cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
salsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sälʹsə
ipa: /ˈsɑl.sə/
ipa: /ˈsæl.sə/
rhymes: -ɑlsə
Forms: form: salsas
Etymology: PIE word
 *séh₂ls
Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French).
Senses: examples: text: Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs – topped with every imaginable condiment – hot mustard, sweet mustard, jalapenos, spaghetti sauce, regular relish, corn relish, maple syrup salsa and the secret sauce of Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.). ("If I told you the recipe," an aide explained, "I'd have to shoot you.")
ref: 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any of several dances performed to salsa music.
Derived terms: salsa golf
salsa-like
salsamole
salsarita
salsa sauce
songo-salsa
Related terms: salt
salsa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sälʹsə
ipa: /ˈsɑl.sə/
ipa: /ˈsæl.sə/
rhymes: -ɑlsə
Forms: form: salsas
form: salsaing
form: salsaed
form: salsaed
Etymology: PIE word
 *séh₂ls
Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French).
Senses: examples: text: They salsaed late until the night.
glosses: To dance the salsa.
frijoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹiˈhoʊleɪs/
Senses: glosses: plural of frijol
glosses: plural of frijole
om
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒm/
ipa: /əʊm/
ipa: /oʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
rhymes: -ɒm
Forms: form: oms
form: aum
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit ओम् (om) (symbol ॐ (oṃ)). The former (om) is used in both Buddhist and Hindu settings, while the latter (aum) is usually used only in Jain and Hindu settings.
Senses: examples: text: In fact it sounded exactly like the voice of Livia, her vanished sister, and, like her, it was intoning the Aum just as she used once to do at the beginning of her yoga sessions.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 800:
text: Om is pronounced "a-a-o-o-u-u-m-m" and is repeated slowly for as long as possible.
ref: 2001 October 20, Hazel Curry, The Guardian:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A sacred, mystical syllable used in prayer and meditation.
Derived terms: om mani padme hum
Om Namah Shivaya
om
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒm/
ipa: /əʊm/
ipa: /oʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
rhymes: -ɒm
Forms: form: oms
form: omming
form: ommed
form: ommed
form: aum
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit ओम् (om) (symbol ॐ (oṃ)). The former (om) is used in both Buddhist and Hindu settings, while the latter (aum) is usually used only in Jain and Hindu settings.
Senses: examples: text: Allen Ginsberg omming like a death rattle, his voice ravaged by the days of Hindu chants and gas.
ref: 1996, Nora Sayre, Sixties Going on Seventies, page 14:
text: I had to go into church to clear it by chanting the sacred mantra 'Om'. I was omming, loudly and intensely so that the vibration of that sacred mantra would fill every corner.
ref: 2015, Hilary H. Carter, Number Woman:
glosses: To chant the sacred syllable om.
Related terms: om nom nom
tiddly-om-pom-pom
handicapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handicappers
Etymology: From handicap + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who determines the conditions of a handicap.
examples: text: Most handicappers, young and old, face formidable economic obstacles which limittheir ability to satisfy their housing needs.
ref: 1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, Manufactured housing construction and safety standards:
glosses: A disabled person.
glosses: A horse entered in a handicap race.
unveracity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unveracities
Etymology: From un- + veracity.
Senses: examples: text: unveracity of heart
text: such superincumbent weight of Unveracities
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. I, ’’Phenomena’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
glosses: Lack of veracity; untruthfulness.
upbear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upbears
form: upbearing
form: upbore
form: upborne
form: upbore
Etymology: From Middle English upberen, equivalent to up- + bear.
Senses: examples: text: One short sigh of breath, upborne
Even to the seat of God.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, 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:
text: A monstrous wave up-bore the chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore.
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: To hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high
epigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpɪɡɹæm/
Forms: form: epigrams
form: epigramme
Etymology: From Middle French epigramme, from Latin epigramma, from Ancient Greek ἐπίγραμμα (epígramma, “inscription”).
Senses: glosses: An inscription in stone.
glosses: A brief but witty saying.
examples: text: The second has written a sonnet
upon the mutability of woman,
And the third writes an epigram to Candidia.
ref: 1916, Ezra Pound, Lustra, The Three Poets:
glosses: A short, witty or pithy poem.
Derived terms: epigrammist
Related terms: epigrammatic
epigrammatist
epigraph
epilepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpɪˌlɛpsi/
Forms: form: epilepsies
Etymology: Since 16th century; borrowed from French épilepsie, from Latin epilēpsia, from Ancient Greek ἐπιληψίᾱ (epilēpsíā), from ἐπιλαμβάνω (epilambánō, “I seize”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”). Displaced native Old English fiellesēocnes (literally “falling sickness”).
Senses: examples: text: Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
Derived terms: antiepilepsy
epileptic
epileptiform
hysteroepilepsy
migralepsy
northern epilepsy syndrome
oligoepilepsy
severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
Related terms: falling sickness
grand mal
petit mal
epilogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛp.ɪ.lɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈɛpɪlɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈɛpɪlɑɡ/
Forms: form: epilogues
form: epilog
Etymology: From French épilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίλογος (epílogos, “a conclusion, peroration of a speech, epilogue of a play”), from ἐπιλέγω (epilégō, “to say in addition”). Eclipsed Middle English lenvoie (“epilogue”) borrowed ultimately from Old French. Equiavlent to epi- + -logue.
Senses: examples: text: In the play’s epilogue, the actor addressed the audience directly.
glosses: A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
glosses: The performer who gives this speech
examples: text: The novel ended with a short epilogue.
glosses: A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.
Synonyms: sense: short speech at the end of a play
word: endspeech
sense: brief script at the end of a literary piece
word: afterword
word: endspeech
word: afterword
Derived terms: epilogical
epilogist
epiloguize
epilogue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛp.ɪ.lɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈɛpɪlɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈɛpɪlɑɡ/
Forms: form: epilogues
form: epiloguing
form: epilogued
form: epilogued
form: epilog
Etymology: From French épilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίλογος (epílogos, “a conclusion, peroration of a speech, epilogue of a play”), from ἐπιλέγω (epilégō, “to say in addition”). Eclipsed Middle English lenvoie (“epilogue”) borrowed ultimately from Old French. Equiavlent to epi- + -logue.
Senses: glosses: To conclude with an epilogue.
episode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛp.ɪ.səʊd/
ipa: /ˈɛp.ə.soʊd/
ipa: /ˈep.ɪ.səʉd/
Forms: form: episodes
Etymology: From French épisode, from New Latin *epīsodium, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion, “a parenthetic addition, episode”), neuter of ἐπεισόδιος (epeisódios, “following upon the entrance, coming in besides, adventitious”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + εἰς (eis, “into”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.
text: The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.
ref: 1935, Francis Beeding [pseudonym; John Palmer], “10/6”, in The Norwich Victims, →OL:
text: Three of the great extinctions appear to have occurred during cold episodes and two during hot episodes.
ref: 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 81:
synonyms: word: event
word: proceeding
word: affair
word: befalling
word: episode
word: event
word: goings-on
word: happening
word: hap
word: incident
word: occasion
word: occurrence
word: proceeding
glosses: An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
examples: text: I can't wait till next week’s episode.
text: We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.
ref: 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): ‘Marge Gets A Job’ (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The A.V. Club:
glosses: An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.
Hyponyms: sense: instalment of a TV series
word: bottle episode
Derived terms: appisode
beach episode
Carnian pluvial episode
episodal
episodial
episodic
episodical
minisode
mobisode
multiepisode
postepisode
very special episode
webisode
rice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: rices
form: ricing
form: riced
form: riced
Etymology: From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi).
Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east.
Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici).
Doublet of arroz.
Senses: examples: text: Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish.
ref: 1881, Maria Parloa, Miss Parloa's New Cook Book: A Guide to Marketing and Cooking:
text: Following ricing, the potato mash proceeds to the drum drier where flaking is done.
ref: 1961, Potato Chipper, volume 21, page 88:
text: Last night I riced the potatoes and added in the cream and butter while they were hot, so today wll we have to do is add flour and roll them out.
ref: 2015, Lorna Seilstad, As Love Blooms (The Gregory Sisters Book #3): A Novel:
glosses: To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
examples: text: In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice.
ref: 1894, John Merle Coulter, Botanical Gazette, page 505:
text: When ricing, the Ojibway dress warmly at first; by midday they may shed some clothes as harvest toil combines with the hot sun of late summer to warm them.
ref: 1988, Thomas Vennum, Wild rice and the Ojibway people:
text: As it was, the Indian seldom bothered to harvest wild rice on public waters after opening day of the ricing season.
ref: 2002, David Laursen, A Capital Place: Reminiscences of a Sandy Lake Boyhood:
glosses: To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
examples: text: So far as I can make out, the idiotic function of “ricing” English brides and bridegrooms is not twenty years old.
ref: 1886 July 24, “Echoes of the Week”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 89, page 90:
text: The couple was well riced and sent on their way.
ref: 2002, Helen Argers, The Gilded Lily:
text: As the reception ended the two newlyweds were riced to death and fled into an awaiting getaway car and drove off...followed by a stream of tin cans.
ref: 2006, Timothy Lee, Billy: A Gay Trilogy:
glosses: To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: rices
form: rise
Etymology: From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hrīs (“branch; twig”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīsą (“bush; twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreys- (“to turn; bend; wind; move; shake”). Cognate with Scots reise, rice (“twigs; brushwood”), West Frisian riis, rys, Dutch rijs (“little branch; twig; osier; whip”), German Low German Ries, German Reis (“twig; sprig; shoot”), Swedish ris (“twigs; brush; rod”), Icelandic hrís.
Senses: examples: text: To guard the bank from the impression of the water, a fence, OF STAKE AND RICE, may be made along the bottom of it next the sea, which will last till the surface on that side is sufficiently swarded, and the mound properly consolidated.
ref: 1834, John Johnstone, A systematic treatise on the theory and practice of draining land:
text: Another form of dead-hedge is the stake-and-rice, and it is formed of the branches of forest trees; and where these are plentiful and thorns scarce, it is an economical dead fence.
ref: 1851, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm, volume 1:
text: "Gilbert White, the well-known naturalist, in a letter dated Selborne, Oct. 4th, 1775, says, 'Our people here, you know, call coppice-wood or hedge-wood rice or rise. Is this word still in use in that neighbourhood? And is it also known in Surrey?"
ref: 1881 July 16, Notes and Queries (6), volume 6:
glosses: A twig or stick.
examples: text: […] taken unlawfully from the same house five "machines called 'Engine-Weaving Loomes' worth thirty pounds, and two ounces of silke worth five shillings, and two joynt-stooles worth three shillings, and a pair of 'Rices to wind silke on' worth four shillings […]
ref: 1892, John Cordy Jeaffreson, editor, Middlesex County Records, volume 4:
text: The hanks are placed upon light, collapsible hexagon reels termed rices, which are easily lifted out of their position for the reception of the hank.
ref: 1895, Richard Marsden, Cotton Weaving: Its Development, Principles, and Practice:
text: Swift (rice) Skein holder, hank holder.
ref: 1977, Marianne Straub, Hand weaving and cloth design:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: A bobbin or spool.
Related terms: rise-wood
risewood
squid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: squids
form: squidding
form: squidded
form: squidded
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To fish with a squid fishhook.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
parachuting
glosses: To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).
squid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: squids
Etymology: Possibly a blend of stupid + quick; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a backronym.
Senses: examples: "In my mind, a street squid is anyone who races on the street. Period."¹
"squid: a cocky motorcyclist who darts very aggressively through traffic"²
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
glosses: A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
squid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Etymology: Calque of Korean 오징어 (ojing'eo).
Senses: glosses: A South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.
conch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒntʃ
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: conches
form: conchs
form: conk
form: conque
Etymology: From Latin concha, from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē). Doublet of concha.
Senses: glosses: A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
glosses: The shell of this sea animal.
glosses: A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
topics: architecture
glosses: The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
glosses: Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
synonyms: word: concher
extra: machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate
Derived terms: Bubonian conch
cameo conch
conchiform
conchite
conchology
conchometry
conker
deuteroconch
Eastern Pacific giant conch
Florida horse conch
line conch
macroconch
microconch
nucleoconch
protoconch
queen conch
teleoconch
Related terms: congius
conch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒntʃ
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: conches
form: conching
form: conched
form: conched
form: conk
form: conque
Etymology: From Latin concha, from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē). Doublet of concha.
Senses: glosses: To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
glosses: To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rā
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
homophone: Rae
homophone: Ray
homophone: re (one pronunciation)
homophone: Re
homophone: Rea
homophone: Rhea (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: rays
Etymology: Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”). Doublet of radius.
Senses: examples: text: I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
text: Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: A beam of light or radiation.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
examples: text: All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
glosses: Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
Hyponyms: beta ray
cathode ray
death ray
delta ray
derma ray
gamma ray
green ray
grenz ray
light ray
N-ray
Roentgen-ray
shrink ray
T-ray
X-ray
Derived terms: alpha ray
anticrepuscular ray
Becquerel calorific ray
Becquerel ray
Blu-ray
calorific ray
catch some rays
cosmic ray
crepuscular ray
distributed ray tracing
extraordinary ray
god ray
grocery shrink ray
Gurwitsch ray
half-ray
heat-ray
Lenard ray
lightray
medullary ray
meridional ray
mitogenetic ray
number ray
ray casting
ray floret
ray grass
ray gun
raying room
rayless
raylet
raylike
ray marching
ray of hope
ray of light
ray of sunshine
ray tracer
ray tracing
repulsor ray
starry ray
X-ray
ray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rā
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
homophone: Rae
homophone: Ray
homophone: re (one pronunciation)
homophone: Re
homophone: Rea
homophone: Rhea (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: rays
form: raying
form: rayed
form: rayed
Etymology: Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”). Doublet of radius.
Senses: examples: text: I had no particular woman in my mind; certainly never intended to personify wisdom, philosophy, or any other abstraction; and the orb, raying colour out of whiteness, was altogether a fancy of my own.
ref: 1889, Robert Browning, letter to Dr. Furnivall:
glosses: To emit something as if in rays.
glosses: To radiate as if in rays.
examples: text: Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.
ref: 1928, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, page 219:
glosses: To expose to radiation.
ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rā
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
homophone: Rae
homophone: Ray
homophone: re (one pronunciation)
homophone: Re
homophone: Rea
homophone: Rhea (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: rays
Etymology: From Middle English raye, rayȝe, from Old French raie, from Latin raia, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English reyhhe, reihe, reȝge (“ray, skate”), from Old English reohhe (“ray”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.
Derived terms: bat ray
butterfly ray
cownose ray
devil ray
eagle ray
electric ray
manta ray
ray-finned
shark ray
spinal butterfly ray
spotted eagle ray
stingray
ray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rā
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
homophone: Rae
homophone: Ray
homophone: re (one pronunciation)
homophone: Re
homophone: Rea
homophone: Rhea (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: rays
form: raying
form: rayed
form: rayed
Etymology: Shortened from array.
Senses: glosses: To arrange.
glosses: To dress, array (someone).
examples: text: From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And from his face the filth that did it ray […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To stain or soil; to defile.
ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rā
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
homophone: Rae
homophone: Ray
homophone: re (one pronunciation)
homophone: Re
homophone: Rea
homophone: Rhea (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Shortened from array.
Senses: examples: text: spoyling all her geares and goodly ray
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 50:
glosses: Array; order; arrangement; dress.
ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rā
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
homophone: Rae
homophone: Ray
homophone: re (one pronunciation)
homophone: Re
homophone: Rea
homophone: Rhea (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: rays
Etymology: From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.
Senses: glosses: The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms: ar
in Latin and the name of the other Pitman r
ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rā
ipa: /ɹeɪ/
homophone: Rae
homophone: Ray
homophone: re (one pronunciation)
homophone: Re
homophone: Rea
homophone: Rhea (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: rays
Etymology: Alternative forms.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of re.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: ray-woon
auburn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔ.bɚn/
ipa: /ˈɑ.bɚn/
rhymes: -ɔːbə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: auburns
Etymology: Early Modern English auburn (“brown, reddish brown”) from Middle English aubourne, abron, abroune, abrune (“light brown, yellowish brown, blond”), alteration (due to conflation with Middle English brun (“brown”)) of earlier auborne (“yellowish-white, flaxen”) from Old French auborne, alborne (“blond, flaxen, off-white”) from Medieval Latin alburnus (“whitish”), from Latin albus (“white”). More at albino, brown.
Senses: synonyms: redbrown
glosses: A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour.
auburn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔ.bɚn/
ipa: /ˈɑ.bɚn/
rhymes: -ɔːbə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: more auburn
form: most auburn
Etymology: Early Modern English auburn (“brown, reddish brown”) from Middle English aubourne, abron, abroune, abrune (“light brown, yellowish brown, blond”), alteration (due to conflation with Middle English brun (“brown”)) of earlier auborne (“yellowish-white, flaxen”) from Old French auborne, alborne (“blond, flaxen, off-white”) from Medieval Latin alburnus (“whitish”), from Latin albus (“white”). More at albino, brown.
Senses: examples: text: All were watching somebody in the garden with deep interest, their three faces close together: a jovial and round one, a pale one with dark hair, and a fair one whose tresses were auburn. “Don’t push! You can see as well as I,” said Retty, the auburn-haired and youngest girl, without removing her eyes from the window.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXI, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: […]; nor was Miss Wilkinson the ideal: he had often pictured to himself the great violet eyes and the alabaster skin of some lovely girl, and he had thought of himself burying his face in the rippling masses of her auburn hair.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: I never thought I'd meet a girl like you / Meet a girl like you / With auburn hair and tawny eyes
ref: 1982, “I Ran (So Far Away)”, performed by A Flock of Seagulls:
synonyms: cupreous
glosses: Of a reddish-brown colour.
Related terms: Auburn
redheaded
titian
egg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕg
rhymes: -ɛɡ
homophone: Eigg
ipa: /ɛɡ/
note: Indic
ipa: /(j)ɛɡ/
homophone: yegg
enpr: āg
rhymes: -eɪɡ
note: some Canadian and US accents
ipa: /eɪɡ/
Forms: form: eggs
form: egging
form: egged
form: egged
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (“egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake”) [and other forms] (originally Northern England and Northeast Midlands), from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann’s law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) (in the sense of an animal clothed in feathers). Doublet of huevo, oeuf, and ovum.
The native English ey [and other forms] (plural eyren) (obsolete), from Old English ǣġ, is also derived from Proto-Germanic *ajją. It survived into at least c. 16th century before being fully displaced by egg.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The angry demonstrators egged the riot police.
text: The students were caught egging the principal’s car as a prank.
text: Like I said before in that chapter, after that ultimate egging, Gay-D didn't mention anything about eggs again, but he meekly ask for us to stop egging Xander's door so that he wouldn't get blamed.
ref: 2013 February, M. Golding, “Framing”, in How to Piss Off a Crappy Roommate: From A to Z, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
examples: text: After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.
glosses: To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
examples: text: "Jemima, Jemima!—ve'll ha'e the viting biled instead of fried." "Ca'n't, marm," replied Jemima, "they be all hegged and crumbed, with their tails in their mouths."
ref: [1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter I, in Peter Simple. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 8:
text: Then mask another large piece with currant jelly, cover it as before, and after egging the edges, roll them over some coarse sugar, and put them immediately in the oven. Join the remaining pieces in the same manner, two and two, and after egging the edges as before, roll them alternately on pistachios and coarse sugar.
ref: 1834, M[arie-]A[ntoine] Carême, edited by John Porter, The Royal Parisian Pastrycook and Confectioner: […], London: F. J. Mason, […], →OCLC, page 163:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
glosses: To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
examples: text: I was out with my girlfriend in Birmingham, when some colorful local told us not to egg.
glosses: To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
Derived terms: word: egger
word: egging
word: over-egg
hazel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪzəl/
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: hazels
form: hazle
Etymology: From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognate with Dutch hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel-tree, hazelwood”), Irish coll (“hazel”).
Senses: examples: text: The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.
ref: 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
text: Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273:
glosses: A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
glosses: The nut of the hazel tree.
glosses: The wood of a hazelnut tree.
glosses: A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Freestone.
Synonyms: sense: nut
word: filbert
sense: nut
word: hazelnut
Derived terms: corkscrew hazel
hazel alder
Hazelbrook
Hazel Dell
hazel dormouse
hazel-eyed
hazel grouse
Hazel Grove
hazel hen
hazel-hen
hazeline
hazelly
hazelnut
hazel nut
hazel pine
Hazelwood
hazelwood
hazelwort
witch hazel
witch-hazel
witch-hazel cone gall
witch-hazel cone gall aphid
hazel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪzəl/
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: more hazel
form: hazeler
form: most hazel
form: hazelest
form: hazle
Etymology: From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognate with Dutch hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel-tree, hazelwood”), Irish coll (“hazel”).
Senses: examples: text: As she grew up and her hazel eyes became hazeler and her dark hair darker and her white skin whiter, and her form a sigh on every boy’s lips, she concentrated on one dream.
ref: 1956 January 7, James L. Collings, “Syndicates: Oh Marie! Whatta Gal and Whatta Reporter”, in Robert U[tting] Brown, editor, Editor & Publisher, volume 89, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Editor & Publisher Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 40, column 1:
text: The shrewd eyes, more hazel than her son’s but with the same straight brows, were fixed on Clary’s face.
ref: 1986, Robyn Donald, chapter 4, in A Willing Surrender, London: Mills & Boon Limited, →ISBN, page 81:
text: SAGE: Don’t my eyes look hazeler? (or: periwinkler) / CHLO: (as GARTH) Yes. / SAGE: You said you loved my hazel eyes. (or: periwinkle) Don’t you love them more hazely? (or: periwinkly)
ref: 1996, Adryan Russ, Doug Haverty, “Act Two”, in Inside Out, New York, N.Y.: Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 58:
text: The drummer’s eyes took the small woman in slowly, starting with her face, down to her feet and then back up into the hazelest eyes she’d ever seen.
ref: 2005, Sharon Smith, chapter 2, in Into the Dark, Nederland, Tex.: Yellow Rose Books, →ISBN, page 12:
text: What’s that line on “Hazel Eyes”: “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazeler”? [Justin Hawkins:] “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazelerer.”
ref: 2005 December, Doug Brod, “Burning Sensation”, in Sia Michel, editor, Spin, volume 21, number 12, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, page 73, column 2:
text: Doolittle had the hazelest eyeballs, the winsomest spinal pelt.
ref: 2011, Margaret Fiske, “Sense & Circuitry: Cyberth 1813”, in Peter Archer, Jennifer Lawler, editors, Bad Austen: The Worst Stories Jane Never Wrote, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, F+W Media, Inc., →ISBN, part 2 (If Jane Could See Us Now), page 96:
text: His eyes were somewhere indefinite between green and hazel. Sometimes appearing hazeler or greener depending on how the light flickered on them.
ref: 2012 March 8, Francine J. Colangelo, chapter 10, in Marah Hein: The Legend of a Viking Woman, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 84:
text: And now I should probably say something, but that would involve words, and WHAT EVEN ARE WORDS, and he’s looking at me with the hazelest eyes and the softest, most upturned mouth.
ref: 2017 April 11, Becky Albertalli, chapter 16, in The Upside of Unrequited, New York, N.Y.: Balzer + Bray, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
Derived terms: hazel-eyed
Related terms: lamb's tails
sweet gum
colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colours
form: color
Senses: glosses: Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
colour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: color
Senses: glosses: Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Related terms: colourimeter
colour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colours
form: colouring
form: coloured
form: coloured
form: color
Senses: glosses: Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Derived terms: accidental colour
anticolour
baulk colour
becolour
bicolour
bodycolour
brass-colour
child of colour
colourability
colourable
colourably
colourant
colourate
colour bar
colourbearer
colourblind
colour-blind
colourbound
colourburst
colourcast
colour charge
colour-code
colour code
colour-coded
colour coded
colour commentator
colour-coordinate
colour coordinate
colour-coordinated
colour coordinated
colour coordination
colour'd
colour’d
coloured
Coloured
colourer
coloureth
colour-fast
colourfast
colour field
colour field painting
colour force
colourful
colourfull
colourific
colourimeter
colourimetre
colourimetric
colourimetry
colour in
colouring
colour inside the lines
colourisation
colourise
colouriser
colourish
colourism
colourist
colouristic
colourization
colourize
colourizer
colour killer
colourless
colour light
colour light signal
colourmaker
colourman
colourmap
colour of someone's money
colourogenic
colourologist
colourology
colourous
colour outside the lines
colour pencil
colourphobe
colourphobia
colourphobic
colour pigeon
colourpoint
colour-proof
colour-proud
colour proud
colourpuncture
colourpuncturist
colour retention agent
colour revolution
colour scheme
colour screw
colour sergeant
colours inside the lines
colours outside the lines
colour space
colourspace
colour-struck
colour supplement
colour symbolism
colour television
colour triangle
colour TV
colourtype
colour up
colourwash
colourway
colour wheel
colourwise
colourwork
coloury
complementary colour
concolour
costly colours
decolour
decoloured
deep colour
discolour
encolour
eye colour
false-colour
false colour
field colours
Flesh Colour
flesh colour
forecolour
high colour
horse of a different colour
hyperbolic colour
hypercolour
in colour
local colour
man of colour
miscolour
monocolour
multicolour
multicolours
neutral colour
of colour
off colour
off-colour
of the colours
overcolour
pair of colours
people of colour
person of colour
primary colour
primitive colour
prismatic colour
prismatic colours
process colour
pseudocolour
pseudocolouring
R-colour
recolour
secondary colour
self colour
serve with the colours
show colour
show one's true colours
shows one's true colours
skin colour
spot colour
technicolour
tertiary colour
topcolour
tricolour
troops the colour
troops the colours
troop the colour
troop the colours
type colour
uncolour
undercolour
unicolour
watercolour
what colour is your Bugatti
wine colour
with flying colours
woman of colour
ruby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.bi/
rhymes: -uːbi
Forms: form: more ruby
form: most ruby
Etymology: From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus. Doublet of rubine.
Senses: glosses: Of a deep, red color; ruby-red.
ruby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.bi/
rhymes: -uːbi
Forms: form: rubies
form: rubying
form: rubied
form: rubied
Etymology: From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus. Doublet of rubine.
Senses: examples: text: With sanguine drops the walls are rubied
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 20”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: To make red; to redden.
Related terms: carbuncle
corundum
spinel
ruby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.bi/
rhymes: -uːbi
Forms: form: rubies
form: rubi
Etymology: From the British 5½-point type size ruby (etymology 1), used for annotations in printed documents.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
Related terms: furigana
pinyin
yomigana
Zhuyin
ruby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.bi/
rhymes: -uːbi
Forms: form: rubies
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ruby (“curry”).
sapphire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæf.aɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsæf.aɪ̯ɚ/
Forms: form: sapphires
Etymology: From Middle English saphir, from Old French saphir, from Latin sapphir, sappir, sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros, “precious stone, gem”), from a Semitic language such as Hebrew סַפִּיר (sappī́r, “lapis lazuli”), originally from Assyrian Akkadian šipirtu (“lapis lazuli”).
Senses: examples: text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
ref: 2012 March 23, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
glosses: A clear deep blue variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
glosses: A white, yellow, or purple variety of corundum, either clear or translucent.
glosses: A deep blue colour.
examples: text: Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; […]
ref: 1720, Francis Nichols, Rudiments of Honour, page 296:
text: 3. Saphire, ten Bezants, 4, 3, 2, 1, by the Bisset.
ref: 1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd; Or, an Abridgment of Guillim, page 504:
text: (2) Topaz, a Chief Indented, Saphire.
ref: 1754, John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the ..., page 71:
text: Topaz, on a Cross, Sapphire, a Crosier thrust through a Mitre, Topaz.
ref: 1756, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium, Or, Rudiments of Honour, Containing the Descent, Marriage, Isssue, Titles, Posts, and Seats, of All the Nobility of Ireland..., page 440:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Azure, when blazoning by precious stones.
glosses: Any hummingbird in the genera Hylocharis and Chlorestes, as well as the rufous-throated sapphire, which is now in the genus Amazilia.
glosses: Any of the butterflies in the southern Asian lycaenid genus Heliophorus or the African lycaenid genus Iolaus.
Derived terms: blue-chinned sapphire
blue-throated sapphire
Padparadscha sapphire
pink sapphire
sapphire glass
sapphirine
sea sapphire
star sapphire
water sapphire
white sapphire
yellow sapphire
Related terms: corundum
sapphire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæf.aɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsæf.aɪ̯ɚ/
Forms: form: more sapphire
form: most sapphire
Etymology: From Middle English saphir, from Old French saphir, from Latin sapphir, sappir, sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros, “precious stone, gem”), from a Semitic language such as Hebrew סַפִּיר (sappī́r, “lapis lazuli”), originally from Assyrian Akkadian šipirtu (“lapis lazuli”).
Senses: examples: text: At about eleven, we uncaged our pigeons, who flew away into the sapphire sky that hung like a sail from the white peaks.
ref: 1927, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, E.P. Dutton & Co., page 33:
glosses: of a deep blue colour.
glosses: pertaining to a 45th year
Derived terms: sapphire anniversary
sapphire jubilee
Related terms: Sapphire
chestnut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛs.nʌt/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛst.nʌt/
rhymes: -ɛsnʌt
rhymes: -ɛstnʌt
Etymology: Formerly chesten nut, from Middle English chesten, Middle English chesteyne, chasteine, from Old English ċisten and reinforced by Old French chastaigne, both from Latin castānea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia). Latin castānea also is the ultimate source of English castanet.
Senses: examples: text: chestnut hair
glosses: Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.
Related terms: castanet
black bean
buckeye
caltrop
chinquapin
chinquapin oak
conker
maroon
water caltrop
charcoal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑː.kəʊl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.koʊl/
rhymes: -ɑːkəʊl
rhymes: -ɑɹkoʊl
Forms: form: charcoals
Etymology: From Middle English charcole, from charren (“to change, turn”) + cole (“coal”), from Old English cierran (“to change, turn”) + col (“coal”); equivalent to char (Etymology 3 (verb)) + coal.
Senses: examples: text: The grate was laid with charcoal, to that she put a light, and then, as if she had forgotten something, hurried to the library, and carefully locked the door. First returning to see that the fire had kindled, she then went to the window, which, with the first gleam of moonlight, she cautiously unclosed, and stepped into the shrubbery.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 325–326:
text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
examples: text: He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
ref: 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, page 166:
glosses: A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
glosses: A drawing made with charcoal.
glosses: A very dark gray colour.
Derived terms: charcoalify
charcoalization
charcoalize
charcoal rot
charcoaly
macrocharcoal
microcharcoal
charcoal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑː.kəʊl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.koʊl/
rhymes: -ɑːkəʊl
rhymes: -ɑɹkoʊl
Forms: form: more charcoal
form: most charcoal
Etymology: From Middle English charcole, from charren (“to change, turn”) + cole (“coal”), from Old English cierran (“to change, turn”) + col (“coal”); equivalent to char (Etymology 3 (verb)) + coal.
Senses: examples: text: Two vultures […] stood silent side by side like smoking coworkers on break, one charcoal eye staring back at me indifferently.
ref: 2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck:
glosses: Of a dark gray colour.
examples: text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: Made of charcoal.
Derived terms: activated charcoal
animal charcoal
charcoal burner
charcoal grey
charcoal iron
Related terms: carbonara
Carbonari
charbroil
vitrain
charcoal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑː.kəʊl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.koʊl/
rhymes: -ɑːkəʊl
rhymes: -ɑɹkoʊl
Forms: form: charcoals
form: charcoaling
form: charcoaled
form: charcoaled
Etymology: From Middle English charcole, from charren (“to change, turn”) + cole (“coal”), from Old English cierran (“to change, turn”) + col (“coal”); equivalent to char (Etymology 3 (verb)) + coal.
Senses: glosses: To draw with charcoal.
glosses: To cook over charcoal.
Related terms: briquette
brown coal
carbo vegetabilis
coal
coal pot
collier
fusain
kangri
wood coal