cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹiː/
ipa: /skɹi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: screes
form: screeing
form: screed
form: screed
Etymology: A variant of screed.
Senses: examples: text: The crushing and screeing equipment owned by the TVA was transferred from job to job, and the availability of this equipment was one of the factors in determining who would produce the aggregate.
ref: 1948, United States Tennessee Valley Authority, Concrete Production and Control: Tennessee Valley Authority Projects (Technical Report (Tennessee Valley Authority); no. 21), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 44:
text: Sequence of Construction – Circular Dog Kennel. […] Pour concrete. Use a straight 1-inch pipe about 12 feet long to scree each section. Extra help should be on hand to get screeing done. […] Specify a concrete mix that will not harden before screeing can be completed; do not order more concrete than can be property screed at one time; […]
ref: 1974 September, “For the Dogs”, in Duane Raver, editor, Wildlife in North Carolina, volume XXXVIII, number 9, Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:
text: He was a stupid sonofabitch who didn't scree the concrete enough, his corner post was an eighth of an inch out of plumb, and what asshole set these louvers upside down?
ref: 1999, Maxine Kumin, chapter VII, in Quit Monks or Die!: A Novel, Ashland, Or.: Story Line Press, →ISBN, page 44:
text: The sand bed is screed in preparation for laying the precast paving.
ref: 1999, Theodore Osmundson, Roof Gardens: History, Design, and Construction, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: To flatten or level concrete while still wet, and remove protruding gravel and stones from the surface.
scree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹiː/
ipa: /skɹi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: screes
Etymology: Apparently from screen.
Senses: examples: text: A contract of lease was entered into between the pursuer, who is the proprietor of the estate of Bargaddie, on the one part, and William M'Creath and others, carrying on business under the firm of the Bargaddie Coal Company, on the other part, […] and the lessees becoming bound to pay to the pursuer the sum of £500 sterling of fixed yearly rent, or, in his option, a lordship of 5½d. per cart of the gross output of coals, such cart weighing 13 cwt., and the coals being riddled through a riddle or scree of the customary size.
ref: 1859 March 15, John Lorimer, William E[llis] Gloag, James Paterson, “The Bargaddie of Bartonshill Coal Company (Robert Paterson, J. B. Neilson, &c.), Appellants, v. Robert Wark, Respondent”, in Geo[rge] Dingwall Fordyce, editor, The Scottish Jurist: Being Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, volume XXXI, Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co. and all booksellers, →OCLC, page 324, column 1:
glosses: A coarse sieve.
Related terms: skree
bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑndz/
ipa: /bɒndz/
rhymes: -ɑndz
rhymes: -ɒndz
Senses: glosses: plural of bond
bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑndz/
ipa: /bɒndz/
rhymes: -ɑndz
rhymes: -ɒndz
Senses: glosses: imprisonment, captivity
glosses: the condition of goods in a bonded warehouse until duty is paid
bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑndz/
ipa: /bɒndz/
rhymes: -ɑndz
rhymes: -ɒndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bond
screeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: screeves
form: screeving
form: screeved
form: screeved
Etymology: In view of the slang nature of the term, probably from Polari screeve (“write”), from Irish scríobh, eventually from Latin scrībō (“write”). Doublet of shrive.
Senses: glosses: To write.
glosses: To draw with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
glosses: To write begging letters.
screeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: screeves
Etymology: In view of the slang nature of the term, probably from Polari screeve (“write”), from Irish scríobh, eventually from Latin scrībō (“write”). Doublet of shrive.
Senses: glosses: A begging letter.
screeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: screeves
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian მწკრივი (mc̣ḳrivi, “row, series”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Georgian grammar, a combination of tense, aspect and mood.
backing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.ɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Forms: form: backings
Etymology: From back + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It's a volunteer organization that works with backing from the city and a few grants.
glosses: Support, especially financial.
examples: text: The cardboard backing gives the notebook a little extra stiffness.
text: An old print was discovered some time ago in an arch at Waterloo Dock Goods Station[,] Liverpool, in use as a backing on which to write time sheets.
ref: 1957 August 24, “Notes and News: Tithebarn Street Station, Liverpool”, in Railway Magazine, page 589:
text: In general, the locomotives are painted dark green; the numberplates are brass, with a red backing, and are usually carried on the tank side.
ref: 1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 495:
glosses: A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
examples: text: The simplest and cheapest answer is to introduce a scenic backing of some kind, a backdrop, a drape, some flats to restrict the shot and obscure whatever is outside.
ref: 2013, Gerald Millerson, TV Scenic Design, page 134:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A backdrop.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
glosses: The mounting of a horse or other animal.
glosses: The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
Derived terms: linebacking
sealant backing
backing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.ɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Etymology: From back + -ing.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Providing support for the main performer.
Derived terms: backing band
backing track
backing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.ɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Etymology: From back + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back
scratched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Forms: form: more scratched
form: most scratched
Senses: examples: text: My Lord, my thanks; but theſe ſcratcht limbs of mine have ſpoke my love and truth unto my friends, more than my tongue ere could: my mind's the ſame it ever was to you; where I find worth, I love the keeper, till he let it go, And then I follow it.
ref: c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
glosses: Produced by scratching.
scratched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scratch
scission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪ.ʒən/
ipa: /ˈsɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: scissions
Etymology: Via Middle English and Old French, from Late Latin scissio, scissionem, from Latin scindere.
Senses: examples: text: The resulting delamination of the two lipid monolayers causes a “lens” to form, the further growth of which creates a spherical droplet that is then released by scission at the neck.
ref: 2012, Harvey Lodish, Arnold Berk, Chris A. Kaiser, Loose-leaf Version for Molecular Cell Biology, page 455:
glosses: The act of division, separation, cutting, cleaving, or severing; cleavage.
casting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kăstʹĭng
ipa: /ˈkæstɪŋ/
enpr: kästʹĭng
ipa: /ˈkɑːstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkastɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɛəstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑːstɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English castynge, castand, equivalent to cast + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cast
casting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăstʹĭng
ipa: /ˈkæstɪŋ/
enpr: kästʹĭng
ipa: /ˈkɑːstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkastɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɛəstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑːstɪŋ
Forms: form: castings
Etymology: From Middle English castyng, castinge, equivalent to cast + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.
glosses: A manufacturing process using a mold.
examples: text: The practice of casting steel seems the most difficult of all the foundry arts, for despite every care, a percentage of the work is liable to be faulty and disappointing, but at Crewe, generally, a very good class of casting was turned out.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
glosses: An object made in a mold.
examples: text: “What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyasse with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow, by the mass? and thou hast neglected its castings also for these two days.[…]”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.^([W])
glosses: The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The act of converting between data types.
examples: text: "The dogs were no sooner let loose, than the hare was afoot. This time there was no stopping or casting, but the hounds were soon in full cry, and after half-an-hour's run, the hare came dancing down the moor towards me."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Of hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.
Synonyms: sense: selection of performers
word: audition
Derived terms: baitcasting
casting agent
casting call
casting-couch
casting couch
casting net
casting-net
casting vote
casting weight
central casting
die casting
die-casting
diecasting
gigacasting
investment casting
leafcasting
leaf casting
leaf-casting
lifecasting
linecasting
lost-wax casting
megacasting
out of central casting
ray casting
rheocasting
robocasting
runecasting
shadowcasting
slipcasting
spellcasting
stunt casting
surf-casting
surf casting
bonding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒndɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bond
bonding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒndɪŋ
Forms: form: bondings
Senses: examples: text: A systems view of reality allows one to see that it is made of successive layers of bonded elements, each layer with properties emergent from the previous one: atoms are particular bondings of more elementary particles[…]
ref: 1998, Walter Frederick Buckley, Society - a Complex Adaptive System: Essays in Social Theory:
glosses: The act by which something is bonded or joined together.
glosses: A relationship between a parent and offspring that establishes the basis for an ongoing mutual attachment.
examples: text: a work bonding session
text: sibling bonding
glosses: A close friendship that develops between adults, often as a result of intense experiences, as those shared in military combat.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A method of aggregating multiple network interfaces on a computer into a single logical interface
glosses: An arrangement by which goods remain in the customs warehouses until the duties are paid.
Derived terms: antibonding
bonding jumper
bonding orbital
bonding protocol
cross-bonding
hydrogen-bonding
nonbonding
pair bonding
prebonding
generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn(ə)ɹəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of general
generals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn(ə)ɹəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of general
debts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: plural of debt
defended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Forms: form: more defended
form: most defended
Etymology: From defend + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: For example, in the boreal forest where browsing by hares in winter is an important source of mortality, the juvenile-phase is more defended chemically against browsing by hares in winter than is the conspecific mature-phase (Table 2).
ref: 1991, R. Thomas Palo, Charles T. Robbins, Plant Defenses Against Mammalian Herbivory, page 89:
text: This result corroborates the Hypothesis 2 that the less defended fast-growing species can be replaced over time by more defended slower-growing species.
ref: 2018, Zhilan Feng, Donald DeAngelis, Mathematical Models of Plant-Herbivore Interactions, page 68:
text: Understandably, the more extreme the condition, the more defended the family and professionals can be.
ref: 2018, Dorothy Judd, Give Sorrow Words: Working with a Dying Child, page 1976:
glosses: Having defenses.
examples: text: If this simpler procedure were adopted in a defended case the cost would be about 29l. if counsel were employed, and about 27l. if no counsel or solicitor were employed.
ref: 1910 March 29, “Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes”, in Reports from Commissioners, Inspectors, and Others, volume 18, page 476:
text: But only in less than 5% there was a court order in a defended case (Müller-Alten, 1984).
ref: 1993, Jeremy McBride, Claude Samson, Alternative dispute resolution, page 554:
text: The Court of Appeal used the case to make a strong call for the removal of fault-based grounds, arguably at the expense of deciding in Mrs Owens' favour, and openly acknowledged that a lower threshold for behaviour is used in undefended cases scrutinised by a legal adviser at a divorce centre rather than a judge in a court in a defended case.
ref: 2018, Ruth Lamont, Family Law, page 113:
topics: law
glosses: In which the defendant responds to the allegations made against them, typically by filing a defense or counterclaim in court.
Derived terms: overdefended
undefended
defended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Etymology: From defend + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defend
monkfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkfish
form: monkfishes
Etymology: From monk + fish.
Senses: examples: text: I’ve had the good luck to cook monkfish on both sides of the Atlantic. The European monkfish is Lophius piscatorius, while our western Atlantic brand is Lophius americanus.
ref: 2008 October 9, Mark Bittman, “Roasting Monkfish”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022:
glosses: Any large bottom-dwelling anglerfish of the genus Lophius, such as Lophius piscatorius, of the Atlantic, having a large head and mouth.
glosses: An angel shark, of the genus Squatina.
examples: text: [The] monkfish is preceded by the “monstre Leonin” and followed by the “monstre marinen habit d'Evesque” (de Monstro Leonino and de pisce Episcopi habitu respectively). The creature represented in these works is a hybrid: his round and tonsured ...
ref: 2017, Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature: Essays (Jeff Persels, Kendall Tarte, George Hoffmann), page 382
glosses: A sea monk (“folkloric creature”).
spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒts/
ipa: /spɑts/
rhymes: -ɒts
rhymes: -ɑts
Senses: glosses: plural of spot
spots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒts/
ipa: /spɑts/
rhymes: -ɒts
rhymes: -ɑts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spot
defends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defend
defending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈfɛndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defend
defending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈfɛndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Forms: form: defendings
Senses: examples: text: […] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]
ref: 1857, London Quarterly Review, volume 7, page 498:
glosses: An act of defence.
Derived terms: defending zone
spotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spot
spotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spottings
Senses: examples: text: Symptoms consist of various foliage spottings and blotchings.
ref: 1954, Thomas H. Everett, The American Gardener's Book of Bulbs, page 161:
glosses: A spotted pattern.
examples: text: Although the NVA went to great lengths to conceal the locations of their artillery, they had to expose them at the time of firing. Less reliable than visual spottings were electronic intercepts […]
ref: 2009, “Close Air Support and the Battle for Khe Sanh”, in Marine Corps, US, page 100:
glosses: The act of spotting or sighting something.
examples: text: Subchorionic bleeding […] can cause light to heavy spotting but doesn't always (sometimes it is only detected during a routine ultrasound).
ref: 2008, Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel, What to Expect When You're Expecting: 4th Edition, page 138:
glosses: Vaginal spotting, the discharge of blood from the vagina at a time outside of one's usual menses.
Derived terms: aircraft spotting
bus spotting
oil spotting
spotting scope
talent-spotting
trainspotting
stod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stød.
overdraught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdraughts
Etymology: From over- + draught.
Senses: glosses: An overdraft.
scintillating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪntɪˈleɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌsɪntəˈleɪtɪŋ/
Etymology: From scintillate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scintillate.
scintillating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪntɪˈleɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌsɪntəˈleɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: more scintillating
form: most scintillating
Etymology: From scintillate + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: On the scintillating water yellow and blue boats bobbed up and down.
ref: 1994, Edward St Aubyn, Bad News, Picador, published 2006, page 147:
text: They sank me into the ocean / Wishing me to remain in the depths. / I became a deep sea diver / And came up covered with scintillating pearls.
ref: 2012 October 13, quoting Nguyen Chi Thien, “Nguyen Chi Thien: Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese poet, died on October 2nd, aged 73”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 13 October 2012
glosses: That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling.
examples: text: Her sketches and tales may be said to be cleverly written. They are lively, easy, conventional, scintillating with a species of sarcastic wit, which might be termed good were it in any respect original.
ref: 1864, Edgar Allan Poe, The Literati of New York - No. II - Anna Cora Mowatt:
text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: For the last thirteen months, Beatles cofounder John Lennon has been Liverpool's darling. He can do no wrong. His group's music is scintillating. His public demeanor has been exemplary. He is a credit to our city, to rock 'n' roll musicians, and to the undead.
ref: 1964 March 24, Irvine Paris, “John Lennon in His Own Wrong: Farcical Poetry or Poetical Farce?”, in The Liverpool Herald:
text: The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break – left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up.
ref: 2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1–2 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2016:
text: A scintillating example of where the cultural politics of iconoclasm and of representation coincide, in the Hellenistic world, is offered by an inscription of the fourth century BCE from Delphi.
ref: 2012, Jaś Elsner, “Iconoclasm as Discourse: From Antiquity to Byzantium”, in The Art Bulletin, volume 94, number 3, pages 368-394:
text: Lots of people are looking for something scintillating and new and not finding it.
ref: 2022 August 29, Michelle Goldberg, “The Book That Explains Our Cultural Stagnation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty.
Derived terms: scintillatingly
scintillatingness
mudskipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdˌskɪpɚ/
Forms: form: mudskippers
Etymology: From mud + skipper.
Senses: glosses: Any of various gobies of the subfamily Oxudercinae that are able to survive out of water by breathing through their skins and having strong pectoral fins that act as simple legs.
schooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskuːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
Forms: form: schoolings
Senses: glosses: Training or instruction.
examples: text: I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
text: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
ref: 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
glosses: Institutional education; attendance of school.
topics: dressage
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: The training of a horse at dressage.
examples: text: He gave his son a good schooling.
text: […] I thought the schooling as severe as the case merited, […]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 295:
glosses: Discipline; reproof; reprimand.
glosses: Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
Derived terms: flexi-schooling
homeschooling
schooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskuːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of school
burh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burhs
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English burh. Doublet of borough, burg, burgh, and bury.
Senses: glosses: A fortified dwelling place belonging to a king or noble; a prehistoric fort.
schnapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃnæpɚ/
ipa: /ˈʃnæpə/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: schnappers
Etymology: Alteration of snapper, influenced by German Schnapper. Attested from the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: An Australasian fish, Chrysophrys guttulatus or C. auratus; the porgy or snapper.
porbeagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porbeagles
Etymology: Unclear, but likely from Cornish porth (“harbor”) + bugel (“shepherd”), with the latter element either influenced by English beagle or in fact formed from it, with only the first element truly being from Cornish.
Senses: examples: text: In English waters, the porbeagle is considered the premier shark to catch, but in other parts of the world it is considered a nuisance, or at best a poor substitute for its more glamorous relative, the mako.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: A large pelagic predatory shark, Lamna nasus, of the Atlantic.
sceptre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛptə/
ipa: /ˈsɛptɚ/
Forms: form: sceptres
form: scepter
Etymology: From Middle English septre, sceptre, from Old French sceptre, from Latin scēptrum, from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron, “staff, stick, baton”), from σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop, to support, to lean upon a staff”).
Senses: examples: text: “Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.”
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 11:
text: To the fleet he came / Bearing rich ranſom glorious to redeem / His daughter, and his hands charged with the wreath / And golden ſceptre of the God shaft-arm’d.
ref: 1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book I.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: But what had occupied him most was the robe he was to wear at his coronation, the robe of tissued gold, and the ruby-studded crown, and the sceptre with its rows and rings of pearls.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, “The Young King”, in A House of Pomegranates, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine & Co […], →OCLC, page 6:
synonyms: golden wand
royal wand
glosses: An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.
Derived terms: meat sceptre
was-sceptre
sceptre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛptə/
ipa: /ˈsɛptɚ/
Forms: form: sceptres
form: sceptring
form: sceptred
form: sceptred
form: scepter
Etymology: From Middle English septre, sceptre, from Old French sceptre, from Latin scēptrum, from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron, “staff, stick, baton”), from σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop, to support, to lean upon a staff”).
Senses: examples: text: To Britain's queen the sceptred suppliant bends.
ref: 1713, Thomas Tickell, On the Prospect of Peace:
glosses: To give a sceptre to.
glosses: To invest with royal power.
scepter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scepters
Senses: examples: text: Edwards great linage by the mothers ſide,
 Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the ſcepter vp,
ref: 1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: American and archaic form of sceptre.
scepter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scepters
form: sceptering
form: sceptered
form: sceptered
Senses: glosses: American form of sceptre.
burg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burgs
Etymology: The historical sense is from Late Latin burgus, from Frankish *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“borough, fortification”). Doublet of borough, Brough, burgh, burh, and bury. Also compare burgess.
The modern sense may have been formed in part by analogy with the many North American city names that are suffixed with -burg (a number of which in the Eastern United States once used -burgh instead. See burgh), as well as being formed in part due to German Burg.
Senses: examples: text: Tell mother that I will write her in a day or two, probably from Chicago, as I have always had an idea that that was one burg where I could make good.
ref: 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:
text: Imagine my surprise when I learned that he was not only a Canadian but lived in Ottawa, that icy burg I had left so many kilometers -- sorry, miles -- behind me.
ref: 2009 June, David Thriault, “This Way In: The Sound and the Fury”, in Esquire, volume 151, number 6, page 6:
text: It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills.
ref: 2010 Feb, Paige Orloff, “Big Style on a (Little) Budget”, in Country Living, volume 33, number 2, page 84:
glosses: A city or town.
glosses: A fortified town in medieval Europe.
Derived terms: burgage
burgish
Related terms: burgher
burghermaster
burgomaster
burgrave
burg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burgs
Senses: examples: text: I hate this emptiness and the redundancy of eating burgs at Burger Town.
ref: 2002, Ricard Marx Weinraub, Wonder Bread Hill, page 6:
glosses: burger
whale shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whale sharks
Senses: examples: text: The largest fish in the world is a shark. It is a harmless plankton eater, and its name, whale shark has been confusing people for years.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: A very large spotted shark, Rhincodon typus, of warm marine waters, similar to a whale, that feeds by filtering plankton from the water.
great white shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great white sharks
Senses: synonyms: great white
white pointer
white shark
glosses: A large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of coastal surface waters in all major oceans that feeds on fish and marine mammals.
basking shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basking sharks
Senses: examples: text: Like the whale shark, the basking shark is a huge, slow-moving plankton feeder. Also like the whale shark, the basking shark is the sole member of a family created especially to accommodate it.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: A very large shark, Cetorhinus maximus, that feeds at or close to the surface by filtering plankton from the water and is found in all the world's temperate oceans.
mako shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mako sharks
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori makō (“shark”), a Southern Maori dialect form of the more standard mangō (“shark”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Aguedo fell through the floor into what we call the shark pool. We call it that because it is a pool filled with sharks. Mako sharks, to be precise.’
ref: 2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 101:
glosses: Either of two powerful mackerel sharks of the genus Isurus, having a large heavy body, a sharp nose and a nearly symmetrical tail, found in southern oceans.
glaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glaires
Senses: examples: text: When glairing in grained leathers such as Morocco a froth has a tendency to form; this can be dissipated by adding a spot or two of milk to an eggcup full of glaire.
ref: 1912, J. Leonard Monk, W. F. Lawrence, A Text Book of Stationery Binding: A Treatise on the Whole Art of Forwarding and Finishing Stationery Books: […], Raithby, Lawrence and Co., Ltd., page 79:
text: Unlike traditional egg glaires these are impervious to insect attack, and can be tooled long after application. BS glaire also keeps indefinitely, unlike egg glaire.
ref: 1985, Proceedings of the Symposium on Manuscripts in Southern Africa, 21-23 November 1984, South African Library, →ISBN, page 180:
text: You’ll also need glaire for gilding the edges, such as egg glaire or food-grade gelatin.
ref: 2004, Josep Cambras, The Complete Book of Bookbinding, Lark Books, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of glair.
gerefa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gerefas
Senses: glosses: A reeve or official with local jurisdiction under the king; the chief magistrate of a district.
sigmoidoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigmoidoscopies
Etymology: From sigmoid + -o- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Internal examination of the sigmoid colon
Derived terms: flexible sigmoidoscopy
rectosigmoidoscopy
chase tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chases tail
form: chasing tail
form: chased tail
form: chased tail
Senses: examples: text: Let's go out clubbing tonight and chase some tail.
glosses: To be on the hunt for a (usually sexual) partner.
Related terms: chase one's tail
Church of Rome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Church of Rome
Senses: glosses: The Roman Catholic Church.
Church of England
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Church of England
Senses: synonyms: C of E
glosses: The English branch of the Christian Church; (since the 16th century) specifically the established Protestant church in England which is the mother church of the Anglican Communion.
Derived terms: Church-of-Englandism
Related terms: Anglican Church
Anglo-Catholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglo-Catholics
Etymology: From Anglo- + Catholic.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Anglican Church whose practices emphasise continuity with Catholic tradition.
Anglo-Catholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anglo-Catholic
form: most Anglo-Catholic
Etymology: From Anglo- + Catholic.
Senses: examples: text: Ash-Wednesday is, in Spurr’s authoritative assessment, Eliot’s most Anglo-Catholic poem.
ref: 2014, John Whittier-Ferguson, Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature, →ISBN, page 216, n. 1:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of Anglo-Catholicism.
Related terms: Oxford movement
Bishop of Rome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: bishop of Rome
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
milk tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk teeth
form: milk-tooth
Etymology: Compound of milk + tooth.
Senses: synonyms: deciduous tooth
baby tooth
temporary tooth
primary tooth
glosses: Any tooth of the first set of teeth of young people (or animals).
socle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊkəl/
rhymes: -əʊkəl
Forms: form: socles
Etymology: From French socle, from Italian zoccolo (“wooden shoe”), from Latin socculus, diminutive of soccus (“sock”). Doublet of zoccolo.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other artwork.
topics: architecture
glosses: A plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: ring theory
glosses: The sum of the minimal normal submodules of a given R-module of a given ring R.
topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The subgroup generated by the minimal normal subgroups of a given group.
Synonyms: sense: a plinth or pedestal
word: zocco
sense: a plinth or pedestal
word: zocle
love seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love seats
form: loveseat
form: love-seat
Senses: examples: text: A carafe of tea and a plate of oatmeal cookies were on a small mahogany table in front of a pink and lime green plaid loveseat.
ref: 2007, Nora Charles, Death Rides the Surf, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: “Sit over there,” she added, pointing to a sage loveseat, matching chair and two chocolate-hued, cube-shaped ottomans.
ref: 2015, Bonita Thompson, The New Middle, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20:
synonyms: word: tête-à-tête
word: two-seater settee
glosses: A small sofa for two people.
loveseat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loveseats
Etymology: From love + seat.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of love seat.
withing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of withe
Meredith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹɛdɪθ/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹədɪθ/
Forms: form: Merediths
form: Merrihew
Etymology: From Welsh Maredudd (“great lord”).
Senses: examples: text: What was his name now? Literary sort of name - I've got it. Meredith. Meredith Blake. Don't know whether he's alive or not.
ref: 1942, Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs, HarperCollins, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: A male given name from Welsh.
examples: text: "What did I hear you say her name was?"
"Meredith. Mary and Edith. Names from both sides of the family."
"Meredith," he repeated softly. "I like it."
ref: 2004, Jo Goodman, Forever In My Heart, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 412:
text: Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer).
ref: 2025 March 26, Jordan Valinsky, “Chili’s is opening a retro restaurant in Scranton that celebrates ‘The Office’”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2025:
glosses: A female given name from Welsh; sometimes mistaken for a combination of Mary and Edith.
glosses: A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pitkin County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Cloud County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Clare County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Belknap County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Delaware County, New York, named after Samuel Meredith.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Wake County, North Carolina, mostly occupied by portions of Raleigh.
glosses: A town in the City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Meredithian
Related terms: Meridith
Merida
saag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saags
form: sag
Etymology: From Hindi साग (sāg).
Senses: glosses: An Indian dish made from greens (usually spinach) cooked down to a thick paste.
sati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suttee.
peaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pēkt
ipa: /piːkt/
ipa: /ˈpiːkɪd/
rhymes: -iːkt
rhymes: -iːkɪd
homophone: piqued
homophone: peeked
Forms: form: more peaked
form: most peaked
form: peakèd
Etymology: See peak.
Senses: examples: text: The wizard wore a peaked cap.
glosses: Having a peak or peaks.
Derived terms: multipeaked
nonpeaked
peakedness
peaked roof
peakon
unpeaked
peaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pēkt
ipa: /piːkt/
ipa: /ˈpiːkɪd/
rhymes: -iːkt
rhymes: -iːkɪd
homophone: piqued
homophone: peeked
enpr: pēkt
ipa: /piːkt/
ipa: /ˈpiːkɪd/
rhymes: -iːkt
rhymes: -iːkɪd
homophone: piqued
homophone: peeked
Forms: form: more peaked
form: most peaked
form: peakèd
form: pekid
Etymology: See peak (Etymology 2).
Senses: examples: 2000, Toshio Mori and Lawson Fusao Inada, Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori, p. 149,
She looked peaked and tired ever since he had volunteered for the army.
2001, Fred C. Feddeck, Hale Men of Fordham: Hail!, p. 17,
While Nixon looked peaked throughout the debate, Kennedy looked like a poised diplomat oozing confidence.
2004, Don Ecker, Past Sins, p. 276,
Peck looked peaked to Williams. He was pale and appeared to be breathing in shallow gasps.
glosses: Sickly-looking, peaky.
peaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pēkt
ipa: /piːkt/
ipa: /ˈpiːkɪd/
rhymes: -iːkt
rhymes: -iːkɪd
homophone: piqued
homophone: peeked
homophone: peeked
homophone: piqued
enpr: pēkt
ipa: /piːkt/
ipa: /ˈpiːkɪd/
rhymes: -iːkt
rhymes: -iːkɪd
homophone: piqued
homophone: peeked
Etymology: See peak.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peak
saggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: saggier
form: saggiest
Etymology: From sag + -y.
Senses: glosses: Baggy or loose-fitting.
examples: text: saggy boobs
text: saggy skin
glosses: That sinks or droops from wear or its own weight.
Synonyms: sense: of clothing
word: loose
word: loose-fitting
Derived terms: saggily
sagginess
saggy trousers
saleswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saleswomen
Etymology: From sales + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: The task was a novel and not unwholly congenial one, but he finally got the attention of a saleswoman and made his wishes known.
ref: 1911, Harper's Magazine:
text: We stop walking a second and look around at the spectacle before us. There's something Felliniesque about a department store cosmetics section. You stand here on a Saturday morning, dressed in the standard mall-casual suburban wardrobe, gazing at a chamber glittering with chandeliers, populated by saleswomen wearing makeup and hair dramatic enough for opening night at La Scala.
ref: 2004, Paco Underhill, Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping by the Author of Why We Buy:
glosses: A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
Synonyms: saleslady
Hypernyms: salesperson
seller
vendor
Coordinate terms: salesman
salesperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salespersons
form: salespeople
form: sales person
Etymology: Compound of sales + person.
Senses: examples: text: When I was a child, salespeople were usually stationed behind a counter in any given department. […] Having searched in vain for an item and finding a salesperson to ask if the store has it, more often than not you are greeted with, "Do you see it? Then we don't have it."
ref: 1983 May 15, Linda Dyer, “A CUSTOMER'S RIGHTS”, in The New York Times:
text: Thus despite sex-typing at Macy's and Target—the placing of salespersons in like-gendered departments and women more often in interactive roles that paid less—women were not much more class-conscious than men.
ref: 2016, Peter Ikeler, Hard Sell, page 179:
synonyms: seller
vendor
glosses: A person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.
Hyponyms: word: counterjumper
word: salesman
word: saleswoman
Derived terms: salespersonship
telesalesperson
Related terms: sales clerk
sales representative
sacristy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsækɹɪsti/
Forms: form: sacristies
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman sacrestie, from Medieval Latin sacristia.
Senses: glosses: A room in a church where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc. are kept. Sometimes also used by clergy to prepare for worship or for meetings.
Synonyms: vestry
sacristan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsækɹɪstən/
Forms: form: sacristans
Etymology: From French sacristain, Late Latin sacrista, from Latin sacer. Doublet of sexton.
Senses: examples: text: And hence the custom and law began
That still at dawn the sacristan,
Who duly pulls the heavy bell,
Five and forty beads must tell
Between each stroke
ref: 1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: […] every evening as the temple was closed for the night the sacristan paused: "Pindar to supper with the god!" he cried.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 32:
text: The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.
ref: 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 10, in Friday's Business:
glosses: The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
Related terms: sacrist
sacristry
sacristy
sapiens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapiens
form: sapientes
Etymology: From translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).
Senses: examples: text: The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.
ref: 2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies, page 277:
text: Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated.
ref: 2005, Sherwood L. Washburn, Classification and Human Evolution, page 335:
glosses: A human being (Homo sapiens).
sandal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsændəl/
rhymes: -ændəl
Forms: form: sandals
Etymology: From Middle English sandal (“sandal”), from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion), diminutive of σάνδαλον (sándalon, “sandal”), of unknown origin. Often mistakenly parsed as related to sand.
Senses: qualifier: footwear
glosses: A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot
Hyponyms: flip-flop
jandal
thong
Derived terms: beach sandal
sword and sandal
toey as a Roman sandal
sandal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsændəl/
rhymes: -ændəl
Etymology: From Middle English sandal (“sandalwood”), from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cndl /⁠čandal⁠/, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”). Doublet of santalum.
Senses: examples: text: And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal, amber, ancient rosaries[…]
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: sandalwood
sandal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsændəl/
rhymes: -ændəl
Forms: form: sandals
Etymology: From Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), the same word as the shoe sandal, just applied for boats of the shape of this shoe.
Senses: glosses: A long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.
disenchant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsɪnˈtʃɑːnt/
ipa: /ˌdɪsɪnˈtʃænt/
ipa: /ˌdɪsɪnˈt͡ʃænt/
Forms: form: disenchants
form: disenchanting
form: disenchanted
form: disenchanted
Etymology: From Middle French desenchanter, equivalent to dis- + enchant.
Senses: glosses: To free from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: To disappoint.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: To remove a spell or magic enchantment from.
raw_tags: of a thing
Derived terms: disenchanter
disenchanted
disenchantingly
disenchantment
truism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truisms
form: trueism
Etymology: From true + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It is a truism that the people who attend a rally for President Trump more than two years before he’s on the ballot again are generally strong supporters of President Trump.
ref: 2018 August 3, Philip Bump, “There’s a virus in Trumpland”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2021:
text: The phrase If something exists, there is porn of it used to be a clever internet meme; now it’s a truism.
ref: 2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2018:
synonyms: lapalissade
platitude#English:_truism
glosses: A self-evident or obvious truth.
examples: text: After a little decent sorrow had been put forth for the late "severe affliction," joined with some weariful truisms about resignation to the will of Providence, the rest of the epistle was filled up with reproofs about her ladyship's extraordinary and improper conduct in setting off without his consent!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Remembrance of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 321:
synonyms: word: platitude#English:_hackneyed saying
word: byword
word: saying
word: adage
word: saw
word: proverb
word: maxim
word: apothegm
word: apophthegm
word: dictum
word: gnome
word: gnomic saying
word: mantra
word: paroemia
glosses: A banality or cliché.
Derived terms: truismatic
foule mudammas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ful medames.
boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bäksĭz
ipa: /ˈbɑksɪz/
ipa: /ˈbɒksɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of box
boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bäksĭz
ipa: /ˈbɑksɪz/
ipa: /ˈbɒksɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of box