cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
instrumental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/
ipa: /ɪnstɹʊˈmɛntəl/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more instrumental
form: most instrumental
Etymology: From Middle English instrumental, instrumentale, from Medieval Latin īnstrūmentālis, equivalent to instrument + -al.
Senses: examples: text: He was instrumental in conducting the business.
text: The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth
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 I, scene ii]:
text: Few songwriters have been as instrumental in creating the mold for American music.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
text: [...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
ref: 2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 40:
glosses: Essential or central; of great importance or relevance.
examples: text: Maxwell started back to his study, feeling that kind of satisfaction which a man feels when he has been even partly instrumental in finding an unemployed person a remunerative position.
ref: 1896, Charles M. Sheldon, chapter 12, in In His Steps:
glosses: Serving as an instrument, medium, means, or agency.
examples: text: instrumental music
text: an instrumental part
text: He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds.
ref: c. 1700, John Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pause in the vocals of a song, usually occurring midway through, in which a musical instrument replaces the vocals.
examples: text: the instrumental case
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally corresponding to the English use of prepositions such as by, with, through, or by means of with the objective case.
Coordinate terms: sense: serving as a means
word: final
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: vocal
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: a cappella
Derived terms: instrumental error
instrumentalisation
instrumentalism
instrumentalist
instrumentality
instrumentalize
instrumentally
instrumentalness
instrumental rationality
instrumental version
instrumental width
instrumentation
instrumentive
uninstrumental
Related terms: instrument
instrumental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/
ipa: /ɪnstɹʊˈmɛntəl/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: instrumentals
Etymology: From Middle English instrumental, instrumentale, from Medieval Latin īnstrūmentālis, equivalent to instrument + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The instrumental case.
examples: text: I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent […]
ref: 1977, Stereo Review, volume 38, page 70:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A composition written or performed without lyrics or singing, using a lead instrument to replace vocals.
instrumentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instrumentalists
Etymology: From instrumental + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who plays a musical instrument, as distinguished from a vocalist.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An adherent of instrumentalism.
Derived terms: brass instrumentalist
multi-instrumentalist
noninstrumentalist
reed instrumentalist
string instrumentalist
wind instrumentalist
instrumentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: instrumentalities
Etymology: From instrumental + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the 'great design' which he wished to establish through her instrumentality.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 344:
glosses: The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose.
examples: text: He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.
ref: 1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4:
text: Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities.
ref: 1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Bits About Home Matters:
text: God works by instrumentalities, and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance.
ref: 1914, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals:
glosses: Something that is instrumental; an instrument.
examples: text: Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
ref: 1994, Title 17 of the United States Code, §104A(a)(2):
topics: law
glosses: A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
instrumentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more instrumentally
form: most instrumentally
Etymology: From instrumental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so.
ref: 1760–1765, Edmund Burke, Tracts Relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland
text: Institutionally based, restrictive relationships, such as those among family members or professional colleagues, must thus be contrasted with instrumentally based, nonrestrictive relationships serving the aims of practical pursuits, such as those between freely practicing experts and their clients or between sellers and buyers. In instrumentally structured situations it is not necessary for the participants to curb their needs, because the mere expression of needs in no way compels others to gratify them, as it tends to do in the family.
ref: 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 8, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end
examples: text: an instrumentally accompanied song
text: join in instrumentally
text: In a song that has vocals, the intro is often played instrumentally and serves to establish the overall feel of the song.
ref: 2018, Rick Mattingly, Rod Morgenstein, The Drumset Musician:
glosses: With musical instruments
Synonyms: instrumently
instrumentalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From instrumental + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: How likely the music contains no spoken word vocals
thirty-one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha's thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i'th'charmed pot.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:
glosses: The cardinal number immediately following thirty and before thirty-two; thirty plus one.
Synonyms: sense: Symbolic
word: 31
word: XXXI
Derived terms: thirty-first
thirty-oneth
bly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: blies
Etymology: Probably from a dialectal variant of blee (“complexion, aspect, colour, hue”).
Senses: examples: text: I see a bly of your father about you.
glosses: Likeness; resemblance; look aspect; species; character.
aberrancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈbɛɹ.n̩.si/
ipa: /ˈæ.bɛɹ.n̩.sɪ/
Forms: form: aberrancies
Etymology: From aberrance + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Thus they commonly affect no man any further than he deserts his reason, or complies with their aberrancies.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
glosses: The condition of being aberrant; an aberrance.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The deviation of a curve from circular form.
prepositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin praepositiō (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of:
 (80) (a) He stayed at home because [of the strike]
 (80) (b) He fell out [of the window]
 (80) (c) Few people outside [of the immediate family] know
 (80) (d) %It fell off [of the table] (dialectal)
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 364:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of the prepositional case.
Derived terms: phrasal prepositional verb
prepositional article
prepositional case
prepositionally
prepositional phrase
prepositional pronoun
prepositional verb
prepositional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepositionals
Etymology: From Latin praepositiō (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The prepositional case.
prepose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈpəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: preposes
form: preposing
form: preposed
form: preposed
form: præpose
Etymology: Borrowed from French préposer; prefix pré- (Latin prae before) with poser. See pose.
Senses: examples: text: It vvere preſumption in me to diſturb this method of [listing the] Maſters, agreed on my Dr. Caius, Mʳ. Parker and others. Othervviſe I vvould prepoſe Millington (firſt Provoſt aftervvards of Kings in the reign of King Henry the ſixth) before VVilflete Maſter under King Richard the third.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section II”, in The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC, paragraph 41, page 38:
antonyms: postpose
glosses: To place or set (something) before; to prefix.
Related terms: postposition
postpositive
preposition
prepositive
preponderation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preponderations
Etymology: From Latin praepondero (“outweigh, turn the scale”).
Senses: examples: text: But where the reasons on both sides are very near of equal weight, there suspension or doubt is our duty, unless in cases wherein present determination or practice is required, and there we must act according to the present appearing preponderation of reasons.
ref: 1743, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind:
glosses: The act or state of preponderating; preponderance.
preponderatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From preponderating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
quiet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kwī'ĭt
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
enpr: kwī'ət
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ət/
note: weak vowel merger
rhymes: -aɪət
Forms: form: quiets
form: quieting
form: quieted
form: quieted
Etymology: From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, quite, and quietus. Largely displaced native English still in the sense of "with little or no sound".
Senses: examples: text: Can you quiet your child? He’s making lots of noise.
text: The umpire quieted the crowd so the game could continue in peace.
text: For thou haſt created us for thy ſelfe, and our heart cannot be quieted till it may fine repoſe in thee.
ref: 1631, Saint Augustine, “He Admires Gods Majesty, and is Inflamed with a Deepe Desire of Praising Him”, in William Watts, transl., Saint Augustines Confessions Translated: […], London: […] Iohn Norton, for Iohn Partridge […], →OCLC, book 1, paragraph 1, page 2:
synonyms: quiet down
quieten
glosses: To cause (someone or something) to become quiet.
examples: text: When you quiet, we can start talking.
synonyms: quiet down
quieten
glosses: To become quiet or calm.
quiet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwī'ĭt
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
enpr: kwī'ət
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ət/
note: weak vowel merger
rhymes: -aɪət
Forms: form: quiets
Etymology: From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, quite, and quietus. Largely displaced native English still in the sense of "with little or no sound".
Senses: examples: text: There was a strange quiet in the normally very lively plaza.
text: We need a bit of quiet before we can start the show.
glosses: The absence of sound; quietness.
glosses: The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility.
examples: text: The King & his Nobles thinke they may ſleepe in quiet,
Now they haue giuen vs a little holy water at the Court,
But thers no ſuch matter, we be no ſuch fooles,
To be bobd out with words and after come to hanging: […]
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act III:
glosses: The absence of disturbance or trouble; peace, security.
quiet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: kwī'ĭt
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
enpr: kwī'ət
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ət/
note: weak vowel merger
rhymes: -aɪət
Etymology: From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, quite, and quietus. Largely displaced native English still in the sense of "with little or no sound".
Senses: examples: text: Quiet! The children are sleeping.
glosses: Be quiet.
Related terms: acquiesce
acquiet
disquiet
have a quiet word
inquietude
keep quiet
on the quiet
peace and quiet
quiesce
quiescence
quiescent
quietage
quiet as a mouse
quiet coach
quiet down
quieten
quiet enjoyment
quietism
quietist
quiet lung
quietly
quietness
quiet period
quietsom
quietude
requiem
so quiet one can hear a pin drop
ultraquiet
unquiet
hamulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hamule (“a small hook”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.
hamule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamules
Etymology: Latin hamulus
Senses: glosses: A little hook.
Derived terms: hamulate
hamulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhæmjʊləʊz/
Etymology: Latin hamulus, diminutive of hāmus (“hook”)
Senses: glosses: Bearing a small hook at the end
hamulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamuli
Etymology: Latin hamulus (“a little hook”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hook, or hook-like process.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A hooked barbicel of a feather.
hamuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamulus
hamular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the hamular process of the sphenoid bone
glosses: Hooked; hooklike; hamate.
mayonnaise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.ə.neɪz/
ipa: /ˌmeɪ.əˈneɪz/
note: General American, æ-tensing, alternative pronunciation
ipa: /ˈmæn.eɪz/
note: General American, æ-tensing, alternative pronunciation
ipa: [ˈmɛən-]
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˌmejəˈneːs/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˌmejəˈneɪs/
note: Ghanaian
ipa: [ˈmɐ.jɔ.nɛs]
note: Indic
ipa: /maj.o.ne(j)z/
note: Indic
ipa: /-niz/
note: Indic
ipa: /najz/
note: Indic, colloquial, proscribed
ipa: /maj.năs/
homophone: minus
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: mayonnaises
form: mayonnaising
form: mayonnaised
form: mayonnaised
form: Mayonnaise
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French mayonnaise, possibly named after the city of Maó (Mahón in Spanish), Minorca, whence the recipe was brought back to France. Compare Spanish mahonesa. Alternative suggested origins include the city of Bayonne (bayonnaise); the Duke of Mayenne and the words manier (“to handle”) in French or moyeu, or egg yolk, in Old French.
Senses: examples: text: Jones himself presided in the kitchen, mincing truffles, mayonnaising lobster, booting waiters out the door with tray after tray of steaming savories and teeth-numbing sweets, […]
ref: 1998, Trace Farrell, The Ruins, page 153:
text: I thought of mayonnaising her racket handle or substituting it for sunblock, but decided against it.
ref: 2009, David Galef, How to Cope With Suburban Stress:
glosses: To cover or season with mayonnaise.
nadir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪˌdɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈnæd.ɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈneɪ.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /neɪˈdɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈneɪˌdɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈneɪ.dɚ/
ipa: /neɪˈdɪɚ/
rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nadirs
Etymology: From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic نَظِير السَّمْت (naẓīr as-samt), composed of نَظِير (naẓīr, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and السَّمْت (as-samt, “the zenith”).
Senses: examples: text: […] when we are Nadyr to the Sunne, we have no ſhadow […]
ref: 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
synonyms: antizenith
antonyms: zenith
glosses: The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
examples: text: Near-synonym: dead
text: […] the seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe […]
ref: 1837, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries:
text: In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.
ref: 1950, Elizabeth Janeway, edited by Helen Hull, The Writer’s Book:
text: The myth describes the dangerous moment of the nadir, the dead of winter, the moment when it is not known whether the world will be re-created and another cycle will bring on another spring.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
synonyms: lowest ebb
slough of despond
trough
bathos
antonyms: height
peak
glosses: The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
examples: text: The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: down
glosses: The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
antonyms: duplet
super
glosses: An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
Derived terms: nadiral
Related terms: word: azimuth
alt: both from السَّمْتُ (as-samtu)
word: zenith -
nadir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪˌdɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈnæd.ɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈneɪ.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /neɪˈdɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈneɪˌdɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈneɪ.dɚ/
ipa: /neɪˈdɪɚ/
rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nadirs
form: nadiring
form: nadired
form: nadired
Etymology: From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic نَظِير السَّمْت (naẓīr as-samt), composed of نَظِير (naẓīr, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and السَّمْت (as-samt, “the zenith”).
Senses: topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
masculinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæskjəˈlɪnɪti/
Forms: form: masculinities
Etymology: From French masculinité, from Old French, equivalent to masculine + -ity. Earlier in same sense was masculineness.
Senses: examples: text: Over time, society's ideas of masculinity has greatly broadened.
text: Of the six homosexual patients, three men finally overcame the underlying vaginaphobia, increased their heterosexual activities, and enhanced their masculinity.
ref: 1971, American Journal of Psychotherapy, volume 25, page 657:
text: Steven Cohan highlights the suggestive qualities of Red Rivers dominant narrative, the opposition between the radically different masculinities Clift and Wayne represent: "the highly charged context between the soft boy and the hard man in '''Red River dramatizes such a shift in the mainstream culture's demands upon ''masculinity".
ref: 2013, Elisabetta Girelli, Montgomery Clift, Queer Star, page 33:
glosses: The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness.
Derived terms: antimasculinity
cismasculinity
fragile masculinity
hegemonic masculinity
hypermasculinity
hypomasculinity
pseudomasculinity
supermasculinity
toxic masculinity
transmasculinity
ultramasculinity
Related terms: male
masculine
masculinize
masculinization
mase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: mases
form: masing
form: mased
form: mased
Etymology: Back-formation from maser as if mase + agentive -er. Compare lase from laser.
Senses: glosses: To act as a maser; to emit or subject to maser radiation.
mase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: mases
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of maze.
maser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪzɚ/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: masers
Etymology: From MASER, acronym of microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method
Derived terms: astronomical maser
gas maser
hydrogen maser atomic clock
kilomaser
masering
megamaser
micromaser
nonmaser
optical maser
solid-state maser
Related terms: laser
maser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪzɚ/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: masers
Etymology: See mazer.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mazer.
mash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măsh
ipa: /mæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: mashes
Etymology: From Middle English mash, from Old English mǣsċ, māsċ, māx, from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz, *maiskō (“mixture, mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyǵ-, *meyḱ- (“to mix”). Akin to German Meisch, Maische (“mash”), (compare meischen, maischen (“to mash, wash”)), Swedish mäsk (“mash”), and to Old English miscian (“to mix”). See mix.
Senses: glosses: A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
glosses: Mashed potatoes.
glosses: A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
examples: text: For your vows and oaths, Or I doubt mainly, I shall be i' the mash " too
ref: 1609–1612, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Captaine”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A mess; trouble.
Derived terms: bangers and mash
button mash
instant mash
mash-fat
mash tun
mash vatmishmash
monster mash
sour mash
mash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: măsh
ipa: /mæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: mashes
form: mashing
form: mashed
form: mashed
Etymology: From Middle English mashen, maschen, meshen, from Old English *māsċan, *mǣsċan, from Proto-Germanic *maiskijaną. Cognate with German maischen. Compare also Middle Low German meskewert, mēschewert (“beerwort”).
Senses: examples: text: We had fun mashing apples in a mill.
text: The potatoes need to be mashed.
glosses: To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
glosses: In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.
examples: text: He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
examples: to mash on a bicycle pedal
glosses: To press down hard (on).
glosses: To press.
glosses: To act violently.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.
Synonyms: sense: to reduce to a paste
word: pomate
Derived terms: word: button mash
word: mashable
word: mashed potato
word: mashed potatoes
word: mashing
word: mash it up
word: mashup
word: mash up
word: mashwort
word: mashy
sense: though without uncertainty
word: mosh
word: smash
mash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măsh
ipa: /mæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: mashes
Etymology: See mesh.
Senses: glosses: A mesh.
mash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: măsh
ipa: /mæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: mashes
form: mashing
form: mashed
form: mashed
Etymology: Either by analogy with mash (“to press, to soften”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from masher, from masha. Leland writes of the etymology:
: It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice. It was doubtless much aided in its popularity by its quasi-identity with the English word. But there can be no doubt as to the gypsy origin of “mash” as used on the stage. I am indebted for this information to the late well-known impresario [Albert Marshall] Palmer of New York, and I made a note of it years before the term had become at all popular.
Senses: examples: text: “What's the yarn about your mashing a Miss Haverley up there? Not serious, I hope?”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 143:
glosses: To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
mash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măsh
ipa: /mæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: mashes
Etymology: Either by analogy with mash (“to press, to soften”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from masher, from masha. Leland writes of the etymology:
: It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice. It was doubtless much aided in its popularity by its quasi-identity with the English word. But there can be no doubt as to the gypsy origin of “mash” as used on the stage. I am indebted for this information to the late well-known impresario [Albert Marshall] Palmer of New York, and I made a note of it years before the term had become at all popular.
Senses: glosses: An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
glosses: A dandy, a masher.
glosses: The object of one’s affections (regardless of sex).
Derived terms: mash note
masher
mash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măsh
ipa: /mæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
note: MLE, including its Irish varieties
ipa: [maʃ]
note: MLE, including its Irish varieties
ipa: [mæʃ]
rhymes: -æʃ
enpr: măsh
ipa: /mæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: mashes
Etymology: Mostly clipping of machine gun, but also for imitative reasons, compare the gun-names mop and broom; intentionally chosen around 2000 due to its homonymy and obscurity for legal reasons.
Senses: examples: text: This mash works but I don't know about yours […] Better hope your mash don't jam, bare ping ping like a BB […] I see a boy run with his mash, I see a boy run with his jooka […] Don't talk about mashes, we've lost about ten I know about cookers
ref: 2016, “Skeng Man”, Various performers of 67 (lyrics):
text: Rise that heater, tap that mash
They don't come outside their flats
Decamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hat
They piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps
ref: 2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics):
text: Close man’s eyes, make them look Chinese
Or do it like tits when the mash gets squeezed
When we squeeze that mash,
tell your boy don’t dash
Me I just want cash
But if they want war let’s leave it at dat
ref: 2021 October 19, “Exciting Freestyle”, 🇮🇪 #D15 Trigz (lyrics):
text: If the mash empty, tell boy reload it
ref: 2023 August 24, “Dri-Fit”, SWiTCH (lyrics)GRM Daily, 0:54:
text: Shoot my gun like Tommy Shеlby
If I get close ching him out of his LVs
Slimey as fuck, man took that mash
Probably takе that grub that he sell me (Take that)
ref: 2023 September 28, “Block Boy”, #Sinsquad Stewie (lyrics), 0:47:
synonyms: word: firearm
word: gat
word: gun
word: iron
word: piece
glosses: A gun.
mash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măsh
ipa: /mæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
note: MLE, including its Irish varieties
ipa: [maʃ]
note: MLE, including its Irish varieties
ipa: [mæʃ]
rhymes: -æʃ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maash (“mung bean”).
masher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mashers
Etymology: From mash + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, mashes.
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: A machine for making mash.
Derived terms: button masher
molar masher
potato masher
masher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mashers
Etymology: Either by analogy with masher (“one who presses, softens”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s.
Either originally borrowed as masher, from masha, or from mash + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For in this quality of “clubbable,” and the value now put upon it, lies the whole secret of change in our fast men, mashers, and men about town.
ref: 1886, Punch, volume 91, page 249:
synonyms: word: dandy
word: fop
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: A fashionable man.
examples: text: "Oh, gee!" remarked the Girl from Sieber-Mason's, glancing up with the most capable coolness. "Ain't there any way to ever get rid of you mashers? I've tried everything from eating onions to using hatpins. Be on your way, Freddie."
ref: c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment:
text: "Mama! Do you think that I'd allow a common masher-- Now, really Mama! I have my standards where men are concerned..."
ref: 1957, Meredith Willson, The Music Man:
glosses: A man who makes often unwelcome advances to women, as in a subway.
Related terms: mash
masherdom
mash note
mashlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mashlins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maslin.
mashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæʃi/
rhymes: -æʃi
Forms: form: mashier
form: mashiest
Etymology: From mash + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] the pot of strawberry jam was of the mashiest, stickiest description; […]
ref: 1881, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 61, page 258:
glosses: Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.
mashy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæʃi/
rhymes: -æʃi
Forms: form: mashies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mashie (“golf club”).
mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːsk/
ipa: /mask/
ipa: /mæsk/
homophone: Marske
homophone: masque
homophone: masc stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: -ɑːsk
Forms: form: masks
Etymology: From Middle English maske, from Old English max, masċ (“net”), from Proto-West Germanic *maskā (“mesh, netting, mask”). Doublet of mesh and mask above.
Senses: glosses: mesh
glosses: The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːsk/
ipa: /mask/
ipa: /mæsk/
homophone: Marske
homophone: masque
homophone: masc stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: -ɑːsk
Forms: form: masks
Etymology: From Middle English *mask, masch, from Old English māx, māsc (“mash”). Doublet of mash.
Senses: glosses: Mash.
mask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːsk/
ipa: /mask/
ipa: /mæsk/
homophone: Marske
homophone: masque
homophone: masc stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: -ɑːsk
Forms: form: masks
form: masking
form: masked
form: masked
Etymology: From Middle English *mask, masch, from Old English māx, māsc (“mash”). Doublet of mash.
Senses: glosses: To mash.
glosses: (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
glosses: To be infused or steeped.
glosses: To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
examples: text: I saw the storm was masking fast, That soon wad fa' on me;[…]
ref: 1839, Whistle-Binkie; or, the Piper of the party: a collection of songs for the social circle ... Second edition, enlarged. Edited by John D. Carrick, page 108:
text: ... mirky cluds in the south-wast / Are masking up a blashy blast, ...
ref: 1876, John Mactaggart, The Scottish Gallovidian encyclopedia, or, The ... curiosities of the south of Scotland, page 364:
text: The whislin' key hole o the door / Fou plainly tells a storm is maskin'.
ref: 1900, J. Milne, Poems, section 43:
qualifier: the weather; a storm; etc; the weather; a storm; etc
glosses: To prepare (to storm).
raw_tags: of clouds
mask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːsk/
ipa: /mask/
ipa: /mæsk/
homophone: Marske
homophone: masque
homophone: masc stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: -ɑːsk
Forms: form: masks
form: masking
form: masked
form: masked
Etymology: From Middle English masken, short for *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder; be confused, wander”). More at masker.
Senses: glosses: To bewilder; confuse.
masked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːskt/
ipa: /mæskt/
rhymes: -ɑːskt
rhymes: -æskt
Forms: form: masqued
Etymology: From mask + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mask
masked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːskt/
ipa: /mæskt/
rhymes: -ɑːskt
rhymes: -æskt
Forms: form: more masked
form: most masked
form: masqued
Etymology: From mask + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: As the Superintendent of Austin, TX, schools I have mandated that our kids must be masked when they start school on Tuesday.
ref: 2021 August 15, Stephanie Elizalde, “Why I'm Mandating That Austin Schools Must Be Masked When Classes Start”, in Time:
antonyms: unmasked
maskless
glosses: Wearing a mask or masks.
glosses: Characterized by masks.
glosses: Concealed; hidden.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Personate.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage.
raw_tags: of birds
Derived terms: backmasked
gas-masked
masked ball
masked battery
masked crab
masked crimson tanager
masked facies
masked finch
masked hunter
masked lapwing
masked-man fallacy
masked man fallacy
masked palm civet
masked pig
masked plover
masked shrike
nonmasked
southern masked weaver
masker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæskə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɑːskə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: maskers
form: maskering
form: maskered
form: maskered
Etymology: From Middle English *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder”) (compare Middle English bimalscren (“to bewitch”)), from Old English *malscrian (attested in derivative malscrung (“enchantment, charm”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malskaz (“haughty”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“to beat, crush, grind”). Cognate with Middle Dutch malsch (“headstrong, zealous”). More at mask.
Senses: examples: text: To masker their troubled heads the more, hee assaileth them with a great shout and maine violence.
ref: 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:
text: He is so, for he is not one that sets forth to the wars with great resolutions and hopes, and returns with maskered fears, and despairs; neither is he like those that take more care, and are more industrious to get gay clothes, and fine feathers, [...]
ref: 2000, Paul Salzman, Early Modern Women's Writing:
glosses: To render giddy or senseless
glosses: To be bewildered.
glosses: To choke; stifle.
glosses: To decay; rust.
Synonyms: sense: render giddy
word: confuse
sense: render giddy
word: bewilder
sense: render giddy
word: stupefy
masker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæskə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɑːskə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: maskers
Etymology: From mask + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away […].
ref: 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death:
text: Like the men's society, the corporate consciousness of women and their respected place in the political body is represented by a masked spirit. This sowei (masker), like all the officials of the society, represents the corporate body of women and retains the authority to levy fines and punish women and men or the community as a whole. The ndoli Jowei (dancing sowei) is a masker whose figure is completely covered with black raffia, topped by the sowei mask.
ref: 2012, L. Day, Gender and Power in Sierra Leone: Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries, →ISBN:
glosses: One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual.
coordinate_terms: maskee
glosses: That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.).
Derived terms: antimasker
pro-masker
maskery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maskeries
Etymology: From mask + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: And Celſo, prethee let it be thy care to night / To haue ſome pretty ſhew, to ſolemnize / Our high inſtalement, ſome muſike maſkerie: / Weele giue faire entertaine vnto Maria […]
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii:
glosses: The dress or disguise of a maske; a masquerade.
maskinonge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maskinonge
form: maskinonges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muskellunge.
mask shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mask shells
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Persona (now Distorsio) of spiral marine shell, having a curiously twisted aperture.
maslach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæslək/
Forms: form: malach
Etymology: Arabic مَسْلُوق (maslūq): compare French masloc.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An excitant containing opium, much used historically by the Turks.
maslin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæzlɪn/
Forms: form: maslins
form: maislin
form: maselyn
form: mashlam
form: mashlin
form: mashlum
form: mastlin
form: meslin
form: mislen
form: mislin
Etymology: From Middle English missellane, misceline, miscelin, meslin, from Old English mæstling, mæsling, mæslen. See also miscellane.
Senses: glosses: A mixture composed of different materials; especially:
A mixture of metals resembling brass.
examples: text: Now for this fallow field it must euer be made where the yéere before you did reape your Pease, in case you haue but thrée fields, or where you did reape your Wheate, Rye, and Maslin, in case you haue foure fields, according to the manner of the blacke clay.
ref: 1613, G[ervase] M[arkham], The English Husbandman. The First Part: […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A mixture composed of different materials; especially:
A mixture of different sorts of grain, such as wheat and rye.
Derived terms: maslin pan
maslin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæzlɪn/
Forms: form: maislin
form: maselyn
form: mashlam
form: mashlin
form: mashlum
form: mastlin
form: meslin
form: mislen
form: mislin
Etymology: From Middle English missellane, misceline, miscelin, meslin, from Old English mæstling, mæsling, mæslen. See also miscellane.
Senses: examples: text: Maslin bread is made of rye mixed with a little wheat.
glosses: Composed of different sorts.
mason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪsən/
rhymes: -eɪsən
Forms: form: masons
Etymology: From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō (“carpenter, bricklayer”), from Frankish *makjō (“maker, builder”), a derivative of Frankish *makōn (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *metn-, *met- (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick
glosses: One who prepares stone for building purposes.
glosses: A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
Derived terms: antimason
mason bee
masoncraft
masondom
masoness
masonhood
masonic
Masonism
mason moth
masonry
mason shell
mason wasp
masonwork
mason worm
monumental mason
nonmason
sand mason worm
stonemason
mason
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪsən/
rhymes: -eɪsən
Forms: form: masons
form: masoning
form: masoned
form: masoned
Etymology: From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō (“carpenter, bricklayer”), from Frankish *makjō (“maker, builder”), a derivative of Frankish *makōn (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *metn-, *met- (“to cut”).
Senses: examples: to mason up a well or terrace
to mason in a kettle or boiler
glosses: To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons
raw_tags: normally with a preposition
Masonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /məˈsɑnɪk/
/meɪˈsɑnɪk/
Etymology: From Mason (“Freemason”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.
masonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪsənɹi/
Forms: form: masonries
Etymology: From Middle English masonry, masonrie, partly from Old French maçonerie and partly from mason + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: He studied masonry for five years.
glosses: The art or occupation of a mason.
examples: text: The masonry was exquisite.
glosses: The work or performance of a mason.
examples: text: The masonry was cracked.
text: Many houses built between the Civil War and 1940 have masonry walls, usually of brick, with the inside surfaces covered by a layer of plaster.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like.
glosses: The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; Freemasonry.
Synonyms: stonecraft
stonework
Derived terms: antimasonry
concrete masonry unit
Freemasonry
masonried
masonry cement
masonry heater
masonry layout
masonrylike
monumental masonry
Operative Masonry
Speculative Masonry
stonemasonry
masoola boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masoola boats
Senses: glosses: A masula.
Masorah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: masora
form: masorah
form: Massora
form: massora
form: Massorah
form: massorah
Etymology: From Hebrew מָסוֹרָה (masorá), variant of מסורת / מָסֹרֶת (masóret).
Senses: glosses: The collection of marginal notes on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the 8th-9th centuries CE.
masoret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈzɔːɹɪt/
Forms: form: masorets
Etymology: From Hebrew מסורת / מָסֹרֶת (masóret).
Senses: examples: text: The rough correspondence between these concepts and “native” Jewish ideas such as masoret (authoritative tradition) and galut (exile) further helps to explain their enduring status in the field.
ref: 2011, Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, Marina Rustow, Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History, →ISBN:
text: From the above, it would seem that Rabban Gamliel had a different masoret from R' Yehoshua, one that was a very well-kept secret.
ref: 2014, Richard Fiedler, Sod Ha'ibur, →ISBN, page 77:
text: “The Sadducees say that there is a tradition (masoret) in the hands of the Pharisees to afflict themselves,” according to 'Abot R. Nat. A (end chap. 12).
ref: 2015, Herbert Basser, Marsha B. Cohen, The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions, →ISBN:
glosses: An unwritten tradition orally passed down as law by the Hebrews.
Masoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mæsəˈɹɛtɪk/
Forms: form: Masoretical
form: Massoretic
form: Massoretical
Etymology: From Hebrew מָסֹרֶת (masóret) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Masoretic points and accents are the vowel points and accents of the Hebrew text of the Bible, of which the first mention is in the Masora.
glosses: Of or relating to the Masorah, or to its authors.
Masorete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Masoretes
form: Massorete
form: Masoret
form: Masoreth
form: Masorite
form: Massorite
form: masorete
form: massorete
Etymology: Back-formation from Masoretic.
Senses: glosses: One of the writers of the Masorah.