cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
redress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹiˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹəˈdɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹiˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹəˈdɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: redresses
form: redressing
form: redressed
form: redressed
form: re-dress
Etymology: From re- + dress.
Senses: examples: text: The top soil, which was removed before the main excavations, is being redressed on the new slopes to a depth of 4 in. and sown with grass seed.
ref: 1958 January 24, “Rainham-Newington Widening, Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, pages 51, 53:
text: The teacher first undressed and redressed the doll for the child, then showed her how to pull the snaps apart. No other activity interested the little girl, and after repeated demonstrations she was still trying unsuccessfully to undress the doll.
ref: 1963, Albert J[ay] Solnit, Sally A. Provence, editors, Modern Perspectives in Child Development: In Honor of Milton J. E. Senn, New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, →OCLC, page 588:
text: The position of the grinding wheel surface relative to the machine axis positions continually changes due to grinding wheel wear, thermal expansion of the machine tool, and thermal expansion or contraction of the grinding wheel. […] The effect of this variability is that the wheel position stored in the CNC [computer numerical control] is inaccurate by the time it is necessary to re-dress the grinding wheel. To overcome this problem, the machine user often specifies a large dressing in-feed to guarantee that the dressing tool will dress the grinding wheel.
ref: 2009, W[illiam] Brian Rowe, “Grinding Wheel Dressing”, in Principles of Modern Grinding Technology, Oxford; Burlington, Mass.: William Andrew, Elsevier, →ISBN, pages 71–72:
text: I talked with her mother whenever she was in the room while I redressed the wound.
ref: 2009, John C. Barber, The Joy of Medical Practice: Forty Years of Interesting Patients, page 22:
glosses: To dress again.
examples: text: Meanwhile the actors rearranged themselves into a different blocking, as the prop department redressed the set.
ref: 1989, American Cinematographer, volume 70, Hollywood, Calif.: ASC Holding Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90:
text: [Val] Lewton would redress standing sets, turning a church into an insane asylum or the staircase for Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons into the staircase for the young girl's apartment in Cat People. […] [Y]ou should be thinking about trying to reuse every location you have as another location, either by using another room or another angle or re-dressing what's already there.
ref: 2004, Michael P. DiPaolo, “How to be a Guerrilla Filmmaker”, in The Six Day Horror Movie: A No-Nonsense Guide to No-Budget Filmmaking, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 120:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
redress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹiˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹəˈdɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹiˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹəˈdɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: redresses
form: re-dress
Etymology: From re- + dress.
Senses: examples: text: The Honeydukes set in this film is a redress of the set of Flourish and Blotts that was seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which, in turn, was a redress of the Ollivander's set from the first film.
ref: c.''' 2008, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, in Wikipedians, editors, Harry Potter: The Complete Guide, [Mainz, Germany]: PediaPress, page 595:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
ree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: rees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rei (“Portuguese real”).
ree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: reer
form: more ree
form: reest
form: most ree
form: rie
Etymology: From Middle English rei, reh, reoh, from Old English hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, stormy, tempestuous”), from Proto-Germanic *hreuhaz (“bad, wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots ree, rae, ray (“ree”), Old Saxon hrē (“evil, bad, angry”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (inrauhtjan, “to become angry, rage against”). Related to Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.
Senses: examples: text: "I saw,", says I, "he was a ree-brained divell, but thought nothing of it, as all the British are so when they come abroad."
ref: 1756, Margaret Calderwood, “Mrs Calderwood's Journey”, in The Coltness Collections: MDCVIII-MDCCCXL, The Maitland Club, published 1842, page 222:
glosses: Wild; fierce; outrageous; overexcited; frenzied; delirious; crazy.
examples: text: One of the witnesses speaks of having seen this sober judge "upon the bench, when he appeared to be ree, and as if he had been drunk the night before."
ref: 1839, Joseph Robertson, The Book of Bon-Accord: or, A Guide to the City of Aberdeen, footnote, page 94:
glosses: Befuddled with liquor; half-drunk; tipsy.
Synonyms: sense: frenzied
word: frantic
sense: frenzied
word: frenetic
sense: frenzied
word: off the chain
sense: half-drunk
word: buzzed
word: merry
word: squiffy
word: drunk
ree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: rees
form: rie
Etymology: From Middle English rei, reh, reoh, from Old English hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, stormy, tempestuous”), from Proto-Germanic *hreuhaz (“bad, wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots ree, rae, ray (“ree”), Old Saxon hrē (“evil, bad, angry”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (inrauhtjan, “to become angry, rage against”). Related to Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.
Senses: glosses: A state of befuddlement; intoxication.
glosses: A state of great excitement or frenzy.
ree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: rees
form: reeing
form: reed
form: reed
form: rie
Etymology: From Middle English rei, reh, reoh, from Old English hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, stormy, tempestuous”), from Proto-Germanic *hreuhaz (“bad, wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots ree, rae, ray (“ree”), Old Saxon hrē (“evil, bad, angry”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (inrauhtjan, “to become angry, rage against”). Related to Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.
Senses: glosses: To become extremely excited; fly into a rage.
glosses: To drive into a state of excitement; fire with enthusiasm.
ree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: rees
form: reeing
form: reed
form: reed
Etymology: Compare riddle (“a sieve”).
Senses: examples: text: After it is well rubbed and winnowed, you must then Ree it over in a fine Sieve , and if any of the Malt be uncleansed , then rub it again into the Sieve , 'till it be pure , and the rubbings will ariſe on the Top of the Sieve
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.
ree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: rees
Etymology: Of obscure origin. Perhaps from a rebracketing of ea with Old English þære, i.e. þære ēa becoming the ree. Alternatively, perhaps a variant (like rye, found in the placename Rye) of rith.
Senses: examples: text: The church of this pariſh, vulgarly called St. Mary Overy, from its dedication to the virgin Mary, and ſituation over the Ree or river, in reſpect of London, is a ſtately Gothic ſtructure, in the form of a cathedral.
ref: 1768-9, Tobias George Smollett, The Present State of all Nations
glosses: A small river or stream.
ree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: rees
Etymology: From Old Norse hríð (“storm”), whence also Norwegian Nynorsk ri (“period with harsh weather”).
Senses: examples: text: To my surprise he took our caustic remarks about the climate very calmly, even cheerfully. "Och, man, it's only the Beltane ree," he said with a lively twinkle, enjoying our bewilderment. Evidently, the Shetland weather was merely putting on a scheduled performance and he for one was very well satisfied with its achievement - but the Beltane ree . . . ?
ref: 1952, Ursula Venables, Tempestuous Eden, page 147:
text: There were three "Rees" (wild tempests), Buggle Ree, Beltane Ree, and Simmer-mill Ree.
ref: 1974, Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby, Shetland Traditional Lore:
text: […] rees. There were four rees in the first half of the year – the Bogel ree in March, the Simmermill ree in April, the Beltane ree about the beginning of May, and the Johnsmas ree which brought a short spell of unsettled weather in the latter half of June.
ref: 1981, James R. Nicolson, Shetland Folklore, Robert Hale, page 55:
glosses: A period of stormy or unsettled weather, especially one occurring somewhat predictably at a particular time of year.
Related terms: rigg
ree-raw
riddle me ree
reef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēf
ipa: /ɹiːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: reefs
form: riff
Etymology: From earlier riff, from Middle English rif, from Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”). Dutch rif (“reef”), Low German riff, reff (“reef”), German Riff (“reef, ledge”) are also borrowed from Old Norse. Doublet of rib.
Senses: glosses: A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
glosses: A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
Derived terms: barrier reef
close reef
coral reef
Fiery Cross Reef
fringing reef
reef and beef
reef band
reef crab
reef knoll
reefless
reef line
reef point
reef rash
reef shark
reef squid
Reef Station
reef-tackle
Reefton
reef triggerfish
reefwalker
reefwalking
reefwide
saddle back reef
saddle reef
take a reef in
Vuladdore Reef
yellowtail reef fish
reef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēf
ipa: /ɹiːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: reefs
Etymology: From Middle English reef, from Old Norse rif, Middle Dutch rif, rēve, and/or Middle Low German ref. Possibly a figurative use of the word for “rib” in etymology 1 above, in which case all forms must, again, be borrowings from Old Norse. Alternatively it may be a different word related to Old English rift (“curtain, veil”), ārāfian (“to uncoil, wind off”).
Senses: examples: text: They sailed as if they were stark mad; they never took in a reef in the sail, and when the seas filled the boat, they sailed her up on the back of a wave till she stood nearly on end, the water rushing out over her stern as out of a spout.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 49:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind.
glosses: A reef knot.
Derived terms: bag reef
reef-band
reefless
Spanish reef
reef
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rēf
ipa: /ɹiːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: reefer
form: more reef
form: reefest
form: most reef
form: reif
form: rief
Etymology: From Middle English ref, hreof, from Old English hrēof (“rough, scabby, leprous", also "a leper”), from Proto-Germanic *hreubaz (“rough, scabby, scrubby”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreup- (“scab, crust”), related to Old English hrēofla (“leprosy, leper”). Cognate with Scots reif (“a skin disease leaving crusts on the skin, the scab”), Old High German riob (“leprous, scabby, mangy”), Icelandic hrjúfur (“scabby, rough”). Compare riffe, dandruff.
Senses: glosses: Scabby; scurvy.
reef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēf
ipa: /ɹiːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: reefs
form: reif
form: rief
Etymology: From Middle English ref, hreof, from Old English hrēof (“rough, scabby, leprous", also "a leper”), from Proto-Germanic *hreubaz (“rough, scabby, scrubby”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreup- (“scab, crust”), related to Old English hrēofla (“leprosy, leper”). Cognate with Scots reif (“a skin disease leaving crusts on the skin, the scab”), Old High German riob (“leprous, scabby, mangy”), Icelandic hrjúfur (“scabby, rough”). Compare riffe, dandruff.
Senses: qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: The itch; any eruptive skin disorder.
qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: Dandruff.
reek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēk
ipa: /riːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: wreak
Forms: form: reeks
Etymology: From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English rēc, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi-.
See also West Frisian reek, riik, Dutch rook, Low German Röök, German Rauch, Danish røg, Norwegian Bokmål røyk; also Lithuanian rū̃kti (“to smoke”), rū̃kas (“smoke, fog”), Albanian regj (“to tan”).
Senses: glosses: A strong unpleasant smell.
examples: text: Thou mightst as well say, I loue to walke by the
Counter-gate, which is as hatefull to me, as the reeke of
a Lime-kill.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: 1768, Alexander Ross (poet), "Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess": a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect
Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam,
And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam;
And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer,
And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.
text: The blue reeks of smoke from the cottages gave the whole widespread landscape an air of settled order and homely comfort.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
Derived terms: peat-reek
reek-silver
reek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rēk
ipa: /riːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: wreak
Forms: form: reeks
form: reeking
form: reeked
form: reeked
Etymology: From Middle English reken (“to smoke”), from Old English rēocan, from Proto-West Germanic *reukan, from Proto-Germanic *reukaną, from Proto-Indo-European *rougi-. See above.
Related to Dutch ruiken, Low German rüken, German riechen, Danish ryge, Swedish ryka.
Senses: examples: text: You reek of perfume.
text: Your fridge reeks of egg.
glosses: To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
examples: text: The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.
glosses: To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
glosses: To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
examples: text: […] innumerable Legions of his Angels of Light, the warm gleames of whose presence is able to make the Mountains to reek and smoak, and to awake that fiery principle that lies dormient in the Earth into a devouring flame.
ref: 1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, page 236:
glosses: To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
examples: text: The slaughter of lambs in offering reeked the fore-courts of the Temple.
ref: 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur:
text: [I]f we get caught we're for the gibbet and the chains. Our flesh will reek the wind.
ref: 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 43:
glosses: To cause (something) to smell.
examples: text: ... the snow still darkens the air, and reeks along the curling wreaths, as if each were a furnace.
ref: 1837, Robert Mudie, Spring, or the causes, appearances, and effects, of the seasonal renovations of nature in all climats, page 266:
text: the sun, which had been occasionally peeping from amidst the windy, rain-reeking clouds, was getting ominously low. One part, however, of the man's prophecy was not borne out - the weather steadily improved and the wind dropped.
ref: 1888, William Wilthew Fenn, A professional secret, and other tales, page 44:
text: Great Serpents, like undulating clouds, / Crested, rain-reeking. Their bellies blacken the sky; / Their fierce rains flood earth's hill-rimmed vale; / Their drumming is from mountain to mountain; / From horizon to horizon is their thunder.
ref: 1922, Art and Archaeology, page 62:
glosses: To fall in such a way (e.g. particularly finely or heavily) as to resemble smoke.
raw_tags: of rain or snow
Synonyms: word: funk
word: honk
word: hum
word: niff
word: pong
word: reek
word: smell
word: stink
word: stink to high heaven
word: whiff
Hypernyms: word: have a smell
Hyponyms: word: foresmell
word: knock a buzzard off a shit wagon
word: outstink
Derived terms: lang may yer lum reek
Related terms: word: malodorous
word: stench
reek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēk
ipa: /riːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: wreak
Forms: form: reeks
Etymology: From Middle English reke (“heap, pile”), from Old English hrēac.
Senses: examples: text: The fen "dikes" have been filled-in in some districts; and the black reeks remind one of snow-reeks, except for their blackness.
ref: 1855, The Economist, page 506:
text: "There'll be snow-reeks as high as houses if I wait half-an-hour longer." "There'll be no occasion for ye to wade thruff snaw-reeks at all, if ye'll go wi' me. I'll tak ye across th' warpin' till ye get to the sand-lane end, […]
ref: 1874, Edward PEACOCK (F.S.A.), John Markenfield. A Novel, page 118:
text: Here a reek of straw was made, and as the reek of corn reduced in size this rose higher; there was skill in making a well balanced reek. The story of the harvest was told at the front of the thresher.
ref: 2013 September 2, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A pile, a heap (as of snow, hay, etc).
reek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēk
ipa: /riːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: wreak
Forms: form: reeks
Etymology: Probably a transferred use (after Irish cruach (“stack (of corn), pile, mountain, hill”)) of a variant of rick, with which it is cognate.
Senses: glosses: A hill; a mountain.
reel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːl/
ipa: /ˈɹiːəl/
homophone: real stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːl
rhymes: -iːəl
Forms: form: reels
Etymology: From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English rēol, hrēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hrehul, from Proto-Germanic *hrehulaz, *hrahilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave, beat”). Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræll.
Senses: examples: text: Doubtless the present game of chess was developed through just such fiddling; perhaps someone once thought that the drunken reel of the knight was hostile to the essence of Chess.
ref: 2010, Andrew Koppelman, The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law, page 92:
glosses: A shaky or unsteady gait.
examples: text: So strict is the kirk of Scotland, that one minister was unfrocked for writing a play (in former times); and another was sent about his business for being too fond of whiskey and of dancing the reel of Tullochgorum.
ref: 1824, Felix M'Donogh, The Hermit in Edinburgh:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A lively dance originating in Scotland.
examples: text: […]sample the famed waters from the Scottish mountains like a native born, and last but not least, play a reel on the bagpipes in the big hall that set all the laddies and lassies dancing.
ref: 1913, Forest and Stream, volume 80:
text: The traditional reel Within a Mile of Dublin, for instance, distorts until it reaches something quasi-industrial.
ref: 2023 November 13, Patrick Clarke, “‘People’s idea of Irishness is so warped’: John Francis Flynn, the folk singer fighting for Dublin’s spirit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
examples: raw_tags: used by seamen
text: a log reel
text: an angler's reel
text: a garden reel
text: Nudge the fruit machine reel.
text: A hose reel forms part of a hose trolley or hose cart
glosses: A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: showreel
glosses: A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
synonyms: story
Snap
qualifier: social media
glosses: A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an app or website and typically only available for a short period.
Derived terms: barley reel
blooper reel
B-reel
cotton reel
demo reel
extension reel
foursome reel
gag reel
hose reel
hosereel
Leica reel
log reel
newsreel
reel mower
reel of cotton
reel oven
reel-pot
reel-to-reel
reel to reel tape
reel-to-reel tape
reel-to-reel tape recorder
roving reel
sand reel
shame reel
sizzle reel
Virginia reel
reefer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːfɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːfə/
rhymes: -iːfə(ɹ)
homophone: refer
Forms: form: reefers
Etymology: From reef + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Her reefer cap was all on one side and on her cheek there was the print of an anchor button she had pressed on while sleeping.
ref: 1922, Katherine Mansfield, “Prelude”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 85:
text: The mess table, at which the reefers and mates made merry, was fixed in the middle of the berth.
ref: 1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Times, page 27:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman.
glosses: A reefer jacket; a close-fitting jacket or short coat of thick cloth.
Derived terms: quartz reefer
reefer jacket
reefer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːfɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːfə/
rhymes: -iːfə(ɹ)
homophone: refer
Forms: form: reefers
Etymology: Clipping of refrigerator.
Senses: examples: text: Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs.
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
text: Next to the cash register, a bulletin board was thumbtacked with notes from deadheaders who needed loads heading west, and shippers looking for a reefer (refrigerated truck) going down to Florida.
ref: 1988, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, A taste of America, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: A refrigerated, insulated trailer, ship or shipping container.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
hypernyms: box car
freight car
glosses: a refrigerator car (type of boxcar).
reefer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːfɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːfə/
rhymes: -iːfə(ɹ)
homophone: refer
Forms: form: reefers
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Mexican Spanish grifa (“cannabis”) or Central American Spanish grifo (“someone who smokes cannabis”).
Senses: glosses: A marijuana cigarette.
examples: text: Daddy I don't want to go to school because the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool and all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper if I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper.
ref: 1982, Edward G. Fletcher, Melle Mel, “The Message”, in The Message, performed by Grandmaster Flash:
text: As time went on and I smoked more reefer, I began to spend more time with other dope smokers, reminiscing on how good the sixties were, rather than actually participating in the current political movements.
ref: 1984 April 7, N.B., “Chemical Dependency in the Gay Community”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: Marijuana.
reeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: reave
Forms: form: reeves
form: reve
Etymology: From Middle English reve, from Old English rēfa, an aphetism of ġerēfa (also groefa), from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō (“officer, official”). Compare Danish greve, Swedish greve, Dutch graaf, German Graf.
The role, and eventually the word, was mostly replaced by bailiff, of Anglo-Norman origin.
Senses: examples: text: His first convert was the reeve of the city of Lincoln called Blæcca, ...
ref: 1999, Bede, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
glosses: The president of a township or municipal district council.
examples: text: A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […] “Reeve”, perhaps, savoured a little too much of legal authority.
ref: 1936, The Periodical, volumes 21-22, Oxford University Press, page 67:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.
Synonyms: sense: medieval official
word: provost
Derived terms: hogreeve
shire-reeve
trithing-reeve
Related terms: sheriff
bailiff
reeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: reave
Forms: form: reeves
form: reeving
form: reeved
form: reeved
form: rove
form: rove
Etymology: Apparent alternative form of reef (“to pull or yank strongly”, verb) or from Dutch reven (“to take in, insert”).
Senses: examples: text: "Let the rope go," he says. With his other hand he reaches down and reeves the two turns from the stanchion.
ref: 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 98:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.
reeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: reave
Forms: form: reeves
Etymology: Variant of dialectal ree, but of obscure ultimate origin.
Senses: glosses: A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.
referee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛf.əˈɹiː/
ipa: /ˌɹɛfəˈɹiː/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɛf(ə)ri/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: referees
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from past participle of Old French referer (“to relate, to refer”), from Latin referre (“to carry back, to report, to notify”); as if refer + -ee, that is, the person to whom something is referred for consideration.
Senses: examples: text: The referee kicked Jim out of the game for fighting.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An umpire or judge; an official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.
glosses: A person who settles a dispute.
examples: text: Your application, along with letters from three referees, should be received by January 31.
glosses: A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone. US English: reference.
glosses: An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published.
Derived terms: word: assistant referee
word: match referee
word: ref
word: referee assistant
word: video assistant referee
word: video referee
Related terms: referral
referrer
referee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛf.əˈɹiː/
ipa: /ˌɹɛfəˈɹiː/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɛf(ə)ri/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: referees
form: refereeing
form: refereed
form: refereed
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from past participle of Old French referer (“to relate, to refer”), from Latin referre (“to carry back, to report, to notify”); as if refer + -ee, that is, the person to whom something is referred for consideration.
Senses: examples: text: He has to referee three hockey games this weekend.
text: She has to finish refereeing an article for Nature.
glosses: To act as a referee.
refine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈfaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: refines
form: refining
form: refined
form: refined
Etymology: From re- + fine.
Senses: examples: text: to refine gold
text: to refine iron
text: to refine wine
text: to refine sugar
text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
glosses: To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
examples: text: to refine someone's manners
text: to refine a language
text: a refined style
text: to refine one's tastes
glosses: To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.
examples: text: My dear Harriet, you must not refine too much upon this charade.—You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 9:
text: Adjust the volume, tweak the contours, refine the timing and, if need be, fiddle with the setting, and the hoariest yuck-fest can seem as dewy as a morning in May. Examples of tales told ticklingly are in unusual abundance here, with comedies for every taste within the mainstream of London theater.
ref: 2007 August 2, Ben Brantley, “Titters, Snickers and Guffaws, With a British Accent”, in New York Times:
text: HS2 Ltd has continued to refine the designs, so that seven fewer ancient woodlands will be affected. This reduces the total number to 25. And of those 25 woodlands, 85% of the total area will remain untouched by HS2.
ref: 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 34:
glosses: To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
examples: text: to refine thought
text: to refine someone's language
glosses: To make nice or subtle.
Derived terms: rerefine
refinable
refinement
refiner
refinery
regardless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑːd.lɪs/
Forms: form: more regardless
form: most regardless
Etymology: From regard + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Tatiana knew the meat had passed its expiry date, but she ate it regardless.
synonyms: irregardless
irrespective
anyhow
anyway
at any rate
come what may
in any case
glosses: Without attention to warnings or indications of bad consequences.
Synonyms: word: after all
word: algate
word: always
word: any road up
word: anyhoo
word: anyhow
word: anyroad
word: anyway
word: anyways
word: anywise
word: anywho
word: at all events
word: at any rate
word: be it what it would
word: come what may
word: hab or nab
word: however
word: in any case
word: in any event
word: regardless
Related terms: word: thus
word: nevertheless
regardless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑːd.lɪs/
Forms: form: more regardless
form: most regardless
Etymology: From regard + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Hippolita, ſcarce more alive than her daughter, was regardleſs of every thing but her: but when the tender Iſabella’s care would have likewiſe removed her, while the ſurgeons examined Matilda’s wound, ſhe cried, remove me! never! never! I lived but in her, and will expire with her.
ref: 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter V, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, pages 190–191:
glosses: Paying no attention to; ignoring.
examples: text: Always deceived in fact by his own wishes, and regardless of little besides his own convenience.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 279:
text: I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.
ref: 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat:
synonyms: word: careless
word: remiss
word: cursory
word: derelict
word: heedless
word: irregardless
word: irrespective
word: negligent
word: reckless
word: regardless
word: slapdash
word: sloppy
word: slovenly
word: slipshod
word: unfaithful
glosses: Taking insufficient regard of; heedless; careless.
Derived terms: regardless of
regardless
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑːd.lɪs/
Etymology: From regard + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Tatiana ate the cauliflower regardless its colour.
glosses: Synonym of regardless of; paying no attention to.
synonyms: word: regardless of
extra: paying no attention to
regress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: regresses
Etymology: (verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”).
Senses: examples: text: Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
ref: 1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books:
glosses: The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
examples: text: Thou shalt have egresse and regresse.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: The power or liberty of passing back.
topics: law
property
coordinate_terms: ingress
egress
glosses: The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
Synonyms: retrogress
Derived terms: age regress
infinite regress
ingress, egress, and regress
regress argument
Ryle's regress
regress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: regresses
form: regressing
form: regressed
form: regressed
Etymology: (verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”).
Senses: glosses: To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
examples: text: Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: To move in the retrograde direction.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
examples: text: When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
examples: text: They regressed me, putting me under hypnosis. Then, through the hypnosis, they found out that our car was abducted right off the road and into a craft.
ref: 2018, Michael Brein, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness:
glosses: To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
Synonyms: backslide
Related terms: regression
regressive
regularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/
Forms: form: regularities
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French regularite, from Old French regularite, from Late Latin rēgulāritās, rēgulāritātem, from rēgulāris; see regular. By surface analysis, regular + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: I have been watching that show with regularity.
text: For Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas, this was his most sobering moment in the Premier League and he looked stunned on the sidelines at the regularity with which Chelsea's defence was exposed.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: regularness
glosses: The condition or quality of being regular
glosses: A particular regular occurrence
Derived terms: axiom of regularity
Related terms: regular
rehearse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɹɪˈhɜːs]
ipa: /ɹɪˈhɝs/
Forms: form: rehearses
form: rehearsing
form: rehearsed
form: rehearsed
Etymology: From Middle English rehersen, from Anglo-Norman reherser (“to repeat word-for-word”).
Senses: examples: text: There’s no need to rehearse the same old argument; we’ve heard it before, and we all agree.
glosses: To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
examples: text: The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives.
glosses: To narrate; to relate; to tell; to recount.
examples: text: The main actors spent on average two hours a day rehearsing before the first night.
text: The lawyer advised her client to rehearse her testimony before the trial date.
text: In sober mornings, do not thou reherse / The holy incantation of a verse ...
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “When he would have his verses read”, in Hesperides:
text: I ſuppoſe vve ſhall hardly Rehearſe the Comedy this Morning; for the Author vvas Arreſted as he vvas going home from King's Coffee-houſe; and, as I heard, it vvas for upvvards of Four Pound: I ſuppoſe he vvill hardly get Bail.
ref: 1736 March 16 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Henry Fielding, Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times: […], London: […] J. Watts […], published 1736, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
glosses: To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater.
examples: text: The director rehearsed the cast incessantly in the days leading up to opening night, and as a result they were tired and cranky when it arrived.
text: He […] has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen Her […]
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “Darkness”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (The Track of a Storm), page 231:
text: It was plain that he'd been rehearsed a lot, but he wasn't letter-perfect by any manner of means.
ref: 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
examples: text: The Crown argued that the accused had rehearsed her story.
glosses: To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency.
Derived terms: rehearsal
rehearsed
reiterate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈɪt.ə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɪtəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɪɾəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɪtəɹæɪt/
ipa: [ɹiːˈɪɾəɹæɪt]
Forms: form: reiterates
form: reiterating
form: reiterated
form: reiterated
Etymology: Early 15th century, from Late Latin reiteratus, past participle of reiterare (“to repeat”) from re- (“again”) + iterare (“to repeat”) from iterum (“repeat”).
Senses: examples: text: Let me reiterate my opinion.
text: He said France clearly wanted to "close one page and open another". He reiterated his opposition to austerity alone as the only way out of Europe's crisis: "My final duty, and I know I'm being watched from beyond our borders, is to put Europe back on the path of growth and employment."
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:
text: You never spoke what did become you less / Than this; which to reiterate were sin.
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]:
synonyms: repeat
glosses: To say or do (something) for a second time, such as for emphasis.
examples: text: That with reiterated crimes he might / Heap on himself damnation.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
synonyms: repeat
glosses: To say or do (something) repeatedly.
examples: text: Was I hard to understand? Sorry, I'll try to reiterate.
synonyms: rephrase
glosses: To say (something) for a second time, but word it differently.
Synonyms: word: iterate
word: reiterate
word: repeat
word: reprise
Hyponyms: word: reexpress
word: restate
word: redo
word: rework
Derived terms: reiterate oneself
reiterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈɪt.ə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɪtəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɪɾəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɪtəɹæɪt/
ipa: [ɹiːˈɪɾəɹæɪt]
Forms: form: more reiterate
form: most reiterate
Etymology: Early 15th century, from Late Latin reiteratus, past participle of reiterare (“to repeat”) from re- (“again”) + iterare (“to repeat”) from iterum (“repeat”).
Senses: synonyms: word: iterate
word: iterate
word: reiterate
word: repeated
glosses: Reiterated; repeated.
reiterate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈɪt.ə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɪtəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɪɾəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɪtəɹæɪt/
ipa: [ɹiːˈɪɾəɹæɪt]
Forms: form: reiterates
Etymology: Early 15th century, from Late Latin reiteratus, past participle of reiterare (“to repeat”) from re- (“again”) + iterare (“to repeat”) from iterum (“repeat”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tree with vertical branches alongside the main trunk and which continue to grow upwards.
Related terms: reiterated
reiteration
reiterative
reiteratively
reiterator
rejuvenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒuːvəneɪt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈd͡ʒuːvəneɪt/
Forms: form: rejuvenates
form: rejuvenating
form: rejuvenated
form: rejuvenated
Etymology: From re- (“again”) + Latin iuvenis (“young”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare Old French rejuvener.
Displaced native Middle English gingen, from Old English *ġinġan (literally “to make young”), equivalent to Old English ġeong + Old English -an.
Senses: examples: text: Before coronavirus shuttered the world, a typical month for Connecticut native Zac Mathias was packed with appointments for microneedling (a collagen-stimulating process that involves repeated pin-pricks all over the face), regular resurfacing hydrafacials, rejuvenating laser treatments and the occasional red-light therapy session.
ref: 2021 May 6, Leah Dolan, “Teens are worried about wrinkles. Here’s how Gen Z is helping to fuel a beauty boom”, in CNN:
glosses: To render young again.
examples: text: The exercise involved in recrafting the past, past encounters and memories actually rejuvenates short-term and present memory — remarkably!
ref: 2008 May 8, “For Boomers, It’s Time to Go to the (Brain) Gym”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2015:
text: "We have completely rejuvenated the project. Everyone is galvanised. We will get it open - and open means open. [...]."
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 53:
glosses: To give new energy or vigour to; to revitalise.
Related terms: rejuvenation
renovate
age
aging
senescence
release
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈliːs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈliːs/
ipa: /ɹiˈliːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: releases
form: releasing
form: released
form: released
Etymology: From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).
Senses: examples: text: He released his grasp on the lever.
glosses: To let go of; to cease to hold or contain.
examples: text: They released the new product later than intended.
glosses: To make available to the public.
examples: text: He was released after two years in prison.
glosses: To free or liberate; to set free.
examples: text: They released thousands of gallons of water into the river each month.
glosses: To discharge.
examples: text: If you continue to use abusive language, I will need to release the call.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: (of a call) To hang up.
topics: law
glosses: To let go, quit (a legal claim); to discharge or relinquish a right to (lands or buildings) by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession.
examples: text: punishments inflicted and released
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
examples: text: With the Gunners far too lightweight in midfield, Mikel Arteta dropped back into a deeper-lying role. This freed Yossi Benayoun to go further forward, a move that helped forge a rare Arsenal chance on 30 minutes when the Israeli released Van Persie, only for the Dutchman's snap-shot to be tipped around the post.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1-1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To set up; to provide with a goalscoring opportunity.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To set free a chemical substance.
examples: text: when the game releases
text: the new model will release on ...
glosses: To launch; to come out; to become available.
Derived terms: catch and release
corticotropin-releasing hormone
gonadotropin-releasing hormone
release the handbrake
release the kraken
releasing hormone
thyrotropin-releasing hormone
release
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈliːs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈliːs/
ipa: /ɹiˈliːs/
rhymes: -iːs
ipa: /ɹiːˈliːs/
rhymes: -iːs
ipa: /ɹəˈliːs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈliːs/
ipa: /ɹiˈliːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: releases
form: releasing
form: released
form: released
Etymology: From re- + lease.
Senses: glosses: To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
relent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: relents
Etymology: From Middle English relenten, from Anglo-Norman relentir, from Latin re- + lentare (“to bend”), from lentus (“soft, pliant, slow”). Earliest recording dates to 1526.
Senses: examples: text: There was no relent, my dear, as we pulled each other in.
ref: 2015, Mel Parsons, “First Sign of Trouble”:
text: The pistons of this engine moved without relent.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 193:
text: She forward went[…]
Ne rested till she came without relent
Unto the land of Amazons.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Stay; stop; delay.
glosses: A relenting.
Derived terms: relentless
relent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: more relent
form: most relent
Etymology: From Middle English relenten, from Anglo-Norman relentir, from Latin re- + lentare (“to bend”), from lentus (“soft, pliant, slow”). Earliest recording dates to 1526.
Senses: glosses: softhearted; yielding
relevance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/
ipa: /ˈɹɛl.ə.vən(t)s/
Forms: form: relevances
form: relevancy
Etymology: From relevant + -ance.
Senses: glosses: The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
Synonyms: bearing
pertinence
Derived terms: relevance conditional
relevance logic
Related terms: relevant