cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
twenty-four seven
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: 24/7
form: 24-7
form: twenty-four/seven
Etymology: Shortened from twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: twenty-four hours a day, round the clock
text: They're open twenty-four seven; you can go there any time you want.
synonyms: all the time
constantly
continuously
non-stop
nonstop
unceasingly
unstoppingly
glosses: 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Designates a round-the-clock service, typically including holidays, as might be offered by a supermarket, ATM, gas station, concierge service or manned data center.
examples: text: I'm ready to skydive twenty-four seven. [⁠nonliteral, hyperbolic⁠]
text: My girlfriend's jealous 'cause I talk about you twenty-four seven
ref: 2000, “Stan”, in Eminem (music), The Marshall Mathers LP:
glosses: Constantly, with little or no interruption; continually; very often.
Derived terms: word: twenty-five/eight
Related terms: 24/5
24/7/365
around the clock
fifty six
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Among policemen, "time off from work."
fifty six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fifty-six.
a hundred and ten percent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 110%
Etymology: Based on the metaphor of operating a machine at higher than its rated capacity or exceeding the normal maximum of some rated parameter such as speed or temperature.
Senses: examples: text: We busted our tails and won; we really gave 110% in that game.
glosses: A level of effort beyond what one can usually sustain; great exertion.
Related terms: twenty-five/eight
bit of crumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bits of crumpet
Senses: examples: text: She's a bit of crumpet, that one.
glosses: A very sexually desirable woman.
Synonyms: beautiful woman
Related terms: crumpet
piece of crumpet
thinking man's crumpet
cold day in Hell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold days in Hell
form: cold day in hell
Senses: examples: text: It'll be a cold day in hell when that happens.
glosses: The time of occurrence of an event that will never happen.
Related terms: snowball's chance in hell
when Hell freezes over
first of never
never in a month of Sundays
that'll be the frosty Friday
when pigs fly
piece of crumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieces of crumpet
Senses: examples: text: She's a piece of crumpet, that one.
text: You think he's going to risk all this for a piece of crumpet?
ref: 1993, David French, Silver Dagger, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Thanks for photos. You're turning into a lovely piece of crumpet.
ref: 2000, Gerald Hammond, Into the Blue, →ISBN, page 57:
text: Looking at that picture you'd just say she was a nice piece of crumpet.
ref: 2007, Sydney J. Bounds, Murder in Space, page 40:
glosses: A very sexually desirable woman.
Synonyms: beautiful woman
Related terms: crumpet
bit of crumpet
thinking man's crumpet
a la
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /æ læ/
ipa: /ɑ lɑ/
Forms: form: à la
form: ala
Etymology: From French à la.
Senses: examples: text: […] the flaming purification of Diane Johnson's Los Angeles a la Sodom and Gomorrah […]
ref: 1971, The New York Times, Book review of Burning
text: I’m also not totally ready to get rid of my beachy summer blonde. But instead of scrapping the highlights I worked so hard for, I’m asking my stylist for a root smudge à la Tate McRae above.
ref: 2024 September 5, Beth Gillette, “24 Fall Hair Colors Every Celebrity Is Asking for Rn”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: In the style or manner of.
Related terms: à la carte
à la King
a la minute
a la mode
à la russe
chicken à la King
service à la française
service à la russe
quantitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒn.tɪ.teɪt/
Forms: form: quantitates
form: quantitating
form: quantitated
form: quantitated
Etymology: Back-formation from quantitative.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, a "toeprint" of 30S subunits bound to T4 gene 32 mRNA has been observed with MMLV reverse transcriptase; while the experiment has not been quantitated, appearance of a signal at a subunit concentration of 0.02 μM is consistent with a binding constant on the order of 10⁷ M⁻¹ (Hartz et al., 1991).
ref: 2012, K.H. Nierhaus, F. Franceschi, A.R. Subramanian, The Translational Apparatus: Structure, Function, Regulation, Evolution, page 198:
glosses: To measure the quantity of, especially with high accuracy and taking uncertainty into account, as in quantitative analysis.
Synonyms: sense: assign a quantity to
word: quantify
Related terms: quantitation
moon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːn/
ipa: /mun/
rhymes: -uːn
Etymology: From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
cognates and doublets
Cognate with Scots mone, mune, muin (“moon”), North Frisian muun (“moon”), Saterland Frisian Moune (“moon”), West Frisian moanne (“moon”), Dutch maan (“moon”), German Mond (“moon”), Danish måne (“moon”), Norwegian Bokmål måne (“moon”), Norwegian Nynorsk måne (“moon”), Swedish måne (“moon”), Faroese máni (“moon”), Icelandic máni (“moon”), Latin mēnsis (“month”). See also month, a related term within Indo-European.
The usage of "moon" to refer to the act reflected its use as a metaphor for the buttocks since 1743. It was popularised from American student slang in the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: Immediatly after the tribulacions off thoſe dayes / ſhall the ſun be derkeneth: and the mone ſhall not geve her light / and the ſtarrꝭ ſhall fall from heven / and the powers of hevẽ ſhall move
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xxiiij:[29], folio xxxiiij, verso:
text: "I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 233:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).
accident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæksɪdənt/
ipa: /ˈæksədənt/
ipa: /-dɛnt/
ipa: /ˈæksədɪnt/
Etymology: First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accident, from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.
Senses: examples: text: The NTSB report revealed that the accident airplane was a Cessna 172.
topics: transport
glosses: Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
Related terms: Accident
The Accident
adamant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ə.mənt/
ipa: /ˈæd.ə.mænt/
Forms: form: more adamant
form: most adamant
form: adamaunt
Etymology: From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adamās (“hard as steel”), from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “invincible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “I tame”) or of Semitic origin. Doublet of diamond.
Senses: examples: text: Broiles and Kirkley were adamant about getting out of the lawsuit, but Mike and Dee were equally adamant about not wanting to sign a letter of apology
ref: 2002, Charles Moncrief, Wildcatters: The True Story of how Conspiracy, Greed and the IRS ..., page 195:
text: Johan is determined to play the field and adamant about never committing.
ref: 2006, Cara E. C. Vermaak, Confessions of the Dyslexic Virgin, page 275:
text: What good would such foolishness do a mountain man? But Pa had been adamant. Just as he'd been adamant about their reading, writing, numbers, geography, and languages. Just as he'd been adamant about using proper grammar
ref: 2010, Deeanne Gist, Maid to Match, page 94:
text: Most Panamanians are adamant that the canal, completed in 1914, will not return to U.S. control.
ref: 2025 April 8, Whitney Eulich, Andrea Salcedo, “For Panamanians, the canal is theirs. But who profits from it?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
raw_tags: said of people and their conviction
examples: text: Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.
ref: 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 34:
glosses: Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
raw_tags: of an object
adamant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ə.mənt/
ipa: /ˈæd.ə.mænt/
Forms: form: adamants
form: adamaunt
Etymology: From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adamās (“hard as steel”), from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “invincible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “I tame”) or of Semitic origin. Doublet of diamond.
Senses: examples: text: This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules.
ref: 1582, Robert Parsons, chapter 8, in The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution, G. Flinton:
text: As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead …
ref: 1611, King James Translators, Ezekiel 3:9
text: But this was a finale she ever avoided: an offer, like the rock of adamant in Sinbad's voyages, finishes the attraction by destroying the vessel;...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
examples: text: Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XV [Uniform ed., p. 163]
glosses: An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
examples: text: You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant:
But yet you draw not iron, for all my heart
Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw,
And I shall have no power to follow you.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A lodestone.
examples: text: An Adamant hinders the attractive vertue, as also Garlick rubbed on the Magnet; for its attractive faculty is not so valid, but it may be easily deluded, obscured, and superated […]
ref: 1657 [1608], Jean de Renou, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory […], page 418:
text: But we know from book 37 of the Natural History that adamant works on magnets in exactly the same way that garlic does: robbing them of their power to attract.
ref: 2012, Daryn Lehoux, What Did the Romans Knows? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: A substance that neutralizes lodestones.
Derived terms: word: adamance
word: adamantane
word: adamantean
word: adamantine
word: adamantium
word: adamantly
Related terms: sense: imaginary desirably hard material
word: unobtainium
adore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ədôʹ
ipa: /əˈdɔː/
enpr: ədôrʹ
ipa: /əˈdoɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ədōrʹ
ipa: /əˈdo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əˈdoə̯/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: adores
form: adoring
form: adored
form: adored
Etymology: From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin adōrō (“I pray to”), from ad (“to”) + ōrō (“I speak”).
Senses: examples: text: Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: 1758, Tobias Smollett, A Complete History of England, London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 3rd edition, Volume 6, Book 8, “William III,” p. 29,
[James] was met at the castle-gate by a procession of […] bishops and priests in their pontificals, bearing the host, which he publicly adored.
text: O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
ref: 1852, Frederick Oakeley (translator), “O Come, All Ye Faithful” in Francis H. Murray, A Hymnal for Use in the English Church, Come and behold him Born the King of Angels
antonyms: disdain
glosses: To worship.
examples: text: It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.
text: The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.
ref: 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter V, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 388:
antonyms: disdain
glosses: To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
examples: text: "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To be very fond of.
examples: text: […] and likewise on her hed
A Chapelet of sundry flowers she wore,
From vnder which the deawy humour shed,
Did tricle downe her haire, like to the hore
Congealed litle drops, which doe the morne adore.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To adorn.
Derived terms: adorant
adorative
adorement
adorer
adoringly
overadored
unadored
Related terms: adorable
adoration
advice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvaɪs/
ipa: /ədˈvaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Etymology: From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visus, past participle of videre (“to see”). See vision, and compare avise, advise. The unhistoric -d- was introduced in English 15c. Doublet of aviso.
Mostly displaced native Old English rǣd (see modern rede).
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of advise.
Indonesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndəˈniːʒən/
rhymes: -iːʒən
Forms: form: more Indonesian
form: most Indonesian
Etymology: From Indonesia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The 71-year-old American, who relocated to the Indonesian destination in 2022, is a regular fixture on the sands of Sanur, which extends along the southeastern coastline of the tropical destination, known as the “Island of the Gods.”
ref: 2025 July 31, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “‘Everyone I know in the US who has a conscience wants to leave’: Why this American woman relocated to Bali”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or relating to Indonesia or its people or language.
Derived terms: Indonesianness
Indonesian speckled carpetshark
Makassar Indonesian
Peranakan Indonesian
Indonesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndəˈniːʒən/
rhymes: -iːʒən
Forms: form: Indonesians
Etymology: From Indonesia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The main concerns for young Indonesians are quality of life, corruption, institutional integrity and the environment, including air pollution, said Abigail Limuria, co-founder of Bijak Memilih, an independent, youth-led movement providing information on political parties, issues and candidates to voters.
ref: 2024 February 11, Rachel Wilson and Rosa de Acosta, “How Indonesia’s future is in the hands of young voters, in 5 charts”, in CNN:
glosses: A person living in or coming from Indonesia.
glosses: The common language spoken in Indonesia.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Bahasa Indonesia
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Indonesian terms
north
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːθ/
enpr: nôrth
ipa: /noɹθ/
ipa: [no̞ɹθ]
ipa: /noɹt/
ipa: /nɔəθ/
ipa: /noːθ/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /nɔː(ɹ)θ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
Etymology: From Middle English north, from Old English norþ, from Proto-West Germanic *norþr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nér (“below (the surface)”). The meaning developed either from "region where the sun is below (the earth)" or from "left side of someone who turns to the east when praying".
Cognates
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Yola noardth, nordh (“north”), North Frisian noor, nord, nuurd, Nuurđ (“north”), Saterland Frisian Noude, Nudde (“north”), West Frisian noard (“north”), Dutch noord (“north”), German Nord (“north”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk nord (“north”), Faroese, Icelandic norður (“north”), Swedish nord, norr (“north”); also with Ancient Greek νέρτερος (nérteros), ἐνέρτερος (enérteros, “below”), Russian нора (nora, “hole”), Lithuanian nėrōvė (“mermaid, nymph”), Oscan 𐌍𐌄𐌓𐌕𐌓𐌀𐌊 (nertrak, “left”), Umbrian nertru (“left”), Sanskrit नरक (naraka, “hell”), Tocharian B ñor (“below”).
Senses: examples: text: Switzerland is north of Italy.
text: We headed north.
glosses: Toward the north; northward; northerly.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from north (adverb)
word: gone north about
sense: Terms derived from north (adverb)
word: it's grim up north
sense: Terms derived from north (adverb)
word: northish
sense: Terms derived from north (adverb)
word: up north
north
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːθ/
enpr: nôrth
ipa: /noɹθ/
ipa: [no̞ɹθ]
ipa: /noɹt/
ipa: /nɔəθ/
ipa: /noːθ/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /nɔː(ɹ)θ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: norths
form: northing
form: northed
form: northed
Etymology: From Middle English north, from Old English norþ, from Proto-West Germanic *norþr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nér (“below (the surface)”). The meaning developed either from "region where the sun is below (the earth)" or from "left side of someone who turns to the east when praying".
Cognates
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Yola noardth, nordh (“north”), North Frisian noor, nord, nuurd, Nuurđ (“north”), Saterland Frisian Noude, Nudde (“north”), West Frisian noard (“north”), Dutch noord (“north”), German Nord (“north”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk nord (“north”), Faroese, Icelandic norður (“north”), Swedish nord, norr (“north”); also with Ancient Greek νέρτερος (nérteros), ἐνέρτερος (enérteros, “below”), Russian нора (nora, “hole”), Lithuanian nėrōvė (“mermaid, nymph”), Oscan 𐌍𐌄𐌓𐌕𐌓𐌀𐌊 (nertrak, “left”), Umbrian nertru (“left”), Sanskrit नरक (naraka, “hell”), Tocharian B ñor (“below”).
Senses: examples: text: When at B you had northed 3.71[…]
ref: 1769, Henry Wilson, William Hume, Surveying improved, page 239:
glosses: To turn or move toward the north.
east
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːst/
enpr: ēst
rhymes: -iːst
Etymology: From Middle English est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-West Germanic *austr, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, from Proto-Germanic *austraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros (“east”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots aist (“east”), North Frisian uast, ååst, ööst (“east”), Saterland Frisian Aaste (“east”), West Frisian east (“east”), Dutch oost (“east”), German Ost (“east”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål øst (“east”), Faroese eystur (“east”), Icelandic austur (“east”), Norwegian Nynorsk aust, øst (“east”), Swedish ost, öst, öster (“east”); also with Avestan 𐬎𐬱𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬀 (ušastara, “eastern”), Latin auster (“south”).
Senses: glosses: Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Blowing (as wind) from the east.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
glosses: From the East; oriental.
examples: text: the east front of a cathedral
text: Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.
ref: 2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 365:
text: The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable […] a huge image of Christ on the [liturgical] east end, filling the entire wall and to be visible through the [liturgical] West Window (Fig. 24.2).
ref: 2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 371:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Designating, or situated in, the liturgical east.
Synonyms: sense: situated or lying in or towards the east
word: eastward
sense: meteorology: wind from the east
word: easterly
word: of
word: pertaining to the east
sense: from the East
word: oriental
east
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːst/
enpr: ēst
rhymes: -iːst
Etymology: From Middle English est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-West Germanic *austr, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, from Proto-Germanic *austraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros (“east”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots aist (“east”), North Frisian uast, ååst, ööst (“east”), Saterland Frisian Aaste (“east”), West Frisian east (“east”), Dutch oost (“east”), German Ost (“east”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål øst (“east”), Faroese eystur (“east”), Icelandic austur (“east”), Norwegian Nynorsk aust, øst (“east”), Swedish ost, öst, öster (“east”); also with Avestan 𐬎𐬱𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬀 (ušastara, “eastern”), Latin auster (“south”).
Senses: glosses: Towards the east; eastwards.
Synonyms: sense: towards the east
word: eastwards
south
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: south
ipa: /saʊθ/
ipa: /suːθ/
ipa: /saʊθ/
note: Canadian raising
ipa: [sʌʊθ]
ipa: /sæɔθ/
ipa: /sæʊθ/
ipa: /saʊt̪/
note: Dublin
ipa: /sɛʊt/
note: Dublin
ipa: /sæʊt/
rhymes: -aʊθ
Etymology: From Middle English south, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr (“southern”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą (“south”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots sooth (“south”), Yola zouth (“south”), North Frisian sööd, Süđ, süüd (“south”), Saterland Frisian Sude, Suud (“south”), West Frisian súd (“south”), Dutch zuid (“south”), German Süd (“south”), Danish syd (“south”), Faroese, Icelandic suður (“south”), Norwegian Bokmål syd, sør (“south”), Norwegian Nynorsk sør (“south”), Swedish syd, söder (“south”); also with Irish súil (“eye”), Cornish howl (“sun”), Manx sooill (“eye”), Scottish Gaelic sùil (“eye”), Welsh haul (“sun”), Latin sōl (“sun”), Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun; east; day”), Czech slunce (“sun”), Polish słońce (“sun”), Russian солнце (solnce, “sun”), Serbo-Croatian сунце, sunce (“sun”), Slovene sonce (“sun”), Latgalian saule (“sun”), Latvian saũle (“sun”), Lithuanian sáulė (“sun”), Albanian diell (“sun”), Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (huuar^ə, “sun”), Persian خور (xwar, “sun”), Ossetian хор (xor), хур (xur, “sun”), Sanskrit सूर्य (sūrya, “sun”), Tocharian A swāñce (“beam, ray”), Tocharian B swāñco (“beam, ray”).
Senses: glosses: Toward the south; southward.
glosses: Downward.
examples: text: His fortunes have been going south ever since he was tricked into investing in that ostrich farm.
glosses: In an adverse direction or trend. (Mostly in go south.)
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of wind, from the south.
south
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: south
ipa: /saʊθ/
ipa: /suːθ/
ipa: /saʊθ/
note: Canadian raising
ipa: [sʌʊθ]
ipa: /sæɔθ/
ipa: /sæʊθ/
ipa: /saʊt̪/
note: Dublin
ipa: /sɛʊt/
note: Dublin
ipa: /sæʊt/
rhymes: -aʊθ
Forms: form: souths
form: southing
form: southed
form: southed
Etymology: From Middle English south, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr (“southern”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą (“south”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots sooth (“south”), Yola zouth (“south”), North Frisian sööd, Süđ, süüd (“south”), Saterland Frisian Sude, Suud (“south”), West Frisian súd (“south”), Dutch zuid (“south”), German Süd (“south”), Danish syd (“south”), Faroese, Icelandic suður (“south”), Norwegian Bokmål syd, sør (“south”), Norwegian Nynorsk sør (“south”), Swedish syd, söder (“south”); also with Irish súil (“eye”), Cornish howl (“sun”), Manx sooill (“eye”), Scottish Gaelic sùil (“eye”), Welsh haul (“sun”), Latin sōl (“sun”), Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun; east; day”), Czech slunce (“sun”), Polish słońce (“sun”), Russian солнце (solnce, “sun”), Serbo-Croatian сунце, sunce (“sun”), Slovene sonce (“sun”), Latgalian saule (“sun”), Latvian saũle (“sun”), Lithuanian sáulė (“sun”), Albanian diell (“sun”), Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (huuar^ə, “sun”), Persian خور (xwar, “sun”), Ossetian хор (xor), хур (xur, “sun”), Sanskrit सूर्य (sūrya, “sun”), Tocharian A swāñce (“beam, ray”), Tocharian B swāñco (“beam, ray”).
Senses: glosses: To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
examples: text: The moon souths at nine.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line.
west
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕst
ipa: /wɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: PIE word
 *wek(ʷ)speros
From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr (“western”), from Proto-Germanic *westrą (“west”), from Proto-Germanic *westraz (“west”), from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (“evening”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wast (“west”), North Frisian waast, weest, wäst (“west”), Saterland Frisian Wääste (“west”), West Frisian, Dutch west (“west”), German West (“west”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vest (“west”), Faroese, Icelandic vestur (“west”), Swedish väst, väster (“west”); also with Irish feascar, feasgar (“evening; vespers”), Cornish gorthugher (“evening”), Manx fastyr (“afternoon, evening; vespers”), Scottish Gaelic feasgar (“afternoon, evening”), Latin vesper (“evening”), Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos, “evening; western”), Latvian vakars (“evening”), Lithuanian vakaras (“evening”), Czech, Slovak and Slovene večer (“evening”), Kashubian wieczór (“evening”), Polish wieczerz, wieczór (“evening”), Russian вечер (večer, “evening”), Serbo-Croatian вече, вечер, veče, večer (“evening”), Armenian գիշեր (gišer, “night”). Compare also Catalan oest (“west”), French ouest (“west”), Galician oeste, ueste (“west”), Italian ovest (“west”), Portuguese, Spanish oeste (“west”) (all ultimately borrowings of the Old English word).
Senses: glosses: Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of wind: from the west.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the west; western.
glosses: From the West; occidental.
examples: text: Interior in 1925, (left) looking north to chancel and (right) looking south (to liturgical west end) It was on account of this connection that St James's became the clowns 'church', an annual clowns' service being held there ...
ref: 2008, Philip Temple, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville, Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies, →ISBN, page 356:
text: as in the mosaic of the ascension on San Frediano's liturgical west (geographically east) façade.
ref: 2017, Stephen Kite, Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Spence had decided on a huge image of Christ on the [liturgical] east end [which is the geographic north], filling the entire wall and to be visible through the [liturgical] West Window (Fig. 24.2).
ref: 2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 371:
glosses: Designating, or situated in, the liturgical west, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the part containing the chancel.
west
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕst
ipa: /wɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: PIE word
 *wek(ʷ)speros
From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr (“western”), from Proto-Germanic *westrą (“west”), from Proto-Germanic *westraz (“west”), from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (“evening”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wast (“west”), North Frisian waast, weest, wäst (“west”), Saterland Frisian Wääste (“west”), West Frisian, Dutch west (“west”), German West (“west”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vest (“west”), Faroese, Icelandic vestur (“west”), Swedish väst, väster (“west”); also with Irish feascar, feasgar (“evening; vespers”), Cornish gorthugher (“evening”), Manx fastyr (“afternoon, evening; vespers”), Scottish Gaelic feasgar (“afternoon, evening”), Latin vesper (“evening”), Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos, “evening; western”), Latvian vakars (“evening”), Lithuanian vakaras (“evening”), Czech, Slovak and Slovene večer (“evening”), Kashubian wieczór (“evening”), Polish wieczerz, wieczór (“evening”), Russian вечер (večer, “evening”), Serbo-Croatian вече, вечер, veče, večer (“evening”), Armenian գիշեր (gišer, “night”). Compare also Catalan oest (“west”), French ouest (“west”), Galician oeste, ueste (“west”), Italian ovest (“west”), Portuguese, Spanish oeste (“west”) (all ultimately borrowings of the Old English word).
Senses: examples: This thoroughfare bears (to the) West.
glosses: Towards the west; westwards.
west
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕst
ipa: /wɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: wests
form: westing
form: wested
form: wested
Etymology: PIE word
 *wek(ʷ)speros
From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr (“western”), from Proto-Germanic *westrą (“west”), from Proto-Germanic *westraz (“west”), from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (“evening”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wast (“west”), North Frisian waast, weest, wäst (“west”), Saterland Frisian Wääste (“west”), West Frisian, Dutch west (“west”), German West (“west”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vest (“west”), Faroese, Icelandic vestur (“west”), Swedish väst, väster (“west”); also with Irish feascar, feasgar (“evening; vespers”), Cornish gorthugher (“evening”), Manx fastyr (“afternoon, evening; vespers”), Scottish Gaelic feasgar (“afternoon, evening”), Latin vesper (“evening”), Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos, “evening; western”), Latvian vakars (“evening”), Lithuanian vakaras (“evening”), Czech, Slovak and Slovene večer (“evening”), Kashubian wieczór (“evening”), Polish wieczerz, wieczór (“evening”), Russian вечер (večer, “evening”), Serbo-Croatian вече, вечер, veče, večer (“evening”), Armenian գիշեր (gišer, “night”). Compare also Catalan oest (“west”), French ouest (“west”), Galician oeste, ueste (“west”), Italian ovest (“west”), Portuguese, Spanish oeste (“west”) (all ultimately borrowings of the Old English word).
Senses: examples: text: Foure times his place he shifted hath in sight, / And twice has risen, where he now doth West, / And wested twice, where he ought rise aright.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To move to the west; (of the sun) to set.
karoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹəʊʃi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 過労死 (karōshi), from 過労 (karō, “overwork”) + 死 (shi, “death”). Doublet of guolaosi and gwarosa.
Senses: examples: text: For a while he began to speak Japanese, rather slangy, never having seemed to learn it — karoshi for death from overwork, yakitaori-ya for eatery, and gaijin for clumsy foreigner.
ref: 1976, Bill Henderson, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, page 207:
text: Second, we discuss the problem of karoshi, which is unique to Japan. Karoshi has become an increasingly serious problem.
ref: 2006, Ronald J. Burke, Research Companion to Working Time and Work Addiction, page 158:
text: […] I am a workaholic. […] The Japanese have a word for the problem: karōshi. It means “death from overwork.”
ref: [2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 120:
text: In Japan there is a word for the consequences of extreme busyness: karoshi''', which means 'death from overwork'. Karoshi happens when chronic fatigue, stemming from long hours and persistent stress, leads to stroke and heart disease. For most of us, the results of a busyness-induced allostatic load are much less dramatic, but still pretty bad: being 'always on' has been linked to reductions in performance, reduced memory, and increased health risks of all kinds: cardiovascular disease, reduced immune system performance and an earlier death. One expert in the US approximated that 60-90 per cent of all visits to the doctor were stress related.
ref: 2008, Tony Crabbe, Busy, Preface, at page xi
text: Since the 1980s, labor lawyers and citizens groups have been pushing for changes to the law to recognize karoshi as a serious social issue.
ref: 2016 November 30, Emiko Jozuka and Yoko Wakatsuki, “Death by overwork: Pressure mounts on Japan to act”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Death, such as from heart attack or stroke, brought on by overwork or job-related stress.
Synonyms: guolaosi
gwarosa
Related terms: roman: jiǔjiǔliù
english: literally 996; 9-to-9 workday and six-day workweek
translation: literally 996; 9-to-9 workday and six-day workweek
word: 九九六
upas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upases
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay upas.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.
ref: 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:
glosses: A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
glosses: A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.
glosses: A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.
Synonyms: sense: Antiaris toxicaria
word: bohun upas
sense: poison from Strychnos tieute
word: upas tieute
Korea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹi.ə/
ipa: [kʰɵˈɹi.ə]
ipa: /kəˈɹiːə/
ipa: [kʰɵˈɹiːə]
ipa: /koˈɹiːɐ/
ipa: [koˈɹiːɐ]
note: Indic
ipa: /kɵˈrɪjɑ/
homophone: chorea (general, except Indic)
homophone: career (in fast non-rhotic speech)
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: Koreas
form: Corea
Etymology: First attested as Core in the 1598 English translation of the 1596 Itinerario of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, from the original Dutch Core, itself from Portuguese according to van Linschoten's account. The spelling Corea was more common in Early Modern English, likely through Core + -ia.
Ultimately a sixteenth-century borrowing by Europeans from some variety of Chinese. Compare Mandarin 高麗 /高丽 (Gāolí) but especially Hokkien 高麗 /高丽 (Ko-lê), which matches the Dutch-Portuguese vowels exactly.
These are Chinese pronunciations of Sino-Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo), Korea's official name between 918 and 1394 and still used by Chinese people to refer to the country for centuries thereafter; this itself being a shortening of 高句麗 (“Goguryeo”), an ancient Korean kingdom in the first millennium. Doublet of Goryeo, directly from Korean.
Some Korean authors claim an Arabic intermediary instead, but this is impossible because the actual medieval Arabic word for Korea was a variant of السيلى (al-sīlā, see also Silla).
Senses: examples: text: After the death of the empreſs Papûſha he had been baniſhed into Korea, from whence he was removed to Quey-lin Fû, the capital of Quang-ſi.
ref: 1780, “The Hiſtory of Jenghîz Khan's Succeſſors in Tartary and China”, in The Modern Part of an Univerſal History from the Earlieſt Accounts to the Preſent Time, volume IV, page 297:
text: Then I told the delegates of the trip which I had taken with my wife, Jane, into Korea on the previous Thanksgiving, and of how I had celebrated my seventy-fourth birthday on the snowy mountains of Korea, eating from a mess kit with the men in uniform.
ref: 1954, Alben W. Barkley, “What Happened at Chicago”, in That Reminds Me, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 246:
glosses: A geographic region consisting of two countries in East Asia, commonly known as South Korea and North Korea; formerly a single country.
glosses: A geographic region consisting of two countries in East Asia, commonly known as South Korea and North Korea; formerly a single country.
South Korea: A country in East Asia, comprising the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
glosses: A geographic region consisting of two countries in East Asia, commonly known as South Korea and North Korea; formerly a single country.
North Korea: A country in East Asia, whose territory consists of the northern part of Korea.
glosses: A peninsula in East Asia, containing the countries of North Korea and South Korea; in full, Korean Peninsula.
Derived terms: Best Korea
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Juche Korea
Korean
Korea Passing
North Korea
People's Korea
Republic of Korea
South Korea
Worst Korea
boom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͞om
ipa: /buːm/
other: /bʊm/
ipa: /bum/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: booms
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.
Senses: examples: text: the boom of the surf
glosses: A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
examples: text: You should prepare for the coming boom in the tech industry.
text: Some of the minor Welsh 2 ft. gauge railways, we hear from Mr. N. F. G. Dalston, are enjoying a miniature boom owing to the demand for slate for the repair of damaged roofs.
ref: 1941 March, “Notes and News: The Demand for Slate”, in Railway Magazine, page 141:
glosses: A rapid expansion or increase.
topics: business
economics
sciences
antonyms: recession
glosses: A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of sonic boom.
examples: text: Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ in respect to their susceptibility to habitat-induced degradation.
ref: 1990, Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception:
glosses: One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
examples: text: Some chess commentators know to excitedly point out when booms happen but they almost universally are missing out on the next step of explaining what the boom meant.
ref: 2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
text: The evaluation boom and moob continued as Stockfish headed for a queen-rook-knight vs queen-rook-knight position that looked pretty nasty to me!
ref: 2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2022:
topics: board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: moob
glosses: An instance of booming.
Derived terms: antiboom
baby boom
boomable
boom and bust
boom bap
boomburb
boom carpet
boom corridor
boomity
boomless
boomlet
boomlike
boom or bust
boom path
boom pipe
boomsayer
boomshakalaka
boomster
boomtime
boomtown
dot-com boom
gayby boom
kerboom
lower the boom
miniboom
nonboom
overboom
postboom
preboom
sonic boom
Vine boom
boom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͞om
ipa: /buːm/
other: /bʊm/
ipa: /bum/
rhymes: -uːm
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.
Senses: examples: text: crash boom bang
text: In regards to what happened to Mutsu, well, it went BOOM. To be more prosaic about it, there were a number of theories put forward as to why Mutsu's magazine for its aft superfiring turret exploded, some of them more plausible than others.
ref: 2020 January 12, Drachinifel, 47:06 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 076, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022:
glosses: Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
examples: text: Add one cup of hot water, wait a minute, and boom — your cup of ramen is ready.
text: So we went around the corner, looked in the garbage, and, boom, there's about 16 of the tapes he didn't like!
ref: 1993, Vibe, volume 1, number 2:
text: Hostile race relations and chronic unemployment are ignored in the suburbs of Paris, London and Sydney, and boom! there are riots.
ref: 2013, Peter Westoby, Gerard Dowling, Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development:
glosses: Used to suggest something happening suddenly or unexpectedly; voilà.
glosses: The sound of a bass drum beating.
glosses: The sound of a cannon firing.
Derived terms: ba da bing ba da boom
bada bing bada boom
bada boom
bada boom bada bing
boom goes the dynamite
ka-boom
sis boom bah
Related terms: kaboom
boom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͞om
ipa: /buːm/
other: /bʊm/
ipa: /bum/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: booms
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.
Senses: examples: text: Tighten the outhaul and place the appropriate line in the cam cleat located on the boom about two feet back from the mast.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Pico Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 1:
topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
topics: arts
broadcasting
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
videography
glosses: A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
topics: arts
broadcasting
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
videography
glosses: Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
glosses: A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
examples: text: I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:
glosses: A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
examples: text: The wooden upright was now standing in the middle of the floor, and the two booms were fitted into its grooved side and hoisted as high as hands could reach. [...] Two by two, one at each end, the students proceeded along the boom, hanging by their hands, monkey-wise. [...] Two by two the students somersaulted upwards on to the high boom, turned to a sitting position sideways, and then slowly stood up on the narrow ledge.
ref: 1948, Josephine Tey, Miss Pym Disposes:
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.
glosses: A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
glosses: The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
Derived terms: boomable
boomage
boom gate
boomhouse
boom house
boomless
boomlike
boom pole
boom vang
containment boom
foreboom
gib boom
head boom
jib boom
knuckleboom
lower the boom
mainboom
put the boom down
swinging boom
tail boom
top one's boom
torpedo boom
Related terms: bumpkin
boom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͞om
ipa: /buːm/
other: /bʊm/
ipa: /bum/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: booms
form: booming
form: boomed
form: boomed
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.
Senses: examples: text: to boom out a sail
text: to boom off a boat
glosses: To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
glosses: To raise or lower with a crane boom.
raw_tags: with "up" or "down"
second hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛkənd ˈhænd/
Forms: form: secondhand
form: second-hand
Etymology: second (ordinal) + hand (“party”)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of secondhand.
Related terms: at second hand
second hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛkənd ˈhænd/
Forms: form: second hands
form: secondhand
form: second-hand
Etymology: second (ordinal) + hand (“party”)
Senses: examples: text: “My Lord Oxford, by a second hand, proposed my being his chaplain, which I, by a second hand, excused.
ref: 1826, Walter Scott, editor, Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, page 135:
text: Under certain circumstances there is always a danger in a young man's playing the benefactor towards the other sex, in his own person. A thousand times better do it by a second hand — engage the services of some kind aunt or female cousin.
ref: 1832, James Sheridan Knowles, The Magdalen, and other tales, page 3:
glosses: An intermediate person or means; intermediary.
Derived terms: at second hand
second hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛkənd ˈhænd/
ipa: /ˈsɛkənd ˌhænd/
ipa: /ˌsɛkənd ˈhænd/
Forms: form: second hands
Etymology: second (“unit of time”) + hand (“pointer”)
Senses: examples: text: ... the ticking of a second hand. Tick, tick, tick. The clock. Jude wrenched himself free of his gift's trance, surprised that there wasn't a tearing sound when his hand came free of the doubloon. The visions fell away, and he felt his ...
ref: 2018 April 17, Bryan Camp, The City of Lost Fortunes, Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: minute hand
hour hand
glosses: On the clock face of a clock or watch, the hand (pointer) that shows the number of seconds that have passed.
Related terms: sweeping
ticking
tick-tock