cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: laid
Forms: form: lades
form: lading
form: laded
form: lode
form: laden
form: laded
Etymology: From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan and Old English hleadan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).
Senses: examples: text: Men from the fartheſt Equinoctiall line,
Haue ſwarm’d in troopes into the Eaſterne India:
Lading their ſhippe with golde and precious ſtones:
And made their ſpoiles from all our prouinces.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
text: And they laded their asses with the corn.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 42:26:
text: Under the sea-girt cliffs the shining ship was readied, laden with coats of mail, swords, and gleaming war harness.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 23:
glosses: To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
glosses: To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
examples: text: to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern
text: And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
glosses: To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To admit water by leakage.
Derived terms: lading
overlade
relade
unlade
Related terms: bill of lading
laden
lading
larboard
lade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: laid
Forms: form: lades
Etymology: From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan and Old English hleadan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).
Senses: glosses: A load.
lade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: laid
Forms: form: lades
Etymology: From Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).
Senses: examples: text: Every trickling tiny lade, every foaming brook, told its own story.
ref: 1873, Henry Kingsley, Oakshott Castle:
qualifier: obsolete outside of place names
glosses: The mouth of a river.
glosses: A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
examples: text: It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.
ref: 1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
glosses: (mill lade) A mill race.
glosses: Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
Derived terms: lademan
huzza
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of huzzah.
huzza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huzzas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of huzzah.
huzza
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: huzzas
form: huzzaing
form: huzzaed
form: huzzaed
Senses: examples: text: Towns have been taken, and battles have been won; the mob has huzza'd round bonefires, the Stentor of the chappel has ſtrained his throat in the gallery, and the Stentor of S——m has deafned his audience from the pulpit.
ref: 1710 October 2 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Whig-Examiner: No. 2. Thursday, September 21. [1710.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC, page 339:
glosses: Alternative spelling of huzzah.
enfeeble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfiːbəl/
rhymes: -iːbəl
Forms: form: enfeebles
form: enfeebling
form: enfeebled
form: enfeebled
form: infeeble
Etymology: From Middle English enfeblen, from Old French enfeblir. Constructed like en- + feeble.
Senses: examples: text: 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130,
"...the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature."
text: In the face of enfeebled, self-harming opposition on both sides of the border (and a miserable economic recession on both sides too) he has performed brilliantly.
ref: 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
text: The Republican-appointed justices may yet enfeeble the executive branch’s ability to implement federal law.
ref: 2022 January 13, Mark Joseph Stern, “The Supreme Court Had No Legal Reason to Block Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Rules”, in Slate:
glosses: To make feeble.
Synonyms: weaken
Derived terms: enfeeblement
enfeebler
make head nor tail of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes head nor tail of
form: making head nor tail of
form: made head nor tail of
form: made head nor tail of
Senses: glosses: To fail to make head or tail of; not to understand at all.
raw_tags: in the negative
bring about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings about
form: bringing about
form: brought about
form: brought about
Senses: examples: text: The collapse of the gold standard brought about much of the economic turmoil of that era.
text: The catalyst was the introduction of the Health & Safety at Work Act in 1974. While it applied to all workplaces, it gradually brought about a sea change in the attitude towards death and injury. Accidents were no longer accepted as 'inevitable'.
ref: 2022 January 26, John Crosse, “When the tide turned to a safer railway...”, in RAIL, number 949, page 53:
synonyms: word: effect
word: lead to
word: induce
word: incite
word: provoke
word: result in
word: encompass
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
glosses: To cause to take place.
examples: text: I hope to bring about a successful conclusion.
synonyms: carry out
complete
consummate
effectuate
fulfill
pull off
realize
glosses: To accomplish, to achieve.
Related terms: bring down
bring forth
bring forward
bring on
bring out
come about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes about
form: coming about
form: came about
form: come about
Senses: examples: text: We have to ask, how did this come about?
text: In a review of operating experience with the Southern Region diesel-electric multiple-units on the Hastings line, read to the Institution of Locomotive Engineers in October, Mr. W. J. A. Sykes, Mechanical & Electrical Engineer of the S.R., revealed how the somehat unprepossessing appearance of these train sets came about.
ref: 1960 December, “The Hastings Line diesel-electric multiple units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 732:
glosses: To come to pass; to develop; to occur; to take place; to happen; to exist.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To tack; to change tack; to maneuver the bow of a sailing vessel across the wind so that the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to position a boat with respect to the wind after tacking. See also come to.
examples: text: The wind is come about.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:
text: On better thoughts, and my urg'd reasons, / They are come about, and won to the true side.
ref: 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To change; to come round.
Synonyms: sense: to happen
word: come to pass
word: come to be
word: occur
word: transpire
ruble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːbəl/
Forms: form: rubles
form: rouble
form: rubl
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian рубль (rublʹ).
Senses: examples: text: While the local currency is the manat, the Russian ruble is in circulation and prices are often confusingly quoted in manats and rubles. […] The currency is the manat with a hundred gopik […]
ref: 1995, Fielding's ‘The World's Most Dangerous Places’, page 170:
glosses: The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка (kopéjka), Belarusian: капе́йка (kapjéjka)). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽.
Derived terms: petroruble
Related terms: BYR
rouble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːbəl/
rhymes: -uːbəl
Forms: form: roubles
Etymology: From French rouble.
Senses: examples: text: The amount of work required to earn 26 roubles 40 kopeyki was one and a half times more than the physical possibilities of a healthy workman would allow in one day.
ref: 1997, Felix Gryff, Red Hell, Bib ID 3033350, page 150:
text: With Capital requirements increasing, the number of Commercial Banks is rapidly decreasing. The manta (AZM) of 100 gyapiks replaced the rouble in January, 1994.
ref: 2005, Indian Trade Journal, volume 391, issues 9-13, page B-274
glosses: Alternative spelling of ruble.
kopeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kopecks
Senses: examples: text: "They do not exceed it? Fie! Why, you are robbing your children of their last kopeck—you, their guardian!"
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IX, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/IX):
glosses: Alternative spelling of kopek.
kopek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kopeks
form: copeck
form: kopeck
form: kopeika
form: kopejka
form: kopeyka
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian копе́йка (kopéjka), from копьё (kopʹjó, “spear”) (from the image of a rider with a spear on the coins minted by Moscow after the capture of Novgorod in 1478). Doublet of kopeika, kopiyka, and kapeek.
Senses: glosses: A Russian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a ruble.
glosses: A kopiyka: a Ukrainian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a hryvnia.
glosses: A kapiejka: a Belarusian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a ruble (rubel).
Related terms: kopiyka
copeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copecks
Senses: examples: text: The coinage of Russia is decimal; thus—100 copecks make 1 ruble. […] The only silver money in circulation are pieces of 20, 15, 10, and 5 copecks.
ref: 1868, “Russia: Introduction”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 45:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kopek.
hauteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈtɝ/
ipa: /ɔːˈtɜː/
ipa: /əʊˈtɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: auteur
Forms: form: hauteurs
Etymology: From French hauteur.
Senses: examples: text: Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him?
ref: 1842, Alexander Campbell, “Kickable People”, in Sketches of Life and Character, page 11:
text: “What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: [A]n angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.
ref: 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
text: I imagine the Dreamward’s Hotel Manager to be an avuncular Norwegian with a rag sweater and a soothing odor of Borkum Rif about him, a guy w/o sunglasses or hauteur […]
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
text: Sometimes the hauteur is nothing more dire than a kind of black-mother wit.
ref: 2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:
glosses: Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.
horizontal dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒ.ɹɪˈzɒn.təl ˈdɑːn.sɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌhɒ.ɹɪˈzɒn.təl ˈdæn.sɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌhɔː.ɹəˈzɑːn.təl ˈdɑːn.sɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌhɔː.ɹəˈzɑːn.təl ˈdæn.sɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: Sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: copulation
Related terms: horizontal tango
horizontal jogging
horizontal mambo
horizontal refreshments
Francia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɑːn.sɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɹæn.sɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɹæn.si.ə/
Forms: form: Frankia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Francia. Doublet of France.
Senses: synonyms: Frankland
Frankish Empire
Kingdom of the Franks
glosses: A former kingdom inhabited by the Franks, in Western Europe, spreading over modern-day France (except Brittany and Corsica), the Low Countries, large parts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Northern Italy.
Derived terms: East Francia
Francian
Middle Francia
West Francia
Related terms: Frankish
Francia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɑːn.sɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɹæn.sɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɹæn.si.ə/
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Bri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiː/
ipa: /bɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Brianna, or Bridget, or Britney, or, rarely, Britannia or Sabrina.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Brian.
dai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dais
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi दाई (dāī), from Sanskrit.
Senses: examples: text: Kausalya, she learnt, was his dai, the one who had breast-fed and looked after him.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 72:
glosses: A wet nurse; a midwife.
Related terms: sense: terms containing "dai" of different etymology
word: ao dai
sense: terms containing "dai" of different etymology
word: dai ji
sense: terms containing "dai" of different etymology
word: dai pai dong
sense: terms containing "dai" of different etymology
word: siew dai
Tyrone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈɹoʊn/
note: county in Northern Ireland
ipa: /tɪˈɹoʊn/
ipa: /taɪˈɹəʊn/
note: county in Northern Ireland
ipa: /tɪˈɹəʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: Tyrones
Etymology: From Irish Tír Eoghain (literally “land of Eoghan”).
Senses: examples: text: The overkingdom of Airgialla comprising Armagh, Monaghan, parts of Louth, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, had ceased to be when the Book of Rights was compiled.
ref: 1922, John Ryan, Ireland from A.D. 800 to A.D. 1600, Browne and Nolan, page 282:
glosses: A placename
A county of Northern Ireland, Ireland island, United Kingdom; One of the six traditional counties in Northern Ireland, often known as County Tyrone.
glosses: A placename
A community in Clarington, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
An unincorporated community in Las Animas County, Colorado.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
A town in Fayette County, Georgia.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Iowa.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kentucky.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
A census-designated place and ghost town in Grant County, New Mexico.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
A town in Schuyler County, New York.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
A former town in Coshocton County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
A ghost town in Morrow County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
A town in Texas County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
A borough of Blair County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States; Any of a number of places in the U.S.A.:
An unincorporated community in Green County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the place name.
Derived terms: County Tyrone
Related terms: Owen
Tyron
Tyrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈɹoʊn/
note: county in Northern Ireland
ipa: /tɪˈɹoʊn/
ipa: /taɪˈɹəʊn/
note: county in Northern Ireland
ipa: /tɪˈɹəʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: Tyrones
Etymology: From Irish Tír Eoghain (literally “land of Eoghan”).
Senses: qualifier: incel slang
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of tyrone.
cyclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.klɪst/
Forms: form: cyclists
Etymology: From cycle + -ist, 1882.
Senses: examples: text: A solitary cyclist was coming towards us. His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. He was flying like a racer.
ref: 1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: bicyclist
word: cycler
word: wheeler
word: wheelman
word: wheelwoman
word: cycleman
word: pedaller
word: biker
glosses: A person who rides a cycle, especially a bicycle, or who habitually engages in cycling.
examples: text: Most of the cyclists were members of the Pagans' Motorcycle Club of Washington.
ref: 1966 December 31, “45 Cyclists Fined And Told by Judge: Stay Out of Newark”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A motorcyclist.
Derived terms: autocyclist
non-cyclist
noncyclist
pedal cyclist
track cyclist
trick cyclist
Related terms: cycle
motorcyclist
unicyclist
celeb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Forms: form: celebs
Etymology: Clipping of celebrity.
Senses: examples: text: Just in case you thought celebs stay famous on their own, think again. There's a whole pack of people who help a star each day
ref: 2007, Jen Jones, Being Famous, Capstone, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: A celebrity; a famous person, a one who is celebrated.
Derived terms: celebdom
Celebgate
e-celeb
Instaceleb
pro-celeb
web celeb
cheerio
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪəɹ.i.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪəɹ.i.oʊ/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃiɹi.oʊ̯]
Etymology: From cheer and/or cheery + -o.
Senses: examples: text: "In that case," said Archie, relieved, "cheerio, good luck, pip-pip, toodle-oo, and good-bye-ee! I'll be shifting!"
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, ch. XIII. Rallying Round Percy:
text: But we all knew it wasn't the final end of the HST. This wasn't "goodbye", more like a "cheerio, see you someplace soon".
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 50:
glosses: Goodbye, an interjection said upon parting.
examples: text: Cheerio, everybody! What a delightful gathering of charming femininity!
ref: 1947, Anita Bell, He Done Her Wrong:
glosses: Hello; a greeting.
Derived terms: chip chip cheerio
Sheerio
cheerio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪəɹ.i.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪəɹ.i.oʊ/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃiɹi.oʊ̯]
Forms: form: cheerios
Etymology: From cheer and/or cheery + -o.
Senses: examples: text: The man who has gone around the cocktail circuit pounding cheerios to the end of time did not come in here and open his mouth once on the Bill.
ref: 1978, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 4230:
glosses: A small saveloy often consumed with tomato sauce at parties.
Synonyms: cocktail sausage
little boy
attributively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹɪ.bju.tɪv.li/
Forms: form: more attributively
form: most attributively
Etymology: From attributive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an attributive manner.
cheeseburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheeseburgers
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin cāseusbor.
Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz
Proto-West Germanic *kāsī
Old English ċīese
Middle English chese
English cheese
English hamburger
English cheeseburger
Blend of cheese + hamburger (1928). By surface analysis, cheese + -burger.
Senses: examples: text: Neon in daylight is a / great pleasure, as Edwin Denby would / write, as are light bulbs in daylight. / I stop for a cheeseburger at JULIET'S / CORNER.
ref: 1956, Frank O'Hara, A Step Away from Them:
text: Busy Americans (many women were working and not cooking as much) were dining on foods such as deep-fried chicken, thick slices of pizza, double cheeseburgers, and big slabs of steak.
ref: 2007, Loretta Ichord, Double Cheeseburgers, Quiche, and Vegetarian Burritos, page 48:
synonyms: word: cheesehamburger
glosses: A hamburger containing cheese (usually one or more slices of processed cheese).
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: Big Blue 82
daisy cutter
glosses: The BLU-82 bomb.
Derived terms: cheeseburgery
minicheeseburger
Related terms: burger
processed cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: processed cheeses
Senses: glosses: Any of several types of natural cheese that are pasteurized to lengthen storage life and combined with emulsifiers to aid smoothness. In some cases, processed cheeses contain added colorings and preservatives.
chinaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinamen
Etymology: From china (“porcelain”) + -man.
Senses: coordinate_terms: chinawoman
glosses: A dealer in porcelain (china).
chinaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinamen
Etymology: From Chinaman, a dated, now offensive term for a Chinese person. Compare Chinese (“unfamiliar, unexpected”). Named in reference to Ellis Achong, a West Indian player of Chinese descent.
Senses: examples: text: Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 103:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A left-arm unorthodox bowling action (left-arm wrist-spin).
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A spin bowler who uses such an action.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball delivered with such an action.
seraglio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹæljoʊ/
ipa: /səˈɹæɡliːoʊ/
Forms: form: seraglios
form: serraglio
Etymology: From Italian serraglio, from Vulgar Latin *serrāculum, from a late form of Latin serāre (“lock up, close”), from sera (“lock, bolt”). The Italian word was used (because of phonetic similarity) to translate Turkish saray (palace). Compare serai, serail.
Senses: glosses: A palace of a sultan.
examples: text: At these words he started up, and beheld—not his Sophia—no, nor a Circassian maid richly and elegantly attired for the grand Signior's seraglio.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter X, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V:
glosses: A palace of a sultan.
The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
examples: text: In 1936 [Charles] Schwab's agents approached the La Guardia administration in New York, hoping to interest the city in buying his mansion for the official residence of the mayor. […] But Fiorello La Guardia took great pride in the fact that he lived in a modest walkup in Lower New York. He ridiculed the idea of moving into the robber baron's seraglio, telling newsmen that the city much preferred having the tax revenue from the mansion.
ref: 1988, Mark Reutter, Sparrows Point: Making Steel, Summit Books/Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 287–288:
qualifier: by figurative extension
glosses: A profligate or decadent residence of a rich person.
glosses: The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.
glosses: A brothel or place of debauchery.
glosses: An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.
BISDN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Broadband Integrated Service Digital Network
distortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɔːʃən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃən
Forms: form: distortions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin distortio, distortionis, from distortus.
Senses: glosses: An act of distorting.
glosses: A result of distorting.
examples: text: The story he told was a bit of a distortion.
text: The conscious mind refuses to admit any failure to perceive, and puts in its place a series of rationalisations which are fabrications and distortions of the real nature of things.
ref: 1999 July 9, Bernard Burgoyne, “The Mind”, in The Guardian:
text: Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 204:
glosses: A misrepresentation of the truth.
examples: text: This recording sounds awful due to the distortion.
glosses: Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
glosses: An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
Synonyms: deformation
disfigurement
Derived terms: antiferrodistortion
barrel distortion
bias distortion
bond distortion
cognitive distortion
counterdistortion
digital pre-distortion
distortional
distortionary
distortionist
distortionless
ferrodistortion
microdistortion
nondistortion
pincushion distortion
predistortion
reality distortion field
selective distortion
undistortion
Related terms: distort
skeptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛptɪkəl/
Forms: form: more skeptical
form: most skeptical
form: sceptical
Etymology: From Latin scepticus + -al; attested earlier than skeptic. By surface analysis, skeptic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: My teacher was skeptical when I told her my dog ate my homework.
text: Tom was skeptical when Paul told him that he saw Bigfoot.
text: I can see why people are so skeptical [sic] about him, but I think he's on to something here.
ref: 2009 September 12, Xolani1990, quotee, “Brown Lotto trick 'confuses' fans”, in BBC News, London: BBC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2009:
text: Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
ref: 2012 March–April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2012, page 168:
glosses: Having, or expressing doubt; questioning.
glosses: Of or relating to philosophical skepticism or the skeptics.
Derived terms: Euroskeptical
skepticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛp.tɪˌsɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: skepticisms
form: scepticism
Etymology: From New Latin scepticismus; equivalent to skeptic + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: cynicism
glosses: The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic.
examples: text: Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary.
ref: 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A studied attitude of questioning and doubt.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that absolute knowledge is not possible.
glosses: A methodology that starts from a neutral standpoint and aims to acquire certainty through scientific or logical observation.
glosses: Doubt or disbelief of religious doctrines.
Derived terms: antiskepticism
Euroskepticism
Euro-skepticism
technoskepticism
Related terms: skeptic
skeptical
dusk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌsk/
ipa: /dʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: dusker
form: duskest
Etymology: From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).
Senses: examples: text: A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
dusk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌsk/
ipa: /dʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: dusks
Etymology: From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).
Senses: examples: text: Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.
text: We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.
glosses: The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
examples: text: Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A darkish colour.
glosses: The condition of being dusky; duskiness
Synonyms: sense: period of time
word: evenfall
word: nightfall
word: smokefall
word: vespers
word: cockshut
word: crepusculum
word: dark
word: dimmity
word: duckish
word: dusk
word: mirkning
word: night
word: sun
word: sundown
word: sunset
Hypernyms: sense: period of time
word: twilight
word: twilight
Hyponyms: astronomical dusk
civil dusk
nautical dusk
Derived terms: adusk
dawn to dusk
duskdarter
dusk-flat
duskhawk
duskish
duskless
dusklight
duskly
duskness
dusktime
dusk to dawn
predusk
Related terms: word: early morning
word: first light
word: postdawn
word: morning
word: midday
word: afternoon
word: midnight
dusk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌsk/
ipa: /dʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: dusks
form: dusking
form: dusked
form: dusked
Etymology: From Middle English dusken, from Old English doxian.
Senses: examples: text: I see the air benighted
And all the dusking dales,
And lamps in England lighted,
ref: 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27:
glosses: To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
examples: text: After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: To make dusk.
Related terms: urls: https://www.onelook.com/?w=dusk&ls=a
word: in .
arctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Arctic.
Derived terms: Arctic Archipelago
arctic red jellyfish
arctic willow
hemiarctic
hypoarctic
superarctic
arctic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arctics
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Arctic.
morotrophium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An asylum or hospital for the mentally ill.
Related terms: orphanotrophium
Cecil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːsəl/
ipa: /ˈsɛsəl/
ipa: /ˈsisəɫ/
rhymes: -iːsəl
rhymes: -ɛsəl
Etymology: From Latin Caecilius, a Roman family name derived from caecus (“blind”). The surname has absorbed the Old Welsh Seisyllt, from Latin Sextilius, from Sextus.
Senses: examples: text: John Sumner always called him "Sissy" but other kids called him Cecil or See-sal or Weasil. He didn't mind anything except "Sissy". Every time he heard it he saw red.
ref: 1968, Ivan Southall, Let the Balloon Go, Methuen, page 91:
glosses: A unisex given name from Latin.
glosses: A unisex given name from Latin.
A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A unisex given name from Latin.
A female given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname from Welsh.
glosses: A locality in Cypress County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Cook County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Paulding County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Taylor County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Shawano County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Cecil Township.
Derived terms: Cecil County
Cecil house
Related terms: Cecilia
Cecilton
beware
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈwɛɚ/
ipa: /bɪˈwɛɚ/
ipa: /bəˈwɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bewares
head_nr: 2
form: bewaring
head_nr: 2
form: bewared
head_nr: 2
form: bewore
head_nr: 2
form: bewared
head_nr: 2
form: bewore
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From Middle English bewar, be war, be ware, forms of Middle English ben ware (“to be on one's guard, be vigilant”, literally “be ware”), equivalent to be + ware or be + aware. Compare Old English bewarian.
Senses: examples: text: Behold, I send an Angel before thee[…]. Beware of him, and obey his voice.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 23:20-21:
text: Beware the Ides of March.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
head_nr: 2
glosses: To use caution, pay attention to (used both with and without of).
Derived terms: beware of Greeks bearing gifts
beware of the dog
buyer beware
let the buyer beware
unbeware
xenotransplantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenotransplantations
Etymology: From xeno- + transplantation.
Senses: examples: ref: 2022 March 12, James Gallagher, “Xenotransplantation: Are pigs the future of organ transplants?”, in Inside Health, BBC, retrieved 12 Mar 2022:
glosses: The transplantation of biological or organic matter from a given species into a different one, especially when this matter has been altered (such as by genetic engineering)
manuscript
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/
Etymology: 1597, from Medieval Latin manūscrīptus, a calque of Germanic origin, equivalent to Latin manū (ablative of manus (“hand”)) + Latin scrīptus (past participle of scribere (“to write”)). Not found in Classical Latin.
Senses: glosses: Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
manuscript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/
Forms: form: manuscripts
form: MS
form: ms
form: MS.
form: ms.
Etymology: From Medieval Latin manūscrīptum (“writing by hand”), a calque of Germanic origin: compare Middle Low German hantschrift (“manuscript, document”), Middle Dutch hantscrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1451), Old High German hantgiskrīb (“handwriting, document, manuscript”), Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1450), Old English handġewrit (“what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”) (before 1150), Old Norse handrit (“manuscript”) (before 1300). Not found in Classical Latin.
Senses: examples: text: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
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: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
glosses: A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
glosses: A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
Synonyms: handwrit
autograph
handwriting
Derived terms: manuscriptal
manuscription
manuscript paper
palm-leaf manuscript
Related terms: script
typescript
harpoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: härpo͞onʹ
ipa: /hɑːɹˈpuːn/
enpr: härpo͞onʹ
ipa: /hɑːˈpuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: harpoons
Etymology: From Old French harpon, from Latin harpaga, a rare variant of Latin harpagō, from Ancient Greek ἁρπάγη (harpágē, “hook”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate”). Sense and spelling perhaps influenced by Dutch harpoen (“harpoon”). Doublet of harpagon.
Senses: glosses: A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
glosses: A sharp tip within a disposable syringe, used to penetrate the stopper.
examples: text: I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana.
ref: 1969, Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster, “Me and Bobby McGee”:
glosses: A harmonica.
Derived terms: harpooneer
harpoon fork
harpoon gun
harpoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: härpo͞onʹ
ipa: /hɑːɹˈpuːn/
enpr: härpo͞onʹ
ipa: /hɑːˈpuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: harpoons
form: harpooning
form: harpooned
form: harpooned
Etymology: From Old French harpon, from Latin harpaga, a rare variant of Latin harpagō, from Ancient Greek ἁρπάγη (harpágē, “hook”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate”). Sense and spelling perhaps influenced by Dutch harpoen (“harpoon”). Doublet of harpagon.
Senses: examples: text: Pilot whales, also known as blackfish, were fairly plentiful, and Mundus would harpoon one or two, haul them out onto the beach, and butcher them.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: To shoot something with a harpoon.
Derived terms: harpooner
Related terms: spear
oomph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʊmf/
ipa: /umf/
rhymes: -ʊmf
rhymes: -uːmf
Forms: form: oomphs
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Use a mild cleanser, but pick something with enough oomph to do the job.
text: "Yes, well they're finding it difficult, sir. They are afflicted with a certain lassitude. They're just finding it hard to get behind the job. They lack oomph."
ref: 1982 August, Douglas Adams, chapter 30, in Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN:
text: Adding layers of texture to a cookie by folding in ground-down bits of goodness is one of our favorite ways to pack a big punch, but you need to choose your fighter wisely. If you pick something too smooth, your cookie won't gain any oomph, and if you choose something too flavorful, your cookie may end up overwhelming (sorry, Flamin' Hot Cheetos).
ref: 2022, Christina Tosi, All About Cookies: A Milk Bar Baking Book, New York, NY: Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout.
examples: text: 'Come to think of it, the girl looked a bit like Ann,' Jerry reflected. 'Foxy, know what I mean? Garbo eyes, lots of oomph.'
ref: 1974, John le Carré, chapter 28, in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy:
glosses: Sex appeal.
glosses: A bassy grunting or thudding sound.
Synonyms: sense: force or power
word: welly
Derived terms: oomphless
oomphy
oomph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʊmf/
ipa: /umf/
rhymes: -ʊmf
rhymes: -uːmf
Forms: form: oomphs
form: oomphing
form: oomphed
form: oomphed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To produce a bassy grunting or thudding sound.
pito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of beer made from fermented millet or sorghum in parts of West Africa.
pito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pito (“penis”).
Senses: examples: text: A coward with no pito.
glosses: penis.
civil servant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil servants
Senses: examples: text: Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
ref: 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
text: Civil servants in the MoT gave a fresh note of caution to the Minister concerning BR's estimates, because those for electrification from Euston had gone from a budgeted £75m to an actual £160m.
ref: 2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 61:
glosses: A person employed in the civil service; a government employee.
Synonyms: civilian
public servant
casus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A possible world, as a starting point for reasoning.
Related terms: casus foederis
casus fortuitus
casus omissus
casus rectus
rectus casus
Aberdeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbə(ɹ)ˈdiːn/
ipa: /ˌæb.ɚˈdin/
note: some US cities
ipa: /ˈæb.ɚˌdin/
Forms: form: Aberdeens
Etymology: The first is from Pictish *ᚐᚁᚓᚏ (aber, “confluence”), from Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”). The second element is comes from the river Don (the site of Old Aberdeen). Written Aberdon circa 1187 and Aberden circa 1214.
The area and town in Hong Kong is named after George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.
Senses: glosses: A wide evenly curved fishhook.
glosses: Alternative form of Aberdeen terrier.
Inverness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.vəˌnɛs/
ipa: /ˈɪn.vɚˌnɛs/
Etymology: From Inver- + Ness, from the River Ness.
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative centre of Highland council area, Scotland.
glosses: A rural locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A rural community of Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A municipality in Centre-du-Québec region, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A community in the suburb of Stocksund near Stockholm, Sweden.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bullock County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former census-designated place and now a neighborhood in the city of Hoover, Shelby County, Alabama; a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marin County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Arapahoe County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Citrus County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A suburban village in Cook County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Cheboygan County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Sunflower County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Hill County, Montana.
Derived terms: Inverness County
Inverness-shire
Inverness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.vəˌnɛs/
ipa: /ˈɪn.vɚˌnɛs/
Forms: form: Invernesses
Etymology: From Inver- + Ness, from the River Ness.
Senses: glosses: A type of overcoat constructed without sleeves and having a shoulder cape extending to the wrists. The best examples are quite heavy, made from Harris tweed; often associated with Sherlock Holmes.
glosses: A variation of this coat, the "coachman's cape": the shoulder cape does not extend around the back but is made of two segments, the length of each being sewn into the seam of the coat on either side.
Dee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /diː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: glosses: A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
examples: text: And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:
glosses: A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
glosses: A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
glosses: A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
examples: text: His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
ref: 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:
glosses: A unisex given name, short for names beginning with D.
glosses: A surname of multiple origins.
Derived terms: Bangor-on-Dee
Billy Dee
Deeside
Miller of Dee
Related terms: word: Ardee
Dee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: Dees
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of dee.