cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːn/
ipa: /lɔn/
ipa: /lɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: lawns
form: lawning
form: lawned
form: lawned
Etymology: Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.
Senses: examples: text: By opening all the arches of the several apartments […], by lawning the area within, and by a judicious use of ivy where any blank spaces require to be broken, or any deformities concealed, this might be made a beautiful and singular scene; […]
ref: 1827, An Historical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Account of Kirkstall Abbey, page 170:
glosses: To furnish with a lawn.
lawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːn/
ipa: /lɔn/
ipa: /lɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: lawns
Etymology: Apparently from Laon, a French town known for its linen manufacturing, from Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, a Celtic name cognate with Lugdunum.
Senses: examples: text: Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 107–108:
text: The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 144:
glosses: A type of thin linen or cotton.
glosses: Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
examples: text: […] she was as the wild yoncopin to the calla lily. Marjie knew how to dress. To-day, shaded by the buggy-top, in her dainty light blue lawn, with the soft pink of her cheeks and her clear white brow and throat, she was a most delicious thing […]
ref: 1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie:
glosses: A piece of clothing made from lawn.
leech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lēch
ipa: /liːt͡ʃ/
homophone: leach
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: leeches
Etymology: From Middle English leche (“blood-sucking worm”), from Old English lǣċe (“blood-sucking worm”), akin to Middle Dutch lāke ("blood-sucking worm"; > modern Dutch laak).
Senses: examples: text: The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood.
ref: 2003, William W. Johnstone, The Last Of The Dog Team, page 195:
glosses: An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
examples: text: 'Wrecked his body and his mind, no use to hisself or his family or nobody, just a leech on society'.
ref: 2000, Ray Garmon, The Man Who Just Didn't Care, page 20:
text: At this point, I felt this man was a leech. I suspected that he had spent a lifetime living off the good will of women that he met.
ref: 2006, D. L. Harman, A State of Nine One One, page 106:
glosses: A person who derives advantage from others in a parasitic fashion.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
Synonyms: sense: person who lives as a parasite
word: parasite
word: sponger
word: bloodsucker
word: vampire
Derived terms: green leech
horse-leech
horse leech
land-leech
leechlike
leechy
turtle leech
water-leech
leech
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lēch
ipa: /liːt͡ʃ/
homophone: leach
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: leeches
form: leeching
form: leeched
form: leeched
Etymology: From Middle English leche (“blood-sucking worm”), from Old English lǣċe (“blood-sucking worm”), akin to Middle Dutch lāke ("blood-sucking worm"; > modern Dutch laak).
Senses: examples: text: The poppy made him sleep and while he slept they leeched him to drain off the bad blood.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Davos [Seaworth]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 285:
glosses: To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: mooch, suck down
text: Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.
text: Her daughter Astrid (new Tim Burton muse Jenna Ortega) barely speaks to her, and her greasy-haired boyfriend Rory (Justin Theroux, proving once again to be a comedic tour de force) obviously leeching off her fame and money
ref: 2024 September 6, Anna McKibbin, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice reinvigorates Tim Burton’s stale brand, returning to practical playfulness”, in AV Club:
glosses: To drain (resources) without giving back.
Synonyms: sense: to drain resources
word: drain
Derived terms: leecher
leech
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lēch
ipa: /liːt͡ʃ/
homophone: leach
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: leeches
form: leeching
form: leeched
form: leeched
Etymology: From Middle English lechen (“to cure, heal, treat”), from Middle English leche (“doctor, physician”). Compare Swedish läka (“to heal”).
Senses: examples: text: 1564, Accounts of Louth Corporalː
Paid for leeching.. my horses very sick.
text: 1566–74, Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotlandː
To one man (that) broke his leg in Strivelin … Item to the man that leecheth him.
text: though there are many Pretenders to the Art of Farriering and Cow-leeching, yet many of them are very ignorant , especially in the Countrie
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
text: 1850, Blackieː
A disease that none may leech.
glosses: To treat, cure or heal.
Synonyms: sense: make better
word: treat
sense: make better
word: cure
sense: make better
word: heal
Derived terms: leecher
leech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lēch
ipa: /liːt͡ʃ/
homophone: leach
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: leeches
Etymology: From Middle English lek, leche, lyche, from Old Norse lík (“leechline”), from Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką (compare West Frisian lyk (“band”), Dutch lijk (“boltrope”), Middle High German geleich (“joint, limb”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- ‘to bind’ (compare Latin ligō (“tie, bind”), Ukrainian нали́гати (nalýhaty, “to bridle, fetter”), Albanian lidh (“to bind”), Hittite link- (caus. linganu-) ‘to swear’ (with -n- infix).
Senses: examples: text: To help combat these problems, almost all sailmakers trim the leeches of their headsails to a hollow or concave profile and enclose a LEECHLINE within the leech tabling.
ref: 1984, Sven Donaldson, A Sailor's Guide to Sails, page 130:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The vertical edge of a square sail.
examples: text: Trim the leech of the jib parallel to the main by watching the slot between the mainsail and the jib.
ref: 2004, Gary Jobson, Gary Jobson's Championship Sailing, page 176:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The aft edge of a triangular sail.
Derived terms: leech line
leechline
Related terms: foot
luff
leach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lēch
ipa: /liːt͡ʃ/
homophone: leech
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: leaches
Etymology: From Middle English leche (“leachate; sluggish stream”), from Old English *lǣċ, *lǣċe (“muddy stream”), from Proto-Germanic *lēkijō (“a leak, drain, flow”)
(compare Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Old English leċċan (“to water, moisten”), Old English lacu (“stream, pool, pond”). More at leak, lake.
Senses: coordinate_terms: leachant
leachate
glosses: A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
examples: text: "This is the leach," said Kitty, pointing to a large, yellowish, upright wooden cylinder, which rested on some slanting boards, down the surface of which ran a brownish liquid that dripped into a trough.
ref: 1894, Robert Barr, chapter 7, in In the Midst of Alarms:
glosses: A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative spelling of leech.
examples: ref: 1670, Hannah Woolley, “To make Leach and to colour it”, in The Queen-like Closet, Or, Rich Cabinet:
glosses: A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
Derived terms: leachtub
leachy
leach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lēch
ipa: /liːt͡ʃ/
homophone: leech
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: leaches
form: leaching
form: leached
form: leached
Etymology: From Middle English *lechen, *lecchen, from Old English leċċan, from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Senses: examples: text: Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
text: [T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
ref: 2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G7:
glosses: To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
examples: text: The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.
glosses: To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
examples: text: A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier.
ref: 2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19:
text: There's a second half to each video. He remembers now. He watched it passively, over and over, and never saw it. Something comes through. It's been leaching into the background of the world this whole time, in plain sight, and he never saw it, and it's here now—
ref: 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: To bleed; to seep.
Derived terms: word: bioleached
word: leachability
word: leachable
word: leachant
word: leachate
word: leach brine
word: leacher
word: leaching
word: unleached
Related terms: demineralize
leak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lēk
ipa: /liːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: leek
Forms: form: leaks
Etymology: From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg-, *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Icelandic leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“I damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.
Senses: examples: a leak in a roof
a leak in a boat
a leak in a gas pipe
glosses: A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
examples: text: The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
text: The babies' diapers had big leaks.
glosses: The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
examples: text: The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
glosses: A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
examples: text: […] so even if he was the leak, we would never know.
ref: 2015, Leena Ching, Scandalous, Purple Diamond Publishing:
text: I was the leak. That the government didn't like our advice, and so I decided to leak it to 'bounce' them into having to follow it.
ref: 2024, Tony Holohan, We Need to Talk: A Memoir:
text: If he was the leak, it wasn't intentional. The same went for her mom, not that Cat thought her mom had any friends with top-level security clearance.
ref: 2024, MarcyKate Connolly, Kathryn Holmes, The Thirteenth Circle:
glosses: The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
glosses: A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
examples: resource leak
memory leak
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
examples: text: I have to take a leak.
glosses: An act of urination.
raw_tags: with the verb "take"
Coordinate terms: sense: act of urination
word: dump
Derived terms: antileak
data leak
endoleak
gas leak
inleak
lambda leak
leakage
Leakgate
leakless
leak-proof
leakproof
leaktivism
leaky
megaleak
memory leak
microleak
non-verbal leak
routing leak
spring a leak
superleak
take a leak
Vatileaks
Related terms: leach
leak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lēk
ipa: /liːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: leek
Forms: form: more leak
form: most leak
Etymology: From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg-, *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Icelandic leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“I damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.
Senses: examples: text: Yet is the bottle leake, and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Leaky.
lease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: leases
Etymology: From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin laxō (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen), cognate with Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”) whence let.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
glosses: An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.
glosses: The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.
glosses: The document containing such a contract or deed.
examples: text: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: The period of such an interest.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The temporary assignment of an IP address to a networked device.
Synonyms: tenancy
letting
Hyponyms: word: subtenancy
word: undertenancy
word: subletting
word: underletting
word: sublet
word: underlet
Derived terms: ACMI lease
crown lease
dry lease
head lease
headlease
improving lease
leasee
lease for lives
leasehand
leasehold
leaseholder
leaseholding
leaseless
lease line
leasemonger
lend-lease
lessee
lessor
life-lease
net lease
new lease of life
new lease on life
off-lease
pie crust lease
prelease
sub-lease
sublease
superior lease
surface lease
underlease
wedlease
wet lease
lease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: leases
form: leasing
form: leased
form: leased
Etymology: From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin laxō (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen), cognate with Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”) whence let.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.
examples: text: I'm leasing a small apartment in Runcorn for a month while I'm there for work.
glosses: To hold a lease as a tenant.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To accept such an assignment of (an IP address).
Derived terms: leasable
leaseability
leaseable
leaseback
lease-lend
lease out
leaser
prelease
re-lease
Related terms: lessor
lessee
lease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: leases
form: leasing
form: leased
form: leased
Etymology: From Middle English lesen, from Old English lesan (“to collect, pick, select, gather”), from Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (“to gather”).
Senses: glosses: To gather.
glosses: To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
glosses: To glean.
glosses: To glean, gather up leavings.
lease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: leases
form: leasing
form: leased
form: leased
Etymology: From Middle English lesen, from Old English lēasian (“to lie, tell lies”), from lēas (“falsehood, lying, untruth, mistake”).
Senses: glosses: To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
Derived terms: leasing
lease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: leases
form: leaze
Etymology: From Middle English lese, from Old English lǣs (“meadow”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“meadow”). See also leasow.
Senses: examples: text: Since as a child I used to lie
Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
Never, I own, expected I
That life would all be fair.
ref: 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
glosses: An open pasture or common.
lease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: leases
form: leasing
form: leased
form: leased
form: leese
Etymology: From Middle English lesen, from Old English līesan (“to loosen, release, redeem, deliver, liberate”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijaną (“to release, loosen”).
Senses: glosses: To release; let go; unloose.
lease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: leases
Etymology: From leash.
Senses: glosses: The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
leash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
homophone: Laois
Forms: form: leashes
form: leashing
form: leashed
form: leashed
Etymology: From Middle English leesshe, leysche, lesshe, a variant of more original lease, from Middle English lees, leese, leece, lese, from Old French lesse (modern French laisse), either from Latin laxa, feminine form of laxus (“loose”) or, more probably, from a deverbal of Old French lesser, laissier, from Latin laxāre (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.
Senses: glosses: To fasten or secure with a leash.
examples: text: Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: to curb, restrain
Derived terms: unleashable
ledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
homophone: lege
Forms: form: ledges
Etymology: From Middle English legge, from Old English leċġ (“bar, crossbeam”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggju (“layer, strip, ledge, rung, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjō (“layer, stratum”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”). Cognate with West Frisian lêch (“a layer of sheaves on a threshing floor”), Dutch leg (“layer”), German Low German Legg (“wrinkle, fold, flat layer, stratum”), Middle High German legge, lecke (“position, layer, stratum, tier; pleat, hem”). Related to Middle English leggen (“to lay, apply”), from Old English leċġan (“to lay”); and Old English *ġeleċġ (“positioning, arrangement, layout”) as in Old English limġeleċġ (“the disposition of the limbs, form, shape”). More at lay.
Senses: examples: text: Let me help you tie the rope around your neck / Let me help to talk you the wrong way off the ledge / Let me help you hold the Glock against your head
ref: 2000, “Dig”, in L.D. 50, performed by Mudvayne, Track 2:
glosses: A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.
glosses: A shelf on which articles may be laid.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
glosses: A layer or stratum.
glosses: A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
topics: architecture
glosses: A (door or window) lintel.
topics: architecture
glosses: A cornice.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
Derived terms: foreledge
Grand Ledge
ledgeless
ledgment
ledgy
portaledge
underledge
ledge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
homophone: lege
Forms: form: ledges
form: ledging
form: ledged
form: ledged
Etymology: From Middle English legge, from Old English leċġ (“bar, crossbeam”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggju (“layer, strip, ledge, rung, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjō (“layer, stratum”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”). Cognate with West Frisian lêch (“a layer of sheaves on a threshing floor”), Dutch leg (“layer”), German Low German Legg (“wrinkle, fold, flat layer, stratum”), Middle High German legge, lecke (“position, layer, stratum, tier; pleat, hem”). Related to Middle English leggen (“to lay, apply”), from Old English leċġan (“to lay”); and Old English *ġeleċġ (“positioning, arrangement, layout”) as in Old English limġeleċġ (“the disposition of the limbs, form, shape”). More at lay.
Senses: examples: text: [...] preparation must not remove excess dentine from the canal, and care must be taken not to ledge the canal walls.
ref: 1993, Proceedings, page 87:
text: Length Longer canals are more prone to ledging than shorter canals. Careful attention to maintaining patency is required to prevent ledging.
Initial Size Smaller-diameter canals are more easily ledged than larger-diameter canals. In summary ...
ref: 2009, Mahmoud Torabinejad, Richard E. Walton, Endodontics: Principles and Practice, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 330:
glosses: To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc).
ledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
homophone: lege
Forms: form: ledges
Senses: examples: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/pete-jenson-adebayors-fresh-start-means-hard-work-short-hair-ndash-and-vital-goals-2263767.html, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/8605605/Andy-Murray-v-Feliciano-Lopez-at-Wimbledon-2011-as-it-happened.html, https://web.archive.org/web/20121109021139/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19083758
glosses: Alternative form of lege (“a legend; a person held in high regard”).
ledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
homophone: lege
Forms: form: ledges
Etymology: Shortening of legislature.
Senses: examples: text: Known to Edmontonians as "the Ledge", the Alberta Legislature Building is a marvel of marble pillars, carved oak, beautiful Beaux-Arts architecture and stunning grounds.
ref: "Alberta Legislature," Explore Edmonton https://exploreedmonton.com/attractions-and-experiences/alberta-legislature
glosses: A provincial or territorial legislature building.
glosses: A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.
leisurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛʒɜli/
ipa: /ˈliʒɚli/
Forms: form: more leisurely
form: most leisurely
Etymology: From leisure + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He goes about his business in a leisurely manner
text: As we had a free morning, we went on a leisurely walk around the city.
text: Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
text: The minimum of 48 m.p.h. up the 1 in 200 to Ardley summit was on the leisurely side, [...].
ref: 1960 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
text: This rather leisurely journey, consuming almost six months, should be contrasted with Liu Tsung-yüan's trip into exile in 815- it took him a little more than three months to reach Liu-chou in Lingnan from Ch’ang-an.
ref: 1967, Edward H. Schafer, The Vermilion Bird, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:
glosses: Characterized by leisure; taking plenty of time; unhurried.
Synonyms: leisured
Derived terms: leisureliness
overleisurely
unleisurely
leisurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛʒɜli/
ipa: /ˈliʒɚli/
Forms: form: more leisurely
form: most leisurely
Etymology: From earlier leisurelily, by haplology, equivalent to leisurely + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For some minutes he walked leisurely but uncollectedly, along the line of stalls; as if contemplating the rich display of summer fruits still remaining unsold.
ref: 1838, Catherine Grace Frances Gore, Mary Raymond, and Other Tales, volume 2, page 124:
text: Sunset Crescent Drive curved leisurely north from Sunset Boulevard, well beyond the Bel-Air Country Club golf-course.
ref: 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 37:
text: Oh give me a land / where the bright diamond sand / flows leisurely down to the stream
where the graceful white swan / goes gliding along / like a star in a heavenly dream.
ref: 2008, “Home on the Range”performed by Lisa Loeb:
glosses: In a leisurely manner.
lethal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.θəl/
rhymes: -iːθəl
Forms: form: more lethal
form: most lethal
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lētālis (“deadly, mortal, fatal”), improperly written lēthālis, from lētum (“death”), improperly written as lēthum, from a supposed connection with Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “oblivion, forgetfulness”).
Senses: examples: text: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
Derived terms: coat color dilution lethal
colethal
cytolethal
haplolethal
hyperlethal
less-lethal
less-than-lethal
lethal allele
lethal chamber
lethal congenital contracture syndrome
lethal dose
lethal gene
lethal injection
lethality
lethally
lethalness
lethal time
lethal white syndrome
lethal yellowing
lethal zone
nonlethal
non-lethal
semilethal
semi-lethal
sublethal
sub-lethal
superlethal
supralethal
triplolethal
ultralethal
unlethal
Related terms: nonlethality
semilethality
sublethality
sublethally
lethal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.θəl/
rhymes: -iːθəl
Forms: form: lethals
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lētālis (“deadly, mortal, fatal”), improperly written lēthālis, from lētum (“death”), improperly written as lēthum, from a supposed connection with Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “oblivion, forgetfulness”).
Senses: antonyms: non-lethal
glosses: Any weapon that causes death.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.
lethal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.θəl/
rhymes: -iːθəl
Etymology: Abbreviation of “lauric acid ethereal salt”, so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.
liable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ̯əbəl/
ipa: [ˈlaɪ̯əbɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈlaɪ̯əbəɫ]
rhymes: -aɪəbəl
Forms: form: more liable
form: most liable
Etymology: From Old French lier (“to bind”), from Latin ligare (“to bind, to tie”).
Senses: examples: text: The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 34:
text: He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.
The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, seems liable to this inconvenience
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: The document states that despite its ongoing advancements, generative AI is liable to the United States’s current copyright principles, which take a strict stance on what material—human- or machine-made—qualifies for protection.
ref: 2025 January 30, Tessa Solomon, “AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say”, in ARTnews:
glosses: Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
examples: text: This crime is liable to imprisonment for life.
text: A man liable to heart disease.
text: ☞ This word [earth] is liable to a coarſe vulgar pronunciation, as if written Urth;[…]
ref: 1791, John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 211:
glosses: Subject; susceptible; prone.
glosses: Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
examples: text: Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.
glosses: Likely.
raw_tags: with to-infinitive
Derived terms: liableness
nonliable
unliable
Related terms: liability
reliable
liberate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪbəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: liberates
form: liberating
form: liberated
form: liberated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin līberātus, the perfect passive participle of līberō (“to set free, deliver”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from līber (“free”); see liberal.
Senses: glosses: To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
To release from slavery: to manumit.
glosses: To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
To release from servitude or unjust rule.
examples: text: Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
ref: 1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
text: You need to free your mind and liberate yourself from prejudice.
glosses: To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
To release from restraint or inhibition.
examples: text: Since the procedure liberates a large amount of chlorine gas, a powerful ventilation system is recommended.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
To release from chemical bonds or solutions.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To acquire from an enemy during wartime, used especially of cities, regions, and other population centers.
examples: text: We didn't need IDs. We just liberated these beers from the back of the shop.
text: I had proven myself, when I was required to liberate (steal) dynamite, steal cars for robberies, and to perform disciplinary action against party members.
ref: 1969, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Riots, Civil and Criminal Disorders, page 3796:
text: For expedience, he intended to use his talents to liberate a few choice bottles from the wine cellars without going through the difficulty of a formal requisition.
ref: 1986, Jack Hemingway, Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life with and Without Papa, page 158:
text: He was trying to liberate some funds for the revolution from a liquor store, and he got caught. It was his first time out, and he got flat-ass caught.
ref: 2014, Collin Wilcox, Doctor, Lawyer:
glosses: To acquire from another by theft or force: to steal, to rob.
Synonyms: word: befree
word: free
word: set free
word: deliver
word: disentangle
word: extricate
word: let go
word: let loose
word: liberate
word: loose
word: release
word: turn loose
word: unleash
Hyponyms: word: emancipate
word: manumit
word: unchain
word: unfetter
word: unhand
Derived terms: liberative
liberin
reliberate
Related terms: liberation
liberator
liberate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪbəɹeɪt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin līberātus, originally used as the past participle of liberate, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: glosses: liberated
topics: law
glosses: allowed, delivered, freed (see Etymology 3).
liberate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪbəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: liberates
Etymology: From Middle English liberate (the common first word of such writs), from Medieval Latin līberātum, substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of līberātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Alternatively, from līberāte, the second-person plural imperative of līberō, compare English allocate (“a warrant for the payment of a pension, allowance, debt, etc.”).
Senses: examples: text: liberate roll
translation: an account kept of pensions and other allowances made under the great seal
english: an account kept of pensions and other allowances made under the great seal
text: liberate day
translation: the day on which liberates were issued
english: the day on which liberates were issued
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topics: law
glosses: A writ issued out of the Chancery for the payment of a pension, debt, the delivery of one's land or goods from a sheriff's custody, the delivery a prisoner put in bail fo appearance or other royal allowance.
libidinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈbɪ.dɪ.nəs/
Forms: form: more libidinous
form: most libidinous
Etymology: From Middle English libidinous, borrowed from Latin libīdinōsus.
Senses: examples: text: It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms):
text: Stramonium seed, mixed with wine, produces, according to a seventeenth century erotologist, libidinous activity.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229:
glosses: Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness.
glosses: Of or relating to the libido.
Synonyms: sense: having lustful desires
word: hot to trot
word: lascivious
word: lewd
word: licentious
word: lustful
word: wanton
Derived terms: libidinously
libidinousness
unlibidinous
Related terms: libido
libidinism
libidinist
libidinosity
lictor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪktə/
ipa: /ˈlɪktɚ/
rhymes: -ɪktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lictors
form: lictour
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin līctor.
Senses: examples: text: Hee brought-in likevvise the ancient cuſtome againe, that in vvhat moneth hee had not the Knitches of rods vvith Axes borne before him, a publique Officer called Accensvs ſhould huiſher him before, and the Serjeants or Lictours follovv after behinde.
ref: 1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Caius Iulius Cesar Dictator”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 20, page 8:
text: “Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 276:
text: ‘Beware the power of the mob, Caesar.’ Then, schooled in needful agility, he ran away before a lictor’s whip could reach him.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: An officer in Ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.
Derived terms: lictorial
liege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /liːʒ/
rhymes: -iːdʒ
rhymes: -iːʒ
Forms: form: lieges
Etymology: From Middle English liege, lege, lige, from Anglo-Norman lige, from Old French liege (“liege, free”), from Middle High German ledic, ledec (“free, empty, vacant”) (Modern German ledig (“unmarried”)) from Proto-Germanic *liþugaz (“flexible, free, unoccupied”).
Akin to Old Frisian leþeg, leþoch (“free”), Old English liþiġ (“flexible”), Old Norse liðugr (“free, unhindered”), Old Saxon lethig (“idle”), Low German leddig (“empty”), Middle Dutch ledich (“idle, unemployed”) (Dutch ledig (“empty”) and leeg (“empty”)), Middle English lethi (“unoccupied, at leisure”).
An alternate etymology traces the Old French word to Late Latin laeticus (“of or relating to a semifree colonist in Gaul”), from Latin laetus (“a semi-free colonist”), from Gothic *𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (*lēts) (attested in derivatives such as 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (fralēts)), from Proto-Germanic *lētaz (“freeman; bondsman, serf”), from *lētaną (“to let; free; release”).
Senses: glosses: A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.
examples: text: More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, 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, [Act 3, scene 2]:
text: Kings, my liege, may take a lesson from him
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
glosses: A king or lord.
raw_tags: in full liege lord
glosses: The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
Derived terms: liegedom
liegeful
liegeless
liegewoman
ligeance
liege
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /liːʒ/
rhymes: -iːdʒ
rhymes: -iːʒ
Etymology: From Middle English liege, lege, lige, from Anglo-Norman lige, from Old French liege (“liege, free”), from Middle High German ledic, ledec (“free, empty, vacant”) (Modern German ledig (“unmarried”)) from Proto-Germanic *liþugaz (“flexible, free, unoccupied”).
Akin to Old Frisian leþeg, leþoch (“free”), Old English liþiġ (“flexible”), Old Norse liðugr (“free, unhindered”), Old Saxon lethig (“idle”), Low German leddig (“empty”), Middle Dutch ledich (“idle, unemployed”) (Dutch ledig (“empty”) and leeg (“empty”)), Middle English lethi (“unoccupied, at leisure”).
An alternate etymology traces the Old French word to Late Latin laeticus (“of or relating to a semifree colonist in Gaul”), from Latin laetus (“a semi-free colonist”), from Gothic *𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (*lēts) (attested in derivatives such as 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (fralēts)), from Proto-Germanic *lētaz (“freeman; bondsman, serf”), from *lētaną (“to let; free; release”).
Senses: examples: text: a liege lord
text: She look'd as grand as doomsday and as grave: / And he, he reverenced his liege lady there;
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance.
examples: text: a liege man; a liege subject
glosses: Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, such as a vassal to his lord; faithful.
examples: text: it was a release by Katherine de Ros in her liege widowhood to Sir Thomas de Stirkeland
ref: 1908, Daniel Scott (of Penrith), Stricklands of Sizergh Castle:
topics: law
glosses: Full; perfect; complete; pure.
Related terms: liege lord
liegeman
lifelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪflaɪk/
Forms: form: more lifelike
form: most lifelike
Etymology: From life + -like.
Senses: examples: text: a lifelike portrait
text: The robot was so lifelike, Jack could hardly tell it apart from his sister.
text: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: But part of the movie’s nonstop fun is the way [Christopher] McQuarrie taps back into the genre’s (and this series’) games of subterfuge, misdirection, and indeterminate loyalties, beginning with the fiendishly clever rug-pull of its worst-case-scenario prologue and epitomized by the goofily irresistible sight of characters dramatically ripping off lifelike rubber masks.
ref: 2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2018:
glosses: Like a living being, resembling life, giving an accurate representation
Derived terms: lifelikeness
unlifelike
Related terms: lifesize
likewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/
Etymology: From Middle English lykewise, lykewyse, lyke wyse, lijk wise, a shortened form of Middle English in lik wise (“in like wise”); equivalent to like + -wise. Compare with otherwise.
Senses: examples: text: Public transportation is virtually inaccessible in this country; likewise, its hospitals are also not very user-friendly.
topics: manner
glosses: In a similar manner.
examples: text: Margaret enjoys playing tennis on Saturdays, Jeremy likewise.
text: "But it looks like the kid ain't got no appetite to git well, for they misses him from the tent in the night and finds him rootin' in the grass, and likewise a drizzle fallin'. 'G'wan,' he says, 'lemme go and die like I wanter. He said I was a liar and a fake'—McGuire says—'and I was playin' sick. Lemme alone.'
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 179, column 1:
glosses: also; moreover; too.
examples: text: It was very nice meeting you, Samantha. ― Likewise, Mr Thompson.
text: ‘Let me know if you need any help.’ ‘Likewise.’
glosses: The same to you; used as a response.
Synonyms: sense: in a similar manner
word: similarly
limp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: limps
form: limping
form: limped
form: limped
Etymology: From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”).
Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).
Senses: examples: text: Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.
ref: 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.
examples: text: The bomber limped home on one engine.
glosses: To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
examples: text: limping verses
text: The business limped through the recession
text: I think, too, of other organizations that are doing much good work for us, and maybe with words are cheered on, but when it comes to the dollars and cents, few are willing to make any sort of sacrifice to put their money where their mouth is. The National Gay Task Force is an excellent example... drawing on the support of gay people in fifty states, yet having to limp along on $65,000 a year budgets. Organizations like Christian Cause, that would wipe us out if they could, draw ten times that amount with little effort.
ref: 1976 August 28, John C. Lawrence, “H.C.H.S Support”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 5:
text: And so we limped along for another month or two, pretending we still had a reason to be together.
ref: 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 121:
glosses: To move or proceed irregularly.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.
Derived terms: limpard
limper
limp in
limping iamb
limple
limp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: limps
Etymology: From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”).
Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).
Senses: examples: text: She walks with a limp.
glosses: An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
glosses: A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
Derived terms: Alexandra limp
Alexandrian limp
limpless
limplike
limpsome