cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
umlaut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʊm.laʊt/
ipa: /ˈʌmlaʊt/
ipa: /ˈʊm.laʊt/
ipa: /ˈumlaʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: umlauts
form: umlauting
form: umlauted
form: umlauted
Etymology: Borrowed from German Umlaut in the 19ᵗʰ century, from um- or um (“around, re-, trans-”) + Laut (“sound”), from Old High German hlūt. More at loud.
Senses: examples: text: We kept some of the foreign alphabet symbols such as the accented and umlauted vowels and Greek letters and used the rest of the space for more esoteric linguistic symbols such as "barred-l," and "engma."
ref: 1989, Elizabeth A. Edwards, “A Computer Column for All Seasons”, in Margaret S. Boone, editor, Practicing Anthropology, volume 11, number 2:
glosses: To place an umlaut over (a vowel).
examples: text: an umlauting vowel
text: These, together with (some) Romansh lects, belong to our West Rhaetian; the /ȫ/ also supported by two lects from the Ticino which by our criteria are NWIt, and by the partially umlauting lects of Lombardy which together with (some) Engadine lects belong to our East Rhaetian.
ref: 1980, Frederick B. Agard, The Genealogy of the French Language, published in Contributions to historical linguistics, →ISBN, page 222:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it.
Related terms: diaeresis
dieresis
approximate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət/
ipa: /əˈpɹɑk.sə.mət/
ipa: /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət/
Forms: form: more approximate
form: most approximate
form: approx.
Etymology: From Middle English approximat(e) (“close, near (to); similar; intimate”, also used as the past participle of approximaten), from Latin approximātus, the perfect passive participle of approximō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + proximō (“to come near”). The noun was derived from the adjective through substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also proximate.
Senses: glosses: Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
examples: text: approximate results or values
text: NASA’s Genesis spacecraft has on board an ion monitor to record the speed, density, temperature and approximate composition of the solar wind ions.
glosses: Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Drawn close together, but not united.
Synonyms: close
Derived terms: approximately
approximateness
approximation
approximative
approximeeting
approximate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət/
ipa: /əˈpɹɑk.sə.mət/
ipa: /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət/
Forms: form: approximates
form: approx.
Etymology: From Middle English approximat(e) (“close, near (to); similar; intimate”, also used as the past participle of approximaten), from Latin approximātus, the perfect passive participle of approximō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + proximō (“to come near”). The noun was derived from the adjective through substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also proximate.
Senses: glosses: An approximate result or quantity.
approximate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət/
ipa: /əˈpɹɑk.sə.mət/
ipa: /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət/
ipa: /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.meɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɹɑk.sə.meɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət/
ipa: /əˈpɹɑk.sə.mət/
ipa: /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət/
Forms: form: approximates
form: approximating
form: approximated
form: approximated
form: approx.
Etymology: From Middle English approximaten (“to bring, put close (to)”), from approximat(e) (“close, near (to); similar; intimate”, also used as the past participle of approximaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin approximātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: examples: text: I approximated the value of pi by taking 22 divided by 7.
text: As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them.
ref: 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:
glosses: To estimate.
examples: text: When you follow two separate chains of thought, Watson, you will find some point of intersection which should approximate to the truth.
ref: 1911, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax:
text: The telescope approximates perfection.
ref: 1802, Jedidiah Morse, The American Universal Geography:
glosses: To come near to; to approach.
examples: text: to approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
Derived terms: approximable
overapproximate
reapproximate
underapproximate
aproned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: apronned
Etymology: From apron + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box,
It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors.
text: 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle,
Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
text: The corridor was alive. Clusters of aproned figures mixed and disengaged.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, “The Great Kitchen”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
text: Together they contemplate the picture: the young wife with the daring clothes and gaudy jewellery striding through the front door, impatiently sniffing the air; the husband, colourless Mr Right, apronned, stirring a pot in the steaming kitchen.
ref: 1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 2, in Disgrace, New York: Viking, page 14:
glosses: Wearing an apron.
examples: text: […] said Douglas Mancini, a red-aproned bartender at Keens Steakhouse on West 36th Street off Avenue of the Americas.
ref: 2006 April 23, John Freeman Gill, The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024:
glosses: Bearing some specific type of apron.
Derived terms: unaproned
apropos
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/
ipa: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: more apropos
form: most apropos
form: à propos
form: àpropos
Etymology: Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos.
ref: 1877, Jules Verne, translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson, Journey into the Interior of the Earth, Chapter VI:
text: A particularly apropos line many will remember from this film was the closing shot of a Times editorial reading "Is There No Sense of Decency?"
ref: 1974 February 9, “Tufts Porno”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 33, page 2:
text: Served outside the shell and sliced in bite-sized pieces, it's as apropos for a first date as a business dinner.
ref: 2008 December, Anne Valdespino, “Mr. Stox”, in Orange Coast, volume 34, number 12, →ISSN, page 139:
glosses: Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
examples: text: Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to [C. Auguste] Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as [Edgar Allan] Poe appeared to imagine."
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter II (The Science of Deduction), page 14:
glosses: By the way, incidental.
Synonyms: sense: by the way
word: by the way
sense: by the way
word: incidentally
sense: by the way
word: incidental
Derived terms: apronym
unapropos
apropos
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/
ipa: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: à propos
form: àpropos
Etymology: Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.
Senses: examples: text: Few have the same root and branch obsession with the recent past or the avenger’s recall (‘the necessity for long memory and sarcasm in argument’, as he wrote apropos the old left intelligentsia in New York).
ref: 2011, Jeremy Harding, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
glosses: Regarding, concerning, in regard to, on the subject of
Synonyms: about
as for
Derived terms: apropos of
apropos of nothing
apropos
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/
ipa: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: à propos
form: àpropos
Etymology: Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.
Senses: glosses: By the way.
glosses: Timely; at a good time.
glosses: To the purpose; appropriately.
apropos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/
ipa: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: à propos
form: àpropos
Etymology: Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.
Senses: glosses: Fittingness, pertinence.
apt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æpt/
rhymes: -æpt
Forms: form: apts
form: apt.
Senses: examples: text: Where our apt used to be they built a fancy condominium high-rise.
Which at a lowly income none of us could ever really quite afford.
ref: 2010, David Dondero, Just a Baby in Your Momma's Eyes:
glosses: Abbreviation of apartment.
crosscut saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosscut saws
form: cross-cut saw
Senses: examples: text: Crosscut teeth make a wider path, are raked back and beveled to points. The points allow the crosscut saw to score and cleave the grain cleanly.
ref: 2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 5:
topics: business
forestry
synonyms: crosscutter
qualifier: timber industry
glosses: A saw used to cut wood across the grain.
SAMPROSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From SAM + PROS + A, where PROS stands for Prosodic Transcription, and SAM and A were added for similarity to SAMPA.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, silence is not considered a phone, and within ASR no standard exists for its representation. To account for silences within a phone decoding we have chosen to employ the SAMPROSA (Speech Assessment Methods Prosodic Approach) suggestion of ‘. . .’ to represent silence.
ref: 2002, B.S. Manjunath, Philippe Salembier, Thomas Sikora, Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface, volume 1, page 309:
glosses: ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause.
aristocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹɪstəˌkɹæt/
ipa: /əˈɹɪstəˌkɹæt/
Forms: form: aristocrats
Etymology: From French aristocrate (“aristocrat”), attested once in the 16th century but recoined in the Revolutionary era, from aristocratie (“aristocracy”), from Medieval Latin aristocratia, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratía), from ἄριστος (áristos, “best”) (compare Old English ar) + κράτος (krátos, “rule”). By surface analysis, aristo- + -crat.
Senses: examples: text: The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England.
ref: 2023 March 13, Lianne Kolirin, “Skeletal remains of Roman aristocrat discovered in hidden lead coffin”, in CNN:
text: Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.
ref: 2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2025:
glosses: One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
examples: text: Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend, deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat, something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society.
[…]
Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperamentally an aristocrat. And he believed that the qualities needed in his rulers were, in general, hereditary, and that given knowledge and opportunity you could deliberately breed for them.
ref: 1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; →ISBN, Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53
glosses: A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: patristocrat
glosses: A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.
Derived terms: antiaristocrat
aristocratess
aristocratical
aristocratisation
aristocratism
nonaristocrat
Related terms: aristocracy
aristocratic
sinh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sin/
Forms: form: sinhs
form: sin
form: pha sin
form: phaa sin
Etymology: Borrowed from Lao ສິ້ນ (sin) or Thai ซิ่น (sîn).
Senses: examples: text: These dancers with their graceful upright carriage, their dreamy distant expressions and their party sins (the women were wearing sins made of brightly-coloured silk woven in squares and broad stripes and usually worn by men) were infinitely more appealing than the younger dancers and the electronic band but, as Darachit was fond of saying and without apparent regret, 'Les traditions ne sont plus respectees."
ref: 1992, Lucretia Stewart, Tiger balm: travels in Laos, Vietnam & Cambodia, page 25:
text: The only enforced dress codes now [in Laos] are for female public servants who continue to wear the sinh, though outside of work they can wear what they like.
ref: 1998, Grant Evans, The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975, →ISBN, page 86:
text: After the change in regime of 1975, every woman seen in public was wearing a sin, as this was part of a dresscode favoured by the new socialist government.
ref: 2008, Robert Cooper, CultureShock! Laos: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette, →ISBN:
text: Communism made things even worse by eliminating the export market for locally made textiles and, in some cases, prohibiting the production of silk and the manufacture of clothes. Although traditional sins were allowed, colorful ones were considered bourgeois and banned.
ref: 2009, Arne Kislenko, Culture and Customs of Laos, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.
aristocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɹɪstəˈkɹætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more aristocratic
form: most aristocratic
form: aristocratick
Etymology: From French aristocratique, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατικός (aristokratikós). By surface analysis, aristo- + -cratic.
Senses: examples: text: An aristocratic constitution.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or favouring, an aristocracy
examples: text: An aristocratic measure.
text: Aristocratic pride or manners.
glosses: Similar to the aristocracy; characteristic of, the aristocracy.
Derived terms: antiaristocratic
aristocratically
aristocraticism
aristocraticness
nonaristocratic
pseudoaristocratic
unaristocratic
Related terms: aristocracy
aristocrat
che
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ches
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian че (če).
Senses: glosses: The letter Ч, ч.
Derived terms: Cheka
che
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: A modification of ich, iche from Middle English ich (“I”, pronoun). Doublet of utchy.
Senses: examples: text: Nay, come not near th' old man; keep out, che vor / ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be / the harder: ch'ill be plain with you.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 6:
glosses: I.
gracefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gracefulnesses
Etymology: From graceful + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: grace
glosses: The state of being graceful.
grace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: graces
form: gracing
form: graced
form: graced
Etymology: From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful.
The word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ēst (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ēadmēdu (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ār (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”)).
Senses: examples: text: He graced the room with his presence.
text: He graced the room by simply being there.
text: His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.
text: Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
ref: c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
text: We are graced with wreaths of victory.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
examples: text: He might, at his pleasure, grace […]or disgrace whom he would in court.
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
examples: text: Thy first publique miracle graceth a marriage
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: To supply with heavenly grace.
examples: text: For D and E, the G and A fingers are generally used for gracing, though E is sometimes more conveniently graced by F#.
ref: 1987, L. E. McCullough, The Complete Irish Tin Whistle Tutor (New & Revised), page 22:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
Synonyms: mense
ineffable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɛf.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌɪnˈɛf.ə.bəl/
Etymology: From Middle French ineffable (modern French ineffable), from Latin ineffābilis, from in- (“not”) + effor (“utter”) + -bilis (“-able”).
Senses: examples: text: Devotion bids aspire to nobler things, to boundless love, and joys ineffable: and such her expectation from kind Heav'n.
ref: 1750, “Theodora”, Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music):
text: Stroeve was trying to express a feeling which he had never known before, and he did not know how to put it into common terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 39, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
ref: 1990, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Good Omens:
text: As Alan Watts (1961) wrote, it involves trying to speak the unspeakable, scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable.
ref: 2012, Gay Watson, Stephen Batchelor, Guy Claxton, The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, science, and our day-to-day lives:
synonyms: word: indescribable
word: inexpressible
word: unspeakable
word: indescribable
word: indefinable
word: undescribable
word: indicible
word: inexpressible
word: untold
word: ineffable
word: inenarrable
word: inutterable
word: nameless
word: termless
word: undefinable
word: unnameable
word: unspecifiable
word: unspeakable
word: unutterable
antonyms: word: effable
coordinate_terms: inscrutable
unfathomable
incomprehensible
glosses: Beyond expression in words; unspeakable.
synonyms: taboo
unspeakable
unutterable
glosses: Forbidden to be uttered; taboo.
Coordinate terms: innumerable
innumerous
unnumerable
incalculable
Related terms: effability
effable
ineffability
ineffableness
ineffably
av
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of average.
glosses: Abbreviation of audiovisual.
av
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ad valorem.
av
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of avenue.
glosses: Abbreviation of avoirdupois.
glosses: Abbreviation of antivirus.
glosses: Abbreviation of aviation.
Derived terms: avgas
av
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: av u got d@? — have you got that?
glosses: have
ontogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏn′tō-jĕn′ĭ-sĭs
Forms: form: ontogeneses
Etymology: From onto- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The generation and development of an individual organism from fertilization to adulthood.
Synonyms: ontogeny
Derived terms: dysontogenesis
Related terms: phylogenesis
ontogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒnˈtɒdʒəni/
Forms: form: ontogenies
Etymology: From onto- + -geny, after German Ontogenie.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ontogenesis.
synonyms: word: ontogenesis
Derived terms: morphogeny
ontogenist
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
physiogeny
Related terms: phylogeny
inconvenience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnkənˈviːnɪəns/
ipa: /ɪŋk-/
ipa: /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/
ipa: /ɪŋk-/
Forms: form: inconveniences
Etymology: From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).
Senses: examples: text: They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: The quality of being inconvenient.
examples: text: [Man] is liable to a great many inconveniences.
ref: 1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], London: […] B. Aylmer, […]; [a]nd W. Rogers, […], published 1696, →OCLC:
text: The inconveniences that must be endured before the modernisation plan can come into action may be seen at Coventry, where since August the station has been in the throes of rebuilding.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:
text: An artificial kidney […] can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
Synonyms: sense: something inconvenient
word: annoyance
sense: something inconvenient
word: nuisance
sense: something inconvenient
word: trouble
inconvenience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnkənˈviːnɪəns/
ipa: /ɪŋk-/
ipa: /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/
ipa: /ɪŋk-/
Forms: form: inconveniences
form: inconveniencing
form: inconvenienced
form: inconvenienced
Etymology: From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).
Senses: examples: text: He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services.
ref: 1956 May, “Transport in Ulster”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:
glosses: To bother; to discomfort.
Synonyms: word: discommodate
word: discommode
word: incommode
word: impose
Derived terms: inconveniencer
uninconvenienced
handgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌɡʌn/
Forms: form: handguns
Etymology: From hand + gun.
Senses: examples: text: Petric used his father's key to open a lockbox and remove a 9mm handgun and the game.
ref: 2009 January 13, M. R. Kropko, “Video-game addiction rejected as defence”, in Toronto Star:
text: A related design and marketing innovation has been the sale to civilians of “vest busters,” handguns specifically designed to penetrate body armor.
ref: 2013, Tom Diaz, The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry are Killing Americans and what it Will Take to Stop it, page 166:
synonyms: pistol[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
hypernyms: firearm
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gun
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ranged weapon
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weapon
coordinate_terms: rifle
long gun
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air gun
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glosses: A small gun with a relatively short barrel, designed to be held and operated with a single hand.
Derived terms: antihandgun
shotgun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɒtɡʌn/
ipa: /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/
rhymes: -ɒtɡʌn
rhymes: -ɑtɡʌn
Forms: form: shotguns
form: shotgunning
form: shotgunned
form: shotgunned
form: shot-gun
Etymology: From shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.
Senses: examples: text: High as fuck, I light it up / Got pre-rolls for the whole month / She don't smoke but when I roll one / We shotgun the whole blunt
ref: 2017, “Super Potent”, in Renaissance, performed by The Underachievers:
topics: lifestyle
smoking
glosses: To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
examples: text: I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
glosses: To verbally lay claim to (something)
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
glosses: To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
examples: text: An actual physical piece of paper shows that you're not just shotgunning out queries to every agent on the planet.
ref: 2009, Writing Fiction For Dummies, →ISBN:
text: Science fiction writers are “shotgunning ideas” through their works, he said, and people tend to recall the pellets that hit the target.
ref: 2011 December 6, John Schwartz, “Out of a Writer’s Imagination Came an Interactive World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: It's like they are on a generic mailing list and some photographer is just shotgunning cards out into the world with no thought as to who they are actually going to.
ref: 2013, Zack Arias, Photography Q&A: Real Questions, Real Answers, page 197:
glosses: To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
examples: text: Understand the problem before fixing it. About the only scenario where shotgunning is useful is if there is a shorted IC and you cannot tell which one it is.
ref: 1998, Stuart Ball, Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems, page 71:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
busybody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: busybodies
form: busy body
Etymology: From busy + body.
Senses: examples: text: Se that none of you ſuffre as a murtherer / or as a thefe / or an evyll doar / or as a buſybody in wother mens matters.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 1 Peter iiij:[15], folio ccxc, verso:
text: Candidly speaking, I thought her a little busy-body; but her father, blind like other parents, seemed perfectly content to let her wait on him, and even wonderfully soothed by her offices.
ref: 1853 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Paulina”, in Villette. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 22:
text: But I couldn’t—and I can’t tell you, either, what it’s meant to me these two years to believe you were going to marry him, and be told every week by some busybody that your engagement was on the point of being announced.
ref: 1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Love Takes Up the Glass of Time”, in Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page 325:
glosses: Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.
glosses: A device consisting of three mirrors that, when attached to the wall of a house, allows an occupant to see who is at the front door without a direct line of sight.
Synonyms: sense: one who interferes or is nosy or intrusive
word: marplot
sense: one who interferes or is nosy or intrusive
word: meddler
sense: one who interferes or is nosy or intrusive
word: kibitzer
sense: one who interferes or is nosy or intrusive
word: nosy parker
Derived terms: busybodying
busybodyish
busybodyism
busybodyness
Related terms: gossip mirror
busybody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busybodies
form: busybodying
form: busybodied
form: busybodied
form: busy body
Etymology: From busy + body.
Senses: glosses: To meddle or interfere.
chevaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheval
supplicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌplɪkənt/
Forms: form: more supplicant
form: most supplicant
Etymology: From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).
Senses: glosses: begging, pleading, supplicating
supplicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌplɪkənt/
Forms: form: supplicants
Etymology: From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).
Senses: examples: text: It recalled all the vivid hopes and beliefs of her childhood, when she was wont to kneel before some lovely image, till the face seemed to smile encouragement, and the little supplicant felt as if beneath a mother's eye.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 185:
glosses: one who comes to humbly ask or petition
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.
Related terms: supplicate
applicant
petard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈtɑːd/
ipa: /pɪˈtɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: petards
form: pettard
Etymology: From Middle French petard; see Modern French pétard (“firecracker”).
Senses: examples: text: For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], signature [I4], verso:
english: For it's amusing to have the engineer / Hoisted into the sky with his own explosive, and if I'm lucky / I will dig one yard below their mines, / And blow them towards the Moon: […]
translation: For it's amusing to have the engineer / Hoisted into the sky with his own explosive, and if I'm lucky / I will dig one yard below their mines, / And blow them towards the Moon: […]
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text: […] Pipes, who acted as the enemy's forlorn hope, advanced to the gate with great intrepidity, and clapping his foot to the door, which was none of the ſtouteſt, with the execution and diſpatch of a petard, ſplit it into a thouſand pieces.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “He is Concerned in a Dangerous Adventure with a Certain Gardener; […]”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 134:
glosses: A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to breach a door or wall.
glosses: Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense.
glosses: A loud firecracker.
Derived terms: hoist by one's own petard
petard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈtɑːd/
ipa: /pɪˈtɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: petards
form: petarding
form: petarded
form: petarded
form: pettard
Etymology: From Middle French petarder (Modern French pétarder), from petard + -er (suffix forming verbs).
Senses: examples: text: The Souldier, if he but go to beſiege a cottage, to ſcale a Caſtle, to robbe a Church, to Pettard [translating petarder] a gate, to force a religious houſe, or any villenous act, before he attempt-it, praieth to God for his aſſiſtance, though his intents and hopes be full-fraught with crueltie, murther, couetiſe, luxurie, ſacriledge and all iniquitie.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Praiers and Orisons”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 176:
glosses: To attack or blow a hole in (something) with a petard.
incongruence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incongruences
Etymology: From in- + congruence.
Senses: synonyms: incongruency
incongruity
antonyms: congruence
congruency
congruity
glosses: An absence of congruence.
Derived terms: gender incongruence
congruence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹʊ.əns/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.əns/
ipa: /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹʉ.əns/
Forms: form: congruences
Etymology: From Middle English congruence, from Latin congruentia (“agreement”), from congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).
Senses: glosses: The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A relation between two numbers indicating they give the same remainder when divided by some given number.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The quality of being isometric — roughly, the same measure and shape.
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Matrix similarity by an orthogonal matrix.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any equivalence relation defined on an algebraic structure which is preserved by operations defined by the structure.
Synonyms: congruency
congruity
Derived terms: congruence class
incongruence
noncongruence
precongruence
pseudocongruence
supercongruence
Related terms: congruent
residue
banca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɐŋˈkaʔ/
Forms: form: bancas
Etymology: From Philippine Spanish banca, from Tagalog bangka.
Senses: examples: text: In towns on plains near the sea it is difficult to secure good water. The rivers are salt and water has to be carried in bancas many miles. An open banca is neither a clean nor a safe way to carry water.
ref: 1908, W. W. Pettit, “Fourth Grade Civics: 13th Meeting—Water Supply”, in Philippine Education, volume 5, number 1, Manila, page 29:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A canoe; an outrigger canoe or dugout.
Derived terms: motor banca
motorized banca
Related terms: parao
vicarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /vaɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /vaɪˈkɛɹi.əs/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /vəˈkɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substituted”), 17th century.
Senses: glosses: Delegated.
examples: text: People experience vicarious pleasures through watching television.
text: The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous. When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
text: These are people getting some sort of vicarious thrill from the street violence people like Tommy Robinson promote. Those that are attacking Jess Philips, who I'm proud to call colleague and a friend, are not protecting victims.
ref: 2025 January 6, Keir Starmer, 33:21 from the start, in Prime Minister's remarks on the NHS, South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, Epsom:
glosses: Experienced or gained by taking in another person’s experience rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading.
examples: text: The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions.
text: As time went on, the cruel custom was so far mitigated that a ram was accepted as a vicarious sacrifice in room of the royal victim.
ref: 1900, James Frazer, chapter 26, in The Golden Bough:
text: In these, however, he had not much time to indulge, for a footman, still decked in the trappings of vicarious grief, opened the door with the most startling promptitude, and he was ushered upstairs into a small but richly furnished room.
ref: 1920, H. Rider Haggard, chapter III, in The Blue Curtains:
glosses: On behalf of others.
Derived terms: vicarious atonement
vicarious embarrassment
vicarious learning
vicarious liability
vicarious punishment
vicarious reinforcement
Related terms: vicar
vicariously
atonement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtoʊnmənt/
Forms: form: atonements
Etymology: Perhaps from atone + -ment as translation of Medieval Latin adūnāmentum; however, the noun is found earlier than the verb (atone); and in this light, the proper etymology is at + onement.
Senses: examples: text: When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement he can make for it is, to warn others.
ref: 1711 March 20 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, March 9, 1710–1711”, in The Spectator, number 8; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: 1697-1698, John Potter, Archaeologia Graeca
The Phocians behaved themselves with so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense.
glosses: Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.
raw_tags: with capitalized initial
examples: text: by whom we have now received the atonement
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 5:11:
text: He desires to make atonement
Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; concord.
Derived terms: antiatonement
blood atonement
limited atonement
nonatonement
substitutionary atonement
vicarious atonement
Related terms: word: penance
word: penitance
word: expiation
word: reconciliation
word: conciliation
english: Jewish holiday
translation: Jewish holiday
word: Yom Kippur
english: Church Latin
translation: Church Latin
word: adunatio
family name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family names
Senses: examples: text: In the Chinese name Mao Zedong, Mao is the family name and Zedong is the given name.
glosses: Synonym of surname: a name designating a person as a member of a family.
synonyms: word: surname
extra: a name designating a person as a member of a family
examples: text: He says, however, that he is sure he is happier, even in this situation, than are some of his cousins at this instant, who are struggling in poverty to be genteel, or to keep up a family name, and he would not change places with those who are in a state of idle and opprobrious dependance.
ref: 1814, Maria Edgeworth, chapter VI, in Patronage. […], volume I, London: […] [J. M‘Creery] for J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, page 199:
text: A certain worthy individual, Udalrich, Count of Auffemried and Bishop of Bamberg, who lived some three or four centuries ago, was equally bent upon raising his family name as high as possible, and upon providing as liberally for the younger branches of his race as for its head.
ref: 1829 November, “Art[icle] XVIII.—Die Bildhauer; Roman, von Karoline von Woltmann. (The Sculptors, a Novel, by Caroline Woltmann.) […]”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume V, number IX, London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter, […], published 1830, page 338:
text: I’m talking about that actor you’ve been running around with all over town. You’re going to ruin the family name!
ref: 2007, Gilbert Morris, chapter 13, in The Mermaid in the Basement (The Lady Trent Mysteries; 1), Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: A family’s honor or reputation.
examples: text: Yeah, we named her Mildred. It's an old family name. Don't worry, though. She also has four middle names to choose from.
text: He had the name of Jeremy given to him, because Jeremiah, as his father said, was a family name; and there was an advantage in curtailing a syllable, and in shewing a preference towards the names of the New Testament over those of the old.
ref: 1840 March, John Bowring, “Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine for 1840, volume VII, number LXXV, Edinburgh: William Tait, […], page 169, column 1:
glosses: A given name common within a family or given because of another family member.
fetishism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetishisms
form: fetichism
Etymology: From fetish + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
examples: text: That's cross-dressing to you and me and, according to Blanchard and the APA, there are two types – fetishism and autogynephilia.
ref: 2012 December 9, Paris Lees, “Transgender people get a status update”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.
glosses: An irrational, obsessive belief in the power of some object or action.
Derived terms: circumfetishism
commodity fetishism
corpus fetishism
foot fetishism
necrofetishism
technofetishism
transvestic fetishism
wet and messy fetishism
game console
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game consoles
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A video game console.
tong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒŋ/
ipa: /tɔŋ/
ipa: /tɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: tongs
Etymology: From Middle English tonge (“tongs, fang”), tange, from Old English tange, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”). Cognate with Old Norse tǫng (modern Icelandic töng), Old High German zanga (modern German Zange). Other cognates include Sanskrit दशति (dáśati, “to bite”) and Albanian dang (“bite, nip”).
Senses: examples: text: […] these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs in some lists: in order to make a tong one needs a tong, and how could the first tong be made without a tong?
ref: 1998, Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, editors, Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity, page 232:
glosses: An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
Derived terms: pipe tong
tonging
port tong
tooth and tong
tong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒŋ/
ipa: /tɔŋ/
ipa: /tɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: tongs
form: tonging
form: tonged
form: tonged
Etymology: From Middle English tonge (“tongs, fang”), tange, from Old English tange, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”). Cognate with Old Norse tǫng (modern Icelandic töng), Old High German zanga (modern German Zange). Other cognates include Sanskrit दशति (dáśati, “to bite”) and Albanian dang (“bite, nip”).
Senses: glosses: To use tongs.
glosses: To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.
Related terms: tongs
tong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒŋ/
ipa: /tɔŋ/
ipa: /tɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: tongs
Etymology: From Cantonese 堂 (tong⁴).
Senses: examples: text: An Ordinance to provide for the termination of the Block Crown Lease of Cheung Chau granted to Wong Wai Tsak Tong and for sub-lessees under the Block Crown Lease to hold directly from the Crown.
ref: 1995, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, “Block Crown Lease (Cheung Chau) Ordinance”, in Hong Kong Government Gazette, page A2772:
glosses: A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land.
glosses: A Chinese secret society or gang.
Derived terms: tong war
Related terms: triad
yakuza
tong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒŋ/
ipa: /tɔŋ/
ipa: /tɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: tongs
Senses: examples: text: Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of tongue.
Related terms: tong doc
tong fai
tong lau
tongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒŋz/
ipa: /tɔŋz/
ipa: /tɑŋz/
rhymes: -ɒŋz
rhymes: -ɔːŋz
Etymology: tong ("tool for manipulating things in a fire") + -s
Senses: examples: text: There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
glosses: A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.
Derived terms: curling tongs
fire tongs
grappling tongs
hammer and tongs
ice tongs
lazy tongs
pipe tongs
port tongs
spaghetti tongs
Related terms: forceps
pair of tongs
pincers
pliers
scissors
shears
tong
tweezers
tongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒŋz/
ipa: /tɔŋz/
ipa: /tɑŋz/
rhymes: -ɒŋz
rhymes: -ɔːŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of tong (“instrument”)