cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
godwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏdˈ -wĭt
ipa: /ˈɡɑd.wɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡɒd.wɪt/
Forms: form: godwits
Etymology: Origin unknown. A surface analysis would suggest Old English *gōdwiht as the term's ultimate origin, corresponding to good + wight (“creature”), but the term is attested only since late Middle English. The Oxford English Dictionary considers the term to probably have originally been imitative of the bird's call.
Senses: examples: text: My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]
ref: c. 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist:
glosses: Any of four species of long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae.
wikipedia: Oxford English Dictionary
Synonyms: sense: long-billed wading birds
word: yarwhelp
sense: long-billed wading birds
word: yarwip
Derived terms: taxonomic: Limosa lapponica
word: bar-tailed godwit
taxonomic: Limosa limosa
word: black-tailed godwit
word: blackwit
taxonomic: Limosa haemastica
word: Hudsonian godwit
word: hudwit
taxonomic: Limosa fedoa
word: marbled godwit
gout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: [ɡʌut]
Forms: form: gouts
form: gouting
form: gouted
form: gouted
Etymology: From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte, gutta, and gutter.
The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".
Senses: examples: text: Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.
ref: 2001, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Black House:
glosses: To spurt.
gout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: [ɡʌut]
Forms: form: gouts
Senses: examples: text: ... Anton's Gout, let it be enlarged to whatever extent it may. The Sill of Anton's Gout is 2 feet 3 inches higher than the Sill of Maud Foster, and the surface of the water, in times when there is a full quantity in the Witham, and as[…]
ref: 1800, John RENNIE (the Elder.), Report concerning the drainage of Wildmore Fen and of the East and West Fens, page 5:
text: ... Anton's Gout, and the remainder was drained through Maud Foster's Gout, a sluice discharging the waters into Boston Haven, a mile below the town. In 1801, an Act was obtained for the drainage of these fens, the area of which was[…]
ref: 1881, Henry Law, George Rowdon Burnell, Daniel Kinnear Clark, The Rudiments of Civil Engineering, page 555:
text: Vast quantities of water were discharged, which used to enter through the Gout at Langare." - Will. Chapman, Facts and Remarks relative to the Witham and the Welland, 1800, p. 29.
ref: 1889, Edward Peacock, A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire, page 239:
text: […] reported as to the gout at Aston Somerville […]
ref: 1896 January 11, Evesham Advertiser:
glosses: Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”).
gout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: [ɡʌut]
Forms: form: gouts
Etymology: From French goût.
Senses: examples: text: After a time, however, he became more sensible of the reviving influence proceeding from renewed energy; luxurious indolence had for ever lost to him its goût;[…]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVIII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 232:
text: A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout: or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup […]
ref: 1870, The Cook and Housewife's Manual, 5th edition:
glosses: Taste; relish.
Related terms: chacun a son gout
haut gout
gravid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹævɪd/
Forms: form: more gravid
form: most gravid
Etymology: From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).
Senses: examples: text: In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.
ref: 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:
text: The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 345:
text: The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 507:
glosses: Pregnant.
raw_tags: of egglaying animals
Derived terms: gravidic
gravidism
gravidity
gravidly
gravidness
multigravid
nongravid
nulligravid
paucigravid
pregravid
griper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaɪp.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gripers
Etymology: From gripe + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gripes.
examples: text: She did Accept of our intended Present, which (she said) manifested our Love and Loyalty; most graciously affirming, That She was never any greedy Griper, or fast Holder; and what We did present, She would not hoard up; but Our Eyes should see the Bestowing of it.
ref: 1601 December 1, John Croke, speaking before Parliament, in Proceedings in the Commons, 1601, British History Online
text: […] there wanted not those who condemned his pride and hypocrisy, knowing Pandulphus to be a most greedy griper, as appeared by his unconscionable oppression in the bishopric of Norwich, which was afterwards bestowed upon him.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, Church History of Britain, published 1845, page 150:
text: When Southey's sackbut tunes the praise
Of every Royal griper,
Or any Minister, whose pipe
Takes part in measures rotten ripe,
While England pays the piper!
ref: 1825, “Harmony at Congress”, in The Spirit of the Public Journals, page 533:
glosses: An oppressor or extortioner.
grippe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
homophone: grip
Forms: form: grippes
form: grip
Etymology: Borrowed from French grippe, from gripper (“to seize, snatch”), from Frankish *grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, to grasp”). Borrowed from French into many languages of the world. More at gripe.
Senses: examples: text: These other germs are the cause of colds and coughs and grippes.
ref: 1885, Public Health, Michigan, volume 2, page 39:
text: "Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Influenza, the flu.
Derived terms: grippy
Related terms: catarrh
cold
Spanish fever
grout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɡɹʌut/
ipa: /ɡɹæɔt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: grouts
form: grewt
form: groute
form: grut
Etymology: From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.
Senses: glosses: A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
glosses: Coarse meal; groats.
examples: text: grouts of tea
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: Dregs, sediment.
glosses: A kind of beer or ale.
Related terms: groat
grits
gruel
grout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɡɹʌut/
ipa: /ɡɹæɔt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: grouts
form: grouting
form: grouted
form: grouted
form: grewt
form: groute
form: grut
Etymology: From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.
Senses: examples: text: I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.
text: * Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring.
ref: 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27:
glosses: To insert mortar between tiles.
examples: text: The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To affix with mortar.
Derived terms: grouter
groutlike
grouty
regrout
gumbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌm.boʊ/
rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ
Forms: form: gumbos
form: gombo
Etymology: Borrowed from Louisiana French gombo, possibly via Louisiana Creole gombo, from Kimbundu ingombo, plural of kingombo (“okra”); compare Portuguese quingombó.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
synonyms: word: okra
extra: the plant or its edible capsules
glosses: A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.
examples: text: The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo.
ref: 1909, Ralph Connor, chapter 11, in The Foreigner:
text: There are no poorer roads in all the United States than the "gumbo" roads of the south—gumbo being the name give a certain kind of mud or clay that is particularly sticky, clings tenaciously, seems to have no bottom, and will not support any weight.
ref: 1914 April, “Making Good Roads by Firing Poor Ones”, in Popular Mechanics, page 567:
text: The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot.
ref: 1950 July 3, “Labor: Trouble at Lowland”, in Time:
glosses: A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
Derived terms: gumbo limbo
gumbo z'herbes
gummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gummers
Etymology: From gum + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] then goes to the gummer, who applies a gum comprising oxide of gold and other ingredients.
ref: 1871, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 299:
glosses: A person or machine that applies gum.
glosses: A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.
glosses: A cow or sheep etc. that has lost all of its teeth.
gunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌni/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: gunnies
Etymology: From Hindi and Marathi गनी (ganī) or गोन (gon), from Sanskrit गोणी (goṇī), ultimately of Dravidian origin. Doublet of gunia.
Senses: examples: text: Traffic is brisk, and goods consists of rice, gunny (hessian), maize and native implements.
ref: 1946 September and October, “Notes and News: Light Railways in India”, in Railway Magazine, page 316:
text: Provisions were ferried by camel in stout sacks of gunny with blocks of ice packed round them; a herculean task.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 102:
glosses: A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp.
glosses: Clipping of gunny sack
Derived terms: gunnybag
gunnycloth
gunny sack
gunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌni/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: gunnies
Etymology: A shortening of gunnery sergeant
Senses: examples: text: The gunny's voice reverberated between the barracks as we marched, “Ya left right . . . left right . . . left right left. […] Then the gunny unexpectedly stopped our forward movement. “Company, halt!”
ref: 2004, Buzz Williams, Spare parts: a marine reservist's journey from campus to combat in Vietnam:
text: “As a rule of thumb, Marine corporals, when a gunny asks a question, answer it,”
ref: 2007, W. E. B. Griffin, The Hunters:
text: Alongside even' officer chain of command is an enlisted one, and the company gunnery sergeant ("gunny" for short) is the enlisted counterpart […] Without a gunny, the day-to-day operations of the infantry would likely grind to a halt.
ref: 2010, Donovan Campbell, Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and ..., page 37:
glosses: A gunnery sergeant.
gyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: gyps
form: gip
form: jip
Etymology: Perhaps from the term gypsy (“Roma”), due to a stereotype of the Roma as swindlers. Compare jew (“defraud”), from Jew, and welsh (“swindle by defaulting on a debt”), from Welsh.
Could also be derived from dupe, with the same pattern (yod coalescence) as idiot becomes eejit in Scottish English.
Senses: examples: text: Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp!
glosses: A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
glosses: Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
synonyms: word: gypsy
extra: contra dance step
Derived terms: full gyp
hall gyp
gyp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: gyps
form: gypping
form: gypped
form: gypped
form: gip
form: jip
Etymology: Perhaps from the term gypsy (“Roma”), due to a stereotype of the Roma as swindlers. Compare jew (“defraud”), from Jew, and welsh (“swindle by defaulting on a debt”), from Welsh.
Could also be derived from dupe, with the same pattern (yod coalescence) as idiot becomes eejit in Scottish English.
Senses: examples: text: The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.
text: You better watch out; they'll try to gyp you if you don't know what you're doing.
text: They're talkin' bout the night Santa went crazy
The night St. Nicholas flipped
Broke his back for some milk and cookies
Sounds to me like he was tired of gettin' gypped
ref: 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day:
text: On Wednesday, Goldberg used a derogatory term associated with Romany people while discussing former president Donald Trump, saying that his supporters are “people who still believe that he got gypped somehow in the election”.
ref: 2023 March 16, Maya Yang, quoting Whoopi Goldberg, “Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for using Romany slur on ABC’s The View”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To cheat or swindle.
Derived terms: gypper
gyppery
gypster
gyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: gyps
Etymology: Perhaps the same as Etymology 1. An earlier theory derived the term from Ancient Greek γύψ (gúps, “vulture”) (/ɡýps/; compare Greek γύπας (gýpas) /ˈʝi.pas/), "in reference to thievish habits of the servants" (and then derived Etymology 1 thence), but this does not explain the pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: All was neglect. The outer door of this room, which was open, was nearly on a level with the Quadrangle — some coats and trousers and boots were upon the ebony table and a "gyp" was brushing away at them just within the door — in wet weather he performed these functions entirely within the library, as innocent of the incongruity of his position as my guide himself.
ref: 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 40:
text: 'Why, what is the matter with you, John?' I asked of the gyp who waited on Vincey and myself.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much … .
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 14]
coordinate_terms: porter
bedder
scout
qualifier: Cambridge University; Durham University; Cambridge University; Durham University
glosses: A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
qualifier: Cambridge University; Durham University; Cambridge University; Durham University
glosses: The room in which such college servants work.
qualifier: Cambridge University; Durham University; Cambridge University; Durham University
glosses: A small kitchen for use by college students.
gyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: gyps
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Gypsophila.
gyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: gyps
Etymology: Perhaps from gee up.
Senses: examples: text: My back's giving me gyp.
glosses: Pain or discomfort.
Related terms: jew down
welsh
gypsum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪp.səm/
Forms: form: gypsums
form: gypsa
form: gypse
Etymology: From Latin gypsum, from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos). Doublet of gesso.
Senses: examples: text: Besides being abundant, gypsum is easily refined into a powder for plaster or formed into sheets of wallboard.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcinated, it forms plaster of Paris.
Synonyms: plaster-stone
Hypernyms: calcium sulphate
mineral
sulphate
Coordinate terms: anhydrite
Derived terms: word: gypcrete
word: gypcrust
word: gyprock
word: gyprocker
word: gypseous
word: gypsic
word: gypsicolous
word: gypsid
word: gypsiferous
word: gypsification
word: gypsify
word: gypsiorthid
word: gypsisol
word: gypsography
word: gypsophile
word: gypsophilic
word: gypsophily
word: gypsophyte
word: gypsoplast
word: gypstack
english: panels
translation: panels
word: gypsum board
word: gypsum cave
word: gypsumlike
word: gypsum plaster
word: gypwater
word: hypergypsic
word: nanogypsum
word: petrogypsic
word: phosphogypsum
Related terms: gypsobelum
gypsobioside
gypsophila
gyp
gypsotrioside
gyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒaɪˈɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈdʒaɪɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /d͡ʒaɪˈɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: gyrates
form: gyrating
form: gyrated
form: gyrated
Etymology: Back-formation from gyration, on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes), further from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), from Latin gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”).
Senses: examples: text: The stripper gyrated sexily around a pole.
glosses: To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado.
Derived terms: circumgyrate
gyratingly
gyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒaɪˈɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈdʒaɪɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /d͡ʒaɪˈɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more gyrate
form: most gyrate
Etymology: From gyrus (“fold, convolution”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having coils or convolutions.
Derived terms: dextrogyrate
laevogyrate
levogyrate
multigyrate
opisthogyrate
prosogyrate
gyro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹoʊ/
homophone: giro
rhymes: -aɪɹəʊ
rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ
Forms: form: gyros
Etymology: Originally a shortening of gyroscope.
Senses: glosses: A gyroscope.
glosses: A gyrocompass.
glosses: An autogyro.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of detangler.
synonyms: word: detangler
Derived terms: directional gyro
gravogyro
gyro compass
gyro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹoʊ/
homophone: giro
rhymes: -aɪɹəʊ
rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ
ipa: /ˈjiː.ɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈjɪɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈʒɪɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹoʊ/
homophone: giro
rhymes: -aɪɹəʊ
rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ
Forms: form: gyros
form: gyros
form: giro
form: giros
form: yiros
form: yero
Etymology: Back-formation from the plural gyros, from Greek γύρος (gýros); from the turning of the meat on a spit (as a calque of Turkish döner into Greek). Doublet of gyre and gyrus.
Senses: examples: text: I'll have a gyro, please.
glosses: A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.
Related terms: kebab
doner kebab
shawarma
shoarma
shwarma
souvlaki
hackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækəl/
ipa: /ˈhækəl/
rhymes: -ækəl
Forms: form: hackles
Etymology: From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.
Senses: synonyms: heckle
hatchel
glosses: An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
glosses: One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
examples: text: When the dog got angry, his hackles rose and he growled.
text: Suppose it happened to be the case that the majority of individuals raised their hackles only when they were truly intending to go on for a very long time in the war of attrition. The obvious counterploy would evolve: individuals would give up immediately when an opponent raised his hackles.
ref: 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 101:
glosses: By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans.
glosses: A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
glosses: A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair.
synonyms: panache
plume
glosses: A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
glosses: Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
examples: text: "COME ALONG YE GRASS-COMBERS, SHOW some hackle," David Ingram, striding ahead, turned back and called.
ref: 1949, Eric Philbrook Kelly, The Amazing Journey of David Ingram, page 11:
glosses: Pluck; courage or energy.
Derived terms: hackleback
hackler
hackly
hackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækəl/
ipa: /ˈhækəl/
rhymes: -ækəl
Forms: form: hackles
form: hackling
form: hackled
form: hackled
Etymology: From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.
Senses: examples: text: Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 155:
glosses: To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.
glosses: To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
examples: text: the other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces
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 tear asunder; to break into pieces.
Derived terms: hackle up
haiku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪkuː/
ipa: /haɪˈku/
ipa: /ˈhaɪku/
rhymes: -aɪkuː
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: haiku
form: haikus
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (beaj, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kɨoᴴ, “line”).
Senses: examples: text: Some of the results resemble haikus.
ref: 2009 January 25, Colin Moynihan, “A Project Documents Inauguration Day, in Washington and Across the Globe”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
examples: Haiku, a poem
five beats, then seven, then five
ends as it began.
glosses: A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
Synonyms: hokku
Derived terms: haikuish
haikuist
haikulike
limeraiku
mathemaku
pseudohaiku
Related terms: haikai
senryū: a short humorous poem similar to the haiku
halide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪ.laɪd/
ipa: /ˈhæl.aɪd/
ipa: /ˈheɪ.laɪd/
Forms: form: halides
Etymology: From hal(ogen) + -ide.
Senses: examples: text: sulfur halides such as disulfur dichloride
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: salt
<
compound
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: pseudohalide
glosses: Any salt of any halogen acid (such as hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, or hydroiodic acid).
examples: text: Potassium iodide is a halide.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: salt
<
compound
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: pseudohalide
dihalide
pseudohalide
glosses: Any salt of any halogen acid (such as hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, or hydroiodic acid).
Such a salt with a single halogen atom.
examples: text: Iodide is a halide.
hypernyms: anion#Noun
<
ion#Noun
coordinate_terms: pseudohalide
glosses: The anionic form of a halogen atom (a group 17 element).
Derived terms: acyl halide
alkyl halide
dihalide
halided
hydrogen halide
hydrohalide
metal halide lamp
monohalide
organohalide
oxohalide
oxyhalide
pentahalide
pseudohalide
selenyl halide
tetrahalide
trihalide
vinyl halide
halite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæl.aɪt/
ipa: /ˈheɪ.laɪt/
Forms: form: halites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt”), + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The surface of halite was always sort of trippy, he thought, like a hallucinogen.
ref: 2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 189:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxyanion containing a halogen in the +3 oxidation state.
Synonyms: alt: for the oxyanion
word: halogenite
Derived terms: cryptohalite
hydrohalite
Related terms: halitic
halmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halmases
Etymology: From Hallowmas.
Senses: glosses: The feast of All Saints' Day.
hamal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈmɒl/
ipa: /həˈmɔːl/
rhymes: -ɒl
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: hamals
form: hammal
form: hamaul
form: hummal
form: hummaul
Etymology: From Arabic حَمَّال (ḥammāl, “porter”)
Senses: glosses: A porter in Turkey and nearby countries.
hansel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hansels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handsel.
hansel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hansels
form: hanseling
form: hanselling
form: hanseled
form: hanseled
form: hanselled
form: hanselled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handsel.
hap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: haps
Etymology: From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), potentially cognate with or from Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”) and/or Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”).
Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”).
The verb is from Middle English happen, perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), from the noun. Cognate with Old Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”).
Senses: glosses: A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.
examples: text: Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps, and do not make despair / For all these certain blows the surest shield.
ref: c. 1580s, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, book 2:
text: And whether art it were, or heedless hap, / As through the flowring forest rash she fled, / In her rude hairs sweet flowres themselves did lap / And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 2, canto 3, verse 30:
text: Each day ſtill better others happineſſe,
Vntill the heauens enuying earths good hap,
Adde an immortall title to your Crowne.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:
text: URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
ref: 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1:
text: [I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
glosses: A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event.
Synonyms: sense: an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event
word: hazard
word: serendipity
word: luck
Derived terms: goodhap
hapful
haphazard
hapless
haply
happen
happy
hapsome
mayhap
mishap
perhaps
unhap
hap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: haps
form: happing
form: happed
form: happed
Etymology: From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), potentially cognate with or from Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”) and/or Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”).
Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”).
The verb is from Middle English happen, perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), from the noun. Cognate with Old Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”).
Senses: examples: text: "But laudably, since thus it happed!" quoth one: Whereat, more witness and the case postponed. "Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed,....
ref: 1868-9, Robert Browning, “The Ring and the Book”, in Edward Berdoe, editor, The poetical works of Robert Browning, published 1889, page 17:
text: "We must go there to retrieve it before the Krikkit robots find it, or who knows what may hap."
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 81:
synonyms: word: come to pass
word: occur
word: transpire
word: bechance
word: befall
word: belimp
word: betide
word: betime
word: chance
word: come about
word: come to pass
word: crop up
word: evene
word: eventuate
word: go on
word: hap
word: happen
word: hold
word: occur
word: pass
word: take place
word: tide
word: transpire
glosses: To happen; to befall; to chance.
examples: text: What meaneth June, to hap us every year.
ref: 1891, Elizabeth Stoddard, “No Answer”, in Harper's magazine, page 55:
glosses: To happen to.
Derived terms: behap
hap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: haps
Etymology: Clipping of happening.
Senses: examples: text: Katie Griffin as Samantha Sparks: "Hey, Flint. I heard your extended (gasp) earlier. What's the haps?"
Mark Edwards as Flint Lockwood: "The haps is -- you're not going to believe this, but dad asked me to make him an invention!"
ref: 2018, Something Fishy (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series):
glosses: Happenings; events; goings-on.
Synonyms: sense: happenings
word: affairs
word: occurrence
Derived terms: afterhaps
what's the haps
hap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: haps
Etymology: From Old English hap.
Senses: glosses: A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.
Derived terms: hap-harlot
hap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: haps
form: happing
form: happed
form: happed
Etymology: From Old English hap.
Senses: examples: text: Bless thy pretty heart! The bairn’s sick. Come wi’ me, and I’ll hap thee up somewhere. If thou wert a bit cleaner I’d put thee in my own bed, for the Lord’s sake.
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
text: The surgeon happed her up carefully.
ref: 1859, John Brown, Rab and his Friends:
text: The practice was, before firing a shot for the purpose of blasting, to give an order to hap the crane, that is, to cover it, in order to protect it from the effect of the shot.
ref: 1899, “Bartonshill Coal Co. v. Beid, 1 Pat. Sc. App. 792, 793.”, in Robert Campbell, editor, Ruling cases, volume 19:
glosses: To wrap, clothe.
hap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: haps
Etymology: Shortening of New Latin Haplochromis
Senses: glosses: Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.
happed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæpt/
rhymes: -æpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hap
happed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæpt/
rhymes: -æpt
Forms: form: more happed
form: most happed
Senses: examples: text: All happed with flowers in the green wood were.
ref: 1813, James Hogg, The Queen's Wake:
glosses: Wrapped; covered; cloaked.
harpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹpi/
ipa: /ˈhɑːpi/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pi
Forms: form: harpies
Etymology: Ultimately from Middle French harpie, from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek ἅρπυιᾰ (hárpuiă, literally “snatcher”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “I snatch, seize”). Compare rapacious. Middle English had arpie.
Senses: examples: text: Both table and provisions vanish'd quite,
With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.
examples: text: But her most subtle wiles proved ineffectual in ridding her, even for a moment, of her harpy jailer[…]
ref: 1927, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Outlaw of Torn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
text: […] Ed Miliband has yet to come up with a definition of “the squeezed middle” that excludes anyone, but you can bet your bottom dollar he has these laptop-wielding harpies in mind.
ref: 2011 March 17, Toby Young, “Mumsnet isn't representative of the 'squeezed middle'. It's just a bunch of Guardian-reading, laptop-wielding harpies”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2011:
synonyms: word: battle axe
word: bitch
word: brim
word: brimstone
word: cat
word: crow
word: dragon
word: faggot
word: fishwife
word: harpy
word: harridan
word: hellcat
word: jade
word: nag
word: nudnik
word: scold
word: she-devil
word: shrew
word: termagant
word: virago
word: vixen
word: witch
glosses: A shrewish woman.
examples: c. 1772, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
The harpies about me all pocket the pool.
glosses: One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
glosses: Any of a number of eagle-like birds of prey of the subfamily Harpiinae, especially the species Harpia harpyja.
glosses: The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
Derived terms: harpy bat
harpy eagle
harpy fly
harpyish
harpylike
Related terms: harridan
hasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæsp/
ipa: /hɑːsp/
Forms: form: hasps
Etymology: From Middle English haspe, hespe, from Old English hæsp, hæpse (“hasp; clasp; fastening”), from Proto-West Germanic *haspijā, from Proto-Germanic *haspijǭ, *hapsijǭ (“hasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kamb- (“to bend; crook”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch haspe, Middle Low German haspe, hespe, German Low German Haspel (“spindle of yarn”), German Häspe, Danish haspe, Swedish hasp, Icelandic hespa (“clamp; hasp; skein of yarn”).
Senses: glosses: A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
glosses: A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
glosses: Alternative form of hesp (“measure of linen thread”).
glosses: An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier.
hasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæsp/
ipa: /hɑːsp/
Forms: form: hasps
form: hasping
form: hasped
form: hasped
Etymology: From Middle English haspe, hespe, from Old English hæsp, hæpse (“hasp; clasp; fastening”), from Proto-West Germanic *haspijā, from Proto-Germanic *haspijǭ, *hapsijǭ (“hasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kamb- (“to bend; crook”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch haspe, Middle Low German haspe, hespe, German Low German Haspel (“spindle of yarn”), German Häspe, Danish haspe, Swedish hasp, Icelandic hespa (“clamp; hasp; skein of yarn”).
Senses: examples: text: He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain,
limping and looped in it.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 31:
glosses: To shut or fasten with a hasp, or as with a hasp.
Derived terms: unhasp
heaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːvə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: heavers
Etymology: From heave + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a coal heaver
glosses: One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight.
examples: text: The spar snapping under them in the slings, as they sought, with heavers, to beat down the icy sail.
ref: 1856, Herman Melville, Benito Cereno:
glosses: A bar used as a lever.
Derived terms: coalheaver
hedger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedgers
Etymology: From Middle English hegger, equivalent to hedge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13:
glosses: One who makes or mends hedges.
glosses: One who hedges, for example in betting.
heeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelers
Etymology: From heel + -er.
Senses: glosses: A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs.
examples: text: That a crowd of Sydney stealers,
Jockeys, pugilists and spielers
Brought some horses, real heelers,
Came and put us through.
ref: 1891, Banjo Paterson, An Evening in Dandaloo:
glosses: A quick runner.
examples: text: If your dog is a good heeler, you'll find some competition in the obedience ring.
ref: 1999, Ted Baer, Communicating with Your Dog: A Humane Approach to Dog Training:
glosses: A dog that readily comes to heel.
examples: text: [A] blue roan, a kind of dog that Jennifer had never seen before. She asked Tim what it was, and he said it was a "heeler", but when she pressed him to say if that was a breed or not, he could not tell her. It was a heeler because it went for the heels of the cattle and not their heads, apparently.
ref: 1952, Nevil Shute, chapter 5, in The Far Country, Melbourne: Heinemann:
glosses: A dog used for cattle droving.
examples: text: The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding.
ref: 1886, Theodore Roosevelt, “Machine Politics”, in The Century:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
glosses: The rodeo performer who ropes the steer by its hind feet after the header has turned it.
glosses: A student journalist at Yale University.
Derived terms: blue heeler
Lancashire Heeler
ward heeler
hetman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetmans
form: hetmen
Etymology: From Polish hetman, probably from Middle High German houbetman, heuptman (“commander”), from Old High German houbitman, from Proto-West Germanic *haubidamann. Compare modern German Hauptmann (“captain”), Haupt, Mann. The Polish e in hetman attests to a borrowing from an East Central German dialect, in which Middle High German -öu- gives -ē-. Doublet of head man.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Cossack headman or general.
glosses: Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).
Derived terms: hetmanate
hetmanship
Related terms: ataman
hegumen
hex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Forms: form: hexes
form: hexing
form: hexed
form: hexed
Etymology: First attested about 1830, from Pennsylvania German hexe (“to practice witchcraft”), from German hexen (compare Hexe (“witch”)). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål heks (“witch”) and Dutch heks (“witch”), Dutch beheksen (“to bewitch”), Old English hægtesse (“witch, hag”). Doublet of hag.
Senses: glosses: To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch.
hex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Forms: form: hexes
Etymology: First attested about 1830, from Pennsylvania German hexe (“to practice witchcraft”), from German hexen (compare Hexe (“witch”)). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål heks (“witch”) and Dutch heks (“witch”), Dutch beheksen (“to bewitch”), Old English hægtesse (“witch, hag”). Doublet of hag.
Senses: glosses: An evil spell or curse.
glosses: A witch.
glosses: A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
Derived terms: dehex
hexcraft
hexer
hexology
hex sign
unhex
hex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Etymology: Short for hexadecimal.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of hexadecimal.
Derived terms: hex edit
hex-edit
hex editor
hex-editor
hex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Forms: form: hexes
Etymology: Short for hexagon.
Senses: glosses: A hexagonal space on a game board.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
Derived terms: dihex
heptahex
hexahex
hexane
hex bar
hex crawl
hexer
hex head bolt
hex head screw
hex head wrench
hex key
megahex
monohex
pentahex
polyhex
tetrahex
trihex
Related terms: topics: climbing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: nut
hex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Forms: form: hexes
Etymology: Short for hexafluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Clipping of uranium hexafluoride.
hexane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕks'ān
ipa: /ˈhɛkseɪn/
rhymes: -ɛkseɪn
Forms: form: hexanes
Etymology: From hex- + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of five isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons, C₆H₁₄. They are colorless, volatile liquids.
Derived terms: cyclohexane
esaprazole
hexafluronium
hexanal
hexanediamide
hexanediol
hexanoic
hexyl
isohexane
methylcyclohexanone
n-hexane
hexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛkst/
rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: more hexed
form: most hexed
Senses: glosses: Cursed; afflicted with bad luck.
hexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛkst/
rhymes: -ɛkst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hex
hilted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hilt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: It was with a hilted knife maybe? I’m told, in the big world it’s bloody knives they use.
ref: 1907, John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, act I:
text: Then he became aware of a princely figure in a caftan of green sarcenet clasped about his loins by a long tongued belt from which hung a scimitar hilted in ivory and gold.
ref: 1939, Rafael Sabatini, The Sword of Islam, Chapter:
glosses: Having a hilt.
examples: text: A steel-hilted sword, inlaid with gold, and decked with a knot of ribbon which fell down in a rich tassel, equipped his side […]
ref: 1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 34, in The Adventures of Roderick Random:
text: The grim-visaged pirate captain, in his laced cap, rich jacket, and short white knee-trunks, with heavy gold chains round his neck, and jewel-hilted dagger in belt, was a striking and characteristic feature of New York life at the close of the seventeenth century.
ref: 1906, Theodore Roosevelt, New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 96:
glosses: Having a hilt of a specified type.
Derived terms: unhilted
hilted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hilt + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hilt