cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Messier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛs.i.eɪ/
Forms: form: Messiers
Senses: glosses: A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by
glosses: A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by:
Charles Messier (1730-1817), a French astronomer who between 1774 and 1781 published his Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters, a catalogue of deep-sky objects.
examples: text: Messier 31 (M31) is the Andromeda Galaxy; Messier 42 (M42) is the Orion Nebula
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by:
Charles Messier (1730-1817), a French astronomer who between 1774 and 1781 published his Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters, a catalogue of deep-sky objects.
As a designation, the numbered objects in Messier's catalog are prepended with his surname or the letter M.
Related terms: Messier number
valve oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valve oils
Senses: glosses: A liquid used to lubricate valves in brass instruments.
NGC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: NGCs
form: N.G.C.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Gallery of Canada.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Nintendo GameCube.
Synonyms: sense: Nintendo GameCube
word: GCN
sense: Nintendo GameCube
word: GC
word: Dreyer
Related terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: GC
New General Catalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A catalogue of deep sky objects compiled in the 1880s by J. L. E. Dreyer using observations mostly from William Herschel. It contains nearly 8,000 objects, known as the NGC objects. Objects in the catalogue are numbered, and the letters NGC are prepended to these numbers, as in NGC 224 (the Andromeda Galaxy) or NGC 6205 (the globular cluster in Hercules).
Synonyms: Dreyer Catalogue
Related terms: Messier number
NGC
quarter moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter moons
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: half-moon
quaternary moon
glosses: Either of the intermediate stages between the new and full moons.
light speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lightspeed.
artel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)ˈtɛl/
ipa: /ɑːɹˈtɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: artels
Etymology: From Russian артель (artelʹ).
Senses: examples: text: This essentially urban lifestyle, modelled on the factory artel, did much to alienate the local peasantry […]
ref: 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2015, page 827:
glosses: A Russian or Soviet craftsmen's collective.
ustulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʌstjʊˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: ustulations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ustulare (“burn, scorch, sear”) (with the suffix -tion added), from ust-, past participle stem of uro (“burn”).
Senses: glosses: An act of burning, especially roasting.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A burning sensation.
mell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: mells
form: melling
form: melled
form: melled
form: mele
Etymology: From Middle English melen, mælen, from Old English mǣlan (“to speak, talk”), from mǣl (“speech, talk, conversation; dispute, contest, battle”) and māl (“suit, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay”), both from Proto-Germanic *mahlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), alteration of *maþlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to meet, encounter”). Cognate with Scots mele (“to speak, converse, tell”), Danish mæle (“to speak, utter”), Icelandic mæla (“to speak, say”), Old High German mahalōn (“to charge, accuse, proscecute”), German vermählen (“to wed, marry”). More at blackmail.
Senses: glosses: To say (something); to speak, to tell.
mell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: mele
Etymology: From Middle English melen, mælen, from Old English mǣlan (“to speak, talk”), from mǣl (“speech, talk, conversation; dispute, contest, battle”) and māl (“suit, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay”), both from Proto-Germanic *mahlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), alteration of *maþlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to meet, encounter”). Cognate with Scots mele (“to speak, converse, tell”), Danish mæle (“to speak, utter”), Icelandic mæla (“to speak, say”), Old High German mahalōn (“to charge, accuse, proscecute”), German vermählen (“to wed, marry”). More at blackmail.
Senses: glosses: Discourse; conversation.
mell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: mells
form: melling
form: melled
form: melled
Etymology: From Middle English mellen, medlen, from Old French meller, mesler (“to mix, mingle”). Doublet of meddle.
Senses: examples: text: For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell.
ref: c. 1495, John Skelton, Vppon a deedman's hed:
text: Here is a great deale of good matter, / loſt for lacke of telling, / Now ſicker I see, thou doeſt but clatter: / harme may come of melling.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iulye. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 29, recto:
text: And ſay a ſouldier (Dian) told thee this: / Men are to mell with, boyes are not to kis.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 250, column 1:
text: “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there.”
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 57:
glosses: To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
mell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: From Middle English mel, mell, melle, from Latin mell-, mel. Doublet of mel.
Senses: examples: text: Her ſmyles were ſober, and her lookes were chearfull vnto all: / And ſuch as neither wanton ſeeme, noꝛ waward, mell, noꝛ gall.
ref: 1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XX.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: Honey.
mell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Senses: glosses: The last grain cut at harvest; kern
mell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: mells
Etymology: A variant form of maul.
Senses: glosses: A heavy hammer or beetle of metal or wood.
glosses: A mace or club.
glosses: A chairman's hammer.
Related terms: mell of a hess
pell-mell
vavasour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvavəsʊə/
ipa: /ˈvavəsɔː/
ipa: /ˈvavəsə/
ipa: /ˈvævəsʊɹ/
ipa: /ˈvævəsɚ/
Forms: form: vavasours
form: valvassor
form: vavassor
Etymology: From Middle English vavasour, from Old French vavasour, from Medieval Latin vavassor, perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).
Senses: examples: text: Fiddler’s Green is missing? That is passing strange, Lucien. He is, after all, vavasour of his own dominion. And always so… reliable.
ref: 1989, Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, The Doll’s House, The Sandman issue 10
glosses: a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
AWB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AWBs
Senses: topics: business
qualifier: logistics
glosses: Initialism of airwaybill.
Related terms: HAWB
AWB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Australian Wheat Board.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
glosses: Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging.
qualifier: wiki jargon
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: AutoWikiBrowser.
thrash metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθɹæʃ ˌmɛtəl/
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by fast tempos, technical precision, alternate picking, extended guitar solos, and aggressive vocals.
tocopherol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tocopherols
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”) + φέρειν (phérein, “to bear or carry”) + -ol.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomers of the principal component of vitamin E, each containing a chromanol ring and an isoprene side-chain.
Synonyms: E306
E307
E308 and E309 when used as an antioxidant
Derived terms: alpha-tocopherol
Related terms: tocotrienol
chromanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromanols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of bicyclic heterocycles formed by ring-closure from substituted quinones; examples with isoprene sidechains are the basis of numerous naturally occurring compounds, such as tocopherol
Mycenae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mycenæ
Etymology: From Latin Mycenae, Ancient Greek Μυκῆναι (Mukênai), the name of the Ancient Greek city, from Μυκήνη (Mukḗnē), a nymph in Greek mythology who lived around Mycenae. Doublet of Mykines.
Two traditional etymologies exist:
* According to Pausanias, Perseus, the legendary founder of the city, named it either after the cap of the sheath of his sword or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site (either way, the term would derive from Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs)).
* Homer connected the name to the abovementioned Mycene (or Mykene), daughter of Inachus, first King of Argos (Odyssey, 2.120). Homer was not alone in identifying Inachus as a river god, and thus Mycene as a nymph.
Senses: examples: text: 1958, Alan John Bayard Wace, Elizabeth Bayard French, The Mycenae Tablets II, American Philosophical Society, page 1,
The excavators of Mycenae added in 1953 and 1954 important new materials to the small but excellent archives of Mycenae.
text: 1992 [Routledge], Richard Tomlinson, From Mycenae to Constantinople, 2003, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 31,
In 479 BC the citizen army of Mycenae marched to Plataea in Boeotia to join the other mainland Greek cities in inflicting the final defeat which terminated Xerxes' invasion of Greece.
text: The Prehistoric Cemetery at Mycenae provides our most coherent glimpse of the Middle Hellenic period at Mycenae.
ref: 2000, Maureen Joan Alden, Well Built Mycenae, Oxbow Books, page 1:
glosses: An ancient Greek city in the NE Peloponnesus on the plain of Argos, inhabited since about 4000 B.C.E.
wikipedia: Homer
Inachus
Mycene (mythology)
Odyssey
Pausanias
Perseus
Related terms: Mycenaean
Mycenaean civilization
-grapher
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “I draw, write or describe”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: someone who writes about a specified subject, or in a specified manner
glosses: a machine which notates a specified subject
Derived terms: angiographer
calendographer
chalcographer
chartographer
chirographer
cometographer
cosmographer
cryptographer
demographer
demonographer
elegiographer
geographer
glossographer
haliographer
heresiographer
histographer
horologiographer
logographer
mimographer
mythographer
osteographer
paleographer
paramiographer
psalmographer
selenographer
sphenographer
stereotypographer
tasseographer
xylographer
zincographer
zoographer
-gyny
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, female”).
Senses: glosses: the state of having a specific number of wives
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: a situation with respect to female plant organs
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: having a specified number or type of female plant organs
Derived terms: epigyny
amphiarthrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to amphiarthrosis.
amphiarthrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphiarthroses
Etymology: From amphi- + arthrosis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The type of movable joint in animals in which the surfaces of bones are connected by ligaments or cartilage.
ampotis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ebb of the tide.
amrell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amrells
Etymology: From Middle English ameral etc., from Anglo-Norman and Old French ameral etc., from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of admiral.
anesthesiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anesthesiologists
form: anaesthesiologist
Etymology: From anesthesiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A physician who specializes in anesthesiology and administers anesthesia.
Synonyms: word: anaesthetist
english: mostly US; may refer to a nurse anesthetist, as distinct from a (physician) anesthesiologist
translation: mostly US; may refer to a nurse anesthetist, as distinct from a (physician) anesthesiologist
word: anesthetist
Derived terms: neuroanesthesiologist
anaesthetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈniːsθ.ə.tɪst/
Forms: form: anaesthetists
Etymology: From anaesthet(ize) + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anesthetist; an anaesthesiologist.
Derived terms: neuroanaesthetist
champaign
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmpeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: more champaign
form: most champaign
form: champeyne
form: champaine
form: champagne
form: champain
Etymology: From Old French champaigne, from Late Latin campānia.
Senses: examples: text: They are ſeated alongſt the ſea-coaſt, encompaſſed toward the land with huge and ſteepie mountains, having betweene both, a hundred leagues or there abouts of open and champaine ground.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Caniballes”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 102:
text: A fine champagne country, well stored with corn.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: In England mobility was taken for granted, at least outside the champaign agricultural areas.
ref: 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 35:
glosses: Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.
Synonyms: champian
Related terms: champagne
anodize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anodizes
form: anodizing
form: anodized
form: anodized
form: anodise
Etymology: From anode + -ize.
Senses: glosses: to coat the surface of a metal electrolytically with an oxide, either as protection or decoration
electrolytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more electrolytically
form: most electrolytically
Etymology: From electrolytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: by means of electrolysis
appetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæp.ə.taɪz.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: more appetizing
form: most appetizing
form: appetising
Etymology: Calque of French appétissant, French -ant being equivalent to -ing. See also appetite
Senses: examples: text: This food looks so appetizing.
text: The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: That appeals to, or stimulates the appetite.
glosses: Appealing or enticing.
Derived terms: appetizingly
appetizingness
unappetizing
appetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæp.ə.taɪz.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: appetizings
form: appetising
Etymology: Calque of French appétissant, French -ant being equivalent to -ing. See also appetite
Senses: examples: text: And of all the foods that are represented in the city, perhaps none has remained so tied to Jewish tradition and identity as appetizings.
ref: 2019 January 23, Yamit Behar Wood, “The Appetizing World of Murray’s”, in Jewish Journal:
text: Alina Sheffi, a slicer at Russ & Daughters, stands at her usual spot in the long, narrow space behind the glass display case full of cream cheese, sides of lox, pickled herring, white fish, schmaltz, and all other manner of appetizing.
ref: 2020 November 11, Joshua David Stein, “Good-bye to the Lox Sherpa of Russ & Daughters”, in Grub Street:
glosses: any food traditionally eaten with a bagel, as an accompaniment, topping or filling; including dairy products and pareve but not meat
appetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæp.ə.taɪz.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: appetising
Etymology: Calque of French appétissant, French -ant being equivalent to -ing. See also appetite
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appetize
appetising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appetising
form: most appetising
Senses: examples: text: Plain and unexciting, perhaps, but they are solid, well cooked, appetising and filling, and moreover cheap.
ref: 1964 April, “Letters: London stations—a consumers' guide”, in Modern Railways, page 274:
glosses: Alternative spelling of appetizing.
Derived terms: appetisingly
appetisingness
unappetising
appetising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appetise
aquatint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈækwətɪnt/
Forms: form: aquatints
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian acquatinta (literally “dyed water”).
Senses: examples: text: Aquatint is a laborious process that involves acids and resistants and emphasizes tone over line.
ref: 2023, Justin Torres, Blackouts, Granta Books (2024), page 287:
hypernyms: etching
intaglio
coordinate_terms: mezzotint
glosses: A form of etching with acid on a plate partially covered with varnish that produces a print somewhat resembling a watercolour.
glosses: An etching or print made using this method.
Derived terms: aquatinter
aquatintist
aquatint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈækwətɪnt/
Forms: form: aquatints
form: aquatinting
form: aquatinted
form: aquatinted
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian acquatinta (literally “dyed water”).
Senses: glosses: To make such etchings.
astragalocalcaneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astragalo- + calcaneal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing the fusion of the astragalus and calcaneum.
Derived terms: astragalocalcaneal fusion
astragalocalcaneal joint
Circinus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin circinus (“a pair of compasses”)
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a compass. It lies between the constellations of Centaurus and Triangulum Australe.
Derived terms: Circini
focusing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.kəs.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.kəs.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: focussing
Senses: glosses: Used for or pertaining to focusing.
glosses: Pertaining to the direction of attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or purpose over time.
focusing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.kəs.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.kəs.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: focussing
Senses: glosses: The action or concentration of attention or energy on something.
glosses: The act or action of bringing something into focus or attention.
Derived terms: chromatofocusing
cryofocusing
electrofocusing
focusing cloth
focusing screen
immunofocusing
isoelectric focusing
isoelectrofocusing
isofocusing
nanofocusing
superfocusing
focusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.kəs.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.kəs.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: focussing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of focus
augmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːɡˈmɛntɪd/
ipa: /ɔɡˈmɛntəd/
ipa: /ɑɡˈmɛntəd/
Forms: form: more augmented
form: most augmented
Senses: glosses: Increased in number, amount or strength.
examples: text: augmented reality
text: augmented surgery
glosses: Increased in number, amount or strength.
Assisted and improved by integration with digital technology via user interfaces that project digital information and tools as an overlay upon one's point of view of physical reality.
antonyms: nonaugmented
unaugmented
coordinate_terms: virtual#Adjective
raw_tags: of physical and nondigital things
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
antonyms: diminished#Adjective
coordinate_terms: perfect#Adjective
glosses: Increased by a semitone.
Synonyms: word: additional
word: augmented
word: enhanced
Derived terms: augmented amicable pair
augmented assignment
augmented Backus-Naur form
augmented chord
augmented dodecahedron
augmented feedback
augmented fifth
augmented fourth
augmented hexagonal prism
augmented interval
augmentedly
augmented matrix
augmented ninth
augmented octave
augmented pentagonal prism
augmented polyhedron
augmented reality
augmented second
augmented seventh
augmented sixth
augmented sixth chord
augmented social network
augmented sphenocorona
augmented Tchebycheff function
augmented third
augmented transition network
augmented triad
augmented triangular prism
augmented tridiminished icosahedron
augmented truncated cube
augmented truncated dodecahedron
augmented truncated tetrahedron
augmented unison
bioaugmented
French augmented sixth chord
German augmented sixth chord
Italian augmented sixth chord
nonaugmented
superaugmented
triaugmented
unaugmented
Related terms: augmentation
augmented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːɡˈmɛntɪd/
ipa: /ɔɡˈmɛntəd/
ipa: /ɑɡˈmɛntəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of augment
automotive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːtəˈməʊtɪv/
ipa: /ˌɔtəˈmoʊtɪv/
ipa: [ˌɔɾəˈmoʊɾɪv]
note: of CA
ipa: /ˌɑtəˈmoʊtɪv/
note: of CA
ipa: [ˌɑɾəˈmoʊɾɪv]
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌɒtəˈmoʊtɪv/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˌɒɾəˈmoʊɾɪv]
ipa: /ˌoːtəˈməʉ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˌoːtəˈməʉ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˌoːtəˈmɐʉ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˌoːtəˈmɐʉ.ɾɪv]
Etymology: From auto- + motive.
Senses: glosses: Having the ability to move by itself; self-propelled or self-propelling.
examples: text: But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
text: “You can look back 15, 20 years to when GM’s China operations was its life preserver. It certainly isn’t now. It’s a money pit,” said Jeff Schuster, global vice president of automotive research at research firm GlobalData. “Every international brand is suffering in China.”
ref: 2024 December 17, Chris Isidore, “The retreat from the world’s largest auto market has begun”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, or relating to motor vehicles.
Derived terms: autogas
automotive battery
automotive industry
nonautomotive
automotive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːtəˈməʊtɪv/
ipa: /ˌɔtəˈmoʊtɪv/
ipa: [ˌɔɾəˈmoʊɾɪv]
note: of CA
ipa: /ˌɑtəˈmoʊtɪv/
note: of CA
ipa: [ˌɑɾəˈmoʊɾɪv]
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌɒtəˈmoʊtɪv/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˌɒɾəˈmoʊɾɪv]
ipa: /ˌoːtəˈməʉ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˌoːtəˈməʉ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˌoːtəˈmɐʉ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˌoːtəˈmɐʉ.ɾɪv]
Forms: form: automotives
Etymology: From auto- + motive.
Senses: glosses: A shop or company that sells motor vehicle parts.
examples: text: His business is a machine shop that works mainly in automotive, aerospace, and medical.
glosses: The field, business, or market segment that concerns automobiles, especially their manufacture.
Related terms: automobile
locomotive
autoschediastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔː.təʊ.skɛ.diˈæs.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌɔː.tə.skɛ.diˈæs.tɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτοσχεδιάζω (autoskhediázō, “to act or speak extemporaneously”), from αὐτοσχέδιος (autoskhédios, “personally near, offhand”).
Senses: glosses: impromptu, improvised, ex tempore or offhand
Related terms: autoschediaze
distrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: distrains
form: distraining
form: distrained
form: distrained
Etymology: From Middle English distreynen, from Old French destraindre, from Latin distringō (“to pull asunder”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringō (“to draw tight, strain”).
Senses: examples: text: But when he heard her answeres loth, he knew / Some secret sorrow did her heart distraine […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Thus spake the Prince, and gently 'gan distrain / Now him, now her, between his friendly arms.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xii
glosses: To squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.
examples: text: to distrain a person by his goods and chattels
topics: law
glosses: To force (someone) to do something by seizing their property.
topics: law
glosses: To seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt.
examples: text: For that same net so cunningly was wound, / That neither guile, nor force might it distraine.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To pull off, tear apart.
Synonyms: sense: to seize somebody's property in place of, or to force payment of a debt
word: distress
Derived terms: distrainable
distrainee
distrainer
distrainment
distrainor
distraint
undistrained
Columba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlʌm.bə/
ipa: /ˈkɒ.ləm.bə/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.ləm.bə/
rhymes: -ʌmbə
Etymology: From Latin columba (“dove, pigeon”). The dove symbolizes the Holy Spirit in Christianity.
Senses: glosses: Saint Columba of Iona, one of the Gaelic missionary monks who reintroduced Christianity to Scotland during the Dark Ages.
glosses: Any of three other Christian saints who bore the name Columba.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove.
Derived terms: Columbae
Related terms: Calum
Colm
Columb
Columbia
Columbus
Malcolm
ritual servitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ritual servitude is practiced in parts of Ghana.
glosses: The practice of holding human beings in slavery for religious purposes
Synonyms: fiashidi
trokosi
voodoosi
woryokwe
Related terms: trokosi
loca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locum
drywall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdraɪˌwɔːl/
ipa: /ˈdraɪˌwɔl/
Forms: form: drywalls
form: dry wall
Etymology: From dry + wall.
Senses: examples: text: As moldy drywall thudded to the curb in a depressing drumbeat throughout Breezy Point, Queens, Thomas Ryan’s reciprocating saw stood out like a growling declaration of impatience.
ref: 2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now”, in New York Times:
glosses: A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
glosses: A wall made of this.
glosses: A stone wall constructed without mortar or cement.
Synonyms: word: drywall
word: gyprock
word: gypsum board
word: plasterboard
word: sheetrock
word: wallboard
Hypernyms: word: material
Derived terms: drywall saw
Related terms: cement board
drystone
gypsum plaster
lath
plaster
plasterboard
drywall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdraɪˌwɔːl/
ipa: /ˈdraɪˌwɔl/
Forms: form: drywalls
form: drywalling
form: drywalled
form: drywalled
form: dry wall
Etymology: From dry + wall.
Senses: glosses: To install and finish drywall.
Synonyms: sheetrock
Derived terms: drywaller
Related terms: plaster
meaninglessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈminɪŋlɪsnɪs/
Forms: form: meaninglessnesses
Etymology: From meaningless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
examples: text: all the little meaninglessnesses of human existence
glosses: Anything that is meaningless.
pulmonary vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonary veins
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In tetrapods, a vein that returns blood to the heart after it has circulated through the lungs.
meaninglessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meaninglessly
form: most meaninglessly
Etymology: From meaningless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a meaningless manner; nonsensically.
emporia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin emporia.
Senses: glosses: plural of emporium
endocarditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocarditides
form: endocarditises
Etymology: From endocard(ium) + -itis.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
hypernyms: carditis
cardiopathy
coordinate_terms: myocarditis
pericarditis
pancarditis
perimyoendocarditis
glosses: An inflammation of the endocardium and sometimes also the heart valves.
Derived terms: endocarditic
Libman-Sacks endocarditis
entente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒ̃ˈtɒ̃t/
ipa: /ɑnˈtɑnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: ententes
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French entente (“understanding”). Doublet of intent.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.
Derived terms: double entente
entente cordiale
Related terms: détente
entente cordiale
hatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatts
Senses: examples: text: We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.
ref: c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:
glosses: Obsolete form of hat.
Trokosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: trō kō sē
Forms: form: Trokosis
form: Trokosi
form: Troxovi
Etymology: From the Ewe words tro (“god”) + kosi (“female slave”).
Senses: examples: text: Trokosi is practiced in the southern Volta Region of Ghana.
ref: 1998, Ghana Criminal Code of 1960, Act 29, Amendment:
glosses: The practice of ritual servitude in parts of Africa.
examples: 2001, Mark Wisdom, The Trokosi System, FESLIM, PO Box 25, Adidome, Ghana
The trokosi frequently complain that they were abused and dehumanized.
glosses: A person held in ritual servitude under this system.
Synonyms: Voodoosi
Related terms: ritual servitude
nasus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ.zəs/
ipa: /ˈneɪ.səs/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -eɪzəs
rhymes: (General American) -eɪsəs
Forms: form: nasi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nāsus (“the nose; the nozzle or spout”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A horn-like elongated rostrum on the head of soldier termites of the subfamily Nasutiterminae, capable of producing and spraying noxious secretions for defense.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A prolongation on the front of the head of a cranefly.
Derived terms: word: nasute
Related terms: nasus externus
gazania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Forms: form: gazanias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any flowering plant of the genus Gazania, native to southern Africa.
Derived terms: gazaniaxanthin
debark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɑːk/
ipa: /di.bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: debarks
form: debarking
form: debarked
form: debarked
Etymology: From French débarquer, from de- (Old French des-) + barque (“bark, small ship”).
Senses: glosses: To unload goods from an aircraft or ship.
glosses: To disembark.
Derived terms: debarcation
debark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɑːk/
ipa: /di.bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
ipa: /diːˈbɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
ipa: /dɪˈbɑːk/
ipa: /di.bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: debarks
form: debarking
form: debarked
form: debarked
Etymology: From de- + bark (“covering of tree”).
Senses: examples: text: Lightning completely debarked a large oak tree and set fire to a mattress of [an] adjacent home; […]
ref: 1975, Storm Data, page 18:
text: On these photographs, the wide strips can be seen debarked from a horse chestnut tree (left) and from a poplar (right). This seems to be typical for trees with high moisture content.
ref: 2006, Tibor Horváth, Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection: A Multimedia Teaching Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: business
forestry
glosses: To remove the bark from a tree, especially one that has been felled.
Derived terms: debarker
debark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɑːk/
ipa: /di.bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
ipa: /diːˈbɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: debarks
form: debarking
form: debarked
form: debarked
Etymology: From de- + bark (“(of a dog) make the noise”).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: To devocalize (a dog).
gentility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: gentilities
Etymology: From Old French gentilité.
Senses: examples: text: 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He is the violence and fear of the boy of my stories, yet the gentility and sensitivity of poetry.
text: A powerful visitors’ bureau has pushed the South Carolina city to the top of “best” lists by selling gentility. Critics say that has come at the expense of history and the city’s Black population.
ref: 2020 August 12, Tariro Mzezewa, Kim Severson, “Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change.”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.
glosses: The upper classes, the gentry.
Derived terms: ungentility
pell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: pells
Etymology: From Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”), from Proto-Italic *pelnis, from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-. Distantly related to fell and film.
Senses: glosses: A fur or hide.
glosses: A lined cloak or its lining.
examples: 1835, Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty′s Revenue in the 44th Year of King Edward III.: A.D. 1370, page xi,
The clerk of the pell (whose office is in the Lord Treasurer′s gift) keepeth the Pells in parchment, called Pelles Receptæ, wherein every teller′s bill, with his name on it, is to be entred; and under every such bill when it is entred, recordatur to be written in open court, for a controlment to charge the teller with so much money as in the said bill is set downe.
He also anciently kept another pell, called Pellis Exitus, wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneys paid into the receipt, was to be entered, and by whom and by what warrant, privy seale, or bill, it was paid.
glosses: A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
glosses: An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.
Derived terms: clerk of the pells
Related terms: fell
pelisse
pellage
pellagra
pellicle
pelt
peltry
pell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: pells
form: pelling
form: pelled
form: pelled
Senses: examples: text: Beat and pell them downe with perches and poles.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book I.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: To pelt; to knock about.
Related terms: pell-mell
ront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: ronts
Senses: examples: text: And after them a rude confused ront
Of persons flockt
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of runt.
naivety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑːˈiːvti/
ipa: /nɑːˈiːvəti/
Forms: form: naiveties
form: naïvety
form: naivete
form: naïvete
form: naiveté
form: naïveté
Etymology: From naive + -ity, English analogue of naïveté (naïf + -eté) borrowed from French.
Senses: glosses: naïveté
mho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mhos
Etymology: ohm spelled backwards.
Senses: examples: text: If resistance is measured in ohms, conductance is measured in mhos.
glosses: A former unit of electric conductance, equivalent to and superseded by the siemens.
Synonyms: siemens
Derived terms: abmho
mhometer
micromho
millimho
Related terms: word: ℧ the symbol of mho
english: farad
translation: farad
word: daraf spelled backwards
english: henry
translation: henry
word: yrneh spelled backwards
naiveté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naivetés
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of naïveté.
naivete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of naïveté.
lett
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We grete you well. Wheras the Erle of Murray, and uther Noblemen and Gentlemen of Scotland, came into this our realme, upon our request, and by our saife conduct for their entry and departure, we lett you know, that we have licensed him, and them all, with their traynes, to returne into Scotland, there to continue in their former estates.
ref: 1754, Walter Goodall, “An Examination of the Letters, Said to be written by Mary Queen of Scots, to James Earl of Bothwell: Also An Inquiry into the Murder of Kind Henry. Vol. II”, in The Quenes Majesty to the Lord Wardens of the marches, for assistance of the Erle of Murray, Edinburgh, page 323:
glosses: Archaic form of let.
Related terms: word: lettest
word: letteth
nuclear reactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear reactors
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: control rod
text: Near-synonym: atomic pile (dated)
text: Some newspapers in the United States, in Japan, and in South Korea printed photographs of North Korean nuclear reactors and nuclear plants, photos that were said to have been taken by U.S. military satellites. Most of the exposures were from a nuclear research establishment at Ninghian Chun in Pingan Beidao, only 80 km from Pyongyang.
ref: 1993 August 9 [1993 April 8], Zhongqing Tian, “Change in Overall Situation on the Korean Peninsula”, in JPRS Report China, number 93-057, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: reactor#Noun[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]] synonymous>
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apparatus#Noun
glosses: Any device in which a controlled chain reaction is maintained for the purpose of creating heat (for power generation) or for creating neutrons and other fission products for experimental, medical or other purposes.
tinea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪ.ni.ə/
/ˈtɪ.ni.ɚ/
Forms: form: tineas
form: tineae
Etymology: From Latin tinea (“moth; bookworm”).
Senses: examples: text: Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea, her fingernails black and broken.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 6:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A fungal infection of the skin, known generally as ringworm.
Synonyms: dermatophytosis
Derived terms: tinea versicolour
Related terms: word: caused by dermatophyte
english: fungal infestation of facial hair
translation: fungal infestation of facial hair
word: tinea barbae
english: fungal infection of the scalp and hair
translation: fungal infection of the scalp and hair
word: tinea capitis
english: fungal infection of the arms
translation: fungal infection of the arms
word: tinea corporis
word: legs
word: and trunk
english: fungal infection of the groin
translation: fungal infection of the groin
word: tinea cruris
english: fungal infection of the face
translation: fungal infection of the face
word: tinea faciei
english: fungal infection of the hands and palms
translation: fungal infection of the hands and palms
word: tinea manuum
english: fungal infection of the feet
translation: fungal infection of the feet
word: tinea pedis
english: fungal infection of the fingernails
translation: fungal infection of the fingernails
word: tinea unguium
word: toenails
word: and the nail bed
word: of other causes
word: tinea nigra – Hortaea werneckii
word: tinea versicolor – Malassezia furfur
mesoplastral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + plastral.
Senses: glosses: Describing either of a pair of transverse hexagonal bones in a turtle that lie between the hyoplastral and hypoplastral bones.
Star-Spangled Banner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɑː(ɹ)ˌspæŋɡəld ˈbænə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: the Star-Spangled Banner
Etymology: From a description of the United States flag in Defence of Fort McHenry by Francis Scott Key.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for the national flag of the United States of America.
Star-Spangled Banner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɑː(ɹ)ˌspæŋɡəld ˈbænə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: "The Star-Spangled Banner "
Etymology: From a description of the United States flag in Defence of Fort McHenry by Francis Scott Key.
Senses: examples: text: In the course of a single lifetime, the average fan will be forced to hear 1,500 fiendishly unattractive women ... take four and a half minutes to butcher “The Star-Spangled Banner”[.]
ref: 2004, Joe Queenan, True Believers, page 158:
text: On Monday, February 21, 1972, as a Chinese military band played “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Nixon became the first American president to visit China while in office.
ref: 2015, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America, Threshold Editions, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 71:
glosses: The national anthem of the United States of America.
Synonyms: Old Glory
stars and stripes
major chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major chords
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any musical chord which has the tones a major third (as opposed to a minor third) and a perfect fifth above its root, i.e. the notes of a major triad, but possibly containing other intervals, such as a seventh or ninth.
Related terms: minor chord
augmented chord
diminished chord
suspended chord
quavering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quaver
quavering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Trembling, or prone to trembling and shaking.
quavering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaverings
Senses: examples: text: the quaverings and warblings in lutes and pipes
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of something that quavers.
peet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːt/
rhymes: -iːt
homophone: peat
homophone: Pete
Forms: form: peets
Etymology: Blend of paw + feet.
Senses: glosses: A paw, especially a more humanoid looking one.
Schloss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schlosses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schloss.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
kell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: kells
Etymology: Compare caul.
Senses: glosses: The caul.
examples: text: I'll have him cut to the kell.
ref: c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene iv:
glosses: That which covers or envelops, like a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
examples: text: Bury himself in every silkworm's kell
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:
glosses: The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.
kell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: kells
Senses: examples: text: Kell-drying
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC:
glosses: A kiln.
kell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kale (“broth”).
braze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: braise
Forms: form: brazes
form: brazing
form: brazed
form: brazed
Etymology: From Middle English brasen, from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), from bræs (“brass”).
Senses: glosses: To cover with brass, or as with brass.
Related terms: brazen
braze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: braise
Forms: form: brazes
form: brazing
form: brazed
form: brazed
form: braise
form: braize
Etymology: 1580s, "to expose to the action of fire", perhaps from French braser (“to solder, weld”), though the sense evolution is difficult to explain. Perhaps the English word is older, being unrecorded in Middle English but borrowed from Old French braser (“to burn”), which fits the meaning more closely. Old French braser derives from Old Norse brasa (“to braze, harden with fire”). Also possible is that the Middle English and English words were borrowed directly from Old Norse.
Senses: glosses: To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
glosses: To burn or temper in fire.
Derived terms: braze welding
brazer
braze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: braise
Forms: form: brazes
form: braise
form: braize
Etymology: 1580s, "to expose to the action of fire", perhaps from French braser (“to solder, weld”), though the sense evolution is difficult to explain. Perhaps the English word is older, being unrecorded in Middle English but borrowed from Old French braser (“to burn”), which fits the meaning more closely. Old French braser derives from Old Norse brasa (“to braze, harden with fire”). Also possible is that the Middle English and English words were borrowed directly from Old Norse.
Senses: examples: text: Roasting the ores is done with the charcoal braze (or fine charcoal from the charring) in heaps of thirty feet width, fifty-feet length and twenty feet height, containing 3,200 tons.
ref: 1877, Charles P. Williams, Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron, Together with Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits, Regan & Carter, page 144:
glosses: A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.