cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪkst/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɪksɖ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-əɖ/
Forms: form: mixt
Etymology: From mix, equivalent to mix + -ed. Compare Middle English mixid (“mixed”, past participle), Old English miscode (“mixed”, preterite). More at mix.
In adjectival use, reinforced by French mixte and/or Latin mixtus, past participle of misceō (“mix”), from the same Indo-European root as mix.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mix
mixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪkst/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɪksɖ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-əɖ/
Forms: form: more mixed
form: most mixed
form: mixt
Etymology: From mix, equivalent to mix + -ed. Compare Middle English mixid (“mixed”, past participle), Old English miscode (“mixed”, preterite). More at mix.
In adjectival use, reinforced by French mixte and/or Latin mixtus, past participle of misceō (“mix”), from the same Indo-European root as mix.
Senses: examples: text: I get a very mixed feeling from this puzzling painting.
text: The various studies produced mixed results.
glosses: Having two or more separate aspects.
examples: text: My joy was somewhat mixed when my partner said she was pregnant: it's a lot of responsibility.
glosses: Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated.
examples: text: The tennis match was mixed, with a boy and a girl on each side.
text: My son attends a mixed school, my daughter an all-girl grammar school.
text: We were the first paper to involve large numbers of gay men and lesbians: today, we remain the only truly mixed periodical in our community.
ref: 1983 April 9, The Sustainer Committee, “Sustain GCN”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: Including both male(s) and female(s).
examples: text: The benefit dog show has both mixed and single-breed competitions.
text: Mixed blood can surprisingly produce inherited properties which neither parent showed
glosses: Stemming from two or more races or breeds.
examples: text: The movie has received mixed reviews from movie critics.
glosses: Polarizing; including both positive and negative feedback.
Synonyms: sense: having two or more separate aspects
english: See also Thesaurus:heterogeneous
translation: See also Thesaurus:heterogeneous
word: heterogeneous
sense: feelings
word: ambivalent
word: conflicted
word: equivocal
sense: not pure
word: impure
sense: including both males and females
word: co-ed
sense: including both males and females
word: unsegregated
sense: stemming from two or more races or breeds
word: hybrid
sense: stemming from two or more races or breeds
word: mongrel
Derived terms: immixed
Jerusalem mixed grill
mixed alphabet
mixed astigmatism
mixed bag
mixed blessing
mixed-blood
mixed bud
mixed case
mixed chalice
mixed climbing
mixed company
mixed conditional
mixed connective tissue disease
mixed declension
mixed doubles
mixed drink
mixed economic
mixed economy
mixed farming
mixed feelings
mixed foursome
mixed fraction
mixed gauge
mixed grill
mixed grip
mixed herbs
mixed heritage
mixed inhibition
mixed initiative
mixed-interval chord
mixed language
mixed larceny
mixedly
mixed manning
mixed marriage
mixed martial artist
mixed martial arts
mixed media
mixed-member proportional
mixed message
mixed metaphor
mixed methods
mixed monarchy
mixed mutation
mixedness
mixed number
mixed nuts
mixed origins
mixed oxide
mixed parentage
mixed perspective
mixed picture
mixed plate
mixed race
mixed-race
mixed reaction
mixed reality
mixed salt
mixed-sex
mixed signal
mixed spice
mixed tape
mixed-traffic
mixed train
mixed-up
mixed-use
mixedwood
mixel
mixmer
ready-mixed
Related terms: mixer
mixture
battle-ax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle-axes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of battle axe.
pertuisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pertuisans
form: partisan
Senses: examples: text: An ancient pertuisan, in the possession of Mr. Miller.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xii:
glosses: A kind of halberd or pike.
glosses: A truncheon; a staff.
mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
homophone: micks
homophone: Micks
homophone: Mick's
Forms: form: mixes
form: mixe
form: mixe
Etymology: A merger of a nominal use of the verb and a borrowing from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus, past participle of misceō (“mix”). Nowadays regarded automatically as the nominal form of the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Now add the raisins to the mix.
text: […] fifteen flavors of powdered mixes in traditional scoop-out packages, seven flavors of single-serve bottled drinks, and three flavors of multiserve bottles.
ref: 2015, Don E. Schultz, Beth E. Barnes, Heidi F. Schultz, Building Customer-brand Relationships, page 102:
glosses: The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
examples: text: My recipe file was now a mix of meat and dairy.
text: The combination of classical music and hip hop is a surprisingly good mix.
text: A Chronicle of Higher Education tracker of nearly 3,000 colleges found that of those with firm plans, 19% are opening primarily in person; 27% are primarily online; and 16% are, like Penn State, a mix.
ref: 2020 September 10, Katie Reilly, “As Colleges Open During a Pandemic, Student Life Remains Closed”, in Time:
glosses: The result of combining items normally kept separate.
examples: text: Cake mix. Pancake mix. Hot chocolate mix.
glosses: A preparation, usually in the form of a powder, into which other ingredients can be mixed to prepare a specified foodstuff.
examples: text: The rhythm mix sounds muddy.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The result of mixing several tracks.
examples: text: I've almost finished the mix for this song.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The finished version of a recording.
examples: text: Eventually I could taste different drugs and tell how much mix in it or if there’s too much mix in it or what have you.
ref: 1977, John Allen, chapter 11, in Assault with a Deadly Weapon: The Autobiography of a Street Criminal,, New York: Pantheon Books, page 160:
synonyms: cut
glosses: A substance used to dilute or adulterate an illicit drug.
Derived terms: word: admix
word: bank mix
word: beatmix
word: beat mix
word: beat-mix
word: Bombay mix
word: bridge mix
word: cake mix
word: case mix
word: code-mix
word: code mix
word: communication mix
word: Co-op mix
word: energy mix
word: fanmix
word: free-mix
word: hot-mix
word: in the mix
word: Italian mix
word: megamix
word: mismix
word: mission
word: mix and match
word: mix bag
word: mix feeding
word: mixfix
word: mix-inmix
word: mixish
word: mixling
word: mixmaster
word: mix-minus
word: mixologist
word: mix tape
word: mixtape
word: Mixter
word: mix-up
word: mixup
word: mixy
word: pick 'n' mix
word: policy mix
word: postmix
word: potting mix
word: premix
word: qumix
word: radio mix
word: ready-mix
word: remix
word: spring mix
word: submix
word: supermix
word: trail mix
word: trimix
word: wintry mix
news
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nyo͞oz
ipa: /njuːz/
ipa: /nuz/
ipa: /njuz/
ipa: /n(j)uz/
note: affricated
ipa: /n(j)udʒ/
ipa: /njus/
ipa: [ɲus]
homophone: gnus
homophone: nus stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: newses
form: newsing
form: newsed
form: newsed
form: newes
Etymology: From Middle English newes, newys (“new things”), equivalent to new (noun) + -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Näis (“news”), East Frisian näjs (“news”), West Frisian nijs (“news”), Dutch nieuws (“news”), German Low German Neeis (“new things; news”), though unlike the English word, these originated as genitives, not plurals. Sometimes erroneously claimed to be an acronym of "North, East, West, South" or "Noteworthy Events, Weather, Sports".
Senses: examples: text: This remark was newsed abroad; whereupon the loyal authorities of Lerwick immediately had the revolutionary skipper arrested, on a charge of high treason.
ref: 1874, Robert Cowie, Shetland, page 157:
glosses: To report; to make known.
umbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌm.bəʊ/
ipa: /ˈʌm.boʊ/
rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ
Forms: form: umbones
form: umbos
form: umboes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin umbō (“a shield boss”). Doublet of umbone.
Senses: examples: text: It is thirteen inches diameter, made of wood covered with leather, and an iron plate decorated with nails and mouldings; the boss or umbo projects four inches.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xii:
text: serves as the umbo of the region’s so-called Silicon Shield
ref: 2023 March 21, Virginia Heffernan, “I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory”, in WIRED:
glosses: The boss of a shield, at or near the middle and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane.
An inward projection of the tympanic membrane of the ear.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane.
One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane.
A bump or protrusion on the cap of a mushroom or toadstool.
Derived terms: umbonal
umbonic
Related terms: boss
owner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊnɚ/
ipa: /ˈəʊnə/
note: Indic
ipa: /o.nɐ(r)/
note: without the toe–tow merger
ipa: /ɔw.nɐ(r)/
rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: owners
Etymology: From own + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The police recovered the stolen car and returned it to its owner.
text: The marina was filled with yachts and powerboats, sleek multihulls fitted with the latest satellite-navigation gear that would steer the owners painlessly towards similar luxury berths at Portofino and Bandol.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 141:
text: Sometimes the sound was close, as the owner of the voice was wandering just on the outside walls of his living quarters.
ref: 2012, Sherri Lackey, The Vrykolakas Deviation, page 117:
glosses: One who owns something.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The captain of a ship.
glosses: Ellipsis of owner-type jeepney.
Synonyms: sense: one who owns
word: possessor
sense: one who owns
english: of a business, etc
translation: of a business, etc
word: proprietor
Derived terms: beneficial owner
boatowner
business owner
by owner
cabowner
coalowner
co-owner
dishowner
dogs have owners, cats have staff
farm owner
flockowner
gunowner
herdowner
homeowner
houseowner
landowner
laundryowner
majority owner
millowner
mineowner
multi-owner
nonowner
owner-driver
owneress
ownerless
owner-occupier
owner-operator
ownership
part-owner
product owner
rightsowner
shareowner
shipowner
shopowner
shop owner
slave owner
slaveowner
storeowner
straw owner
traditional owner
Related terms: own
ferril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹil/
Forms: form: ferrils
Senses: examples: text: Fig. 3. A battle ax, in the collection of Mr. Rawle. Fig. 4. Its butt end and iron ferril, the staff on which it is fixed is octagonal, and measures five feet four inches.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xiii:
glosses: A metal cap on the butt end of a weapon shaft, often having a sharp point.
pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭmp
ipa: /pʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: pumps
Etymology: The etymology of the term is unclear and disputed. One possibility is that it comes from pomp (“ornamentation”). Another is that it refers to the sound made by the foot moving inside the shoe when dancing. The Oxford English Dictionary claims that it appeared in the 16th century, and lists its origin as "obscure". It has also been linked to the Dutch pampoesje, possibly borrowed from Javanese pampus, ultimately from Persian پاپوش (pâpuš), borrowed from Arabic بَابُوش (bābūš).
Senses: synonyms: word: gym shoe
word: dap
word: plimsoll
word: sneaker
glosses: A low-top shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas upper; a low-top canvas sneaker.
examples: text: She was wearing a lovely new pair of pumps.
synonyms: court shoe
glosses: A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
examples: text: Gabriel's pumps were all unpinkt i' th' heel
ref: 1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew:
text: Ballerine - or ballet pumps - are the Milanese woman's footwear 'de rigeur', and not just because there are so many cobbled streets to walk over and are therefore infinitely preferable to heels.
ref: 2012, Rachael Martin, The Fashion Lover's Guide to Milan:
glosses: A dancing shoe.
glosses: A type of shoe without a heel.
studio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstjuːdiəʊ/
ipa: /ˈstjuːdioʊ/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈst͡ʃuːdiəʊ/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈst͡ʃuːdioʊ/
note: yod-dropping
ipa: /ˈstudiəʊ/
note: yod-dropping
ipa: /ˈstudioʊ/
Forms: form: studios
Etymology: From Italian studio (“room for study”), from Latin studium.
Doublet of study and etude.
Senses: examples: text: His studio was cramped when he began as an artist.
glosses: An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works.
examples: text: As he gained a reputation, he took larger space and took students into his studio,
glosses: An establishment where an art is taught.
examples: text: The recording studio had some slight echo, but was good enough to make a demo.
text: The studio was dark and cool, with thick cords running from one end to the other and huge cameras on either side, each primed to swivel and record what the lights from above illuminated.
ref: 2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 285:
glosses: A place where radio or television programs, records or films are made.
examples: text: The studios still make films, but they rely on the strength of their distribution.
glosses: A company or organization that makes films, records or other artistic works.
examples: text: It’s a lovely little studio with almost a river view.
glosses: A studio apartment.
Derived terms: album studio
animation studio
dance studio
poststudio
prestudio
recording studio
studio album
studio apartment
Studio City
studio flat
studioless
studiolike
studiomate
studio monitor
studio music
studio system
telestudio
shewn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Senses: examples: text: The handle shewn separately
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xiv:
glosses: past participle of shew
reward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈwɔːd/
ipa: /ɹəˈwɔːd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/
ipa: /ɹəˈwɔɹd/
ipa: /ɹiˈwɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: rewards
Etymology: From Middle English reward, rewarde, from Old French reward (“reward”) (compare Old French regard, whence modern French regard, and also English regard through Middle French), from rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”) (compare Old French guarder); the Anglo-Norman forms are derived from Old Northern French variants of Old French, ultimately of Germanic (Frankish) origin. Compare regard, warden, guard. See more below.
Mostly displaced Old English mēd, whence Modern English meed. Displaced Old English lēan and edlēan.
Senses: examples: text: For catching the thief, you'll get a nice reward.
synonyms: payment
recompense
tithing
meed
antonyms: punishment
glosses: Something of value given in return for an act.
examples: text: The rewards for bringing in badly wanted criminals are printed on 'dead or alive' posters.
synonyms: bounty
glosses: A prize promised for a certain deed or catch
examples: text: Is this the reward I get for telling the truth: to be put in jail?
text: Christian Benteke's first-half goal was just reward for Villa's undoubted superiority but Bradford managed to survive without further damage until half-time, before scoring the goal that takes them to Wembley for the first time since 1996.
ref: 2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC:
synonyms: consequence
glosses: The result of an action, whether good or bad.
Derived terms: word: after-reward
word: a good deed is its own reward
word: extrinsic reward
word: intrinsic reward
word: just reward
word: reward card
word: reward hacking
word: reward system
english: her
translation: her
word: virtue is its own reward
reward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈwɔːd/
ipa: /ɹəˈwɔːd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/
ipa: /ɹəˈwɔɹd/
ipa: /ɹiˈwɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: rewards
form: rewarding
form: rewarded
form: rewarded
Etymology: From Middle English rewarden, from Anglo-Norman rewarder (“to reward”), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”), from Old Northern French [Term?], from Frankish *wardōn (“to guard, keep”), from Proto-Germanic *wardōną (“to guard, defend”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, shelter, defend, guard, shut”). Cognate with Old Saxon wardōn (“to guard, provide for, protect”), Old English weardian (“to guard”), Old High German wartēn (“to watch, keep, look after”). More at ward. Piecewise doublet of regard.
Displaced Old English lēanian. In this sense, displaced Old English ġieldan, whence Modern English yield.
Senses: examples: text: Why are you rewarding the child for misbehaving?
text: Why are you rewarding that bad behaviour?
glosses: To give a reward to or for.
examples: text: Decorations are meant to reward the most meritous acts and services.
text: The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes. Bulgaria gave a hint of defensive frailties to come when they failed to clear Young's corner, and when Gareth Barry found Cahill in the box he applied the finish past Nikolay Mihaylov.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
glosses: To be a recompense for.
examples: text: Thenne syr Marhaus departed and within two dayes his damoysel brought hym where as was a grete tornement that the lady de Vawse has cryed
[…]
 And there syr Marhaus dyd so nobly that he was renomed
 & had somtyme doune fourty knyghtes
 and soo the serklet of gold was rewarded hym
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
text: Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 24:17:
glosses: To give (something) as a reward.
Derived terms: rewardable
rewarder
rewarding
unrewarded
Related terms: award
suggestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/
ipa: [səˈd͡ʒɛʃ.t͡ʃən]
ipa: /sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃən/
Forms: form: suggestions
Etymology: From Middle English suggestion, from Anglo-Norman suggestioun, sugestiun, from Latin suggestiō, from suggerō (“suggest”, verb), from Latin sub- (“from below, up”) + gerō (“to bring”). Equivalent to suggest + -ion. Related to English up-, cast.
Senses: examples: text: make a suggestion
text: I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
text: Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
glosses: Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
examples: text: Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
glosses: The act of suggesting.
examples: text: He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
glosses: The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
topics: law
glosses: Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
Synonyms: sense: something suggested
word: hint
sense: something suggested
word: incitement
sense: something suggested
word: proposal
Derived terms: autosuggestion
auto-suggestion
countersuggestion
desuggestion
heterosuggestion
hypnotic suggestion
missuggestion
narcosuggestion
nonsuggestion
posthypnotic suggestion
power of suggestion
self-suggestion
serving suggestion
suggestional
suggestion box
suggestionism
suggestionist
Related terms: suggest
suggestive
dogsbody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡz.bɒ.dɪ/
ipa: /ˈdɔɡz.bɑ.di/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡz.bɑ.di/
Forms: form: dogsbodies
Etymology: From dog + -s- + body. 1818, British navy slang (dog's body), originally derogatory reference to unappetizing pease pudding (compare dog's breakfast), as if it were made of mashed dog meat. In 20th century applied to low-ranked sailors, thence menial servants in wider usage.
Senses: examples: text: Who chose this face for me? This dogsbody to rid of vermin.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: 'Cause I, I wanna be anarchy! / No dogsbody!
ref: 1976, “Anarchy in the U.K.”, performed by Sex Pistols:
text: That's just Baldrick, my dogsbody.
ref: 1994, Blackadder (television production):
text: Furthermore, there are still rather backward opinions in our society about the role of a translator. A translator is often regarded as a linguistic dogsbody.
ref: 1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 146:
synonyms: batman
grunt
factotum
gofer
handyman
jack of all trades
odd job
workhorse
glosses: A person who does menial work, a servant.
glosses: Alternative form of dog's body (“pease pudding”)
dogsbody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡz.bɒ.dɪ/
ipa: /ˈdɔɡz.bɑ.di/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡz.bɑ.di/
Forms: form: dogsbodies
form: dogsbodying
form: dogsbodied
form: dogsbodied
Etymology: From dog + -s- + body. 1818, British navy slang (dog's body), originally derogatory reference to unappetizing pease pudding (compare dog's breakfast), as if it were made of mashed dog meat. In 20th century applied to low-ranked sailors, thence menial servants in wider usage.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps because, having been brought up in all those different countries and languages, and then studying economics of all things for just a year, followed by four years dogsbodying for a haulage company, he had never got any serious reading done.
ref: 1989, Tim Parks, Family Planning:
glosses: To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work
trick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trĭk
ipa: /tɹɪk/
ipa: [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪk]
ipa: [tʃɹ̠̊ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: tricker
form: trickest
Etymology: From Middle English trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier (“to defraud, act dishonestly, conceal, deceive, cheat”); > modern French tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), or one of its derivatives (e.g. Middle High German ūftrechen (“to do something to someone, hurt someone”), vertrechen (“to conceal, get over on someone”), zuotrechen (“to obtain falsely or deceitfully, wangle, finagle”), etc.); yet the Old French verb is equally likely to be derived from Vulgar Latin *triccāre, from Late Latin tricāre, from Latin trīcor, trīcārī (“dodge, search for detours; haggle, quibble”).
The term has been connected to Middle Dutch treck, trec (“draw, line, desire, game move, cord, stratagem, ruse, trick”), from Middle Dutch trekken, trēken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekken, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną, *trekaną (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). If they are related, trick would be cognate with Low German trekken, Middle High German trecken, trechen, Danish trække, and Old Frisian trekka, Romanian truc and other Romance languages.
Compare track, treachery, trig, and trigger.
Senses: examples: text: trick photography
glosses: Involving trickery or deception.
examples: text: A trick pony
glosses: Able to perform tricks.
examples: text: a trick knee
glosses: Defective or unreliable.
examples: text: Wow, your new sportscar is so trick.
glosses: Stylish or cool.
serendipity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛɹ.ənˈdɪp.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌsɛɹ.ɛnˈdɪp.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: serendipities
Etymology: From Serendip (“variant of Serendib: Ceylon, Sri Lanka”) + -ity. Coined by English writer and politician Horace Walpole in 1754 based on the Persian story of The Three Princes of Serendip, who (Walpole wrote to a friend) were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”.
Senses: examples: text: The most random serendipity brought the two of us together, and now, we are happily married! If I was just 15 seconds slower, I'd have never met her!
This discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word, which, as I have nothing better to tell you, I shall endeavour to explain to you: you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called "The Three Princes of Serendip;" as their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right – now do you understand Serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental Sagacity, (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for comes under this description,) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who, happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table.
ref: 1754, Horace Walpole, The Letters of Horace Walpole, vol. 2, Letter 90, To Sir Horace Mann, Arlington Street, Jan. 28, 1754. The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2
text: After I got here, in the first lockdown, my mum suddenly passed. It was the week of my final interview with the Mayor. It is serendipity that I am here when my dad really needs me.
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 54:
antonyms: Murphy's law
perfect storm
glosses: A combination of events which have come together by chance to make a surprisingly good or wonderful outcome.
examples: 2007, Erin McKean, speech at TED
Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damn difficult.
synonyms: word: chance
word: luck
word: adventure
word: accident
word: casualty
word: chance
word: chance-medley
word: fortune
word: hap
word: hazard
word: joss
word: luck
word: serendipity
word: weird
glosses: An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.
glosses: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
Derived terms: serendipitous
serendipitously
serendipity berry
naissant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French naissant (literally “being born”). Doublet of nascent.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: nascent
glosses: Having only its forepart shown, especially if because it is issuing from an ordinary or division of the field. (Compare issuant.)
Related terms: jessant
flavid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin flāvidus, ultimately from flāvus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: yellow
luminance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːmɪnəns/
Forms: form: luminances
Senses: glosses: The quality of being luminous.
glosses: The amount of light that passes through, is emitted, or is reflected from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The luminous flux emitted in a given direction divided by the product of the projected area of the source element perpendicular to the direction and the solid angle containing that direction (i.e. luminous intensity divided by unit area), measured in stilbs or apostilbs.
Synonyms: photometric brightness
Derived terms: bioluminance
chrominance
equiluminance
Related terms: brightness
brightness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪtnəs/
rhymes: -aɪtnəs
Forms: form: brightnesses
form: brightnesse
Etymology: From Middle English bryghtnes, brightnesse, from Old English beorhtnes (“brightness, splendor”), from Proto-West Germanic *berhtnassī, equivalent to bright + -ness. Cognate with Old High German berahtnessī, berahtnessi (“brightness”).
Senses: examples: text: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being bright.
glosses: The perceived luminance of an object.
glosses: Intelligence, cleverness.
Derived terms: apparent brightness
intrinsic brightness
kiwifruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiwifruit
form: kiwifruits
Senses: examples: text: Vitamin C values increased from 65.92 ± 9.1 (day 0) to 102 ± 23.1 μM (day 28) and from 68 ± 15.2 μM to 92.38 ± 14.7 μM after consuming two and three kiwifruit per day, respectively (Duttaroy & Jorgensen, 2004).
ref: 2013, Asim K[anti] Duttaroy, “Cardioprotective Properties of Kiwifruit”, in Mike Boland, Paul J. Moughan, editors, Nutritional Benefits of Kiwifruit (Advances in Food and Nutrition Research; volume 68), Academic Press, →ISBN, page 277:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kiwi fruit.
q.v.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkjuː ˈviː/
ipa: /wɪt͡ʃ‿ˈsiː/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɪt͡ʃ‿ˈsiː/
ipa: /ˌkjuː ˈviː/
ipa: /wɪt͡ʃ‿ˈsi/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɪt͡ʃ‿ˈsi/
Forms: form: q. v.
form: qv
form: qd.
form: vid.
Etymology: From Latin quod videās, or quod vidē (literally “which see”), from quod (the neuter of quī (“what”)) + vidē the imperative of videō (“to see”), or videās, the second-person present subjunctive of the same verb.
Senses: examples: text: This is described in more detail in Brown’s book on the subject (q.v.).
glosses: quod vide; which see (advises the reader to look up a mentioned text for further information).
Related terms: alt: plural: quae vide
word: qq.v.
word: s.v.
q.v.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkjuː ˈviː/
ipa: /wɪt͡ʃ‿ˈsiː/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɪt͡ʃ‿ˈsiː/
ipa: /ˌkjuː ˈviː/
ipa: /wɪt͡ʃ‿ˈsi/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɪt͡ʃ‿ˈsi/
Etymology: From Latin quantum vīs (literally “as much as you want”), from quantum (“as much as”) + vīs (“you want, you wish”), the second person singular active indicative form of volō (“to want, wish”).
Senses: glosses: as much as you wish
raw_tags: in prescriptions
Enzedder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnˈzɛdə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Enzedders
Etymology: Spelling out of NZ, the abbreviation of New Zealand, + -er, denoting a native of a place.
Senses: glosses: A New Zealander.
Synonyms: word: Kiwi
caste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: käst
ipa: /kɑːst/
ipa: /kast/
ipa: /kæst/
homophone: cast
homophone: karst (non-rhotic, trap–bath split)
rhymes: -ɑːst
Forms: form: castes
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), which the OED derives from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus (“chaste"; "chastity”), Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts, “group, collection of animals”), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ǵ-es-.
Senses: examples: text: Pakistan is a conservative, religious state. The Edhi Foundation is unusual in its ignoring of caste, creed, religion and sect. This strict stance has led to some criticism from religious groups.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
examples: text: Ah! Can you give me all I've asked for — not now, nor a few months later, but when you begin to think of what you might have done if you had kept your own appointment and your caste here — when you begin to look upon me as a drag and a burden?
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 86:
text: 'I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty - to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.'
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 236:
text: The tinkers then formed a hereditary caste.
ref: 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
glosses: A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
examples: text: It was an evidence of the peculiar nature of caste in country towns[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 89:
glosses: The division of society into castes; the caste system.
examples: text: In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
Derived terms: anticaste
casted
casteism
casteist
casteless
castelike
caste mark
castemate
caste-ridden
castewise
half-caste
intercaste
intracaste
lose caste
noncaste
outcaste
quarter-caste
subcaste
supercaste
prana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑːnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: pranas
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa, “breath; life”).
Senses: examples: text: He it is who sends the (in-coming) Prana (life-breath) upward and throws the (out-going) breath downward.
ref: 1919, Swami Paramananda, transl., The Upanishads:
text: He who knows Aditi, who rises with Prana (the Life Principle), existent in all the Devas.
ref: 1919, Swami Paramananda, transl., The Upanishads:
text: May my limbs, speech, Prana (life-force), sight, hearing, strength and all my senses, gain in vigor.
ref: 1919, Swami Paramananda, transl., The Upanishads:
qualifier: yoga
glosses: Respiration, breathing, seen as a life principle or life force.
Derived terms: pranic
manse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæns/
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: manses
form: mansing
form: mansed
form: mansed
Etymology: From Middle English mansien, apheretic variant of amansien, from Old English āmǣnsumian (“to excommunicate”). More at amanse.
Senses: glosses: To excommunicate; curse.
manse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæns/
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: manses
Etymology: From Medieval Latin mansus (“dwelling”), from Latin manere (“to remain”), whence also manor, mansion. Doublet of mas.
Senses: examples: text: He has caught a glint of steel in the manse gateway, but it is only the minister's bicycle still chained to the trunk of a monkeypuzzle tree as a precaution against unchristian covetousness.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
coordinate_terms: vicarage
rectory
parsonage
glosses: A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.
glosses: A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.
glosses: A large house, a mansion.
Related terms: manor
mansion
child of the manse
son of the manse
daughter of the manse
ass over teacups
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ass over teakettle.
synonyms: word: ass over teakettle
ass over teacups
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ass over teakettle.
synonyms: word: ass over teakettle
mortmain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːt.meɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹt.meɪn/
Forms: form: mortmains
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman mortmayn, morte meyn, from Old French mortes meins, after Late Latin phrase mortua manus. See Latin mortuus (“dead”) + manus (“hand”).
Senses: examples: text: 1824, Charter of Incorporation of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,
[W]e do hereby grant our especial license and authority unto all and every person […] to grant sell alien and convey in mortmain unto and to the use of the said Society and their successors […]
text: Though in truth it was the law of mortmain […] which originally sent the founders of chantries to seek the king's licence […]
ref: 1900, Frederic William Maitland, “The Corporation Sole”, in Law Quarterly Review, volume 16:
topics: law
glosses: The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church.
examples: text: […]; and some part of that influence [of the government], which would otherwise have been possessed as in a sort of mortmain and unalienable domain, returned again to the great ocean from whence it arose, […]
ref: 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches:
glosses: A strong and inalienable possession.
Related terms: Statutes of Mortmain
firecracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəˌkɹækə/
ipa: /ˈfaɪəɹˌkɹækəɹ/
Forms: form: firecrackers
form: fire-cracker
Etymology: From fire + cracker.
Senses: examples: text: She said she was awakened abruptly Friday night by the kid next door setting off a firecracker.
ref: 2011, Ken Casper, As the Crow Dies, page 120:
glosses: A small explosive device, typically containing a small amount of gunpowder in a tightly-wound roll of paper, primarily designed to produce a large bang.
glosses: A peanut butter cracker baked with marijuana, similar in concept to an Alice B. Toklas brownie.
examples: text: Jude Bellingham became the nation’s second youngest World Cup scorer behind Michael Owen when he started the rout – the centrepiece of a performance of power, skill and precision – while Bukayo Saka deserved his two goals, the first a firecracker, as he radiated menace with his every involvement.
ref: 2022 November 21, David Hytner, “England open World Cup in style with Bukayo Saka double in 6-2 rout of Iran”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An individual who is quick-tempered, rambunctious, or unpredictable.
Derived terms: firecracker chicken
firecracker flower
firecracker plant
wet firecracker
Related terms: fireworks
fire drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire drills
Senses: examples: text: Our teacher said that will have a fire drill today.
glosses: An organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.
examples: text: Since they've changed the standards again, our previous efforts now just amount to a fire drill.
glosses: Any pointless, unproductive, useless, or chaotic activity.
examples: text: There is no machine on earth so potent, yet so simple and elegant, as the two sticks of the Native American fire drill;
ref: 1999, Paul Douglas Campbell, Survival Skills of Native California, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: A fire-starting tool consisting of a wooden rod and some primitive means of rapidly rotating the rod on a flat surface like a drill until tinder can be ignited.
Synonyms: sense: evacuation practice for a fire
word: fire practice
sense: evacuation practice for a fire
word: disaster drill
sense: evacuation practice for a fire
word: emergency drill
sense: pointless activity
word: Chinese fire drill
sense: pointless activity
word: Polish fire drill
sense: fire starting tool
word: bow drill
sense: fire starting tool
word: firestick
sense: fire starting tool
word: hand drill
sense: fire starting tool
word: pump drill
Related terms: bow drill
hand drill
pump drill
strap drill
electric fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric fires
Senses: examples: text: [A] skinny blonde of about twenty sitting in an armchair by an electric fire reading a true romance magazine.
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 69:
text: An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander.
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:
text: He was watching television when I got in. The curtains were drawn, and he had dug out an old half-broken electric fire; it was extremely hot.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: A fire, stove or heater powered by electricity.
tea caddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea caddies
form: tea-caddy
form: teacaddy
Etymology: From tea + caddy.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Hone would have owned all the equipage that most upper-middle-class households needed to hold a proper tea, including a tea table (or teapoy), a tray, a teapot, creamer, sugar bowl with tongs, cups, saucers, tea caddy, teaspoons, and likely a tea urn, slop bowl, strainer, and spoon tray. While availing herself of Carneses' tea and one of their tea caddies, she might also have purchased and utilized one of their teapoys.
ref: 2019, Nancy E. Davis, “Afong Moy Presents Chinese Objects for the Home”, in The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Show), page 107:
glosses: A box, jar, pot, or tin used to store tea leaves.
tea leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea leaf
examples: text: Read the tea leaves.
translation: Make a prediction based on gut instinct.
english: Make a prediction based on gut instinct.
bold_translation_offsets: 27
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glosses: Anything, not necessarily tangible, that is used to make a prediction.
lute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /l(j)uːt/
ipa: /luːt/
ipa: /lɪu̯t/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: loot (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: lutes
Etymology: From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.
Senses: coordinate_terms: guitar
glosses: A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
Derived terms: angel lute
archlute
bowl lute
German lute
lute-backed
lutefish
lute guitar
lutelike
lutemaker
lutemaking
lutite
mandolute
spike lute
yoke lute
Related terms: archlute
lutanist
lutenist
luter
lutherie
luthier
lutist
lute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /l(j)uːt/
ipa: /luːt/
ipa: /lɪu̯t/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: loot (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: lutes
form: luting
form: luted
form: luted
Etymology: From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.
Senses: examples: text: Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: in the air , her new voice luting soft
ref: 1820, John Keats, “(please specify the poem)”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
Related terms: barbiton
barbitos
guembri
guqin
mandola
mandolin
oud
pipa
rebab
samisen
shamisen
theorbo
lute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /l(j)uːt/
ipa: /luːt/
ipa: /lɪu̯t/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: loot (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: lutes
Etymology: From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).
Senses: examples: text: He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.
ref: 1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist), The History of Chemistry, volume 1, page 41:
glosses: Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
glosses: A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
glosses: A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
Derived terms: belute
unlute
lute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /l(j)uːt/
ipa: /luːt/
ipa: /lɪu̯t/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: loot (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: lutes
form: luting
form: luted
form: luted
Etymology: From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).
Senses: examples: text: To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 179:
glosses: To fix or fasten something with lute.
Derived terms: lutation
luter
hapax legomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæ.pæks ləˈɡɒ.məˌnɒn/
ipa: /ˌhæ.pæks ləˈɡɑ.məˌnɑn/
rhymes: -ɒmənɒn
Forms: form: hapax legomena
form: hapax legomenons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον (hápax legómenon, “(something) said only once”), from ἅπαξ (hápax, “once”) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō, “say”).
Senses: examples: text: άγνως is a New Testament hapax legomenon. άγνός occurs two other times in Paul, both occurrences are in 2 Cor.
ref: 1999, Casey Wayne Davis, Oral Biblical Criticism: The Influence of the Principles of Orality on the Literary Structure of Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, page 89, footnote:
text: There is a lovely technical term for a word that appears once in a body of text: a hapax legomenon (plural: hapax legomena), Greek for “once said.” The term comes from philology, the study of old texts.
ref: [2000, Steven Pinker, Words and Rules, →ISBN, page 172:
text: In our case this means that πρωτοβαθρέω is an absolute hapax legomenon, if one assumes that the occurrences of βάθρον in Isa and διαβάθρη in Sam II are the result of corruptions.
ref: 2005, Hanna Kahana, Esther: Juxtaposition of the Septuagint Translation with the Hebrew Text, page 129, footnote:
text: The research discovered 510 different terms. Of these 164 (approximately 32%) were hapax legomena (i.e., there was only once instance in the data), while 107 (approximately 21%) were attested by 10 or more citations.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: hapax
coordinate_terms: googlewhack
nonce word
sui generis
glosses: A word occurring only once in a given corpus.
Related terms: dis legomenon
tris legomenon
tetrakis legomenon