cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: tacks
form: tacking
form: tacked
form: tacked
Etymology: From Middle English takken (“to attach; nail”), from the noun (see above).
Senses: glosses: To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
glosses: To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
synonyms: tack weld#Verb
glosses: To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: change tack
antonyms: wear
coordinate_terms: sail close to the wind#English:_literal
glosses: To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: beat
antonyms: run
glosses: To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
examples: text: to tack (something) onto (something)
text: In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 312:
glosses: To add something as an extra item.
glosses: Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
synonyms: word: tack up
extra: to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack
glosses: To join in wedlock.
Derived terms: short-tack
tack about
tack down
tack together
tack up
Related terms: tacky
Blu-Tack
tack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: tacks
Etymology: From an old or dialectal form of French tache. See techy. Doublet of tache.
Senses: glosses: A stain; a tache.
examples: a musty tack
glosses: A peculiar flavour or taint.
tack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæk/
rhymes: -æk
Etymology: Back-formation from tacky.
Senses: examples: text: For souvenirs – mostly outright tack and ethnicky textiles – try your bargaining skills at the shops and stalls on Binjiang Luand Zhengyang Jie, or the nightly street market spreading for about a block either side of Shanhu Bridge along Zhongshan Lu.
ref: 2014, David Leffman, The Rough Guide to China:
glosses: That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
tack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: tacks
Etymology: From Middle English tak, take (“fee, tax (on livestock)”), from Old Norse tak, taka (“a taking, seizure; revenue”), from Old Norse taka (“to take”). Cognate with Scots tack.
Senses: examples: text: In the Breadalbane papers, for example, there is a "tack" which was given by Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy to his "weil belouit" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour, in the year 1530.
ref: 1885, Lord Colin Campbell, The Crofter in History:
topics: law
glosses: A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
Related terms: tick tack
tick-tack
tick-tack-toe
jag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jăg
ipa: /d͡ʒæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: jags
Etymology: The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam and rag.
The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.
Senses: examples: text: garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles
ref: 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:
text: The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 323–7:
text: The especial beauty of London is the Thames, and the Thames is so wonderful because the mist is always changing its shapes and colours, always making its light mysterious, and building palaces of cloud out of mere Parliament Houses with their jags and turrets.
ref: 1909, Arthur Symons, London: A Book of Aspects, self-published, page 3:
text: Even if you hadn’t been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against the countless jags of rock.
ref: 1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 16, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: A sharp projection.
examples: text: some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited
ref: 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:
text: I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
ref: 1855, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass, page 56:
glosses: A part broken off; a fragment.
glosses: A flap, a tear in a clothing
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A cleft or division.
glosses: A medical injection, a jab.
glosses: A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
glosses: Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).
Derived terms: jag bolt
jagged
jagger
jagless
jag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jăg
ipa: /d͡ʒæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: jags
form: jagging
form: jagged
form: jagged
Etymology: The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam and rag.
The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.
Senses: glosses: To cut unevenly.
glosses: To tease.
Derived terms: jag off
jag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jăg
ipa: /d͡ʒæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: jags
Etymology: Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
examples: text: Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag.
ref: 1919 August, P. G. Wodehouse, “Prohibition and the Drama”, in Vanity Fair, page 21:
text: ‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 88:
glosses: A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
examples: text: Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).
ref: 1985, Peter De Vries, chapter 9, in The Prick of Noon, Penguin, page 165:
text: Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]
ref: 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon & Schuster, published 2007, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 396:
glosses: A fit, spell, outburst.
glosses: A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
glosses: A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
Derived terms: get a jag on
have a jag on
Related terms: Jag
JAG
ni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of noun inanimate.
Related terms: na
nad
nid
Fand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfænd/
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A fairy and the wife of Manannán mac Lir and later the lover of Cúchulainn.
hold a candle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hōld′ ə kăn′dəl
ipa: /ˌhəʊ̯ld ə ˈkan.dəl/
note: conservative
ipa: /ˌhəʊ̯ld ə ˈkæn.dəl/
ipa: /ˌhoʊ̯ld ə ˈkæn.dəl/
ipa: /ˌhəʉ̯ld ə ˈkæn.dəl/
ipa: /ˌhɐʉ̯ld ə ˈkɛn.dəl/
ipa: /ˌhold ə ˈkan.dəl/
ipa: /ˌhoːlɖ a ˈkan.ɖel/
Forms: form: holds a candle
form: holding a candle
form: held a candle
form: held a candle
Etymology: From the custom of apprentices to a master holding a candle so that the master could see more clearly. The negative version implies that a person who was not fit even for such a simple task was worthless.
Senses: examples: text: The old computer just doesn't hold a candle to the latest models.
text: But not a soul in Flychett could hold a candle to Yeobright.
ref: 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, book I (The Three Women), page 105:
text: Old or young, I felt sure she could never at any time have holden a candle to that admirable lady, Alice Claiborne, now in some despite for her sake.
ref: 1901, William Henry Babcock, The Tower of Wye: A Romance, page 156:
text: "I know, dear, it is I," his thin wife answered with a meek smile. "I was beautiful, there was no doubt about it, when you married me."
"You were, my dear," agreed her husband: "As a girl few could hold a candle to you."
ref: 1908, Jerome K. Jerome, The Philosopher's Joke:
text: “[…]Speaking of pretty girls, my sister, Eileen, is a pretty girl. She is a downright beautiful girl.”
“Yes,” said Donald, “she is, but she can’t hold a candle to you. How did she look when she was your age?”
ref: 1921, Gene Stratton-Porter, Her Father's Daughter:
text: Thirty miles north of CosMc’s, the McDonald’s No 1 Store Museum once stood, a replica of the company’s stunning post-war sci fi Googie architecture that CosMc’s’ retro-details barely hold a candle to.
ref: 2023 December 14, Pearse Anderson, “‘Lonely, gray and being actively colonized by corporations’: we tried the McDonald’s spinoff, CosMc’s”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
info_templates: extra_data: words: to
expansion: [with to]
glosses: To compare; to be even remotely of the same quality, skill, etc. as another.
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: hold a candle for
hold a grudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds a grudge
form: holding a grudge
form: held a grudge
form: held a grudge
Senses: examples: text: That guy sure can hold a grudge when something goes wrong.
text: I made a mistake. That's not a good reason to hold a grudge against me.
text: Jürgen Klopp accused the referee Paul Tierney of holding a grudge against Liverpool and of speaking out of turn during his team’s thrilling stoppage‑time victory over Tottenham.
ref: 2023 April 30, Andy Hunter, “Jürgen Klopp accuses referee Paul Tierney of grudge after beating Spurs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: bear a grudge
glosses: To stay angry (at someone or something).
Related terms: resentment
jaguar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.jʊə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.juː.ə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.juː.ɑː/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.wɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.(j)u.ɑɹ/
other: /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.waɪɚ/
Forms: form: jaguars
Etymology: From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.
Senses: glosses: A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.
Derived terms: European jaguar
jagger
jaglion
jaguarlike
jaguarness
werejaguar
Related terms: jaguarundi
Panthera onca
ë
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An orthographic ⟨e⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the FACE vowel, as in the word "cafe".
hold water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds water
form: holding water
form: held water
form: held water
Etymology: Possibly from the King James Version of Jeremiah 2:13: “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”
Senses: examples: text: At the parlay, Tyrion also tries to claim Tywin’s murder was self-defense, which holds some water, and despite Jaime’s anger, I suspect he can see it from that side.
ref: 2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: "Young man," he said, "upon this point I can only say that your story is grossly improbable. It won't hold water."
ref: 1888, Horatio Alger, chapter 35, in The Errand Boy:
glosses: To withstand scrutiny or criticism; to be valid.
wikipedia: King James Version
Related terms: hold up
hold one's water
watertight
holding pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holding patterns
Senses: examples: text: The plane flew in a holding pattern for half an hour because one runway was closed.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A path taken by an aircraft waiting to land.
examples: text: This project is in a holding pattern until all the parts arrive.
text: All of Sellafield is in a holding pattern, trying to keep waste safe until it can be consigned to the ultimate strongroom: the geological disposal facility (GDF), bored hundreds of metres into the Earth’s rock, a project that could cost another £53bn.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Any failure to advance; useless or unproductive activity.
no holds barred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: no-holds-barred
Senses: examples: text: a no holds barred match
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: Without restrictions on holds or what opponents may do.
examples: text: a no holds barred debating style that quickly transformed into cheap shots and bickering
text: There isn’t much reason to be optimistic about thoughtful dialogue in this general election. Both sides are girded for a negative, no-holds-barred slugfest.
ref: 2016 May 8, Albert R. Hunt, “Trump and Clinton Campaigns Gear Up for a Slugfest”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Among them was Ryan Ferchaud, 37, a tourist from Memphis who mostly faulted groups of college students for what she said was their no-holds-barred attitude regarding the mayhem.
ref: 2021 March 22, Neil Vigdor, Michael Majchrowicz, Azi Paybarah, “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: “But the Russian doctrine of mass firing and no holds barred was visible in Chechnya, and there is the potential that Russia will get its act together tactically, and that will result in mass fire against population centers.”
ref: 2022 February 28, Steven Erlanger, quoting Douglas Lute, “After a Fumbled Start, Russian Forces Hit Harder in Ukraine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Having absolutely no limits or restrictions as far as the levels and nature of one's hostilities and offense; taking to an especially ruthless or vicious manner.
Related terms: all-in wrestling
boots and all
pull one's punches
hold it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds it
form: holding it
form: held it
form: held it
Senses: examples: text: Hold it. What did you say his name was?
synonyms: stop
hang on
hold up
glosses: Wait a minute; stop.
examples: text: Can't you hold it until the next gas station?
hyponyms: hold one's water
hold one's piss
hold it in
glosses: To wait to urinate or defecate despite present urgency.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, it.
Related terms: hold it in
tres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tres (“three”). Doublet of three and trey.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine.
Derived terms: tresero
Related terms: tres leches
tres-tine
tres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of tre
un
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'un.
un
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: uns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'un.
uno
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuː.noʊ/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈjuː.noʊ/
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁óynos
Learned borrowing from Spanish uno m (“one”, numeral).
Senses: qualifier: Uno
glosses: A term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw two cards.
Related terms: numero uno
uno ab alto
uno flatu
due
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /djuː/
enpr: dyo͞o
note: without the yod-coalescence
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /dʒuː/
enpr: jo͞o
note: yod-coalescence
note: yod-dropping
enpr: do͞o
ipa: /du/
note: yod-dropping
enpr: jo͞o
ipa: /dʒʉː/
ipa: /dju/
ipa: /dɪu̯/
note: more recent, yod-dropping
ipa: /du/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: dew
homophone: do
homophone: doo
homophone: doux
homophone: Doubs (yod-dropping)
homophone: Jew
homophone: jew (yod-coalescence)
Forms: form: more due
form: most due
Etymology: From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).
Senses: examples: text: The river runs due north for about a mile.
glosses: Directly; exactly.
raw_tags: used with compass directions
due
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /djuː/
enpr: dyo͞o
note: without the yod-coalescence
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /dʒuː/
enpr: jo͞o
note: yod-coalescence
note: yod-dropping
enpr: do͞o
ipa: /du/
note: yod-dropping
enpr: jo͞o
ipa: /dʒʉː/
ipa: /dju/
ipa: /dɪu̯/
note: more recent, yod-dropping
ipa: /du/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: dew
homophone: do
homophone: doo
homophone: doux
homophone: Doubs (yod-dropping)
homophone: Jew
homophone: jew (yod-coalescence)
Forms: form: dues
Etymology: From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).
Senses: examples: text: Give him his due – he is a good actor.
text: Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.
ref: 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:
text: Chelsea, to give them their due, did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.
ref: 2015 January 31, Daniel Taylor, “David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: Deserved acknowledgment.
glosses: A membership fee.
examples: text: He will give the devil his due.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, / Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, / Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; […]
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 8, page 184:
text: For I am but an earthly Muse,
⁠And owning but a little art
⁠To lull with song an aching heart,
And render human love his dues; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 57:
glosses: That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
examples: text: The key of this infernal pit by due […] I keep.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Right; just title or claim.
Hyponyms: light due
Derived terms: give someone his due
give the devil his due
tre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tres
Senses: examples: text: They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wᵗ nales and hammers, that it moue not.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of tree.
Related terms: tre corde
quatre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: quatres
form: cater
Etymology: Borrowed from French quatre. Doublet of cuatro and four.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly the firſt beſt throw upon the dice is eſteemed aces, as it ſtops the ſix point in the outer table, and ſecures the cinque in your own, whereby your adverſary's two men upon your ace point cannot get out with either quatre, cinq, or ſix.
ref: 1775, “a Connoisseur”, “Containing an Account of the Game of Back-gammon, with the most approved Method of playing at it, and the Rules of the Game. Together with the Artifices and Legerdemains that are frequently practised at it.”, in Annals of Gaming; or, The Fair Player’s Sure Guide. Containing Original Treatises on the following Games. […], London: […] G. Allen, […], pages 181–182:
text: The firſt beſt Throw upon the Dice is eſteemed Aces, as it ſtops the Six-Point in the outer Table, and ſecures the Cinque in your own, whereby your Adverſary’s two Men upon your Ace-Point cannot get out with either Quatre, Cinque, or Six.
ref: 1775, “Introduction to the Game of Back-Gammon; With the most approved Method of playing at it”, in Charles Jones, editor, Hoyle’s Games Improved. Being Practical Treatises on the following Fashionable Games, […], London: […] J. Rivington and J. Wilkie, […], page 170:
topics: card-games
dice
dominoes
games
glosses: A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
Related terms: ace
deuce
trey
cinque
sice
ménage à quatre
pas de quatre
quatre quart
cinq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinqs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cinque.
cinque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋk/
homophone: sink
homophone: sync
homophone: synch
ipa: /sæŋk/
homophone: sank
rhymes: -ɪŋk
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: cinques
form: cinq
form: sinque
form: sink
form: sank
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English cink, from Middle French cinq, from Latin cīnque, variant of quīnque. The archaic spelling cinq is taken from modern French cinq, whereas the standard spelling is perhaps influenced by Italian cinque or a misspelling of the French. The variant pronunciation /sæŋk/ is based on Modern French. Doublet of fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly the firſt beſt throw upon the dice is eſteemed aces, as it ſtops the ſix point in the outer table, and ſecures the cinque in your own, whereby your adverſary's two men upon your ace point cannot get out with either quatre, cinq, or ſix.
ref: 1775, “a Connoisseur”, “Containing an Account of the Game of Back-gammon, with the most approved Method of playing at it, and the Rules of the Game. Together with the Artifices and Legerdemains that are frequently practised at it.”, in Annals of Gaming; or, The Fair Player’s Sure Guide. Containing Original Treatises on the following Games. […], London: […] G. Allen, […], pages 181–182:
text: The firſt beſt Throw upon the Dice is eſteemed Aces, as it ſtops the Six-Point in the outer Table, and ſecures the Cinque in your own, whereby your Adverſary’s two Men upon your Ace-Point cannot get out with either Quatre, Cinque, or Six.
ref: 1775, “Introduction to the Game of Back-Gammon; With the most approved Method of playing at it”, in Charles Jones, editor, Hoyle’s Games Improved. Being Practical Treatises on the following Fashionable Games, […], London: […] J. Rivington and J. Wilkie, […], page 170:
topics: card-games
dice
dominoes
games
glosses: A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.
Coordinate terms: ace
deuce
trey
cater
sice
Related terms: cinquefoil
cinque-pace
Cinque Ports
sei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: say
Forms: form: seis
Etymology: From sei whale, from Norwegian seihval, seikval, from sei (“pollock”) + hval (“whale”). Doublet of saithe.
Senses: examples: text: Seis also feed by engulfing small schooling fish.
ref: 2005, Wayne Ledwell, Whales and Dolphins of Newfoundland and Labrador:
glosses: A sei whale.
sept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Forms: form: septs
Etymology: A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).
Senses: examples: text: The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
ref: 1842, Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, volume 2:
text: Never need you fear
for a single thane of your sept or nation,
young warriors or old.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 54:
glosses: A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
glosses: An enclosure; a railing.
Related terms: Sept in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
sept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Etymology: On analogy with creep → crept, weep → wept etc.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:sept.
glosses: simple past and past participle of seep
huit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: 'Huit, Clara, huit! Come on, Osman! Good dogs — huit!'
ref: 1978, Neville Peat, Snow Dogs, page 18:
text: I put "Harvey" and "Eccles", the strongest and slowest dogs, on a long trace and fastened them to each side of the sledge to provide extra braking power. With a cry of "Up Dogs! Huit!" my team and I began […]
ref: 1996, Kevin Walton, Rick Atkinson, Of Dogs and Men: Fifty Years in the Antarctic, page 92:
glosses: A cry to sled dogs to start moving.
otto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑtoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɒtəʊ/
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
homophone: Otto
homophone: auto (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: ottos
Senses: examples: text: Now, when orange-flowers are distilled with water, we procure the otto of the blossom, which is known commercially as oil of neroli.
ref: 1857, G[eorge] W[illiam] Septimus Piesse, “Section III”, in The Art of Perfumery, and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants, […], Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay and Blackiston, →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of attar.
Derived terms: otto of roses
quatorze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quatorzes
Etymology: Borrowed from French quatorze.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: The four aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, in the game of piquet, any of these counting as fourteen points.
quinze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French quinze (“fifteen”).
Senses: glosses: An old French card game of Spanish origin, players attempting to make fifteen points.
cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒp/
ipa: /kɑp/
ipa: /kɔp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: cops
Etymology: Short for copper (“police officer”), itself from the verb cop (“to lay hold of”) above, in reference to arresting criminals.
Senses: synonyms: word: 5-O
word: alphabet
word: barney
word: beatsman
word: bizzie
word: bluebottle
word: bluecoat
word: blue heeler
word: blue meanie
word: bobby
word: body snatcher
word: bogey
word: boy in blue
word: bull
word: bullyman
word: buttons
word: centenier
word: charpering omi
word: chazzer
word: cobbler
word: cop
word: copper
word: cozzer
word: cracker
word: crusher
word: crowns
word: dibble
word: fed
word: filth
word: finest
word: finger
word: five-o
word: flatfoot
word: flatty
word: fuzz
word: garda
word: gendarme
word: glowie
word: guardian of the peace
word: harman
word: harman-beck
word: jack
word: jackboot
word: jake
word: John Law
word: John Q. Law
word: Johnny Hopper
word: lawman
word: mee-maw
word: monarch
word: Mr Plod
word: mutton shunter
word: nuthook
word: oinker
word: Officer Friendly
word: Old Bill
word: PC Plod
word: pig
word: piggy
word: peeler
word: plod
word: police
word: police officer
word: policeman
word: policeperson
word: polis
word: po-po
word: raw lobster
word: roller
word: rozzer
word: scufter
word: slop
word: swine
word: statie
word: twelve
word: tyre biter
word: unboiled lobster
word: walloper
word: wooden-top
glosses: A police officer or prison guard.
Derived terms: anticop
beat cop
buddy cop
contempt of cop
copaganda
cop-call
cop-caller
cop-calling
copcam
cop car
cophouse
copicide
cop killer
cop-killer
cop knock
copland
copless
coplike
cop number
coppish
coppy
cops and robbers
cop shop
copstache
cop wise
cop-wise
copwise
cybercop
death by cop
fair cop
fish cop
flycop
gambler's cop
good cop bad cop
grammar cop
gravel road cop
kotong cop
language cops
mall cop
motor cop
netcop
ninja cop
noncop
rent-a-cop
robocop
silent cop
spy cop
suicide by cop
supercop
telecop
time cop
traffic cop
cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒp/
ipa: /kɑp/
ipa: /kɔp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: cops
Etymology: From Middle English coppe, from Old English *coppe, as in ātorcoppe (“spider”, literally “venom head”), from Old English copp (“top, summit, head”), from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Middle Dutch koppe, kobbe (“spider”). More at cobweb.
Senses: glosses: A spider.
Derived terms: attercop
cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒp/
ipa: /kɑp/
ipa: /kɔp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: cops
Etymology: From Middle English cop, coppe, from Old English cop, copp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, basin, round object”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew-. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
examples: text: Cop they vſe to call / The tops of many Hils
ref: 1622, Michael Drayton, “the thirtieth Song”, in The Second Part, or A Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song. […], London: […] Augustine Mathewes for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: The top, summit, especially of a hill.
examples: text: […] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.
ref: 2004, Kevin Grace, Tom White, Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 142:
text: In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...
ref: 2013, K. J. Parker, The Proof House, Orbit, →ISBN:
text: Tilting Cuisses 457. In the 15th century the knee cops were merged in the plate cuisses. In the East, except in Japan, knee cops as separate pieces of armor were seldom used east of Turkey.
ref: 2013, George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 364:
glosses: A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
glosses: A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
topics: architecture
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A merlon.
Derived terms: copland
copple
Related terms: english: probably etymologically unrelated to above terms
translation: probably etymologically unrelated to above terms
word: check cop
english: probably etymologically unrelated to above terms
translation: probably etymologically unrelated to above terms
word: not much cop
rot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏt
ipa: /ɹɒt/
ipa: /ɹɑt/
ipa: /ɹɔt/
homophone: wrought (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: rots
form: rotting
form: rotted
form: rotted
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).
Senses: examples: text: The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.
text: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
examples: text: Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!
glosses: To decline in function or utility.
glosses: To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
examples: text: to rot vegetable fiber
glosses: To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
examples: text: to rot in prison
text: to rot in Hell
text: If I hadn't rotted in bed all day I would've come...
text: Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 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:
text: Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.
ref: 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs:
glosses: To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
glosses: To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
examples: text: “Did they hang you well?” said Porson.
“Don’t rot,” said Mr Watkins; “I don’t like it.”
ref: 1894, H. G. Wells, The Hammerpond Park Burglary:
text: Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’
ref: 1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: To talk nonsense.
Synonyms: putrefy
molder
NSDAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: N.S.D.A.P.
Senses: glosses: the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
NSA
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.ɛs.eɪ/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no strings attached.
glosses: Initialism of no sugar added.
NSA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.ɛs.eɪ/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not sexually active.
NSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.ɛs.eɪ/
Senses: examples: text: Nakasone added that the NSA does not purchase cellphone location data of Americans or location data generated by automotive infotainment systems in the United States.
ref: 2024 January 26, Brian Fung, “The NSA buys Americans’ internet data, newly released documents show”, in CNN Business:
topics: government
related: word: N.S.A.
word: N. S. A.
glosses: Initialism of National Security Agency.
topics: government
related: word: N.S.A.
word: N. S. A.
glosses: Initialism of National Security Agency.
Initialism of National Surveillance Agency.
topics: government
related: word: N.S.A.
word: N. S. A.
glosses: Initialism of National Security Agency.
Initialism of No Such Agency.
qualifier: nickname
glosses: Initialism of National Sheep Association.
NSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.ɛs.eɪ/
Forms: form: NSAs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of non-standalone architecture.
examples: text: The NSA provides that approximately $11 billion in new investments will be made by 2028, which includes the initial investment in a greenfield project that would be completed after 2028.
ref: 2025 June 13, “President Trump Approves Historic Partnership between U. S. Steel and Nippon Steel”, in Business Wire:
glosses: Initialism of national security agreement.
NRA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Recovery Act.
glosses: Initialism of National Rifle Association (of the United Kingdom).
examples: text: LaPierre, who over the course of three decades became the face of the gun rights movement, stepped down Friday as NRA executive vice president and CEO, effective January 31, just days before his legal duel with New York Attorney General Letitia James.
ref: 2024 January 8, Ray Sanchez and Sabrina Souza, “Civil trial alleging top NRA officials used the organization as ‘personal piggy bank’ begins today”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of National Rifle Association of America.
glosses: Initialism of National Rifle Association of Australia.
glosses: Initialism of National Rifle Association of New Zealand.
glosses: Initialism of National Roads Authority.
qualifier: pensions
glosses: normal retirement age
PTO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Patent and Trademark Office
glosses: Initialism of Patent and Trademark Office
United States Patent and Trademark Office.
synonyms: USPTO
PTO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PTOs
Senses: synonyms: PTA
parent-teacher association
glosses: Initialism of parent-teacher organization.
hypernyms: time off
glosses: Initialism of paid time off.
glosses: Initialism of power take-off, a powered shaft for driving auxiliary equipment.
examples: text: In the case of the three strategies MTS, Make-to-Forecast (MTF) and Pick-to-Order (PTO), the allocation of customer orders takes place in the dispatch area. PTO allows the customer to choose from standard items.
ref: 2004 July 28, Jari Partanen and Harri Haapasalo, “Fast production for order fulfillment: Implementing mass customization in electronics industry”, in International Journal of Production Economics, volume 90, number 2, Netherlands, →DOI, pages 213-222:
qualifier: logistics
glosses: Initialism of pick-to-order.
PTO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of please turn over (written at the end of the text on a page to say that it continues overleaf).
Related terms: overleaf
SETI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, constitutes major research projects at radio telescopes the world over, and it is championed by the non-profit institute that shares its name.
ref: 2019 March, John Wenz, “SETI's Secret Origin Story”, in Discover, volume 40, number 2, page 68:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Hyponyms: OSETI
Related terms: CETI
EKG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German EKG. Initialism of German Elektrokardiogramm.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ECG (“electrocardiogram”).
synonyms: word: ECG
extra: electrocardiogram
DOB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DOBs
Senses: related: word: D.O.B.
word: DoB
word: d.o.b.
word: dob
glosses: Initialism of date of birth.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
related: word: DoB
glosses: Initialism of degree of bending.
DOB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Daughters of Bilitis The first organized and successful lesbian liberation organization in the United States.
glosses: Initialism of 2 or 5-Dimethoxy-4-bromoamphetamine A psychedelic drug similar to 2C-B.
DOJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: DOJ is asking for $64,618 per day, per violation of the CWA and $55,808 per day or $2,232 per barrel of oil or unit of hazardous substance, per violation of the CWA – but it was not immediately clear from the suit how many days the DOJ considered the violation to be applicable.
ref: 2023 March 31, Alisha Ebrahimji and Andi Babineau, “US Justice Department sues Norfolk Southern following train derailment in East Palestine”, in CNN:
synonyms: USDOJ
glosses: Initialism of United States Department of Justice; also DoJ.
glosses: Initialism of Department of Justice.
DOJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DOJs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of date of judgment.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of double open jaw.
FEMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːmə/
rhymes: -iːmə
homophone: femur (non-rhotic)
Senses: examples: text: FEMA produces maps showing which areas are at risk from flooding, so that homeowners, builders and local officials can make informed decisions about where and how to build houses.
ref: 2021 August 26, Christopher Flavelle, “How Government Decisions Left Tennessee Exposed to Deadly Flooding”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: After a disaster, the two agencies chiefly responsible for helping victims are FEMA, which focuses on emergency shelter and limited home repairs, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which funds long-term rebuilding.
ref: 2022 July 23, Christopher Flavelle, Edmund D. Fountain, “How the Government Is Failing Americans Uprooted by Calamity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, was even blunter during a March cabinet meeting, when she said point-blank: “We are going to eliminate FEMA.”
ref: 2025 July 12, Luke Broadwater, Shawn McCreesh, quoting Kristi Noem, “After Texas Disaster, Trump Shifts His Tone on FEMA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
related: word: Fema
glosses: Acronym of Federal Emergency Management Agency.
DVD-RW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diː viː diː ɑː ˈdʌb(ə)ljuː/
Forms: form: DVD-RWs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Digital Versatile Disc - read/writable: a form of digital media that is similar to a CD, but has far greater capacity and can be written to more than once.
DVD-R
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːviːdiː ˈdæʃ ɑɹ/
note: modern retronymic pronunciation
ipa: /ˌdiːviːdiː ˈɑɹ/
note: older usage
ipa: /ˌdiːviːdiː ˈmaɪnəs ɑɹ/
ipa: /ˌdiːviːdiː ˈdæʃ ɑː/
Forms: form: DVD-Rs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Digital Versatile Disc recordable: a form of digital media that is similar to a CD, but has far denser storage and thus greater capacity. It can only be written to once, but it can be read from an indefinite number of times.
CD-RW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siː diː ɑː ˈdʌb(ə)ljuː/
ipa: /siː diː ɑɹ ˈdʌbə(l)ju/
Forms: form: CD-RWs
form: CD/RW
Senses: glosses: Initialism of compact disk – rewritable, a form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from a plastic disc, which can be written to multiple times.
Synonyms: sense: Compact Disk - Read Writable
word: CD-E
CD-R
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD-Rs
Senses: glosses: Compact disc - recordable; a form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from and write to a plastic disc. It can only be written to once, although the entire disc does not necessarily have to be written in one session.
CD
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːˈdiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: CDs
form: CDing
form: CDed
form: CDed
Etymology: Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.
Senses: examples: text: By now I did not feel right without a bra and panties whenever I CD'ed.
ref: 1993 January 5, Tierney Dhewitrei, “about me, is it familiar?”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of cross-dress.
CD-ROM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siː.diːˈɹɒm/
Forms: form: CD-ROMs
form: CD ROM
Senses: glosses: compact disk - read only memory: an optical disc containing data that can be read (but not changed) by a computer
GMT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: UTC
glosses: Initialism of Greenwich Mean Time.
GMT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: starvation marrow
glosses: Initialism of gelatinous bone-marrow transformation.
FOIL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Acronym of first outer inner last or similar.
Senses: glosses: An acronym for the algorithm for multiplying two binomials.
FOIL
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: FOILs
form: FOILing
form: FOILed
form: FOILed
Etymology: Acronym of first outer inner last or similar.
Senses: glosses: To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
FM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FMs
form: F.M.
form: F. M.
Senses: examples: text: FM radio
text: With very little fanfare, WZAA had become the first FM station in New York offering a format known as Mexican Regiona, which includes genres like ranchera, banda and norteña music.
ref: 2007 January 13, Seth Kugel, “The Sounds of Mexico Hit New York Airwaves”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021:
glosses: Initialism of frequency modulation.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of field marshal.
glosses: Initialism of finance minister.
glosses: Initialism of foreign minister.
examples: text: The FM hit back at Scottish Tory Douglas Ross's reference to a Times article published on Thursday, based on four anonymous sources, as "desperate" as the pair clashed at FMQs.
ref: 2022 October 27, Abbi Garton-Crosbie, “FMQs: Nicola Sturgeon destroys claim that Scotland must join the euro to get into EU”, in The National, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2022:
glosses: Initialism of first minister.
glosses: Initialism of finance ministry.
glosses: Initialism of foreign ministry.
glosses: Initialism of first ministry.
glosses: Initialism of field manual.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of fibromyalgia.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of fan marker.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Initialism of FIDE Master.
Related terms: sense: first minister
word: FMQs
sense: ministry/minister
word: MF
sense: ministry/minister
word: MoF
sense: ministry/minister
word: MOF
WTO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “The question is PNTR, which is absent. And then they had some other stuff on the WTO in there, which is kind of hollow if we don’t do PNTR,” Crapo said earlier in the day.
ref: 2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN:
qualifier: international law
glosses: Initialism of World Trade Organization.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
qualifier: international law
glosses: Initialism of Warsaw Treaty Organization.
Coordinate terms: sense: World Trade Organization
word: GATT
w/o
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: business
finance
insurance
glosses: Abbreviation of write off.
w/o
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of walkover.
examples: text: w/o January 7th
qualifier: scheduling
glosses: Abbreviation of week of.
topics: business
finance
insurance
glosses: Abbreviation of write-off.
examples: text: ZrO₂ + 46 w/o UO₂ + 5 w/o Fe
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: %mass
%weight
wt%
%w/w
%m/m
glosses: weight-percent (percentage calculated by relative mass)
glosses: Abbreviation of week(s) old.
examples: text: Sandy Steven, w/o Steven
glosses: Abbreviation of wife of.