cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
polecat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊlkæt/
ipa: /ˈpoʊlˌkæt/
rhymes: -əʊlkæt
Forms: form: polecats
Etymology: From Middle English polcat, pulkat, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle English *pole, *poule (“hen”), from Old French poule (“hen”) + Middle English cat. Compare English foulmart.
Senses: glosses: A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela.
examples: text: For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
ref: 1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:
text: By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergola itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61
glosses: A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela.
notably, the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
synonyms: fitch
foumart
glosses: A skunk.
examples: text: This is adjustable telescopic tubing, wedged securely between floor and ceiling (vertical pole) or wall-to-wall (horizontal pole), within corridors, arches, window openings, doorways, etc. It may be held in position by a strong internal spring or end-screws. Designs include polecat, varipole, barricuda, jack tube, Acrow.
ref: 1991, Gerald Millerson, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film, page 323:
text: This uses a battery-operated HMI/MSR 200 W rigged on a magic arm fastened to a vertical 'pole-cat'. Check that the car roof is suitable for this application and remember to include a clean card (beer mat) between the top of the pole-cat and the car roof!
ref: 2013, Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television, page 196:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A tubular device used to support lights on a set.
Derived terms: European polecat
marbled polecat
steppe polecat
stink like a polecat
striped polecat
ferret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĕr'ət
ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪt
Forms: form: ferrets
Etymology: From Middle English furet, ferret, from Old French furet, from Vulgar Latin *furittum (“weasel, ferret”), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”).
Senses: glosses: An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
glosses: A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
examples: text: The most challenging documentary discoveries were made by a tenacious archival ferret, Dr Antonio Bertoletti. In 1879 he published his findings in a slim, refreshingly dry volume, Francesco Cenci e la sua Famiglia.
ref: 1998 July 2, Charles Nicholl, “Screaming in the Castle”, in London Review of Books, volume XX, number 13:
glosses: A diligent searcher.
Derived terms: chutney ferret
exercise the ferret
ferret-badger
ferreter
ferret-faced
ferret-legging
ferretlike
ferrety
reverse ferret
Related terms: furtive
ferret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fĕr'ət
ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪt
Forms: form: ferrets
form: ferreting
form: ferreted
form: ferreted
Etymology: From Middle English furet, ferret, from Old French furet, from Vulgar Latin *furittum (“weasel, ferret”), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”).
Senses: glosses: To hunt game with ferrets.
examples: text: Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all but for that sham.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
text: He had been piqued by the failure of all his endeavors to ferret out the assassins.
ref: 1842, Edgar Alan Poe, The Mistery of Marie Roget:
text: She ferreted in her bag; then held it up mouth downwards; then fumbled in her lap, all so vigorously that Charles Steele in the Panama hat suspended his paint-brush.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room:
glosses: To uncover and bring to light by searching; usually to ferret out.
Derived terms: ferret about
ferret around
ferret out
ferret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĕr'ət
ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪt
Etymology: From Italian fioretto.
Senses: examples: text: red tape and green ferret
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A tape of silk, cotton, or ribbon, used to tie documents, clothing, etc. or along the edge of fabric.
dormouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔɹ.maʊs/
ipa: /ˈdɔː.maʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: dormice
form: doormouse
Etymology: From Middle English dormowse, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár (“benumbed”) + mous (“mouse”). More at doze, mouse.
The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of Old French dormir (“to sleep”) (as *dormouse (“tending to be dormant”), with second element mistaken for mouse), but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.
Senses: examples: text: For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
ref: 1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:
text: Restoration such as this must work around wildlife habitats, and NR came to discover that almost the entire line was a haven for dormice.
ref: 2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 41:
glosses: Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
glosses: Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
Glis glis (edible dormouse).
glosses: Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
Muscardinus avellanarius (hazel dormouse).
glosses: A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).
Synonyms: glirid
Derived terms: word: fat dormouse
word: garden dormouse
taxonomic: Glirulus japonicus
word: Japanese dormouse
word: Oriental dormouse
muskrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌskɹæt/
Forms: form: muskrats
form: musk-rat
Etymology: Perhaps so called for its musky odour and because it resembles a rat, or perhaps called by an Algonquian name like the Abenaki moskwas, with the spelling altered under the influence of the English words musk and rat.
Senses: examples: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187.
He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.
glosses: A semiaquatic rodent of the tribe Ondatrini.
glosses: Any of several shrews in the family Soricidae, especially an Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus).
glosses: A bandicoot rat.
Synonyms: word: ondatra
word: 'rat
word: rat
sense: Ondatra zibethicus
word: musquash
sense: Suncus murinus
word: Asian house shrew
sense: Suncus murinus
word: musk shrew
Derived terms: taxonomic: Thalictrum pubescens
word: muskrat weed
taxonomic: Acorus calamus
word: muskrat root
word: muskratty
word: Elongated Muskrat
rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbɪt/
enpr: răb'it
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɹæbət/
note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ˈɹæbɪt/
note: General Australian, weak vowel merger
enpr: răb'ət
ipa: /ˈɹæbət/
note: General Australian, weak vowel merger
rhymes: -æbɪt
homophone: rabbet
Forms: form: rabbits
form: rabbiting
form: rabbitting
form: rabbited
form: rabbited
form: rabbitted
form: rabbitted
Etymology: From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe (“rabbit, seal”), of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub.
Related forms include Middle French rabouillet (“baby rabbit”) and in French rabot (“plane”)), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète (“rabbit”)), from Middle Dutch robbe ("rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch rob (“rabbit", also "seal”)); also Middle Low German robbe, rubbe (“rabbit”), and the later German Low German Rubbe, Robb (“seal”), West Frisian robbe (“seal”), Saterland Frisian Rubbe (“seal”), North Frisian rob (“seal”), borrowed into German Robbe (“seal”).
Meant "young rabbit" until the 19th c., when it came to replace the original general term cony, owing to the latter's resemblance to and use as a euphemism for cunny, "vulva" (compare ass and donkey).
Senses: glosses: To hunt rabbits.
examples: text: The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.
text: When the three friends heard someone behind them yell, "police, freeze!" they each rabbited in a different direction.
text: The attacked man stressed to the GCN the importance of confronting someone who is harassing a person in the Fenway. He said the attack on him could have been prevented if another man who was in front of him prior to the attack hadn't "rabbitted out of there."
ref: 1986 December 7, Kim Westheimer, “Gay Bashing Still a Popular Boston Sport”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 3:
glosses: To flee.
Synonyms: sense: to flee
word: run off
sense: to flee
word: scamper
sense: to flee
word: bolt
Related terms: word: buck
taxonomic: Sylvilagus spp.
word: cottontail
word: doe
word: hare
word: kitten
word: warren
rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbɪt/
enpr: răb'it
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɹæbət/
note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ˈɹæbɪt/
note: General Australian, weak vowel merger
enpr: răb'ət
ipa: /ˈɹæbət/
note: General Australian, weak vowel merger
rhymes: -æbɪt
homophone: rabbet
Forms: form: rabbits
form: rabbiting
form: rabbited
form: rabbited
Etymology: From Cockney rhyming slang rabbit and pork, to talk.
Senses: examples: text: Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!
text: Ah start tae feel her up, while rabbitin a load ay shite ahoot how we huv tae stick thegither at a time like this.
ref: 1993, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Times Film School, page 90:
synonyms: rabbit on
glosses: To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
Synonyms: sense: to talk incessantly and childishly
word: babble
word: blather
word: prattle
Derived terms: rabbit on
don't half rabbit
Related terms: word: chew the fat
word: chew the cud
word: shoot the breeze
rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbɪt/
enpr: răb'it
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɹæbət/
note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ˈɹæbɪt/
note: General Australian, weak vowel merger
enpr: răb'ət
ipa: /ˈɹæbət/
note: General Australian, weak vowel merger
rhymes: -æbɪt
homophone: rabbet
Etymology: Perhaps a corruption of rabate.
Senses: examples: text: LORD D. There, Dick, d'ye hear how the tutorer talks? oh rabbit it! he can ladle you out of latin by the quart;—and grunts greek like a pig.
ref: 1797, George Colman, The Heir at Law:
glosses: Confound; damn; drat.
mouflon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːf.lɒn/
ipa: /ˈmuːf.lɑːn/
rhymes: -uːflɒn
rhymes: -uːflɑːn
Forms: form: mouflons
form: moufflon
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765–1775.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most modified domesticates is the sheep, the various breeds of which bear little resemblance to its wild ancestor, the mouflon.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 237:
glosses: A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica.
squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈskwɝ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈskwʌ.ɹəl/
note: New England, very dated
ipa: /ˈskwɪ.ɹəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈskwɪrɪl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
rhymes: -ɪɹəl
Forms: form: squirrels
form: squirril
Etymology: From Middle English squirel, squyrelle, from Anglo-Norman esquirel and Old French escurel (whence French écureuil), from Vulgar Latin *scūriolus, diminutive of *scūrius, variant of Latin sciūrus, from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros, “shadow-tail”, from σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”)).
Displaced native Middle English acquerne, aquerne, from Old English ācweorna.
Senses: examples: text: tree squirrels
text: ground squirrels
text: flying squirrels
text: He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.
ref: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX, "The Sea and the Desert", page 187:
synonyms: sciurid
hypernyms: rodent
<
mammal
<
animal
<
critter
creature
glosses: Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae.
synonyms: sciurid
scug
hypernyms: rodent
<
mammal
<
animal
<
critter
creature
glosses: Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae.
Any of those distinguished typically by a large bushy tail; any of the tree squirrels of subfamily Sciurinae or phenotypically similar sciurids.
coordinate_terms: chipmunk
;
groundhog
woodchuck
;
marmot
qualifier: when without a qualifier
glosses: Someone who displays squirrel-like qualities such as stealing or hoarding objects.
glosses: One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.
topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person, usually a freezoner, who applies L. Ron Hubbard's technology in a heterodox manner.
Derived terms: Abert squirrel
Abert's squirrel
antelope squirrel
antisquirrel
barking squirrel
cat squirrel
chipping squirrel
Douglas squirrel
even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while
even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then
even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while
fart squirrel
Finlayson's squirrel
flying squirrel
fox squirrel
Fremont's squirrel
gray squirrel
grey squirrel
ground squirrel
Himalayan striped squirrel
Japanese squirrel
Kaibab squirrel
leopard squirrel
monkey squirrel
northern palm squirrel
nuttier than squirrel poop
nuttier than squirrel shit
Oriental giant squirrel
palm squirrel
parka squirrel
pink squirrel
Prevost's squirrel
purple squirrel
red squirrel
red-tailed squirrel
secret squirrel
she-squirrel
shrew-faced squirrel
squirrel-brain
squirrel cage
squirrel-cage motor
squirrelcide
squirrel corn
squirreldom
squirreless
squirrelfish
squirrel friend
squirrel frog
squirrel glider
squirrel grass
squirrel grip
squirrel hake
squirrelian
squirreliness
squirrelish
squirrel king
squirrelless
squirrellike
squirrelliness
squirrelly
squirrel monkey
squirrelpox
squirrelproof
squirrel-proof
Squirrels Heath
squirrelsona
squirreltail
squirrel tree frog
squirrel wheel
squirrely
squitten
sugar squirrel
tassel-eared squirrel
variable squirrel
squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈskwɝ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈskwʌ.ɹəl/
note: New England, very dated
ipa: /ˈskwɪ.ɹəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈskwɪrɪl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
rhymes: -ɪɹəl
Forms: form: squirrels
form: squirreling
form: squirrelling
form: squirreled
form: squirreled
form: squirrelled
form: squirrelled
form: squirril
Etymology: From Middle English squirel, squyrelle, from Anglo-Norman esquirel and Old French escurel (whence French écureuil), from Vulgar Latin *scūriolus, diminutive of *scūrius, variant of Latin sciūrus, from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros, “shadow-tail”, from σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”)).
Displaced native Middle English acquerne, aquerne, from Old English ācweorna.
Senses: glosses: To store in a secretive manner, to hide something for future use
glosses: To become distracted
Derived terms: squirrelable
squirrel around
squirrel away
pig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪɡ/
ipa: [pʰɪɡ]
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: pigs
form: pigging
form: pigged
form: pigged
Etymology: From Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn (“swine”)), apparently from Old English *picga (attested only in compounds, such as picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), from Proto-West Germanic *piggō, *puggō (“piglet”). Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (“pigling”), Middle Low German pugge, pûke (“piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū-, *bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big".
A connection to early modern Dutch bigge (contemporary big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“pigling”), and similar terms in Middle Low German is sometimes proposed, "but the phonology is difficult". Some sources say the words are "almost certainly not" related, others consider a relation "probable, but not certain".
The slang sense of "police officer" is attested since at least 1785.
Senses: examples: text: The black sow pigged at seven this morning.
glosses: To give birth.
raw_tags: of swine
examples: text: They were pigging on the free food at the bar.
text: "Wow, Doc. That's heavy." Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.
ref: 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 349:
glosses: To greedily consume (especially food).
glosses: To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
glosses: To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
Derived terms: piggable
pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪɡ/
ipa: [pʰɪɡ]
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: pigs
Etymology: Possibly a transferred use of pig, because the vessel was thought to resemble the animal.
Senses: synonyms: pigg
glosses: An earthenware pot or jar
synonyms: pigg
glosses: An earthenware pot or jar
An earthenware vessel used as a hot-water bottle
Synonyms: word: grice
word: hog
word: oinker
word: pig
word: piggy
word: porker
word: squealer
word: swine
Hypernyms: word: animal
word: creature
word: farm animal
word: mammal
word: omnivore
word: Suidae
word: Sus
word: vertebrate
Hyponyms: word: boar
word: brood sow
word: herd boar
word: hogget
word: piglet
word: pigling
word: shoat
word: sow
Meronyms: word: bacon
word: chitterlings
word: ham
word: hog maw
word: pigmeat
word: pig's trotter
word: pork
word: pork loin
word: sowbelly
word: swineflesh
word: hock
word: pigskin
word: pigtail
word: snout
word: trotter
Derived terms: pig-ass
pig-cart
piggin
pig-man
pig-shop
pig-wife
Related terms: word: hoggish
word: pannage
word: piggery
word: pigpen
word: pigsty
word: porciform
word: porcine
wild boar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪld ˈboɹ/
ipa: /ˈwaɪld ˈbɔː/
Forms: form: wild boars
form: wild boar
Senses: examples: text: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
synonyms: wild pig
glosses: A wild swine native to Eurasia and North Africa (Sus scrofa), now widely distributed elsewhere and ancestor of most domestic pig breeds.
Related terms: feral pig
mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: moles
Etymology: From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-West Germanic *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”).
Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻 (mail, “spot, blemish”).
Senses: glosses: A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
Synonyms: birthmark
nevus
naevus
nævus
Related terms: beauty mark
mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: moles
form: mool
form: moule
form: mowle
form: mold
Etymology: From Middle English molle (“mole”), molde, mole, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (“mole, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *molg-, *molk- (“slug, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)melw- (“to grind, crush, beat”).
Cognate with North Frisian mull (“mole”), Saterland Frisian molle (“mole”), Dutch mol (“mole”), Low German Mol, Mul (“mole”), German Molch (“salamander, newt”), Old Russian смолжь (smolžʹ, “snail”), Czech mlž (“clam”).
Derivation as an abbreviation of Middle English molewarpe, a variation of moldewarpe, moldwerp (“mole”) in Middle English is unexplained and probably unlikely due to the simultaneous occurrence of both words. See mouldwarp.
Senses: glosses: Any of several small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae.
glosses: Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: An internal spy; a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
glosses: A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
glosses: A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
Synonyms: word: molewarp
word: mouldwarp
sense: any of family Talpidae
word: talpid
Derived terms: word: blind as a mole
taxonomic: Parascalops breweri
word: Brewer's mole
taxonomic: Scalopus aquaticus
word: common mole
word: duckmole
taxonomic: Ornithorhynchus anatinus
word: duck mole
taxonomic: Scalopus aquaticus
word: eastern mole
taxonomic: Chrysochloridae spp.
word: golden mole
word: hairy-tailed mole
taxonomic: Parascalops breweri
word: hairytail mole
taxonomic: Mogera wogura
word: Japanese mole
word: marsupial mole
word: mole-bank
taxonomic: Ricinus communis
word: mole bean
word: molecast
word: molecatcher
word: molecatching
taxonomic: Hippoidea spp.
word: mole crab
word: Mole Creek
word: mole cricket
word: mole-eyed
word: molehead
word: moleheap
word: molehill *
word: molehunt
word: molehunter
word: moleish
word: molelike
word: moleomancy
word: mole plough
word: moleproof
word: mole-rat *
word: mole run
taxonomic: Ambystoma spp.
word: mole salamander
word: mole shrew *
word: moleskin
word: moletrap
taxonomic: Talpa davidiana
word: Père David's mole
word: rat-mole
word: rat mole
taxonomic: Mogera tokudae
word: Sado mole
taxonomic: Bathyergus suillus
word: sand mole
word: shrew mole *
taxonomic: Condylura cristata
word: star-nosed mole
taxonomic: Mogera wogura
word: Temminck's mole
english: animal etc.
translation: animal etc.
word: terms derived from mole
taxonomic: Mogera tokudae
word: Tokuda's mole
taxonomic: Talpa tyrrhenica
word: Tyrrhenian mole
word: water mole
word: watermole
word: whack-a-mole
mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʉl/
ipa: [ˈmɔʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: moles
Etymology: From moll (from Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary), influenced by the spelling of the word mole (“an internal spy”), and due to /mɒl/ and /məʊl/ merging as [ˈmɔʊɫ] in the Australian accent.
Senses: glosses: A moll, a bitch, a slut.
Synonyms: moll
mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʉl/
ipa: [ˈmɔʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʉl/
ipa: [ˈmɔʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: moles
Etymology: From French môle or Latin mōles (“mass, heap, rock”).
Senses: examples: text: [Alexander the Great] then conceived the stupendous idea of constructing a mole, which should at once connect [Tyre] with the main land; and this was actually accomplished by driving piles and pouring in incalculable quantities of soil and fragments of rock; and it is generally believed, partly on the authority of ancient authors, that the whole ruins of Old Tyre were absorbed in this vast enterprize, and buried in the depths of the sea [...]
ref: 1847, George A. Fisk, A pastor's memorial of the holy land:
text: Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1:
text: Using the countless tons of rock from the cliff-face, supplemented by much more from inland, they threw out a huge breakwater, 2,000 ft. long and 80 ft. high, roughly at right angles to the quay, so forming an almost completely sheltered corner. Fifty years later, this massive mole is still standing up to the worst that the Irish Sea can do.
ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:
text: [about Saint-Tropez] Yachts and fishing boats fill the little square of water, which is surrounded on two sides by quays, on the third by a small ship-repairing yard and on the fourth by the mole where the fishing boats moor and the nets are spread out to dry.
ref: 1983, Archibald Lyall, Arthur Norman Brangham, The companion guide to the south of France:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
glosses: A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
glosses: An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʉl/
ipa: [ˈmɔʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʉl/
ipa: [ˈmɔʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: moles
form: mol
Etymology: Calqued from German Mol; spelled as if it had come directly from molecule or Latin moles (the ultimate source of Mol and molecule in any event).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number.
Hyponyms: gram molecule
gram atom
Derived terms: atto-mole
attomole
centimole
decimole
femtomole
kilomole
micromole
mmole
molal
mole fraction
mole sieve
nanomole
picomole
yoctomole
zeptomole
mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʉl/
ipa: [ˈmɔʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʉl/
ipa: [ˈmɔʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: moles
Etymology: In English since before the 20th century. From French môle f, from Latin mola (“millstone”), because it is a hardened mass.
Senses: glosses: A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʉl/
ipa: [ˈmɔʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /ˈmoʊleɪ/
ipa: /ˈmoʊli/
ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mɔʊl/
ipa: /mɒʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /məʉl/
ipa: [ˈmɔʊɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: moles
form: molé
Etymology: From Spanish mole, from Classical Nahuatl mōlli (“sauce; stew; something ground”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America countries, especially one that contains chocolate and is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
fox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒks/
ipa: /fɑks/
rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: foxes
form: foxing
form: foxed
form: foxed
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos
Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz
Old English fox
Middle English fox
English fox
From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), possibly from *puḱ- (“tail”).
Cognate with Scots fox (“fox”), North Frisian foos, fos (“fox”), Saterland Frisian Foaks (“fox”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), Dutch vos (“fox”), Low German vos (“fox”), German Fuchs (“fox”), Icelandic fóa (“fox”), Tocharian B päkā (“tail, chowrie”), Russian пух (pux, “down, fluff”), Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha) (whence Torwali پوش (pūš, “fox”), Hindi पूंछ (pūñch, “tail”)).
Philosophical sense from the 1953 essay The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin. Military aviation sense from the pre-NATO military spelling alphabet where Fox represented F and was short for 'to fire'.
Senses: examples: text: I see a number of gallants every where, whoſe incomes come in yearely by ſet numbers, but runne out daily, ſans number. […] And when I ſee them often foxed, me thinke the Proverbe ſutes thoſe ſutes, what is the fox but his caſe? I ſhould thinke them to be Eutrapelus his enemies, whom he cloathed richly to make them ſpend freely, and grow deboſhed.
ref: 1680, Arthur Warwick, Spare-Minutes, or Resolved Meditations and Remediated Resolutions:
glosses: To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
examples: text: This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.
glosses: To confuse or baffle (someone).
glosses: To act slyly or craftily.
examples: text: Have you any news of Miriam? As I have had no reply to my delicately worded epistle, I can only presume that you foxed me with the wrong address, and that you are yourself already engaged to be married to her.
ref: Quoted in 2000, John Lewes, Jock Lewes: Co-founder of the SAS (page 132)
glosses: To cheat or rob.
examples: text: The pages of the book show distinct foxing.
glosses: To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
glosses: To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
glosses: To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
examples: text: I drank […] so much wine that I was almost foxed.
ref: 1661 October 9 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 29th, 1661 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume II, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:
glosses: To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
glosses: To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
Derived terms: foxed
foxing
outfox
outfoxed
shrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shro͞o
enpr: shrū
ipa: /ʃɹuː/
ipa: /ʃɹɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: shrews
form: shrewing
form: shrewed
form: shrewed
Etymology: From Middle English schrewen (“to make evil; curse”), from Middle English schrewe, schrowe, screwe (“wicked; evil; an evil person”), from Old English *scrēawa (“wicked person”, literally “biter”). Perhaps ultimately from the same word as Etymology 1 above.
Senses: examples: text: I shrew myself.
ref: 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
glosses: To beshrew; to curse.
CSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /siː ɛs ˈɛs/
enpr: sē' ĕs' ĕsʹ
ipa: /ˌsi ˌɛs ˈɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: Initialism of Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language.
glosses: Initialism of Central Superior Services.
Derived terms: CSSer
OOCSS
SCSS
CSS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /siː ɛs ˈɛs/
enpr: sē' ĕs' ĕsʹ
ipa: /ˌsi ˌɛs ˈɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Senses: examples: text: “I don't know. I just don't know. What is it? I suffer from CSS—that's Can't See Shit—but I don't think I could hold a cane in my hand.”
ref: 1998, Stephen Kuusisto, Planet of the Blind, →ISBN, page 110:
text: Lake Michigan was out there, but invisible. We could see nothing around us but fog.
“A CSS day,” Jeff said.
“What's that?”
“Can't see shit.”
ref: 2014, Jerry Dennis, The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: Initialism of can't see shit.
GNU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːˌɛnˈjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: GNUs
Senses: examples: text: This scenario would hark back to the post-apartheid era when South Africa operated under a GNU to oversee the new constitution, led by Mandela as president and FW de Klerk and Thabo Mbeki as deputy presidents, between April 1994 and February 1997.
ref: 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of government of national unity.
GNU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːˌɛnˈjuː/
rhymes: -uː
ipa: /ɡəˈn(j)uː/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːˌɛnˈjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: gnu (one pronunciation)
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːˌɛnˈjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: Coined by Richard Stallman in 1983 as a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix”, following convention of naming programs similar to or inspired by existing programs as “(New Name) Is Not (Old Name)”; compare Xinu.
Specifically influenced by lack of English words of form ?nu (“?NU is Not Unix”), that gnu is the alphabetically first (and in fact only) English word of the form ?nu (“?’s Not Unix”), that gnu was perceived as a humorous word, and the existence of the song “The Gnu”.
Senses: glosses: The Free Software Foundation's project to develop a free UNIX-like operating system, including the legal framework, such as the source code and documentation licenses.
Derived terms: GNU FDL
GNU GPL
GNU/Linux
US
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː.ɛs/
Forms: form: U.S.
form: U. S.
Etymology: Abbreviation of United States.
Senses: examples: text: ICANN is based in the US.
text: legal residents of the contiguous US
text: Some 35 states, all five US territories and four tribes have told the US Department of Agriculture that they will participate in Summer EBT this year, covering about 70% of the children eligible for the program.
ref: 2024 January 10, Tami Luhby, “New program will help feed millions of kids over the summer, but not all states are participating”, in CNN:
text: From the perspective of foreign producers, it is more difficult to export tariffed goods to the US because US importers have to pay the tariff.
ref: 2024 December 5, Madison Minges, “Understanding Trump Tariffs 2.0”, in American University:
glosses: Initialism of the United States: a country in North America.
Derived terms: US-ian
US American
USrael
US-wide
ANZUS
AUKUS
US
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː.ɛs/
Forms: form: USs
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: CS
glosses: Initialism of unconditioned stimulus.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ultrasonography (ultrasound).
US
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː.ɛs/
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of undersize.
examples: text: The radio is US.
glosses: Abbreviation of unserviceable.
US
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː.ɛs/
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Upper Sorbian.
USA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː ɛs ˈeɪ/
enpr: yo͞o' ĕs' āʹ
ipa: /ˌju ˌɛs ˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: USA
form: the USA
form: U.S.A.
form: U. S. A.
Senses: examples: text: Donning a tracksuit in the colors of the American flag and a Team USA shirt that paid respect to the late NBA Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant, Snoop Dogg laced up for a 200-meter exhibition race against Trinidadian former Olympic medalist Ato Boldon and two-time NCAA outdoor 200m champion Wallace Spearmon.
ref: 2024 June 25, Sam Joseph, “Snoop Dogg delivers mic drop moments at US trials as 52-year-old runs 200m in 34.44 seconds”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America.
examples: text: The Defense Distinguished Service Medal was awarded to GEN Martin Dempsey, USA.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of United States Army.
glosses: Initialism of Union of South Africa.
qualifier: Malaysian politics
glosses: Initialism of United Sabah Alliance.
Synonyms: Usania
Usonia
US
U.S. of A.
US of A
Coordinate terms: word: Continental Army
english: United States Air Force
translation: United States Air Force
word: USAF
word: USN
english: United States Marine Corps
translation: United States Marine Corps
word: USMC
Derived terms: Usanian
USAAC
USAAF
Related terms: US
USA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː ɛs ˈeɪ/
enpr: yo͞o' ĕs' āʹ
ipa: /ˌju ˌɛs ˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: USAs
form: U.S.A.
form: U. S. A.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of United States Attorney.
Derived terms: AUSA
URL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːˌɑːɹˈɛl/
ipa: /ˌjuˌɑɹˈɛl/
ipa: /ɜːl/
ipa: /ɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: earl
Forms: form: URLs
Senses: examples: https://en.wiktionary.org/ is the URL of English Wiktionary.
hypernyms: IRI
URI
glosses: Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
examples: text: Google itself has even been accused of profiting from the work of cybersquatters who buy URLs that are near to famous ones, but which often get mistyped–a practice known as typosquatting.
ref: 2010 September 14, Kit Eaton, “From URLs to Apple Apps: A Brief History of Cybersquatting”, in Fast Company:
text: This illegal activity involves buying a URL that’s a misspelling of a popular kids site, e.g. bobthebiulder.com, and then serving hardcore porn ads.
ref: 2011 June 14, Michael Agger, “Google Kids: The Sequel”, in Slate:
text: For a few days leading up to Christmas that year, Howe set up a kiosk in a mall that sold domain names to average shoppers. They sold about 50 of them to people who were persuaded to buy a url and a hosting package for a present instead of a traditional gift for families and friends.
ref: 2012 December 31, Alyson Shontell, “Meet Page Howe, A Man Who Made Millions Selling 2 Of The World's Most Expensive Domain Names”, in Business Insider:
text: Some of them appear to be simple website squatting, buying URLs in hopes that someone else will pay a premium for the real estate later […]
ref: 2013 November 16, Ben Richmond, “Some of the Fraudulent Obamacare Sites Work Better Than the Real Thing”, in Motherboard:
text: She bought a URL from GoDaddy and Defense of Democracy was born.
ref: 2023 May 30, Sarah Jones, “The Revolt of the Other Mothers”, in Intelligencer:
hypernyms: IRI
URI
glosses: Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
a domain name
hypernyms: IRI
URI
glosses: Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
The username associated with a Tumblr blog and typically included in its URL.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
hypernyms: line officer
glosses: Initialism of unrestricted line officer.
topics: mathematics
medicine
sciences
statistics
coordinate_terms: LRL
glosses: Initialism of upper reference limit.
Derived terms: clean URL
URL injection
URL rot
UN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: U.N.
Senses: meronyms: WMO
glosses: Initialism of United Nations.
Synonyms: UNO
Derived terms: UN General Assembly
UK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: UK
form: the UK
form: U.K.
Senses: examples: text: The sprinkles had the red food coloring E127, or erythrosine. E127 is only permitted for use in cocktail cherries and candied cherries in the UK and the EU, according to a statement from West Yorkshire Trading Standards sent to CNN Thursday.
ref: 2021 October 14, Jack Guy, “UK bakery banned from using sprinkles which are legal in the US”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of United Kingdom
synonyms: UKY
Kentucky
coordinate_terms: KSU
Kentucky State
glosses: Initialism of University of Kentucky
Derived terms: yookay
Related terms: United Kingdom of Great Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
British Isles
UK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: U.K.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Uttarakhand.
XML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 'XmL_3rr0R~/?$-HELP.i.am.trapped.in.the.newsbar!.^'
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Ndemic Creations, Plague Inc., Android, scene: News item:
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: FSXML
FXML
qualifier: file format
glosses: Initialism of Extensible Markup Language, a flexible text format for creating structured computer documents in machine-readable form.
Derived terms: streaming XML
XML tree
Related terms: XHTML
XLink
XMI
XPath
XPointer
XSLT
HTML
SGML
XAML
XUL
XHTML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, a reformulation of HTML as an XML application.
Related terms: HTML
XML
SGML
EMP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of extremely metal-poor.
EMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EMPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of electromagnetic pulse.
glosses: Initialism of enamel matrix protein.
Related terms: sense: extremely metal poor
word: population III
laser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪz.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈleɪzɚ/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lasers
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
Latin amplus
Latin -ficō
Latin amplificō
Latin -tiō
Latin amplificātiōlbor.
English amplification
Latin stimulus
Latin stimulo
Latin stimulatusbor.
English stimulate
English -ed
English stimulated
English emission
English radiation
English LASER
English laser
From LASER, acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Coined by American physicist Gordon Gould in 1957. Originally called an optical maser.
Senses: glosses: A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
glosses: A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.
examples: text: The bad news is that nearly every color laser is too big to share a desk with comfortably.
ref: 2004 May 18, PC Mag, volume 23, number 9, page 117:
glosses: A laser printer.
examples: text: I've still got a few more sessions of laser to get rid of the rest of my facial hair.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of laser hair removal.
Synonyms: word: LASER
raw_tags: of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
word: optical maser
word: optical MASER
Derived terms: antilaser
atom laser
biolaser
chemical laser
CO2 laser
diodelaser
endolaser
excimer laser
femtolaser
fiber laser
gyrolaser
iraser
lase
laserable
laser beam
laserbrain
laser card
laser cooling
laser copier
laser diode
Laserdisc
laser disc
laser disk
laser eye surgery
laser focus
laser-focused
laser gun
laser-gun
lasergun
laser haemorrhoidoplasty
laser hemorrhoidoplasty
laser harp
laserist
laserless
laserlike
laser-like
laser pen
laser-plasma accelerator
laser pointer
laser printer
laserproof
laserpuncture
laser rot
laser-sharp
laser surgery
laser tag
laser typeset
laser typesetting
laserwort
LASIK
maser
microlaser
MOPA laser
multilaser
nanolaser
Newton's flaming laser sword
Newton's laser sword
nonlaser
quantum cascade laser
Raman laser
ring laser
superlaser
uvaser
xaser
Related terms: Taser
laser
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪz.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈleɪzɚ/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lasers
form: lasering
form: lasered
form: lasered
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
Latin amplus
Latin -ficō
Latin amplificō
Latin -tiō
Latin amplificātiōlbor.
English amplification
Latin stimulus
Latin stimulo
Latin stimulatusbor.
English stimulate
English -ed
English stimulated
English emission
English radiation
English LASER
English laser
From LASER, acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Coined by American physicist Gordon Gould in 1957. Originally called an optical maser.
Senses: examples: text: I'm having my eyes lasered to correct my astigmatism.
glosses: To cut, destroy or treat with a laser.
examples: text: None was any more sensational than No.6, a fantastic 27-23 last-gasp win over the Arizona Cardinals, cemented by a brilliant toe-sticking TD catch by Santonio Holmes in the back of the end zone with 35 seconds remaining on a pass lasered by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
ref: 2009 February 2, Dave Perkins, “Steelers tiptoe past Cards”, in Toronto Star:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To throw or kick with laser-like precision.
Derived terms: laser in on
unlasered
laser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪz.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈleɪzɚ/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈleɪs.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
homophone: lacer
ipa: /ˈleɪz.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈleɪzɚ/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lasers
form: lasar
Etymology: From Latin laser.
Senses: glosses: A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
glosses: Such a plant.
Related terms: laserpicium
Laserpithium
silphium
silfium
silphion
AOL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Other sites in the AOL network are also getting "updated experiences," according to Wilson, "including greater AOL attribution presence and consistency."
ref: 2009 December 10, Staci D. Kramer, “Welcome to the new AOL”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2015:
text: (Mad Pierre had showered her with his customary praise as well, exclaiming on IRC that she made him behave “like a testosteronal teenager in an AOL chat room”—a line that Shiksaa was quick to appropriate for use in her Usenet signature.)
ref: 2014, Brian S. McWilliams, Spam Kings, page 85:
glosses: Initialism of America Online.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of aspect-oriented language.
Derived terms: aolbonics
AOLer