eat.
glosses: Carbonised.
raw_tags: of food
glosses: Having a sunburn.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Being darker than standard, especially browner.
raw_tags: of a colour
Derived terms: a burnt child dreads the fire
better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick
burnt cream
burnt ear
burnt ends
burnt knight
burntness
Burnt Oak
burnt offering
burnt orange
burnt out
Burnt Pine
burnt sienna
burnt-tailed barb
burnt toast theory
burnt umber
Burnt Yates
inburnt
mowburnt
over-burnt
overburnt
sunburnt
the burnt child dreads the fire
the burnt child fears the fire
unburnt
windburnt
burnt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːnt/
ipa: /bɝnt/
ipa: /bɔːnt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nt
Forms: form: burned
Etymology: From burn + -t.
Senses: examples: text: You might also try 5star PBX organic cleaner. This stuff is amazing. Found at your local beer and wine brewers supply store, this stuff will clean the "burnt" off the bottom of your pans.
ref: 2003 December 1, Darrell, “Toilet Bowl Stains”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):
glosses: Char.
burned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːnd/
ipa: /ˈbɝnd/
ipa: /bɔːnd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nd
Forms: form: more burned
form: most burned
form: burnt
Senses: examples: text: Creating more burned range, which is not available in severe winters, would be of no use.
ref: 1985, Ervin G. Schuster, Below-cost Timber Sales, page 46:
text: It burned around her face, around her breast and arm and face—she was very burned. And her hair was burned, and ... oh God.
ref: 2014, Gregory William Mank, The Very Witching Time of Night, page 17:
text: That's when the doctors found out that my throat was very burned and swollen, and that I was not lying.
ref: 2017, Brian Soto, My Life with Tumors & Cancer:
text: Few photos were even taken of the inner side of the closet door, so that only witness memories—police and firefighter witness memories—can attest to which side was more burned.
ref: 2019, Edward Humes, Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't, page 148:
glosses: Damaged or consumed by heat, fire, oxidation, or similar process.
Derived terms: burned-over district
dad-burned
heartburned
sunburned
unburned
windburned
burned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːnd/
ipa: /ˈbɝnd/
ipa: /bɔːnd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nd
Forms: form: burnt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burn
burst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɝst/
ipa: /bɜːst/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: bursts
Etymology: From Middle English bresten, bersten, from Old English berstan, from Proto-West Germanic *brestan, from Proto-Germanic *brestaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”), enlargement of *bʰreHi- (“to snip, split”).
See also West Frisian boarste, Dutch barsten, Danish briste, Swedish brista; also Irish bris (“to break”)). More at brine. Also cognate to debris.
Senses: examples: text: The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
glosses: An act or instance of bursting.
examples: text: I read it in two bursts.
text: "It's my wedding-day," cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!"
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:
text: […] and only at Barnet did Tappin give Empire of India a burst to bring us up to the 60 m.p.h. speed ceiling of the London area.
ref: 1956 December 23, W. J. Alcock, “On the Footplate of the "Elizabethan"”, in Railway Magazine, page 821:
text: It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts.
ref: 1961, Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron, page 1:
synonyms: spurt
glosses: A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
glosses: A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
examples: text: a ground burst; a surface burst
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The explosion of a bomb or missile.
glosses: A drinking spree.
Derived terms: afterburst
airburst
air burst
air-burst
bird burst
black and burst
budburst
burstlet
burst mode
burst noise
burstwise
burstwort
bursty
circumburst
cloud-burst
cloudburst
cloud burst
colorburst
damburst
downburst
extinction burst
fast radio burst
flavor burst
gamma-ray burst
groundburst
inburst
interburst
intraburst
last burst of fire
macroburst
mergeburst
microburst
miniburst
on the burst
outburst
overburst
postburst
preburst
radio burst
rainburst
rockburst
rotor burst
shellburst
starburst
strain burst
sunburst
superburst
thunderburst
upburst
X-ray burst
bust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
homophone: bussed
homophone: bused
Forms: form: busts
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation of burst, which goes back to Middle English busten, a variant of bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare Low German basten, a variant of barsten (“to burst”).
Senses: examples: text: a narcotics bust
glosses: The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
glosses: A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
glosses: A failed enterprise; a bomb.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
examples: text: Paris was a bust. They wouldn't even let us see the Mona Lisa.
ref: 2014 November 2, “Opposites A-Frack”, in The Simpsons, season 26, episode 5:
glosses: A disappointment.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who fails to meet expectations.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
glosses: A spree, unrestrained revel, or wild party.
Derived terms: baby bust
beer-bust
boom-and-bust
boom or bust
busthead
buy-bust
cloudbust
drug bust
or bust
bust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
homophone: bussed
homophone: bused
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation of burst, which goes back to Middle English busten, a variant of bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare Low German basten, a variant of barsten (“to burst”).
Senses: examples: text: After months of financial problems, the company finally went bust.
glosses: Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
Derived terms: word: bust up
word: bust-up
word: busted
word: go bust
bust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
homophone: bussed
homophone: bused
Forms: form: busts
Etymology: Borrowed from French buste, from Italian busto (“torso, upper body”), from Latin bustum (“funeral monument, tomb," originally "funeral pyre, place where corpses are burned”). Perhaps shortened from Latin ambustum, neuter of ambustus (“scorched”), past participle of ambūrō (“burn all over, scorch”), from ambi- (“around”) + ūrō (“to burn”).
Senses: glosses: A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
glosses: The circumference of a woman's chest around her breasts.
Derived terms: bust improver
bustlike
bustline
busty
overbust
underbust
Related terms: bustier
busted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌs.tɪd/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbʌs.təd/
rhymes: -ʌstɪd
rhymes: -ʌstəd
Forms: form: more busted
form: most busted
Etymology: See bust (Etymology 2)
Senses: examples: text: Some dolls made in Italy had eyes which could follow one about, others made of felt that had their hair dressed and dyed in grey, silver, or blonde, and wore velvet drainpipe trousers and lace brassières over their slightly busted fronts.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 211:
glosses: Having a certain type of bust (breasts; cleavage).
raw_tags: used in combination with an adjective
Derived terms: unbusted
busted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌs.tɪd/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbʌs.təd/
rhymes: -ʌstɪd
rhymes: -ʌstəd
Forms: form: more busted
form: most busted
Etymology: From bust + -ed. See bust (Etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: I'd like to help you, but I'm busted.
glosses: Broke; having no money.
examples: text: I saw you take that cookie from the cookie jar! You're busted!
text: Plus, to be honest, the look on his face when he realized how very busted they were was worth far more than the fifty dollars I paid for their dinner.
ref: 2009, S. Bear Bergman, “New Year” (essay), in The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, ReadHowYouWant.com (2010), page 66
glosses: Caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do.
examples: text: She was cute, but all her friends were busted.
text: ok this gals bod is hot but her face is busted
ref: 2004 July 30, Ms Pnoopie Pnats, “talking about hot or not...”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):
glosses: Extremely ugly.
glosses: Tired.
glosses: Broken.
examples: text: While not all of his matches went well, the streamer insisted aim assist was busted.
ref: 2022 March 25, Jason Parker, “"I'm not even aiming!": xQc says controller aim assist is broken in Fortnite”, in Sportskeeda:
topics: video-games
glosses: Extremely overpowered.
Synonyms: sense: tired
word: fatigued
sense: broken
word: broken
word: out of order
Derived terms: unbusted
busted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌs.tɪd/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbʌs.təd/
rhymes: -ʌstɪd
rhymes: -ʌstəd
Etymology: From bust + -ed. See bust (Etymology 1).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bust
Related terms: bust
busted draw
busted flush
busted pilot
busted valise
flat busted
bought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːt/
ipa: /bɔt/
ipa: /bɑt/
homophone: bot (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːt
Etymology: See buy.
Senses: examples: text: She bought an expensive bag last week.
text: People have bought gas masks.
text: Our products can be bought at your local store.
text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: simple past and past participle of buy.
bought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːt/
ipa: /bɔt/
ipa: /bɑt/
homophone: bot (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːt
Etymology: See buy.
Senses: examples: text: Any senators who vote for this bill must be bought.
text: Don't bother filing a complaint, the regulators are bought.
text: If union leadership is bought, why should we even pay dues?
topics: government
politics
glosses: Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt.
Synonyms: bought and paid for
Derived terms: bought and paid for
boughten
overbought
shopbought
storebought
unbought
bought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːt/
ipa: /bɔt/
ipa: /bɑt/
homophone: bot (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: boughts
form: bout
form: bowt
form: boughte
form: bughte
Etymology: From Middle English bought, bowght, bouȝt, *buȝt, probably an alteration of bight, biȝt, byȝt (“bend, bight”) after bowen, buwen, buȝen (“to bow, bend”). Cognate with Scots boucht, bucht, bout (“bend”). More at bight and bout.
Senses: glosses: A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
glosses: A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
examples: text: the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men.
ref: 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 159:
glosses: A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
glosses: The part of a sling that contains the stone.
examples: text: Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall sting.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
caught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /kɔt/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: [kʰɔt]
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: [kʰɔə̯t]
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: [kʰoə̯t]
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: [kʰʊə̯t]
ipa: /kɑt/
ipa: [kʰɑt]
ipa: /kɔːt/
ipa: /koːt/
ipa: [k̠ʰoːt]
ipa: [kʰo̝ːʔ]
ipa: [kʰɒt]
ipa: [qʰoːʔ]
ipa: [kʰoːʔ]
homophone: cot (cot–caught merger)
homophone: court (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔːt
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.
Derived terms: caught and bowled
wild-caught
caught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /kɔt/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: [kʰɔt]
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: [kʰɔə̯t]
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: [kʰoə̯t]
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: [kʰʊə̯t]
ipa: /kɑt/
ipa: [kʰɑt]
ipa: /kɔːt/
ipa: /koːt/
ipa: [k̠ʰoːt]
ipa: [kʰo̝ːʔ]
ipa: [kʰɒt]
ipa: [qʰoːʔ]
ipa: [kʰoːʔ]
homophone: cot (cot–caught merger)
homophone: court (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔːt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catch
Synonyms: word: catched
Derived terms: cot-caught
cot-caught merged
uncaught
upcaught
choose
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: cho͞oz
ipa: /t͡ʃuːz/
homophone: chews
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: chuse
Etymology: From Middle English cheosen, chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”).
Cognate with Scots chuise, cheese (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German Low German kiesen (“to pick, select”), archaic and partially obsolete German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten (via ‘to charm, allure’ and ‘to enchant’)”), Norwegian kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm, allure, enchant”), Icelandic kjósa (“to choose, vote, elect”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), Latin gustō (“I taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed”), Sanskrit जोषति (jóṣati, “to like, enjoy”), Russian кушать (kúšatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”).
Senses: examples: The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is tbinom nk or "n choose k".
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
choose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: cho͞oz
ipa: /t͡ʃuːz/
homophone: chews
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: chooses
form: chuse
Etymology: From Middle English chose, chos, chooce, a Northern dialectal form of Middle English chois (“choice”). Cognate with Scots chose, choose, chuse (“choosing, choice, selection”). Doublet of choice, which see for more.
Senses: glosses: The act of choosing; selection.
glosses: The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
chose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chōz
ipa: /t͡ʃəʊz/
enpr: chōz
ipa: /t͡ʃoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: simple past of choose
examples: text: From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 10, lines 165-166:
text: I expect you might have chose a somewhat larger fish, but I'll try an' make it do.
ref: 1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Houghton Mifflin, page 66:
text: Since this work is about Vilna's Jewish community, I have chose the familiar spelling Vilna, which closely approximates Jews' preferred name for their city.
ref: 2010, Andrew Noble Koss, World War I and the Remaking of Jewish Vilna, Stanford University Press, page x:
glosses: past participle of choose
glosses: simple past of chuse
chose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chōz
ipa: /t͡ʃəʊz/
enpr: chōz
ipa: /t͡ʃoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: choses
Etymology: From Middle French chose, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A thing; personal property.
Derived terms: chose in action
chose in possession
chose local
chose transitory
chosen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chōz'ən
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃəʊ.zən/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoʊ.zən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoː.zən/
enpr: cho͞oz'ən
note: Indic
ipa: /t͡ʃuːzən/
Etymology: From Middle English chosen, ychosen, ichosen, re-analysed variant of coren, icoren, ȝecoren (“chosen”), from Old English coren, ġecoren (“chosen”), past participle of Old English ċēosan (“to choose”). Morphologically equivalent to choose + -en (past participle ending).
Senses: glosses: past participle of choose
glosses: past participle of chuse
chosen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: chōz'ən
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃəʊ.zən/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoʊ.zən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoː.zən/
enpr: cho͞oz'ən
note: Indic
ipa: /t͡ʃuːzən/
Forms: form: more chosen
form: most chosen
Etymology: From Middle English chosen, ychosen, ichosen, re-analysed variant of coren, icoren, ȝecoren (“chosen”), from Old English coren, ġecoren (“chosen”), past participle of Old English ċēosan (“to choose”). Morphologically equivalent to choose + -en (past participle ending).
Senses: examples: text: The chosen candidate accepted the award with pride.
text: Only a few chosen participants were allowed entry.
glosses: picked; selected
glosses: elected
Derived terms: chosen-ciphertext attack
chosen family
chosenhood
chosen instrument
chosen name
chosenness
chosen one
chosen people
chosen-plaintext attack
chosen race
forechosen
ill-chosen
nonchosen
prechosen
unchosen
cling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: clings
Etymology: From Middle English clingen, from Old English clingan (“to adhere”), from Proto-West Germanic *klingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą. Cognate with Danish klynge (“to cluster, to crowd”). Compare clump.
Senses: examples: text: Antelope steaks and fried liver to begin on, and venison cutlets with chili con carne and pineapple fritters, and then some sardines and mixed pickles; and top it off with a can of yellow clings and a bottle of beer.
ref: 1908, O. Henry, Hostages to Momus:
glosses: Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
examples: text: a more tenacious cling to worldly reſpects,
ref: 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: Adherence; attachment; devotion.
examples: text: You can make window clings by using thin transparency sheets, school glue, food coloring, and templates.
ref: 2004, Diane M. Hyde, Year-Round Classroom Tips:
synonyms: cling-on
glosses: An ornament that clings to a window so as to be seen from outside.
Derived terms: cling peach
clingstone
static cling
cling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: clings
form: clinging
form: clung
form: clung
form: clinged
form: clinged
form: clong
form: clong
Etymology: From Middle English clingen, from Old English clingan (“to adhere”), from Proto-West Germanic *klingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą. Cognate with Danish klynge (“to cluster, to crowd”). Compare clump.
Senses: examples: text: Seaweed clung to the anchor.
text: And what hath life for thee / That thou shouldst cling to it thus?
ref: 1823, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, The Vespers of Palermo, Act the First:
text: Third-class carriages are grossly overcrowded, with passengers lying on the luggage racks, standing between the benches, and occasionally even riding on the footboards and clinging to the outsides of the coaches for short distances.
ref: 1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 120:
text: 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.
synonyms: word: clinch
word: grip
word: beclasp
word: begrasp
word: begrip
word: belock
word: clasp
word: clench
word: clinch
word: cling
word: clutch
word: enclasp
word: fang
word: fondle
word: glaum
word: grab
word: grabble
word: grasp
word: grip
word: hang on
word: hold on
word: hold tight
word: hold
word: nab
word: nim
word: seize
word: stranglehold
word: take
glosses: To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
synonyms: word: cleave
word: stick
word: adhere
word: attach
word: bond
word: cleave
word: cling
word: cohere
word: conglutinate
word: glue
word: hug
word: stick
word: stick together
word: stick with
glosses: To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.
examples: text: I[…] clung my legs as close to his sides as I could.
ref: 1732, Jonathan Swift, An Examination of Certain Abuses in the City of Dublin:
synonyms: word: cleave
word: stick
word: adhere
word: attach
word: bond
word: cleave
word: cling
word: cohere
word: conglutinate
word: glue
word: hug
word: stick
word: stick together
word: stick with
glosses: To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
examples: text: If thou speak'st false, / Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, / Till famine cling thee.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
glosses: To cause to dry up or wither.
examples: text: Wood clings.
glosses: To dry up or wither.
glosses: To be fond of, to feel strongly about and dependent on.
raw_tags: with preposition to
Derived terms: anticling
clinger
cling film
clingfilm
clingfish
clinging vine
cling on
cling peach
clingsome
cling to
cling to the skirts of
cling-wrap
cling wrap
clingwrap
clingy
noncling
uncling
cling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: clings
form: clinging
form: clinged
form: clinged
Etymology: Imitative; compare clink, clang.
Senses: examples: text: The tiny chimes clinged the hours and quarters against his right and Kate's left ear. They counted nine and three-quarters.
ref: 1913, Cleveland Moffett, Oliver Herford, The Bishop's Purse, page 121:
text: The latter, armed with the most famous tool of their trade — tiny clinging bells — created a small band of untrained orchestra giving their part of the market a festive outlook […]
ref: 2003, Femi Abodunrin, The Dancing Masquerade, page 24:
glosses: To produce a high-pitched ringing sound, like a small bell.
cling
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: Imitative; compare clink, clang.
Senses: glosses: Imitative of a high-pitched ringing sound.
clung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: klŭng
ipa: /klʌŋ/
ipa: /klɐŋ/
ipa: /kləŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cling
clung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: klŭng
ipa: /klʌŋ/
ipa: /klɐŋ/
ipa: /kləŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: more clung
form: most clung
Senses: glosses: Shrunken; wasted away.
come
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌm/
ipa: [kʰɐm]
enpr: kŭm
ipa: /kʌm/
ipa: [kʰʌm]
enpr: kŭm
ipa: [kəm]
ipa: [km̩]
ipa: [km]
note: Dublin, Cork, Northern England
ipa: /kʊm/
homophone: cum
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from *gʷem- (“to step”).
Cognates
Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Low German kamen (“to come”), Dutch komen (“to come”), German kommen (“to come”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish komme (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic koma (“to come”).
Cognate from PIE via Latin veniō (“come, arrive”) with many Romance language terms (e.g., French venir, Portuguese vir, Spanish venir), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born, come into the world, arrive”), with terms in Iranian languages (e.g. Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬍 (jamaⁱtī, “to go”)), via Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati, “to go”) with many Indic language terms (e.g., Hindi गति (gati)).
Cognate to English basis, from PIE via Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: “If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.”
ref: 1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, section II:
glosses: Coming, arrival; approach.
examples: text: When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.
glosses: Semen
glosses: Female ejaculatory discharge.
Derived terms: cum
come
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌm/
ipa: [kʰɐm]
enpr: kŭm
ipa: /kʌm/
ipa: [kʰʌm]
enpr: kŭm
ipa: [kəm]
ipa: [km̩]
ipa: [km]
note: Dublin, Cork, Northern England
ipa: /kʊm/
homophone: cum
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from *gʷem- (“to step”).
Cognates
Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Low German kamen (“to come”), Dutch komen (“to come”), German kommen (“to come”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish komme (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic koma (“to come”).
Cognate from PIE via Latin veniō (“come, arrive”) with many Romance language terms (e.g., French venir, Portuguese vir, Spanish venir), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born, come into the world, arrive”), with terms in Iranian languages (e.g. Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬍 (jamaⁱtī, “to go”)), via Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati, “to go”) with many Indic language terms (e.g., Hindi गति (gati)).
Cognate to English basis, from PIE via Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.
text: Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
text: Come summer, we would all head off to the coast.
text: "And a long sea voyage that starts at six o'clock come morning."
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 14:
text: Come the final whistle, Mikel Arteta lay flabbergasted on the turf.
ref: 2012 November 10, Amy Lawrence, “Fulham's Mark Schwarzer saves late penalty in dramatic draw at Arsenal”, in The Guardian:
text: She announced in April that come 10 February 2023, her songs would be featured in a romantic comedy titled It's All Coming Back To Me […]
ref: 2022 October 5, Beatriz Colon, “Celine Dion ushers in holiday season with exciting music news”, in Hello! Magazine:
glosses: Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
Derived terms: odd-come-short
come
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌm/
ipa: [kʰɐm]
enpr: kŭm
ipa: /kʌm/
ipa: [kʰʌm]
enpr: kŭm
ipa: [kəm]
ipa: [km̩]
ipa: [km]
note: Dublin, Cork, Northern England
ipa: /kʊm/
homophone: cum
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from *gʷem- (“to step”).
Cognates
Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Low German kamen (“to come”), Dutch komen (“to come”), German kommen (“to come”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish komme (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic koma (“to come”).
Cognate from PIE via Latin veniō (“come, arrive”) with many Romance language terms (e.g., French venir, Portuguese vir, Spanish venir), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born, come into the world, arrive”), with terms in Iranian languages (e.g. Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬍 (jamaⁱtī, “to go”)), via Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati, “to go”) with many Indic language terms (e.g., Hindi गति (gati)).
Cognate to English basis, from PIE via Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: Come come! Stop crying.
text: Come now! You must eat it.
glosses: An exclamation to express annoyance.
examples: text: Come come! You can do it.
text: Come now! It won't bite you.
text: Her. What wisdome stirs amongst you? Come Sir, now
I am for you againe: 'Pray you sit by vs,
And tell's a Tale.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Come then, pure hands, and bear the head
⁠That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep,
⁠And come, whatever loves to weep,
And hear the ritual of the dead.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 30:
text: “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
come
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌm/
ipa: [kʰɐm]
enpr: kŭm
ipa: /kʌm/
ipa: [kʰʌm]
enpr: kŭm
ipa: [kəm]
ipa: [km̩]
ipa: [km]
note: Dublin, Cork, Northern England
ipa: /kʊm/
homophone: cum
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: comes
Etymology: See comma.
Senses: examples: text: There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.
ref: 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:
text: Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
ref: 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: come stà
came
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪm/
ipa: [kʰeɪ̯m]
ipa: [kʰeːm]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [keːm]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [kɛːm]
rhymes: -eɪm
Etymology: See come.
Senses: glosses: simple past of come
examples: text: With that army the British army, in the course of its operations, must have came in contact; and, if that were likely, (may rather if it was impossible to avoid it.) I will ask, whether, under all the circumstances of Europe[…]
ref: 1812, The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, volume 16, T.C. Hansard, page 335:
text: Thailand's expansion of access to secondary and tertiary education is unlikely to have came at the expense of quality. International achievement test^([sic]) show Thai students consistently outperforming not just Indonesia, whose per capita national income is less than half of Thailand's[…]
ref: 2006, Kaspar Richter, Thailand's Growth Path: From Recovery to Prosperity, The World Bank, page 50:
text: I don't know why her ass couldn't have just waited until I had got ready so we could have came together. It's bad enough I even have to be in this mothafucka.
ref: 2011 April 1, Angie Daniels, Careful of the Company You Keep, Kensington Publishing Corp, page 53:
glosses: past participle of come
glosses: simple past of cum
came
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪm/
ipa: [kʰeɪ̯m]
ipa: [kʰeːm]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [keːm]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [kɛːm]
rhymes: -eɪm
Etymology: See come.
Senses: examples: text: Came Christmas by which, at the outset, everybody knew it would be over, and it was not over. Came June, 1915, concerning which, at the outset, he had joined with Mr. Fortune, Twyning and Harold in laughter at his own grotesque idea of the war lasting to the dramatic effect of a culminating battle on the centenary of Waterloo, and the war had lasted, and was still lasting.
ref: 1921, Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, If Winter Comes, page 256:
glosses: Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
Synonyms: sense: following event etc, in the past after waiting
word: by
sense: following event etc, in the past after waiting
word: when [event, period, change in state] came/arrived
Related terms: english: preposition
translation: preposition
word: come
came
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪm/
ipa: [kʰeɪ̯m]
ipa: [kʰeːm]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [keːm]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [kɛːm]
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: cames
Etymology: Attested from the 17th century, of unknown origin. Possibly from kame (“a ridge”). Compare Scots came (“comb”), Scots kame (“combing; a ridge”), and Middle English camet (“silver”).
Senses: glosses: A grooved strip of metal, traditionally usually lead or brass and today sometimes stainless steel, used to hold panes of glass together in glazing.
cost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒst/
ipa: /ˈkɔst/
ipa: /ˈkɑst/
rhymes: -ɒst
rhymes: -ɔːst
Forms: form: costs
form: costing
form: cost
form: cost
form: costed
form: costed
Etymology: From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).
Senses: examples: text: This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
text: It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
text: Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
glosses: To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
examples: text: Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
text: the packaging of home-delivered products now accounts for 30% of the solid rubbish the US generates annually, and the cardboard alone costs 1bn trees.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
text: though it cost me ten nights' watchings
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
examples: text: to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, 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:
text: LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."
ref: 1977, Star Wars:
glosses: To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
examples: text: I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
glosses: To calculate or estimate a price.
examples: text: I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.
text: That's going to cost you!
glosses: To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
Derived terms: cost an arm and a leg
cost a pretty penny
cost out
cost the earth
cost up
how much does it cost
miscost
recost