cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
purl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːl/
ipa: [pʰəːɫ]
ipa: /pɝl/
ipa: [pʰɝɫ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: pearl
Forms: form: purls
form: purling
form: purled
form: purled
Etymology: From Old Norse purla (“to babble”), possibly ultimately from an imitative Germanic base related to Dutch polder, Norwegian puldra (“to gush”) and pulla (“to bubble”), Old English polr (“marsh”).
Senses: examples: text: Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, / Louder and louder purl the falling rills.
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book XXI”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
text: There is a water-break formed by a small terrace of rock in mid-stream, and purling with a hollow, delicious monotone—an island of pebbles is above, with here and there smaller ones near the "forks."
ref: 1846 October, Alfred B[illings] Street, “A Day’s Hunting about the Mongaup”, in George R[ex] Graham, editor, Graham’s American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume XXIX, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham & Co., […], →OCLC, page 190:
text: At seven minutes past four, while a Bach sonata was purling under the din of the crowd, the President's reaching hand was struck aside, and a man lurched forward. Two shots cracked sharply. There was a moment of dead silence.
ref: 1959, Margaret Leech, “Appointment at Buffalo”, in In the Days of McKinley, New York: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 595:
text: A little creek purled down from the mountain over stones[.]
ref: 1973, Patsy Adam Smith, The Barcoo Salute, Adelaide: Rigby, page 39:
text: [T]he road purled out ahead of us for miles, all prospect and promise, like the beginning of a long, good friendship.
ref: 2023 October 23, Murr Brewster, “Grizzlies and caribou and wolves, oh my! Savoring Denali’s delights.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
examples: text: thin winding breath which purled up to the sky
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
purl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːl/
ipa: [pʰəːɫ]
ipa: /pɝl/
ipa: [pʰɝɫ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: pearl
Forms: form: purls
Etymology: From Old Norse purla (“to babble”), possibly ultimately from an imitative Germanic base related to Dutch polder, Norwegian puldra (“to gush”) and pulla (“to bubble”), Old English polr (“marsh”).
Senses: examples: text: Caiſters ſiluer Lake, / […] / VVhoſe ſtreame an eaſie breath doth ſeeme to blovve; / VVhich on the ſparkling grauell runns in purles, / As though the vvaues had been of ſiluer curles.
ref: [1596], Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], Mortimeriados. The Lamentable Ciuell Warres of Edward the Second and the Barrons, London: […] I. R. for Humfry Lownes, […], →OCLC, signature Q, recto:
text: Whatsoever had a beginning, can also have an ending; and it shall die, unless it be daily watered with the purls flowing from the fountain of life, and refreshed with the dew of heaven, and the wells of God: […]
ref: 1668, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-seven Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […]: Sermon VIII. A Funeral Sermon, &c.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume VI, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 453:
glosses: A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
examples: text: the purl of a brook
glosses: A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
purl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːl/
ipa: [pʰəːɫ]
ipa: /pɝl/
ipa: [pʰɝɫ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: pearl
Etymology: Possibly from the pearl-like appearance caused by bubbles on the surface of the liquid.
Senses: examples: text: A double mug of purle.
ref: 1711, The Spectator, number 88:
glosses: Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.
examples: text: Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite.
ref: 1712 March 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, March 4, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 317; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 60.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
purl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːl/
ipa: [pʰəːɫ]
ipa: /pɝl/
ipa: [pʰɝɫ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: pearl
Forms: form: purls
Senses: glosses: A tern.
purvey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈveɪ/
ipa: /pəːˈveɪ/
ipa: /pɚˈveɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: purveys
form: purveying
form: purveyed
form: purveyed
form: puruey
Etymology: From Middle English purveyen, from Anglo-Norman purveer, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to provide”). Doublet of provide; compare prudent.
Senses: examples: text: A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
glosses: To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
examples: text: Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15:
text: Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.
ref: 2005, Lesley Brown, trans. Plato, Sophist, 223d
glosses: To furnish or provide.
examples: text: I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: To procure; to get.
Related terms: purveyor
purview
pyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: pyrites
Etymology: Recorded since 1555, from Old French pyrite (12th century), from Latin pȳritēs, from Ancient Greek πυρίτης λίθος (purítēs líthos, “stone of fire, flint”) (so called because it glitters), notably the first part: adjective πυρίτης (purítēs, “of or in fire”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Analyzable as pyr- + -ite
Senses: examples: text: The pyrite output in 1961 was 1.2 million tons, derived mainly from the Hsiang Shan mine in Anhwei and the Ying-te mine in Kwangtung.
ref: 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Mining and Manufacturing”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100, column 1:
text: China's 13 large foreign fertilizer plants ordered a few years ago are all scheduled to be in operation in a year or two.[…]China's biggest pyrite mine (openpit), being built in Yunfu, Kwangtung Province, was near completion.
ref: 1978 November 9, K. P. Wang, “China's Mineral Economy”, in Chinese Economy Post-Mao: A Compendium of Papers, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 387:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The common mineral iron disulfide (FeS₂), of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system.
glosses: Any metallic-looking sulphide, such as the above, which is the most common.
raw_tags: as a plural
examples: text: Copper diselenide can occur both as a marcasite and a pyrite.
qualifier: solid state chemistry
glosses: (usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metal dichalcogenide that is isostructural to the common mineral.
Synonyms: fool's gold
iron pyrites
Hyponyms: iron pyrite
pyrrhotite
Derived terms: arsenopyrite
chalcopyrite
leucopyrite
pyritic
pyritified
white iron pyrite
Related terms: pyr-
pyric
pyro-
marcasite
quahog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.hɒɡ/
other: /ˈkwəʊ.hɒɡ/
other: /ˈkwɑː.hɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈkwɔ.hɔɡ/
other: /ˈkwɔ.hɑɡ/
other: /ˈkwɑ.hɔɡ/
other: /ˈkwɑ.hɑɡ/
other: /ˈkwoʊ.hɔɡ/
other: /ˈkwoʊ.hɑɡ/
other: /ˈkoʊ.hɔɡ/
other: /ˈkoʊ.hɑɡ/
Forms: form: quahogs
form: quahaug
form: quohog
form: cohog
Etymology: Most often thought to be from Narragansett poquaûhock (“hard clam”), or perhaps from pohkeni (“dark”) + hogki (“shell”). Alternatively from Mohegan-Pequot p'quaghhaug (“hard clam”)
or another Algonquian language.
Senses: synonyms: hard clam
round clam
Mercenaria mercenaria
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glosses: An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
synonyms: hard clam
round clam
Mercenaria mercenaria
chowder clam
hypernyms: clam#Noun
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mollusk#Noun
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invertebrate#Noun
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animal#Noun
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hard clam
round clam
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glosses: An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
The largest size of such an edible clam, generally considered only fit for use in chowders and other clam dishes.
coordinate_terms: countneck
peanut
littleneck
topneck
cherrystone
synonyms: ocean quahog
black quahog
mahogany clam
Icelandic cyprine
glosses: A similar edible clam, of species Arctica islandica, found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters.
Derived terms: mahogany quahog
quahog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.hɒɡ/
other: /ˈkwəʊ.hɒɡ/
other: /ˈkwɑː.hɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈkwɔ.hɔɡ/
other: /ˈkwɔ.hɑɡ/
other: /ˈkwɑ.hɔɡ/
other: /ˈkwɑ.hɑɡ/
other: /ˈkwoʊ.hɔɡ/
other: /ˈkwoʊ.hɑɡ/
other: /ˈkoʊ.hɔɡ/
other: /ˈkoʊ.hɑɡ/
Forms: form: quahogs
form: quahogging
form: quahogged
form: quahogged
Etymology: Most often thought to be from Narragansett poquaûhock (“hard clam”), or perhaps from pohkeni (“dark”) + hogki (“shell”). Alternatively from Mohegan-Pequot p'quaghhaug (“hard clam”)
or another Algonquian language.
Senses: glosses: To dig for quahogs.
quasar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkweɪ.zɑː/
ipa: /ˈkweɪ.zɑɹ/
rhymes: -eɪzɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: quasars
Etymology: Blend of quasi- + stellar, from quasi-stellar radio source. Coined by American astrophysicist Hong-Yee Chiu in 1964 in an article in Physics Today. By surface analysis, quasi- + -ar.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.
wikipedia: Physics Today
Synonyms: word: Q
word: QSO
word: quasi-stellar object
word: quasistellar object
word: QSR
word: quasi-stellar radio source
word: quasistellar radio-source
word: quasi-stellar radio-source
word: quasistellar radio source
word: blue stellar object
word: BSO
word: QSS
word: quasi-stellar source
word: quasistellar source
Hyponyms: blazar
BL Lac
BL Lac object
OVV
OVV quasar
quasar 1
quasar 2
quasar I
quasar II
Derived terms: binary quasar
double quasar
giant quasar
large quasar group
microquasar
twin quasar
Related terms: -ar
quasi-
quasistar
quasi-star
quasistellar
quasi-stellar
AGN
active galactic nucleus
active galaxy
pulsar
RIQ
RLQ
RQQ
quip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭp
ipa: /kwɪp/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪp]
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: quips
Etymology: From a shortening of earlier quippy, perhaps from Latin quippe (“indeed”), ultimately quid (“what”).
Senses: examples: text: Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
ref: 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro:
text: He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: He wrote it down, remembering a quip of Pym's, paraphrased from Clemenceau: "Military intelligence has as much to do with intelligence as military music has to do with music.”
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
text: Nobody could ever be bothered to imagine the Sand Snakes beyond personalized weaponry and fake-aggressive quips, none of which were very convincing, and now they don’t even register as dead weight.
ref: 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
Derived terms: cryptoquip
quipful
quip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭp
ipa: /kwɪp/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪp]
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: quips
form: quipping
form: quipped
form: quipped
Etymology: From a shortening of earlier quippy, perhaps from Latin quippe (“indeed”), ultimately quid (“what”).
Senses: examples: text: In an eerily prescient bit, Kent Brockman laughingly quips that if seventy degree weather in the winter is the Gashouse Effect in action, he doesn’t mind one bit.
ref: 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in AV Club:
text: Now, faults can be diagnosed remotely and (in many cases) fixed before the train even reaches the depot. "It's our version of Formula 1 telemetry," quips Hinze. "It is similar for us to how a pit crew in Formula 1 can understand an issue as the car is coming into the pits - because it has that data to hand already. You know what's wrong before it arrives."
ref: 2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 26:
glosses: To make a quip.
examples: text: the more he laughs, and does her closely quip
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: He did not really mind being quipped; the city gentlemen made him used to that sort of thing.
ref: 1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman:
glosses: To taunt; to treat with quips.
quirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɜːt/
ipa: /kwɚt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: quirts
Etymology: From Spanish cuerda (“cord”), or Mexican Spanish cuarta (“whip”).
Senses: examples: text: He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it.
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 177, column 2:
text: He paused a moment and flicked a sage-brush with his quirt.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
text: […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter I, in The Understanding Heart:
text: He wore a revolver down low, with ammunition belt, and carried a small quirt of some kind, and pieces of leather hanging everywhere, like a walking torture chamber: shiny shoes, low-hanging jacket, cocky hat, everything but boots.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 96:
text: He rode his horse with the reins tied and he wore a pistol at his belt and a plain flatcrowned hat of a type no longer much seen in that country and he wore tooled boots to his knees and carried a quirt.
ref: 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
glosses: A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
quirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɜːt/
ipa: /kwɚt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: quirts
form: quirting
form: quirted
form: quirted
Etymology: From Spanish cuerda (“cord”), or Mexican Spanish cuarta (“whip”).
Senses: glosses: To strike with a quirt.
Synonyms: sense: to whip or scourge
word: whip
quod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɑd/
ipa: /kwɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: quods
form: quad
Etymology: Abbreviation of quadrangle; originally (17th century) referring to the quadrangles of Newgate Prison, London.
Senses: examples: text: 1863, Punch, quoted in 1995, Seán McConville, English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to Death, page 69,
[…] not the poorer classes merely, but the rich will be desirous to enjoy the mingled luxury and comfort of a gaol: and we shall hear of blasé Swells become burglars and garotters as a prelude to a prison, and, instead of taking tours for restoration of their health, recruiting it more cheaply by a residence in quod.
text: […]and declined their escort, desiring to be conducted to “quod” by the gallant South Australian police,[…].
ref: 1878, John Wrathall Bull, Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia, page 264:
text: From 1855-1903 a chapel was built, the boat shed and holding cell constructed, Government House was constructed as a summer residence for the Governor and the Quod (slang for prison) was constructed.
ref: 2000, R.I.C. Publications, Workbook E: Society and Environment, page 48:
text: Pity McNamara′s still doing his stretch in the quod, but he′ll be out soon.
ref: 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 202:
glosses: A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison.
examples: c. 1894, Acquaintance of Norman Lindsay, quoted in 2005, James Cockington, Banned: Tales From the Bizarre History of Australian Obscenity, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, paperback →ISBN, page 7,
I don′t suppose you'll get more than a couple of months′ quod for them.
glosses: Confinement in a prison.
quod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɑd/
ipa: /kwɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: quods
form: quodding
form: quodded
form: quodded
Etymology: Abbreviation of quadrangle; originally (17th century) referring to the quadrangles of Newgate Prison, London.
Senses: examples: text: An intelligent costermonger, who was with me when I saw the two brothers, told me that “a costermonger would rather be thought to have come out of prison than out of a workhouse,” for his “mates” would say, if they heard he had been locked up, “O, he’s only been quodded for pitching into a crusher.”
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: To confine in prison.
quod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɑd/
ipa: /kwɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Senses: examples: text: “Why,” quod her friend, “would ye not willingly have gone with your company, if God should so have suffered it?”
ref: 1563, John Foxe, “Actes and Monuments”, in The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period, published 1868, Volume 8, Part 1, page 422:
text: “And therefore I have granted to their request,” quod the King;[…].
ref: 1908, James Gairdner, Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey, Cambridge University Press, published 2010, page 416:
glosses: Quoth.
Related terms: a quid for a quod
exceptio quod metus causa
ex falso quod libet
pro eo quod
proviso quod
quod erat demonstrandum
quod google
quod non
rabat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈbæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: rabats
Etymology: From French rabat.
Senses: glosses: A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
glosses: A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy.
glosses: The clerical linen collar itself.
rabat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈbæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: rabats
form: rabatting
form: rabatted
form: rabatted
Etymology: Apparently from French rabattre (“to lower”), which often denotes a folding or swinging motion downwards.
Senses: examples: text: For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d.
ref: 1996, James Elkins, The Poetics of Perspective, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Generally the true form of the diagonal is drawn on the half-breadth plan, being obtained by rabatting the plane containing the diagonal about the line through m into the horizontal plane.
ref: 2009, John Harvard Biles, The Design and Construction of Ships, →ISBN:
text: The following rule should be noted: In solving the problem of the oblique plane, convert the oblique plane into an inclined plane, and rabat it about its H.T.
ref: 2015, Edmund George Warland, Modern Practical Masonry, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: To rotate a plane of projection.
rabbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbɪt/
homophone: rabbit
rhymes: -æbɪt
Forms: form: rabbets
Etymology: From Middle English rabeten, from Old French raboter, rabouter (“to thrust back”, verb), from Old French re- + boter, bouter.
The noun is from Middle English rabet, from Old French rabot, from the verb.
Senses: synonyms: rebate
coordinate_terms: mortise
tenon
glosses: A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of a plank of wood or other material; especially, one intended to fit another member to form a joint.
rabbet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbɪt/
homophone: rabbit
rhymes: -æbɪt
Forms: form: rabbets
form: rabbeting
form: rabbeted
form: rabbeted
Etymology: From Middle English rabeten, from Old French raboter, rabouter (“to thrust back”, verb), from Old French re- + boter, bouter.
The noun is from Middle English rabet, from Old French rabot, from the verb.
Senses: synonyms: rebate
glosses: To cut a rabbet in a piece of material.
Derived terms: rabbeted
rabbet joint
rabbet plane
rabbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbɪt/
homophone: rabbit
rhymes: -æbɪt
Forms: form: rabbets
Senses: examples: text: I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a fryar.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar:
glosses: Obsolete form of rabbit.
racker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹækə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rackers
Etymology: From rack + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who racks.
glosses: A horse that has a racking gait.
radix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.dɪks/
rhymes: -eɪdɪks
Forms: form: radixes
form: radices
Etymology: PIE word
 *wréh₂ds
Learned borrowing from Latin rādīx (“a root”). Doublet of radish.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A root.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.
Synonyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
english: word
translation: word
word: primitive
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: radical word
Derived terms: diminished radix complement
radix complement
radix point
radix sort
radix tree
raffia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæfiə/
rhymes: -æfiə
Forms: form: raffias
form: rafia
form: raphia
form: rofia
form: roffia
Etymology: From Malagasy rafia or rofia.
Senses: examples: text: He was pressed against the canes and raffia of which this old house was built.
ref: 1958, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King:
glosses: A fibrous material used for tying plants, originating from the leaves of raffia palm trees (genus Raphia).
railer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: railers
Etymology: From rail + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Thus ſay the common People that knovv him, A Saint abroad, and a Devil at home: His poor Family finds it ſo, he is ſuch a churl, ſuch a railer at, and ſo unreaſonable vvith his Servants, that they neither knovv hovv to do for, or ſpeak to him.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, pages 106–107:
glosses: One who rails.
Derived terms: road-railer
raj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːd͡ʒ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ɹɑːʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːdʒ
homophone: Rog
homophone: Raj
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi राज (rāj), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of rex, rich, and others.
Senses: glosses: Reign; rule.
Derived terms: British Raj
Raj
jungle raj
ralph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹælf/
rhymes: -ælf
Forms: form: ralphs
form: ralphing
form: ralphed
form: ralphed
form: rauf
Etymology: US 1960s, of uncertain origin, apparently derived from a use of the male name Ralph, but perhaps imitative.
Senses: glosses: To vomit.
ralph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹælf/
rhymes: -ælf
Forms: form: ralphs
Senses: glosses: A raven.
ramify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæm.ɪ.faɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹæm.ə.faɪ/
Forms: form: ramifies
form: ramifying
form: ramified
form: ramified
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ramifier, from Medieval Latin ramificō (“to branch, ramify”), from Latin rāmus (“a branch”) + -ficō (causative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The cortical, hemispheral or superficial veins ramify on the surface of the brain and return the blood from the cortical substance into the venous sinuses.
ref: 1893, Henry Morris, Human Anatomy, page 648:
glosses: To divide into branches or subdivisions.
examples: text: to ramify an art, subject, scheme
text: And, of course, on such momentous occasions as these, Manning was in his element. None knew those difficult ropes better than he; none used them with a more serviceable and yet discreet alacrity. In every juncture he had the right word, or the right silence; his influence ramified in all directions, from the Pope's audience chamber to the English Cabinet.
ref: 1918 May 9, Lytton Strachey, “[Cardinal Manning.] Chapter VII”, in Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (Library of English Literature; LEL 11347), London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 89:
text: My point here is that the field within which such determination takes place is not bounded to constitute a single discipline, a single academic elite, a single language domain, a single culture, a single historical period, but that that field ramifies out so as to encompass, ultimately, the entire history of the whole of humankind.
ref: 2003, Wim van Binsbergen, Intercultural Encounters: African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality, page 285:
glosses: To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.
Synonyms: sense: divide into branches
word: branch
Related terms: ramification
ramiform
rankle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæŋ.kəl/
rhymes: -æŋkəl
Forms: form: rankles
Etymology: From Middle English ranklen, ranclen, from Old French rancler, räoncler, draoncler (“to ulcerate, to form a boil”), from Old French draoncle (“a boil”), from Latin dracunculus (“little serpent”), diminutive of Latin dracō (“serpent, dragon”).
Senses: examples: text: To this the Prince appeared to acquiesce; but I saw it did not please, and left a rankle in his mind.
ref: 1795, James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury., R. Bentley, published 1844, page 220:
glosses: A festering, embittering object or condition, either mental, or a physical sore or ulcer.
rarefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛəɹəˌfaɪ/
Forms: form: rarefies
form: rarefying
form: rarefied
form: rarefied
form: rarify
Etymology: From Middle English rarefien, from Old French rarefier (French raréfier), from Latin rarefacere (“make rare”). By surface analysis, rare + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: By means of this gauge, Mr. Smeaton judged that his machine was incomparably better than any former one, as it seemed to rarefy the air in the receiver 1000, or even 2000 times, while the best of these only rarefied it about 140[…]
ref: 1815, A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of the Terms, and an Account ... by Charles Hutton ... vol. 1[-2], page 56:
glosses: To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense.
examples: text: For if The^([sic]) water rarefies and then Condenses, all that great mass of water of the Lake of the Ilinois rises in its vast basin when it rarefies, and falls when it condenses. And, as water always rises as much as it falls, it would[…]
ref: 1916, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Bulletin, page 293:
text: As water rarefies, it evaporates, forming visible steam, and this may be a step toward the final category of reality, fire. Anyone who has held a hand over a boiling kettle may feel the truth of this.[…]
ref: 2009, John C. Malone, Psychology: Pythagoras to Present, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 28:
text: Given the high quantity of water molecules in the human body it is worthy of note at this point that moisture rarefies when heated.[…]
ref: 2019 November 29, Peta Morton, Ancient Teachings for Modern Times: The Way To a Rich and Deeply Satisfying Life, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To become rare, thin or less dense.
Synonyms: stretch
Related terms: rarefaction
raster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæstɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹɑːstə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
homophone: rastastripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: rasters
Etymology: From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādō (“to scrape”, verb).
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: bitmap
pixmap
coordinate_terms: vector
glosses: A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.
Derived terms: raster burn
raster graphics
raster plot
subraster
raster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæstɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹɑːstə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
homophone: rastastripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: rasters
form: rastering
form: rastered
form: rastered
Etymology: From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādō (“to scrape”, verb).
Senses: glosses: To scan in parallel lines.
ratter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ratters
form: rattener
Etymology: From rat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Grey cat called Snooky who was a good ratter even with his balls cut off.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 90–91:
coordinate_terms: ratcatcher
mouser
glosses: Anything which catches rats, especially a dog trained to catch them; a rat terrier.
coordinate_terms: stool pigeon
turncoat
coward
glosses: One who rats; a traitor; a deserter.
coordinate_terms: miner
pirate
tunnel rat
glosses: A pirate miner, a miner who digs out ore or paydirt clandestinely and runs
realty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiəlti/
ipa: /ˈɹɪəlti/
rhymes: (General American) -iəlti
Forms: form: realties
Etymology: From Middle French realité (“property, possession”). Doublet of reality.
Senses: glosses: Real estate; a piece of real property; land.
topics: law
glosses: The property that goes to the heirs of the deceased, as distinguished from the personalty, which goes to the executor or administrator of the estate.
glosses: Reality.
examples: text: O heaven! That such resemblance of the highest
Should yet remain, where faith and realty
Remain not
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Loyalty; faithfulness; fealty.
glosses: Royalty.
Related terms: realtor
realty agent
ream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːm/
homophone: rheme
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: reem
form: raim
Etymology: From Middle English reme, rem, from Old English rēam (“cream”), from Proto-West Germanic *raum, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz (“cream”), from Proto-Indo-European *réwgʰmn̥ (“to sour [milk]”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Room (“cream”), West Frisian rjemme (“cream”), Dutch room (“cream”), German Low German Rahm, Rohm (“cream”), German Rahm (“cream”), Swedish römme (“cream”), Norwegian rømme (“sour cream”), Faroese rómi (“cream”), Icelandic rjómi (“cream”). See also ramekin.
Senses: glosses: Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
Derived terms: reamy
ream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːm/
homophone: rheme
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: reams
form: reaming
form: reamed
form: reamed
form: reem
form: raim
Etymology: From Middle English reme, rem, from Old English rēam (“cream”), from Proto-West Germanic *raum, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz (“cream”), from Proto-Indo-European *réwgʰmn̥ (“to sour [milk]”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Room (“cream”), West Frisian rjemme (“cream”), Dutch room (“cream”), German Low German Rahm, Rohm (“cream”), German Rahm (“cream”), Swedish römme (“cream”), Norwegian rømme (“sour cream”), Faroese rómi (“cream”), Icelandic rjómi (“cream”). See also ramekin.
Senses: examples: text: a huge pewter measuring pot […] which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
ream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːm/
homophone: rheme
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: reams
form: reaming
form: reamed
form: reamed
form: reem
form: rim
Etymology: Etymology uncertain, possibly a variant of rime (etymology 4). Doublet of room.
Cognates
* Dutch ruimen (“to empty, evacuate”)
* German räumen (“to make room”)
* Icelandic rýma (“to make room, clear”).
Senses: synonyms: rime
glosses: To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.
glosses: To remove (material) by reaming.
synonyms: rime
glosses: To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.
glosses: To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
glosses: To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
raw_tags: from sense of enlarging a hole
synonyms: ream out
glosses: To yell at or berate.
Synonyms: sense: to sexually penetrate
word: dig out
word: nail
word: root
word: tap
word: copulate with
Derived terms: ream job
ream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːm/
homophone: rheme
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: reams
form: reme
Etymology: From Middle English reme, from Old French raime, rayme (“ream”) (French rame), from Catalan raima (“ream”), from Arabic رِزْمَة (rizma, “bundle”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: bale
bundle
quire
glosses: A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
examples: text: I can't go – I still have reams of work left.
synonyms: word: bunch
word: load
word: pile
word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: An abstract large amount of something.
Derived terms: printer's ream
reaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reavers
form: reiver
form: riever
Etymology: From Middle English revere (also revour, reiver, refar, reavere), from Old English rēafere (“reaver; robber; spoiler”), equivalent to reave + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Roower, Dutch rover, German Räuber, Swedish rövare, Icelandic raufari.
Senses: examples: text: nobody knows
where these reavers from hell roam in their errands.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 7:
glosses: One who reaves; a plunderer, marauder, or pillager.
Synonyms: sense: at sea
word: pirate
reb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛb
Forms: form: rebs
Etymology: Clipping of rebel
Senses: glosses: Clipping of rebel: a Confederate, especially a Confederate soldier.
Derived terms: Johnny Reb
reb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛb
Etymology: From Yiddish רב (reb).
Senses: glosses: Shortened form of Rebbe.
examples: Reb Moshe Cohen - Mr. Moshe Cohen
glosses: An honorific used by traditional Jews, much like sir and mister/Mr.
rebut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈbʌt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈbʊt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈbɐt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: rebuts
form: rebutting
form: rebutted
form: rebutted
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rebutten, rebouten, from Old French reboter, rebuter, rebouter, etc., from re- + boter, buter, bouter (“to butt”). Entered English around 1302-1307.
Senses: examples: text: Who him r'encountring fierce, as hauke in flight, / Perforce rebutted backe.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 53:
glosses: To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
examples: text: Rebutting allegations that Scotland's railways had been deliberately run down, he pointed out that in the past nine years over £70m had been spent on their development.
ref: 1964 June, “News and Comment: Reprieve in the Far North”, in Modern Railways, page 373:
glosses: To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
Derived terms: counterrebuttal
irrebuttable
rebuttable
rebuttably
rebuttal
rebutter
unrebuttable
unrebuttably
unrebutted
redtop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redtops
Etymology: From red + top.
Senses: glosses: A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle.
glosses: Species of the genus Agrostis, the bentgrasses.
glosses: Alternative form of red top (“tabloid newspaper”).
Derived terms: redtop grass
reeded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reeded
form: most reeded
Etymology: From reed + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered with reeds; reedy.
glosses: Formed with channels and ridges like reeds, as the edge of a coin.
glosses: Of a wind instrument, having a reed to produce sound.
Related terms: reeding
reeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See reed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reed
reeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reekers
Etymology: From reek + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that emits a very bad smell; that which reeks.
reeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reelers
Etymology: From its song.
Senses: glosses: The grasshopper warbler.
reeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reelers
Etymology: From reel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Weavers, reelers, wadders and those working in the filature refused to move, and when forced, produced inferior quality goods or ran away at the earliest opportunity, partly because they were separated from their families […]
ref: 2011, Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History, page 55:
glosses: A person employed to wind material onto a reel.
examples: text: a two-reeler
glosses: A film consisting of the specified number of reels.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An autosomal-recessive mouse mutant in which cortical neurons are generated normally but abnormally placed, a lack of reelin causing disorganization of cortical laminar layers. It has a reeling gait.
Derived terms: one-reeler
twine reeler
two-reeler
reeved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reeve
reeved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of a rope, passed through a hole, ring or pulley.
reman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈmæn/
Forms: form: remans
form: remanning
form: remanned
form: remanned
Etymology: From re- + man.
Senses: examples: text: For a short time in the later stages of World War I, one of the 4-6-0s was utilised also on a slow train from Perth to Glasgow, returning with the 1.30 p.m. from Glasgow to Aberdeen, on which it was remanned at Perth; it came back to Perth with the 8 p.m. fish train from Aberdeen.
ref: 1959 June, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Cardeans" of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 312:
glosses: To supply with new personnel.
reman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈmæn/
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: Clipping of remanufactured.
remit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːmɪt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹimɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈmɪt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: remits
form: remytte
Etymology: From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.
Senses: examples: text: WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP remit.
ref: 2000: Scientific Working Group on Good Laboratory Practice issues, Handbook: Good Laboratory Practice read on World Health Organisation website at https://web.archive.org/web/20060325195225/http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/publications/pdf/glp-handbook.pdf on 14 May 2006
text: However, this is beyond the remit of this particular article.
ref: 2001: H. Meinardi et al, ILAE Commission, The treatment gap in epilepsy: the current situation and ways forward read at http://www.ilae-epilepsy.org/pubs/JAN2001.PDF on 14 May 2006
text: Next steps ... Create one IS organisation and extend remit to all HE activities.
ref: 2003: Andy Macleod, Cisco Systems, Pulling it all together - the 21st Century Campus read at http://www.ciscoeventreg.net/go/presentations/event3/a_macleod.pdf on 14 May 2006
text: 2012, The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue, Chile's economic statistics: For richer—or poorer
Chile needs to gather together its statisticians into a single agency, such as a new and improved INE, and give it more autonomy and a broader remit.
text: As an adjunct to the new corporate plan, the sector produced a 20-page prospectus explaining how it would fulfil its remit, which was approved by the Minister.
ref: 2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 66:
glosses: Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
topics: law
glosses: A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
Synonyms: responsibility
purview
jurisdiction
brief
Related terms: mandate
renal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːnəl/
rhymes: -iːnəl
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin renalis (“related to the kidneys”), from Latin renes (“kidneys”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the kidneys.
Synonyms: word: nephric
english: only archaically
translation: only archaically
word: nephritic
Derived terms: acute renal failure
adrenal
aortorenal
cardiorenal
circumrenal
duodenorenal
extrarenal
hepatorenal
ileorenal
infrarenal
interrenal
intrarenal
lienorenal
nonrenal
oculorenal
pararenal
perirenal
postrenal
prerenal
prorenal
pulmonary-renal syndrome
renal angle
renal arter
renal artery
renal calculus
renal cancer
renal capsule
renal cast
renal cell carcinoma
renal clearance
renal colic
renal corpuscle
renal cortex
renal crisis
renal cylinder
renal disorder
renal failure
renally
renal medulla
renal pelvis
renal physiology
renal pyramid
renal vein
retrorenal
splenorenal
subrenal
suprarenal
transrenal
ureterorenal
rep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: reps
form: repping
form: repped
form: repped
Etymology: Clippings of various words beginning with rep.
Senses: examples: text: Bentley, the man who repped for Slade, carried the air and the rest joined in.
ref: 1922, Hal G. Evarts, The Settling of the Sage:
text: He left to help the Reader set up its national advertising arm, went back to Rolling Stone for five years, repped other magazines, and finally set up his own company, which currently scouts ads for the Atlantic, Spin, Discover, and a publication called Disney Adventures.
ref: 1994 November 4, Bill Wyman, “Evanston's New Music Hall/Veruca Salt Grow Up/Schmitsville”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To represent; to act as a representative for.
examples: text: Last year, Olivia famously went full-2000s at a Grammys after-party she attended with Paris Hilton, where she repped a bright blue butterfly dress featuring a plunging neckline and dramatic ruffles. Now, for her latest look, she's gone and repped another recognisable combination: silk trousers and a leather boob tube.
ref: 2023 March 3, Natasha Harding, “Olivia Rodrigo's leather boob tube will transport you back to 2001”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: As for her beauty look, the Jennifer’s Body star had dyed her long tresses a burnt-orange shade, and styled them slightly curled at the ends and down across her shoulders. She also repped a bubblegum-pink manicure with an abstract black design.
ref: 2023 May 19, Chelsey Sanchez, “Megan Fox Makes Her Red-Carpet Comeback in a Body-Sculpting Sheer Gown”, in Harper's Bazaar:
glosses: To display as a representative example.
examples: text: Rep neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more
ref: 2011, Hannah Fettig, Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts For The Ones You Love, page 44:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Abbreviation of repeat.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: To lift for multiple reps.
rep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: reps
form: repp
Etymology: Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.
Senses: examples: text: Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble.
ref: 1923, Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City, New York: Boni & Liveright:
text: It was decorated in […] horsehair and red rep curtains[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 60:
text: I toted a (rather fetching) $100 Gucci 1955 Horsebit rep through a vacation across Europe […]
ref: 2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
resiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resiny
form: most resiny
Etymology: From resin + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like resin; resinous.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, resin.