cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: stresses
form: stressing
form: stressed
form: stressed
Etymology: From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”).
In the sense of "mental strain" or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the 1930s, and popularized by same in the 1950s.
Senses: glosses: To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
glosses: To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
glosses: To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
examples: text: “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
glosses: To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
glosses: To emphasise (words in speaking).
examples: text: I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.
glosses: To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
Synonyms: topics: phonetics
phonology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: emphasise
topics: phonetics
phonology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: emphasize
sense: on words in speaking
word: emphasise
sense: on words in speaking
word: emphasize
sense: on a point
word: emphasise
sense: on a point
word: emphasize
sense: on a point
word: underline
Derived terms: de-stress
destress
stressed
stress out
Related terms: strain
strait
strict
stringent
stringency
active voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active voices
Senses: examples: text: "The ball was kicked by Fred." would, in active voice, be "Fred kicked the ball."
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The form in which the subject of a verb carries out some action.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A form in a particular language used to express the active voice.
Related terms: word: voice
adverbial clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adverbial clauses
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: adverb clause
hypernyms: subordinate clause
dependent clause
embedded clause
<
clause
coordinate_terms: content clause
relative clause
glosses: A subordinate clause that functions like an adverb within a main clause.
affirmative sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affirmative sentences
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sentence that affirms (rather than negates) a proposition.
attributive adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attributive adjectives
Senses: examples: text: The word “red” in “the red balloon” is an attributive adjective.
text: In the phrase “attributive adjective”, “attributive” is the attributive adjective.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adjective that modifies the head of the noun phrase in which it occurs; an adjective that precedes the word or phrase it modifies.
Coordinate terms: postpositive adjective
conditional mood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conditional moods
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A form of the verb used to signify that something is contingent upon the outcome of something else.
Related terms: conditional tense
subjunctive mood
voluptuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈlʌp.t͡ʃu.əs/
Forms: form: more voluptuous
form: most voluptuous
Etymology: From Middle French voluptueux, from Latin voluptuōsus (“delightful”), from voluptās (“pleasure, delight”), from volup (“with pleasure”).
Senses: examples: text: The plentiful blankets and the voluptuous pillows of the bed called out to my tired body.
text: Thus we lay, whilst a voluptuous languor possest, and still maintain'd us motionless and fast locked in one another's arms
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: It was upon riches he founded his claim to importance; riches could alone supply the enjoyments of luxury; those voluptuous pleasures upon which the sensualist refines, and without which life appears but a mere vegetative existence, unproductive of enjoyment.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter III, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: Characterized or marked by full, generous, pleasurable sensation.
examples: text: The low neckline of her bodice emphasized her plump, voluptuous figure.
text: She was very dark skinned and has a voluptuous figure that she showed off with her stylish purple dress.
ref: 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 35:
glosses: Curvaceous and sexually attractive.
raw_tags: of a woman
Synonyms: sense: pleasurable sensation
word: luxurious
word: sexy
word: built
word: buxom
word: chubby
word: curvaceous
word: curvesome
word: curvy
word: embonpoint
word: full-figured
word: juicy
word: luscious
word: pneumatic
word: red-hot
word: Rubenesque
word: sonsy
word: thicc
word: thick
word: toothsome
word: voluptuous
word: well-endowed
word: well-proportioned
word: zaftig
Hypernyms: word: overweight
word: sexy
word: shapely
Hyponyms: word: busty
word: callipygian
Derived terms: voluptuously
voluptuousness
Related terms: word: beautiful woman
click
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭk
ipa: /klɪk/
ipa: [kʰl̥ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: clique
homophone: klick
Etymology: Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).
Senses: examples: text: Click! The door opened.
glosses: The sound of a click.
Derived terms: autoclick
clickability
clickable
click and collect
clickbait
click-bait
click bait
click beetle
click chemistry
click-clack
clicker
clickety click
clickety-click
click farm
click farmer
clickfest
click for
click fraud
clickhaler
clicking knife
click into gear
clickity
clickjack
clickjacking
clickless
clicko
clickocracy
click of death
click one's fingers
click one's tongue
click pencil
clickprint
click reaction
clickskrieg
clickstream
click-through
clickthrough
click through
click-through rate
click-thru
clicktivism
clicktivist
click track
click wheel
clickworthy
clickwrap
clicky
declicked
double click
double-click
hairy click beetle
hate click
interclick
keyclick
left-click
midclick
middle-click
misclick
mouseclick
point-and-click
quadruple-click
quintuple-click
right-click
single-click
slam-clicker
triple-click
unclick
zero-click
Related terms: cliché
ejective
tsk
tsk tsk
tut
tut tut
click
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭk
ipa: /klɪk/
ipa: [kʰl̥ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: clique
homophone: klick
Forms: form: clicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of klick (“kilometers; kilometers per hour”).
click
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭk
ipa: /klɪk/
ipa: [kʰl̥ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: clique
homophone: klick
Forms: form: clicks
Etymology: From Middle English clike, from Old French clique (“latch”).
Senses: glosses: A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
glosses: The latch of a door.
click
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭk
ipa: /klɪk/
ipa: [kʰl̥ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: clique
homophone: klick
Forms: form: clicks
form: clicking
form: clicked
form: clicked
Etymology: From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from Old English *clēċan, *clǣċan, a byform of clyċċan (“to clutch”). More at clutch.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I take 'em to prevent abuses,’ Cants he, and then the Crucifix And Chalice from the Altar clicks.
ref: 1716, Thomas Ward, England's Reformation:
glosses: To snatch.
click
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭk
ipa: /klɪk/
ipa: [kʰl̥ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: clique
homophone: klick
Forms: form: clicks
Etymology: From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from Old English *clēċan, *clǣċan, a byform of clyċċan (“to clutch”). More at clutch.
Senses: examples: text: inside click; outside click; cross click
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A kind of throw.
click
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭk
ipa: /klɪk/
ipa: [kʰl̥ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: clique
homophone: klick
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of clique.
click
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭk
ipa: /klɪk/
ipa: [kʰl̥ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: clique
homophone: klick
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of clique.
AQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of al-Qaeda.
AQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AQs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of automatic qualifier, referring to the NCAA Division I FBS conferences whose champions receive automatic bids to the Bowl Championship Series.
glosses: Initialism of achievement quotient.
glosses: Initialism of accomplishment quotient.
glosses: Initialism of autism quotient (“the score one receives on a self-administered test created in 2001 by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen to test for autism or Asperger's syndrome”).
listeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭst'ēm
ipa: /ˈlɪstiːm/
Forms: form: listemes
Etymology: From list + -eme.
Senses: examples: text: Idioms such as "red herring" are listemes, as are irregular forms such as "geese".
text: A memorized chunk is sometimes called a listeme, that is, an item that has to be memorized as part of a list; one can argue that this book ought to have been called Listemes and Rules.
ref: 2000, Steven Pinker, Words and Rules, →ISBN, page 24:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An item that is memorized as part of a list, as opposed to being generated by a rule.
Related terms: chereme
chroneme
expression
grapheme
idiom
irregular
lexeme
lexical item
lexicalization
phoneme
set phrase
term
tokenization
toneme
word
apoptosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌapɒpˈtəʊsɪs/
ipa: /ˌæ.pəˈtoʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌæpəpˈtoʊsəs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: apoptoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπόπτωσις (apóptōsis, “a falling off”), from ἀπό (apó, “away from”) + πτῶσις (ptôsis, “falling”).
Senses: examples: text: The term apoptosis is proposed for a hitherto little recognized mechanism of controlled cell deletion, which appears to play a complementary but opposite role to mitosis in the regulation of animal cell populations.
ref: 1972, J. F. R. Kerr, A. H. Wyllie, A. R. Currie, “Apoptosis: A Basic Biological Phenomenon with Wide-ranging Implications in Tissue Kinetics”, in British journal of cancer, volume 26, →DOI:
text: Indeed, so important is apoptosis that it is gradually becoming clear that almost all therapeutic cancer treatment works only because it induces apoptosis by alerting p53 and its colleagues.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 238:
text: Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.
ref: 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 74:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: programmed cell death
coordinate_terms: autocytolysis
autophagy
glosses: A process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which leads to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and development of the organism, as a part of normal cell aging, or as a response to cellular injury.
Derived terms: antiapoptosis
apoptotic
apoptotically
lipoapoptosis
necroapoptosis
necroptosis
neuroapoptosis
oncoapoptosis
paraptosis
proapoptosis
UVB-induced apoptosis
firework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪɚˌwɚk/
Forms: form: fireworks
Etymology: From fire + work.
Senses: examples: text: Commercial firework displays are commonly launched from boats or other vessels
text: Fireworks went off after Australia won the World Cup.
text: Saltpetre being the principal ingredient in fireworks, and a volatile body, by reaſon of its aqueous and aërial parts, is eaſily rarified by fire; but not ſo ſoon when foul and groſs, as when purified from its crude and earthy parts, which greatly retard its velocity: therefore, when any quantity of Fireworks are to be made, it ſhould be examined; for if it is not well cleanſed, and of a good ſort, your works will not have their proper effect; […]
ref: 1776, Robert Jones, John Muller, “Sect. I. Saltpetre.”, in Artificial Fireworks, Improved to the Modern Practice, from the Minutest to the Highest Branches; … Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, for Sea and Land Service, …, 2nd corr. edition, London: Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.
Derived terms: fireworker
fireworkless
fireworklike
fireworky
Related terms: airbomb
banger
firecracker
flare
mortar
rocket
Roman candle
sparkler
spark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spärk
ipa: /spɑɹk/
enpr: späk
ipa: /spɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: SPARC
Forms: form: sparks
form: sparking
form: sparked
form: sparked
Etymology: From Middle English sparke, sperke, from Old English spearca, from Proto-West Germanic *sparkō (compare Saterland Frisian Spoorke, West Frisian spark, Dutch spark, German Low German Sparke, German Sparke), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sparkaz (“lively, energetic”), from Proto-Indo-European *sperg- (“to strew, sprinkle”) (compare Breton erc’h (“snow”), Latin spargō (“to scatter, spread”), sparsus (“scattered”), Lithuanian sprógti (“to germinate”), Ancient Greek σπαργάω (spargáō, “to swell”), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬈𐬔𐬀 (frasparega, “branch, twig”), Sanskrit पर्जन्य (parjanya, “rain, rain god”)).
Senses: examples: text: The introduction of substitute Andy Carroll sparked Liverpool into life and he pulled a goal back just after the hour - and thought he had equalised as Kenny Dalglish's side laid siege to Chelsea's goal in the closing stages.
ref: 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).
examples: text: Byron sparked the cigarette. He sucked it dramatically and thrust it into Marko's hand.
ref: 2009, Alex Jenson, The Serotonin Grand Prix, page 12:
glosses: To light; to kindle.
glosses: To give off a spark or sparks.
examples: text: [Streetlife]:Fuck a peace talk, let the gun spark, on the streets of New York.
ref: 1998 November 10, “Grid Iron Rap” (track 17), in Tical 2000: Judgement Day, performed by Method Man, Streetlife (rapper):
text: All of a sudden, everybody tuggin', everybody dark. Everybody gums runnin', 'til the guns spark.
ref: 2004, “U Ain't A Killer” (track 10), in The War Mixtape, performed by Akala (rapper):
text: Guns spark in the dark, it was all just a part of the eighties Bronx scene that created all.
ref: 2022 February 22, “Raw Hip Hop” (track 2), in IMAMCRU12, performed by KRS-One:
glosses: To shoot; to fire
raw_tags: of a gun
Derived terms: spark off
sparkle
spark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spärk
ipa: /spɑɹk/
enpr: späk
ipa: /spɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: SPARC
Forms: form: sparks
Etymology: Probably Scandinavian, akin to Old Norse sparkr (“sprightly”).
Senses: examples: text: The finest sparks and cleanest beaux.
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:
text: Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: He will retrieve his errors yet—their worthy Father, once my honour'd master, was at his years nearly as wild a spark.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.ii:
synonyms: word: blade
word: masher
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: A gallant; a foppish young man.
synonyms: word: suitor
word: swain
word: admirer
word: adorer
word: baby
word: beloved
word: courter
word: crush
word: darling
word: enamorado
word: flame
word: follower
word: leman
word: loteby
word: love
word: love interest
word: lover
word: paramour
word: sparker
word: sweetheart
word: truelove
word: wooer
glosses: A beau, lover.
spark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spärk
ipa: /spɑɹk/
enpr: späk
ipa: /spɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: SPARC
Forms: form: sparks
form: sparking
form: sparked
form: sparked
Etymology: Probably Scandinavian, akin to Old Norse sparkr (“sprightly”).
Senses: synonyms: word: make love
word: romance
word: solicit
word: address
word: beau
word: bedear
word: chase after
word: court
word: endear
word: make a move (on)
word: make love
word: pitch woo
word: put the moves on
word: romance
word: solicit
word: spark
word: woo
glosses: To woo, court; to act the gallant or beau.
Derived terms: sparkish
sparker
metonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈtɑnəmi/
ipa: /mɪˈtɒnəmi/
rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: metonymies
Etymology: From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ (metōnumíā, “change of name”), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).
Senses: examples: text: Metonymy does new names impose,
And things for things by near relation shews.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[The Seven Tropes.] Metonymy.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 7:
text: ...the principle of metonymy is simply to substitute for the plain name of a thing a name or phrase based on something connected with it.
ref: 1891 September 24, William Minto, “Practical talks on writing English”, in Theodor Flood, editor, The Chautauquan, volume 13, →OCLC, page 279:
text: THE KEY CONCEPT IS “metonymy.” This is the act of a word or phrase associated with a concept coming to represent the entirety of said concept. Generally, this means an extension of the original meaning. For example, “city hall” no longer means just the structure, but also the lawmakers who inhabit that structure. In the same way, “dish” started as the physical plate a meal is served on, before people started using it to represent the meal itself.
ref: 2015 January 16, Rick Paulas, “The Linguistics of Tragedy”, in Pacific Standard, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025:
hypernyms: trope
figure of speech
coordinate_terms: synecdoche
metaphor
figurativeness
glosses: The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.
glosses: A metonym.
Derived terms: metonym
metonymic
metonymically
metonymous
Related terms: metalepsis
preface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛfəs/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛfɪs/
note: Indic
ipa: /pri.fes/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɪˈfes/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɛf.es/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈprɛfəs/
Forms: form: prefaces
form: præface
form: Preface
Etymology: Late 14th century, from Middle English preface, prefas, from Old French preface (from which derives the modern French préface), from Medieval Latin prefātia, for classical Latin praefātiō (“a saying beforehand”), from praefor (“to speak beforehand”), from prae- (“beforehand”) + for (“to speak”).
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: front matter, prelims
text: The book included a brief preface explaining the author's motivations for writing.
coordinate_terms: word: prologue
word: introduction
word: preamble
word: ;
word: foreword
word: exordium
word: intro
word: introduction
word: isagoge
word: preface
word: lead
word: lede
word: lead-in
word: preamble
word: prolegomenon
word: prologue
word: prolusion
word: proem
word: proemium
word: protasis
glosses: A beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book, typically serving to contextualize or explain the writing of the book and sometimes to acknowledge others' contributions; especially, such a discussion written by the work's own author.
examples: text: This superficial tale / Is but a preface of her worthy praise.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 118:
text: Heav'ns high behest no preface needs.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, 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:
text: And now, without any further preface, we proceed to our next chapter.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: An introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
examples: Meronyms: protocol, embolism, eschatocol
topics: Christianity
glosses: A variable prayer forming the prelude or introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer or canon of the Mass, following the Sursum corda dialogue and leading into the Sanctus.
examples: text: […] a black-tie dinner to celebrate on the eve of the ceremony which would remove the preface "Sir" from his name and replace it with the preface "Lord," thought by some to be one of the most potent words in the English language.
ref: 2008, W. Bruce Kippen, Lords of the Frontier:
glosses: A title or epithet.
preface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛfəs/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛfɪs/
note: Indic
ipa: /pri.fes/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɪˈfes/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɛf.es/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈprɛfəs/
Forms: form: prefaces
form: prefacing
form: prefaced
form: prefaced
form: præface
form: Preface
Etymology: Late 14th century, from Middle English preface, prefas, from Old French preface (from which derives the modern French préface), from Medieval Latin prefātia, for classical Latin praefātiō (“a saying beforehand”), from praefor (“to speak beforehand”), from prae- (“beforehand”) + for (“to speak”).
Senses: examples: text: Let me preface this by saying that I don't know him that well.
glosses: To introduce or make a comment before (the main point); to premise.
examples: text: to preface a book
glosses: To give a preface to.
Related terms: prefatory
prelude
eagre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eagre
form: most eagre
Etymology: See eager.
Senses: examples: text: Howſoeuer it were, the Lacedæmonians being no leſſe wearied of the warre, than the Athenians were eagre to purſue it, the one obtained their eaſe, and the other the execution and honor which they deſired : for all the Greekes (thoſe of Peloponmeſus excepted) willingly ſubiected themſelues to the commandment of the Athenians which was both beginning of their greatneſſe in that preſent age, and of their ruine in the next ſucceeding.
ref: 1614, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, Book III., Chapter VII., page #66:
glosses: Obsolete form of eager.
Derived terms: eagreness
eagre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪɡə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈiːɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪɡə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: eagres
form: aegir
form: eager
form: eger
form: egre
form: eygre
Etymology: Not attested in Middle English; either from Old English *ēagor (“water, sea”) (attested in ēagorstrēam) or Old Norse ægir (“sea, ocean”); however, both possibilities fail to show the phonological outcome one would expect.
Senses: examples: text: A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees.
ref: 1896, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills: and Other Tales, page 210:
glosses: a tidal bore
Synonyms: tidal bore
bore
LT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LTs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of leukotriene.
glosses: Abbreviation of lieutenant.
glosses: Initialism of local time.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Initialism of left twist.
glosses: Initialism of long time.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: XL
XLT
glosses: A designation for a trim level within a model of trucks; it denotes low-end (base model) features.
LE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: LE seized the package.
glosses: Initialism of law enforcement.
glosses: Initialism of limited edition.
glosses: Initialism of luxury edition.
Lazio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Lazio. Doublet of Latium.
Senses: glosses: An administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital. It corresponds to ancient Latium.
Meronyms: Frosinone
Latina
Rieti
Rome
Viterbo
Related terms: Latium
Sicilia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sɪˈsɪljə/
Etymology: From Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people. Doublet of Sicily.
Senses: glosses: A province of the Roman Empire (consisting of the island of Sicily).
wikipedia: Sicels
LC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LCs
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of letter of credit.
glosses: Initialism of liquor commission.
topics: engineering
metrology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of least count.
topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Initialism of lethal concentration.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of liquid crystal.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of least concern.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of launch complex.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Initialism of lactation consultant.
examples: text: The lord chancellorship certainly needed reform and sadly Lord Irvine resisted taking the sensible steps of creating an independent judicial appointments commission and ending the nonsense of the LC having the right, should he choose, of sitting himself as a judge on cases.
ref: 2016 July 27, Helena Kennedy QC, “Letters: Charlie Falconer to blame for lord chancellor folly”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of lord chancellor.
qualifier: fashion on the Internet
glosses: Initialism of legit check.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of lambda calculus.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of LeetCode.
Derived terms: SLC
LC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: to go LC with one's parents
glosses: Initialism of low-contact.
Milano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Not certain; see Milano § History on Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: A minor city in Milam County, Texas, United States.
Milano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Milano. Doublet of Milan.
Senses: examples: text: Folko was not displeased to find that the ladies felt anxious to see beautiful Milano, and to leave Genoa on the morrow, as the autumnal gales were beginning to blow bleakly from the sea.
ref: 1876, [Friedrich] de la Motte Fouqué, anonymous translator, chapter X, in The Magic Ring: A Knightly Romance, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, book III, page 254:
text: The need to be competent is made extreme in a town like Milano, Italy, which can be compared, in management terms, to a huge company.
ref: 2014, Cristina Archetti, “The nature of the issues with which politicians deal”, in Politicians, Personal Image and the Construction of Political Identity: A Comparative Study of the UK and Italy, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Findings):
text: After admiring Milano’s skyline, he was hungry and tired from his flights. He wheeled his suitcase across the piazza, focusing on his reason for being in Milano: to track Chiara, who he thought would lead him to her father.
ref: 2020, Jack Erickson, chapter 16, in The Lonely Assassin (Milan Thriller Series; 4), RedBrick Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Milan
glosses: Alternative form of Milan:
A city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Milan and the region of Lombardy, Italy.
glosses: Alternative form of Milan:
A metropolitan city of Lombardy, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Milan.
tarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːp/
enpr: tärp
ipa: /tɑɹp/
ipa: [tʰäɹp]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [t(ʰ)a̝ɹp]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: tarps
Etymology: Clipping of tarpaulin.
Senses: examples: text: [Ignatz, under the rain:] It's a good thing I had this tarp handy. [...] / [Officer Pupp:] Gimme that canvas, it's much more important that I keep dry.
ref: 1934 June 26, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, comic strip, →ISBN, page 172:
text: {Gun pointing at head} Sorry, Quigley, but you had your chance to cooperate. / Bob, straighten the tarp, we don’t want the rug splattered.
ref: 1986, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Under the Desert Stars, Dark Horse Books:
glosses: A tarpaulin.
tarp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːp/
enpr: tärp
ipa: /tɑɹp/
ipa: [tʰäɹp]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [t(ʰ)a̝ɹp]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: tarps
form: tarping
form: tarped
form: tarped
Etymology: Clipping of tarpaulin.
Senses: examples: text: The load may be tarped for serious white water, but tarped or not, everything should be tied securely in case of capsize.
ref: 2001, Verne Huser, River Running: Canoeing, Kayaking, Rowing, Rafting, page 136:
glosses: To cover something with a tarpaulin.
vatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more vatic
form: most vatic
Etymology: From Latin vates (“seer, poet”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.
ref: 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
text: “Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 129:
text: [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
ref: 2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The story of our species, 27 September 2014, p. R32]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
text: Here is that gush, vatic visions of those ‘fixed, fast-frozen relations’ melting […]
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
beaucoup
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊˈkuː/
ipa: /ˈbuːkuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: boku
form: boocoo
form: bookoo
form: buku
Etymology: Borrowed from French beaucoup, early 20th century. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War. The pronunciation /ˈbuːkuː/ influenced by Louisiana French boucoup, a variant.
Senses: examples: text: You know that cost beaucoup bucks!
text: “I bet the skipper’s been drinkin^([sic]) beaucoup highballs an^([sic]) thinks Brooklyn’s Hoboken.”
ref: 1925, John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 3rd section, page 282:
text: Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show."
ref: 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Then he'd have to be relieved of command. Which you could do, Doctor, but it's beaucoup trouble if you're wrong.
ref: 1987 November 2, Michael Halperin, Dorothy Catherine Fontana, “Lonely Among Us”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), production code 108:
glosses: Much, many, a lot of.
beaucoup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊˈkuː/
ipa: /ˈbuːkuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: beaucoups
form: boku
form: boocoo
form: bookoo
form: buku
Etymology: Borrowed from French beaucoup, early 20th century. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War. The pronunciation /ˈbuːkuː/ influenced by Louisiana French boucoup, a variant.
Senses: examples: text: Alongside the road with holes in my soul and my shoes / And beaucoups of blues
ref: 1970, “Beaucoups of Blues”, in Buzz Rabin (lyrics), Beaucoups of Blues, performed by Ringo Starr:
glosses: An abundance.
beaucoup
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊˈkuː/
ipa: /ˈbuːkuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: boku
form: boocoo
form: bookoo
form: buku
Etymology: Borrowed from French beaucoup, early 20th century. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War. The pronunciation /ˈbuːkuː/ influenced by Louisiana French boucoup, a variant.
Senses: glosses: In abundance.
spic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: spics
form: spick
form: spik
Etymology: Possibly imitative of a Hispanic pronunciation of speak. Usually considered a contraction of the earlier used spiggoty.
Senses: synonyms: spigotty
spiggoty
glosses: A Latino; a person of Latin American descent.
examples: text: “He’s a spic” he said. He was frantic with jealousy, he didn’t want to be hurt again.
ref: 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book IV (Escape: 1925–1929), page 236:
qualifier: originally
glosses: A person of Italian descent.
Derived terms: spigger
Related terms: beaner
tagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: taggers
Etymology: From tag + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The teacher then calls on each one of the tagged to identify his tagger. If a student cannot guess correctly, he must sit down.
ref: 1989, Francis Edward Abernethy, Texas Toys and Games, page 111:
glosses: One who or that which tags.
The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
glosses: One who or that which tags.
A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
examples: text: To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One who or that which tags.
A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to songs in a music collection.
glosses: A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
examples: text: hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers
ref: 1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque:
glosses: That which is pointed like a tag.
Derived terms: price tagger
tagger-along
tagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: taggers
Senses: glosses: The penis.
tagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: taggers
Senses: glosses: Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.
weeknight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weeknights
Etymology: From week + night.
Senses: examples: text: On weeknights other than Saturdays, the last Bedford train leaves St. Pancras at 10.35 instead of 10.0 p.m. and is 20 min. faster, and the last Luton train at 11.35 instead of 11.15 p.m.
ref: 1960 February 24, “The dieselised St. Pancras suburban service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:
text: For Ms. Park, a forensic chemist for the New Jersey State Police who has since retired, bulgogi was a weeknight workhorse, even without the convenience of pre-sliced meat.
ref: 2021 July 23, Eric Kim, “Bulgogi, Any Way You Slice It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021, Food:
glosses: The evening of a weekday.
Related terms: week
weekday
school night
worknight
worse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːs/
ipa: /wɔːs/
ipa: /wɝs/
ipa: [wəɪs]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: verse
Etymology: From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
Senses: examples: text: Your exam results are worse than before.
glosses: comparative form of bad: more bad
raw_tags: for non-slang definitions
Derived terms: bad comes to worse
be the worse for drink
for better or for worse
for better or worse
for the worse
go from bad to worse
make matters worse
none the worse
none to the worse
one's bark is worse than one's bite
so much the worse
so much the worse for
take a turn for the worse
the cure is worse than the disease
what is worse
worse and worse
worse-case
worse comes to worse
worse comes to worst
worse for liquor
worse for ware
worse for wear
worse luck
worse off
worse things happen at sea
Related terms: worst
worse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːs/
ipa: /wɔːs/
ipa: /wɝs/
ipa: [wəɪs]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: verse
Etymology: From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
Senses: examples: text: The harder you try, the worse you do.
text: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
glosses: comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly
examples: text: He drives worse than anyone else I know.
glosses: Less skillfully.
examples: text: The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother.
glosses: More severely or seriously.
examples: text: Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.
qualifier: sentence adverb
glosses: Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
worse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːs/
ipa: /wɔːs/
ipa: /wɝs/
ipa: [wəɪs]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: verse
Etymology: From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
Senses: examples: text: Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 4:12:
glosses: Loss; disadvantage; defeat
examples: text: Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.
glosses: That which is worse; something less good.
worse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːs/
ipa: /wɔːs/
ipa: /wɝs/
ipa: [wəɪs]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: worses
form: worsing
form: worsed
form: worsed
form: verse
Etymology: From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
Senses: examples: text: Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
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: To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
Barry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ɪ/
enpr: bărʹē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbeɹ.i/
rhymes: -æɹi
homophone: bari
homophone: berry
homophone: Berry
homophone: beary
homophone: bury stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: Barrys
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Barra, short form of Fionnbharr, from fionn (“white”) + barr (“head”).
Senses: examples: text: Above left, Kathryn Bigelow with the cinemaphotographer Barry Ackroyd on the set of The Hurt Locker.
ref: 2009 June 21, Manohla Dargis, “Action!”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A male given name from Irish.
glosses: A surname from Irish derived from the given name, or from place names in Scotland and Wales.
Derived terms: word: Barry boy
word: Barry County
word: Barry-Perkins-Young syndrome
word: Baz
word: Bazza
Barry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ɪ/
enpr: bărʹē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbeɹ.i/
rhymes: -æɹi
homophone: bari
homophone: berry
homophone: Berry
homophone: beary
homophone: bury stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: In Wales, said to be named after Saint Baruc, who was buried on Barry Island, from Welsh Barrwg, a name of uncertain origin but possibly related to Irish barr (“hill, summit”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of places:
A coastal town and community with a town council in Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1167).
glosses: Any of a number of places:
A village near Carnoustie, Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO5334).
glosses: Any of a number of places:
A commune in Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania, France.
glosses: Any of a number of places:
A small village in Blayney Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: Any of a number of places:
A place in the United States:
A city and township in Pike County, Illinois.
glosses: Any of a number of places:
A place in the United States:
A township in Barry County, Michigan.
glosses: Any of a number of places:
A place in the United States:
A township in Pine County, Minnesota.
glosses: Any of a number of places:
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Big Stone County, Minnesota.
glosses: Any of a number of places:
A place in the United States:
A township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: Any of a number of places:
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Navarro County, Texas.
Derived terms: Barry Dock
Barry Island
Barry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ɪ/
enpr: bărʹē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbeɹ.i/
rhymes: -æɹi
homophone: bari
homophone: berry
homophone: Berry
homophone: beary
homophone: bury stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: Diminutive forms with -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Barack.
Derived terms: Barry the Fairy
Bathhouse Barry
Related terms: Barrie
basil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæz.əl/
rhymes: -æzəl
homophone: Basil
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.zəl/
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: basils
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English basile, from Middle French basile, from Old French basile, from Medieval Latin basilicum, from Ancient Greek βασιλικόν (basilikón, “royal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”). Doublet of basilic, basilicon, and basilicum; further related to basileus, basilean, and basileiolatry.
Senses: synonyms: sweet basil
St. Joseph's wort
common basil
American dittany
great basil
glosses: A plant (Ocimum basilicum).
synonyms: sweet basil
glosses: The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
glosses: Any other species in the genus Ocimum.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ocimum basilicum var. thyrsiflora
word: Asian basil
taxonomic: Monarda clinopodia etc.
word: basil balm
word: basiled
alt: Acinos arvensis, syn. Calamintha acinos
word: basil thyme
word: basilweed
taxonomic: Ocimum basilicum
word: common basil
taxonomic: Pycnanthemum virginianum
word: field basil
taxonomic: Ocimum tenuiflorum
word: hoary basil
taxonomic: Ocimum tenuiflorum
word: holy basil
taxonomic: Ocimum tenuiflorum
word: Lao basil
taxonomic: Ocimum × africanum
word: lemon basil
taxonomic: Ocimum basilicum purpureum
word: purple basil
taxonomic: Ocimum basilicum
word: sweet basil
taxonomic: Ocimum basilicum var. thyrsiflora
word: Thai basil
taxonomic: Pycnanthemum virginianum
word: wild basil
basil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæz.əl/
rhymes: -æzəl
homophone: Basil
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.zəl/
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: basils
Etymology: Variant of bezel.
Senses: examples: text: [H]old the edge of your Iron upvvards in your left hand and your VVhet-ſtone in your right, and having firſt ſpit upon your Stone to vvet it, apply it to the Baſil of your Iron, in ſuch a Poſition that it may bear upon the vvhole bredth of the Baſil; and ſo vvorking the Stone over the Baſil, you vvill quickly vvear the courſer grating of the Grind ſtone off the edge on that ſide: […]
ref: 1678 April 11 – May 11 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Moxon, “Numb[er] IV. The Art of Joynery.”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume I, London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678, →OCLC, § 10 (Of Grinding and Whetting the Iron, and Other Edge-tools), pages 71–72:
glosses: The angle to which a joiner's tool is ground away.
basil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæz.əl/
rhymes: -æzəl
homophone: Basil
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.zəl/
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: basils
form: basiling
form: basilling
form: basiled
form: basiled
form: basilled
form: basilled
Etymology: Variant of bezel.
Senses: examples: text: These usually large chisels may have the edge basiled on either the inside or the outside of the 90° angle of the blade.
ref: 1972, Alex W[inkler] Bealer, “Chiseling”, in Old Ways of Working Wood, Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishing Company, Inc., published March 1976 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: To grind the edge of a tool to an acute angle.
Synonyms: bevel
sharpen