cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
clutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: clutches
form: clutching
form: clutched
form: clutched
form: cletch
form: clitch
form: cleach
form: cleak
form: cleek
form: cleik
form: click
form: clouch
Etymology: From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċan (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *klukjaną, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”).
Cognate with Swedish klyka (“clamp, fork, branch”). The noun is from Middle English cleche, cloche, cloke ("claw, talon, hand"; compare Scots cleuk, cluke, cluik (“claw, talon”)), of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb.
Alternative etymology derives Old English clyċċan from Proto-Germanic *klēk- (“claw, hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *glēk-, *ǵlēḱ- (“claw, hand; to clutch, snatch”). If so, then cognate with Irish glac (“hand”).
Senses: examples: text: to clutch power
text: A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
ref: a. 1700, Jeremy Collier, A Thought:
text: Is this a Dagger, which I ſee before me, [...] ? / Come, let me clutch thee: / I haue thee not, and yet I ſee thee ſtill.
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 II, scene i], page 136, column 1:
glosses: To seize, as though with claws.
examples: text: She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building.
text: Not that I haue the power to clutch my hand,
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 8, column 1:
synonyms: word: clasp
word: grasp
word: grip
word: beclasp
word: begrasp
word: begrip
word: belock
word: clasp
word: clench
word: clinch
word: cling
word: clutch
word: enclasp
word: fang
word: fondle
word: glaum
word: grab
word: grabble
word: grasp
word: grip
word: hang on
word: hold on
word: hold tight
word: hold
word: nab
word: nim
word: seize
word: stranglehold
word: take
glosses: To grip or grasp tightly.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:clutch.
topics: video-games
glosses: To win despite being the only remaining player on one's team, against several opponents.
topics: video-games
glosses: To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
Derived terms: a drowning man will clutch at a straw
clutchable
clutch at a straw
clutch at straws
clutchfist
clutch one's pearls
clutchy
double-clutch
pearl-clutching
unclutch
clutch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: more clutch
form: most clutch
form: cletch
form: clitch
form: cleach
form: cleak
form: cleek
form: cleik
form: click
form: clouch
Etymology: From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċan (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *klukjaną, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”).
Cognate with Swedish klyka (“clamp, fork, branch”). The noun is from Middle English cleche, cloche, cloke ("claw, talon, hand"; compare Scots cleuk, cluke, cluik (“claw, talon”)), of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb.
Alternative etymology derives Old English clyċċan from Proto-Germanic *klēk- (“claw, hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *glēk-, *ǵlēḱ- (“claw, hand; to clutch, snatch”). If so, then cognate with Irish glac (“hand”).
Senses: examples: text: NC State made the most of their overtime possession scoring a touchdown on some very clutch plays.
ref: 2006, Bryan Hogan, Three Days for Goodbye, page 19:
text: I start with his most obvious characteristic: he was clutch. He is Mr. Clutch. In the last chapter I mentioned that Bernie Williams was clutch, which was a valid assessment, but nobody on the Yankees was as clutch as Jeter was.
ref: 2009, Scott Trocchia, The 2006 Yankees: The Frustration of a Nation, A Fan's Perspective, page 21:
text: It doesn't get more clutch than that!
ref: 2009, Mark Stewart, Clutch Performers, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
clutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: clutches
Etymology: Variant form of cletch, from Middle English cleken (“to hatch”), perhaps from Old Norse klekja (“to hatch”).
Senses: examples: text: For instance, baby chicks influence their mother’s behaviour by giving high piercing cheeps when they are lost or cold. This usually has the immediate effect of summoning the mother, who leads the chick back to the main clutch.
ref: 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 82:
synonyms: setting
sitting
glosses: A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs; a sitting.
examples: text: No longer would Britons routinely blame the national government when things went wrong. Instead they would demand action from a new clutch of elected mayors, police commissioners and the like.
ref: 2012 September 22, “Innovation in Government: Britain's Local Labs”, in The Economist:
text: And, so, although the Zeros knocked out four dive bombers (two of them permanently and two forced to abort), the other eleven made it to a position above Shōkaku, which pulled a neat evasive turn that sent the first clutch of thousand-pound bombs into the sea.
ref: 2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 15:30 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
glosses: A group or bunch (of people or things).
Derived terms: clutch initiation
clutchmate
interclutch
intraclutch
multiclutch
subclutch
clutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: clutches
form: clutching
form: clutched
form: clutched
Etymology: Variant form of cletch, from Middle English cleken (“to hatch”), perhaps from Old Norse klekja (“to hatch”).
Senses: glosses: To hatch.
Derived terms: clutch artist
clutch hitter
carburettor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carburettors
Senses: examples: text: Both affect the performance of the machine, especially the carburettors, and both are important to the final appearance of the model.
ref: 2005, Mick Walker, How to Restore Your BMW Twin 1955-1985, page 92:
text: In a carburettor the pressure drop (or viewed another way, suction) is used to draw fuel out of a reservoir, usually via a jet, and into the venturi to mix with the air flowing through it.
ref: 2008, Daniel Stapleton, David Vizard, John Sprinzel, The MG Midget & Austin Healey Sprite High Performance Manual, page 36:
text: For a large part of the twentieth century the majority of light vehicles used petrol engines that were equipped with a carburettor.
ref: 2011, Allan Bonnick, A Practical Approach to Motor Vehicle Engineering and Maintenance, page 81:
glosses: Alternative spelling of carburetor.
cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlɪndə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsɪləndɚ/
ipa: [ˈsɪlɪ̈ndɚ]
Forms: form: cylinders
Etymology: From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.
Senses: examples: text: When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a right cylinder. In non-mathematical usage, both right and circular are usually implied.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
examples: text: A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, chapter 4, in The War of the Worlds:
glosses: Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
glosses: A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
glosses: A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
glosses: An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
glosses: The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
Derived terms: axis cylinder
bicylinder
cylinderer
cylinder function
cylinder glass
cylinder head
cylinder-head-sector
cylinderlike
cylinder mower
cylindraceous
cylindric
cylindrical
cylindrification
cylindrify
cylindrite
cylindroma
demicylinder
diving cylinder
double cylinder
fire on all cylinders
graduated cylinder
hemicylinder
hypercylinder
master cylinder
measuring cylinder
microcylinder
multicylinder
nanocylinder
Nessler cylinder
noncylinder
O'Neill cylinder
opposed cylinder
opposed piston opposed cylinder
oxygen cylinder
penicylinder
relay cylinder
renal cylinder
reversing cylinder
roasting cylinder
semicylinder
slave cylinder
spherocylinder
subcylinder
Tipler cylinder
tricylinder
twisted cylinder
two-cylinder
cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlɪndə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsɪləndɚ/
ipa: [ˈsɪlɪ̈ndɚ]
Forms: form: cylinders
form: cylindering
form: cylindered
form: cylindered
Etymology: From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.
Senses: glosses: To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.
valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvælv/
rhymes: -ælv
Forms: form: valves
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva.
Senses: examples: text: open the valve
text: close the valve
text: shut off the valve
text: An oil refinery has an impressively vast number and variety of valves.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
examples: text: Near-synonym: poppet valve
text: In nearly all internal combustion engines, the valves are of the poppet type.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
Such a device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
examples: text: the ileocecal valve
text: the atrioventricular valves
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction.
head_nr: 1
glosses: One of the leaves of a folding door or of a window sash.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A vacuum tube.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
Derived terms: aortic valve
atrioventricular valve
bag valve mask
ball valve
Bauhin's valve
bicuspid valve
blow valve
butterfly valve
check valve
clack valve
colic valve
continuous variable valve timing
demand valve
D valve
escape valve
Eustachian valve
exhaust valve
flapper valve
Fleming valve
foot valve
freeze valve
French valve
gate valve
heart valve
ileocaecal valve
ileocecal valve
inlet valve
intake valve
jockey valve
Kingston valve
leaf valve
mitral valve
needle valve
non-return valve
overhead valve
pilot valve
piston valve
plug valve
poppet valve
pressure valve
pulmonary valve
pulmonic valve
pump valve
puppet valve
pyloric valve
relief valve
retaining valve
return valve
reversing valve
safety-valve
safety valve
screw valve
scum valve
semilunar valve
sequential valve timing
side valve
slide valve
sluice valve
snifter valve
snifting valve
spring valve
stop valve
suction valve
swing check valve
tail valve
Thebesian valve
thermionic valve
throttle valve
toggle valve
tricuspid valve
triple valve
Tulpius valve
Tulp's valve
vacuum valve
valve amplifier
valved
valve gear
valveless
valve of Kerckring
valve of Thebesius
valve of Varolius
valve oil
valve snail
valve timing
valve train
valvoplasty
variable valve timing
vein valve
Wade-Dahl-Till valve
valve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvælv/
rhymes: -ælv
Forms: form: valves
form: valving
form: valved
form: valved
Etymology: From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva.
Senses: glosses: To control (flow) by means of a valve.
venturi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/
Forms: form: venturis
form: venturi
Etymology: After Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.
Senses: glosses: A venturi tube.
synonyms: v
V
bbl
barrel
glosses: The throat of a carburetor.
examples: text: He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
Related terms: venturi effect
venturi mask
venturi scrubber
venturi injector
gearbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gearboxes
form: gear box
form: gear-box
Etymology: From gear + box.
Senses: glosses: An enclosed gear train.
holonyms: transmission[Appendix:Glossary#metonym|metonymically]] synonymous>
glosses: That part of a car's transmission containing the train of gears, and to which the gear lever is connected.
Derived terms: word: crash gearbox
word: gearboxed
word: sequential manual gearbox
english: dual-clutch gearbox
translation: dual-clutch gearbox
word: twin-clutch gearbox
cardoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑː(ɹ)ˈduːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: cardoons
form: cardon
form: chardon
form: chardoon
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French cardon, from Medieval Latin cardon, singular form of cardō, from Latin carduus (“thistle”). Doublet of chard.
Senses: examples: text: Means: m. Void, and emptie places between beds in gardens, reserved for speciall hearbes; such are the spaces left for Cardoons betweene rowes of Onyons.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A dictionarie of the French and English tongues:
text: As I have already said, I nowhere saw the cardoon south of the Salado; but it is probable that in proportion as that country becomes inhabited, the cardoon will extend its limits.
ref: 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle:
text: In the sixteenth century, Ruellius speaks of the cardoon as a food that was appreciated as asparagus is today.
ref: 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and Their Preparation:
glosses: Any of species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke.
Synonyms: sense: perennial plant
word: artichoke thistle
sense: perennial plant
word: ground thistle
sense: perennial plant
word: prickly artichoke
artichoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.tɪˌtʃoʊk/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈɑː.tɪˌtʃəʊk/
Forms: form: artichokes
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic اَلـ (al-)
Andalusian Arabic الـ (al-)
Akkadian 𒅈𒋢𒌒𒁍 (arsuppu)bor.?
Middle Persian *xār-čōpbor.?
Arabic خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf)
Andalusian Arabic خَرْشُوف (ḵaršúf)
Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršúf)bor.
Old Spanish alcarchofabor.
Occitan artichautbor.?
Lombard articiochbor.
English artichoke
From Lombard articioch (cf. articiocco), from Occitan artichaut, from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršúf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf), definite form of خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf).
Senses: glosses: A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.
glosses: A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.
Synonyms: english: edible variety
translation: edible variety
word: globe artichoke
english: wild variety
translation: wild variety
word: cardoon
english: the former taxonomic name
translation: the former taxonomic name
word: Cynara scolymus
english: the currently accepted taxonomic name, which also includes cardoons
translation: the currently accepted taxonomic name, which also includes cardoons
word: Cynara cardunculus
Derived terms: word: artichoke bottom
word: artichoke heart
word: artichokelike
word: artichoke thistle
word: artichokey
word: choke
word: French artichoke
word: green artichoke
taxonomic: Helianthus tuberosus
word: Jerusalem artichoke
word: sunchoke
carburator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of carburetor.
hazelnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪzəlnʌt/
ipa: /ˈheɪzəlˌnʌt/
Forms: form: hazelnuts
form: hazel nut
Etymology: Equivalent to hazel + nut; from Middle English haselnote, from Old English hæselhnutu (“hazelnut”). Cognate with West Frisian hazzenút (“hazelnut”), Saterland Frisian Hoaselnuute (“hazelnut”), Dutch hazelnoot, German Haselnuss.
Senses: glosses: The fruit of the hazel, especially Corylus avellana, which is grown commercially.
Synonyms: word: cob
english: usually the American hazel (Corylus americana or Corylus maxima) which is common in Oregon.
translation: usually the American hazel (Corylus americana or Corylus maxima) which is common in Oregon.
taxonomic: Corylus avellana
word: cobnut (usually the common hazel which grows in the UK and Europe; filbert
Derived terms: taxonomic: Corylus americana
word: American hazelnut
taxonomic: Corylus cornuta
word: beaked hazelnut
taxonomic: Corylus cornuta subsp. californica
word: California hazelnut
taxonomic: Gevuina avellana
word: Chilean hazelnut
taxonomic: Corylobium avellanae
word: hazelnut aphid
alt: Mikomyia coryli
word: hazelnut gall midge
word: hazelnutlike
word: hazelnut milk
alt: Tetranycopsis horridus
word: hazelnut mite
word: hazelnutty
word: hazeltini
taxonomic: Corylus heterophylla
word: Siberian hazelnut
batch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băch
ipa: /bæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: batches
Etymology: From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.
Senses: examples: text: We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
glosses: The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
examples: text: We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.
synonyms: pressing
run
lot
glosses: A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
examples: c. 1710-1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday
a new batch of Lords
synonyms: group
lot
glosses: A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
examples: text: The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of data to be processed at one time.
glosses: A bread roll.
examples: text: She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.
glosses: A graduating class; school class.
examples: text: Except the baker doe his part also in the batch.
ref: 1551, T. Wilson, Logike 42 b:
glosses: The process of baking.
Derived terms: batch-edit
batch file
batch job
batchmate
batch picking
batch processing
batch production
batch queue
batchwise
interbatch
intrabatch
masterbatch
microbatch
minibatch
multi-batch picking
prebatch
subbatch
zone-batch picking
zone-batch-wave picking
batch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: băch
ipa: /bæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: batches
form: batching
form: batched
form: batched
Etymology: From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.
Senses: examples: text: The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
glosses: To aggregate things together into a batch.
examples: text: The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
Derived terms: batchable
batch up
rebatch
batch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: băch
ipa: /bæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Etymology: From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.
Senses: examples: text: The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.
glosses: Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
Derived terms: batch mode
batch process
batch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băch
ipa: /bæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: batches
form: baiche
Etymology: From Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæċ, beċe (“brook, stream”). Doublet of beck. More at beach.
Senses: glosses: A bank; a sandbank.
glosses: A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
batch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: băch
ipa: /bæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: batches
form: batching
form: batched
form: batched
Etymology: Clipping of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”).
Senses: examples: text: I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.
glosses: To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
pinyin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pinyin.
pinyin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pinyin.
glosses: Alternative form of Pinyin.
mare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛə/
ipa: /mɛɚ/
ipa: /meː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /meə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /meɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /mɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: mere (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: myrrh (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mares
Etymology: From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”).
Cognates
See also Scots mere, meir, mear (“mare”), North Frisian mar (“mare, horse”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), Danish mær (“mare”), Swedish märr (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), German Mähre (“decrepit old horse”)), Old English mearh.
Senses: examples: text: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: An adult female horse.
examples: text: The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?
ref: 2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple:
glosses: A foolish woman.
Coordinate terms: sense: adult female horse
english: young horse
translation: young horse
word: foal
sense: adult female horse
english: young male horse; young female horse
translation: young male horse; young female horse
word: colt and filly
sense: adult female horse
word: pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height
Derived terms: brood mare
flying mare
mare's leg
mare's milk
mare's nest
mare's tail
mare's teat
Premarin
ride the three-legged mare
seamare
shanks' mare
stud mare
the grey mare is the better horse
Three-legged mare
three-legged mare
two-legged mare
wooden mare
mare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛə/
ipa: /mɛɚ/
ipa: /meː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /meə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /meɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /mɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: mere (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: myrrh (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /mɛə/
ipa: /mɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)
ipa: /mɛə/
ipa: /mɛɚ/
ipa: /meː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /meə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /meɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /mɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: mere (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: myrrh (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mares
Etymology: From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Doublet of mara.
Cognates
Akin to Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara (“incubus, nightmare”); also Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), Albanian merë (“horror”), Polish zmora (“nightmare”), Czech mura (“nightmare, moth”), Greek Μόρα (Móra).
Senses: glosses: A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
examples: text: I'm having a complete mare today.
glosses: A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
Derived terms: daymare
nightmare
mare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛə/
ipa: /mɛɚ/
ipa: /meː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /meə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /meɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /mɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: mere (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: myrrh (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /mɛə/
ipa: /mɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɛɚ.i/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɑɹi
ipa: /mɛə/
ipa: /mɛɚ/
ipa: /meː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /meə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /meɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /mɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: mere (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: myrrh (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /mɛə/
ipa: /mɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)
Forms: form: maria
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of maar and mere (“a body of standing water”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon
examples: text: Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
mare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛə/
ipa: /mɛɚ/
ipa: /meː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /meə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /meɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /mɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: mere (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: myrrh (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /mɛə/
ipa: /mɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɛɚ.i/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɑɹi
Forms: form: mares
Etymology: See mayor.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mayor.
glosses: Obsolete form of mair.
mandarin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/
ipa: /mæn.dəˈɹɪn/
Forms: form: more mandarin
form: most mandarin
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántras
Sanskrit मन्त्र॑ (mántra)
Sanskrit -इन् (-in)
Sanskrit म॒न्त्रिन् (mantrín)bor.
Malay menteribor.
Portuguese mandarimbor.
English mandarin
From Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix). In Chinese folk etymology, the word originates from Mandarin 滿大人 /满大人 (Mǎndàrén, literally “Manchu important man”).
Senses: examples: text: A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.
ref: 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 58:
text: [Anatole] Broyard's columns were suffused with both worldliness and high culture. Wry, mandarin, even self-amused at times, he wrote like a man about town, but one who just happened to have all of Western literature at his fingertips.
ref: 1997, Henry Louis Gates Jr., “The Passing of Anatole Broyard”, in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, New York: Random House, pages 180–181:
text: Though alert to riddles' strong roots in vernacular narrative, Cook's tastes are mandarin, and she gives a loving account of Wallace Stevens's meditations on the life of poetic images and simile […].
ref: 2007, Marina Warner, “Doubly Damned”, in London Review of Books, 29:3, p. 26:
glosses: Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
Derived terms: mandarin garnet
mandarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/
ipa: /mæn.dəˈɹɪn/
Forms: form: mandarins
Etymology: From French mandarine, feminine of mandarin, probably formed as Etymology 1, above, from the yellow colour of the mandarins' costume.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of mandarin orange:
A small, sweet citrus fruit.
glosses: Ellipsis of mandarin orange:
A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
glosses: An orange colour.
Hypernyms: citrus
fruit
stallion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæli.ən/
ipa: /ˈstæljən/
rhymes: -æliən
rhymes: -æljən
Forms: form: stallions
Etymology: From Middle English stalion, from Middle French estalon (whence modern French étalon), of Germanic origin, akin to stall. Displaced native Old English henġest.
Senses: glosses: An adult male horse.
Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
glosses: An adult male horse.
A male horse kept primarily as a stud.
examples: text: 'You stallion.'
Brian patted Tom on the back, but now with mixed feelings. He was pleased for his brother, but slightly jealous that Tom had lost his virginity before him
ref: 2012, Garry Kay, Break Free:
glosses: A very virile and sexually-inclined man or (rarely) woman.
Synonyms: entire
studhorse
steed
Derived terms: stallioneer
stallioner
stallionize
stallionlike
stallion plague
Related terms: colt
filly
foal
gelding
mare
foal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊl/
ipa: [fɔʊɫ]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /fɒl/
ipa: /fɐʉl/
ipa: /foʊl/
ipa: [foɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: foals
Etymology: From Middle English fole, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô, from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”) (cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole, West Frisian fôle, foalle, Dutch veulen, German Low German Fohl, German Fohlen, Fohle, Swedish fåle; compare also Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos), Latin pullus, Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, fawn”). Related to filly.
Senses: glosses: A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.
Derived terms: dummy foal
foalfoot
foalhood
foal immunodeficiency syndrome
foalish
in-foal
lavender foal syndrome
warmblood fragile foal syndrome
with foal
foal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊl/
ipa: [fɔʊɫ]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /fɒl/
ipa: /fɐʉl/
ipa: /foʊl/
ipa: [foɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: foals
form: foaling
form: foaled
form: foaled
Etymology: From Middle English fole, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô, from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”) (cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole, West Frisian fôle, foalle, Dutch veulen, German Low German Fohl, German Fohlen, Fohle, Swedish fåle; compare also Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos), Latin pullus, Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, fawn”). Related to filly.
Senses: examples: text: All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: "Well," said John, "I don't believe there is a better pair of horses in the country, and right grieved I am to part with them, but they are not alike; the black one is the most perfect temper I ever knew; I suppose he has never known a hard word or a blow since he was foaled, and all his pleasure seems to be to do what you wish; […]
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 102:
glosses: To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
Related terms: colt
filly
horseling
mare
stallion
filly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
homophone: Philly
Forms: form: fillies
Etymology: From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.
Senses: coordinate_terms: colt
glosses: A young female horse.
examples: text: Hey, Homer, get a load of the gams on that filly!
text: Betty Lou began to think of Bobby Jo. That feisty filly still brought up sexual connotations, even though the two had been going together for almost three weeks now.
ref: 1994 October, Susie Day, “Wake Up and Smell the Lubricant”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: A young, attractive woman.
Hypernyms: english: young horse
translation: young horse
word: foal
Derived terms: fillock
Related terms: colt
mare
stallion
gelding
fille
colt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊlt/
ipa: [kɔʊlt]
ipa: /kɒlt/
ipa: /koʊlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
Forms: form: colts
Etymology: From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.
Senses: examples: text: The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
coordinate_terms: filly
glosses: A young male horse.
glosses: A young crane (bird).
examples: text: Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 38:
glosses: A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
examples: text: The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.
ref: 1882, The Downside Review, volume 1, page 287:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
A professional cricketer during his first season.
glosses: A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
A person who sits as a juryman for the first time.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
glosses: A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A young camel or donkey.
Derived terms: catch colt
colt evil
colthood
coltish
coltlike
coltsfoot
coltskin
colt's tooth
hog colt
old-field colt
summer colt
uncolt
uncolted
woods colt
colt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊlt/
ipa: [kɔʊlt]
ipa: /kɒlt/
ipa: /koʊlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
Forms: form: colts
form: colting
form: colted
form: colted
Etymology: From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.
Senses: examples: text: Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], line 133:
glosses: To horse; to get with young.
examples: text: What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 36:
glosses: To befool.
examples: text: They shook off their bridles and began to colt.
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
examples: text: We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a chest, we colted him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained no redress!
ref: 1849, The Lancet, page 53:
text: […] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him.
ref: 1923, Notes and Queries, page 153:
glosses: To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.
Synonyms: sense: to act licentiously or wantonly
word: harlotize
Related terms: stallion
mare
foal
filly
horseling
calf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: käf
ipa: /kɑːf/
enpr: kăf
ipa: /kæf/
ipa: /kɐːf/
ipa: /kaf/
ipa: /kaːf/
note: New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /kɛəf/
ipa: /keɪf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
rhymes: -æf
homophone: caf (some accents)
Forms: form: calves
Etymology: From Middle English calf, kalf, from Old Norse kalfi, possibly derived from the same Germanic root as English calf (“young cow”) (above). Cognate with Icelandic kálfi (“calf of the leg”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The back of the leg below the knee.
examples: text: Sure, his calves are a little weak, but the rest of his physique is so overwhelming, he should place high.
ref: 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
glosses: The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
Derived terms: calf bone
calf-length
calfless
calf raise
cankle
midcalf
EBU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Boxing Union
examples: text: When Klein, who was due to perform just before Israel’s contestant, Eden Golan, on Saturday night, was asked if his entry Europapa could live up to the competition’s motto, “United by music”, he said: “I think that’s a good question for the EBU.”
ref: 2024 May 11, Philip Oltermann, “Netherlands’ Eurovision entry disqualified from song contest”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of European Broadcasting Union
vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛs.əl/
ipa: [ˈvɛsɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɛsəl
Forms: form: vessels
form: vesseling
form: vesselling
form: vesseled
form: vesseled
form: vesselled
form: vesselled
form: vessell
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wāss
Late Latin vās
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elom
Late Latin -ulum
Late Latin -culum
Late Latin vāsculum
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Late Latin -lus
Late Latin vāscellum
Old French vaisselbor.
Middle English vessel
English vessel
Inherited from Middle English vessel, vessell (“small container”); from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau and Catalan vaixell), from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vase, vessel”).
Senses: examples: text: 1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,”
Our hony alſo is taken and reputed to be the beſt bycauſe it is harder, better wrought & clenlyer veſſelled vp, thẽ that which cõmeth from beyond the ſea, where they ſtampe and ſtraine their combes, Bées, & young Blow|inges altogither into the ſtuffe, as I haue béene informed.
text: 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie, London: W. Lee, Cent. VI, section 529, p. 137,
The fourth Rule ſhall be, to marke what Herbs, ſome Earths doe put fourth of themſelves; And to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Veſſell it; And in that to ſet the Seed you would change […]
text: Man had at the firſt, and ſo have all ſouls before their entrance into the body, an explicite methodicall knowledge, but they are no ſooner veſſel’d, but that liberty is loſt, and nothing remains but a vaſt confuſed notion of the creature […]
ref: 1662, John Heydon, The Harmony of the World, London: Robert Horn, Epistle Dedicatory:
text: [Samuel 'Sam' Oliver:] Alright (or: All right), so the Devil didn't say that the winner was the one who vesseled (or: vesselled) him, just the one who sends him back to hell.
ref: 2009, Reaper (TV series), 2nd season, episode known as The Home Stretch
glosses: To put into a vessel.
nozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒzəl/
rhymes: -ɒzəl
Forms: form: nozzles
form: nosel
form: nosle
form: nozle
Etymology: From Middle English noselle, equivalent to nose + -le (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
glosses: A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.
examples: text: At length the acme of a typical Mexican scene was reached when the burros unceremoniously raised their nozzles and brayed loud and long.
ref: 1887, Fanny Chambers Gooch, Face to Face with the Mexicans, Chapter XVI, p. 489:
glosses: The nose of an animal; muzzle.
examples: text: The shape of the nozzle prevents the use of aftermarket eartips.
glosses: The part of an earbud that accommodates eartips.
Coordinate terms: sense: short tube
word: spout
Derived terms: douche nozzle
micronozzle
monitor nozzle
multinozzle
nozzled
nozzleless
nozzleman
renozzle
snozzle
decorticator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɔːtɪkeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: decorticators
Etymology: From decorticate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A machine that peels off the fibrous husk, bark or outer layer of some vegetable product; used in the manufacture of animal feed etc.
settling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛtl̩ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of settle
Derived terms: settling basin
settling tank
settling time
settling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛtl̩ɪŋ/
Forms: form: settlings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
glosses: The reckoning or settlement of accounts; the paying out of gambling winnings.
glosses: Dregs; sediment.
tracer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪsə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈtʃɹeɪsə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈtɹeɪsɚ/
ipa: [ˈtʃɹeɪsɚ]
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tracers
Etymology: From trace + -er.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
synonyms: tracer ammunition
tracer bullet
glosses: A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
examples: text: We have a five-man tracer on him now. He's heading for a Vorster cell on Michigan Boulevard, and he's drunk as a lord. Should we intercept him?
ref: 1964, Galaxy Magazine, volume 23, numbers 1-6, page 125:
text: A surveyor typically conducts a tracer on his or her own and later meets up with the rest of the team to discuss findings.
ref: 2011, Joint Commission Resources, Environment of Care Tracer Workbook, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Ain't never running but I'm a paper chasing
They gon catch up to me, they gon need a pacer
How they over-watching me without a tracer
ref: 2017, “From the Sewers”, CardCaptorXP (lyrics):
glosses: The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
examples: text: The next morning when she awoke, she told Darcy what had happened, and Darcy agreed that she should go to the police and this time ask them if they could put a tracer on her incoming phone calls, just in case he called again.
ref: 2010, Claire Gilbert, A Runway for a Dream:
glosses: A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
glosses: A person who traces something.
glosses: A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
Derived terms: bead tracer
contact tracer
dye tracer
filtrate tracer
flow tracer
gas tracer
intrinsic tracer
packet tracer
path tracer
radioactive tracer
ray tracer
signal tracer
skip-tracer
skip tracer
tracer ammunition
tracer bullet
tracer element
tracer log
tracer round
tracer shell