cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
qoph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒf/
homophone: cough (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒf
Forms: form: qophs
form: kuf
form: qaaf
form: qāf
form: qof
form: qop
form: quf
Senses: glosses: The nineteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
resh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: reshes
form: reh
form: reysh
form: reish
Etymology: From Proto-Semitic *raʾš- (“head”). Doublet of ras (“Ethiopian king”) and ras (“headland”), and related to reis.
Senses: glosses: The twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). It is homologous with Greek rho and Latin r.
Derived terms: resh cicada
tav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tavs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taw (Semitic letter)
sade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪd/
Forms: form: sades
form: sading
form: saded
form: saded
Etymology: From Middle English saden (“to weary, become weary or satisfied”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic *sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Doublet of sate, a later variant; also cognate with English sad.
Senses: glosses: To tire, weary.
sade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪd/
Forms: form: sades
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sadhe.
shin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: shins
Etymology: From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.
Senses: examples: text: Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.
synonyms: tibia
glosses: The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
glosses: A fishplate for a railway
Derived terms: saber shin
shin-kicking
shin pad
shin splint
Related terms: shinbone
shin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: shins
form: shinning
form: shinned
form: shinned
Etymology: From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.
Senses: examples: text: to shin up a mast
text: "The minute the door is shut he shins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 33:
synonyms: shinny
glosses: To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
examples: text: The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.
ref: 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: To strike with the shin.
examples: text: The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.
ref: 1845 December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser:
glosses: To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
Derived terms: shinbone
shin leaf
shinny
shin out
shin screw
shin splints
shin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: shins
form: sheen
Senses: glosses: The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: shin hanga
hang a left
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs a left
form: hanging a left
form: hung a left
form: hung a left
Senses: examples: text: Hang a left at the next intersection.
glosses: To turn left, to take a left turn.
Related terms: hang a right
hang a right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs a right
form: hanging a right
form: hung a right
form: hung a right
Senses: examples: text: Hang a right at the next intersection.
glosses: To turn right, to take a right turn.
Related terms: hang a left
hereby
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪəˈbʌɪ/
ipa: /hɪɹˈbaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: heereby
form: heere
Etymology: From here + by.
Senses: examples: text: There is a mighty man, which wonnes hereby, / That with most fell despight and deadly hate / Seekes to subvert her Crowne and dignity […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Near this place; nearby.
examples: text: I hereby declare you husband and wife.
glosses: By this means, action or process.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
Merseybeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mersey + beat.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic style of music produced by pop groups from Merseyside between 1958 and 1964, typified by the Beatles.
Synonyms: Liverpool sound
Mersey sound
Liverpool sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Liverpool sound
Senses: glosses: Merseybeat.
Synonyms: Mersey sound
chine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: chines
form: chimb
form: chime
Etymology: From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.
Senses: glosses: The top of a ridge.
examples: text: And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
ref: 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: […] the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard […]
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: The prerogatives which the Spartans have allowed their kings are the following. In the first place, two priesthoods, those (namely) of Lacedaemonian and of Celestial Jupiter; […] and of having a hundred picked men for their body guard while with the army; likewise the liberty of sacrificing as many cattle in their expeditions as it seems them good, and the right of having the skins and the chines of the slaughtered animals for their own use.
ref: 1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars, translation of original by Herodotus:
glosses: The spine of an animal.
glosses: A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
glosses: The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
glosses: The back of the blade on a scythe.
Derived terms: multichine
chine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: chines
form: chining
form: chined
form: chined
form: chimb
form: chime
Etymology: From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.
Senses: glosses: To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
glosses: To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
chine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: chines
Etymology: From Middle English chyne, chynne (“crack, fissure, chasm”), from Old English ċine, ċinu, from Proto-West Germanic *kinu, from Proto-Germanic *kinō.
Senses: examples: text: The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it.
ref: 1885, Jean Ingelow, A Cottage in a Chine:
text: In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
Related terms: chink
chine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: chines
form: chining
form: chined
form: chined
Etymology: From Middle English chynen (“to crack, fissure, split”), from Old English ċīnan (“to break into pieces, burst, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīnan, from Proto-Germanic *kīnaną (“to split; crack; germinate; sprout”).
Senses: examples: text: The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
text: A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.
text: After the erth be brent, chyned & chypped by the hete of the sonne.
ref: 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge ... the seven penytencyall Psalms:
glosses: To crack, split, fissure, break.
Related terms: crêpe de chine
satin de chine
laymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of layman
mid-October
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + October.
Senses: glosses: Any time in the middle of October.
mid-October
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + October.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of October.
mid-October
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + October.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of October.
mid-December
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + December.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Manchin has insisted that legislation to streamline the permitting of fossil fuel and energy infrastructure projects, including the West Virginia pipeline, be tied to the spending measure, which is expected to keep the government funded through mid-December.
ref: 2022 September 21, Emily Cochrane, Lisa Friedman, “Manchin’s Gas Pipeline Deal Irks Both Parties, Snarling Spending Bill”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Any time in the middle of December.
mid-December
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + December.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of December.
mid-December
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + December.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of December.
mid-September
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + September.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of September.
Hypernyms: September
mid-September
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + September.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of September.
mid-September
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + September.
Senses: glosses: Any time in the middle of September.
mid-January
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + January.
Senses: glosses: Any time in the middle of January.
mid-January
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + January.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of January.
mid-January
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + January.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of January.
mid-February
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + February.
Senses: examples: text: Temperatures in Bangkok fell as low as 59.3 degrees Fahrenheit (15.2 degrees Celsius) on Monday, the lowest the capital has seen in years, as the country’s weather agency warned cool conditions could persist through mid-February.
ref: 2025 January 14, Jay Ganglani and Kocha Olarn, “59 degrees Fahrenheit might not sound that chilly. In Thailand’s capital, it’s a shock to the system”, in CNN:
text: Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.
ref: 2025 February 1, Kevin Liptak, “With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war”, in CNN:
glosses: Any time in the middle of February.
mid-February
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + February.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of February.
mid-February
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + February.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of February.
mid-March
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + March.
Senses: examples: text: US District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that “probable cause exists” to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for violating his orders in mid-March halting the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.
ref: 2025 April 16, Devan Cole and Katelyn Polantz, “Boasberg finds ‘probable cause exists’ to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating orders on deportation flights”, in CNN:
glosses: Any time in the middle of March.
mid-March
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + March.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of March.
mid-March
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + March.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of March.
mid-April
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + April.
Senses: examples: text: But it was Kirsche’s tweets in mid-April that drew her Gamer Supps partnership back into the public spotlight.
ref: 2025 April 21, Ana Velans, “Why Is This ‘Gamer Supps’ VTuber Pushing the Great Replacement Theory?”, in VICE, archived from the original on 14 May 2025:
glosses: Any time in the middle of April.
mid-April
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + April.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of April.
mid-April
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + April.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of April.
mid-May
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + May.
Senses: glosses: Any time in the middle of May.
mid-May
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + May.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of May.
mid-May
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + May.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of May.
mid-June
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + June.
Senses: glosses: Any time in the middle of June.
Derived terms: Battle of Mid-June
mid-June
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + June.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of June.
mid-June
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + June.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of the month of June.
mid-July
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + July.
Senses: glosses: Any time in the middle of July.
mid-July
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + July.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of July.
mid-July
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + July.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of July.
mid-August
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + August.
Senses: glosses: Any time in the middle of August.
Derived terms: Battle of Mid-August
mid-August
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + August.
Senses: examples: text: The bureau must now figure the next steps the reclamation bureau commissioner, Camille Touton, can take after the mid-August deadline has passed for the seven Colorado river states to reduce water use by 25%.
ref: 2022 August 16, Gabrielle Canon, Richard Luscombe, “US issues western water cuts as drought leaves Colorado River near ‘tipping point’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2022:
glosses: Happening in the middle of August.
mid-August
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + August.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of August.
midsummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪdˈsʌmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɪdˌsʌmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: midsummers
Etymology: From Middle English midsomer, midsumer, from Old English midsumer, midsumor (“midsummer”), from Proto-West Germanic *midisumar, from Proto-Germanic *midjasumaraz (“midsummer”), equivalent to mid- + summer. Cognate with West Frisian midsimmer (“midsummer”), Dutch midzomer (“midsummer”), German Mittsommer (“midsummer”), Danish midsommer (“midsummer”), Swedish midsommar (“midsummer”), Icelandic miðsumar (“midsummer”).
Senses: glosses: The period around the summer solstice; around June 21st in the northern hemisphere.
glosses: The first day of summer.
glosses: The middle of summer.
glosses: Midsummer Day, the English quarter day.
glosses: A pagan holiday or Wiccan Sabbat.
Synonyms: June solstice
northern solstice
St. John's Day
summer solstice
midsummer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪdˈsʌmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɪdˌsʌmə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English midsomer, midsumer, from Old English midsumer, midsumor (“midsummer”), from Proto-West Germanic *midisumar, from Proto-Germanic *midjasumaraz (“midsummer”), equivalent to mid- + summer. Cognate with West Frisian midsimmer (“midsummer”), Dutch midzomer (“midsummer”), German Mittsommer (“midsummer”), Danish midsommer (“midsummer”), Swedish midsommar (“midsummer”), Icelandic miðsumar (“midsummer”).
Senses: glosses: Occurring in the middle of summer.
Derived terms: Central European Midsummer Time
Midsummer ale
midsummer chafer
midsummer daisy
Midsummer Day
Midsummer's Day
Midsummer Eve
midsummer eve
midsummer even
Midsummer's Eve
midsummer games
midsummer growth
midsummerish
midsummer madness
midsummer men
midsummer-men
midsummer moon
Midsummer Night
midsummer night's dream
midsummer sights
midsummer silver
midsummery
midwinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪdˈwɪntə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɪdˌwɪntə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: midwinters
form: mid-winter
Etymology: From Middle English midwinter, mydwinter, mydwynter, from Old English midwinter, from Proto-West Germanic *midiwintru, from Proto-Germanic *midjawintruz (“midwinter”), equivalent to mid- + winter. Cognate with West Frisian midwinter (“midwinter”), Dutch midwinter (“midwinter”), German Mittwinter (“midwinter”), Danish midvinter (“midwinter”), Swedish midvinter (“midwinter”).
Senses: examples: text: Except for the mid-winter period, when the 11.30 a.m. from Paddington and its opposite number will be withdrawn - Torquay now has seven daily expresses to and from Paddington as compared with five down and six up previously.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590:
glosses: The middle of winter.
glosses: The winter solstice; about December 21st or 22nd.
Derived terms: midwinter day
midwinter's day
midwinter eve
midwinter even
midwinter's eve
midwinter's even
mid-winterly
midwinter month
midwinter night
midwinter's night
midwinter tide
midwinter's tide
mid-wintry
mid-autumn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-autumns
form: midautumn
Etymology: From mid- + autumn.
Senses: glosses: The middle of autumn.
Synonyms: word: midfall
mid-autumn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: midautumn
Etymology: From mid- + autumn.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of autumn.
Synonyms: word: midfall
Derived terms: Mid-Autumn Festival
mid-autumn
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: midautumn
Etymology: From mid- + autumn.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of autumn.
Synonyms: word: midfall
midautumn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midautumns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mid-autumn.
midautumn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mid-autumn.
midautumn
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mid-autumn.
mid-spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-springs
form: midspring
form: mid
form: spring
Etymology: From mid- + spring.
Senses: glosses: The middle of spring.
mid-spring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: midspring
form: mid
form: spring
Etymology: From mid- + spring.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of spring (the season), or a spring (leap).
mid-spring
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: midspring
form: mid
form: spring
Etymology: From mid- + spring.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of spring (the season), or a spring (leap).
Coordinate terms: mid-autumn
mid-fall
midsummer
midwinter
mid-fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-falls
form: midfall
Etymology: From mid- + fall.
Senses: glosses: The middle of fall.
Synonyms: word: mid-autumn
mid-fall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: midfall
Etymology: From mid- + fall.
Senses: glosses: Happening in the middle of fall.
Synonyms: word: mid-autumn
mid-fall
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: midfall
Etymology: From mid- + fall.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of fall.
Synonyms: word: mid-autumn
midfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mid-fall.
telesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telesthesias
Etymology: From tele- + -esthesia.
Senses: glosses: extrasensory perception
downsize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnsaɪz/
Forms: form: downsizes
form: downsizing
form: downsized
form: downsized
Etymology: From down- + size.
Senses: examples: text: Joe and Edna moved to a bungalow after deciding to downsize when the children had left home.
text: The company chose to downsize by laying off half of its workers.
text: Class 108 DMU LO257 awaits departure from Manchester Victoria on June 19 1991. Possessing 16 platforms in the 1960s, the station was significantly downsized in the early 1990s and today just six platforms remain.
ref: 2020 June 3, Philip Haigh, “Who can clean up Manchester's mess?”, in Rail, page 48, photo caption:
text: While some of these moves will be prompted by, for instance, releasing equity to help children get on the property ladder, David Fell, Hamptons' senior analyst, says many will probably be downsizing to reduce mortgage payments to a more manageable level.
ref: 2023 November 25, Alexandra Goss, “Downsizers' dilemma”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 1:
glosses: To reduce in size or number.
examples: text: They downsized the division by offering attractive early-retirement packages and selling off an office building.
synonyms: word: rightsize
hypernyms: scale back
scale down
glosses: To reduce the workforce of.
examples: text: Joe got downsized and became a plumber.
synonyms: word: axe
word: can
word: decruit
word: dehire
word: discard
word: remove
word: discharge
word: dismiss
word: downsize
word: fire
word: give the axe
word: give someone the boot
word: give someone their cards
word: give the chop
word: give the elbow
word: give someone the heave-ho
word: give someone the old heave-ho
word: lay off
word: let go
word: let someone go
word: make redundant
word: pink slip
word: promote to customer
word: retrench
word: sack
word: serve notice
word: shit-can
word: term
word: terminate
word: throw out
word: unhire
glosses: To terminate the employment of.
Derived terms: downsizable
downsizer
downsizing
dumbsize
Related terms: rightsize
upsize
coddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒd.əl/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.dəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔd.əl/
rhymes: -ɒdəl
Forms: form: coddles
form: coddling
form: coddled
form: coddled
Etymology: Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.
Senses: examples: text: How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To treat gently or with great care.
examples: text: a coddled egg
text: It [the guava fruit] bakes as well as a Pear, and it may be coddled, and it makes good Pies.
ref: 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World. […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 222:
glosses: To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
glosses: To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
Synonyms: sense: treat gently
word: cosset
word: pamper
word: posset
word: spoil
sense: cook slowly
word: simmer
Derived terms: coddled egg
coddler
coddlesome
coddlingly
mollycoddle
overcoddle
Related terms: scald
coddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒd.əl/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.dəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔd.əl/
rhymes: -ɒdəl
Forms: form: coddles
Etymology: Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.
Senses: glosses: An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
glosses: An effeminate person.
pamper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæm.pə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpæm.pɚ/
ipa: [ˈpɛəm.pɚ]
rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pampers
form: pampering
form: pampered
form: pampered
Etymology: From Middle English pamperen (“to cram with food”), from Middle Dutch *pamperen (“to cram with food”), frequentative of *pampen (“to stuff”), from Proto-Germanic *pamp- (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”), equivalent to pamp + -er.
Cognate with West Flemish pamperen (“to cram with food, overindulge”), Middle Low German pampen (“to stuff oneself”), dialectal German pampfen (“to cram”), dialectal Danish pampe (“to boast, brag”).
Senses: examples: text: And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
glosses: To feed luxuriously.
qualifier: chiefly ABDL
glosses: To put someone in pampers (a diaper).
Synonyms: sense: treat with indulgence
word: coddle
word: spoil
word: chuckle
word: cocker
word: cosset
word: cuddle
word: dandle
word: pander
word: make much
word: mollycoddle
word: nustle
word: pamper
word: pettle
word: posset
word: tidder
Hypernyms: word: cherish
word: indulge
Hyponyms: word: spoil
Derived terms: overpamper
pamperer
pampering
pamperize
pamper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæm.pə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpæm.pɚ/
ipa: [ˈpɛəm.pɚ]
rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pampers
Etymology: From Middle English pamperen (“to cram with food”), from Middle Dutch *pamperen (“to cram with food”), frequentative of *pampen (“to stuff”), from Proto-Germanic *pamp- (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”), equivalent to pamp + -er.
Cognate with West Flemish pamperen (“to cram with food, overindulge”), Middle Low German pampen (“to stuff oneself”), dialectal German pampfen (“to cram”), dialectal Danish pampe (“to boast, brag”).
Senses: examples: text: “[…]And let me get you some more panties. I got all sizes. You look like about a size four,” she comments going to another cabinet. “Now, when you put these on after you wash up and the medicine kicks in, the maxi-pad goes on the inside of your panties on the bottom to catch all that blood coming out of your tail.” She must be crazy. I gotta wear a pamper.
ref: 2002, Mirika Mayo Cornelius, Secret, Akirim Press, →ISBN:
text: The jacket is his exact size, fitting him just right, but his pants are two sizes too small. They’re hugging him extra tight. His butt is exploding out of them, causing it to look like he’s wearing a pamper.
ref: 2003, Al-Saadiq Banks, Sincerely Yours: The Conclusion, True 2 Life Publications, →ISBN:
text: There were popes, proctologists, a pyramid, a plant, a peanut-butter boy, a pygmy, a baby wearing a pamper, a picture, pimps and prostitutes.
ref: 2009, Beryl Doiron with Bernie Doiron, “Ethiopia — Into the Hills”, in RusticoRiders Cycle Africa: From Cairo to Cape Town, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 68:
text: “She’s… soiling her pamper. Have you changed a pamper before?” “Just on my dolls, and I was ten the last time I’d done it.” Allyson grinned while saying, “That’s not the same. I’ll go grab a pamper and the wipes, and I’ll show you how to change Sonya’s pamper.”
ref: 2011, Gerald Pruett, chapter 11, in Legacy: The Mark of Merlin, British Columbia: CCB Publishing, →ISBN, page 206:
text: One of the ladies said, “Look at his pants when he turns around. It looks like he’s wearing a pamper.” Sure enough it looked like he was wearing a wet pamper.
ref: 2019, Noval Socram, In Just Cause Behind the Shadow, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
text: “You will have to wear a pamper because you will not be able to move.[…]”
ref: 2021, Debbie Hollins, Living Within the Confinements of Lupus, WestBow Press, →ISBN:
text: A manhunt was launched for the child after a woman contacted police informing them that she had seen him walking unaccompanied while only wearing a pamper.
ref: 2022 May 10, “What to do if you see an unaccompanied or lost child”, in Loop, Digicel:
glosses: Alternative form of pampers.
Derived terms: pamper pack
pamper packer
pamper packing
going
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɔɪŋ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɡʌo̞ŋ/
ipa: /ɡænɪn/
ipa: /ɡaːn/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Etymology: Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”).
Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang.
Senses: examples: I'm afraid I must be going.
glosses: present participle and gerund of go
examples: theatre-going, church-going, movie-going
glosses: Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.
going
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɔɪŋ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɡʌo̞ŋ/
ipa: /ɡænɪn/
ipa: /ɡaːn/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Forms: form: goings
Etymology: Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”).
Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang.
Senses: examples: text: Māna-Yood-Sushāī was before the beginning of the gods, and shall be after their going. […] After the going of the gods there will be no small worlds nor big.
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:
text: But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A departure.
examples: text: The going was very difficult over the ice.
glosses: The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
examples: text: We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
glosses: Progress.
examples: text: Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
glosses: Conditions for advancing in any way.
examples: text: His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 34:21:
glosses: Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
examples: text: I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?
glosses: The whereabouts (of something).
raw_tags: in the phrase "the going of"
examples: text: Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.
glosses: The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.
Derived terms: hard going
going, going, gone
going
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɔɪŋ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɡʌo̞ŋ/
ipa: /ɡænɪn/
ipa: /ɡaːn/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Etymology: Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”).
Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang.
Senses: examples: text: He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.
glosses: Likely to continue; viable.
examples: text: The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.
glosses: Current, prevailing.
examples: text: He has the easiest job going.
text: Craig: Did you look at Tudor life? did you do a lot of studying about that?
Natalie: Yeah, I was really geeky about it, I read every single book that was going.
ref: 2013, Natalie Dormer, interview on, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson:
glosses: Available.
raw_tags: after a noun phrase with a superlative
Hyponyms: aforegoing
artgoing
balletgoing
beachgoing
chapelgoing
churchgoing
cinemagoing
clubgoing
concertgoing
congoing
dancegoing
downgoing
easygoing
evergoing
fairgoing
fargoing
fastgoing
filmgoing
forthgoing
homegoing
ingoing
mosque-going
moviegoing
museumgoing
oceangoing
ocean-going
offgoing
ongoing
on-going
operagoing
parkgoing
partygoing
playgoing
racegoing
rivergoing
roadgoing
schoolgoing
seagoing
shoregoing
spacegoing
synagogue-going
temple-going
theatregoing
thoroughgoing
throughgoing
upgoing
zoogoing
Related terms: going to
starting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈstɑɹt.ɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈstɑɹɾɪŋ]
ipa: /ˈstɑːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of start
Derived terms: sense: Affixed terms derived from starting (present participle)
word: nonstarting
sense: Affixed terms derived from starting (present participle)
word: self-starting
sense: Affixed terms derived from starting (present participle)
word: startingly
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting bar
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting berth
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting block
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting five
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting fluid
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting gate
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting grid
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting gun
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting handle
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting hole
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting lineup
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting pistol
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting pitcher
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting point
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting price
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting signal
sense: Compound words and expressions derived from starting (present participle)
word: starting time
starting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈstɑɹt.ɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈstɑɹɾɪŋ]
ipa: /ˈstɑːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Forms: form: startings
Senses: examples: text: constant startings and stoppings
glosses: The act of something that starts.
flying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English fleynge, fleeʒinge, flihinde, vlyinde, vleoinde, flyand,
ffleghand, flighand (also fleoninde, fleonninde, etc.), from Old English flēogende, from Proto-Germanic *fleugandz (“flying”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”), equivalent to fly + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fljoogend (“flying”), West Frisian fleanend (“flying”), Dutch vliegend (“flying”), German Low German flegend (“flying”), German fliegend (“flying”), Danish flyvende (“flying”), Swedish flygande (“flying”), Icelandic fljúgandi (“flying”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fly
flying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: flyings
Etymology: From Middle English flyinge, fleyng, fleyinge, fleynge, fleghyng, fleiʒeyng, flyeghynge, equivalent to fly + -ing. Cognate with Danish flyvning (“flying”), Swedish flygning (“flying”), Norwegian flyvning, flygning, flyging, flying (“flying”).
Senses: examples: text: "Flyings" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, flyings and sinkings are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds" […]
ref: 1993, John C. Greene, Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745, page 58:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An act of flight.
examples: text: His seconde hawke wexyd gery
And was with flyenge wery.
She had flowyn so oft,
That on the rode loft
She perkyd her to rest.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66–70:
topics: aerodynamics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The action or process of sustained motion through the air.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: foiling
hydrofoiling
glosses: The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.
Derived terms: dayflying
flying ace
flying machine
flying school
kiteflying
paraflying
sailflying
rancid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹænsɪd/
Forms: form: more rancid
form: most rancid
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rancidus (“stinking, rank, rancid, offensive”).
Senses: examples: text: The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.
glosses: Rank in taste or smell.
raw_tags: of oily or fatty food
examples: text: Her remarks were rancid; everyone got up and left.
glosses: Offensive.
Related terms: rancidification
rancidly
rancidness
rancor
words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːdz/
ipa: /wɜɹdz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dz
Senses: examples: Words have a longer life than deeds. — Pindar (translated)
glosses: plural of word
words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːdz/
ipa: /wɜɹdz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dz
Senses: examples: text: After she found out the truth, she had words with him, to tell him how she felt.
glosses: Angry debate or conversation; argument.
examples: text: You better get your words memorised before rehearsal next Saturday.
glosses: The lines in a script for a performance.
examples: text: The composer set the words to music.
glosses: Lyrics.
Derived terms: mince one's words
mince words
words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːdz/
ipa: /wɜɹdz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of word
undefined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + defined.
Senses: examples: text: We slid into our office, past two women discussing the "X factor," an apparently undefined quality their firm felt they lacked.
ref: 1992, Lia Matera, Prior Convictions, page 121:
glosses: Lacking a definition or value.
examples: text: The result of division by zero is undefined.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
Synonyms: sense: lacking a definition or value
word: indefinite
word: undefinable
word: indistinct
word: vague
Derived terms: undefined behavior
undefined
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undefineds
Etymology: From un- + defined.
Senses: examples: text: [Option:] · [PDP11:] F [BSD:] · [XE 2.3:] [1] [XE 3.0:] · [SIII:] · [COFF:] · [meaning:] make undefineds global
ref: 1987, J. E. Lapin, Portable C and UNIX System Programming (Prentice-Hall Software Series), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:
text: Every operation is defined completely either by delivering a value of some type depending only on the types of its operands or by causing some defined exception; there are no ‘undefineds’ in Ten15.
ref: 1988, Pearl Brereton, editor, Software Engineering Environments, Chichester, West Sussex: Ellis Horwood Limited, →ISBN, page 230:
text: The Array object has these commonly-used properties: • .length: the number of items including undefineds.
ref: 2017, Neos. Thanh, “Arrays”, in JavaScript Programming, →ISBN, page 36:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An undefined value.
wondering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌndəɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wonder
wondering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌndəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: wonderings
Senses: glosses: The mental activity by which one wonders; a query, puzzlement, etc.
wondering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌndəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: more wondering
form: most wondering
Senses: examples: text: Mary obeyed in wondering silence, which was increased when the French soubriette obviously taxed her abilities to the utmost; she had received full instructions from her mistress.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 89:
glosses: Full of questioning and consideration.
entries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entry
indices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndɪsiːz/
Etymology: From Latin indicēs.
Senses: examples: text: The subscript numbers after each element are the indices of that element.
text: A common convention in computing is to have indices beginning at zero, whereas in mathematics indices usually begin at one.
text: To locate any term, and to facilitate use of the dictionary by a national of any of the three languages, alphabetical indices are appended in English, French and German.
ref: 1972, American Society for Metals, Materials Science and Engineering, volumes 9–10, page 67 (Elsevier Sequoia)
text: Perhaps the feature which most contributes to making this a valuable reference book is the appendices and indices which are an integral part of the guide.
ref: 1976, Sidney Heath, The Romance of Symbolism and Its Relation to Church Ornament and Architecture, Gale Research Co., →ISBN, page 98, →ISBN:
text: Alphabetical indices of the terms in the other languages are given at the end of the book.
ref: 1989, TAPPI Journal, volume 72, page 204 (Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry)
text: The dictionary’s four indices are helpful when searching terms. These are: Hanyu Pinyin System Index; Four-Corner System Index; Radical Index; and Japanese Reading System Index.
ref: 1999, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Saint-Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Manuscripta Orientalia: International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research, volume 5, page 71 (THESA)
text: Its word indices makes finding individual words easy.
ref: 2000, Russian Language Journal, volume 54, issues 177–179, page 295 (Michigan State University, Department of German & Russian)
glosses: plural of index