cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
earth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːθ/
ipa: /ɝθ/
ipa: /ɵːθ/
note: Ghana
ipa: /ɜθ/
note: Ghana
ipa: /ɝθ/
ipa: /ɛrθ/
ipa: /ɛːrθ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: airth
form: erd
form: yearth
Etymology: From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”) (compare Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), North Frisian eerd, jard, Öört (“earth”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Cimbrian èerda (“earth”), Dutch aarde (“earth”), Dutch Low Saxon eerde (“earth”), German Erde (“earth; soil; ground; world”), German Low German Eer (“earth”), Luxembourgish Äerd (“earth; soil”), Vilamovian Ād (“earth”), Yiddish ערד (erd, “earth; soil”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish jord (“earth”), Faroese jørð (“earth”), Icelandic jörð (“earth”)), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα (*éra, “earth”) in ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground, to earth”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).
Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably unrelated.
Senses: examples: text: The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.
text: We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.
earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːθ/
ipa: /ɝθ/
ipa: /ɵːθ/
note: Ghana
ipa: /ɜθ/
note: Ghana
ipa: /ɝθ/
ipa: /ɛrθ/
ipa: /ɛːrθ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: earths
form: earthing
form: earthed
form: earthed
form: airth
form: erd
form: yearth
Etymology: From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”) (compare Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), North Frisian eerd, jard, Öört (“earth”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Cimbrian èerda (“earth”), Dutch aarde (“earth”), Dutch Low Saxon eerde (“earth”), German Erde (“earth; soil; ground; world”), German Low German Eer (“earth”), Luxembourgish Äerd (“earth; soil”), Vilamovian Ād (“earth”), Yiddish ערד (erd, “earth; soil”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish jord (“earth”), Faroese jørð (“earth”), Icelandic jörð (“earth”)), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα (*éra, “earth”) in ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground, to earth”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).
Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably unrelated.
Senses: examples: text: That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.
synonyms: ground
glosses: To connect electrically to the earth.
examples: text: The Miſer earths his Treaſure; and the Thief, / Watching the Mole, half-beggars him ere Morn.
ref: 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 328:
glosses: To bury.
examples: text: […]the Fox is earth’d,[…]
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 48:
text: This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set.
ref: 1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion:
glosses: To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
examples: text: foxes earth'd
ref: a. 1740, Thomas Tickell, Fragment on Hunting:
glosses: To burrow.
Derived terms: earthing
unearth
snake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: snāk
ipa: /sneɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: snakes
form: snaking
form: snaked
form: snaked
form: snek
Etymology: From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”).
Cognate with German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Danish snog (“grass snake”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk snåk (“viper, adder”), Faroese snákur (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”).
Senses: examples: text: The path snaked through the forest.
text: The river snakes through the valley.
text: Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?
ref: 1996 September 24, Mark Addinall, “Football fever...”, in aus.personals (Usenet):
text: Opened in June of that year [1880], the station was the southern terminus of the much-lamented Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (the S&D or 'Slow and Dirty'), which snaked its way down from Bath.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 59–60:
synonyms: slither
wind
glosses: To follow or move in a winding route.
examples: text: He snaked my DVD!
text: Although it wouldn't be the first time some one patented an idea that I'd had a year earlier.[…]Someone already has :)[…]F*CK ME !! Snaked again !
ref: 2001 April 5, Hyena, “Home made supercharger ?”, in aus.cars (Usenet):
glosses: To steal slyly.
glosses: To clean using a plumbing snake.
examples: text: November 27 1835, N.B. St. John, letter to George Thompson
his wife and children shall not be forced to flee from the hearth of a friend, lest they should be snaked out by men in civic authority
glosses: To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
examples: text: He says he didn't snake and I believe him.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To inform; to rat; often with out.
Derived terms: snake out
Related terms: anguine
ordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnət/
ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪneɪt/
Forms: form: ordinates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ordino, ordinatus. Doublet of ordain.
Senses: examples: text: The point (3,2) has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown.
Hypernyms: sense: second of two coordinates
word: coordinate
sense: vertical line
word: axis
Coordinate terms: abscissa
Related terms: abscissa
ordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnət/
ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪneɪt/
Forms: form: ordinates
form: ordinating
form: ordinated
form: ordinated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ordino, ordinatus. Doublet of ordain.
Senses: glosses: To align a series of objects.
synonyms: ordain
glosses: To ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop.
Derived terms: foreordinate
Related terms: ordination
ordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnət/
ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪneɪt/
Forms: form: more ordinate
form: most ordinate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ordino, ordinatus. Doublet of ordain.
Senses: glosses: arranged regularly in rows; orderly; disposed or arranged in an orderly or regular fashion.
Derived terms: disordinate
ordinate axis
ordinate dimension
ordinately
semiordinate
unordinate
Related terms: inordinate
thick
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: thĭk
ipa: /θɪk/
ipa: /θɘk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: thicker
form: thickest
Etymology: From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish tyk (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål tykk (“thick”), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”). Related to Old Irish tiug (“thick”) and Welsh tew (“thick”).
Senses: examples: text: Snow lay thick on the ground.
glosses: In a thick manner.
examples: text: The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
glosses: Frequently or numerously.
thick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thĭk
ipa: /θɪk/
ipa: /θɘk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: thicks
Etymology: From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish tyk (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål tykk (“thick”), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”). Related to Old Irish tiug (“thick”) and Welsh tew (“thick”).
Senses: examples: text: It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
text: He through a little window cast his sight / Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
examples: text: gloomy thicks
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
text: Through the thicke they heard one rudely rush.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A thicket.
examples: text: If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks.
ref: 2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All, page 100:
glosses: A stupid person; a fool.
Derived terms: in the thick of
through thick and thin
thick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thĭk
ipa: /θɪk/
ipa: /θɘk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: thicks
form: thicking
form: thicked
form: thicked
Etymology: From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish tyk (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål tykk (“thick”), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”). Related to Old Irish tiug (“thick”) and Welsh tew (“thick”).
Senses: examples: text: A wicked ambush , which lay hidden long In the close covert of her guilful eyen,
Thence breaking forth , did thick about me throng
ref: 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:
text: The nightmare Life-in-death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 3, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 193–194:
glosses: To thicken.
thick
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: thĭk
ipa: /θɪk/
ipa: /θɘk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology: From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish tyk (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål tykk (“thick”), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”). Related to Old Irish tiug (“thick”) and Welsh tew (“thick”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thilk (“that same”).
northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northeasts
form: north-east
form: nor'-east
form: NE
Etymology: From Middle English northest, from Old English norþēast, equivalent to north + east.
Senses: examples: text: The task of discussing priority concerns for this region is complicated by the fact that there are essentially two rural northeasts.
ref: 1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development, Rural Economic Development: Hearings, page 1604:
antonyms: southwest
glosses: The intercardinal compass point halfway between north and east; specifically at a bearing of 45°.
Derived terms: east-northeast
east-northeasterly
east-northeastern
east-northeastwards
northeastbound
northeast by east
northeast by north
northeasterly
northeastern
Northeast Europe
Northeast India
northeast monsoon
northeastwards
north-northeast
north-northeasterly
north-northeastern
north-northeastwards
northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more northeast
form: most northeast
form: north-east
form: nor'-east
form: NE
Etymology: From Middle English northest, from Old English norþēast, equivalent to north + east.
Senses: glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the northeast; northeastern.
examples: text: a northeast course
text: Chungshe is one of eleven villages in Liuchia township, Tainan county (see Maps 2 and 3). It lies about 30 kilometers northeast of Tainan city.
ref: 1972, Burton Pasternak, Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: Situated toward or in the direction of the northeast; northeastward; northeasterly.
examples: text: a northeast wind
glosses: Coming from the northeast; northeasterly.
northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more northeast
form: most northeast
form: north-east
form: nor'-east
form: NE
Etymology: From Middle English northest, from Old English norþēast, equivalent to north + east.
Senses: examples: text: We are travelling northeast at the moment.
glosses: Towards the direction of the northeast; northeastwards.
northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔɹθˈwɛst/
ipa: /nɔːθˈwɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: northwests
form: north-west
form: nor'-west
form: NW
Etymology: From Middle English northwest, from Old English norþwest, equivalent to north + west.
Senses: antonyms: southeast
glosses: The intercardinal compass point halfway between west and north; specifically at a bearing of 315°.
Derived terms: word: north by northwest
word: north-northwest
word: north northwest
word: north-northwesterly
word: north-northwestern
word: north-northwestwards
word: North West
word: Northwest Arctic Borough
word: northwestbound
word: northwest by north
word: northwest by west
word: northwester
word: northwesterly
word: northwestern
word: Northwest Germanic
word: northwestmost
word: Northwest Passage
word: Northwest Territories
word: northwestwards
word: Old Northwest
word: Pacific Northwest
word: west northwest
word: west-northwest
word: west-northwesterly
word: west-northwestern
word: west-northwestwards
northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔɹθˈwɛst/
ipa: /nɔːθˈwɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more northwest
form: most northwest
form: north-west
form: nor'-west
form: NW
Etymology: From Middle English northwest, from Old English norþwest, equivalent to north + west.
Senses: glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the northwest; northwestern.
examples: text: a northwest course
text: But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
ref: 2025 February 1, Annie Correal, “U.S. Military Planes Deliver Deportees to Honduras”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Situated toward or in the direction of the northwest; northwestward; northwesterly.
examples: text: a northwest wind
glosses: Coming from the northwest; northwesterly.
northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔɹθˈwɛst/
ipa: /nɔːθˈwɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more northwest
form: most northwest
form: north-west
form: nor'-west
form: NW
Etymology: From Middle English northwest, from Old English norþwest, equivalent to north + west.
Senses: examples: text: We are travelling northwest at the moment.
glosses: Towards or in the direction of the northwest; northwestwards.
southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊθˈwɛst/
topics: nautical
transport
ipa: /saʊˈwɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: southwests
form: south-west
form: sou'-west
form: SW
Etymology: From Middle English southwest, southewest, from Old English sūþwest and sūþanwestan, equivalent to south + west. Cognate with West Frisian súdwest, Dutch zuidwest, German Südwesten, Danish sydvest, Swedish sydväst.
Senses: examples: text: So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 40:
antonyms: northeast
glosses: The intercardinal compass point halfway between south and west; specifically at a bearing of 225°.
Derived terms: south-southwest
south-southwesterly
south-southwestern
south-southwestwards
southwest by south
southwest by west
southwesterly
southwestern
Southwest Middlesex
southwestwards
west-southwest
west-southwesterly
west-southwestern
west-southwestwards
southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊθˈwɛst/
topics: nautical
transport
ipa: /saʊˈwɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more southwest
form: most southwest
form: south-west
form: sou'-west
form: SW
Etymology: From Middle English southwest, southewest, from Old English sūþwest and sūþanwestan, equivalent to south + west. Cognate with West Frisian súdwest, Dutch zuidwest, German Südwesten, Danish sydvest, Swedish sydväst.
Senses: glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the southwest; southwestern.
examples: text: A southwest course.
glosses: Situated toward or in the direction of the southwest; southwestward; southwesterly.
examples: text: A southwest wind.
glosses: Coming from the southwest; southwesterly.
Derived terms: Southwest Middlesex
southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊθˈwɛst/
topics: nautical
transport
ipa: /saʊˈwɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more southwest
form: most southwest
form: south-west
form: sou'-west
form: SW
Etymology: From Middle English southwest, southewest, from Old English sūþwest and sūþanwestan, equivalent to south + west. Cognate with West Frisian súdwest, Dutch zuidwest, German Südwesten, Danish sydvest, Swedish sydväst.
Senses: examples: text: We are travelling southwest at the moment.
glosses: Towards or in the direction of the southwest; southwestwards.
southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southeasts
form: south-east
form: sou'-east
form: SE
Etymology: From Middle English southest, from Old English sūþēast, equivalent to south + east.
Senses: antonyms: northwest
glosses: The intercardinal compass point halfway between east and south; specifically at a bearing of 135°.
Derived terms: south-southwest
south-southwesterly
south-southwestern
south-southwestwards
southwest by south
southwest by west
southwesterly
southwestern
southwestwards
west-southwest
west-southwesterly
west-southwestern
west-southwestwards
southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more southeast
form: most southeast
form: south-east
form: sou'-east
form: SE
Etymology: From Middle English southest, from Old English sūþēast, equivalent to south + east.
Senses: examples: text: The first rocket exploded on the southeast camp fire perimeter, and the second dropped in to the northwest, a few hundred meters from the center of the workforce complex.
ref: 2014, Robert Barr, For the Love of Flight, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the southeast; southeastern.
examples: text: A southeast course.
glosses: Situated toward or in the direction of the southeast; southeastward; southeasterly.
examples: text: A southeast wind.
glosses: Coming from the southeast; southeasterly.
southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more southeast
form: most southeast
form: south-east
form: sou'-east
form: SE
Etymology: From Middle English southest, from Old English sūþēast, equivalent to south + east.
Senses: examples: text: We are travelling southeast at the moment.
text: Valencia is southeast of Madrid.
glosses: Towards or in the direction of the southeast; southeastwards.
wax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wăks
ipa: /wæks/
enpr: wĕks
ipa: /wɛks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: whacks
homophone: wacks (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), German Low German Wass (“wax”), Luxembourgish Wuess (“wax”), Vilamovian wāhs (“wax”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk voks (“wax”), Faroese vaks (“wax”), Icelandic, Swedish vax (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).
Senses: examples: text: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Made of wax.
Synonyms: waxen
wax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wăks
ipa: /wæks/
enpr: wĕks
ipa: /wɛks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: whacks
homophone: wacks (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: waxes
form: waxing
form: waxed
form: waxed
Etymology: From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), German Low German Wass (“wax”), Luxembourgish Wuess (“wax”), Vilamovian wāhs (“wax”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk voks (“wax”), Faroese vaks (“wax”), Icelandic, Swedish vax (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).
Senses: examples: text: waxed silk
glosses: To coat with wax or a similar material.
wax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wăks
ipa: /wæks/
enpr: wĕks
ipa: /wɛks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: whacks
homophone: wacks (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: waxes
form: waxing
form: waxed
form: waxed
Etymology: From Middle English waxen, from the noun (see above).
Senses: synonyms: buff
shine
polish
furbish
burnish
glosses: To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
glosses: To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
glosses: To defeat utterly.
examples: text: "I was reassigned over from the 9th when the battalion CO got waxed on the road leading in." Ben kept his dismay to himself. Here was one more officer in the 90th who'd been on the job only hours or days, replacing commanders killed or wounded....
ref: 2005, David L. Robbins, Liberation Road: A Novel of World War II and the Red Ball Express, page 83:
text: "You telling me you know who really waxed him and your mom?"
 "Yeah," she lied.
 "Just who pulled the trigger or who ordered it to be pulled?"
ref: 2009, Dean R. Koontz, Ed Gorman, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: City of Night, →ISBN, page 106:
synonyms: word: bump off
word: knock off
word: whack
word: annihilate
word: bag
word: baptize
word: bereave of life
word: blight
word: bring down
word: bump off
word: bury
word: cack
word: compromised to a permanent end
word: croak
word: crush
word: dash
word: deactivate
word: dead
word: demolish
word: destroy
word: dispatch
word: dispose of
word: do
word: do in
word: dust
word: eliminate
word: end
word: eradicate
word: ex
word: exterminate
word: finish
word: finish off
word: flatten
word: grease
word: knock off
word: lay waste to
word: make away with
word: mortify
word: neutralize
word: obliterate
word: off
word: pay off
word: pick off
word: polish off
word: pop off
word: punch someone's ticket
word: put an end to
word: put down
word: put someone out of their misery
word: put six feet under
word: put to sleep
word: ravage
word: rub out
word: ruin
word: scotch
word: scupper
word: scuttle
word: send to eternity
word: send to hell
word: send to the grave
word: send to the great beyond
word: send to the next life
word: slay
word: slaughter
word: smash
word: smite
word: snuff
word: squash
word: stiff
word: stop someone's clock
word: take
word: terminate
word: terminate with extreme prejudice
word: top off
word: top
word: torpedo
word: take care of
word: take down
word: take out
word: waste
word: wax
word: wet
word: whack
word: wipe out
word: wreck
glosses: To kill, especially to murder a person.
glosses: To record.
raw_tags: of a musical or oral performance
Derived terms: shax
wax down
waxed
waxen
waxer
waxing
wax on
wax someone's tail
wax the dolphin
wax up
wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wăks
ipa: /wæks/
enpr: wĕks
ipa: /wɛks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: whacks
homophone: wacks (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxan (“to wax, grow, be fruitful, increase, become powerful, flourish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wahsan, from Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną (“to grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to grow, increase”).
Cognate with Scots wax (“to grow”), West Frisian waakse (“to greaten”), Low German wassen, Dutch wassen (“to greaten”), German wachsen (“to greaten”), Danish and Norwegian vokse (“to greaten”), Swedish växa (“to greaten”), Icelandic vaxa (“to greaten”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wahsjan, “to grow”); and with Ancient Greek ἀέξειν (aéxein), Latin auxilium. It is in its turn cognate with augeo. See eke.
Senses: glosses: The process of growing.
Derived terms: wax-kernel
waxless
wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wăks
ipa: /wæks/
enpr: wĕks
ipa: /wɛks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: whacks
homophone: wacks (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: waxes
Etymology: Uncertain; probably from phrases like to wax angry, wax wode, and similar (see Etymology 2, above).
Senses: examples: text: father Arnall's face looked very black but he was not in a wax: he was laughing.
ref: 1914, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter 1
text: ‘That's him to a T,’ she would murmur; or, ‘Just wait till he reads this’; or, ‘Ah, won't that put him in a wax!’
ref: 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 161:
glosses: An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
Derived terms: waxy
Related terms: waxen-kernel
waxloke
beeswax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːzwæks/
rhymes: -iːzwæks
Forms: form: beeswaxes
Etymology: From bee + -s- + wax.
Senses: examples: text: The candle was made entirely of natural beeswax.
text: She polished the furniture with beeswax to give it a shine.
text: The beekeeper collected honey and beeswax from the hives.
glosses: A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.
glosses: Business, as in such phrases as mind your own beeswax and none of your beeswax.
Synonyms: E901
Derived terms: mind your own beeswax
beeswax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːzwæks/
rhymes: -iːzwæks
Forms: form: beeswaxes
form: beeswaxing
form: beeswaxed
form: beeswaxed
Etymology: From bee + -s- + wax.
Senses: glosses: To polish with beeswax.
laundry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/
ipa: /ˈlɑn.dɹi/
note: obsolete, distinct from the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈlɑːn.dɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːndɹi
rhymes: -ɑndɹi
Forms: form: laundries
Etymology: From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.
Senses: examples: text: In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.
glosses: A laundering; a washing.
examples: text: Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.
ref: 1883, Henry J. Winser, The Yellowstone National Park-A Manual for Tourists, New York: G.P. Putnam Sons, page 46:
glosses: A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
examples: text: You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
text: Q. Did you use to do the washing around your house, too? / The Court: She did all the work of the house, I suppose. / Mr. Feltenstein: That's what I want to find out. / A. I gave the laundry to the laundry. / Q. What? / A. I gave the wash to the laundry.
ref: 1935, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs., page 69:
glosses: That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A penalty flag.
glosses: A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
Synonyms: sense: action
word: washing
word: lavatory
word: laundromat
word: washateria
word: laundrette
Derived terms: coin laundry
coin-operated laundry
coin-op laundry
dirty laundry
do the laundry
European laundry
laundry ball
laundry basket
laundry blue
laundry chute
laundry egg
laundryless
laundry line
laundry list
laundrymaid
laundryman
laundry mark
laundry-mark
laundrymat
laundry mat
laundryowner
laundry sink
laundry soap
laundry sour
laundry stove
laundry tab
laundrywoman
Magdalene laundry
nonlaundry
what
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: wine–whine merger
enpr: wŏt
homophone: Watt
homophone: watt
homophone: wot
ipa: /wɒt/
ipa: /wɔt/
note: Indic
ipa: /wʱɔʈ/
note: father-bother merger
enpr: wät
ipa: /wɑt/
ipa: /wɑt/
ipa: /wɜt/
note: Indic
ipa: /wʱɑʈ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
enpr: hwŏt
ipa: /ʍɒt/
note: without the wine–whine merger
note: wine–whine merger
enpr: wŭt
ipa: /wʌt/
note: wine–whine merger
note: as a particle;wine–whine merger
ipa: [wɐ(ː)t̚˨˩]
note: without the wine–whine merger
enpr: hwŭt
ipa: /ʍʌt/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /hɒt/
homophone: hot
Etymology: From Middle English what, from Old English hwæt (“what”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat (“what”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód (“what”), neuter form of *kʷós (“who”).
Cognate with Scots what, whit (“what”), North Frisian wat (“what”), Saterland Frisian wat (“what”), West Frisian wat (“what”), Dutch wat (“what”), Low German wat (“what”), German was (“what”), Danish hvad (“what”), Norwegian Bokmål hva (“what”), Swedish vad (“what”), Norwegian Nynorsk kva (“what”), Icelandic hvað (“what”), Latin quod (“what, which”).
Its use as a contradictory particle in colloquial Singaporean and Malaysian English is analogous to Cantonese 喎 /㖞 (wo³, etymology 2, sense 3). It is possible that this was historically reinforced by the dated use of what as a sentence-final question tag in British English.
Senses: examples: text: What does it matter?
text: What do you care?
text: It must be, what, twenty-five years since we first met.
glosses: In what way; to what extent.
examples: text: In short; what by the indiscretion of people here, what by the rebound which came often back from London, what by the private interests and ambitious views of persons in the French court, and what by other causes unnecessary to be examined now, the most private transactions came to light [...]
ref: 1787, Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Letters on the Study and Use of History: A Letter to Sir William Windham, page 83:
text: The Chinese of all ranks, and in every place, received my books gladly, and listened with patience to what I had to say about the true God.—So that what from opportunities of attending to the object of my Mission among the Chinese—what from seasons of religious instruction to Dutch and English—what from intercourse with gentlemen of education and knowledge of the world—what from occasions of stating clearly the object of Missions, and of endeavouring to remove prejudices against them—and what from the view of a highly cultivated country, happy under an enlightened and liberal government, I have much reason to be satisfied with this journey …
ref: 1815, Rev. Mr. Milne, letter reprinted in The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 23, page 82. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EPE6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA82&dq=%22what+from%22
glosses: Used before a prepositional phrase to emphasise that something is taken into consideration as a cause or reason; usually used in combination with 'with' (see what with), and much less commonly with other prepositions.
what
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: note: wine–whine merger
enpr: wŏt
homophone: Watt
homophone: watt
homophone: wot
ipa: /wɒt/
ipa: /wɔt/
note: Indic
ipa: /wʱɔʈ/
note: father-bother merger
enpr: wät
ipa: /wɑt/
ipa: /wɑt/
ipa: /wɜt/
note: Indic
ipa: /wʱɑʈ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
enpr: hwŏt
ipa: /ʍɒt/
note: without the wine–whine merger
note: wine–whine merger
enpr: wŭt
ipa: /wʌt/
note: wine–whine merger
note: as a particle;wine–whine merger
ipa: [wɐ(ː)t̚˨˩]
note: without the wine–whine merger
enpr: hwŭt
ipa: /ʍʌt/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /hɒt/
homophone: hot
Forms: form: wha
form: wat
Etymology: From Middle English what, from Old English hwæt (“what”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat (“what”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód (“what”), neuter form of *kʷós (“who”).
Cognate with Scots what, whit (“what”), North Frisian wat (“what”), Saterland Frisian wat (“what”), West Frisian wat (“what”), Dutch wat (“what”), Low German wat (“what”), German was (“what”), Danish hvad (“what”), Norwegian Bokmål hva (“what”), Swedish vad (“what”), Norwegian Nynorsk kva (“what”), Icelandic hvað (“what”), Latin quod (“what, which”).
Its use as a contradictory particle in colloquial Singaporean and Malaysian English is analogous to Cantonese 喎 /㖞 (wo³, etymology 2, sense 3). It is possible that this was historically reinforced by the dated use of what as a sentence-final question tag in British English.
Senses: examples: text: What! That’s amazing!
text: wait this song is so good whattt
text: What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: An expression of surprise or disbelief.
examples: text: What? I'm busy.
glosses: What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires.
examples: text: It’s a nice day, what?
text: “That’s riled them,” said my compaion. “Good work, what?”
ref: 1918, Denis Garstin, The Shilling Soldiers, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 83:
text: Chuffy: WHAT? No, no, no, no, no. My casa is your casa, what?
ref: 1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
glosses: Clipping of what do you say?, used as a type of tag question to emphasise a statement and invite agreement, often rhetorically.
examples: text: — Could I have some of those aarrrrrr mmmm ...
— What?
glosses: What did you say? I beg your pardon? This usage is often considered impolite, with the more polite "Pardon?" or "Excuse me?" preferred.
examples: text: I must have been, what, about five years old.
glosses: Indicating a guess or approximation, or a pause to try to recall information.
Synonyms: word: what-what
word: wot
sense: what did you say?
word: come again
word: pardon
word: say again
what
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: wine–whine merger
enpr: wŏt
homophone: Watt
homophone: watt
homophone: wot
ipa: /wɒt/
ipa: /wɔt/
note: Indic
ipa: /wʱɔʈ/
note: father-bother merger
enpr: wät
ipa: /wɑt/
ipa: /wɑt/
ipa: /wɜt/
note: Indic
ipa: /wʱɑʈ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
enpr: hwŏt
ipa: /ʍɒt/
note: without the wine–whine merger
note: wine–whine merger
enpr: wŭt
ipa: /wʌt/
note: wine–whine merger
note: as a particle;wine–whine merger
ipa: [wɐ(ː)t̚˨˩]
note: without the wine–whine merger
enpr: hwŭt
ipa: /ʍʌt/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /hɒt/
homophone: hot
Forms: form: whats
Etymology: From Middle English what, from Old English hwæt (“what”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat (“what”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód (“what”), neuter form of *kʷós (“who”).
Cognate with Scots what, whit (“what”), North Frisian wat (“what”), Saterland Frisian wat (“what”), West Frisian wat (“what”), Dutch wat (“what”), Low German wat (“what”), German was (“what”), Danish hvad (“what”), Norwegian Bokmål hva (“what”), Swedish vad (“what”), Norwegian Nynorsk kva (“what”), Icelandic hvað (“what”), Latin quod (“what, which”).
Its use as a contradictory particle in colloquial Singaporean and Malaysian English is analogous to Cantonese 喎 /㖞 (wo³, etymology 2, sense 3). It is possible that this was historically reinforced by the dated use of what as a sentence-final question tag in British English.
Senses: examples: text: They prayd him sit, and gave him for to feed / Such homely what as serves the simple clowne, / That doth despise the dainties of the towne[…]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:
glosses: Something; thing; stuff.
examples: text: The emphasis on the interplay between the hows and whats of interpretive practice is paramount.
ref: 2005, Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, page 493:
glosses: The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
examples: 2012, "We Are Both", season 2, episode 2 of Once Upon a Time
Regina: What are you?
Rumplestiltskin: What? What? What? My, my, what a rude question! I am not a what.
glosses: Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who.
contact lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contact lenses
Senses: glosses: A thin lens, made of flexible or rigid plastic, that is placed directly on to the eye to correct vision, used as an alternative to spectacles, or, if coloured, to change one's eye color cosmetically.
Synonyms: contact
lenses
Coordinate terms: spectacles
Derived terms: -filcon
-focon
left
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛft/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈlɛf/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈlɛfʔ/
ipa: /lɛf/
rhymes: -ɛft
Forms: form: Left
Etymology: From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), obsolete Dutch lucht, leftsch, lefts, lefs (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), archaic Low German lucht (“left”).
Senses: antonyms: right
glosses: On the left side.
examples: text: Turn left at the corner. NO! Your other left.
antonyms: right
glosses: Towards the left side.
examples: text: The East Coast of the US leans left in elections.
antonyms: right
glosses: Towards the political left.
Derived terms: word: left and right
word: left turn
word: please turn left
word: stage left
word: swipe left
left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛft/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈlɛf/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈlɛfʔ/
ipa: /lɛf/
rhymes: -ɛft
Forms: form: lefts
form: Left
Etymology: From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), obsolete Dutch lucht, leftsch, lefts, lefs (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), archaic Low German lucht (“left”).
Senses: synonyms: 9 o'clock
port
glosses: The left side or direction.
examples: text: The Left left workers behind, thinking they had a winning demographic coalition. It hasn't really worked out for them yet.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.
glosses: The left hand or fist.
examples: text: The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.
ref: 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A punch delivered with the left fist.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
antonyms: right
glosses: A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
Synonyms: sense: political left
word: left wing
sense: political left
word: leftists
Derived terms: Copenhagen left
dirtbag left
hang a left
lefty
loony left
Michigan left
Pittsburgh left
proper left
to the left
your other left
left
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛft/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈlɛf/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈlɛfʔ/
ipa: /lɛf/
rhymes: -ɛft
Etymology: From Middle English left, variant of laft (“remaining, left”), from Old English lǣfd, ġelǣfd, past participle of lǣfan (“to leave”). More at leave.
Senses: examples: text: There's not much food left.
text: Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!
Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
glosses: simple past and past participle of leave (“depart, separate from; (cause or allow to) remain”).
Derived terms: be left at the post
left-behind
left-off
left-over
left periphery
left recursion
left total
left
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛft/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈlɛf/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈlɛfʔ/
ipa: /lɛf/
rhymes: -ɛft
Etymology: From Middle English levit, ilevet, y-levyd, from Old English ġelȳfd, ġelȳfed, past participle of Old English ġelȳfan, lȳfan (“to allow, permit”), equivalent to leave (“to give leave to, allow, grant, permit”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.
glosses: simple past and past participle of leave (“permit”).
right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rīt
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹaɪt]
ipa: [ˈɹɒɪʔ]
ipa: /ˈɹiːt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹiːt/
enpr: rīt
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹaɪt]
ipa: [ˈɹaɪθ̠]
ipa: [ˈɻɐʏt]
ipa: [-ʔ]
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹo̞ɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹəɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹo̞ɪʔ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹəɪʔ/
ipa: /ˈɹʌɪt/
note: especially Nova Scotia
ipa: /ˈɹeɪt/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɹəi̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɹei̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ʔ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ɾ̥]
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹɑe̯t]
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹäːtʰ]
homophone: rite
homophone: wright
homophone: Wright
homophone: write
homophone: rate (dialectal; certain senses only)
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: rights
form: righting
form: righted
form: righted
form: ryght
form: reight
form: rite
Etymology: From Middle English righten, reghten, riȝten, from Old English rihtan, ġerihtan (“to straighten, judge, set upright, set right”), from Proto-West Germanic *rihtijan, from Proto-Germanic *rihtijaną (“to straighten; rectify; judge”).
Senses: examples: text: Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.
glosses: To correct.
examples: text: The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
glosses: To set upright.
examples: text: When the wind died down, the ship righted.
glosses: To return to normal upright position.
examples: text: to right the oppressed
text: So just is God, to right the innocent.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
ref: 1776, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Declaration of Independence:
glosses: To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
Derived terms: aright
beright
eright
right the ship
self-right
self-righting
unright
Strine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɑen/
ipa: /stɹaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: Strines
form: strine
form: 'Strine
form: 'strine
Etymology: From a pronunciation spelling of Australian spoken with this accent. Coined by “Afferbeck Lauder” (Alastair Ardoch Morrison) and popularised with his 1965 book Let Stalk Strine. Australian from 1965.
Senses: examples: text: The Strines I met were fierce about having a good time […]
ref: 2025, Lynne Tillman, Thrilled to Death: Selected Stories, page 220:
glosses: An Australian.