cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
teacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈtit͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -iːtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: teachers
Etymology: From Middle English techere, equivalent to teach + -er. More at teach.
Senses: examples: text: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref: 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
glosses: A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
glosses: The index finger; the forefinger.
examples: text: But if the last two years are a teacher, look for the bombastic tweets to resume before sunrise.
ref: 2017 February 28, Steve LeVine, “Trump Speech to Congress: The Message Was Trumpian, But The Tone Was Decidedly Not”, in Quartz:
glosses: An indication; a lesson.
glosses: The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.
Synonyms: sense: person who teaches
word: preceptor
sense: person who teaches
word: educator
sense: index finger
word: index finger
Derived terms: word: co-teacher
word: coteacher
word: cyberteacher
word: e-teacher
word: experience is the best teacher
word: exteacher
word: ex-teacher
word: failure is the best teacher
word: head teacher
word: headteacher
word: home teacher
word: microteacher
word: nonteacher
word: parent-teacher association
word: parent-teacher organization
word: parent-teacher-student association
word: pastor-teacher
word: plant teacher
word: pupil teacher
word: relief teacher
word: schoolteacher
word: school teacher
word: student teacher
word: substitute teacher
word: subteacher
word: superteacher
word: supply teacher
word: teacherage
word: teacher-centered
word: teachercentric
word: teacherdom
word: teachered
word: teacherese
word: teacheress
word: teacherhood
word: teachering
word: teacherish
word: teacherless
word: teacherlike
word: teacherly
word: teacherness
word: teachership
word: teacher's pet
word: teacher work day
word: teacher workday
word: teachery
word: teleteacher
word: underteacher
word: unteacher
uncage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: uncages
form: uncaging
form: uncaged
form: uncaged
Etymology: From un- + cage.
Senses: examples: text: At about eleven, we uncaged our pigeons, who flew away into the sapphire sky that hung like a sail from the white peaks.
ref: 1927, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, E.P. Dutton & Co., page 33:
glosses: To take out of or release from a cage.
glosses: To unleash; to remove from restraints.
unique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈniːk/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /jəˈ-/
note: Indic
ipa: /jʊˈnik/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈjunik/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /-nɪk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: uniques
Etymology: Borrowed from French unique. Piecewise doublet of any.
Senses: examples: text: The phoenix, the unique of birds.
ref: a. 1859, Thomas De Quincey, Language:
text: […] uniques of the game, Sauron and Morgoth, are found on levels 99 and 100 of the dungeon respectively, […]
ref: 2020, John Harris, Exploring Roguelike Games:
glosses: A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.
solder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: sŏlʹdə
note: r
enpr: sōlʹdə
ipa: /ˈsɒl.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsəʊl.də(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒldə(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
enpr: sŏdʹər
ipa: /ˈsɒ.də/
enpr: sŏdʹər
enpr: sōʹdər
enpr: sôʹdər
ipa: /ˈsɑd.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɔ.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊdə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: solders
Etymology: From Middle English souder, soudere, soudur (noun), from Old French soldure, soudeure (noun), from Old French souder, solder (“to solder”, verb) (> Middle English souden (“to solder”)), from Latin solidāre (“make solid”).
Senses: examples: text: ...the packaging of electronic components has moved from technology that used solder predominantly as an electrical connection (plated through-hole) to technology that uses solder as both a mechanical and electrical connection (surface mount technology)...
ref: 1991, John H. Lau, Solder Joint Reliability: Theory and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 225:
text: I've had so little feeling that I've burned myself with liquid solder and watched my skin burn and not felt anything.
ref: 1991 December 8, Liz Galst, quoting Buck, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 9:
glosses: Any of various easily-melted alloys, commonly of tin and lead, that are used to mend, coat, or join metal objects, usually small.
examples: text: Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul — and solder of society.
ref: 1860, D R. M'Nab, Christian consolation; The way home; and Conjugal love:
glosses: Figuratively, circumstances or emotions that strongly bond things or persons together in analogy to solder that joins metals.
Derived terms: gold solder
solder bump
solder gobbler
solder mask
solder resist
solder stop
solder sucker
solder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: sŏlʹdə
note: r
enpr: sōlʹdə
ipa: /ˈsɒl.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsəʊl.də(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒldə(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
enpr: sŏdʹər
ipa: /ˈsɒ.də/
enpr: sŏdʹər
enpr: sōʹdər
enpr: sôʹdər
ipa: /ˈsɑd.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɔ.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊdə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: solders
form: soldering
form: soldered
form: soldered
Etymology: From Middle English souder, soudere, soudur (noun), from Old French soldure, soudeure (noun), from Old French souder, solder (“to solder”, verb) (> Middle English souden (“to solder”)), from Latin solidāre (“make solid”).
Senses: glosses: to join items together, or to coat them with solder
examples: text: In the days that followed Nick's death I was in severe shock. I was shattered both physically and emotionally... I seemed to be living in slow motion, waiting for the fragmented parts of my body and mind to solder themselves together.
ref: 2013, Elizabeth Burton-Phillips, Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid?: What drugs did to my family, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, page 137?:
glosses: to join things as if with solder.
Derived terms: solderer
soldering bolt
soldering iron
Related terms: braze
flux
weld
each
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /it͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: aich
form: aitch
form: eache
form: eatch
form: eatche
form: ech
form: eche
form: eich
form: etch
form: eych
form: eyche
form: yeach
Etymology: From Middle English eche, elche, ilch, from Old English ǣlċ, contraction of ǣġhwelċ. Comparable to aye + alike.
Compare Scots ilk, elk (“each, every”), Saterland Frisian älk (“each”), West Frisian elk, elts (“each”), Dutch elk (“each”), Low German elk, ellik (“each”), German Low German elk, elke (“each, every”), German jeglicher (“any”). By surface analysis, Old English ā + which.
Senses: examples: text: Make sure you wash each bowl well.
text: The sun comes up each morning and sets each night.
text: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
glosses: All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).
Derived terms: each and every
each other
eachwhere
to each his own
each
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /it͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: aich
form: aitch
form: eache
form: eatch
form: eatche
form: ech
form: eche
form: eich
form: etch
form: eych
form: eyche
form: yeach
Etymology: From Middle English eche, elche, ilch, from Old English ǣlċ, contraction of ǣġhwelċ. Comparable to aye + alike.
Compare Scots ilk, elk (“each, every”), Saterland Frisian älk (“each”), West Frisian elk, elts (“each”), Dutch elk (“each”), Low German elk, ellik (“each”), German Low German elk, elke (“each, every”), German jeglicher (“any”). By surface analysis, Old English ā + which.
Senses: examples: text: The apples cost 50 cents each.
glosses: For one; apiece; per.
examples: text: We ordered half a chicken each, but we each got a whole one.
text: You are each right in a different way.
text: There are three of us and we have five dollars each, so that means we've got 15 dollars.
text: The apartments each boast central heating.
glosses: Individually; separately; used in a sentence with a plural subject to indicate that the action or state described by the verb applies to all members of the described group individually, rather than collectively to the entire group.
each
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /it͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: aich
form: aitch
form: eache
form: eatch
form: eatche
form: ech
form: eche
form: eich
form: etch
form: eych
form: eyche
form: yeach
Etymology: From Middle English eche, elche, ilch, from Old English ǣlċ, contraction of ǣġhwelċ. Comparable to aye + alike.
Compare Scots ilk, elk (“each, every”), Saterland Frisian älk (“each”), West Frisian elk, elts (“each”), Dutch elk (“each”), Low German elk, ellik (“each”), German Low German elk, elke (“each, every”), German jeglicher (“any”). By surface analysis, Old English ā + which.
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to give each of you a chance to win.
text: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
glosses: Every one/thing individually or one by one.
each
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /it͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: eaches
form: aich
form: aitch
form: eache
form: eatch
form: eatche
form: ech
form: eche
form: eich
form: etch
form: eych
form: eyche
form: yeach
Etymology: From Middle English eche, elche, ilch, from Old English ǣlċ, contraction of ǣġhwelċ. Comparable to aye + alike.
Compare Scots ilk, elk (“each, every”), Saterland Frisian älk (“each”), West Frisian elk, elts (“each”), Dutch elk (“each”), Low German elk, ellik (“each”), German Low German elk, elke (“each, every”), German jeglicher (“any”). By surface analysis, Old English ā + which.
Senses: examples: text: In one embodiment, there is an additional charge when ordering products as an “each” compared to the unit cost of the item when ordered by the case.
ref: 1999, William S. Paasche, Thomas D. Kerker, System and method for managing recurring orders in a computer network, US Patent 7359871 (PDF version), page 50:
text: An each, piece, single item, or individual item package.
ref: 2007, David E. Mulcahy, Eaches or Pieces Order Fulfillment, Design, and Operations Handbook (Series on resource management), Auerbach Publications, →ISBN, page 385:
text: The commonly used term “each” means that each individual item is one unit.
ref: 2012, Arthur V. Hill, “unit of measure”, in Barry Render, editor, The Encyclopedia of Operations Management, FT Press, →ISBN, page 373:
text: Amour-propre would be able to take an interest in assuming the standpoint of reason, then, if applying 'each' to oneself in rational deliberation were simultaneously bound up with publicly establishing oneself as an 'each'
ref: 2008, Frederick Neuhouser, Rousseau's theodicy of self-love, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 238:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: operations
glosses: An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
Derived terms: a bob each way
at each other's throats
crawl over each other
each to his own
each to their own
each-way
each way
live in each other's pockets
made for each other
side by each
to each their own
two bob each way
Related terms: quantifier
of course
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əv ˈkɔːs/
ipa: /əv ˈkɔɹs/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əv ˈkoə(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: course
form: 'course
form: ofc
form: oc
form: ofcourse
Senses: examples: text: Had Francesca grown up by his side, she would have loved him; and a thousand indulgences, the result of careless good-nature, would have linked the child to the parent, till the mutual affection would have become a thing of course.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 147:
text: I am not using a mere phrase of course, when I say that the feelings with which I bear a part in the ceremony of this day, are such as I find it difficult to utter in words.
ref: 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Miscellaneous Writings:
qualifier: except in matter of course
glosses: That is part of ordinary behaviour or custom; customary, natural.
Derived terms: matter of course
of course
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əv ˈkɔːs/
ipa: /əv ˈkɔɹs/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əv ˈkoə(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: course
form: 'course
form: ofc
form: oc
form: ofcourse
Senses: examples: text: He inspired love and emulation wherever he appeared; envy and jealous rage followed of course; so that he became a very desirable, though a very dangerous acquaintance.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Not tarrying long enough in the brain to be subject to reflection, the next sensations, of course, obliterate them.
ref: 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:
text: It was at one time made a question whether giving the royal assent to a single bill did not of course put an end to the session.
ref: 1845, Henry John Stephen, New commentaries on the laws of England:
glosses: In due course; as a matter of course, as a natural result.
examples: text: Of course I know that!
text: You will of course surrender all your future rights to the property.
text: “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: There were other flapper-era starlets, of course—Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo—but they were poseurs by comparison.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 25:
text: Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
synonyms: naturally
indisputably
glosses: Naturally, as would be expected; for obvious reasons, obviously.
Derived terms: and of course
'course
course
of course
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əv ˈkɔːs/
ipa: /əv ˈkɔɹs/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əv ˈkoə(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: course
form: 'course
form: ofc
form: oc
form: ofcourse
Senses: examples: text: Will you come with me? — Of course!
synonyms: absolutely
certainly
glosses: Indicates enthusiastic agreement.
examples: text: Thank you! — Of course!
synonyms: no problem
you're welcome
glosses: Used to acknowledge thanks; ritual reply to “thank you”.
para
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: päʹrə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: pärʹə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
Forms: form: paras
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra /па̀ра, from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).
Senses: examples: text: She managed things with so much economy that she was enabled to save two paras every day, out of the piastre which he gave her.
ref: 1854, Bayard Taylor, A Journey to Central Africa; or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt...:
glosses: A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
para
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: päʹrə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: pärʹə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
ipa: /ˈpæɹə/
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: päʹrə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: pärʹə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
Forms: form: paras
Etymology: Clipping of words such as primipara and multipara.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A woman who has given birth or brought pregnancies to viable gestational age a certain number of times, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
Related terms: multipara
nullipara
primipara
gravida
para
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: päʹrə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: pärʹə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
ipa: /ˈpæɹə/
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: păʹrə
rhymes: -æɹə
enpr: päʹrə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: pärʹə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
ipa: /ˈpæɹə/
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
Forms: form: paras
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of paragraph.
glosses: Clipping of paraphilia.
examples: text: The problems that male paras encounter in relation to bladder management pale in significance when placed alongside the problems with bladder management that female paraplegics experience. For women paras, attempts are made to train the bladder to empty itself at regular intervals; however, accidents do happen.
ref: 2010, Shelley Lynn Tremain, editor, Foucault and the Government of Disability:
glosses: Clipping of paraplegic.
topics: education
glosses: Clipping of paraprofessional educator.
examples: text: Family of dead para launch legal challenge to Northern Ireland legacy legislation [title]
ref: 2023 September 26, Dan Sabbagh, “Family of dead para launch legal challenge to Northern Ireland legacy legislation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Clipping of paratrooper.
Derived terms: paraphile
parawise
para
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: päʹrə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: pärʹə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
ipa: /ˈpæɹə/
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: păʹrə
rhymes: -æɹə
rhymes: -æɹə
Senses: glosses: Synonym of king fern (“the plant Ptisana salicina”).
synonyms: word: king fern
extra: the plant Ptisana salicina
para
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: päʹrə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: pärʹə
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
ipa: /ˈpæɹə/
ipa: /ˈpɑːɹə/
enpr: păʹrə
rhymes: -æɹə
rhymes: -æɹə
Forms: form: paras
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu پاره (pāra), from Persian پاره (pâre).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Synonym of juz.
synonyms: word: juz
Related terms: para grass
para para
para red
soon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: so͞on
ipa: /suːn/
ipa: /sun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: sooner
form: soonest
Etymology: From Middle English sone, from Old English sōna (“immediately, at once”), from Proto-West Germanic *sān(ō), from Proto-Germanic *sēna, *sēnô (“immediately, soon, then”), from *sa (demonstrative pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *só (demonstrative pronoun).
Cognate with Scots sone, sune, schone (“soon, quickly, at once”), North Frisian san (“immediately, at once”), dialectal Dutch zaan (“soon, before long”), Middle Low German sân (“right afterwards, soon”), Middle High German sān, son (“soon, then”), Old High German sār (“immediately, soon”). Compare also Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns, “immediately, soon”), from Proto-Germanic *suniz (“soon”).
Senses: examples: text: I need the soonest date you have available.
glosses: Short in length of time from the present.
examples: text: Late in the evening we arrived at Quincy where we bivouacked for the night and taken a soon start the next morning to march to the arsenal.
ref: 1992, W. H. Andrews, A Paul Green Reader, page 129:
text: Got up pretty early, ate a soon breakfast, had the sulky and was about to start to Newtown when it commenced raining..
ref: 1997, Dorothy Stanaland Samuel, Taliaferro Leslie Samuel, The Samuell/Samuel Families of Tidewater Virginia, page 148:
text: They were different from colored folks who had to be out to get a soon start.
ref: 2000, Laurence G. Avery, A Paul Green Reader, page 220:
glosses: Early.
examples: text: Hurry up, the wedding is soon to start!
text: A new shop is soon to be opened in this street.
glosses: Used as an alternative to express 'to be going to' in the form 'to be soon to'.
bene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːn/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bean
homophone: been
Forms: form: benes
form: been
form: ben
Etymology: From Middle English bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”). Cognate with Danish bøn (“prayer”), Swedish bön (“prayer”), Icelandic bæn (“prayer”), Icelandic bón (“request”). Related to ban. See also boon, bee.
Senses: examples: text: What is good for a bootless bene?
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, The Force of Prayer:
glosses: A prayer, especially to God; a petition; a boon.
Related terms: beenship
bene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːn/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bean
homophone: been
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of benne (“sesame”).
bene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːn/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bean
homophone: been
Forms: form: benar
form: benat
form: ben
form: bien
Etymology: UK C16. Probably from Latin bene or Italian bene.
Senses: examples: text: Egad, you carry a bene blink aloft. Come to the ken alone—no! my blowen; did not I tell you I should bring a pater cove, to chop up the whiners for Dawson?
ref: 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 383:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Good.
Synonyms: good
Derived terms: bene bowse
bene cove
bene darkmans
bene feaker
bene feaker of gybes
bene lightmans
bene mort
beneship
beneshiply
cut bene
bene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːn/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bean
homophone: been
Forms: form: benes
form: ben
form: bien
Etymology: UK C16. Probably from Latin bene or Italian bene.
Senses: examples: text: Stowe your bene!
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Tongue.
bene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːn/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: bean
homophone: been
Forms: form: benes
form: Bene
form: benny
form: Benny
Etymology: Clipping of eggs benedict
Senses: topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: Abbreviation of eggs Benedict, an egg dish
bocca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒkə/
ipa: /ˈbəʊkə/
rhymes: -ɒkə
rhymes: -əʊkə
Forms: form: boccas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bocca (“mouth”). Doublet of bouche.
Senses: examples: text: The second partition divides this from the leer or annealing furnace; through the boccas, or working holes,
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia Volum 16:
glosses: The round hole in the furnace of a glassworks through which the fused glass is taken out.
analogue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Equivalent to ana- (“functionally similar”) + -logue. See analog.
Senses: examples: text: "But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers?
"I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that.
ref: 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 56:
glosses: Alternative spelling of analog.
Derived terms: analogue circuit
analogue clock
analogue computer
analogue horror
heteroanalogue
analogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analogues
Etymology: Equivalent to ana- (“functionally similar”) + -logue. See analog.
Senses: glosses: Something that bears an analogy to something else.
examples: See also: convergent evolution
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: homolog
homologue
glosses: An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of analog (“A structural derivative of a parent compound that differs from it by only one or a few atoms or substituent groups; (usually, especially) such a molecule that retains most of the same chemical properties.”)
bicicletta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biciclettas
Senses: qualifier: cocktail
glosses: a cocktail made with white wine, Campari, soda water, citrus.
Synonyms: bicyclette
braccio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braccia
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian braccio. Doublet of brachium.
Senses: glosses: An Italian measure of length, varying from half a yard to a yard.
bravo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɑvoʊ/
ipa: /bɹɑˈvoʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑːvəʊ/
ipa: /bɹɑːˈvəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːvəʊ
rhymes: Rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: bravos
form: bravoes
form: bravi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bravo. Doublet of brave.
Senses: examples: text: As for Rochester, he had not genius enough to enter the lists with Dryden, so he fell upon another method of revenge; and meanly hired bravoes to assault him.
ref: 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753):
text: "Why should I fight the King of England's bravoes?" inquired Acour in a languid voice of those who stood about him, a question at which they laughed.
ref: 1911, H. Rider Haggard, Red Eve:
text: Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravo’s rapier or Lucrezia's poison vial.
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 104:
glosses: A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
examples: text: There was a roar of bravoes rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest.
ref: 1907, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Boys and girls from Thackeray:
glosses: A shout of "bravo!"
qualifier: international standards; plural "bravos"; international standards; plural "bravos"
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Bravo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Synonyms: sense: hired soldier
word: mercenary
bravo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɑvoʊ/
ipa: /bɹɑˈvoʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑːvəʊ/
ipa: /bɹɑːˈvəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːvəʊ
rhymes: Rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: bravo!
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bravo. Doublet of brave.
Senses: examples: text: Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!
synonyms: word: bravissimo
word: bravo
word: bully
word: cock on
word: congrats
word: congratulations
word: encore
word: fair fucks
word: full marks
word: get you
word: good for someone
word: good for you
word: good going
word: good job
word: good on you
word: good show
word: good work
word: hats off
word: hon
word: hoorah
word: hooray
word: hurrah
word: hurray
word: huzza
word: huzzah
word: jolly good show
word: keep it up
word: kudos
word: mazal tov
word: mazel tov
word: nice one
word: proper job
word: right on
word: shabash
word: there you go
word: way to go
word: well done
word: well said
glosses: Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.
Derived terms: Bravo Zulu
Related terms: brava
bravissimo
bravo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɑvoʊ/
ipa: /bɹɑˈvoʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑːvəʊ/
ipa: /bɹɑːˈvəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːvəʊ
rhymes: Rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: bravos
form: bravoes
form: bravoing
form: bravoed
form: bravoed
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bravo. Doublet of brave.
Senses: examples: text: "And my Sunbeam was bravoed, and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?"
ref: 1910, May Agnes Fleming, The Baronet's Bride:
text: Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.
ref: 1899, Richard Le Gallienne, Young Lives:
glosses: To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!
bere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪə/
ipa: /bɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: beer
homophone: bier
homophone: bear (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: bear
Etymology: From Middle English bere (“barley”), from Old English bere (“barley”), from Proto-West Germanic *barī, from Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”). Compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Latin far (“emmer”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”). See also: barley.
Senses: glosses: Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.
Derived terms: beremeal
bere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪə/
ipa: /bɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: beer
homophone: bier
homophone: bear (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger)
ipa: /bɛə/
ipa: /bɛɚ/
ipa: /bɪə/
ipa: /bɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: beer
homophone: bier
homophone: bear (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: beres
Etymology: See bear (“pillowcase”)
Senses: examples: text: Woven and embroidered coverlets in imitation of tapestry appear as 'a tapestry covering which lieth on my bed' [...] 'a pillow of feathers with a bere' (pillow-case); 'two pillows and the beres to [cover them]'
ref: 1976, Essex Record Office, Publications:
text: [...] he'd tossed me an extra pillow in a bere.
ref: 2014 April 1, Phil Rickman, The Heresy of Dr Dee, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow; a pillowbere.
bello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellos
Etymology: From Italian bello (“man; fella”). Doublet of beau.
Senses: glosses: A young man; sweetheart.
impure s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In Italian, an "s" (/s/ or /z/) followed by another consonant. When used immediately before a masculine noun beginning with an impure s, the definite article changes from il to lo in the singular and from i to gli in the plural, the indefinite article changes from un to uno, the partitive article changes from dei to degli, and some adjectives and pronouns also change form.
glosses: In Italian, an "s" (/s/ or /z/) followed by another consonant. When used immediately before a masculine noun beginning with an impure s, the definite article changes from il to lo in the singular and from i to gli in the plural, the indefinite article changes from un to uno, the partitive article changes from dei to degli, and some adjectives and pronouns also change form.
This also happens before words beginning with gn, pn, ps, x, y, and z and before certain words starting with ch that are derived from French.
This also happens before words beginning with gn, pn, ps, x, y, and z and before certain words starting with ch that are derived from French.
absolute superlative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absolute superlatives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan: the form of an adjective formed by adding the suffixes -issimo, -ísimo, -íssimo, -érrimo, -imo, or -íssim to the adjective (with any final vowel dropped) to express a superlative that cannot be exceeded, having the sense “as ... as possible”.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Greek: one of the degrees of comparison in an adjective that stresses an exceptional property without making a direct comparison, its closest equivalent in English being a most important letter, a very high mountain or absolutely pure water. It is formed by adding the suffix -τατος (declined) to the adjective's nominative, neuter singular.
examples: Am citit un articol foarte interesant. (I've read a very interesting article).
Am citit o carte tare proastă. (I read a very bad book).
Am văzut un film extrem de interesant. (I saw an extremely interesting movie).
Părerea ei este cât se poate de importantă. (Her opinion is really important).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Romanian: a form of an adjective with various adverbs preceding it: foarte / tare / extrem de / cât se poate de + adjective. The most frequent and standard adverb is foarte (“very”). The other adverbs or adverbial constructions are emotionally marked. The adverb tare is used in the colloquial style.
Related terms: absolute comparative
relative superlative
superlative
comparative
degrees of comparison
gelato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈlɑtoʊ/
ipa: /dʒəˈlɑːtəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
Forms: form: gelati
form: gelatos
form: gelati
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gelato (“ice cream”), from Latin gelātus, derived from gelū (“frost, chill”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Senses: examples: text: Now the area has been remade in their image. Every other storefront seems to be a coffee shop, a gelato shop, or a med spa.
ref: 2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
glosses: An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.
Related terms: gelateria
gelati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈlɑːti/
ipa: /dʒəˈlɑːtɪ/
ipa: /dʒəˈlɐːtɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gelati, the plural form of gelato, from Latin gelātus, derived from gelū (“frost, chill”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Senses: glosses: plural of gelato
gelati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈlɑːti/
ipa: /dʒəˈlɑːtɪ/
ipa: /dʒəˈlɐːtɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːti
Forms: form: gelati
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gelati, the plural form of gelato, from Latin gelātus, derived from gelū (“frost, chill”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Senses: examples: text: Out in Fitzroy Street, the Saturday afternoon crowds strolled the wide footpaths, licking gelati.
ref: 1988, Frank Moorhouse, editor, Fictions 88, ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcast Corp., page 64:
text: Gelati. Gelati. Limone, Strawberry, Chocolaty! shouts the Gelati man from the south of his face.
ref: 1993, University of Western Australia, Westerly, volumes 38–39, page 37:
text: ‘Would you kids like some gelati?’ Lucia asked.[…]At home we usually had Peter′s Rainbow, but we′d had gelati heaps of times at Flash, the gelati shop in Hindley Street.
ref: 2008, Catherine McKinnon, The Nearly Happy Family, unnumbered page:
glosses: gelato, Italian style ice-cream; a serving of gelato, often in a cone.
kiasu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjɑːsuː/
ipa: [ˈk˭jãː˧.su(˦)]
ipa: [-u(˦˧)]
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: more kiasu
form: most kiasu
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 驚輸／惊输 (kiaⁿ-su, “afraid to lose out”).
Senses: examples: text: No wonder the parents acted that way, she said. They were just being kia-su (afraid to lose out).
ref: 1985 December 22, Irene Hoe, “A parent's helping hand or a nudge into the rat race?”, in The Straits Times, Singapore, page 20:
text: The kia-si/kia-su ("afraid to die/afraid to lose") attitude of the Totalisator Boards in Malaysia and Singapore is deplorable.
ref: 1988 December 11, "Pro Bono Puntero" [pseudonym], “That $5 win minimum [letter]”, in The Straits Times, page 35:
text: We often see a bus with commuters practically spilling out of the front door and crowding at the exit door. But beyond that, a vacuum prevails, says a reader. The kia-su attitude is the reason for this, says the reader, and most of the culprits are students from secondary schools and junior colleges.
ref: 1989 April 26, “Crowding at bus doors”, in The Straits Times, page 2:
text: The story now going around is that the distributors of Suzuki cars will take over the failed distributorship of Korea's Kia cars. According to one wag, the new distributorship could call itself "Kia-Su Motors". For the uninitiated, kiasu means "afraid to lose" in the Hokkien dialect.
ref: 1999 October 13, “Kiasu Motors”, in The Business Times, Singapore, page 2:
text: No lubang, so teruk. Kiasu cannot lose, / Kiasi cannot die; machiam machiam words / We also try. Proper English? So lecheh, / So correct, so actsy for what? […]
ref: 2000, Leong Liew Geok, “Forever Singlish”, in Women without Men, Singapore: Times Books International, →ISBN, page 130:
text: Too often you hear about Singaporeans with the "K syndrome", meaning kiasu (afraid of losing out), kiasi (afraid of dying), kiabor (afraid of wife). […] So, Singaporeans, don't conform to what society labels you to be. Be kiasu in making a difference!
ref: 2001 February 20, Carolyn Chew, “A different take on the Singaporean syndrome”, in Today, Singapore, page 6:
text: Shell's FuelSave saw Singaporeans' kiasu spirit come to the fore. I noted that most vehicles in the queue had their engines in idle and air-conditioners on, hence releasing air pollutants.
ref: 2009 October 27, Lionel de Souza, “You save money, but it's the environment that pays [letter]”, in Today, page 28:
glosses: Afraid to lose out, particularly because one is overly competitive.
Derived terms: kiasuism
kiasuness
kiasu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjɑːsuː/
ipa: [ˈk˭jãː˧.su(˦)]
ipa: [-u(˦˧)]
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: kiasu
form: kiasus
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 驚輸／惊输 (kiaⁿ-su, “afraid to lose out”).
Senses: examples: text: Apart from the kiasis and kiasus, there are also Singaporeans at the other end of the scale – the healthcare workers who put their lives at risk.
ref: 2003 May 28, Frederick Lim, “Sars and the Singaporean: Crisis has brought out the best and the worst”, in Today, Singapore, page 22:
glosses: A kiasu person.
Related terms: kiasi
sooner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːnə/
ipa: /ˈsunɚ/
rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of soon: more soon
sooner
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːnə/
ipa: /ˈsunɚ/
rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of soon: more soon
examples: text: I would sooner die than marry you!
text: Sooner than have a problem later, I made sure the policy was in order.
glosses: rather.
Derived terms: sooner or later
sooner or later
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He’ll turn up sooner or later.
text: Sooner or later / You hit the deck, you get found out / Save it for later / Don't run away and let me down
ref: 1982, The English Beat, “Save It for Later”, in Special Beat Service:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Eventually, at some undetermined time in the not-too-distant future.
wikipedia: +
Synonyms: one day
one of these days
some day
someday
Related terms: for better or worse
sooner than later
io
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪəʊ/
rhymes: -aɪəʊ
Forms: form: ios
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἰώ (Iṓ, “Io”).
Senses: examples: text: These lines appear to serve as roadways or guides to any stragglers that may have hung back for some reason known only to an io.
ref: 1936, Paul Griswold Howes, Hand book for the curious:
glosses: A type of moth, the io moth.
io
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪəʊ/
rhymes: -aɪəʊ
Etymology: From Latin iō; compare Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ, “oh!”).
Senses: examples: text: Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
In the grip of the snake.
ref: 1913, Crowley, Aleister, “Hymn To Pan”, in Book 4, University of California Libraries, Magick in Theory and Practice:
glosses: An exclamation of joy or triumph.
zee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ziː/
ipa: /ˈzeɪː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: zees
Etymology: 1670s US variant of zed (which see for more), by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee, and standardized by Noah Webster.
Senses: examples: text: Thus first C checks to see if ex and wye are equal. The resulting value of 1 or 0 (true or false) then is compared to the value of zee.
ref: 1984 Waite, Prata & Martin, C (Computer Program Language), p. 190
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
examples: text: zee-bar.
glosses: Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds.
examples: text: Time to get some zees.
glosses: Sleep.
Synonyms: word: zed
word: izzard
Derived terms: word: A to Zee
word: oh zee
word: oh-zee
word: ohzee
word: o-zee
word: ozee
alt: see Z-bar
word: zee bar
zee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ziː/
ipa: /ˈzeɪː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: zees
form: zeeing
form: zeed
form: zeed
Etymology: 1670s US variant of zed (which see for more), by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee, and standardized by Noah Webster.
Senses: glosses: To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
glosses: To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
Related terms: zeta
zee
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Pronunciation: ipa: /ziː/
ipa: /ˈzeɪː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of the, representing primarily French or German accented English.
vice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
homophone: vise
Forms: form: vices
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw.
Senses: examples: text: Pride is a vice, not a virtue.
text: Smoking was a vice Sally picked up in high school.
text: Shepard: I wear a lot of hats, Mr. Vargas. Some days I shut down criminals. Some days I defuse nukes. Some days I like to enjoy private vices. You understand me?
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:
text: It's a rush you can't deny / A little violence is the ultimate drug / Let's get high / You've been powerless to your vices / Self-control defies you
ref: 2015, Slayer, “Vices”:
text: I should not be left to my own devices / they come with prices and vices / I end up in crisis / Tale as old as time
ref: 2022 October 21, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, “Anti-Hero”, in Midnights, performed by Taylor Swift:
glosses: Bad or immoral behaviour.
topics: law
glosses: Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Clipping of vice squad.
examples: text: So a horse with say, navicular disease, making him suitable only for light hacking, would probably be unsound, whereas rearing would be a vice, being a "defect in the temper... making it dangerous". A vice can however render a horse unsound - possibly a crib biter will damage its wind.
ref: 1839, Scholefield v. Robb; cited in Gilligan, Brenda, Practical Horse Law, 2002, →ISBN:
glosses: A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
Derived terms: by vice of
inherent vice
sapphic vice
secret vice
solitary vice
stable vice
vice clause
vice girl
vice squad
Related terms: vicious
vitiate
vitiligo
vituperate
habit
vice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
homophone: vise
Forms: form: vices
Etymology: See vise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”).
glosses: A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
topics: architecture
glosses: A winding or spiral staircase.
examples: text: Fang. If I but fiſt him once: if he come but within my Vice.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 79, line 22:
glosses: A grip or grasp.
vice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
homophone: vise
Forms: form: vices
form: vicing
form: viced
form: viced
Etymology: See vise.
Senses: examples: text: Camillo. As he had ſeen’t, or beene an Instrument / To vice you to't, that you haue toucht his Queene / Forbiddenly.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 281, line 416:
text: What could be done—who was it that could do it—to check the storm-flight of these maniacal horses? Could I not seize the reins from the slumbering coachman? […] [F]rom the way in which the coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh, this was impossible.
ref: 1849 December, Thomas De Quincey, “The English Mail-coach. Section the Second.—The Vision of Sudden Death.”, in Miscellanies (De Quincey’s Works; IV), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 335:
glosses: Alternative spelling of vise (“to hold or squeeze with a vice”).
vice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
homophone: vise
Etymology: From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).
Senses: examples: text: vice president
text: vice admiral
glosses: in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
Derived terms: vice admiral
vice governor
vice mayor
vice president
vice-principal
vice
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
homophone: vise
Etymology: From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).
Senses: examples: text: He was gardener and out-door man, vice Upton, resigned.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXI, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC:
text: A very small cab-boy, vice Stoopid retired, swung on behind Foker's vehicle; knock-kneed and in the tightest leather breeches.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXVIII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC:
glosses: Instead of; in place of; versus.
vice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
homophone: vise
Forms: form: vices
Etymology: From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).
Senses: examples: c. 1850s-1870s, Edward Minister and Son, The Gazette of Fashion and Cutting-Room Companion
The health of the Vice was proposed in appropriate language; in replying, Mr. Marriott thanked the company […]
glosses: One who acts in place of a superior.
anti-gay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-gay
form: most anti-gay
form: antigay
Etymology: From anti- + gay (“homosexual”).
Senses: glosses: Against or opposed to gay people, or to rights for gay people.
Hypernyms: anti-LGBT