cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
less
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: lesses
form: lessing
form: lessed
form: lessed
Etymology: Adverb From Middle English les, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣs (“smaller, less”), from Proto-Germanic *laisiz, from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to shrink, grow thin, be gentle”). Cognate with Old Frisian lēs (“less”), Old Saxon lēs (“less”). According to Kroonen (2013), from a northern Indo-European root Proto-Indo-European *leh₂is- or *leh₃is-, which he connects to Lithuanian liesas (“lean”).
Determiner and preposition from Middle English lees, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣssa (“less”), from Proto-Germanic *laisizan-, from Proto-Germanic *laisiz (“smaller, lesser, fewer, lower”) (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian lessa (“less”).
Verb from Middle English lessen, from the determiner.
Noun from Middle English lesse, from the determiner.
Senses: examples: text: 1386-90, Gower, Confessio Amantis
What he will make lesse, he lesseth.
text: c. 1650, Patrick Gordon of Ruthven, A short Abridgement of Britane's Distemper, from the yeares of God 1639 to 1649, printed 1844 for the Spalding Club
Som of the wiser sort, divining upon this vission, attrebute to the pen-knyves the lenth of tym before this should com to pass, and it hath been observed by sindrie that the earles of that hous befor wer the richest in the kingdom, having treasure and store besyde them, but ever since the addittion of this so great a revenue, they have lessed the stock by heavie burdens of debt and ingagment.
text: The protracted term of life, and the lingering illness through which this gentleman had passed, had neither impaired the original vigour of his mind, nor lessed the uncommon warmth of his affections.
ref: 1816, "Joseph Wharton" [obituary notice], Poulson's Advertiser, quoted in Genealogy of the Wharton Family of Philadelphia: 1664 to 1880, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1880)
text: Soon as I lessed the tree of this, it waned — Less cause, gave less effect
ref: 1852, Charles Heavysege, The revolt of Tartarus, a poem, page 116:
text: The scattered beauties thro' the air, Have lessed the woe, the dread, the care;
ref: 1886, Horace Eaton Walker, The Lady of Dardale and Other Poems, page 74:
glosses: To make less; to lessen.
Derived terms: all the less
could care less
could not care less
couldn't care less
deuce less
in less than no time
less and less
less is a bore
less is more
less-lethal
lessness
less so
less than
less than no time
less-than-stellar
less than stellar
less than three
less than truckload
more or less
much less
natheless
ne'ertheless
nevertheless
no less
no more no less
none the less
nonetheless
road less traveled
road less travelled
say less
twice as less
very less
less
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Etymology: Adverb From Middle English les, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣs (“smaller, less”), from Proto-Germanic *laisiz, from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to shrink, grow thin, be gentle”). Cognate with Old Frisian lēs (“less”), Old Saxon lēs (“less”). According to Kroonen (2013), from a northern Indo-European root Proto-Indo-European *leh₂is- or *leh₃is-, which he connects to Lithuanian liesas (“lean”).
Determiner and preposition from Middle English lees, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣssa (“less”), from Proto-Germanic *laisizan-, from Proto-Germanic *laisiz (“smaller, lesser, fewer, lower”) (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian lessa (“less”).
Verb from Middle English lessen, from the determiner.
Noun from Middle English lesse, from the determiner.
Senses: examples: text: Such too, to a greater or less extent, is the condition of the operatives of every denomination in England, which is the great workhouse of the world.
ref: 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
text: This he said, thinking that Alan would be pleased; but the Highlandman’s vanity was ready to startle at a less matter than that.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped:
glosses: Lesser; smaller.
less
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Etymology: Adverb From Middle English les, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣs (“smaller, less”), from Proto-Germanic *laisiz, from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to shrink, grow thin, be gentle”). Cognate with Old Frisian lēs (“less”), Old Saxon lēs (“less”). According to Kroonen (2013), from a northern Indo-European root Proto-Indo-European *leh₂is- or *leh₃is-, which he connects to Lithuanian liesas (“lean”).
Determiner and preposition from Middle English lees, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣssa (“less”), from Proto-Germanic *laisizan-, from Proto-Germanic *laisiz (“smaller, lesser, fewer, lower”) (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian lessa (“less”).
Verb from Middle English lessen, from the determiner.
Noun from Middle English lesse, from the determiner.
Senses: examples: text: Less is better.
text: I have less to do today than yesterday.
glosses: A smaller amount or quantity.
less
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Etymology: From Middle English lesse, les, from Old English lǣs, as in þȳ lǣs þe.
Senses: examples: text: To tell you true, 'tis too good for you, 'less you had grace to follow it
ref: 1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: unless
less
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of let's.
least
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːst/
ipa: /list/
rhymes: -iːst
homophone: leased
Forms: form: less
Etymology: From Middle English leste, lest, last, from Old English lǣst, a contraction of læsast, læsest, lærest (“least”), from Proto-Germanic *laisistaz (“smallest; least”), related to Old English læs (“less”). Cognate with Old Frisian leist, Old Saxon lēs. More at less.
Senses: examples: text: He earns the least money in his family. Of all the sisters, she has the least patience. I can only afford to pay the least of the bills. I'm giving (the) least of all towards her present.
text: The least water we could find there was 4 fathoms, which bears from the point S.E., and is distant 1½ mile.
ref: 1857, Edmund March Blunt, The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors, E. & G.W. Blunt, page 135:
text: To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.
ref: 1847, John Duncan, Duncan's Travels:
text: “Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
text: Comparison of the four bogie designs shows that the Rugby-built A.E.I. bogie has the least number of components and a minimum of metallic wearing surfaces.
ref: 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 727:
text: Light does not need to know in advance which is the path of least time because it takes all paths from its source to its destination.
ref: 2004, Jim Baggott, Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, Oxford University Press, page 48:
glosses: The most little; the smallest amount or quantity of something.
least
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːst/
ipa: /list/
rhymes: -iːst
homophone: leased
Etymology: From Middle English leste, lest, last, from Old English lǣst, a contraction of læsast, læsest, lærest (“least”), from Proto-Germanic *laisistaz (“smallest; least”), related to Old English læs (“less”). Cognate with Old Frisian leist, Old Saxon lēs. More at less.
Senses: examples: text: It was the least surprising thing.
glosses: Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est.
examples: text: to reward those who least deserve it
text: my best routine was the one I had practised the least.
text: I don't much like housework, and doing the dishes least of all.
glosses: In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others.
least
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːst/
ipa: /list/
rhymes: -iːst
homophone: leased
Forms: form: leasts
Etymology: From Middle English leste, lest, last, from Old English lǣst, a contraction of læsast, læsest, lærest (“least”), from Proto-Germanic *laisistaz (“smallest; least”), related to Old English læs (“less”). Cognate with Old Frisian leist, Old Saxon lēs. More at less.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something of the smallest possible extent; an indivisible unit.
least
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːst/
ipa: /list/
rhymes: -iːst
homophone: leased
Etymology: From Middle English leste, lest, last, from Old English lǣst, a contraction of læsast, læsest, lærest (“least”), from Proto-Germanic *laisistaz (“smallest; least”), related to Old English læs (“less”). Cognate with Old Frisian leist, Old Saxon lēs. More at less.
Senses: examples: text: least weasel
text: least common multiple
qualifier: outside of fixed terms
glosses: superlative form of little: most little; littlest.
Derived terms: alderleast
at least
at the least
at the very least
Fermat's principle of least time
in the least
last but not least
least auklet
least bittern
least boobook
least common denominator
least count
least finger
least flycatcher
leastness
least of all
least resistance
least sandpiper
least shrew
least significant bit
least significant byte
least squares
least tern
least upper bound
least weasel
least willow
leastwise
least worst
line of least resistance
log-linear least-squares method
method of least squares
not in the least
not least
path of least resistance
principle of least action
principle of least astonishment
principle of least knowledge
principle of least surprise
principle of least time
to say the least
least
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːst/
ipa: /list/
rhymes: -iːst
homophone: leased
Forms: form: 'least
Etymology: Contraction of at least.
Senses: examples: text: “Why he took and dipped his hand in a rotten stump where the rain water was.” “In the day time?” “Certainly.” “With his face to the stump?” “Yes. Least I reckon so.”
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VI, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 65:
text: What a stupid white privileged POS I am! Least I call myself out.
ref: 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 79:
glosses: At least.
manic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: more manic
form: most manic
Etymology: From mania + -ic; Ancient Greek μανικός (manikós). Compare maniac.
Senses: examples: text: Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly. The BBC's misjudged This Life + 10, bringing the cast of the iconic 90s TV drama back together, is a case in point. But [Danny] Boyle and his four musketeers give it just the right frantic, jaded energy and manic anxiety.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn’t disappoint”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2017:
glosses: Characterized by mania or craziness; wicked.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Suffering from mania (the state of an abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels).
Derived terms: antimanic
hypomanic
manically
manic-depressant
manic-depression
manic depression
manic-depressive
manic depressive
manic-depressiveness
manicky
manic pixie dream girl
nonmanic
plutomanic
pseudomanic
manic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: manics
Etymology: From mania + -ic; Ancient Greek μανικός (manikós). Compare maniac.
Senses: glosses: A person exhibiting mania.
leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lēf
ipa: /liːf/
rhymes: -iːf
homophone: lief
homophone: Leith (th-fronting)
Forms: form: leafs
form: leafing
form: leafed
form: leafed
Etymology: From Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“leaf, rind”)
See also West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv, Icelandic lauf; also Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”).
(Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.
Senses: examples: text: Then flowered the mead, then leafed all
'Twas caused by the runic lay.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 164:
glosses: To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
examples: text: The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
glosses: To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
glosses: To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
Synonyms: word: leave
Derived terms: leafing
leaf through
Related terms: foliage
frond
needle
mountain lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain lions
Etymology: From mountain (“the animal's habitat”), + lion (“an African cat of similar size and color”). First use appears c. 1615.
Senses: examples: text: The mountain lion may prowl here during any month.
ref: 1915 April 24, Enos A. Mills, “The Forest Frontier”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 64:
hypernyms: wild cat
glosses: A cougar, Puma concolor.
Synonyms: word: American lion
word: catamount
word: cougar
word: deer tiger
word: Felis concolor
word: ghost cat
word: Indian ghost
word: mountain ghost
word: painted cat
word: painter
word: puma
word: red tiger
Derived terms: mountain lioness
Related terms: english: can refer to the mountain lion
translation: can refer to the mountain lion
word: catamount
english: can refer to the mountain lion
translation: can refer to the mountain lion
word: catamountain
english: can refer to the mountain lion
translation: can refer to the mountain lion
word: panther
english: a subspecies of mountain lion
translation: a subspecies of mountain lion
word: Florida panther
coyote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈjoʊ.ti/
ipa: /kaɪˈ(j)oʊ.ti/
other: /ˈkaɪ.(j)oʊt/
ipa: /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/
other: /kaɪˈəʊ.ti/
Forms: form: coyotes
form: cayeute
form: cayota
form: cayote
form: coyoto
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.
Senses: examples: text: Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.
ref: 1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, page 119:
text: The MWRC animal care specialists attempted to unimprint the coyotes first by limiting their human contact and putting them with other wild coyotes. The hand-raised coyotes, however, were ostracized by the wild coyotes […]
ref: 1996, AnimaLife, volume 6, page 14:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: prairie wolf
glosses: Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
examples: text: Jorge’s father had pawned his last four goats for $2,000 to help pay for their transit, another loan the family would have to repay at 100 percent interest. The coyote called at 10 p.m. — they would go that night.
ref: 2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Canis latrans goldmani
word: Belize coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans ochropus
word: California Valley coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans vigilis
word: Colima coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans impavidus
word: Durango coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans hondurensis
word: Honduras coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans microdon
word: Lower Rio Grande coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans mearnsi
word: Mearns coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans cagottis
word: Mexican coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans lestes
word: mountain coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans incolatus
word: northern coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans thamnos
word: Northeastern coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans umpquensis
word: Northwest Coast coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans peninsulae
word: Peninsula Coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans latrans
word: Plains coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans dickeyi
word: Salvador coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans clepticus
word: San Pedro Martir coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans frustror
word: Southeastern coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans texensis
word: Texas Plains coyote
taxonomic: Canis latrans jamesi
word: Tiburón Island coyote
Derived terms: anticoyote
coydog
coyote brush
coyote bush
coyote gourd
coyoteite
coyotelike
coyote melon
Coyote State
coyote time
coyote tobacco
coyote ugly
coywolf
dogote
hyote
Wile E. Coyote
woyote
Related terms: coyotillo
coyote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈjoʊ.ti/
ipa: /kaɪˈ(j)oʊ.ti/
other: /ˈkaɪ.(j)oʊt/
ipa: /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/
other: /kaɪˈəʊ.ti/
Forms: form: coyotes
form: coyoteing
form: coyoting
form: coyoted
form: coyoted
form: cayeute
form: cayota
form: cayote
form: coyoto
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.
Senses: glosses: To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.
fawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːn/
ipa: /fɔn/
ipa: /fɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
homophone: faun
Forms: form: fawns
Etymology: From Middle English fawne, fowne, foun, from Old French faon, foon, feon, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem, from Latin fētus (“offspring, young”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”). Displaced native Old English hindċealf (literally “deer calf”). Doublet of fetus.
Senses: examples: text: The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.
ref: 2024 July 23, Lilit Marcus, “Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it”, in CNN:
synonyms: deerling
glosses: A young deer.
glosses: A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
examples: text: she [the tigress] rageth upon the shore and the sands, for the losse of her fawnes
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: The young of an animal; a whelp.
Derived terms: fawn antechinus
fawnish
fawnlike
fawnling
Fawnlock
fawn response
fawnskin
in fawn
fawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːn/
ipa: /fɔn/
ipa: /fɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
homophone: faun
Etymology: From Middle English fawne, fowne, foun, from Old French faon, foon, feon, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem, from Latin fētus (“offspring, young”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”). Displaced native Old English hindċealf (literally “deer calf”). Doublet of fetus.
Senses: glosses: Of the fawn colour.
Derived terms: fawn lily
fawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːn/
ipa: /fɔn/
ipa: /fɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
homophone: faun
Forms: form: fawns
form: fawning
form: fawned
form: fawned
Etymology: From Middle English fawne, fowne, foun, from Old French faon, foon, feon, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem, from Latin fētus (“offspring, young”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”). Displaced native Old English hindċealf (literally “deer calf”). Doublet of fetus.
Senses: glosses: To give birth to a fawn.
fawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːn/
ipa: /fɔn/
ipa: /fɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
homophone: faun
Forms: form: fawns
form: fawning
form: fawned
form: fawned
Etymology: From Middle English fawnen, from Old English fagnian, alternative form of fæġnian (“to celebrate”), whence Middle English fainen, English fain. Cognate with Old Norse fagna. See also fain.
Senses: glosses: To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
examples: text: You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Thou with trembling fear, / Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.
ref: 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, book 1:
text: courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXIII, in 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: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
upon
expansion: [with on or upon]
synonyms: grovel
wheedle
soft-soap
toady
glosses: To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour.
glosses: To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
raw_tags: of a dog
Derived terms: fawner
fawn over
outfawn
overfawn
fawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːn/
ipa: /fɔn/
ipa: /fɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
homophone: faun
Forms: form: fawns
Etymology: From Middle English fawnen, from Old English fagnian, alternative form of fæġnian (“to celebrate”), whence Middle English fainen, English fain. Cognate with Old Norse fagna. See also fain.
Senses: glosses: A servile cringe or bow.
glosses: Base flattery.
jackrabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackrabbits
form: jack-rabbit
Etymology: Blend of jackass + rabbit.
Senses: synonyms: jackhare
hypernyms: hare
glosses: Any of several large North American hares of the genus Lepus.
Derived terms: antelope jackrabbit
black-tailed jackrabbit
eastern jackrabbit
jackalope
jackrabbit start
white-tailed jackrabbit
jackrabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jackrabbits
form: jackrabbiting
form: jackrabbited
form: jackrabbited
form: jack-rabbit
Etymology: Blend of jackass + rabbit.
Senses: glosses: To make a sudden, rapid movement
skunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: skunks
form: skunking
form: skunked
form: skunked
form: scunck
Etymology: From an unattested Southern New England Algonquian word, cognate with Abenaki segôgw, segonku (“he who squirts (musk) / urinates”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”). Doublet of Chicago.
Senses: examples: text: I skunked him at cards.
text: We fished all day but the lake skunked us.
glosses: To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
qualifier: cribbage
glosses: To win by thirty or more points.
glosses: To go bad, to spoil.
raw_tags: of beer
Related terms: polecat
skunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: skunks
form: scunck
Etymology: Blend of skinhead + punk, influenced by the animal (Etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: In the early 1980s, certain ex-punks joined them, becoming 'skunks' – a hybrid subculture of skinheads and punks.
ref: 2006, Pam Nilan, Carles Feixa, Global Youth?: Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds, page 192:
text: 2011, Gerard DeGroot (quoting Brown), Seventies Unplugged
[…] mods, skins, suedes, smoothies, punks, skunks, rude boys, soul boys and headbangers […]
glosses: A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture.
skunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: skunks
form: scunck
Etymology: From skunkweed (“certain highly aromatic marijuana”).
Senses: glosses: Clipping of skunkweed, type of marijuana.
glosses: Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding those of typical hashish.
rowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, row + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of row (“propel with oars”)
rowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, row + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to row.
glosses: The action of propelling a boat with oars.
glosses: The rowing of boats as a competitive sport.
Synonyms: sculling
Derived terms: word: indoor rowing
english: see also rowboat
translation: see also rowboat
word: rowing boat
word: rowing club
word: rowing machine
rowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
ipa: /ˈɹaʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊɪŋ
ipa: /ˈɹoʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of row (“to argue noisily”)
rowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
ipa: /ˈɹaʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊɪŋ
ipa: /ˈɹoʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Forms: form: rowings
Senses: examples: text: She and Ricketts — that's his father — just disgraced the neighbourhood with their rowings and their sprees […]
ref: 1891, The Guernsey Magazine:
glosses: The act of having a row, or argument.
ska
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑː/
enpr: skä
homophone: scar (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably imitative of the crisp guitar sound; other suggestions include a contraction of “skavoovie” (a word invented and used by musician Cluett Johnson), or of “speed polka”.
Senses: examples: text: Musical Hairsplitting: The act of classifying music and musicians into pathologically picayune categories: “The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.”
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Eat Your Parents”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 85:
text: Everyone who loves ska has their own story to tell—the first time they heard the Specials back in the '70s, the first time they danced onstage at a Toasters show in the '80s, the first time they saw the Skatalites perform in the '90s.
ref: 2014, Heather Augustyn, “Preface”, in Ska: An Oral History, McFarland, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues; it was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
wikipedia: Clue J & His Blues Blasters
Derived terms: skacore
skank
ska punk
tea leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea leaves
form: tea-leaf
form: tealeaf
Senses: glosses: A dried fragment of a leaf of the tea plant used in making the drink tea.
glosses: A thief.
Derived terms: tea-leafing
tea-leaved
tea leaf paradox
compass swing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This advisory circular (AC) describes procedures for calibrating an aircraft magnetic compass to minimize the effect of aircraft-induced magnetic fields. These procedures are often referred to as “swinging the compass” or a “compass swing.”
ref: 2017, Federal Aviation Administration, “Standardized Procedures for Performing Aircraft Magnetic Compass Calibration”, in Advisory Circular, numbers 43-215, page 1:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The process of swinging and compensating a ship or aircraft compass by determining and reducing the deviation coefficients and recording the residual deviations; now done by computer.
pair of compasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of compasses
Senses: glosses: A tool for drawing accurate circles or circular arcs, or for measuring or transferring lengths, usually consisting of two arms joined with an adjustable hinge at one end; until the middle ages both arms always had metal points at their free ends (this version is now called a divider or pair of dividers), but in recent centuries for a device called a compass or pair of compasses, one arm typically holds a ruling pen, pencil, or some other implement for making marks.
Synonyms: compass
Hyponyms: beam compass
Derived terms: english: alternate name
translation: alternate name
word: compass
word: beam compass
Related terms: dividers
blad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blads
form: blaud
Etymology: Apparently from a dialectal variant of blade. Compare Danish blad (“leaf”), Swedish blad (“leaf”).
Senses: glosses: A portfolio.
glosses: A blotting book or blotting pad.
glosses: A fragment or lump.
qualifier: wholesale; food trade; wholesale; food trade
glosses: A single sheet for use in a display book, illustrating a particular product (usually confectionery or soft drink) available from a wholesaler.
robber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒb.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹɑ.bɚ/
rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: robbers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English robbour, robbere, either directly taken from or from a calque of Old French robeor. Equivalent to rob + -er.
Compare reaver ("robber, plunderer"), a native English word derived from Proto-Germanic *raubārijaz that is ultimately of more or less the same composition as robber. And compare rover ("a pirate"), another word of the same composition.
Senses: qualifier: crime
glosses: A person who robs.
examples: text: I remember as a boy in my native land the bad name the common magpie (Pica caudata) had as a destroyer of chickens, and a robber of nests.
ref: 1907, Frederick William D'Evelyn, “Slaughter of Blue Jays”, in The Condor, volume 9, number 2:
glosses: An animal who robs.
Hypernyms: thief
Hyponyms: graverobber
bank robber
mugger
Derived terms: taxonomic: Perisoreus canadensis
word: camp robber
word: cradle robber
word: dog robber
word: grave robber
word: robber baron
taxonomic: Birgus latro
word: robber crab
alt: Asilidae spp.
word: robber fly
taxonomic: Holoadeninae spp.
word: robber frog
taxonomic: Stercorariidae spp.
word: robber gull
word: robber steak
word: sea-robber
Related terms: rob
robbery
integument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛɡ.jʊ.mənt/
Forms: form: integuments
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin integumentum (“a covering”).
Senses: examples: text: The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 207:
text: […] if we're moved by the book's condemnation of a world wounded by exploitation, where the drive for profit hobbles the mass of humanity, bolsters vast integuments of oppression and repression, […]
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: A shell or other outer protective layer.
examples: text: Sarsem became a naked young epicene in an integument of lavender scales with puffs of purple hair like pom-poms growing down his back.
ref: 1984, Jack Vance, Rhialto the Marvellous:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell.
examples: text: Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments!
ref: 1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.
Derived terms: integumental
integumentary
integumentation
Related terms: tegument
bitegmic
endotegmic
exotegmic
mesotegmic
unitegmic
row
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ/
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ/
ipa: /rɑː/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
homophone: Rowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ɹoʊ/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
rhymes: -əʊ
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ/
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ/
ipa: /rɑː/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
homophone: Rowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: rows
form: rowing
form: rowed
form: rowed
Etymology: From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder. Related to Russia.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: paddle
glosses: To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
examples: text: to row the captain ashore in his barge
glosses: To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
examples: text: The boat rows easily.
glosses: To be moved by oars.
Derived terms: word: get in the boat and row
word: get in the boat and start rowing
word: row back
english: see also rowing boat
translation: see also rowing boat
word: rowboat
word: rower
word: row in the same boat
row
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ/
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ/
ipa: /rɑː/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
homophone: Rowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ɹoʊ/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
rhymes: -əʊ
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ/
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ/
ipa: /rɑː/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
homophone: Rowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: rows
Etymology: From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder. Related to Russia.
Senses: examples: text: I went for an early-morning row.
glosses: An act or instance of rowing.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: Any of several thematically similar exercise movements performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
Derived terms: Chinese row
inverted row
row-back
seal row
row
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ/
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ/
ipa: /rɑː/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
homophone: Rowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ɹoʊ/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
rhymes: -əʊ
enpr: rou
ipa: /ɹaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ/
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ/
ipa: /rɑː/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
homophone: Rowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ɹoʊ/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: rows
Etymology: Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.
Senses: examples: text: There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
text: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
ref: 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
text: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: […]he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?
ref: 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 27:
text: The row comes at a time when Africa is supposed to be moving towards greater free trade through the establishment of a continent-wide free-trade area, which began operating four years ago.
ref: 2025 April 24, Sammi Awami, “Tanzania bans South Africa and Malawi imports as trade row escalates”, in BBC:
synonyms: argument
disturbance
fight
fracas
quarrel
shouting match
slanging match
glosses: A noisy argument.
examples: text: Who's making that row?
synonyms: din
racket
glosses: A continual loud noise.
Derived terms: trade row
row
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ/
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ/
ipa: /rɑː/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
homophone: Rowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ɹoʊ/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
rhymes: -əʊ
enpr: rou
ipa: /ɹaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ/
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ/
ipa: /rɑː/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
homophone: Rowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ɹoʊ/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: rows
form: rowing
form: rowed
form: rowed
Etymology: Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.
Senses: synonyms: argue
fight
glosses: To argue noisily.
nutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nyo͞o-trĭshʹ-ən
ipa: /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
enpr: no͞o-trĭshʹ-ən
enpr: nyo͞o-trĭshʹ-ən
ipa: /nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /njuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
enpr: nyo͞o-trĭshʹ-ən
ipa: /njʉːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: nutritions
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French nutrition, from Old French nutricion, from Latin nutritio.
Senses: examples: text: In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […]
ref: 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh; London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2:
text: Proper nutrition – and even more important, proper hydration – is crucial in preventing and recovering from both fevers and colds.
ref: 2016 September 16, Hailey Middlebrook, “Should you really feed a cold and starve a fever?”, in CNN:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
examples: text: I accidentally ate a worm which was in my apple - my uncle said the extra nutrition would do me good.
glosses: That which nourishes; nutriment.
Derived terms: chrononutrition
denutrition
ethnonutrition
hypernutrition
hyponutrition
immunonutrition
innutrition
macronutrition
malnutrition
micronutrition
misnutrition
nutrigenomics
nutritial
nutritional
nutritionalist
nutritionally
nutritionism
nutritionist
nutritionless
nutritionwise
overnutrition
paleonutrition
paleonutritionist
pharmaconutrition
pseudonutrition
renutrition
subnutrition
supernutrition
telenutrition
undernutrition
Related terms: nutrient
nutritious
nutriture
muck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌk/
note: Northern England, Ottawa Valley Dialect
ipa: /mʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: mucks
form: mucking
form: mucked
form: mucked
Etymology: From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old English *moc, *moce (in hlōsmoc (“pigsty dung”) and lustmoce (“lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)”)) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *mukį̄ (“dung; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *muk-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery”) (compare Welsh mign (“swamp”), Latin mūcus (“snot”), mucere (“to be moldy or musty”), Latvian mukls (“swampy”), Albanian myk (“mould”), Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus, lamp wick”), Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), German Mauke (“mud fever”)), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek.
Senses: examples: text: We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
glosses: To shovel muck.
glosses: To manure with muck.
glosses: To do a dirty job.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
examples: text: Move out of the way, I think I'm gonna muck.
glosses: To vomit.
glosses: To eat.
qualifier: Ottawa Valley
glosses: To devour or guzzle.
Derived terms: cinemuck
common as muck
de-muck
foreign muck
guck
muck about
muck and bullets
muck around
mucker
muck fly
muckheap
muckhill
muck in
muckite
muckland
muckmidden
muckology
muck out
muckrake
muckraker
muck-snipe
muck spreader
muck sweat
muck tube
muck-up
muck up
muckworm
mucky
where there's muck there's brass
MADD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: măd
ipa: /mæd/
homophone: mad
rhymes: -æd
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Related terms: english: mothers against decapentaplegic
translation: mothers against decapentaplegic
word: MAD
Yorkshire pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yorkshire puddings
Senses: examples: text: "Dear, dear, we shall have no dinners worth eating till we get to England. I quite long for our good Sunday smell of a piece of roast-beef and a Yorkshire pudding."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 127–128:
glosses: A dish made from batter baked in fat, usually served as an accompaniment to roast beef but sometimes (in a larger form) served with other fillings or as a separate course.
Related terms: toad-in-the-hole
popover
toad in the hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toads in the hole
form: toad-in-the-hole
Senses: glosses: A traditional English dish of roasted sausages (or formerly other kinds of meat) in batter.
glosses: Egg in a hole.
Assamese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Assamese
form: most Assamese
Etymology: From Assam + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the northeast-Indian state of Assam, or the region for which it is named.
examples: text: Only three in five Assamese (citizens of Assam) are linguistic Assamese.
glosses: In or relating to its majority people's Indo-Aryan language.
Assamese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Assam + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The Indo-Aryan language spoken by the majority people in the state of Assam, NE India.
Derived terms: Early Assamese
Middle Assamese
Assamese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Assameses
form: Assamese
Etymology: From Assam + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A member of the people of Assam.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Assamese terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/asm
word: as
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/asm
word: asm
word: asm ⁠
urls: https://web.archive.org/https://www.lexico.com/definition/Assamese
word: in
urls: https://web.archive.org/https://www.lexico.com/definition/Assamese
word: Dictionary.com
urls: https://web.archive.org/https://www.lexico.com/definition/Assamese
word: Oxford University Press
urls: https://web.archive.org/https://www.lexico.com/definition/Assamese
word: 2019–2022
bavarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈvɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /bəˈvɑɹi.ən/
ipa: /bəˈvɛəɹɪən/
Forms: form: bavarians
Senses: examples: peach bavarian
glosses: A type of custard-like food, made with fruit.
timber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪmbə/
ipa: [ˈtɪˑmˌbəː]
enpr: tĭmʹbər
ipa: /ˈtɪmbɚ/
ipa: [ˈtɪˑmˌbɚː]
rhymes: -ɪmbə(ɹ)
homophone: timbre stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: timbers
Etymology: From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm).
Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build”), Latin domus and Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos).
Senses: examples: text: collect timber
text: cut down timber
glosses: Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
qualifier: outside Canada
glosses: Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
examples: text: the timbers of a ship
glosses: A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
glosses: Material for any structure.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
glosses: A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The stumps.
Synonyms: sense: trees considered as a source of wood
word: timberland
sense: trees considered as a source of wood
word: forest
sense: wood that has been cut ready for construction
word: lumber
sense: wood that has been cut ready for construction
word: wood
sense: beam used to support a roof
word: beam
sense: beam used to support a roof
word: rafter
Hyponyms: sense: wooden beam used to provide support
word: crosstree
Derived terms: belly-timber
Big Timber
bond timber
compass timber
half-timber
half-timbered
hawse timber
horn timber
jack timber
put some timber on
shiver me timbers
timber camp
timber circle
timberclad
timber-clad
timber drawer
timbered
timber fly
timber framing
timber hitch
Timber Lake
timberland
timberline
timber line
timber merchant
timber nigger
timber rafting
timber rattlesnake
timber-toe
timber wolf
timberyard
virgin timber
timber
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪmbə/
ipa: [ˈtɪˑmˌbəː]
enpr: tĭmʹbər
ipa: /ˈtɪmbɚ/
ipa: [ˈtɪˑmˌbɚː]
rhymes: -ɪmbə(ɹ)
homophone: timbre stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: timber!
Etymology: From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm).
Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build”), Latin domus and Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos).
Senses: examples: text: From the core of the trunk come explosive cracks sounding like rifle-fire. The top of the tree begins swaying drunkenly, as if struggling to keep on its feet. The warning cry "Timber!"
ref: 1961, Robert S. Close, With Hooves of Brass, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 34:
glosses: Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
examples: text: The cameras caught the big man crashing to the studio floor. It seemed to take an age for Sticks to hit the deck and as he went down we all chorused "Timberrrr!"
ref: 1991, Rex Mossop, The Moose That Roared, Sydney: Ironbark Press, page 160:
glosses: By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.