cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɚ/
homophone: Tanner
rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tanners
Etymology: From Middle English tannere, from Old English tannere; and Old French tannour, equivalent to tan + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
examples: text: Eighty-one-year-old [Martha] Stewart says that a spray tan before her debut Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover boosted her confidence. Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in Barbie, had a personal tanner on set.
ref: 2023 June 17, “New bronze age: fake tan is back, and it won’t turn you orange”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.
synonyms: sawyer
glosses: A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.
tanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɚ/
homophone: Tanner
rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tanners
Etymology: Named after John Sigismund Tanner (1705–1775), who designed a sixpence for the Royal Mint during the reign of King George II.
Senses: examples: text: [A]s you are so flash of your money, though you say you are poor, you may give me a tanner to buy a little baccy with; […]
ref: 1851, George Borrow, chapter III, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume II, London: John Murray […], →OCLC, page 32:
text: They'd say hello, maybe slip you a tanner.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 469:
synonyms: word: hog
word: lord
english: from Cockney rhyming slang
translation: from Cockney rhyming slang
word: sixpence
glosses: A former British coin worth six old pence.
tanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɚ/
homophone: Tanner
rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tanners
Etymology: Probably from the taxonomic eponym tanneri in the species name Chionoecetes tanneri, named after American naval officer Zera Luther Tanner (1835–1906).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: snow crab
text: The new plant is assumed to result in additions to the resident fleet during the tanner and dungeness crab seasons and function as a port of call for an increased number of trollers, resulting in more local seafood processing.
ref: 1979, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale:
text: There were a few Dungeness, a couple of blue kings and one small and indignant squid, but mostly the pot was filled with tanners, Chionoecetes bairdi & Chionoecetes opilio.
ref: 1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 7:
text: We had come here to catch tanner crab, which the Japanese were buying up as fast as we could catch them.
ref: 1993, Spike Walker, Working on the Edge, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of several spider crabs of the genus Chionoecetes, especially Chionoecetes bairdi and Chionoecetes opilio.
tanner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɚ/
homophone: Tanner
rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: He was a lot tanner than I remembered, or maybe he just looked darker because of the change of light.
ref: 2011, Jasmine Rodriguez, Hematite, page 173:
glosses: comparative form of tan: more tan
tart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑɹt/
ipa: /tɑːt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: tarter
form: tartest
Etymology: From Middle English tart, from Old English teart (“sharp, rough, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *tart, from Proto-Germanic *tartaz (“rough, sharp, tearing”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, cleave”). Related to Scots tairt (“tart; tartness”), Dutch tarten (“to defy, challenge, mock”), German trotzen (“to defy, brave, mock”), perhaps Albanian thartë (“sour, acid, sharp”).
Senses: examples: text: I ate a very tart apple.
glosses: Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
glosses: high or too high in acidity.
raw_tags: of wine
examples: text: He gave me a very tart reply.
glosses: Sharp; keen; severe.
Synonyms: sense: of wine: high in acidity
word: green
Derived terms: tart cherry
tarten
tartly
tartness
tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑɹt/
ipa: /tɑːt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: tarts
Etymology: From Middle English tart, tarte, from Old French tarte, tartre (“flat pastry”) (compare Medieval Latin tarta), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Old French torte, tourte, from Latin turta, perhaps from tŏrta f (“twisted”), in which case it would be cognate to torta.
Senses: glosses: A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, now typically containing jelly (US) / jam (UK) or conserve, or sometimes other fillings (chocolate, custard, egg, butter, historically even meat or other savory fillings).
glosses: A melt (block of wax for use in a tart burner).
Derived terms: Bakewell tart
Banbury tart
butter tart
chess tart
custard tart
egg custard tart
egg tart
gooseberry tart
gypsy tart
kueh tart
kuih tart
Linzer tart
maid-of-honor tart
maid of honor tart
maid-of-honour tart
Maid of Honour tart
maid of honour tart
maids of honour tart
Manchester tart
neenish tart
pineapple tart
raspberry tart
snake tart
taffety tart
tart ring
treacle tart
Related terms: tort
torta
torte
torture
tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑɹt/
ipa: /tɑːt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: tarts
Etymology: From a rebracketing of sweetheart, or from jam tart (“attractive woman”) by shortening.
Senses: glosses: A prostitute.
examples: text: We know the majority of the places that these tarts will hang out at.
ref: 1950, Roy E. Blick (police inspector), testimony before the United States Congress:
text: In the garden I was playing the tart / I kissed your lips and broke your heart
ref: 1991, “Until the End of the World”, in Bono (lyrics), Achtung Baby, performed by U2:
text: She told the Sun: "I'm talked about as an 'easy girl', the 'blonde slut' who distracted the captain and caused the crash. It's so wrong. I'm not some little tart."
ref: 2013 November 13, “Costa Concordia captain's mistress reveals late night sex sessions in cabin before doomed cruise liner sank”, in Daily Mirror:
glosses: Any woman with loose sexual morals.
Derived terms: card tart
cart tart
credit card tart
rate tart
tart card
tartlet
tart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑɹt/
ipa: /tɑːt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: tarts
form: tarting
form: tarted
form: tarted
Etymology: From a rebracketing of sweetheart, or from jam tart (“attractive woman”) by shortening.
Senses: glosses: To practice prostitution.
glosses: To practice promiscuous sex.
glosses: To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.
Derived terms: word: pop tart
word: tart up
tasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪsti/
rhymes: -eɪsti
Forms: form: tasties
Etymology: From taste + -y. The Philippine sense is due to a genericized trademark from Taystee Bread Company, a defunct American company.
Senses: examples: text: The mate had procured other tasties too, olives and such, for later in the evening.
ref: 2011, Nick Ardley, The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler:
text: Sean then made up the most delicious pâté to have with biscuits and various other tasties.
ref: 2017, Susan M. Hall, My Vanishing African Dreams:
glosses: Something tasty; a delicious article of food.
glosses: A loaf of bread.
teak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: teaks
form: teek
Etymology: Derived from Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ) / Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku).
Senses: glosses: An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).
glosses: A tree of the species in the genus Tectona.
glosses: A yellowish brown colour, like that of teakwood.
Derived terms: African teak
Australian teak
bastard teak
Rhodesian teak
teak moth
teak oil
teakwood
teaky
tough as teak
white teak
teak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: teek
Etymology: Derived from Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ) / Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku).
Senses: glosses: Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.
Related terms: afrormosia
iroko
telegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛl.ə.ɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: telegraphs
form: telegraphing
form: telegraphed
form: telegraphed
Etymology: Borrowed from French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).
Senses: examples: text: Whenever this portent occurs, my steward telegraphs to me, that I, as head of the family, be not unsteeled against the shock of a bereavement […]
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter 5, in Zuleika Dobson, London: Heinemann, published 1922, page 60:
text: In "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," Sherlock Holmes telegraphs Watson: "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the West of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. […]."
ref: 1957 May 24, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:
glosses: To use a telegraph, send a message by telegraph.
examples: text: Her frown telegraphed her displeasure.
text: He took a jab and telegraphed his punch so loudly that I was able to land a solid right hand to his stomach.
ref: 2007, James A. Rozhon, The Man in the Maze:
text: The trip was the latest step in a broader transformation of Mr. Putin that has become apparent in recent weeks. He is telegraphing a shift away from wartime crisis mode back toward the aura of a calm, paternalistic leader shielding Russians from the dangers of the world.
ref: 2022 June 30, Anton Troianovski, “Patient and Confident, Putin Shifts Out of Wartime Crisis Mode”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: For weeks, Ukrainian officials had telegraphed plans for a planned counterattack in the southern Kherson region, but instead the main focus of this week’s counterattack has been Kharkiv in the north-east, taking everyone, including apparently the Russians, by surprise.
ref: 2022 September 9, Isobel Koshiw, Shaun Walker, “Russia sends reinforcements to Kharkiv to repel Ukraine counterattack”, in The Guardian:
text: Sergey Radchenko, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, said China appeared to telegraph “a reproach to the Russians, that they’re not acting like a great power, that they are creating instability.”
ref: 2022 September 15, Anton Troianovski, Keith Bradsher, Austin Ramzy, “Chinese Support for Putin’s War Looks More Shaky After Summit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To clearly communicate to another nonverbally, whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign, especially unintentionally.
telepathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˈlɛpəθi/
ipa: /təˈlɛpəθi/
ipa: /ˈtɛləpæθi/
Forms: form: telepathies
Etymology: From tele- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: Gerwin Schalk and Anthony Ritaccio, at the Albany Medical Center, are working under a multimillion-dollar grant from the U.S. military to design and develop devices that enable soldiers to communicate telepathically. Although this seems like something out of a science fiction story, the Pentagon believes that these so-called telepathy helmets are sufficiently feasible that it is devoting more than $6 million to the project. The target date for completion of the prototype device is 2017.
ref: 2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 239:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
synonyms: word: mindreading
word: thoughtcasting
word: farfeeling
glosses: The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
Derived terms: pseudo-telepathy
telepathic
telepathically
telepathize
Related terms: empathy
technopathy
clairvoyance
precognition
telergy
teloteropathy
tenacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈnæs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /təˈnæsəti/
rhymes: -æsɪti
Forms: form: tenacities
Etymology: From tenac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French ténacité, from Latin tenācitās.
Senses: examples: text: — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
— Tenure?
— Tenacity!
ref: 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster:
glosses: The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
glosses: The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
glosses: The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
glosses: The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
Synonyms: sense: state of being tenacious
word: tenaciousness
sense: state of being tenacious
word: determination
sense: state of being tenacious
word: persistency
sense: state of being tenacious
word: retentiveness
sense: state of being tenacious
word: stubbornness
sense: quality keeping bodies together
word: cohesiveness
sense: quality making bodies adhere
word: adhesiveness
sense: quality making bodies adhere
word: viscosity
Related terms: tenacious
tenaciously
tend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: tends
form: tending
form: tended
form: tended
Etymology: From Middle English *tenden, from Old French tendre (“to stretch, stretch out, hold forth, offer, tender”), from Latin tendere (“to stretch, stretch out, extend, spread out”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
examples: text: They tend to go out on Saturdays.
text: It tends to snow here in winter.
text: I was tending to get up later and later after the breakup.
glosses: To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.
raw_tags: followed by a to-infinitive
examples: text: The Lords in 1722 declared that annexing such Clauses tends to the destruction of this government. And yet there are such bills every session and you pass them.
ref: 1812, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England:
glosses: To contribute to or toward some outcome.
Derived terms: tendency
Related terms: tense
tension
tent
intend
be given to
tend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: tends
form: tending
form: tended
form: tended
form: 'tend
Etymology: From Middle English tenden, by apheresis of attenden (“to attend”). More at attend.
Senses: examples: text: We need to tend to the garden, which has become a mess.
glosses: To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
raw_tags: with to
examples: text: Shepherds tend their flocks.
text: There's not a sparrow or a wren, / There's not a blade of autumn grain, / Which the four seasons do not tend / And tides of life and increase lend.
ref: 1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody:
text: Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859) :
glosses: To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
examples: text: Was he not companion with the riotous knights / That tend upon my father?
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
examples: text: Had I not. Four or five women once that tended me?
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To await; to expect.
examples: text: Being to descend / A ladder much in height, I did not tend / My way well down.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
Synonyms: sense: to look after
word: care for
sense: to look after
word: minister to
sense: to look after
word: nurse
sense: to look after
word: to
sense: to look after
word: take care of
sense: to accompany as an assistant
word: guard
sense: to accompany as an assistant
word: look after
sense: to accompany as an assistant
word: watch
sense: to be attentive to
word: attend to
Derived terms: bartend
tend bar
tend to one's knitting
tend to one's own knitting
tend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: tends
form: tending
form: tended
form: tended
form: teend
form: tende
form: tind
form: tinde
form: teen
form: teind
form: tynd
form: tynde
form: tine
Etymology: From Middle English tenden, from Old English tendan (“to kindle, set on fire”) (usually in compounds ātendan, fortendan, ontendan), from Proto-Germanic *tandijaną (“to kindle”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Danish tænde (“to kindle”), Swedish tända (“to ignite”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (tandjan, “to kindle”), Icelandic tendra (“to ignite”), German zünden (“to light, ignite, fire”). Related to tinder.
Senses: glosses: To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
Derived terms: attend
tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕnt
ipa: /tɛnt/
ipa: /tɪnt/
homophone: tint
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: tint (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tents
Etymology: From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”), or contracted from *tendita as an alternate past participle. Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).
Senses: examples: text: We were camping in a three-man tent.
text: We bought a new tent that can be put up in five seconds, but it took about twenty minutes to take it down and pack it away.
glosses: A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
glosses: The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
examples: text: A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
glosses: A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
examples: text: […] feeling his erection making a tent in his pants.
ref: 2013, Nathan Lapointe, A Strange New World:
glosses: A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
Hyponyms: beer tent
bell tent
bender tent
big tent
box tent
cook tent
crotch tent
dog tent
field tent
fumigation tent
mess tent
morning tent
oxygen tent
pup tent
ridge tent
shelter tent
table tent
tree tent
Zdarsky tent
Zdarsky tent-sack
Derived terms: bell-tent
big-tent
cook-tent
eastern tent caterpillar
fold like a cheap tent
fold one's tent
pitch a tent
strike the tent
tent bed
tent camping
tent caterpillar
tent embassy
tent-maker
tent meeting
tent peg
tent pegging
tent pole
tentpole
tent pole movie
tent revival
tent rock
tent-sack
were you born in a tent
tent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕnt
ipa: /tɛnt/
ipa: /tɪnt/
homophone: tint
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: tint (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tents
form: tenting
form: tented
form: tented
Etymology: From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”), or contracted from *tendita as an alternate past participle. Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).
Senses: examples: text: We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.
glosses: To go camping.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
examples: text: The sheet tented over his midsection.
glosses: To form into a tent-like shape.
glosses: Synonym of fumigate.
synonyms: word: fumigate
Related terms: camp
lean-to
lodge
pavilion
pavillion
pitch
tarp
tent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕnt
ipa: /tɛnt/
ipa: /tɪnt/
homophone: tint
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: tint (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tents
form: tenting
form: tented
form: tented
Etymology: From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”). Compare tend, from an aphetic variation of attend
Senses: examples: 14th century, anonymous, The Romance of Syr Tryamoure
He let hur have wemen at wylle,
To tent hur, and that was skylle,
And brought hur to bede
glosses: To attend to; to heed
glosses: to guard; to hinder.
tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕnt
ipa: /tɛnt/
ipa: /tɪnt/
homophone: tint
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: tint (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tents
Etymology: From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”). Compare tend, from an aphetic variation of attend
Senses: examples: text: Lo ! lo ! my frend , take tent to this womman
ref: a. 1451, John Lydgate, The Prohemy of a Marriage betwixt and Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail &c.:
glosses: Attention; regard, care.
examples: text: A-pon þe feild his fader went
And soght abel wit al his tent
ref: a. 1300, anonymous author, Cursor Mundi:
glosses: Intention; design.
tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕnt
ipa: /tɛnt/
ipa: /tɪnt/
homophone: tint
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: tint (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tents
Etymology: From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tentāre (“to probe, test”), alteration of temptāre (“to test, probe, tempt”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A probe for searching a wound.
tent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕnt
ipa: /tɛnt/
ipa: /tɪnt/
homophone: tint
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: tint (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tents
form: tenting
form: tented
form: tented
Etymology: From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tentāre (“to probe, test”), alteration of temptāre (“to test, probe, tempt”).
Senses: examples: text: to tent a wound
text: I'll tent him to the quick.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕnt
ipa: /tɛnt/
ipa: /tɪnt/
homophone: tint
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: tint (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tents
Etymology: From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge. Doublet of tint and tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.
Senses: synonyms: tent wine
tinta
coordinate_terms: claret
hock
sack
glosses: A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
tentative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛntətɪv/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈtɛntəʔɪf/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈtɛntəhɪf/
Forms: form: tentatives
Etymology: From Medieval Latin tentātīvus (“trying, testing”), from tentō, past participle tentātus (“to try, test”); see tent, tempt.
Senses: glosses: A trial; an experiment; an attempt.
glosses: A schedule for an event or a programme.
tentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛntətɪv/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈtɛntəʔɪf/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈtɛntəhɪf/
Forms: form: more tentative
form: most tentative
Etymology: From Medieval Latin tentātīvus (“trying, testing”), from tentō, past participle tentātus (“to try, test”); see tent, tempt.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
examples: text: He gave a tentative answer, unsure of the final outcome.
text: We have a tentative plan for the weekend, but nothing is confirmed yet.
text: Meanwhile, a bunch of hungry directors with digital cameras, time on their hands and not much money are making free-form studies about tentative hookups and long conversations among actual, overeducated, undermotivated young folks.
ref: 2009 May 3, Manohla Dargis, A. O. Scott, “Memos to Hollywood”, in The New York Times:
text: Hegseth's reference to the report being "low confidence" suggest it is tentative and its findings may change as more detail emerges.
ref: 2025 June 25, Rachel Hagan, “Trump pushes back after leaked report suggests Iran strikes had limited impact”, in BBC News:
glosses: Uncertain; subject to future change.
examples: text: Her tentative steps showed her nervousness as she entered the room.
glosses: Restrained; polite; feeling one's way, not using full force.
Derived terms: tentatively
tentativeness
tentative wound
terminology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɜː.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌtɝ.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌtɜː.məˈnɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌtɜː.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: terminologies
Etymology: From French terminologie or German Terminologie and their source, New Latin terminologia, from Medieval Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ologia (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).
Senses: glosses: A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
examples: text: Ad for advertisement is struggling hard for general recognition; some of its compounds, e. g., ad-writer, want-ad, display-ad, ad-card, ad-rate, column-ad and ad-man, are already accepted in technical terminology.
ref: [1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 27, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[…]Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
text: Language is always changing — but it shouldn’t become inflexible, especially when new terminologies, in the name of inclusion, sometimes wind up making others feel excluded.
ref: 2022 October 23, Pamela Paul, “Let’s Say Gay”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
glosses: The scientific study of such terms.
Synonyms: nomenclature
vocabulary
language
wording
phraseology
jargon
lingo
-ese
Coordinate terms: glossary
Derived terms: terminological
terminologically
terminologist
Related terms: argot
jargon
terminism
terminist
thane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: thanes
form: thegn
form: thayn
form: thein
form: theine
Etymology: From Middle English theyn, thein, þein, from Old English þæġn, þeġen, þegn, from Proto-West Germanic *þegn (“man, warrior”), from Proto-Germanic *þegnaz (“man, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- (“to give birth”); akin to Dutch degen, German Degen, Old Norse þegn and Ancient Greek τέκνον (téknon, “child”).
Senses: examples: text: The Anglo-Saxon thanes were in all respects the predecessors of the Norman barons.
The title of thane seems to have supplanted that of gesith, which appears only in the earner Anglo-Saxon laws, a denomination that may originally have designated the attendants or companions of the king, and whose wergild being triple that of the simple freeman, were, therefore, denominated not only gesithcund men, but six-hynde men.
ref: 1845, Johann Martin Lappenberg, translated by Benjamin Thorpe, A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, published 2004, page 317:
text: The little island of Iona became the refuge of the sons and some thanes of Athelfrith, banished by Edwin.
ref: 1910, Robert A. Thompson, The People's History of England, New York: Walter Scott Publishing:
text: Never need you fear
for a single thane of your sept or nation,
young warriors or old.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 54:
text: 2000, Wulfstan, Robert Boenig (editor and translator), Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: Selected Writings, page 144,
Although some serfs escape from their lord and turn away from Christendom to the Vikings and after this it happens that the clash of swords becomes common to thane and serf, if the serf utterly kills the thane, he lies unpaid by all of the serf's kin.
glosses: A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron.
Derived terms: thanehood
thanage
Related terms: baron
gesith < ġesīþ
thatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: thatches
Etymology: Variant of thack, from Middle English thache, thach, from Old English þæc (“roof-covering”), from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką (“covering”), from (o-grade of) Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“cover”).
Cognate with Icelandic þak, Dutch dak, German Dach, Norwegian tak, Swedish tak, Danish tag; and with Latin toga, Albanian thak (“awn, beard, pin, peg, tassel, fringe”), Lithuanian stogas (“roof”), Welsh to (“roof”). Related to Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos, “roof”) and στέγη (stégē, “roof”). See also English deech, deck.
Senses: examples: text: Just over halfway up, we reached the Human settlement with its houses of stone and wood and thatch. This was a prewar place.
ref: 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:
glosses: Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
glosses: Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
examples: text: Mark Ladd, the venue’s assistant director of operations, notes that the fake greenery looks authentic: the height and colour of the blades are varied, with a few brown ones thrown in to emulate dead thatch.
ref: 2015 May 30, Rob Kuznia, “California turns to fake grass in response to drought”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
examples: text: An outgoing, story-telling Irishman from Butte, Montana, with his thatch of red hair and sandpapered face, Matt was the quintessential imp.
ref: 2008, Wallace Madding, The Country Club Killings: A Montana Story, page 21:
glosses: Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.
Synonyms: sense: straw for covering roofs or stacks
word: haulm
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from thatch (noun)
word: big thatch
sense: Terms derived from thatch (noun)
word: overthatch
sense: Terms derived from thatch (noun)
word: thatch-rake
sense: Terms derived from thatch (noun)
word: thatch rake
sense: Terms derived from thatch (noun)
word: underthatch
thatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: thatches
form: thatching
form: thatched
form: thatched
Etymology: From Middle English thacchen, from Old English þeċċan, þeċċean (“to cover”), from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną (“to cover”), from Proto-Germanic *þaką (“cover, covering”, noun) (see above).
Cognate with West Frisian dekke, Dutch dekken, German decken, Danish tække, Swedish täcka. Alteration of vowel after Middle English perhaps due to the above noun.
Senses: glosses: To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from thatch (verb)
word: bethatch
sense: Terms derived from thatch (verb)
word: overthatch
sense: Terms derived from thatch (verb)
word: unthatch
word: Thatch
word: thatched
word: Thatcher
word: thatcher
word: thatching
thirst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thûrst
ipa: /θɜːst/
ipa: /θɝst/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: thirsts
Etymology: From Middle English thirst, thurst, from Old English þurst, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstu, from Proto-Germanic *þurstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
Germanic cognates include Old High German thurst, Middle High German durst, German Durst, Old Saxon thurst, Old Dutch thursti, Middle Dutch dorst, dorste, Dutch dorst, Old Norse þorsti (Swedish törst, Icelandic þorsti, Danish tørst, Norwegian tørst). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Albanian djersë (“sweat”), Sanskrit तृष्णा (tṛṣṇā, “desire; thirst”), Sanskrit तृष्यति (tṛ́ṣyati), Latin terra, Latin torridus.
Senses: examples: text: We developed a great thirst during our hike.
text: He had quite a thirst on and so headed to his favourite Dublin pub.
glosses: A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (such as fear, excitement, etc.) which stops the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane.
examples: text: If you go out in the desert for long without water, the thirst can drive you mad.
text: "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: The condition producing the sensation of thirst.
examples: text: She had a real thirst for news and that greatly helped her career.
glosses: A want and eager desire (for something); a craving or longing.
examples: text: He had a thirst for her and she had the same for him.
glosses: Sexual lust.
Synonyms: word: craving
word: longing
Derived terms: bloodthirst
thirst-buster
thirst-quenching
thirst snake
thirst trap
thirsty
Related terms: hunger
thirst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thûrst
ipa: /θɜːst/
ipa: /θɝst/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: thirsts
form: thirsting
form: thirsted
form: thirsted
Etymology: From Middle English thirst, thurst, from Old English þurst, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstu, from Proto-Germanic *þurstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
Germanic cognates include Old High German thurst, Middle High German durst, German Durst, Old Saxon thurst, Old Dutch thursti, Middle Dutch dorst, dorste, Dutch dorst, Old Norse þorsti (Swedish törst, Icelandic þorsti, Danish tørst, Norwegian tørst). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Albanian djersë (“sweat”), Sanskrit तृष्णा (tṛṣṇā, “desire; thirst”), Sanskrit तृष्यति (tṛ́ṣyati), Latin terra, Latin torridus.
Senses: examples: text: The people thirsted there for water.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 17:3:
glosses: To be thirsty.
examples: text: I thirst for knowledge and education will sate me.
text: to be thirsted for one's blood
text: My soul thirsteth for […] the living God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 42:2:
text: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:6:
glosses: To desire vehemently.
raw_tags: followed by "for"
thresh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thrĕsh
ipa: /θɹɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: threshes
form: threshing
form: threshed
form: threshed
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-der.?
Proto-Germanic *þreskaną
Old English þrescan
Middle English threschen
English thresh
From Middle English thresshen, threshen, threschen, from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną.
Compare West Frisian terskje, Dutch dorsen, Low German dörschen, German dreschen, Danish tærske, Swedish tröska, Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn). Doublet of thrash.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
glosses: To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
examples: text: The jay fell all lopsidedly and threshing, as though it were having a fit. The ground killed it.
ref: 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41:
glosses: To violently toss the limbs about.
Synonyms: thrash
Derived terms: threshel
thresher
thresherman
threshing
threshing sledge
threshold
thresh out
acology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /əˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: aceology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄκος (ákos, “remedy”) + -logy. The first element could be from Proto-Indo-European *Hieh₂ḱ-. Or, less likely, related to Old Irish ícc (“healing, cure”). Or, of Semitic/Egyptian origin.
Senses: synonyms: iamatology
glosses: Materia medica; the science of medical remedies, or of therapeutics.
Related terms: autacoid
thyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈʰajm/
note: Indic
ipa: /t̪ʰajm/
rhymes: -aɪm
homophone: time (most accents)
Forms: form: thymes
Etymology: From Middle English tyme, from Old French thym, from Latin thymum, from Ancient Greek θύμον (thúmon).
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris), a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.
Derived terms: word: basil thyme
word: caraway thyme
taxonomic: Teucrium marum
word: cat thyme
word: creeping thyme
word: English thyme
word: French thyme
word: lemon thyme
word: mother-of-thyme
word: thymic
word: thymol
word: wild thyme
tint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
homophone: tent (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tints
Etymology: Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.
Senses: glosses: A slight coloring.
glosses: A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
examples: text: Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
glosses: A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
glosses: A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
examples: text: About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.
ref: 2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36:
text: I'd watch as cars marched by like a line of ants. Cars with those cool hydraulics. Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.
ref: 2021, Carol Park, Memoir of a Cashier: Korean Americans, Racism, and Riots:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
Derived terms: half-tint
tint block
tint tool
untint
tint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
homophone: tent (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tints
form: tinting
form: tinted
form: tinted
Etymology: Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.
Senses: examples: text: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To shade, to color.
Derived terms: rose-tint
Related terms: tinter
tint
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
homophone: tent (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: int
Etymology: Unknown(?)
Senses: glosses: it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't
tithe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪð/
rhymes: -aɪð
Etymology: From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), Dutch tiende, German Low German Teihnte, German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”).
Senses: examples: text: Euery tythe ſoule, 'mongſt many thouſand diſmes,
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Tenth.
toot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːt/
ipa: /ˈtut/
ipa: /ˈtʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -ʊt
rhymes: -ʊt
ipa: /ˈtuːt/
ipa: /ˈtut/
ipa: /ˈtʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -ʊt
Forms: form: toots
Etymology: Perhaps a contraction of toilet.
Senses: synonyms: word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
glosses: A toilet.
Related terms: toot plant
toot suite
toot sweet
toupee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːˈpeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: toupees
form: toupe
form: toupée
form: toupet
Etymology: 1727, from French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”). More at top.
Senses: synonyms: hairpiece
glosses: A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man.
glosses: A small tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
examples: text: Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.
ref: 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss:
glosses: A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig, worn by both sexes.
Derived terms: toupeed
toupee fallacy
towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: toul
enpr: touʹəl
ipa: /ˈtaʊ(ə)l/
ipa: [tʰæɫ]
ipa: [tʰæɒ̯ɫ]
ipa: [tʰɛjɔ̯ɫ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [təwəl]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [tɤwəl]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [tewəl]
rhymes: -aʊl
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: towels
Etymology: From Middle English towayle, towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel”) (modern French touaille), Medieval Latin toallia, from Frankish *þwahilu (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahaną (“to wash”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel”) (modern dialectal German Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel”), dweil (“mop”), Low German Dweel (“towel”), Old English þwǣle (“band; ribbon; fillet”), Old English þwēan (“to wash”).
Senses: examples: text: He needed a towel for wiping the slippery floor.
glosses: A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.
Hyponyms: lavabo
Derived terms below
Derived terms: bath towel
beach towel
cum towel
cup towel
dish towel
dishtowel
golf towel
hand towel
jack towel
kitchen towel
oaken towel
paper towel
paper toweling
roller towel
sanitary towel
shaving towel
shop towel
show towel
sky the towel
tea towel
throw in the towel
towelette
towel gourd
towelhead
towel-horse
toweling
towelless
towellike
towel rail
towel snap
Turkish towel