cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Etymology: From Middle English wilt, from Old English wilt, from Proto-West Germanic *wilt, second person singular preterite-present of Proto-West Germanic *willjan. Cognate with Dutch wilt (“wilt”, second-person singular of willen), German willt (archaic second person singular indicative of wollen).
Senses: examples: text: 'Oh, my love, my love!' she murmured, 'wilt thou ever know how I have loved thee?' and she kissed him on the forehead, and then went and stood in the pathway of the flame of Life.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me.
ref: 1952, Bible (Revised Standard Version), Psalms 17:3
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of will
phrasebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪzbʊk/
Forms: form: phrasebooks
form: phrase book
form: phrase-book
Etymology: From phrase + book.
Senses: glosses: A book containing common phrases in two or more languages, used to learn a foreign language.
examples: text: He knows, ‘Hello’ in eighteen languages / ‘I love you’ in only one / By the time he's got his phrasebook / The chance is usually gone
ref: 1996, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Alone”, in Blue Is the Colour, performed by The Beautiful South:
glosses: A usually pocket-sized book consisting of everyday expressions and vocabulary in two languages and intended for travellers who wish to communicate with locals while in other countries.
phrasebook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪzbʊk/
Forms: form: phrase book
form: phrase-book
Etymology: From phrase + book.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a phrasebook.
glosses: Of one's fluency of a language, limited or deficient.
gadzooks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡædˈzuːks/
rhymes: -uːks
Forms: form: gazooks
form: odsooks
form: adzooks
form: odzooks
form: odzookens
form: odzookers
Etymology: Minced form of God's hooks, a reference to the nails of the crucifixion of Christ.
Senses: examples: text: “I should explain that among the books that recently arrived at the office was a slim volume from his pen dealing with the Preparatory School and giving it an enthusiastic build-up. The formative years which we spent there, he said, were the happiest of our life.”
“Gadzooks!”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter II:
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: An expression of surprise, shock, etc.
Synonyms: wow
Derived terms: gadzookery
zooks
give someone the creeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the creeps
form: giving someone the creeps
form: gave someone the creeps
form: given someone the creeps
Senses: examples: text: Walking through the graveyard late at night really gives me the creeps.
text: As for Leo, he did not altogether like it either, but ran his fingers through his yellow curls, and remarked that it gave him the creeps.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “‘Give Me a Black Goat!’”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 216:
text: It’s the emptiness; there’s no one on the street at that time, along the river. It gives me the creeps.
ref: 1997, Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors:
glosses: To give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright.
Synonyms: creep someone out
give someone the heebie-jeebies
give someone the willies
spook someone
unnerve someone
give someone the collywobbles
gridding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grid
gridding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: griddings
Senses: glosses: The adding of a grid of lines to a map etc.
glosses: The construction of a rectangular matrix of numbers from a set of scattered data points.
contouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contour
contouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contourings
Senses: glosses: the construction of contour lines through a matrix of points each having a known value of some variable
examples: text: Contouring is not our thing because the main beauty philosophy in France is to accept who you are.
ref: 2015 April 29, Kathleen Hou, “Why French Women Don’t Contour”, in The Cut, New York, U.S.A.: Vox Media, retrieved 02 Jul 2020:
glosses: a technique in makeup using blush and bronzing powder to define contours on the face
glosses: the building up of muscles with exercise
examples: text: If you are going to be walking in mountainous or rough terrain it is often a good idea to plan a route following contour lines. This is called ‘contouring’.
ref: 2020 July 2 (last accessed), “Advanced guide to reading contours and relief”, in Map reading, Ordnance Survey:
glosses: walking along contour lines, usually to save energy or simplify navigation
Derived terms: vontouring
jump seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jump seats
Senses: glosses: An extra seat in an aircraft cabin or cockpit for someone other than a passenger.
glosses: A movable seat in a carriage.
Derived terms: jumpseating
rater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: raters
Etymology: From rate (“to appraise”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The three raters agreed on the score.
glosses: One who provides a rating or assessment.
Derived terms: interrater
Related terms: second-rater
rater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: raters
Etymology: From rate (“to scold; berate”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rates or scolds.
Related terms: berate
sophomoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒfəˈmɒɹɪk/
ipa: /sɒfəˈmɔːɹɪk/
ipa: /sɑf(ə)ˈmɑɹɪk/
ipa: /sɑf(ə)ˈmɔːɹɪk/
Forms: form: more sophomoric
form: most sophomoric
Etymology: From sophomore + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a sophomore.
examples: text: The editors agree with that “and make that puerile, sophomoric, and jejune too,” says Beard.
ref: 1972 October 12, Mopsy Strange Kennedy, “Juvenile, puerile, sophomoric, jejune, nutty‐and funny”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature.
examples: text: sophomoric affectation
glosses: Pretentious; inflated in style or manner.
Derived terms: sophomorically
kettledrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kettledrums
form: kettle drum
form: kettle-drum
Etymology: From kettle + drum.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: timpanum
glosses: A large percussion instrument with a drumhead that is stretched over a hemispherical metal bowl.
glosses: An informal social party at which a light snack is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening.
Derived terms: kettledrummer
kettledrumming
timpani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪmpəni/
Forms: form: timpanis
form: timpani
form: tympani
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian timpani, plural of timpano (“drum”), from Latin tympanum (“drum”), from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, I hit”). Doublet of tympanum, timbre, timbal, and tymbal.
Senses: examples: text: Since the timpani is a legato instrument, a note must be allowed to sound and ring to achieve the full effect of the drum.
ref: 2010, Steven L. Schweizer, Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 38:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: kettledrums
naker
temple drums
timps
glosses: The set of precision kettledrums in an orchestra.
Derived terms: timpanist
timpani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪmpəni/
Forms: form: tympani
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian timpani, plural of timpano (“drum”), from Latin tympanum (“drum”), from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, I hit”). Doublet of tympanum, timbre, timbal, and tymbal.
Senses: glosses: plural of timpano
key fob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key fobs
form: keyfob
Senses: glosses: An item carried on a key ring either as decoration or for security.
glosses: A passive wireless electronic device that usually uses RFID technology to control access to buildings, containers, computers, etc. by being placed near a detector.
examples: text: She finds her key fob and unlocks the doors.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 416:
glosses: An active wireless electronic device that controls access to buildings or vehicles, such as a remote control for a car door lock.
keyhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: keyholes
Etymology: From key + hole.
Senses: glosses: The hole in a lock where the key is inserted and turns.
glosses: Any small opening resembling the hole for a key in shape or function; especially, one that gives a vista of, or access to, a space beyond.
glosses: Any small opening resembling the hole for a key in shape or function; especially, one that gives a vista of, or access to, a space beyond.
A small incision through which surgical instruments can reach into an anatomic space beyond.
coordinate_terms: buttonhole#English:_surgery
glosses: A circle cut out of a garment as a decorative effect, typically at the front or back neckline of a dress.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key that fastens them.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mortise for a key or cotter.
examples: text: laser keyhole welding
text: keyhole plasma
glosses: A transient column of vapor or plasma formed when using high energy beams, such as lasers, for welding or cutting.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A welding method in which a hole forms in the surface immediately ahead of the puddle in the direction of welding. The hole is filled as the weld progresses.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line; key.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A gravitational keyhole.
Derived terms: keyhole arch
keyhole limpet
keyhole limpet hemocyanin
keyhole sand dollar
keyhole saw
keyhole surgery
keyhole urchin
six-holed keyhole urchin
keyhole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: keyholes
form: keyholing
form: keyholed
form: keyholed
Etymology: From key + hole.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To strike a target after wobbling in flight so that the long axis of the bullet does not follow the line of flight, typically due to insufficient spin resulting from the rifling in the barrel.
Derived terms: keyhole neckline
keyhole surgery
keyhole wound
keyhole surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyhole surgeries
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Surgery using a fibre optic laparoscope through a small incision, either for examination or treatment.
Synonyms: laparoscopy
keyring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: keyrings
form: key ring
Etymology: From key + ring.
Senses: glosses: A ring, normally of metal or plastic, for holding keys together.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of data holding linked encryption keys.
Related terms: keychain
key fob
kidnap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdnæp/
Forms: form: kidnaps
form: kidnapping
form: kidnaping
form: kidnapped
form: kidnapped
form: kidnaped
form: kidnaped
Etymology: From kid + nap (“to nab; to grab”).
Senses: examples: text: Hello, ladies! How’s the Big Apple?
Rotten, Jerry! Clover's been kidnapped!
Oh, dear! That's the second time this month!
ref: 2002 September 6, Michelle and Robert Lamoreaux, “Model Citizens”, in Totally Spies!, season 1, episode 9, spoken by Alexandra “Alex” (Jess Harnell as Jerry and Katie Leigh), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
text: Angrest, a soldier, was kidnapped from his tank at the Nahal Oz base when it was attacked by Hamas.
ref: 2025 March 7, ToI staff, JTA, “The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza”, in The Times of Israel:
glosses: To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.
Derived terms: antikidnap
dognap
dognapper
dognapping
kidnappable
kidnapped robot problem
rekidnap
tiger kidnap
unkidnap
kidnap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdnæp/
Forms: form: kidnaps
Etymology: From kid + nap (“to nab; to grab”).
Senses: glosses: The crime, or an instance, of kidnapping.
Related terms: kidnapper
kidnaper
kidnappee
kidnapee
kidnapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdnæpɚ/
Forms: form: kidnappers
form: kidnaper
Etymology: From kidnap + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who kidnaps someone.
Derived terms: birdnapper
carnapper
catnapper
dognapper
petnapper
pignapper
Related terms: kidnap
doplic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doplic
form: most doplic
Etymology: Originated in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, from the older form doppich, from Pennsylvania German doppich, related to German täppisch (“clumsy”).
Senses: examples: text: That is the third dish I've broken today. I sure am being doplic!
text: I'd never make it as a brain surgeon: I'm too doplic!
text: She was young, and had not quite grown into her long, doplic body. Despite her subtle awkwardness there was a sweetness about her.
ref: 2000, Mark A. Hess, The Same Mistake, →ISBN, page 209:
synonyms: doppich
doplich
glosses: Lacking dexterity; not skilled; clumsy.
wikipedia: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
kill off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪl ɒf/
ipa: /kɪl ɔf/
ipa: /kɪl ɑf/
Forms: form: kills off
form: killing off
form: killed off
form: killed off
Etymology: From kill + off.
Senses: examples: text: We killed off the Dodo by over-hunting.
glosses: To eliminate, or make extinct.
examples: text: The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera.
text: Bridget Jones’s creator Helen Fielding didn’t seem to know what to do with her once she’d married her Mr Darcy, and ended up killing him off to make Bridget interesting again.
ref: 2025 August 28, Gaby Hinsliff, “Taylor Swift: engaged, mummy-tracked and doomed to tradwifedom? You really haven’t been listening”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
film
literature
media
publishing
television
glosses: Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.
examples: text: (Jason) The only thing I had handy to send them was this one dinky little program I'd written for fun.
(Mom) And it killed off interest?
(Jason) Actually, it killed off the Internet.
ref: 1999 January 16, Bill Amend, FoxTrot:
text: Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
ref: 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
text: There are many ways to kill off projects, and the Department for Transport is proving particularly adept at finding new ones.
ref: 2019 November 20, Christian Wolmar, “DfT places fresh hurdles in the path of Heathrow link”, in Rail, page 52:
text: The moment is reminiscent of other bet-the-company gambles, such as when Netflix killed off its DVD-mailing business last decade to focus on streaming.
ref: 2022 July 26, Mike Isaac, “‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To put an end to.
Derived terms: word: kill-off
word: killoff
Related terms: word: die off
kilobit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilobits
Etymology: c. 1960, from kilo- (“thousand”) + bit.
Senses: examples: text: At a 100 kilobit per second information rate, both mark and space signals will generally be transmitted in any 0.0001 sec interval, and therefore this requirement is easily met with conventional resistors and capacitors.
ref: 1960, Sproul Robert W, Frequency diversity communications system, US Patent US3214691 A:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bits.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a kibibit
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: kbps
glosses: one kilobit per second
Synonyms: kbit
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: bit
sense: Next
word: megabit
Related terms: kibibyte
kilobyte
kilobyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilobytes
Etymology: Coined in the 1960s, from kilo- (“thousand”) + byte.
Senses: examples: text: The data word processor 606 handles the in-flow and out-flow of byte-oriented input/output data and interleaved signals at a rate of, for example, 500 kilobytes per second. Instruction processing rates of four to eight per microsecond are required for such a data flow.
ref: 1969, Harold R. Dell, HIGH-DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, US Patent 3638185:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.
examples: text: It is assumed herein that each block includes 32 bytes, each sector includes 1 kilobyte, the buffer memory 116 includes 4 kilobytes, and read data is represented by one double word or 64 bits, as one word in this case consists of 32 bits.
ref: 1969, Hisashi Horikoshi, MEMORY CONTROL SYSTEM, US Patent 3618041:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: especially RAM
glosses: A kibibyte.
Synonyms: kB
KB
㎅
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: byte
sense: Next
word: megabyte
Related terms: kibibit
kilobit
kilowatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilowatts
form: kilo-watt
Etymology: From kilo- + watt.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
text: Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt
text: And one California kilowatt equals 3 East Coast KWs. And—as everybody knows that—we, on the East Coast, are the only legal ones.
ref: 1974, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal, volume 30, number 1, page 36:
text: Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.5 Electrical Generation and Distribution System”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, pages 36–37:
synonyms: mul:kW
mul:㎾
glosses: One thousand (10³) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as a typical home appliance (e.g., a microwave oven, a toaster, or a hair dryer). (Consuming 1 kilowatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 kilowatt-hour of energy.)
glosses: Catachresis for kilowatt-hour.
Derived terms: California kilowatt
kilowatt alley
kilowatt-hour
kilowatt-year
multikilowatt
kilowatt-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilowatt-hours
Etymology: By surface analysis, kilowatt + hour, or, by surface analysis, kilo- + watt-hour.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: watt-year (31.536e6 J) < gigajoule (1.000e9 J) < megawatt-hour (3.600e9 J) < kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 J) < megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J) < exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
Meronyms: yoctojoule (1.000e-24 J) < zeptojoule (1.000e-21 J) < attojoule (1.000e-18 J) < hartree (4.35974e-18 J) < femtojoule (1.000e-15 J) < picojoule (1.000e-12 J) < nanojoule (1.000e-9 J) < microjoule (1.000e-6 J) < millijoule (1.000e-3 J) < joule (1 J) < milliwatt-hour (3.6 J) < microwatt-year (31.536 J) < kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J) < milliwatt-year (31.536e3 J) < megajoule (1.000e6 J)
related: word: mul:kW·h
word: mul:kW h
word: mul:kWh
word: mul:kW-hr
word: mul:kWhr
word: ;
word: kilowatt hour
glosses: A unit of energy equal to that provided by one kilowatt acting for one hour (3·6 × 10⁶ joules).
kindhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kindhearted
form: most kindhearted
form: kind-hearted
Etymology: From kind + hearted.
Senses: synonyms: warm-hearted#Adjective
goodhearted#Adjective
glosses: Having an innately kind disposition or character.
Derived terms: kindheartedly
kindheartedness
Related terms: kindheart
kindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/
ipa: /ˈkaɪnd.nɪs/
rhymes: -aɪndnəs
Forms: form: kindnesses
form: kindenesse
form: kindnesse
Etymology: From Middle English kindenesse, equivalent to kind + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Jamie's kindness is legendary, so much that people have taken advantage of her.
text: If attending to your childhood wounds and responding with kindness feels selfish, it is important to remember that compassion for oneself often makes people more compassionate to others, Lev said.
ref: 2025 April 28, Madeline Holcombe, “It might be time to ‘reparent’ yourself. Here’s how to get started”, in CNN:
glosses: The state of being kind.
examples: text: How can I thank you for your many kindnesses?
text: Do me a kindness and leave.
text: i'm going to turn a blind eye to this misdemeanour, out of the kindness of my heart.
text: They are grateful for kindnesses that they may have received.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 232:
glosses: An instance of kind or charitable behaviour.
Derived terms: diskindness
kill with kindness
lovingkindness
milk of human kindness
nonkindness
random act of kindness
kinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈnɛt.ɪks/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κινητικός (kinētikós, “kinetic”).
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The branch of mechanics concerned with motion of objects, as well as the reason i.e. the forces acting on such bodies. This, along with kinematics constitute dynamics, which is concerned purely with the effects of forces on moving bodies.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The branch of chemistry that is concerned with the rates of chemical reactions.
Derived terms: biokinetics
cytokinetics
electrokinetics
erythrokinetics
ferrokinetics
gyrokinetics
homeokinetics
hydrokinetics
immunokinetics
mechanokinetics
microkinetics
morphokinetics
pharmacokinetics
photokinetics
spatiokinetics
thermokinetics
toxicokinetics
virokinetics
rith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪθ/
other: /ɹiːθ/
rhymes: -iːθ
Forms: form: riths
form: ride
form: rithe
form: rythe
form: rife
form: reeth
Etymology: From Middle English rīth (“a small stream”), rithe, from Old English rīþ m (“a small stream”), rīþe f, from Proto-West Germanic *rīþ, from Proto-Germanic *rīþaz, *rīþǭ (“stream, beck, brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to arise, arise”).
Cognate with Old Frisian rīth, rīd (“stream, beck”), Old Saxon rīth (“stream, torrent”) (> Middle Low German rîde), Old Dutch rīth (“stream, beck”), German -reide (“stream”, in placenames).
Senses: examples: text: They waded further up the rith.
text: […] does not Cleanse part of two Riths or Sewers and repair so much of Pagham Wall against the Sea as doth belong to him to cleanse and to repair and the said Edward Woods to have notice to appear before us on the twenty Seventh day of this Instant December to give […]
ref: 1973 (quoting an earlier record), The Land Drainage Records of West Sussex: A Catalogue (West Sussex Record Office, David J. Butler), page xix
text: […] Riths or Channels in the Harbour, as proposed in the Evidence of Charles Mant, Esquire, and alluded to in the Petition from Langstone, Your Committee are of opinion may be beneficially adopted and introduced in any Bill hereafter to […]
ref: 1968 (quoting an earlier record), Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary [Records], page 472
glosses: A small stream or channel.
Synonyms: sense: small (usually fordable) stream
word: brooklet
sense: small (usually fordable) stream
word: bourn
sense: small (usually fordable) stream
word: freshet
sense: small (usually fordable) stream
word: gill
sense: small (usually fordable) stream
word: rill
sense: small (usually fordable) stream
word: rindle
sense: small (usually fordable) stream
word: rivulet
sense: small (usually fordable) stream
word: runlet
sense: small (usually fordable) stream
word: runnel
sense: small (usually fordable) stream
word: streamlet
sense: small water course
word: beck
sense: small water course
word: burn
sense: small water course
word: crick
sense: small water course
word: fresh
sense: small water course
word: race
sense: small water course
word: run
kinetic art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any artwork, typically sculpture, in which the object moves.
Hyponyms: kinetic sculpture
kingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more kingly
form: most kingly
Etymology: From Middle English kyngly, from Old English *cyninglīċe (“kingly, royally”), equivalent to king + -ly. Compare Old English cynelīċe (“kingly, royally, publicly”).
Senses: glosses: In a royal manner.
Synonyms: kinglily
ith
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪθ/
ipa: [aɪ̯θ]
rhymes: -aɪθ
Etymology: From i + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Occurring at position i in a sequence.
Related terms: nth
ith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪθ/
ipa: [aɪ̯θ]
rhymes: -aɪθ
ipa: /ɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
ipa: /aɪθ/
ipa: [aɪ̯θ]
rhymes: -aɪθ
Forms: form: iths
Etymology: From Pitman ess and ish, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents.
Senses: glosses: The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound (/θ/) in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms: thee
ish
theta
the name of the IPA letter for this sound
kiosk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːˌɒsk/
ipa: /ˈkiˌɑsk/
Forms: form: kiosks
form: kiosque
Etymology: Earlier kiosque, from French kiosque, from Italian chiosco, from Ottoman Turkish كوشك (köşk), from Persian کوشک (kôšk, “palace, portico”), from Middle Persian kwšk' (kōšk).
Senses: examples: text: I remember that one time I went to the kiosk next door to buy condoms, it was raining, she appeared.
ref: 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: A small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, etc.
examples: text: Not only has the infamous upgrade gone by the wayside, but cashiers at fast-food restaurants are becoming increasingly uncommon. McDonald's started rolling out ordering kiosks at its US locations in 2015, and the chain hasn't looked back since: by 2020, most of its 14,000 locations will have kiosks installed.
ref: 2018 July 26, Hollis Johnson, “We tried the kiosks that analysts say could help McDonald's win back $2.7 billion in sales. Here's the verdict.”, in Business Insider:
glosses: A similar unattended stand for the automatic dispensing of tickets, etc; an e-kiosk.
glosses: A public telephone booth.
glosses: A Turkish garden pavilion.
Derived terms: e-kiosk
Internet kiosk
kiosked
kiosker
kiosklike
telekiosk
telephone kiosk
kipper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more kipper
form: most kipper
Etymology: From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this.
Senses: examples: text: These were kipper salmon, and an acquaintance of mine living at Burton Rowbottom who was trolling for pike at Yoxall, near to King's Bromley, got a run, five years ago, and caught a beautiful salmon weighting 25 lbs.
ref: 1861, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from Commissioners - Volume 23, page 523:
text: the milner of Brignall for that he doth usually keep in the back beck a fishlock in the river called Gill Beck, below his mill and the forebeck of another fishlock [sic] above the mill, whereby he taketh and destroyeth much fish, to wit —routs, at his pleasure, and taketh, etc. divers fish when they are kipper and out of season;
ref: 1888, Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (North Riding of Yorkshire), John Christopher Atkinson, Quarter Sessions Records - Volume 6, page 43:
text: Walton next tells us that the he-salmon is usually bigger than the spawner; that he is more kipper and less able to endure a winter in the fresh water than she is, yet she is, at that time of looking less kipper and better, as watery and as bad meat.'
ref: 1898, Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy, The Salmon, page 15:
text: Three weeks ago 25 per cent of the salmon running were kipper salmon.
ref: 1923, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Journal. Appendix, page 17:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Out of season.
raw_tags: of salmon
examples: text: Blades initiated a regeneration in modern British tailoring that from the mid-sixties began by flirting somewhat uneasily with the hippie style -- its most flamboyant exponent being Michael Fish, who opened premises in Piccadilly in 1966, introducing the kipper tie , Russian-style side-fastening tunics, see-through shirts and mini skirts for men.
ref: 2005, Christoph Grunenberg, Jonathan P. Harris, Summer of Love, page 213:
text: The trousers became more flared, the ties more kipper, and, the crowning glory (at least I thought so), was thatI was the first in my department to sport a pink shirt.
ref: 2013, Malcolm Philips, Jobsworth: Confessions of the Man from the Council:
text: Dad bought a red Scotch plaid tie, very near to 'kipper' size, but mum was still wearing flared skirts below the knee.
ref: 2017, Jean A. Stockdale, My Spring: Royal Times and Ordinary Lives:
text: Wide lapels, but not too wide – this wasn't 1973 any more for Christ's sake – a three-button waistband on the flared trousers, not too flared, platform shoes, not ridiculously high, kipper tie, not too kipper.
ref: 2021, Brian Cunningham, Under the Bonnet: Confessions of a 1970s and '80s Car Mechanic:
glosses: Very wide, shaped like a kipper.
raw_tags: of a tie
kipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: kippers
Etymology: Short form of UKIP + -er, influenced by kipper, the type of fish.
Senses: glosses: A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
raw_tags: with capital
kipper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more kipper
form: most kipper
Etymology: Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip.
Senses: examples: text: Thus he goes on, from morn till eve, from season to season, year in and year out, semingly impervious to the weather, being altogether too kipper and grievous to be taken with anything worse than a ' snivelly cold . '
ref: 1900, Harvey Buxon, Our Remarkable Fledger, page 180:
text: There's others won't come up so kipper if they daon't easy orf a bit.
ref: 1929, Geoffrey Dell Eaton, Senator George W. Norris, General William Mitchell, Don C.Seltz, Elisabeth W. Smith, Plain Talk - Volume 5, page 63:
text: Nay—heaw—so—Tummus; goo theaw an smeawtch Seroh o' Rutchot's iv yo bin so kipper.
ref: 2014, John Collier, Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary:
glosses: lively; chipper; nimble.
kitbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪtbæɡ/
Forms: form: kitbags
form: kit bag
form: kit-bag
Etymology: From kit + bag.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, whilst he had been in hospital, practically the whole of his equipment had disappeared from his kitbag – including Sylvia's two pair of sheets! – and he had no money with which to get more.
ref: 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 371:
text: Others have abandoned their vehicles and have set off back towards the Russian border on foot, lugging their weapons and kitbags, videos suggest.
ref: 2022 March 4, Luke Harding, “Demoralised Russian soldiers tell of anger at being ‘duped’ into war”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: (US, Australia) duffel bag
glosses: A large cylindrical holdall.
Derived terms: kitbag question
kit bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kit bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kitbag.
knickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪkəz/
enpr: nĭkʹərz
ipa: /ˈnɪkɚz/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)z
Forms: form: knicker
Etymology: Clipping of knickerbockers.
Senses: examples: text: Students in the University were not permitted to keep cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads […].
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 29:
text: He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Them First Kicks are a Killer”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 77:
glosses: Knickerbockers.
examples: text: The debate here is not over whether raising £26,000 (and counting) for our troops is a wonderful thing – it unarguably is – but over whether, whenever times are tough and money must be found, our default reaction as women should be to take off our knickers to help out?
ref: 2010 April 24, Sali Hughes, “Calendar girls galore”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Women's underpants.
Derived terms: all fur and no knickers
all fur coat and no knickers
beknickered
camiknickers
French knickers
get one's knickers in a knot
get one's knickers in a twist
gym knickers
keep one's knickers on
knickered
knickerless
unknickered
witches' knickers
knickers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪkəz/
enpr: nĭkʹərz
ipa: /ˈnɪkɚz/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)z
Etymology: Clipping of knickerbockers.
Senses: glosses: A mild exclamation of annoyance.
knickerbockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪkəbɒkəz/
ipa: /ˈnɪkɚbɑkɚz/
enpr: nĭkʹər-bŏk-ərz
Forms: form: knickerbocker
Etymology: From Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's 1809 A History of New York.
Senses: examples: text: Five men and a woman, two young girls,[…], and a boy […] are at the machines sewing knickerbockers, “knee-pants” in the Ludlow Street dialect.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 125:
text: […] and some gems that represent the tasseled garment that the leader wears show it in a distinctly religious connection. On a gem from Zakro it [the sistrum] is being being carried by a man who does not wear the loin-cloth, but a baggy kind of knickerbockers like the Moslem trousers of to-day.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 37:
text: And it was early morning, and the world was moist, when the crystal-gazer's husband, a freak in knickerbockers with an open coppish and a sabbath gamp, came over the stones outside his house to meet the holy travellers.
ref: a. 1954 (date written), Dylan Thomas, “The Holy Six”, in Adventures in the Skin Trade (A New Directions Paperbook; no. 183), New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing Corporation, published 1969, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.
wikipedia: A History of New York
Diedrich Knickerbocker
George Cruikshank
Washington Irving
Derived terms: word: knickerbocker
word: knickers
panties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panty
panties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 29:
text: Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.
ref: 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 12:
glosses: Underpants for women and girls.
Synonyms: sense: female underpants
word: briefies
sense: female underpants
word: knickers
sense: female underpants
word: pants
sense: female underpants
word: underpants
sense: female underpants
word: undies
sense: female underpants
word: bloomers
Derived terms: bikini panties
get one's panties in a bunch
get one's panties in a pretzel
get one's panties in a wad
granny panties
man panties
manties
parachute panties
plastic panties
punk panties
ranger panties
rubber panties
knitting needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knitting needles
form: knitting-needle
Senses: glosses: A long, thin, pointed rod, used in pairs to knit yarn.
behind the arc
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The Nimrods shot an amazingly futile 2-for-45 from behind the arc.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Outside the three-point line.
knitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English knyttynge; equivalent to knit + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knit
knitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: knittings
Etymology: From Middle English knyttynge; equivalent to knit + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I find knitting very relaxing.
glosses: The action of the verb to knit; the process of producing knitted material.
examples: text: She put down her knitting and went to answer the phone.
text: At Kiwi, 40 miles from Nelson [New Zealand], eight women installed themselves in the goods shed, taking with them their knitting, and a supply of food and magazines. The demolition crew was unable to pull the building down without injuring them.
ref: 1955 December, “Notes and News: Women Delay Railway Demolition”, in Railway Magazine, page 878:
glosses: Material that has been, or is being knitted.
examples: text: Fair point. Instead of tearing down the knitting and using diesel, tear down the knitting and use turbines.
ref: 2002 April 26, David Stevenson, “Re: Diesel vs Electric”, in uk.railway (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2018, message-ID <B8EF5604.1C7F1%hoagy@cix.co.uk>:
text: It also helps, if: [...] the knitting is aligned with the track below, or rather vice versa, something else that went after 1996.
ref: 2007 October 19, "Capt. Deltic", “Re: GNER knitting down (again)”, in uk.railway (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2018, message-ID <1192811754.580518.56340@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com>:
text: My suggestion would be to electrify the uphill bits only, in each direction, and to use diesel traction when coming down the other side. Massive savings on posts and knitting for a start.
ref: 2016 December 9, Andrew Clarke, “Re: Great Western Railway warns of slower journeys on new trains”, in uk.railway (Usenet), retrieved 10 Apr 2018, message-ID <111f6d4a-e880-4b12-89f3-04250296ea7d@googlegroups.com>:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: overhead electrification wires, OHLE
Derived terms: attend to one's knitting
attend to one's own knitting
cable knitting
circular knitting
double knitting
graffiti knitting
guerrilla knitting
keep to one's knitting
keep to one's own knitting
knitting chart
knitting machine
knitting needle
knit yoghurt
stick to one's knitting
stick to one's own knitting
'tend to one's knitting
tend to one's knitting
tend to one's own knitting
warp knitting
yoghurt-knitting
touché
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuː.ʃeɪ/
ipa: /tuːˈʃeɪ/
ipa: /tuːˈʃeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from French touché, past participle of toucher (“to touch”). More at touch.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An acknowledgement of a hit.
examples: text: Duckie: You know what an older woman does for me?
Iona: Changes your diapers?
Duckie: Touché.
ref: 1986, John Hughes, Pretty in Pink:
glosses: An acknowledgement of the validity, appropriateness, or superiority of an opponent's argument or statement in a discussion.
knitwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knitwears
Etymology: From knit + -wear.
Senses: glosses: knitted garments
Hyponyms: sweater
jumper
cardigan
knobby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒbi/
ipa: /ˈnɑbi/
rhymes: -ɒbi
homophone: Nobby
Forms: form: knobbier
form: knobbiest
Etymology: From knob + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They appeared, upon section, like wedge-shaped, knobby formations, penetrating into the placenta fetalis, and were thus found in three places ; the smallest was 3 mm. and the largest was 15 mm. in diameter.
ref: 1871, New York Medical Journal - Volume 14, page 431:
text: The baby kicked energetically. She caressed a knobby knee or elbow.
ref: 2012, Carrie Weaver, Baby, I'M Yours, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling a knob.
examples: text: The large open leaves and large knobby leaves were picked out by hand, and formed the finest sort of "hyson skin" (known commercially as pretty good bloom, brightish hyson kind mixed, knobby leaf); the remaining leaves were hyson.
ref: 1860, The Encyclopaedia Britannica:
text: Knobby Creek rises in the center part of Union Township, flowing north where it empties into the Osage River. Name suggested by the "knobby" character of the surrounding country, i.e. full of "knobs" or low hills. Sometimes called Beaver Creek, from the animal found here in early days.
ref: 1943, Fauna R. Overlay, Place Names Of Five South Central Counties Of Missouri, M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2016:
text: Further evidence for the correlation of basin structures arises from the spatial relation in both basins of the massifs to the associated knobby terrain.
ref: 1975, Lunar Science Institute, Proceedings of the Sixth Lunar Science Conference, Houston, Texas:
text: The oldest surface identified has a crater retention age N(l) 230,000 and is found below the knobby terrain (K).
ref: 1988, NASA Technical Memorandum - Issue 4041, page 456:
glosses: Having many knobs or knob-like projections.
Derived terms: knobbily
knobbiness
knobbly
knobby-kneed
knobby seahorse
knobby starfish
gol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gul.
Related terms: gol-mol
egg salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg salads
form: eggsalad
Senses: glosses: A dish made primarily of chopped hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise, often including other ingredients such as celery or mustard; it is frequently used as a sandwich spread.
Coordinate terms: salad § Hyponyms
goil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goils
Senses: examples: text: “You goils ain't gonna be flyin' today.” Our cab driver was Maxwell Solomon, Hack Number 30756M.
ref: 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 7:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of girl.
remission
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /ɹəˈmɪʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: remissions
form: remissioning
form: remissioned
form: remissioned
Etymology: From re- + mission.
Senses: examples: text: The Strykers have been remissioned, actually, to a mission of road security that actually takes advantage of the mobility that they provide.
ref: 2010, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense, Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011, page 32:
text: Their original mission was reestablished. That is what happens to people who will allow God to remission their lives through His blood cleansing them.
ref: 2014, Stella L. McNeer, He Is Able: God Is Our Only Hope in the Storms of Life:
glosses: To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission.
traveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæv.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɹæv.ə.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: travelling
Etymology: .
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of travel
traveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæv.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɹæv.ə.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: travelings
form: travelling
Etymology: .
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A violation committed by progressing while holding the ball instead of dribbling it.
glosses: The action of the verb travel.
Derived terms: time-traveling
traveling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæv.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɹæv.ə.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: travelling
Etymology: .
Senses: examples: a traveling companion
glosses: That travels (with one).
double dribble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double dribbles
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A violation committed by dribbling for a second time without giving up possession of the ball.
Related terms: urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20070207221503/http://www.fiba.com/asp_includes/download.asp?file_id=328
word: FIBA official rules and regulations
urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20050407185316/http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_10.html?nav=ArticleList
word: NBA official rules and regulations
urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20050129063037/http://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/2005/2005_basketball_rules.pdf
word: NCAA official rules and regulations
urls: http://www.wnba.com/media/2004_WNBA_OFFICIAL_RULE_BOOK_FINAL.pdf
word: WNBA official rules and regulations
foul out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fouls out
form: fouling out
form: fouled out
form: fouled out
Senses: examples: text: He fouled out to lead off the third.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To become out by hitting a foul ball which is caught.
examples: text: The center has fouled out with only two points.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To be disqualified from further play for having committed too many fouls.
foul out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foul outs
Senses: examples: text: A foul out was recorded on the scorecard.
topics: ball-games
baseball
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of fouling out.
examples: text: His foul out sat poorly with the crowd.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of fouling out.