cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Mayotte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology: From French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, “dead”).
Senses: examples: text: At least several hundred people are feared to have been killed after the worst cyclone in almost a century ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday, uprooting trees, tearing houses apart and pounding the impoverished archipelago’s already weak infrastructure.
ref: 2024 December 15, Sam Jones, “Hundreds feared dead as Cyclone Chido devastates French island of Mayotte”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar.
Related terms: Mahoran
Micronesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪkroʊˈniːʒə/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.zi.ə/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.ʒə/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.ʃə/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.ʒə/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.zi.ə/
rhymes: -iːʒə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μικρόνησος (mikrónēsos, “small island”, from μικρός (mikrós, “small, minimum”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”)) + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A continental region in Oceania in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
glosses: A country consisting of about 2000 islands in the Micronesia region. Official name: Federated States of Micronesia. Capital: Palikir.
Coordinate terms: Melanesia
Polynesia
Derived terms: Micronesian
Related terms: Palikir
Countries of the world
Montserrat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒn(t)səˈɹæt/
ipa: /mɒn(t)səˈɹɒt/
rhymes: -æt
rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology: From Catalan Montserrat. The island was named after the Virgin of Montserrat.
Senses: glosses: An island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean. Official name: Montserrat.
glosses: A mountain range in Catalonia, Spain, near Barcelona, the site of a monastery.
Derived terms: Montserratian
Montserrat oriole
Related terms: serrated
serration
sierra
Countries of the world
Guam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡwɑm/
enpr: gwäm
ipa: /ɡwæm/
ipa: /ɡwɑːm/
ipa: /ɡwɒm/
rhymes: -æm
rhymes: -ɑːm
rhymes: -ɒm
Etymology: From Spanish, from Chamorro Guåhan, meaning "a place that has" or "a place of resources".
Senses: examples: text: But to proceed with our Voyage : The Iſland Guam or Guahon , (as the Native Indians pronounce it) is one of the Ladrone Iſlands, belongs to the Spaniards , who have a ſmall Fort with ſix Guns in it, with a Governour, and 20 or 30 Soldiers.
ref: 1699, William Dampier, chapter X, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], 4th corrected edition, volume I, London: Printed for James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 290:
text: It had been the intention of the Navy Department to fortify Guam with a view to turning it into a first-class naval base. The fact that America has been willing to forgo this intention must be taken as evidence of a genuine desire to preserve the peace with Japan.
ref: 1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:
text: We began our six-day visit to China in Beijing on a cloudy, overcast morning following another overnight stopover on Guam.
ref: 1990, Ronald Reagan, “Staying the Course”, in An American Life, Pocket Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 369:
text: The Chinese military has refined its anti-ship missile training from striking large, carrier-sized targets to smaller ships and naval bases, according to recent satellite images.
They show a training base in Xinjiang’s remote Taklamakan desert with the layout of mock-up ship moored in a naval base that resembles one in northeast Taiwan and other targets in Guam, according to a Taipei-based naval analyst.
ref: 2022 May 12, Minnie Chan, “Satellite images ‘suggest China is practising missile strikes on targets in Taiwan and Guam’”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 12 May 2022:
glosses: An unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the Pacific Ocean. Official name: Territory of Guam.
glosses: A barangay of San Guillermo, Isabela, Philippines.
Derived terms: Guamanian
Related terms: Hagåtña
Grenada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəˈneɪdə/
rhymes: -eɪdə
Etymology: From anglicization/latinization of French Grenade upon the island's cession to the United Kingdom under the terms of the 1763 Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years' War, from Spanish Granada and Los Granadillos on Spanish maps from at least the 1520s, from Granada in Spain, from Arabic غَرْنَاطَة (Ḡarnāṭa), originally a suburb of the city. Doublet of Granada.
Senses: glosses: An island and country in the Caribbean.
glosses: A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Grenada County, Mississippi, United States.
Hyponyms: Carriacou and Petite Martinique
Derived terms: Grenada County
Grenada dove
Grenada flycatcher
Grenada tree anole
Grenada worm snake
Faroe Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛəɹəʊ ˌaɪləndz/
Forms: form: the Faroe Islands
form: Faeroe Islands
Etymology: From Old Norse Færeyjar (“Faroe Islands”, literally “Sheep Islands”), a compound of fær (“sheep”) and eyjar (“islands”).
Senses: glosses: An archipelago and self-governing autonomous territory of Denmark, in the North Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Iceland.
Related terms: Faroe
Faeroe
Faroese
Faroish
Faroe Islander
Countries of the world
Faeroe Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Faeroe Islands
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Faroe Islands.
Falkland Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːlklənd ˌaɪləndz/
ipa: /ˈfɔːklənd ˌaɪləndz/
ipa: /ˈfɒlklənd ˌaɪləndz/
Forms: form: the Falkland Islands
form: Falkland Island
Etymology: Name taken from the Falkland Sound, which was named for Viscount Falkland by John Strong, who landed on the islands in 1690.
Senses: examples: text: No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
ref: 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: Falklands
word: Malvinas
word: Falkland Islands
alt: Malvinas
glosses: An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, located in the South Atlantic.
wikipedia: Viscount Falkland
Derived terms: Falklander
Falklandic
Falkland Islander
Falkland Islands English
Falkland Islands wolf
Falklands
Related terms: Countries of the world
Norfolk Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.fək ˈaɪ.lənd/
ipa: /ˈnɔɹ.fɔk ˈaɪ.lənd/
Forms: form: Norfolk
form: Territory
form: of
Etymology: From the duchy of Norfolk in England, q.v. As an Ecuadorian island, clipping of Duke of Norfolk's Island, bestowed by William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 honor of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk; his son Henry, the 7th duke; or both. As an Australian island and territory, bestowed by James Cook in 1774 in honor of Mary Howard, wife of the 9th duke.
Senses: glosses: An external territory consisting of three islands of Australia in the Pacific Ocean, the main island of which is also named Norfolk Island.
glosses: Former name of Santa Cruz: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.
Derived terms: Norfolk
Norfolk Islander
Norfolk Island pine
Norfolk Island star pine
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /se(ɪ)nt ˌkɪts ən ˈniː.vɪs/
Forms: form: St. Kitts and Nevis
form: St Kitts and Nevis
form: St. Kitts & Nevis
form: St Kitts & Nevis
Senses: examples: text: The Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH) announced in a press release on Monday that its medical team participated in the 2024 Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team (LAMAT) in Saint Kitts and Nevis this March, embarking on a 10-day mission to provide community medical services at the local hospital. The hospital stated that this cross-national medical cooperation has proven successful and received high praise.[…]
Taiwan's ambassador to Saint Kitts and Nevis, Michel Lin (林昭宏), expressed gratitude for TVGH's contributions to diplomatic relations. He emphasized that the medical mission has significantly bolstered medical cooperation between the two nations, establishing a strong foundation for expanded collaboration across various fields in the future.
ref: 2024 April 8, Ching-en Chiou, “Taiwan’s hospital completes medical assistance to Saint Kitts and Nevis”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 04 May 2024:
glosses: A country comprising the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean. Official name: Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis.
Related terms: Basseterre
emoticon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmoʊtəˌkɑn/
ipa: /əˈmoʊtəˌkɑn/
ipa: /ɪˈməʊtɪˌkɒn/
Forms: form: emoticons
Etymology: Blend of emotion + icon
Senses: examples: text: A remark intended humorously is often indicated by the letter G in parentheses, for "grin," or by a sideways happy face built from punctuation marks. Such symbols are known as emoticons.
ref: [1992 December 1, William Grimes, “Computer as a Cultural Tool: Chatter Mounts on Every Topic”, in The New York Times, page C13:
text: In a 4 by 2 experimental procedure, :) ;) :( or no emoticon were inserted alternately in simulated e-mail message mock-ups
ref: 2006, Joseph B. Walther, “Nonverbal dynamics in computer-mediated communication”, in Valerie Manusov, Miles Patterson, editors, The SAGE Handbook of Nonverbal Communication, →ISBN, page 470:
text: The range of interpretations was surprising broad, for instance the emoticon (-.-) had 16 possible interpretations
ref: 2007, M. Yanagisawa, M. Kobayashi, Y. Kato, S. Kato, D. Scott, “Research on the emotions interpreted from emoticons in Japanese cellular telephone email”, in T. Hirashima, U. Hoppe, S. Young, editors, Supporting Learning Flow through Integrative Technologies, →ISBN, page 271:
glosses: A graphical representation of a particular emotion of the writer, used especially in SMS, email, or other electronic communication.
A graphic made up of text characters to represent such emotion; a smiley.
examples: text: In addition to placing emoticons by clicking icons in the pop-up panel shown in Figure 4-2, you can enter the text representation in your text chat window. For example, to show the image of the emoticon with sunglasses, you enter (cool).
ref: 2007, Loren Abdulezer, Susan Abdulezer, Howard Dammond, Skype for Dummies, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: A graphical representation of a particular emotion of the writer, used especially in SMS, email, or other electronic communication.
An image or graphic icon used to represent such emotions; an emoji.
Derived terms: assicon
emoticonic
emoticonized
emoticonlike
kineticon
Related terms: Emoticons appendix
emotag
emoji
kaomoji
bunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭngk
ipa: /bʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: bunks
Etymology: Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian.
Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”).
See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.
Senses: examples: text: Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
text: The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A cot.
glosses: A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
glosses: A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
examples: text: Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
Derived terms: bunk bed
bunkbed
bunkhouse
bunkie
bunk lizard
bunkload
bunkmate
bunkroom
bunkshooter
bunkside
bunkspace
bunk-up
do a bunk
feed bunk
hotbunk
I'll be in my bunk
bunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭngk
ipa: /bʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: bunks
form: bunking
form: bunked
form: bunked
Etymology: Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian.
Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”).
See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.
Senses: examples: text: Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.
glosses: To occupy a bunk.
glosses: To provide a bunk.
Derived terms: bunk down
bunk in
bunk into
bunk together
bunk up
hot bunk
bunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭngk
ipa: /bʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Etymology: Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.
Senses: examples: text: What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.
text: “You can’t pull any bunk like that on us!” roared Quelch. “We’ve had enough of this flapdoodlery! Take your money, Mrs. Clinton, and sign the deed.”
ref: 1927, Arthur Train, When Tutt Meets Tutt, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 47:
glosses: Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
examples: text: This knife-throwing act is the bunk
ref: 1927 January 30, Randall Faye, 1:45 from the start, in Upstream, spoken by Eric Brasingham (Earle Foxe), Fox Film Corporation:
glosses: In early use often in the form the bunk.
examples: text: I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz
ref: 2020 July 18, Rio Da Yung OG, featured by T LB$, “Toledo 2 Flint”, in The World is Yours, 1:26–1:28:
glosses: A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
bunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭngk
ipa: /bʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Etymology: Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.
Senses: glosses: Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
Derived terms: debunk
bunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭngk
ipa: /bʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: bunks
form: bunking
form: bunked
form: bunked
Etymology: 19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
Senses: examples: text: The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.
glosses: To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
examples: text: She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.
ref: 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 83–84:
glosses: To expel from a school.
examples: text: "They're moving off," he said. "[…] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […]"
ref: 1907, Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle:
glosses: To depart; scram.
Derived terms: bunker
bunk off
bunk out
it
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪt/
enpr: ĭt
ipa: /ɘt/
rhymes: -ɪt
ipa: /ɪt/
ipa: [ɪ̈t]
ipa: [ɪt]
rhymes: -ɪt
ipa: /ət/
ipa: [ɪ̈t]
ipa: [ɪ̈ʔ]
enpr: ət
ipa: /ət/
homophone: at stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: hit
form: i'
form: itt
Etymology: From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Low German it (“it”), German es (“it”). Compare also Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), Latin cis (“on this”), hic (“this”). More at he.
Senses: examples: text: That which groweth of it owne accord of thy haruest, thou ſhalt not reape, neither gather the grapes of thy Uine vndreſſed: for it is a yeere of reſt vnto the land.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 25:5:
glosses: Its.
it
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪt/
enpr: ĭt
ipa: /ɘt/
rhymes: -ɪt
ipa: /ɪt/
ipa: [ɪ̈t]
ipa: [ɪt]
rhymes: -ɪt
ipa: /ət/
ipa: [ɪ̈t]
ipa: [ɪ̈ʔ]
enpr: ət
ipa: /ət/
homophone: at stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: hit
form: i'
form: itt
Etymology: From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Low German it (“it”), German es (“it”). Compare also Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), Latin cis (“on this”), hic (“this”). More at he.
Senses: examples: text: Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the "it" bag.
ref: 2007 September, Vibe, volume 15, number 9, page 202:
text: With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.
ref: 2010, David Germain, Hilarious ‘Kick-Ass’ delivers bloody fun, Associated Press:
text: These Italian made sneakers quickly became an it shoe and the trend is not going anywhere any time soon!
ref: 2021 October 4, Robert P, “Are Golden Goose Sneakers Worth It? My Honest Review Of Golden Goose Sneakers”, in Gold Talk Club, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2024:
text: (Our culture's “it”-novelist, Sally Rooney, is instead tellingly God-obsessed.)
ref: 2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:
glosses: Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.
pronunciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prə-nŭn'-sē-ā′-shən
ipa: /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: [pʰɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən]
enpr: prə-noun'-sē-ā′-shən
ipa: /pɹəˌnaʊn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
enpr: prə-nŭn'-shē-ā′-shən
ipa: /pɹəˌnʌn.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /pɹəˌnʌn.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃʌn/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: pronunciations
form: pronuntiation
form: pronounciation
Etymology: From Middle English pronunciacioun, from Middle French prononciation, pronunciation, from Latin prōnūntiātiō, noun of action from perfect passive participle prōnūntiātus, from verb prōnūntiāre (“proclaim”), from prō- (“for”) + nūntiāre (“announce”). Doublet of pronuntiatio.
Senses: examples: text: What is the pronunciation of "hiccough"?
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:
text: In spite of the vague evidence, I think that we may conclude that ME ǭ, like ME ę̄, had two pronunciations during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a more advanced pronunciation with close [oː], and a more conservative one with the ‘intermediate vowel’ [ɔː] […]
ref: 1957, E[ric] J. Dobson, English pronunciation 1500-1700, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 145, page 673:
glosses: The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
examples: text: His Italian pronunciation is terrible.
text: He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
ref: 1687, Chriſtopher Cooper, “Chap. XIX: Of Barbarous Speaking”, in The Engliſh Teacher, London: John Richardſon, for the Author, pages 77-78; republished Menston: Scolar Press, 1969:
glosses: The way in which the words of a language are made to sound when speaking.
examples: text: The second part is the sentence, which is the judge's pronunciation upon a cause depending between two in controversy.
ref: 1831, Thomas Oughton, James Thomas Law, Forms of Ecclesiastical Law, page 62:
glosses: The act of pronouncing or uttering a vocable.
Hyponyms: Received Pronunciation
spelling pronunciation
Derived terms: Old National Pronunciation
pronunciational
pronunciation dictionary
pronunciation respelling
Related terms: pronounce
mispronounce
orthoepy
phoneme
Wiktionary:Pronunciation
derivative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹɪvətɪv/
note: with laxing from derive
ipa: /ˈɖɛrɪveʈɪv/
note: without laxing
ipa: /ɖɪˈraj.veʈɪv/
Forms: form: more derivative
form: most derivative
Etymology: From Middle French dérivatif, from Latin dērīvātus, perfect passive participle of dērīvō (“to derive”). Related to derive; by surface analysis, derive + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: a derivative conveyance
text: a derivative word
text: People started talking about the pandemic as if it were itself a television show; as the second wave hit last fall, they griped about the derivative writing on Covid Season 2.
ref: 2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Obtained by derivation; not radical, original, or fundamental.
examples: text: No, I really felt it was very derivative. To me it it looked like it was straight out of Diane Arbus, but it had none of the wit.
ref: 1979, Woody Allen, Manhattan, spoken by Mary (Diane Keaton):
glosses: Imitative of the work of someone else.
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright restrictions.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Having a value that depends on an underlying asset of variable value.
Derived terms: derivative hybrid
derivative instrument
derivatively
derivativeness
derivative work
derivativity
derivatography
Fréchet derivative
inderivative
inderivatively
multiderivative
nonderivative
underivative
abominable snowman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑm.ə.nə.bl̩ ˈsnoʊ.mæn/
ipa: /əˈbɑm.nə.bl̩ ˈsnoʊ.mæn/
Forms: form: abominable snowmen
Etymology: First attested in 1921. Calque of Tibetan མི་སྡུག་གངས་མི (mi sdug gangs mi), from མི་སྡུག (mi sdug, “repulsive, unlovely, ugly, hideous”) and གངས་མི (gangs mi, “snowman”).
Senses: examples: text: The Abominable Snowman – existing and not existing, flickering at the edges of blizzards, apelike man or manlike ape, stealthy, elusive, known only through rumours and through its backward-pointing footprints.
ref: 2003, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Virago Press (2013), page 8:
topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas.
Synonyms: yeti
Related terms: Bigfoot
menk
sasquatch
yeti
yowie
yeti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛ.ti/
ipa: /ˈjɛ.ti/
ipa: [ˈjɛ.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: yeti
form: yetis
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).
Senses: examples: text: There is no doubt that the Sherpas accept the fact that the Yeti really exists. But then they believe just as confidently that their gods live in comfort on the summit of Mount Everest. We found it quite impossible to divorce the Yeti from the supernatural.
ref: 1962, Edmund Hillary, Desmond Doig, “Into the Mingbo Valley”, in High in the Thin Cold Air: The Story of the Himalayan Expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:
topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: abominable snowman
coordinate_terms: bigfoot
sasquatch
yowie
menk
glosses: An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.
Derived terms: yeti boot
yeti crab
yeti lobster
Bigfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪɡˌfʊt/
Forms: form: Big Foot
form: bigfoot
Etymology: August/September 1958, originally Big Foot, big + foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.
Senses: examples: text: This imprint was made either Wednesday night or early Thursday morning by "Big Foot".
ref: [1958 October 6, Andrew Genzoli, “Huge Foot Prints Hold Mystery Of Friendly Bluff Creek Giant”, in Humboldt Times, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2010:
text: Stories of “Bigfoot,” an eight-foot denizen of the forest in Northern California’s wild Trinity County, are among the main topics of conversation in that area. He is supposedly an Indian or half-breed who has reverted to an animal existence. A footprint believed to be his was measured by a Redding shoe store owner and found to be size 24!
ref: 1961 July 1, “Big deal”, in Boot and Shoe Recorder, volume 160, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Company, →OCLC, The Last Word, page 68, column 3:
text: Some Earth people believe Bigfoot lives in underground caves; others believe Bigfoot is connected with extraterrestrials; still others believe Bigfoot is a spirit that can sometimes manifest in form.
ref: 1994, Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, Shawnodese, “A Dream Language of the Earth”, in Dreaming with the Wheel: How to Interpret and Work with your Dreams Using the Medicine Wheel, Fireside, →ISBN, page 145:
text: The Bigfoot of spiders has been discovered in the caves of southwestern Oregon.
ref: 2012 August 20, Sindya N. Bhanoo, “Cave Enthusiasts Find an 8-Legged Outlier”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
text: Then there are the sharp divisions of opinion about whether Bigfoot is a Gigantopithecus or a Neanderthal or some other hominid.
ref: 2016, Bryan Sykes, “The Guru”, in Bigfoot, Yeti, and the Last Neanderthal: A Geneticist’s Search for Modern Apemen, Disinformation Books, →ISBN, part II, page 173:
text: Many enthusiasts believe that Bigfoot is not some sort of undiscovered hominid, but rather a mystical being that moves between dimensions.
ref: 2019, Christopher D. Bader, Joseph O. Baker, “Bigfoot: Undiscovered Primate or Interdimensional Spirit?”, in Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 77:
topics: arts
biology
cryptozoology
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
sciences
zoology
glosses: A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.
Synonyms: Sasquatch
North American Wood Ape
Derived terms: Bigfootologist
Bigfootology
Bigfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪɡˌfʊt/
Forms: form: Bigfoot
form: Bigfeet
form: Bigfoots
form: Big Foot
form: bigfoot
Etymology: August/September 1958, originally Big Foot, big + foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.
Senses: examples: text: My answer to those who believe that all Bigfoot are just huge cuddly Ewoks is to remind them that there is plenty of evidence that every member of the great apes family […] has exhibited hostility […].
ref: 2007, Matthew Scott Hansen, The Shadowkiller: A Novel, page 434:
text: The striking news on the appearance of a Bigfoot on Taibai Mountain in Xi'an, Shaanxi Provnice^([sic – meaning Province]) recently spread among local residents of Mei County located near the foot of Taibai Mountain. Is Taibai Mountain really home to a Bigfoot?
Who encountered the Bigfoot on Taibai Mountain?
Reporters interviewed many residents of Mei County, and their accounts varied.
ref: 2010 October 15, “Bigfoot sighted on Taibai Mountain”, in 叶欣, editor, People's Daily, archived from the original on 23 May 2015:
topics: arts
biology
cryptozoology
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
sciences
zoology
glosses: An individual creature of this type.
Related terms: abominable snowman
menk
skunk ape
swamp ape
yeti
yowie
Bigfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪɡˌfʊt/
Forms: form: Bigfoots
form: Bigfooting
form: Bigfooted
form: Bigfooted
form: Big Foot
form: bigfoot
Etymology: August/September 1958, originally Big Foot, big + foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bigfoot.
sasquatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæskwɒt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈsæskwæt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈsæskwɑt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈsæskwæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -æskwɒt͡ʃ
rhymes: -æskwæt͡ʃ
Forms: form: sasquatches
form: Sasquatch
Etymology: Borrowed from Halkomelem sásq’ets (“hairy man”).
Senses: examples: text: [Riley] Keough plays one of the family of four sasquatches (the mythical creature also known as bigfoot) that the film follows over the course of a year as the primitive, grunting ape-like creatures lumber through the forests of the Pacific north-west of America. […] At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.
ref: 2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: Bigfoot
glosses: A large hairy humanoid creature of western North America.
Derived terms: samsquanch
Related terms: abominable snowman
menk
yeti
yowie
yowie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: you'wi
ipa: /ˈjaʊwi/
rhymes: -aʊi
Forms: form: yowies
Etymology: Borrowed from Gamilaraay yuwi (“dream spirit”).
Senses: examples: text: The white population claimed that an escaped panther from a travelling circus was the culprit; others thought that a Yowie was responsible.
ref: 1986, Bruce Pascoe, “The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher”, in Anita Heiss, Peter Minter, editors, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 101:
topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An ape-like monster or animal said to exist in parts of eastern Australia.
Related terms: abominable snowman
Bigfoot
bunyip
menk
min min lights
sasquatch
yeti
AANT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /eɪ eɪ ɛn ˈtiː/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Automobile Association of the Northern Territory, a member of the Australian Automobile Association.
NRMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Roads and Motorists' Association.
RAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Automobile Association.
RACQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Automobile Club of Queensland.
RACT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Automobile Club of Tasmania.
RACV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Automobile Club of Victoria.
RACWA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia.
touring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: a touring company
glosses: Working for a short time in different places.
examples: text: If you are not using a touring-specific bike and you have large feet, you could have problems with your heels striking your rear panniers. This is one of the very reasons why a touring bike has long chainstays (435mm minimum).
glosses: Intended for a journey through a country or a region, related to tourism.
Synonyms: itinerant
moving
road
traveling
Derived terms: bicycle touring
grand touring car
touring bicycle
touring car
touring company
touring member traffic
touring motorcycle
touring side
touring squad
traffic stop
touring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tour
touring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Forms: form: tourings
Senses: examples: text: Finally, there was the 40-hp machine from the previous year, on the 120-inch wheelbase and listed in four body styles, tourings and roadsters.
ref: 1988, Cars and Parts, volume 31, page 60:
glosses: A touring car.
RFDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Early medical and RFDS memorabilia is on display inside.
ref: 2011, Rough Guides Snapshot: Australia: Northern Territory (ISBN-13: 9781409360902)
glosses: Initialism of Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
radar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.dɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.dɑɹ/
ipa: [ˈɹeɪ.ɾɑɹ]
Forms: form: radars
Etymology: By anacronymic evolution from RADAR.
Senses: examples: text: They were able to find the enemy fleet using radar.
related: word: RADAR
hypernyms: imaging#Noun
coordinate_terms: lidar
sodar
sonar
glosses: A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces.
examples: text: The Ministry of Defence funded the development of an entirely new radar and improved avionics.
glosses: A type of system using such a method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.
examples: text: Each of these aircraft has been upgraded with a new radar and a more powerful engine.
glosses: An installation or instance of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.
examples: text: His sensitive radar for hidden alliances keeps him out of trouble.
text: It came inside 50 minutes and moments later Cavani should have had a 12th. Pogba and Shaw combined before the left-back's cross teed up the striker but his radar was awry.
ref: 2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A superior ability to detect something.
Derived terms: active radar
antiradar
below the radar
bistatic radar
-dar
Doppler radar
drop off the radar
fall off the radar
fly under the radar
gaydar
georadar
hetdar
LIDAR
multifunction array radar
nonradar
off the radar
on someone's radar
on someone's radar screen
on the radar
photoradar
precision approach radar
primary radar
primary surveillance radar
PSR
racon
radar altimeter
radar astronomy
radar chart
radar cross section
radar detector
radar dome
radargram
radar gun
radar horizon
radar image
radarkymogram
radarless
radarlike
radarman
radarmeteorological
radarmeteorology
radar meteorology
radar picket
radar reflector
radarscope
radar telescope
radar trap
radome
secondary radar
secondary surveillance radar
SSR
slip under the radar
subradar
under the radar
weather radar
Related terms: lidar
sonar
radar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.dɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.dɑɹ/
ipa: [ˈɹeɪ.ɾɑɹ]
Forms: form: radars
form: radaring
form: radared
form: radared
Etymology: By anacronymic evolution from RADAR.
Senses: examples: text: He radars you while he's sitting in his patrol vehicle under a bridge.
ref: 2002, Brian Jonathan Wolk, Ohio Traffic Tickets are for the Birds, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: To scan with radar, or as if with radar.
Icelandic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪsˈlændɪk/
rhymes: -ændɪk
Etymology: From Iceland + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Although it's hard for us to imagine, they see the pixels in a raw, uninterpreted fashion, and thus to them a TV screen is as drained of long-ago-and-far-away meaning as is, to you or me, a pile of fall leaves, a Jackson Pollock painting, or a newspaper article in Malagasy (my apologies to you if you speak Malagasy; in that case, please replace it by Icelandic — and don't tell me that you speak that language, too!).
ref: 2007, Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop:
synonyms: Icelandish
glosses: A North Germanic language, the national tongue of Iceland.
Icelandic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪsˈlændɪk/
rhymes: -ændɪk
Forms: form: Icelandics
Etymology: From Iceland + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Iceland; an Icelander.
glosses: An Icelandic horse.
Icelandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪsˈlændɪk/
rhymes: -ændɪk
Forms: form: more Icelandic
form: most Icelandic
Etymology: From Iceland + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the North Germanic language spoken in Iceland.
glosses: Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland.
examples: text: Despite of the absence of Shaun Derry and Adel Taarabt because of illness and injury respectively, the home side began superbly. Helguson twice threatened early on with shots from the right-hand corner of the box before Anton Ferdinand spurned a great chance at the back post following the Icelandic striker's header back across goal.
ref: 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Of, relating to, or originating from Iceland.
Synonyms: Icelandish
Derived terms: Icelandic cyprine
Icelandic horse
Icelandicness
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Icelandic terms
Yiddish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: yĭd'ĭsh
ipa: /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/
Forms: form: more Yiddish
form: most Yiddish
Etymology: From Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Middle High German jüdisch (in reference to the language, more fully jüdischdiutsch (literally “Jewish-German”)). By surface analysis, Yid + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: “Many goyim are confused by the large number of Yiddish terms beginning with ‘schl’ or ‘schm’ (schlemiel, schlemazzle, schmeggegge, schlub, schlock, schlep, schmutz, schnook), and use them incorrectly or interchangeably,” he wrote.
ref: 2015 December 22, Justin Wm. Moyer, “Donald Trump’s ‘schlonged’: A linguistic investigation”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2015:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
examples: text: Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music
synonyms: Jewish
glosses: Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
Yiddish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: yĭd'ĭsh
ipa: /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/
Etymology: From Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Middle High German jüdisch (in reference to the language, more fully jüdischdiutsch (literally “Jewish-German”)). By surface analysis, Yid + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Yiddish is a High German language [...] two varieties of Yiddish developed [...]
ref: 1983, Philip Baldi, An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages, page 128:
text: As a Yiddish proverb has it: Badarf men hunik ven tsuker iz zis? Who needs honey when sugar is sweet?
ref: 2007 January 26, Stefan Kanfer, “In Lower Manhattan, the Echo of the Yiddish Stage Endures”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2019:
synonyms: Jewish
holonyms: High German
meronyms: Eastern Yiddish
East Yiddish
Western Yiddish
West Yiddish
glosses: A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
Related terms: Spanish Yiddish
Yid
Yiddish Alps
Yiddishise
Yiddishism
Yiddishist
Yiddishize
Yiddishkeit
Yiddish-like
Yinglish
Wiktionary’s coverage of Yiddish terms
DDT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DDTs
Senses: examples: text: After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years.
ref: 2007 January 21, The Associated Press, “Adirondacks Are His Life, All 101 Years and Counting”, in The New York Times:
text: The use of DDT for disinfectation of louse-infested communities is a primary control measure in epidemic situations.
ref: 2007, Wallace Peters, Geoffrey Pasvol, Atlas of tropical medicine and parasitology, page 22:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, compound originally developed as an insecticide.
DDT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DDTs
Etymology: Various theories; see DDT (professional wrestling).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: a move where a wrestler puts another wrestler into a standing front face lock and then falls backwards, driving the recipient's head into the floor.
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes
Etymology: From dichloro + diphenyl + trichloro + ethane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: DDT
hypernyms: persistent organic pollutant
coordinate_terms: dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane
DDD
aldrin
glosses: A chlorinated hydrocarbon originally used as an insecticide, often abbreviated as DDT.
BOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BOFs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: EOF
glosses: Initialism of beginning of file.
related: word: BoF
glosses: Initialism of birds of a feather (“group of people with common interests”).
glosses: Initialism of best of friends.
EOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EOFs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of end of file.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of end of field.
Related terms: BOF
EOD
EOM
EOF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Enterprise Objects Framework.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Elswick Ordnance Factory.
ID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: IDs
Senses: examples: text: Show me your ID.
text: The keys are not as flat and offer more space between them. Better yet, you still maintain a physical row of function keys (including ESC) and the Touch ID sensor is still here.
ref: 2020 March 20, Jacob Krol, “Apple’s MacBook Air makes a good first impression with strong performance and punchy keys”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of identification / identifier / identity document.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An electronic music track without an official title.
examples: text: If not done at the top of the hour, however, the station ID should come at the next possible break in the programme.
ref: 2015, Simran Kohli, The Radio Jockey Hand Book, page 93:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: An ident.
glosses: Initialism of image description.
glosses: Initialism of intellectual disability.
glosses: Initialism of intelligent design.
glosses: Initialism of industrial design.
antonyms: OD
glosses: Initialism of inside diameter or inner diameter or internal diameter.
glosses: Initialism of industry discount.
qualifier: nutrition
glosses: Initialism of iron deficiency.
Derived terms: caller ID
eID
ID card
IDer
IDist
ID restoration
self-ID
UID
user ID
ID
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdiː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Idaho: a state of the United States.
ID
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: IDs
form: ID's
form: IDing
form: ID'ing
form: IDed
form: IDed
form: ID'ed
form: ID'ed
form: ID'd
form: ID'd
Senses: examples: text: Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.
glosses: To identify (an object, etc.).
examples: text: The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.
text: Anyway, Margiotti found the guard and showed him the picture. He ID'ed it. Sort of. It was dark.
ref: 2007, Jane Haddam, Conspiracy Theory: A Gregor Demarkian Novel:
glosses: To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age.
examples: text: I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race
glosses: To identify (as something)
ID
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdiː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: glosses: Initialism of intellectually disabled.
ID card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ID cards
Etymology: From ID + card.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of identity card.
IOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IOCs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of interoffice communication.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of initial operating capability.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of indicator of compromise.
glosses: Initialism of Italian organized crime.
glosses: Initialism of international oil company.
Related terms: sense: initial operating capability
word: FOC
IOC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of immediate or cancel.
raw_tags: of an order
IOC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The IBA had been stripped of recognition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over governance failures and therefore it was the IOC which ran – and set the entry criteria for – the Olympic boxing competitions in Paris.
ref: 2024 November 4, Jamie Gardner, “Mandatory genetic testing in sport ‘not justified, ethical or viable’, say academics”, in The Independent:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of International Olympic Committee.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Initialism of International Ornithological Committee (now known as International Ornithologists' Union)
Hyponyms: english: International Paralympic Committee
translation: International Paralympic Committee
word: IPC
english: National Olympic Committee
translation: National Olympic Committee
word: NOC
QED
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkjuːiːˈdiː/
ipa: /ˌkjuˌiˈdi/
Etymology: See Q.E.D.
Senses: examples: text: [A]fter the ſame manner S and U are proved to be equal, therefore the ſquare of CB is equal to the ſquare of the 2 other ſides QED.
ref: 1684 August 30, Mr. Ash, “A New and Easy Way of Demonstrating Some Propositions in Euclid”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XIV, number 162, London: Printed by T. R. for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society; […] , →OCLC, page 674:
glosses: Alternative form of Q.E.D.; Initialism of quod erat demonstrandum.