cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
macadam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkædəm/
Forms: form: macadams
form: McAdam
Etymology: Named after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), who invented the process of macadamization. Used for describing road surfaces originally constructed using the McAdam method, but now sometimes used for any road or street.
Senses: examples: text: This narrow-gauge line had suffered the same fate as that between Schull and Skibbereen, with the track taken up except where it runs through one of the town streets and is embedded in the macadam.
ref: 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 304:
glosses: The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
glosses: Any road or street.
Derived terms: macadamization
macadamize
tarmac
tarmacadam
macadam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkædəm/
Forms: form: macadams
form: macadaming
form: macadamming
form: macadamed
form: macadamed
form: macadammed
form: macadammed
form: McAdam
Etymology: Named after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), who invented the process of macadamization. Used for describing road surfaces originally constructed using the McAdam method, but now sometimes used for any road or street.
Senses: synonyms: macadamize
glosses: To cover or surface with macadam.
Related terms: asphalt
child language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The language spoken by a child who is still in the process of developing verbal skills.
Synonyms: word: childspeak
Related terms: baby talk
boke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊk/
ipa: /boʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: bokes
form: boking
form: boked
form: boked
form: boak
form: boken
form: buck
Etymology: From Scots bock, attested from the 16th century.
Senses: glosses: To thrust or push out; butt; poke.
glosses: To retch or vomit.
boke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊk/
ipa: /boʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: bokes
Senses: examples: text: Therefore to make complaynt / Of such mysadvysed / Parsons and dysgysed, / Thys boke we have devysed, […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23:
text: That is / like as the church doth read yͤ bokes of Iudith / Thobias / and the Machabees / but receaveth them not emonge the canonicall ſcriptures / even ſo let it read theſe two bokes (he meaneth yͤ boke of ſapience and eccleſiaſticus) vnto the edefyinge of the people / and not to confirme the doctrine of the church therbye.
ref: [1531], Iohan Frith, A Disputaciõ of Purgatorye Made by Iohan Frith Which Is Deuided in to Thre Bokes:
text: Fyrſt therfore to ſpeake of Spayne, ⁊ by the teſtimonie of oulde autours to declare the commodities therof: Plinie a graue ⁊ faythful autour, in the laſt boke ⁊ laſt chapiture of his natural hiſtory greatly commendynge Italy aboue al other contreys, giueth the ſecond prayſe vnto Spaine, aſwel for al ſuch thynges as in maner the heuen can geue ⁊ the earth brynge furth for the commoditie of this lyfe as alſo for the excellente wittes of men ⁊ Ciuile gouernaunce.
ref: 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria, translated by Rycharde Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, London: […] Guilhelmi Powell:
glosses: Obsolete form of book.
dada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dadas
Etymology: Imitative of a child's first syllables; see dad.
Senses: glosses: Father, dad.
dada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Dada (“cultural movement”).
dodo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊdəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊdəʊ
Forms: form: dodoes
form: dodos
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from obsolete Portuguese doudo (“fool, simpleton, silly, stupid”) or Dutch dodaars. First attested in the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: In spite of the most active search, during the last century, no information respecting the dodo was obtained, and some authors have gone so far as to pretend that it never existed; […]
ref: 1835, Charles Lyell, chapter XLI, in Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book III, pages 133–134:
text: Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth.
ref: 1839, Charles Darwin, chapter IX, in The Voyage of the Beagle:
text: Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.
ref: 2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
glosses: A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.
examples: text: "Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.
ref: 2012, Arv Olson, Backspin: 120 Years of Golf in British Columbia, page 253:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A hole in one.
Derived terms: as dead as a dodo
dead as a dodo
dodo bird
dodoesque
dodoism
dodolike
dodoness
dodo tree
go the way of the dodo
go the way of the dodo bird
little dodo
Related terms: didine
ratite
dodo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊdəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊdəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba dòdò (“fried plantain”).
Senses: examples: text: Dodo is everybody's favorite! It is a superb snack, a side dish, a breakfast food or a dessert all rolled into one. The best dodo is made from soft (almost over ripe) plantain which is cut in 1/2 inch thick diagonal slices and fried to a crispy golden brown.
ref: 2015, Kemi Quinn, African Dishes Made Easy:
text: Mother had banned it a year or so earlier after Obembe and I stole pieces from Mother's cooler, and lied that we'd seen rats eating the dodos.
ref: 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen: A Novel:
text: One popular Nigerian dish is fried plantain, which is called “dodo.”
ref: 2018, Remmi Smith, The Healthy Teen Cookbook: Around the World In 80 Fantastic Recipes:
glosses: Fried plantain.
Derived terms: gizdodo
man-o-war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men-o-war
Senses: examples: text: I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; so things shall go man-o-war fashion on board the good ship Hispaniola.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Go to Bristol”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part II (The Sea Cook), page 57:
glosses: Misspelling of man-o'-war.
Pitjantjatjara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪt͡ʃənt͡ʃəˈt͡ʃaːrə/
Etymology: From Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara, from pitjantja + tjara (literally “having (the word) pitjantja”) (as opposed to the word yankunytja).
Senses: synonyms: Pitjantjara
glosses: An Aboriginal language, mainly spoken in central Australia and belonging to the Western Desert language group (Pama-Nyungan subfamily).
qualifier: erroneous
glosses: The Western Desert language group as a whole.
Pitjantjatjara
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪt͡ʃənt͡ʃəˈt͡ʃaːrə/
Etymology: From Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara, from pitjantja + tjara (literally “having (the word) pitjantja”) (as opposed to the word yankunytja).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Pitjantjatjara language or people.
Pitjantjara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pitjantjatjara.
gravitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: gravitations
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin gravitātiō, from gravitāt-, past participial stem of gravitō (“to gravitate”), + -tiō. By surface analysis, gravitate + -ion.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The fundamental force of attraction that exists between all matter in the universe, caused by the curvature of spacetime caused by matter. It is the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, and possesses a gauge boson known as the graviton.
Derived terms: antigravitation
autogravitation
degravitation
gravitate
gravitational
gravitationless
nongravitation
pseudogravitation
quantum gravitation
supergravitation
Related terms: gravity
wife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæf/
ipa: /waɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: wifes
form: wifing
form: wifed
form: wifed
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Middle English wyf
English wife
Inherited from Middle English wyf, wif, from Old English wīf (“woman, wife”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīb, from Proto-Germanic *wībą (“woman, wife”).
Germanic cognates include Scots wife (“wife, woman”), North Frisian wüf (“wife, woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuw (“woman, lady, female”), West Frisian wiif (“wife, woman”), Cimbrian baip, baibe (“wife, woman”), Dutch wijf (“woman, female”), German Weib (“woman, wife, female”), German Low German Wiev (“woman, female”), Mòcheno baib (“woman”), Vilamovian bow (“wife, woman”), Yiddish ווײַב (vayb, “wife, woman”) Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish viv (“wife, woman”), Faroese vív (“wife, woman”), Icelandic víf (“wife, woman”).
The further etymology is unknown, with a number of disputed suggestions. One suggestion connects Tocharian A/B kip/kwīpe (“genitals, female pudenda”), for a hypothetical Indo-European *gʰwíbʰ- (“pudenda”).
Another suggestion connects Old English wǣfan (“wrap, clothe”), Old Norse vífa (“wrap, veil”) for a suggested original motive of "married woman wearing a scarf".
Yet another suggestion connects Old High German weibōn (“move to and fro”), Old Norse veifa (“swing, throw”), for a motive of "one who is moving busily; housekeeper, maidservant" (cf. German Weibel (“manservant, usher”)).
Senses: examples: text: Mentally scarred for life, love is war / And some chicks are just too hard to wife
ref: 2004, “Guinnesses”, in Mm..Food, performed by MF Doom ft. Angelika & 4-IZE:
text: Mecca knew she wasn't lying. She had the type of beauty that made niggas want to wife her.
ref: 2009, Ashley Antoinette Coleman, JaQuavis Coleman, The Cartel, volume 1, →ISBN, page 106:
text: I thought that I was going to wife her, but because of the new news with my brother I couldn't do it.
ref: 2010, Kenya K. Watkins, The Life You Choose, →ISBN, page 154:
text: But I told you that you're not a wifeable woman, and I told him so, and he wanted to wife you anyway.
ref: 2016, Gayl Jones, The Healing, →ISBN:
synonyms: bewife
take to wife
wive
glosses: To marry (a woman).
Related terms: english: wife
translation: wife
urls: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:English+lemmas&from=wife#mw-pages
word: English terms starting with
wilde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wild.
Uluru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuːluɹuː/
ipa: /uːluˈɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Pitjantjatjara Uluṟu. An old family name, possibly “great pebble” or “Earth mother”.
Senses: synonyms: Ayers Rock
glosses: A giant free-standing rock in central Australia, previously known by its colonial name, Ayers Rock.
Kata Tjuta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pitjantjatjara Kata Tjuṯa.
Senses: glosses: A rock formation in central Australia, close to Uluru; formerly, The Olgas and Mount Olga.
liberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭbʹrəl
ipa: /ˈlɪbɹəl/
enpr: lĭbʹərəl
ipa: /ˈlɪbəɹəl/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɪbɹəl
Forms: form: liberals
Etymology: The adjective is from Old French liberal, from Latin līberālis (“befitting a freeman”), from līber (“free”); it is attested since the 14th century. The noun is first attested in the 1800s.
Senses: glosses: One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
examples: text: And I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
As long as they don't move next door.
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal.
ref: 1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Someone with progressive or left-wing views, especially on social and environmental issues.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
topics: government
politics
glosses: One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets (also called "classical liberal"; compare libertarian).
topics: government
politics
glosses: A conservative, especially a liberal conservative.
Coordinate terms: moderate
conservative
progressive
libertarian
centrist
Derived terms: neo-liberal
neoliberal
Ayers Rock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛə(ɹ)z ˈɹɒk/
Etymology: Named after former Premier of South Australia Henry Ayers (1821–1897).
Senses: synonyms: Uluru
glosses: A giant, red-colored free-standing monadnock in the south of Northern Territory in Central Australia, now known by its indigenous name, Uluru.
The Olgas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Kata Tjuta.
hay fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hay fevers
form: hay-fever
form: hayfever
Etymology: First attested by John Bostock in 1819. The smell of hay in the summer was thought to be the origin of the condition.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An allergy to the pollen of grass or other plants that causes symptoms similar to those of a cold; pollinosis.
Synonyms: allergic rhinitis
hay asthma
hay cold
pollinosis
rose fever
Derived terms: hay-feverish
hay feverite
lunar hay fever
non-seasonal hay fever
nonseasonal hay fever
perennial hay fever
activate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/
Forms: form: activates
form: activating
form: activated
form: activated
Etymology: From active + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: activate the economy
glosses: To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
examples: text: The pranksters activated the fire alarm by spraying deodorant next to it.
glosses: To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To render more reactive; excite.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To render a substance radioactive.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
glosses: To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
examples: text: A new squadron was activated.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To organize or create a military unit or station.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To bring a player back after an injury.
Synonyms: actuate
enable
get going
set going
set in motion
set off
spur
start
stimulate
trigger
turn on
Derived terms: activable
activatable
activater
activator
alloactivated
autoactivate
bioactivate
bioactivating
coactivate
coactivated
diactivated
disactivate
heteroactivate
hyperactivate
hyperactivated
hypoactivated
immunoactivating
misactivate
misactivated
nonactivated
nonactivating
overactivate
overactivated
phosphoactivate
photoactivate
photoactivated
pneumoactivate
preactivate
preactivated
reactivate
subactivating
superactivate
thermoactivated
transactivate
unactivated
underactivate
underactivated
Related terms: activation
experience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪəns/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.əns/
Forms: form: experiences
form: experiencing
form: experienced
form: experienced
Etymology: From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia (“a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”), from experiens, present participle of experiri (“to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo”), from ex (“out”) + peritus (“experienced, expert”), past participle of *periri (“to go through”); see expert and peril. Displaced native Old English āfandung (“experience”) and āfandian (“to experience”).
Senses: examples: text: A 2022 report published by the Scottish Borders Council states: "Hawick has been affected more by depopulation than any other Borders town, with all parts of the town experiencing population loss, and Hawick Central is currently experiencing the highest depopulation out of the 30 Intermediate Zones in Scottish Borders."
ref: 2025 April 30, Andy Comfort, “£10 million closer to Carlisle”, in RAIL, number 1034, page 41:
glosses: To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
Synonyms: undergo
have
Derived terms: experienceable
nonexperiencing
re-experience. reexperience
train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trān
ipa: /tɹeɪn/
ipa: [t͡ʃʰɹeɪ̯n]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔e̞ɪ̯n]
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: trains
Etymology: From Middle English trayne (“treachery”), from Anglo-Norman traine, Middle French traïne, from traïr (“to betray”).
Senses: examples: text: In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Treachery; deceit.
glosses: A trick or stratagem.
glosses: A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.
glosses: A lure; a decoy.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.
glosses: A clue or trace.
train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: trān
ipa: /tɹeɪn/
ipa: [t͡ʃʰɹeɪ̯n]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔e̞ɪ̯n]
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: trains
form: training
form: trained
form: trained
Etymology: From Middle English trayne (“treachery”), from Anglo-Norman traine, Middle French traïne, from traïr (“to betray”).
Senses: examples: text: If but a dozen French / Were there in arms, they would be as a call / To train ten thousand English to their side.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: O doe not goe, this feaſt (I'le gage my life) / Is but a plot to trayne you to your ruine, / Be rul'd, you ſha'not goe.
ref: c. 1626 or 1629–1633 (first performance), [John Ford], ’Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore […], London: […] Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act V, signature I2, verso:
text: Thou hast been trained from thy post by some deep guile — some well-devised stratagem – the cry of some distressed maiden has caught thine ear, or the laughful look of some merry one has taken thine eye.
ref: 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
glosses: To be on intimate terms with.
train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trān
ipa: /tɹeɪn/
ipa: [t͡ʃʰɹeɪ̯n]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔e̞ɪ̯n]
rhymes: -eɪn
Etymology: From Dutch traan (“tear, drop”), from Middle Dutch trâen, from Old Dutch trān, from Proto-Germanic *trahnuz. Compare German Träne (“tear”), Tran (“train oil”).
Senses: glosses: train oil, whale oil
Derived terms: train oil
trainy
rail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rāl
ipa: /ɹeɪl/
ipa: [ɹeɪɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: rails
form: railing
form: railed
form: railed
Etymology: From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular. Doublet of regal, regula, rigol, and rule.
Senses: examples: text: Mottram of the Indian Survey had ridden thirty and railed one hundred miles from his lonely post in the desert […]
ref: 1890, Rudyard Kipling, At the End of the Passage:
glosses: To travel by railway.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To place on a track.
raw_tags: of rolling stock
examples: text: It ought to be fenced in and railed.
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: To enclose with rails or a railing.
examples: text: They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To range in a line.
glosses: To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
examples: text: All I can think about is being seventeen days sober and desperate to rail a line of blow after last night's group outing to see Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (at my request), which, in hindsight, was a fucking dumb thing for a rehab to approve of.
ref: 2025 May 27, Tommy Dorfman, “Finding God”, in Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation, Harlequin, →ISBN:
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: To snort a line of powdered drugs.
Derived terms: derail
rerail
unrail
rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rāl
ipa: /ɹeɪl/
ipa: [ɹeɪɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: rails
Etymology: From French râle, rale, from Middle French raalle, from Old French rasle. Compare Medieval Latin rallus. Named from its harsh cry, Vulgar Latin *rasculum, from Latin rādere (“to scrape”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Dryolimnas aldabranus
word: Aldabra rail
taxonomic: Rallus tenuirostris
word: Aztec rail
taxonomic: Gallirallus philippensis
word: banded rail
taxonomic: Hypotaenidia okinawae
word: barred rail
alt: †Nesoclopeus poecilopterus
word: bar-winged rail
taxonomic: Hypotaenidia philippensis
word: buff-banded rail
taxonomic: Gallirallus calayanensis
word: Calayan rail
word: Chatham rail
taxonomic: Eulabeornis castaneoventris
word: chestnut rail
taxonomic: Rallus crepitans
word: clapper rail
word: Cuvier's rail
word: Dieffenbach's rail
taxonomic: Rallicula spp.
word: forest rail
taxonomic: Canirallus oculeus
word: grey-throated rail
taxonomic: Hypotaenidia owstoni
word: Guam rail
word: Inaccessible Island rail
taxonomic: Habroptila wallacii
word: invisible rail
taxonomic: Rallus elegans
word: king rail
word: Laysan rail
taxonomic: Rallus longirostris
word: mangrove rail
taxonomic: Rallus tenuirostris
word: Mexican rail
word: New Guinea flightless rail
word: Nkulengu rail
taxonomic: Hypotaenidia okinawae
word: Okinawa rail
taxonomic: Hypotaenidia insignis
word: pink-legged rail
taxonomic: Eupetes macrocerus
word: rail-babbler
alt: †Aphanapteryx bonasia
word: red rail
taxonomic: Rallus obsoletus
word: Ridgway's rail
word: Rouget's rail
alt: Hypotaeinidia rovianae
word: Roviana rail
taxonomic: Aramidopsis plateri
word: snoring rail
taxonomic: Rallus limicola
word: Virginia rail
taxonomic: Rallus aquaticus
word: water rail
taxonomic: Dryolimnas cuvieri
word: white-throated rail
taxonomic: Hypotaenidia woodfordi
word: Woodford's rail
taxonomic: Aramides spp.
word: wood rail
word: Zapata rail
Related terms: ralline
corncrake
rail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rāl
ipa: /ɹeɪl/
ipa: [ɹeɪɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: rails
form: railing
form: railed
form: railed
Etymology: From Middle French railler.
Senses: examples: text: Till thou canst raile the seale from off my bond
Thou but offend'st thy Lungs to speake so loud:
Repaire thy wit good youth, or it will fall
To endlesse ruine. I stand heere for Law.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: He always said: “Let them rail on; he laughs best who laughs last.”
ref: 1882, Mark Twain, “The Stolen White Elephant”:
text: The Major’s fury clothed and reclothed itself in words as frantically as a woman up in town for one day’s shopping tries on a succession of garments. He reviled and railed at fate and the general scheme of things, he pitied himself with a strong, deep pity too poignant for tears, he condemned every one with whom he had ever come in contact to endless and abnormal punishments.
ref: 1910, "Saki", H. H. Munro, The Bag,https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1870/1870-h/1870-h.htm#page75
text: Chief Joyi railed against the white man, whom he believed had deliberately sundered the Xhosa tribe, dividing brother from brother.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 27:
text: The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.
ref: 2012 June 4, Lewis Smith, “Queen’s English Society says enuf is enough, innit?: Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar closes because too few people care”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2016:
synonyms: fulminate
inveigh
rail out
glosses: To complain violently (against, about).
Derived terms: raillery
rail out
rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rāl
ipa: /ɹeɪl/
ipa: [ɹeɪɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: rails
form: rayle
Etymology: From Middle English rail, reil, from Old English hræġl (“garment, dress, robe”). Cognate with Old Frisian hreil, reil, Old Saxon hregil, Old High German hregil (“clothing, garment, dress”).
Senses: glosses: An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
examples: text: A course hempen raile about her shoulders.
ref: 1592, Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penniless:
glosses: Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.
Derived terms: night-rail
rail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rāl
ipa: /ɹeɪl/
ipa: [ɹeɪɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: rails
form: railing
form: railed
form: railed
Etymology: Probably from Anglo-Norman raier, Middle French raier.
Senses: examples: text: his breste and his brayle was bloodé – and hit rayled all over the see.
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
text: So furiously each other did assayle, / As if their soules they would attonce haue rent / Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle / Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent[…].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To gush; to flow.
raw_tags: of a liquid
glosses: To blow.
raw_tags: of wind
accomplishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒm.plɪʃ.mənt/
ipa: /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ.mənt/
ipa: /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/
Forms: form: accomplishments
Etymology: * First attested in the early 15th century.
* (completes, perfects, equips): First attested around 1600.
* accomplish + -ment
* Borrowed from French accomplissement, from accomplir
Senses: examples: text: the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc
glosses: The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.
examples: text: I’ll make a proof how I advance in / My new accomplishment of dancing.
ref: 1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost, Book III:
text: Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, / And wisdom falls before exterior grace ;
ref: 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error:
glosses: That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
examples: text: Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business.
glosses: Something accomplished; an achievement.
examples: text: Thus it is attested that some children have taken an accomplishment verb like disappear, which does not have a causative counterpart, and used it as a causative accomplishment in sentences like He disappeared it, i.e. ‘He made it disappear.’
ref: 1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax, pages 183-84:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time until a natural end point.
Derived terms: accomplishment quotient
nonaccomplishment
overaccomplishment
reaccomplishment
unaccomplishment
accordance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔɹ.dəns/
Forms: form: accordances
form: accordaunce
Etymology: * (compliance): First attested around 1300.
* (agreement): First attested in the early 14th century.
* accord + -ance
* From Middle English accordaunce, from Old French acordance (“agreeing, reconciliation, harmony”).
Senses: examples: text: And what had been done that was not in strict accordance with the law of Parliament?
ref: 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.
glosses: The act of granting something.
Synonyms: harmony
unison
coincidence
Derived terms: in accordance with
unaccordance
eventually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃuː.ə.li/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃʊ.li/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛn.tjʊ.li/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.ə.li/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.li/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃə.li/
Etymology: From eventual + -ly. The third sense is influenced by any of several European languages, including Czech eventuálně, Swedish eventuellt.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone's true colors will be revealed eventually.
text: She didn't arrive. Eventually, we started without her.
text: He hopes eventually to attend nursing school.
text: Eventually, the railway opened on Monday, December 14, 1896, with a universal fare of 1d. collected at the turnstiles, and conditions were immediately chaotic, as many passengers travelled round and round, and refused to leave the cars.
ref: 1955 January 23, Charles E. Lee, “The Glasgow Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 24:
text: It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
ref: 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
text: President Volodymyr Zelensky has known the day would come when the idea of another “forever war” became unappealing to NATO, and the world’s largest military alliance eventually sought to wind down its involvement.
ref: 2024 November 9, Nick Paton Walsh, “Trump’s second term could bring chaos around the world. Will it work?”, in CNN:
glosses: In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.
examples: text: Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions.
raw_tags: of a sequence
examples: text: I will come eventually, but haven't decided yet.
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Possibly, potentially, perhaps.
Synonyms: sense: sense, in the end
word: at last
word: finally
word: yet
word: ultimately
word: in the end
word: at length
word: at long last
word: by and by
word: eventually
word: in due course
word: in due time
word: in time
word: in the fullness of time
word: in the long run
word: in the long term
word: sooner or later
Hypernyms: word: subsequently
Hyponyms: word: finally
word: just in time
Related terms: word: frequently
word: one day
word: some day
word: sooner or later
word: at leisure
word: sometime
down
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊn/
ipa: /dʌʊn/
ipa: [dəu̯n]
ipa: /duːn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: doon
Etymology: From Middle English doun, doune, from Old English dūne (“down”), aphetic form of adūne (“down, downward”), from earlier ofdūne (“down”, literally “off the hill”), from of (“of, off of”) + dūn (“hill, mount, dune, down”). More at Etymology 2 below. For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“down, downwards”, literally “(in/to the) dale/valley”), whence German Low German dal (“down”). Compare also Saterland Frisian deel (“down”, literally “to/into the dale”).
Senses: examples: text: The ball rolled down the hill.
text: We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: From the higher end to the lower of.
examples: text: We sailed down the eastern seaboard.
glosses: From north to south of.
examples: text: In this game we float sticks down the river.
glosses: Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
examples: text: The bus went down the street.
text: They walked down the beach holding hands.
glosses: From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
examples: text: I'll see you later down the pub.
glosses: At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
Derived terms: sense: from the higher end to the lower
word: like kicking dead whales down the beach
sense: from the higher end to the lower
word: like throwing a sausage down a hallway
sense: from the higher end to the lower
word: sell down the river
sense: from the higher end to the lower
word: throw one's hotdog down someone's hallway
down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊn/
ipa: /dʌʊn/
ipa: [dəu̯n]
ipa: /duːn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: downs
form: doon
Etymology: From Middle English doune, from Old English dūn, from Proto-West Germanic *dūn (“sandhill, dune”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz, *dūnǭ (“pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, haze, dust”).
Alternatively, perhaps borrowed from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“hill; hillfort”) (compare Welsh din (“hill”), Irish dún (“hill, fort”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”).
Cognate with West Frisian dún (“dune, sandhill”), Dutch duin (“dune, sandhill”), German Düne (“dune”). More at town; akin to dune. Doublet of Down.
Senses: examples: text: We went for a walk over the downs.
text: The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England.
text: And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
 My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: ...as they muſt needs acknowledge who have been on the Downs of Suſſex, and enjoyed that ravishing Proſpect of the Sea on one Hand, and the Country far and wide on the other.
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation, London: Pr. for S. Smith, →OCLC:
text: She went by dale, and she went by down,
 With a single rose in her hair.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Lady Clare”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, →OCLC, page 198:
text: The amateur nature-lover proceeds over the down, appreciating all this as hard as he can appreciate, and anon gazing up at the grey and white cloud shapes melting slowly from this form to that, and showing lakes, and wide expanses, and serene distances of blue between their gaps.
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, Certain Personal Matters: A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical, Lawrence & Bullen, →OCLC, page 256:
qualifier: often in place names
glosses: A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
glosses: A field, especially one used for horse racing.
examples: text: Seven thousand broad-taild Sheepe gras'd on his Downes;
ref: 1636, George Sandys, “A Paraphrase Vpon Iob”, in Early English Books:
glosses: A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
Derived terms: Ashley Down
Bedminster Down
Carnon Downs
Clifton Down
Crawley Down
downland
Downside
East Down
Emery Down
Epsom Downs
Hackney Downs
North Downs
Quintrell Downs
South Downs
Southern Downs
St Boniface Down
West Down
Western Downs
down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊn/
ipa: /dʌʊn/
ipa: [dəu̯n]
ipa: /duːn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: downs
form: doon
Etymology: From Middle English doun, from Old Norse dúnn, from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), which is related to *dauniz (“(pleasant) smell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowh₂-nis, from the root *dʰewh₂-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Duune (“fluff, down”), German Daune (“down”) and Danish dun (“down”).
Senses: glosses: Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
examples: text: Down or Cotton-Thiſtle. This hath many large Leaves lying on the Ground, ſomewhat cut in, and as it were crumpled on the Edges, of a green Colour on the upper ſide, but covered with long hairy Wool or Cottony Down, ſet with moſt ſharp and cruel pricks
ref: 1718, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, London: W. Churchill, →OCLC, page 120:
text: No candle should light it, neither should any flower adorn it, save for several dried stalks of old and withered thistles, their heads pale with silken down, held in a common glass jar.
ref: 1998, Valerie Worth, The Crone's Book of Charms and Spells, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 152:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
examples: text: But love him as he was, when youthful Grace,
 And the firſt Down began to ſhade his face
ref: 1717, John Dryden, The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq., volume the fourth, London: Jacob Tonson, →OCLC, page 136:
text: The servant to whom he put this question was a young fellow with chubby cheeks, small, dull eyes, and a round chin, covered with a colorless down.
ref: 1867, Ivan Sergheïevitch Turgenef [i.e., Ivan Turgenev], chapter I, in Eugene Schuyler, transl., Fathers and Sons […], New York, N.Y.: Leypoldt and Holt, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
examples: text: Thou boſom Softneſs! Down of all my Cares!
 I cou'd recline my thoughts upon this Breaſt
 To a forgetfulneſs of all my Griefs,
 And yet be happy: but it wonnot be.
ref: 1696, Tho[mas] Southerne, Oroonoko: A Tragedy […], London: […] H[enry] Playford […]; B[enjamin] Tooke […]; [a]nd S. Buckley […], →OCLC, act V, scene the last [iv], pages 76–77:
text: When in the down I sink my head,
 Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
Derived terms: down feather
down jacket
powder-down feather
powder-down patch
down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊn/
ipa: /dʌʊn/
ipa: [dəu̯n]
ipa: /duːn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: downs
form: downing
form: downed
form: downed
form: doon
Etymology: From Middle English doun, from Old Norse dúnn, from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), which is related to *dauniz (“(pleasant) smell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowh₂-nis, from the root *dʰewh₂-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Duune (“fluff, down”), German Daune (“down”) and Danish dun (“down”).
Senses: examples: text: What pain to quit the world, just made their own,
 Their nest so deeply downed, and built so high !
ref: 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: R. Dodsley, →OCLC, page 264:
glosses: To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
Down syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊn ˈsɪndɹəʊm/
ipa: /daʊn ˈsɪndɹoʊm/
ipa: /-dɹəm/
Forms: form: Down’s syndrome
Etymology: Named after John Langdon Haydon Down (1828–1896), an English physician who first described the condition as a distinct form of mental disability in the 1860s.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
qualifier: medical genetics
glosses: A genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21 (a chromosomal excess), whereby the patients typically have a delay in cognitive ability and physical growth, as well as a small head and tilted eyelids.
wikipedia: John Langdon Haydon Down
Synonyms: word: Down's
word: mongolism
word: Mongolian idiocy
word: trisomy 21
Derived terms: Down syndrome regression disorder
mama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈmɑː/
enpr: mäʹmə
ipa: /ˈmɑmə/
ipa: /ˈmɐmə/
rhymes: (General American) -ɑːmə
rhymes: (UK) -ɑː
rhymes: (AU) -ʌmə
rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mamas
form: mamma
form: momma
form: mumma
Etymology: Originally from baby talk. Possibly influenced by Middle English mome (“mother, aunt”), from Old English *mōme, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā, from Proto-Germanic *mōmǭ (“mother, aunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-méh₂, reduplication of *méh₂- (“mother”), related to German Muhme (“aunt”), Latin mamma (“mother, nurse”), Irish mam (“mother”), Lithuanian mama, moma (“mother”).
Senses: examples: text: All the flowers that you planted, mama, in the backyard / All died when you went away
ref: 1990, Prince, “Nothing Compares 2 U”, performed by Sinéad O’Connor:
glosses: Mother, female parent.
Derived terms: baby-mama
baby mama
big mama
crunchy mama
godmama
hoochie mama
mama bear
mama-bear
mama grizzly
mamahood
mamaji
mama pad
mama-pian
mama put
mamarazzi
mama-san
mama shop
mamiji
save the drama for your mama
scrunchy mama
silky mama
stepmama
study mama
sugar mama
yo mama
Related terms: mom
mommy
mother
mum
mummy
Scotland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɒt.lənd/
ipa: /ˈskɑt.lənd/
ipa: /ˈskɔʔ.lənd/
Etymology: From Middle English Scotland, Scotlond, from Old English Sċotland (“Ireland", later also "Scotland”, literally “land of the Scots”), equivalent to Scot + -land. Compare West Frisian Skotlân (“Scotland”), Dutch Schotland (“Scotland”), German Schottland (“Scotland”), Danish Skotland (“Scotland”), Icelandic Skotland (“Scotland”).
Senses: examples: text: Our main story this week is Scotland. Americans know it as the birthplace of Shrek, and, and that accent you think you can do but actually can’t.
ref: 2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
text: That’s right. Not even English flag poles can suddenly start treating Scotland with the respect it deserves. “Get this rag off me! Get it off! I can’t! Get this blue mess off me!”
ref: 2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
glosses: A constituent country of the United Kingdom, located in northwest Europe to the north of England.
glosses: A habitational surname referring to someone from Scotland.
Hyponyms: Highlands
Lowlands
Derived terms: bluebell of Scotland
Kingdom of Scotland
Little Scotland
Scotland County
Scotland-like
Scotland of the East
Related terms: Scotch
Scottish
Scots
Scotsman
Scotswoman
Traditional Scottish counties
palm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: päm
ipa: /pɑːm/
enpr: päm
enpr: pälm
ipa: /pɑm/
ipa: /pɑlm/
ipa: /pɔm/
ipa: /pɔlm/
ipa: /pæm/
ipa: [pɑːm]
ipa: [pɒːm]
ipa: /ˈpæm/
ipa: /ˈpam/
rhymes: -ɑːm
rhymes: -ɑːlm
rhymes: -ɔːm
rhymes: -ɔːlm
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: palms
form: palming
form: palmed
form: palmed
Etymology: From Middle English palme, paume, from Old French palme, paulme, paume (“palm of the hand, ball, tennis”), from Latin palma (“palm of the hand, hand-breadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂(e)meh₂ (“palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Doublet of palmo, palma, and pam. Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē, “palm of the hand”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”), Old Irish lám (“hand”).
Senses: glosses: To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g., for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
examples: text: John palmed the ball.
glosses: To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
examples: text: The home side's goalkeeper Asmir Begovic managed to palm the drive on to the post but the sheer pace of the shot forced the ball into the net.
ref: 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC:
glosses: To move something with the palm of the hand.
examples: text: I palmed in to work.
text: She palmed the door as she talked to the security guard.
glosses: To use one's palm as identification to get through a door or security checkpoint.
examples: text: He never again appeared in the house where practices of this description are carried on every night, and where officers of the police are palmed (bribed) for their forbearance.
ref: 1845, George Smeeton, Doings in London, page 78:
glosses: To bribe.
Derived terms: palm off
palm out
repalm