cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
morning
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪŋ
ipa: /ˈmoɹnɪŋ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈmɑːɹnən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈmɑːɹnəŋ/
homophone: mourning (horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic
ipa: /mɔːɹnɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /mɔːnɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English morwenyng, from morwen + -ing. By surface analysis, morn + -ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe).
Senses: examples: text: Hey, ‘morning, Mario. Have you been to the dining car yet today?
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Excess Express:
glosses: Ellipsis of good morning.
Mexican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛksɪk(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈmɛksək(ə)n/
note: US, Non-Standard
ipa: /ˈmɛksəkɪn/
Forms: form: more Mexican
form: most Mexican
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mexicano, from Nahuatl mēxihcah plural of mēxihcatl (“a Mexica”) + -ano (“-an”). By surface analysis, Mexico + -an. Doublet of Mexicano.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
examples: text: The principal grain of Mexico, before the introduction of thoſe from Europe, was maize, in the Mexican language called tluolli, of which there were ſeveral kinds, different in ſize, weight, colour, and taſte.
ref: 1795, W. Winterbotham, An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, volume 4, page 87:
text: 1810, review of "Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain", in The Eclectic Review
The language most universally diffused over the new continent, is the Aztec or Mexican.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.
examples: text: In the first year of her administration, ACLED data shows, Sheinbaum’s efforts to contain violence have generally coincided with a drop in attacks against civilians; since January, civilian killings have declined in nearly every Mexican state.
ref: 2025 August 18, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Avery Schmitz, Veronica Calderon, “A cartel war bleeding Sinaloa dry: homicides rise 400% in the year after the fall of ‘El Mayo’”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Mexico.
Synonyms: sense: people
word: Mexica
sense: people
word: Aztec
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Nahuatl
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Aztec
Derived terms: interior Mexican
Mexamerican
Mexican-American
Mexican breakfast
Mexican coriander
Mexican cypress
Mexican eagle
Mexican feathergrass
Mexican garter snake
Mexican jumping bean
Mexican morning glory
Mexican poppy
Mexican Silicon Valley
Mexican standoff
Mexican tea
Mexican turnover
Mexican wave
Mexican white pine
Mexican wrestling
Quebexican
send
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕnd
ipa: /sɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: sends
form: Send
Etymology: From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun derives from the verb.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian sende (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”), Icelandic senda (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.
Senses: examples: text: In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]
ref: 1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification, page 71:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: An operation in which data is transmitted.
examples: text: Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: or capitalized and put in quotation marks
glosses: An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.
examples: text: thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west
ref: 1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate:
text: the send of the sea
ref: 1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
text: The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of scend.
glosses: A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
examples: text: Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send.
ref: 2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin:
glosses: A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
Derived terms: hit send
market
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːkɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹkɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈmɑɹkət/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɑ(r).kɛʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-keʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-kəʈ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪt
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kət
Forms: form: markets
form: marketing
form: marketed
form: marketed
Etymology: From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié), Old Saxon markat, and/or Old Norse markaðr; all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk, Dutch markt, Old High German Markt.
Senses: examples: text: We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
glosses: To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
examples: text: We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
glosses: To sell.
glosses: To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
examples: text: We did a little shopping; but I cannot remember much of the town. It was Saturday night, and all Perth was marketing.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 201:
glosses: To shop in a market; to attend a market.
Derived terms: hypermarketed
marketeer
nonmarketed
undermarketed
unmarketed
Related terms: marketer
marketing campaign
meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmitɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈmiɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
homophone: meting
Forms: form: meetings
Etymology: From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.
Senses: examples: text: Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
glosses: The act of persons or things that meet.
examples: text: We need to have a meeting about that soon.
text: In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
synonyms: powwow
glosses: A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
examples: text: What has the meeting decided.
glosses: The people at such a gathering.
examples: text: They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
glosses: An encounter between people, even accidental.
examples: text: Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
glosses: A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
examples: text: You use ta give a good meetin'. I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
ref: 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, page 20:
qualifier: rustic US
glosses: A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
examples: text: Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
glosses: An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Synonyms: assembly
convocation
gathering
meet-up
Hyponyms: annual general meeting
board meeting
fringe meeting
monthly meeting
prayer meeting
race meeting
Derived terms: approximeeting
area meeting
board meeting
captive audience meeting
counter-meeting
countermeeting
e-meeting
experience meeting
extraordinary general meeting
fanmeeting
field meeting
flag meeting
go-to-meeting
kick-off meeting
kick off meeting
kickoff meeting
meetinghouse
meeting house
meetingitis
Meeting Lake
meetingless
meetinglike
meeting of the mindless
meeting of the minds
meeting of minds
meeting place
meeting recovery syndrome
meeting room
meeting seed
merrymeeting
merry-meeting
midmeeting
mismeeting
monster meeting
nonmeeting
overflow meeting
postmeeting
premeeting
revival meeting
select meeting
shareholders' meeting
stand-up meeting
submeeting
Sunday-go-to-meeting
Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
telemeeting
tent meeting
tone meeting
town meeting
unmeeting
virtual meeting
watch meeting
meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmitɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈmiɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
homophone: meting
Etymology: From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meet
global
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊbəl/
ipa: /ˈɡlɐʉbəl/
enpr: glō'bəl
ipa: /ˈɡloʊbəl/
ipa: [ˈɡloʊ̯bə̆ɫ]
note: Indic
enpr: glō'bəl
ipa: /ˈɡloːbəl/
note: Indic
rhymes: -əʊbəl
Forms: form: more global
form: most global
Etymology: From globe + -al; compare French global.
Senses: examples: text: Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.
ref: 2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169:
text: It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
ref: 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
text: Pollution is a global problem.
glosses: Concerning all parts of the world.
examples: text: The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.
ref: 2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud, →ISBN, page 366:
glosses: Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal
examples: text: Global variables keep support engineers employed.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
glosses: Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
Which has to be considered in its entirety.
examples: text: In the center was a small, global mass.
glosses: Spherical, ball-shaped.
glosses: Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
Synonyms: sense: concerning all parts of the world
word: world-wide
sense: concerning all parts of the world
word: planetary
sense: spherical
word: ball-shaped
sense: spherical
word: globular
sense: spherical
word: round
sense: spherical
word: spherical
Hyponyms: quasi-global
semiglobal
sub-global
superglobal
transglobal
Derived terms: antiglobal
antiglobalist
circumglobal
global affair
global affairs
global boiling
global city
global cooling
global coupling
global dimming
global distillation
global distribution system
global element
global empire
global etymology
global governance
global heating
global hectare
global hoax
global illumination
global image
global indicator
globalisation
globalism
globalist
globalitarian
globality
globalization
globalize
global literature
globally
global majority
global maximum
global minimum
global north
Global North
globaloney
global order
global panini
global positioning system
Global Positioning System
global scope
global socialism
Global South
global south
global studies
global village
global warming
global warmist
global weirding
global-wide
global workspace theory
globesity
Globish
globital
globohomo
glocal
glocalization
hyperglobal
hyperglobalist
interglobal
multiglobal
nonglobal
panglobal
pseudoglobal
unglobal
Related terms: globe
globular
global
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊbəl/
ipa: /ˈɡlɐʉbəl/
enpr: glō'bəl
ipa: /ˈɡloʊbəl/
ipa: [ˈɡloʊ̯bə̆ɫ]
note: Indic
enpr: glō'bəl
ipa: /ˈɡloːbəl/
note: Indic
rhymes: -əʊbəl
Forms: form: globals
Etymology: From globe + -al; compare French global.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A globally scoped identifier.
global
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊbəl/
ipa: /ˈɡlɐʉbəl/
enpr: glō'bəl
ipa: /ˈɡloʊbəl/
ipa: [ˈɡloʊ̯bə̆ɫ]
note: Indic
enpr: glō'bəl
ipa: /ˈɡloːbəl/
note: Indic
rhymes: -əʊbəl
Forms: form: more global
form: most global
Etymology: From globe + -al; compare French global.
Senses: examples: text: Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
ref: 2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122:
glosses: In the global manner; world-wide.
globalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡləʊ.bə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡloʊ.bə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡləʉ.bə.lɑɪˈzæɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: globalisations
form: globalization
Etymology: From global + -isation or globalise + -ation. Popularized by German-American economist and professor at Harvard Business School Theodore Levitt.
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming a more interconnected world.
examples: text: Sure, globalization as flows of trade will continue. But globalization as the driving logic of world affairs — that seems to be over.
ref: 2022 April 8, David Brooks, “Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The process of the world economy becoming dominated by capitalist models, according to the World System Theory.
Derived terms: alter-globalisation
antiglobalisation
anti-globalisation
deglobalisation
globalisationism
globalisationist
globalise
aflare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈflɛə/
ipa: /əˈflɛɹ/
ipa: /əˈfleː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈfleə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈfliə/
ipa: /əˈfleɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /əˈflɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Etymology: From a- + flare.
Senses: examples: text: 1886, Mary Noailles Murfree (as Charles Egbert Craddock), In the Clouds, Chapter 17, p. 248,
the flaming base of the opposite mountain, all luridly aflare in the windy dusk
text: Ho! Get to lair! The sun’s aflare / Behind the breathing grass:
ref: 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “Letting in the Jungle”, in The Second Jungle Book, London: Macmillan, page 59:
text: [The dragon] kindly breathed out a little flame, which set the packet aflare for a moment.
ref: 1919, Stella Benson, chapter 7, in Living Alone, London: Macmillan, published 2020, page 184:
text: […] he had not wanted to see the man when perhaps his blood was running hot and his temper aflare.
ref: 1988, Jory Sherman, chapter 4, in Horne’s Law, New York: Walker and Company, page 30:
synonyms: ablaze
afire
aflame
alight
glosses: Flaring (blazing or shining brightly or suddenly; also figuratively, of a strong emotion).
examples: text: […] Old Pye Street, Peter’s Street, and Duck Lane were aflare with the coarse lights of open naphtha lamps,
ref: 1897, Hall Caine, The Christian, London: Heinemann, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 331:
text: He used to tell me how you two used to go down to the harbor and watch the big liners come in at night, all aflare with lights through the Golden Gate.
ref: 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York: George H. Doran, Part 6, p. 402:
text: […] at last they reached a corridor which was aflare with dancing torchlight.
ref: 1968, Michael Moorcock, “The Dreaming City”, in The Stealer of Souls and Other Stories, London: Mayflower Books, page 19:
glosses: Illuminated (with something blazing or shining).
examples: text: ballet skirts aflare
ref: 1921, Edna Ferber, chapter 7, in The Girls, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 129:
text: To balance like a bird with wings aflare,
ref: 1960, Vassar Miller, “Return”, in Wage War on Silence, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, page 58:
text: The black horse paced slowly out into the open, neck arched, nostrils aflare, eyes rolling.
ref: 1983, Ahdaf Soueif, Aisha, London: Black Swan, published 1985, page 163:
glosses: Flaring (opening outward).
aliveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaɪvnəs/
Forms: form: alivenesses
Etymology: From alive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the aliveness of the colours in a painting
text: […] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates.
ref: 1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company:
text: […] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses.
ref: 1920 September, Jack London, chapter 18, in Hearts of Three, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 231:
text: Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Beacon Hill”, in The House of All Sorts:
glosses: The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
world
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wûrld
ipa: /wɜːld/
ipa: /wɜɹld/
ipa: [wɝɫd]
ipa: /wɵːld/
ipa: [wɵːɯ̯d̥]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ld
homophone: whirled (with both the wine–whine merger and fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: whorled (with both mergers, Received Pronunciation only)
Forms: form: worlds
form: worlding
form: worlded
form: worlded
form: vurld
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós
Proto-Germanic *weraz
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi
Proto-Germanic *alaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Germanic *-þiz
Proto-Germanic *aldiz
Proto-Germanic *weraldiz
Proto-West Germanic *weraldi
Old English weorold
Middle English world
English world
From Middle English world, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), North Frisian Wārel, wäält, wråål (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Bavarian Wöd (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), German, Luxembourgish Welt (“world”), German Low German Wereld, Werld (“world”), Vilamovian wełt (“world”), Yiddish וועלט (velt, “world”), Danish verden (“world”), Elfdalian wärd (“world”), Faroese verð, verøld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”), Norn vrildan (“the earth”), Norwegian Bokmål verd, verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”).
Senses: examples: text: There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges (compare Spivak, 1985), while recognising that I, as a white settler-state woman, need to attend to differences between women, too.
ref: 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x:
text: In a sense, the dictatorship was a failure of failure and, on that account, it was perhaps the exemplary system of control. Having in 1933 wagered on the worlding of the world in the regime's failure, Heidegger after the war can only rue his opportunistic hopes for an exposure of the ontological foundations of control.
ref: 2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focusing on national or other distinctions; compare globalize.
glosses: To make real; to make worldly.
Related terms: 🜨
♁
global
globalisation
globalization
appeaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: appeasers
Etymology: From appease + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who appeases.
Related terms: appease
appeasement
quisling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪz.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: quislings
form: Quisling
Etymology: Named after Norwegian military officer Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), who ruled the Nazi collaborationist government of Norway during World War Two. From Quislinus, Latinization of Quislin, based on the Danish place name Kvislemark. This term first appeared in 1940.
The surname is seemingly supposed to mean "one who is from Kvislemark", and is equivalent to Kvisle(mark) + -ing (suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities). However, the earlier form of the name, Quislinus/Quislin, appears to have been a fanciful coinage based upon Kvisle(mark) + Latin -inus (“suffix indicating a relationship of position, possession, or origin”), and only later on came to be reinterpreted as containing Norwegian -ing (“suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities”). Kvislemark is composed of Danish kvissel (“cleft branch”) + mark (compare Danmark). kvissel itself is a derivative of Old Norse kvísl (“fork [as in a 'fork in the road']”), which ultimately comes (by dissimilation) from Proto-Germanic *twīsilō. Cognates include Old English twisla (“confluence, junction, fork of a river or road”) and Old High German zwisila (“forked implement, twig, branch”).
Ultimately related to English twistle, twissel, and twizzle. By surface analysis, quisle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: In many countries, including some where the Jews were neither numerically strong nor in possession of important posts, these envoys of the German Secret Service have been able, solely by the use of anti-Jewish slogans, to create those "national" Fascist movements from which Quislings are bred.
ref: 1940, Walter Tschuppik, The Quislings: Hitler's Trojan Horses, Hutchinson, page 7:
text: If, in the nation about to be attacked, influential persons were discovered who could be bribed or corrupted, German agents made use of these quislings.
ref: 1944, Ralph D. Casey, EM 2: What Is Propaganda?^(https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/gi-roundtable-series/pamphlets/em-2-what-is-propaganda-(1944)/enemy-propaganda), War Department:
text: It is time to clear out the quislings and paid flunkies of city hall and big business.
ref: 1983 December 17, Tom Reeves, “The Scondras Victory”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 5:
text: The man she cherishes, the man she butterfly-kisses, the man she sleeps curved around like two spoons in a drawer. It is he who is evil, he who is sworn to destroy her, an emotional quisling of the first water.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
text: He sees off an attack from humans, who have as servants certain quisling apes, former followers of Caesar’s traitorous ex-comrade Koba (a motion-capture performance from Toby Kebbell).
ref: 2017 June 26, Peter Bradshaw, “War for the Planet of the Apes review”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: collaborator
traitor
rat
glosses: A traitor who collaborates with the enemy.
Derived terms: quisle
quisler
quislingism
quislingize
quislingized
quisling-style
quisling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪz.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: Quisling
Etymology: Named after Norwegian military officer Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), who ruled the Nazi collaborationist government of Norway during World War Two. From Quislinus, Latinization of Quislin, based on the Danish place name Kvislemark. This term first appeared in 1940.
The surname is seemingly supposed to mean "one who is from Kvislemark", and is equivalent to Kvisle(mark) + -ing (suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities). However, the earlier form of the name, Quislinus/Quislin, appears to have been a fanciful coinage based upon Kvisle(mark) + Latin -inus (“suffix indicating a relationship of position, possession, or origin”), and only later on came to be reinterpreted as containing Norwegian -ing (“suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities”). Kvislemark is composed of Danish kvissel (“cleft branch”) + mark (compare Danmark). kvissel itself is a derivative of Old Norse kvísl (“fork [as in a 'fork in the road']”), which ultimately comes (by dissimilation) from Proto-Germanic *twīsilō. Cognates include Old English twisla (“confluence, junction, fork of a river or road”) and Old High German zwisila (“forked implement, twig, branch”).
Ultimately related to English twistle, twissel, and twizzle. By surface analysis, quisle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quisle
Related terms: fifth column
take part
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes part
form: taking part
form: took part
form: taken part
Etymology: From Middle English taken part, a calque of Latin participō. Compare partake, German teilnehmen, Finnish ottaa osaa.
Senses: examples: text: He declined to take part in the meeting because he did not feel he had anything to add.
text: I listened to a discussion in which she took part.
text: They are killed, tortured, made to take part in the fighting, banished from their homes.
ref: 2000, Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, Women, Violence and War, →ISBN:
text: Thus the revolution is that one can speak about an access to digital culture within the right to take part in cultural life.
ref: 2016, Anna Maria Andersen Nawrot, The Utopian Human Right to Science and Culture, →ISBN:
glosses: To participate or join.
raw_tags: with "in"
examples: text: So didst thou love man, that thou wouldest take part with him of his misery, that he might take part with thee of thy blessedness.
ref: 1829, Jabez Burns, The Christian's sketch book, page 96:
text: We have two famous tribal drums called Ntiri and Abia which are so stimulating that everybody used to take part when they sounded, but Ndiuka were educated not to dance it because it is native.
ref: 2007, S. A. Nnolim, The History of Umuchu, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Importantly now, all of the parishioners were expected to participate in singing God's praise and at communion received the bread and wine at tables set out for all to take part.
ref: 2012, Alastair Hendry, The Parish Churches of Loudoun and their Clergy up to 1845, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: To share or partake.
examples: text: Yet we take part, on the whole, with the author : — and heartily wish him success in the great object of vindicating his country from unmerited aspersions, and trying to make us, in England, ashamed of the vices and defects which he has taken the trouble to point out in our national character and institutions.
ref: 1820, Charles Kitchell Gardner, The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review:
text: When the Spaniards were formerly contending against France, the noble earl said he felt for them, but he then recommended a cautious and prudent line of conduct to this country, and advised us not to take part with Spain.
ref: 1824, The Parliamentary Debates - Volume 9, page 195:
text: At any time, if the French or any country Powers of Malabar shall design to come against the Honourable English Company, or the said Honourable English Company shall propose going against any of the above mentioned, I oblige myself, by this writing, to act entirely on the part of the Honourable English Company, and to assist them readily with 300 men armed with my fire arms, at all times that the Chief of Tellicherry shall advise or ask me, and in no respect will I take part with them, who may be the Honourable Company's enemies.
ref: 1891, William Logan, A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Other Papers of Importance, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: To support or ally oneself (with).
infotopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.fəˈtəʊ.pi.ə/
ipa: /ˌɪn.fəˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊpiə
Forms: form: infotopias
Etymology: Blend of information + utopia
Senses: examples: text: A free, open Internet without advertising or paywalls would be an infotopia.
glosses: An idealized information resource.
Macaddict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Macaddicts
form: MacAddict
Senses: glosses: A fanatical advocate of the Macintosh computer system.
macrovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækɹoʊˌvaɪɹəs/
Forms: form: macroviruses
form: macro virus
Etymology: From macro + virus.
Senses: examples: text: A macrovirus is a type of virus that is embedded in a document that used the macro programming language.
ref: 2002, Kathleen Sindell, Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet, John Wiley & Sons, page 243:
glosses: A computer virus written in a macro language.
but
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
ipa: /bʌt/
note: stressed form
ipa: [bɐt]
enpr: bŭt
note: stressed form
ipa: /bʊt/
ipa: /bət/
ipa: /bʊʔ/
ipa: /bət/
enpr: bət
rhymes: -ʌt
homophone: butt
Etymology: From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (“without, outside of, except, only”), from Proto-West Germanic *biūtan, *biūtini, equivalent to be- + out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone but Father left early.
text: I like everything but that.
text: Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
text: Luiz struggled with the movement of Helguson in the box, as he collected a long ball and the Spaniard barged him over, leaving referee Chris Foy little option but to point to the spot.
ref: 2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1-0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: barring
word: except for
word: save for
word: apart
word: apart from
word: aside from
word: bar
word: barring
word: besides
word: but
word: but for
word: except
word: except for
word: excepting
word: excluding
word: forby
word: modulo
word: not counting
word: other than
word: outtake
word: save
word: save for
word: saving
word: with the exception of
glosses: Apart from, except (for), excluding.
examples: text: Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
qualifier: obsolete outside Scotland
glosses: Outside of.
but
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
ipa: /bʌt/
note: stressed form
ipa: [bɐt]
enpr: bŭt
note: stressed form
ipa: /bʊt/
ipa: /bət/
ipa: /bʊʔ/
ipa: /bət/
enpr: bət
rhymes: -ʌt
homophone: butt
Forms: form: buts
Etymology: From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (“without, outside of, except, only”), from Proto-West Germanic *biūtan, *biūtini, equivalent to be- + out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about.
Senses: examples: text: It has to be done—no ifs, ands, or buts.
text: But—and this is a big but—you have to come home by sundown.
text: The children are taught to be afraid of winter, of war, of death, of hard times, of disease, of examtinations. Perhaps that is one of the reasons that children so seldom find the conversation of their elders uplifting. It is full of don’ts, buts and nots.
ref: 1922 March 4, “Fed on Fear Too Much”, in The Pathfinder, volume 29, number 1470, Washington, D.C.: Pathfinder Publishing Company, page 33:
text: "I support you/understand where you're coming from, but..." ¶ No. No "buts" when it comes to other people's survival.
ref: 2016 December 28, Concepcion de Leon, “5 Things Well-Meaning People Say to Me That Are Actually Really Offensive”, in Glamour, Greenwich, C.T.; […]: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2023:
text: But - and this is a pretty important but - it's just as bad to eat the wrong thing before a workout as it is to eat nothing at all.
ref: 2018 September 17, Catriona Harvey-Jenner, “8 foods you should never eat before a workout”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2023:
glosses: An instance of using the word "but"; an objection or caveat.
glosses: The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
glosses: A limit; a boundary.
glosses: The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
Derived terms: top and but
say
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [sɛj]
ipa: /seɪ/
enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: says
form: saie
form: saye
form: seye
form: thay
form: zay
Etymology: From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English seċġan (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-h₁-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sekʷ- (“to tell, talk”).
Cognate with North Frisian sai, seede, sii (“to say”), West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Low German seggen (“to say, tell”), Luxembourgish soen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Faroese siga (“to say”), Icelandic segja (“to say”), Jamtish segi (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk segja, seia, seie (“to say, tell”), Swedish säga (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן (zogn, “to say; to tell”).
The adverb and interjection are from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: To have a say
text: Above all, however, we would like to think that there is more to be decided, after the engines and after the humans have had their says.
ref: 2004, Richard Rogers, Information politics on the Web:
text: He has consolidated the military's role in politics through an army-drafted 2017 constitution widely seen as designed to prevent Pheu Thai from returning to power and ensuring a continuing say for the army.
ref: 2019 February 8, Kocha Olarn, Helen Regan, “This princess could be the next prime minister of Thailand”, in CNN International Edition, Cable News Network, retrieved 08 Feb 2019:
text: Sunday’s general election has been cast as a high-stakes contest between democracy and military rule, but critics say a new army-backed constitution gives junta-appointed officials a large say in the next government.
ref: 2019 March 22, Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Panarat Thepgumpanat, “Junta chief croons, ousted PM says 'we will win' in Thai election battle”, in Reuters, Reuters, retrieved 23 Mar 2019:
glosses: A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
say
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [sɛj]
ipa: /seɪ/
enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: saie
form: saye
form: seye
form: thay
form: zay
Etymology: From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English seċġan (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-h₁-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sekʷ- (“to tell, talk”).
Cognate with North Frisian sai, seede, sii (“to say”), West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Low German seggen (“to say, tell”), Luxembourgish soen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Faroese siga (“to say”), Icelandic segja (“to say”), Jamtish segi (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk segja, seia, seie (“to say, tell”), Swedish säga (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן (zogn, “to say; to tell”).
The adverb and interjection are from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Pick a color you think they'd like, say, peach.
text: He was driving pretty fast, say, fifty miles per hour.
text: He was a very old man, and was heavy, say about 250 pounds.
ref: 1894, T Miller, “Chapter 1”, in Over Five Seas and Oceans, From New York to Bangkok, Siam, and Return, New York: Albert Metz & Co., page 13:
glosses: For example; let us assume.
say
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [sɛj]
ipa: /seɪ/
enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: saie
form: saye
form: seye
form: thay
form: zay
Etymology: From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English seċġan (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-h₁-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sekʷ- (“to tell, talk”).
Cognate with North Frisian sai, seede, sii (“to say”), West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Low German seggen (“to say, tell”), Luxembourgish soen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Faroese siga (“to say”), Icelandic segja (“to say”), Jamtish segi (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk segja, seia, seie (“to say, tell”), Swedish säga (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן (zogn, “to say; to tell”).
The adverb and interjection are from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Say, what did you think about the movie?
glosses: Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion
Synonyms: sense: used to gain attention
word: hey
say
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [sɛj]
ipa: /seɪ/
enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: says
Etymology: From Middle French saie, from Latin saga, plural of sagum (“military cloak”).
Senses: examples: text: Per.[igot] VVell decked in a frocke of gray, / Will.[y] hey ho, gray is greet, / Per. And in a kirtle of greene ſaye, / Will. the greene is for maydens meete.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 32, recto:
text: All in a kirtle of diſcolourd ſay / He clothed was […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 53:
glosses: A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
say
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [sɛj]
ipa: /seɪ/
enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: says
form: saying
form: sayed
form: sayed
Etymology: Aphetic form of assay.
Senses: examples: text: I, that had sayed on one of his customers sutes.
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:
glosses: To try; to assay.
Synonyms: word: blather
word: dictate
word: gab
word: quethe
word: report
word: say
word: speak
word: state
word: tell
word: utter
word: verbalize
word: voice
word: yak
Hypernyms: word: communicate
word: express
word: talk
Hyponyms: word: add
word: affirm
word: allege
word: announce
word: answer
word: argue
word: assert
word: avow
word: chant
word: claim
word: complain
word: conjecture
word: convey
word: criticize
word: declare
word: decree
word: deliver
word: describe
word: disclose
word: divulge
word: drone
word: echo
word: enounce
word: estimate
word: exclaim
word: explain
word: guess
word: hiss
word: imply
word: indicate
word: inform
word: instruct
word: judge
word: maintain
word: mention
word: missay
word: orate
word: prescribe
word: profer
word: pronounce
word: question
word: quote
word: ramble
word: recite
word: rehearse
word: reiterate
word: relate
word: remark
word: render
word: repeat
word: reply
word: respond
word: restate
word: reveal
word: rumor
word: scoff
word: shout
word: signify
word: sing
word: specify
word: spiel
word: suggest
word: whisper
Related terms: word: hearsay
word: say again
say
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [sɛj]
ipa: /seɪ/
enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: says
Etymology: Aphetic form of assay.
Senses: examples: text: If those principal works of God […] be but certain tastes and says, as if were, of that final benefit.
ref: , page 193
text: Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 308:
glosses: Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
examples: text: He found a sword of better say.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 47, page 505:
glosses: Tried quality; temper; proof.
examples: text: This fellow, Captaine, Will come, in time, to be a great distiller, And giue a say[…]at the philosophers stone.
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Essay; trial; attempt.
say
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [sɛj]
ipa: /seɪ/
enpr: sā
ipa: /seɪ/
ipa: [seː]
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: says
Senses: glosses: A strainer for milk.
sound card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound cards
form: soundcard
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer hardware device used for generating and capturing sounds.
last
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: läst
ipa: /lɑːst/
enpr: lăst
ipa: /læst/
ipa: /last/
ipa: /ɫast/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Etymology: From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest.
Senses: examples: text: We went there last year.
text: I was last to go; you're next.
glosses: The (one) immediately before the present.
examples: text: It's Wednesday, and the party was last Tuesday; that is, not yesterday, but eight days ago.
text: When you say last Monday, do you mean the Monday just gone, or the one before that?
glosses: Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
raw_tags: of days of the week or months of the year
last
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: läst
ipa: /lɑːst/
enpr: lăst
ipa: /læst/
ipa: /last/
ipa: /ɫast/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Etymology: From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest.
Senses: examples: text: When we last met, he was based in Toronto.
text: How long is't now since last yourself and I / Were in a mask?
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: Most recently.
examples: text: As I arrived last of all, I'll go last to add the butter last.
text: last but not least
text: Pleased with his idol, he commends, admires, / Adores; and, last, the thing adored desires.
ref: 1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: after everything else; finally
Synonyms: sense: after everything else
word: finally
word: lastly
last
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: läst
ipa: /lɑːst/
enpr: lăst
ipa: /læst/
ipa: /last/
ipa: /ɫast/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: lasts
form: lasting
form: lasted
form: lasted
Etymology: From Middle English lasten, from Old English lǣstan, from Proto-West Germanic *laistijan, from Proto-Germanic *laistijaną. Cognate with German leisten (“yield”).
Senses: examples: text: Summer seems to last longer each year.
text: They seem happy now, but that won't last long.
text: And love will last as pure and whole
⁠As when he loved me here in Time,
⁠And at the spiritual prime
Rewaken with the dawning soul.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 65:
text: Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
text: One of the earliest (and biggest) space weather events on record occurred in September 1859, when a massive solar eruption crashed into the Earth's magnetosphere, triggering a geomagnetic storm that lasted for days.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
glosses: To endure, continue over time.
examples: text: I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements.
glosses: To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
glosses: To purposefully refrain from orgasm
raw_tags: of a man
glosses: To perform, carry out.
Synonyms: continue
endure
survive
Derived terms: everlast
lastability
lastable
outlast
unlast
Related terms: everlasting
lasting
last
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: läst
ipa: /lɑːst/
enpr: lăst
ipa: /læst/
ipa: /last/
ipa: /ɫast/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: lasts
Etymology: From Old English lǣste, Proto-Germanic *laistiz. Compare Swedish läst, German Leisten Dutch leest, Proto-Germanic *laistaz (“footprint”).
Senses: examples: 2006, Newman, Cathy, Every Shoe Tells a Story, National Geographic (September, 2006), 83,
How is an in-your-face black leather thigh-high lace-up boot with a four-inch spike heel like a man's black calf lace-up oxford? They are both made on a last, the wood or plastic foot-shaped form that leather is stretched over and shaped to make a shoe.
glosses: A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
Derived terms: cobbler, keep to your last
stick to one's last