cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stomach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌmək/
ipa: /ˈstɐmək/
ipa: /ˈstɐmɪk/
rhymes: -ʌmək
Forms: form: stomachs
form: stomaching
form: stomached
form: stomached
form: stomack
Etymology: From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).
Largely displaced native Old English maga, whence Modern English maw.
Senses: examples: text: I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
text: I can't stomach her cooking.
glosses: To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
examples: text: Let a man, though never so justly, oppose himself unto them that are disordered in their ways; and what one amongst them commonly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at reproof, and hate such as would reform them?
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To be angry.
examples: text: O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 12:
text: The Lion began at first to shew his Teeth, and to Stomach the Affront.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: The Parliament sit in that body […] to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
glosses: To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.
Synonyms: sense: to tolerate
word: brook
word: put up with
Derived terms: stomachable
unstomachable
stab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stăb
ipa: /stæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: stabs
Etymology: First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe.
Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.
Senses: examples: text: A knife was flashing in his hand, and just as he was about to take a stab at me, the smith grabbed his arm from behind.
ref: 1979, Karl May, The Secret Brotherhood: A Novel, Seabury Press, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
examples: text: I opened the man's linen robe, and there over his heart was a dagger-wound, and beneath the woman's fair breast was a like cruel stab, through which her life had ebbed away.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A wound made by stabbing.
examples: text: “I bet you two have really big plans. And might I say, that is just fab,” he said of Lynn's dress. “I'm glad someone noticed,” she replied, seeming to take a stab at me.
ref: 2001, Van Whitfield, Guys in Suits: A Novel, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
examples: text: I'll give this thankless task a stab.
text: As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them.
ref: 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:
glosses: An attempt.
glosses: Criticism.
examples: a horn stab
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
glosses: A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
Derived terms: have a stab
have a stab at
take a stab at
stab binding
stabbing
stabby
stab cell
stab in the back
stab in the dark
stab pass
stab-rag
stab stitch
stab vest
stab wound
stab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stăb
ipa: /stæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: stabs
Etymology: Clipping of stabilizer or stabiliser.
Senses: examples: text: If the pilots used electric pitch trim, it would only pause MCAS for 5s; to deactivate it you have to switch off the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches.
ref: 2020, Chris Brady, “737 MAX - MCAS”, in The Boeing 737 Technical Site, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2021:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
stab
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stăb
ipa: /stæb/
rhymes: -æb
Senses: examples: text: Do you know whether any country offices pay their men by the thousand, or whether they are on stab wages? — I do not know. Some are paid stab wages, but I do not know whether there is much piece-work.
ref: 1893, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia, page 313:
text: The pressmen were granted a stab wage of 36s for a 60 hour week, and the extras for overtime and Sunday work […]
ref: 1967, John Child, Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry, page 113:
qualifier: industrial relations
glosses: Clipping of established.
stab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stăb
ipa: /stæb/
rhymes: -æb
Senses: examples: text: […] there were 286 overseers and 210 readers occupied in the 501 offices; 2,691 compositors were paid on the stab […]
ref: 1892, The British Printer, volume 5, page 42:
qualifier: industrial relations
glosses: Clipping of establishment.
pull
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: po͝ol
ipa: /pʊl/
ipa: /pəl/
ipa: /pʉl/
note: full–fool merger
ipa: /puːl/
homophone: pool
homophone: pole
homophone: Pole
homophone: poll
rhymes: -ʊl (accents with foot–goose merger or full–fool merger)
Etymology: Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).
Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).
Senses: qualifier: gun sports
glosses: Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
push
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: po͝osh
ipa: /pʊʃ/
ipa: [pʷʊʃ]
ipa: /pʉʃ/
ipa: [puʃ]
rhymes: -ʊʃ
ipa: /pʌʃ/
enpr: po͝osh
ipa: /pʊʃ/
ipa: [pʷʊʃ]
ipa: /pʉʃ/
ipa: [puʃ]
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: pushes
Etymology: Probably French poche. See pouch.
Senses: examples: text: a Push rise upon his Nose
ref: 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Praise:
glosses: A pustule; a pimple.
count
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kount
ipa: /kaʊnt/
ipa: /kuːnt/
rhymes: -aʊnt
Etymology: From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.
Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).
Senses: examples: text: For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Countable.
topics: business
economics
marketing
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: Used to show the amount of like items in a package.
Derived terms: countification
countify
noncount
uncount
count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kount
ipa: /kaʊnt/
ipa: /kuːnt/
rhymes: -aʊnt
Forms: form: counts
Etymology: From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte (“count”), from Latin comes (“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". Doublet of comes, comte, and conte.
Senses: glosses: The male ruler of a county.
glosses: A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
Hyponyms: english: French count
translation: French count
word: comte
english: Italian count
translation: Italian count
word: conte
english: English count
translation: English count
word: earl
english: Dutch count
translation: Dutch count
word: graaf
english: German count
translation: German count
word: graf
Derived terms: countdom
countling
countly
count palatine
count palatinate
countship
grey count
viscount
Related terms: sense: female form or wife
word: countess
sense: female form or wife
word: contessa
sense: adjectival form
word: comital
sense: related titles
word: baron
sense: related titles
word: don
sense: related titles
word: duke
sense: related titles
word: earl
sense: related titles
word: lord
sense: related titles
word: marquess
sense: related titles
word: prince
flow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flō
ipa: /fləʊ/
ipa: /floʊ/
homophone: floe
homophone: Flo
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: flows
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”).
Senses: examples: text: […] there are other extensive mosses in this district, commonly called flowes, which it is not probable ever will, or ever can be, converted into arable land. Some of these flowes are found to be 20, 25, or 30 feet deep, and are, besides, such a dead level, that the water has little or no descent; and even supposing they should be cast, or burnt to the bottom, standing pools of dirty water could only stand in their place.
ref: 1794, John Sinclair, The Statistical Account of Scotland, volume 10, page 328:
text: Ye'll stick in some flow, Or, ye'll melt in a thow
ref: 1871, Alexander Boswell, Poetical Works, page 213:
text: Had been roughly laid with bog-wood dug from the flowes,
ref: 1895, Crockett, Moss-Hags page xlii
text: Dandering o'er ferney knowes, [...] Springing o'er bogs an' flowes, [...]
ref: 1896, Proudlock, Borderland Muse, page 8:
text: If dey wirna a day apo' da flow dan he [it] wis nae man's bishaness.
ref: 1898 July 23, Shetland News, quoted in the EDD
glosses: A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one.
Derived terms: flow-bog
flow-moss
dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
homophone: dost
homophone: dussed
Forms: form: dusts
form: dusting
form: dusted
form: dusted
Etymology: From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”).
Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.
Senses: examples: text: The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.
text: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To remove dust from.
examples: text: Dusting always makes me cough.
glosses: To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
glosses: To make dusty, to soil with dust.
glosses: Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
examples: text: The mother dusted her baby’s bum with talcum powder.
glosses: To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
glosses: To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
examples: text: He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I’d like to talk to you a little, soldier.’
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 75:
glosses: To leave quickly; to rush off.
glosses: To drink up quickly; to toss off.
examples: text: good Powder differs from bad […]in having more Peter and less Coal; and lastly, in the well dusting of it
ref: 1667, Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society of London:
glosses: To reduce to a fine powder; to pulverize, to levigate.
glosses: To strike, beat, thrash.
glosses: To defeat badly, to thrash.
examples: text: Kyle Reese: You have to be careful because the [Hunter-Killer robots] use infrared. They’re not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them.
ref: 1984, The Terminator, spoken by Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), Los Angeles, Calif.: Orion Pictures; distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, published 1984:
glosses: To kill.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
Derived terms: dust bunny
dust down
duster
dust off
dust out
dust someone's jacket
dust up
undust
undusted
Related terms: crop-dust
vacuum cleaner
sand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sænd/
ipa: /sænd/
note: /æ/ raising
ipa: /sɛənd/
rhymes: -ænd
Etymology: From Middle English sond, sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos, from *sem- (“to pour”).
See also North Frisian sun, Sön, sönj (“sand”), Saterland Frisian Sound (“sand”), West Frisian sân (“sand”), Dutch zand (“sand”), German, Luxembourgish Sand (“sand”), Yiddish זאַמד (zamd, “sand”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish sand (“sand”), Faroese and Icelandic sandur (“sand”), Latin sabulum (“sand, gravel”), Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos, “sand”), English dialectal samel (“sand bottom”), Old Irish do·essim (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather”), ἄμη (ámē, “water bucket”).
Senses: glosses: Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
sand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sænd/
ipa: /sænd/
note: /æ/ raising
ipa: /sɛənd/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: sands
form: sanding
form: sanded
form: sanded
Etymology: From Middle English sanden, from the noun (see above).
Senses: glosses: To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
examples: text: Sudden stopping, which could be effected easily by sanding the rails and reversing the driving-gear, was dangerous, because the train might telescope and overwhelm the engine.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 141:
text: The golden domes of churches and the freshly sanded paths in the town gardens were a glaring yellow.
ref: 1958, Boris Pasternak, chapter 4, in Max Hayward, Manya Harari, transl., Doctor Zhivago, New York: Pantheon, page 96:
glosses: To cover with sand.
examples: text: The officer wrote until he had finished, read over to himself what he had written, sanded it, and handed it to Defarge, with the words "In secret."
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
glosses: To blot ink using sand.
sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sænd/
ipa: /sænd/
note: /æ/ raising
ipa: /sɛənd/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: sands
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Ellipsis of sandpiper.
stone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəʊn/
ipa: /stoʊn/
ipa: /stɐʉn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Etymology: From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
Cognate with Scots stane (“stone”), North Frisian stian, Stiin, stiinj (“stone”), Saterland Frisian Steen (“stone”), West Frisian stien (“stone”), Dutch steen (“stone”), German Stein (“stone”), German Low German Steen, Stein (“stone”), Luxembourgish Steen (“stone”), Vilamovian śtan (“stone”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “stone”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish sten (“stone”), Faroese steinur (“stone”), Gutnish stain (“stone”), Icelandic steinn (“stone”), Norwegian Nynorsk stein (“stone”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains, “stone”). Compare also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stain, stean, and stein.
Senses: examples: text: stone walls
synonyms: word: stonen
glosses: Constructed of stone.
examples: text: stone pot
glosses: Having the appearance of stone.
glosses: Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
examples: text: She is one stone fox.
text: Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that.
ref: 1994, Andrew H. Vachss, Born Bad: Stories:
text: Of course the Torah rejects (*some*) sexual acts between members of the same sex. And of course it doesn't condemn gays and lesbians. Someone who doesn't realize that is a stone bigot to begin with.
ref: 2000 September 9, Lisa Beth, “Rabbi Shmuli Boteach Refuted”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: “And I got the best metal man in the business going for me, too.” “This job's going to be a stone motherfucker,” Flacco said
ref: 2001, Andrew H. Vachss, Pain Management:
text: He might be a stone killer who simply doesn't care if his victim's alive or dead at the time of disfigurement.
ref: 2009, John Lutz, Night Victims, page 307:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Used as an intensifier.
examples: text: stone butch
text: stone femme
text: Lately I've read these stories by women who are so angry with stone lovers, even mocking their passion when they finally give way to trust, to being touched.
ref: 1993, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Los Angeles: Alyson Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 9:
text: My physical preference tends more to very masculine-bodied non-transitioning stone TG butches.
ref: c. 2000, Sonya, “Femme Identity: Stone-Butch/Femme Dynamic, FTM/Femme Dynamic”, in Transensual Femme, archived from the original on 20 May 2000:
antonyms: pillow princess
glosses: Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒɡ/
ipa: /fɑɡ/
ipa: /fɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: fogs
form: fogging
form: fogged
form: fogged
Etymology: Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin. Probably either a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall grass; thick, marshy”), from the earlier-attested fog (“tall grass”) (see below), or from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”), in which case related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).
Senses: glosses: To become covered with or as if with fog.
examples: text: The mirror fogged every time he showered.
synonyms: become cloudy
become steamy
glosses: To become obscured in condensation or water.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To become dim or obscure.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To make dim or obscure.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
examples: text: Fogging for adult mosquito control began on June 4th in residential areas. Until September 25th, the Metro area was fogged eleven times, using nine truck-mounted foggers, eight hand swing foggers, and two boats.
ref: 1968, Eighth Annual Report, Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, page 7:
glosses: To cover with or as if with fog.
glosses: To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
examples: text: Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung way too far to the other end where the saying in the industry is is^([sic]) that if you could fog a mirror, you could get a loan.
ref: 2008, United States Congress, House Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity - Foreclosure, Foreclosure Prevention and Intervention: The Importance of Loss Mitigation, page 46:
glosses: To obscure in condensation or water.
synonyms: blur
cloud
obscure
glosses: To make confusing or obscure.
Derived terms: fog a mirror
fog out
fog up
fog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒɡ/
ipa: /fɑɡ/
ipa: /fɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Etymology: From Middle English fogge (“tall grass”), probably from Norwegian fogg (“tall, worthless grass”); compare Scots fog (“moss; lichen”).
Senses: examples: text: The inclosures of fog, or aftergrass, reserved for spring-feed, are now supposed to be shut up, also the burnet, which is never to be fed in autumn ...
ref: 1800, John Lawrenece, The New Farmer's Calendar; Or, Monthly Remembrancer, for All Kinds of Country Business: Comprehending All the Material Improvements in the New Husbandry ... By a Farmer and Breeder [i.e. J. Lawrence]., page 114:
synonyms: aftergrass
aftermath
eddish
glosses: A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
examples: text: […] and they generally leave a great deal of Fog to rot on the Ground, which, with the Help of his well turned Dung-hill, dress his Ground […]
ref: 1744, William Agric Ellis, The Modern Husbandman, page 104:
synonyms: foggage
glosses: Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
glosses: Moss.
Derived terms: fogey
fogram
fogrum
fogy
Yorkshire fog
fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒɡ/
ipa: /fɑɡ/
ipa: /fɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: fogs
form: fogging
form: fogged
form: fogged
Etymology: From Middle English fogge (“tall grass”), probably from Norwegian fogg (“tall, worthless grass”); compare Scots fog (“moss; lichen”).
Senses: glosses: To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
glosses: To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒɡ/
ipa: /fɑɡ/
ipa: /fɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: fogs
form: fogging
form: fogged
form: fogged
Etymology: Compare Old Dutch focker.
Senses: examples: text: Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Counter Scuffle”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:
glosses: To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
flame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: flām
ipa: /fleɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Etymology: From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.
Senses: glosses: Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.
flame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: flām
ipa: /fleɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: flames
form: flaming
form: flamed
form: flamed
Etymology: From Middle English flawmen, from Old French flamber, flammer.
Senses: examples: text: The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
examples: text: He flamed with indignation.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter II, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
examples: text: I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.
text: I wish you had the nerve to put your own name on that article, rather than logging into a public account to do it. I would have prefered^([sic]) to respond to you personally, rather than burden the net with my flaming, particularly since opinions like yours are best left ignored. But I feel I must respond to this one.
ref: 1983 October 20, Joe Ziegler, net.motss (Usenet):
text: This was one of the highest points of the show for me. Playin' followed, with a nice jam afterwards. After that, Jerry wandered into Crazy Fingers. (I had been hoping for Terrapin...oh well. Crazy Fingers seems to highlight Jerry's ability to come in late and tentative on lyrics. I'm sure I'll get flamed, since lots of folks seem to worship CF.)
ref: 1989 June 29, Neil McAvoy [Wing Attack Plan R], rec.music.gdead (Usenet):
text: If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: Because online communication makes it easy to flame, many of us impetuously fire off messages that we later regret.
ref: 2019, Steven McCornack, Kelly Morrison, Reflect & Relate, 5th edition:
glosses: To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
Derived terms: flamer
flaming
Related terms: flambé
ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăsh
ipa: /æʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: ashes
Etymology: From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (compare West Frisian jiske, Dutch as, Low German Asch, German Asche, Danish aske, Swedish aska, Norwegian aske), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-; see it for cognates.
The rare plural axen is from Middle English axen, axnen, from Old English axan, asċan (“ashes”) (plural of Old English axe, æsċe (“ash”)).
Senses: examples: text: The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.
text: Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.
text: Ashes from the fire floated over the street.
text: Ash from the fire floated over the street.
text: The family collected the ashes after burning the body.
glosses: Solid remains of a fire.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
glosses: Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
examples: text: The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.
glosses: Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
examples: text: Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.
glosses: Mortal remains in general.
examples: text: Now, it's Haiti that needs help to rebuild and rise from the ashes [of an earthquake].
ref: 2010 May 6, Jean-Claude Laguerre, “Haiti Will Rise From the Ashes”, in The Epoch Times:
glosses: What remains after a catastrophe.
glosses: A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire.
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The resultant remaining more stable patterns that emerge from the evolution of a soup or a similarly random pattern.
Synonyms: sense: cremation remains
word: cremains
Derived terms: ashbin
ash blond
ash-blond
ash blonde
ash-blonde
ash bread
ashcake
ash cake
ashcan
ash cash
ash-colored
ash-coloured
ashdump
ashen
ashery
ashfall
ashfield
ashflow
ash gourd
ash gray
ash grey
ash-heap
ash-heap-cake
ash heap of history
ashhole
ash-hole
ash-hopper
ashless
ashlike
ashman
Ash Monday
ashpan
ash pan
ash pit
ashpit
ash pumpkin
ash-red
ash stand
ash-throated crake
ashtray
Ash Wednesday
ashweed
ashy
bone ash
deash
flash the ash
fly ash
lime-ash
pearl ash
pearl-ash
pearlash
potash
satinash
soda ash
the Ashes
ultramarine ash
volcanic ash
ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăsh
ipa: /æʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology: Transliteration of Persian آش.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aush.
ash
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ăsh
ipa: /æʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: synonyms: asf
asl
glosses: Abbreviation of as hell or as heck.
Related terms: Yggdrasil
cinerary
ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăshʹĭz
ipa: /ˈæʃ.ɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈæʃ.əz/
rhymes: -æʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of ash
Derived terms: rise from the ashes
ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăshʹĭz
ipa: /ˈæʃ.ɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈæʃ.əz/
rhymes: -æʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ash
Related terms: axen
full
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͝ol
ipa: /fʊl/
ipa: [fʊɫ]
ipa: /fʉl/
homophone: fool (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: foal
rhymes: -ʊl
Etymology: From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá).
See also fele and Scots fou (whence the English doublet fou (“drunk”)). For the "drunk, intoxicated" sense, compare also Swedish full and other Scandinavian languages.
Senses: examples: text: Prospero:
I have done nothing but in care of thee,
Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
Art ignorant of what thou art; naught knowing
Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: […] full in the centre of the sacred wood
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: You know full well what makes me look so pale.
ref: 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene I, verse 112:
text: This cupboard[…]
 this other one,
 His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode
 Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,
ref: 1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9–12:
text: It is full strange to him who hears and feels,
 When wandering there in some deserted street,
 The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels,[…]
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section IX:
text: I turned my head, and as I lay gasping in the throes of that awful struggle I could see that Leo was off the rock now, for the lamplight fell full upon him.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now,[…].
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
Derived terms: full-grown
full well
full
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͝ol
ipa: /fʊl/
ipa: [fʊɫ]
ipa: /fʉl/
homophone: fool (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: foal
rhymes: -ʊl
Forms: form: fulls
Etymology: From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.
Senses: examples: text: The swan's-down feather,
 That stands upon the swell at full of tide.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull,
 Are emblems, rather than express the full
 Of what he feels.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: I was fed to the full.
text: […] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
ref: 1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine:
text: Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his full at it during the night.
ref: 2008, Jay Cassell, The Gigantic Book Of Hunting Stories:
text: When he had eaten his full, they set to work again.
ref: 2010, C. E. Morgan, All the Living: A Novel:
glosses: Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
examples: text: It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: …
ref: a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322
text: a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219,
This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.
glosses: The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
raw_tags: of the moon
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A flip involving a complete turn in midair.
qualifier: freestyle skiing
glosses: An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
Derived terms: at full
at the full
in full
to the full
double full
double full-full
full-double full
full-double full-full
full-full
full-full-full
lay-double full-full
lay-full
lay-full-full
full
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͝ol
ipa: /fʊl/
ipa: [fʊɫ]
ipa: /fʉl/
homophone: fool (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: foal
rhymes: -ʊl
Forms: form: fulls
form: fulling
form: fulled
form: fulled
Etymology: From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.
Senses: examples: text: The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
ref: 1888 September 20, “The Harvest Moon”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Apr 2013:
text: "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"
ref: 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 4, in The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation:
text: "The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"
ref: 1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 29, in The Story Of Waitstill Baxter:
glosses: To become full or wholly illuminated.
raw_tags: of the moon
full
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͝ol
ipa: /fʊl/
ipa: [fʊɫ]
ipa: /fʉl/
homophone: fool (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: foal
rhymes: -ʊl
Forms: form: fulls
form: fulling
form: fulled
form: fulled
Etymology: From Middle English fullen, fulwen (“to baptise”), from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from full- + *wīhan (later *wēon (“to make holy”)). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).
Senses: examples: text: And thy diſciples fulleden men in thy name, in forgiueneſſe of her ſinnes.
ref: 1610 October, John Foxe, “An Old Ancient Writing Intituled, The Praier and Complaint of the Ploughman”, in Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Vniuersall Historie of the Same. […], 6th edition, volume I, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC, book V, page 373, column 2:
glosses: To baptise.
Derived terms: fulling
full
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͝ol
ipa: /fʊl/
ipa: [fʊɫ]
ipa: /fʉl/
homophone: fool (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: foal
rhymes: -ʊl
Forms: form: fulls
form: fulling
form: fulled
form: fulled
Etymology: From Middle English fullen (“to full”), from Anglo-Norman fuller, fuler, Middle French foller, fouler, from Old French foler, fouler (“to tread, stamp, full”), from Medieval Latin fullāre, from Latin fullō (“a fuller”). Compare Old English fullian (“to full”).
Senses: synonyms: tuck
walk
waulk
glosses: To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.
Derived terms: fullage
fuller
fuller's earth
fulling mill
decrease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭkrēs'
ipa: /dɪˈkɹiːs/
enpr: dē'krēs
ipa: /ˈdiːkɹiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: decreases
form: decreasing
form: decreased
form: decreased
Etymology: From Middle English decresen, alteration of discresen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descreistre (French: décroître), from Latin decrescere.
Senses: examples: text: The quality of our products has decreased since the main designer left.
glosses: Of a quantity, to become smaller.
examples: text: Let's decrease the volume a little so we can hear each other talking.
glosses: To make (a quantity) smaller.
Synonyms: sense: become smaller
word: drop
word: fall
word: go down
english: rapidly
translation: rapidly
word: plummet
english: rapidly
translation: rapidly
word: plunge
word: reduce
word: shrink
word: sink
sense: make smaller
word: abate
word: cut
word: decrement
word: lower
word: decrease
word: diminish
word: lessen
Hyponyms: word: plummet
word: plunge
Derived terms: decreasable
decreasement
decreaser
decreasing function
decreasingly
decreasing term assurance
monotonic decreasing
nondecreasing
non-decreasing
redecrease
undecreased
undecreasing
Related terms: decretion
increase
decrease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭkrēs'
ipa: /dɪˈkɹiːs/
enpr: dē'krēs
ipa: /ˈdiːkɹiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: decreases
Etymology: From Middle English decresen, alteration of discresen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descreistre (French: décroître), from Latin decrescere.
Senses: examples: text: After six years of constant growth, the company reported a slight decrease in sales last year.
text: One research team has recorded Baishui’s decrease at about 27 meters per year over the last 10 years.
glosses: An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).
Synonyms: sense: amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased
word: cut
sense: amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased
word: decline
sense: amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased
word: decrement
sense: amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased
word: drop
sense: amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased
word: fall
sense: amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased
word: loss
sense: amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased
word: lowering
sense: amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased
word: reduction
sense: amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased
word: shrinkage
Derived terms: decreaseless
nondecrease
space
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spās
ipa: /speɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: spaces
form: spacing
form: spaced
form: spaced
Etymology: From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas et al., and spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”).
Senses: examples: text: But she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
glosses: To roam, walk, wander.
examples: text: Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.
text: The cities are evenly spaced.
glosses: To set some distance apart.
examples: text: This paragraph seems badly spaced.
glosses: To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
examples: text: My sprout, like I'm totally spaced over you and besides I like older women (arh-arh). I love you...
ref: 1986 August 16, “Happy Birthday Doo (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 5, page 13:
glosses: To space out (become distracted, lose focus).
examples: text: The captain spaced the traitors.
text: Sound effect of blow with blunt instrument, groan, and the unmistakable cycling of an air lock—Castor: "Sorry, folks. My assistant has just spaced Mr. Rudolf. […]"
ref: 1952, Robert A. Heinlein, The Rolling Stones:
text: A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will.
ref: 1995, J. Michael Straczynski, And Now for a Word (Babylon 5), season 2, episode 15, spoken by Dr. Stephen Franklin (Richard Biggs):
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To kill (someone) by ejection into outer space, usually without a space suit.
examples: text: He well remembered, when he was a junior officer, how the sight of a well dressed, impeccably neat commanding officer, no matter how long they had been spacing, maintained the enthusiasm, confidence and morale of the officers and men.
ref: 1947 January 23, Bernard I. Kahn, “Command”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 38, number 5:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To travel into and through outer space.
Derived terms: spaced
spaced-out
unspace
Related terms: espace
spacious
spatial
vacuum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæ.kjuːm/
ipa: /ˈvæ.kjuː.əm/
Forms: form: vacuums
form: vacuuming
form: vacuumed
form: vacuumed
form: vacuüm
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin vacuum (“vacuum”), a subsense of Classical Latin vacuum (“empty space”), a substantivised form of vacuus (“empty”); related to vacāre (“to be empty”).
Senses: examples: text: “Who in the world cleans an attic? That's like vacuuming a shed.”
ref: 2016, Janice M. Whiteaker, Run:
synonyms: word: hoover
glosses: To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
synonyms: word: to do the hoovering
word: to hoover
glosses: To use a vacuum cleaner.
examples: text: But the advantage of an auto-vacuumed database is that when B-tree pages are no longer needed, they are moved to the end of the database file and then the database file is truncated, thus returning the unused pages back to the filesystem.
ref: 2010, Ivan Litovski, Richard Maynard, Inside Symbian SQL: A Mobile Developer's Guide to SQLite, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 337:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.
plenum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpliːnəm/
ipa: /ˈplɛnəm/
rhymes: -iːnəm
rhymes: -ɛnəm
Forms: form: plenums
form: plena
Etymology: From Latin plēnum, noun use of neuter of plēnus (“full”). The sense of "legislative meeting" is a semantic loan from Russian пле́нум (plénum, “plenary session”), from the same Latin source.
Senses: examples: text: The idea was that a thing could only move into an empty place, and that, in a plenum, there are no empty places.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy:
text: The key to understanding medieval interpretations of motion in hypothetically void space is to realize that medieval natural philosophers analyzed the same bodies in the void that they discussed in the plenum of their ordinary world.
ref: 2001, Edward Grant, God and Reason in the Middle Ages, page 176:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A space that is completely filled with matter.
examples: text: He lay on the long stone slant down to the slapping waves, his denim shorts, sneakers, and socks under his head for a pillow, feeling the splendour of distance in all directions, the liquid silence, the plenum of aloneness.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something).
glosses: A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present.
glosses: An enclosed space having greater than atmospheric pressure.
glosses: The space above a false ceiling used for cables, ducts etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of network cabling which satisfies plenum-ratings issued by the National Electrical Code. These cables produce less smoke and fumes in the event of fire.
Derived terms: nonplenum
plenum chamber
Related terms: plenary
in pleno