cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛn.təl/
ipa: [ˈmɛɾ̃əl]
ipa: [ˈmɛnəl]
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: mentals
Etymology: Borrowing from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis, from mēns (“mind, disposition; heart, soul”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: y'all need to fix your mentals
glosses: State of mind; ellipsis of mental state.
qualifier: swear word
glosses: A mentally challenged person.
mental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛn.təl/
ipa: [ˈmɛɾ̃əl]
ipa: [ˈmɛnəl]
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Etymology: c. 1727, from Latin mentum (“the chin”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: the mental nerve, the mental region
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: genial
genian
glosses: Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the chinlike or liplike structure.
Derived terms: basilomental
cardosubmental
cervicomental
corneomental
frontomental
gulamental
hyomental
inframental
labiomental
mental artery
mental foramen
mental nerve
mental protuberance
nasomental
occipitomental
palmomental
pollicomental
postmental
premental
sternomental
submental
thyromental
verticomental
mental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛn.təl/
ipa: [ˈmɛɾ̃əl]
ipa: [ˈmɛnəl]
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: mentals
Etymology: c. 1727, from Latin mentum (“the chin”) + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
tomato
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈmɑː.təʊ/
ipa: /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/
other: /təˈmeɪ.tə/
ipa: [tʰəˈmeɪɾo]
ipa: [tʰəˈme(ː)to(ː)]
ipa: [tʰɵ-]
ipa: [-ma-]
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈɵˈmaʈo/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈɵˈmɑʈo/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈɵˈmeʈo/
rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
rhymes: -eɪtəʊ
rhymes: -ætəʊ
Forms: form: more tomato
form: most tomato
form: tomater
form: 'mater
Etymology: Variant of earlier tomate, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *tomatl. Compare tomatillo.
Senses: examples: text: Her face is on the cover: the Anne Estelle Rice portrait – or the black-eyed Japanese-bobbed head-and-shoulders bit of it – and the square-yoked dress is tomato, or pomegranate, but never persimmon. If it stayed too long in the sun and faded, well yes, maybe then…
ref: 1990, Beverley Farmer, “December”, in A Body of Water, Sydney, N.S.W.: Giramondo Publishing, published 2020, →ISBN:
text: And she’d slathered a heavy layer of foundation over the raw skin of her face with the end result being a complexion that was more tomato than orange.
ref: 2011, Jackie Braun, “Most Focused”, in Mr. Right There All Along (Harlequin Romance, #4258; The Fun Factor), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 220:
text: This afternoon, though, she saunters in, draped in a dress the color of a ripe tomato, with a hat to match, her hair twisted underneath in some kind of fashionable up-do that seems impossible to create oneself. […] Penny is sitting there, on the bed, next to me, chewing on the end of the pen, dressed in her frivolous tomato dress.
ref: 2013, Jillian Cantor, Margot, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, pages 93–94 (chapter 16) and 164 (chapter 26):
text: Intending to tease out Shona’s know-it-all nature by spouting off some trivia, I googled the Pala d’Oro on my phone. It was pure folly, but I was kind of worried about her. “Wikipedia says the cloth has a hundred and eighty-seven enamel plaques depicting Christ and the saints that are decorated with gold, silver, and around two thousand gems.” I peeked at Shona, whose face was tomato, and continued.
ref: 2021, Traci Andrighetti, chapter 9, in Valpolicella Violet (Franki Amato Mysteries; 7), Limoncello Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Of a shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
tomato
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈmɑː.təʊ/
ipa: /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/
other: /təˈmeɪ.tə/
ipa: [tʰəˈmeɪɾo]
ipa: [tʰəˈme(ː)to(ː)]
ipa: [tʰɵ-]
ipa: [-ma-]
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈɵˈmaʈo/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈɵˈmɑʈo/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈɵˈmeʈo/
rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
rhymes: -eɪtəʊ
rhymes: -ætəʊ
Forms: form: tomatos
form: tomatoing
form: tomatoed
form: tomatoed
form: tomater
form: 'mater
Etymology: Variant of earlier tomate, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *tomatl. Compare tomatillo.
Senses: glosses: to pelt with tomatoes
glosses: to add tomatoes to (a dish)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Etymology: Calque of Russian Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик (Sojúz Sovétskix Socialistíčeskix Respúblik).
Senses: glosses: A former transcontinental country in Europe and Asia (1922–1991), now split into Russia and 14 other countries; short form Soviet Union; abbreviation USSR.
wikipedia: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Synonyms: word: CCCP
word: Russia
word: Soviet Union
word: SSSR
word: SU
word: USSR
Related terms: Commonwealth of Independent States
CIS
Soviet republic
Soviet Socialist Republic
Transcaucasian SFSR
Karelo-Finnish SSR
Odessa SR
Donetsk-Krivoy Rog SR
Stavropol SR
Don SR
Kuban SR
Black Sea SR
Terek SR
Armenian SSR
Azerbaijan SSR
Byelorussian SSR
Estonian SSR
Georgian SSR
Kazakh SSR
Kyrgyz SSR
Latvian SSR
Lithuanian SSR
Moldavian SSR
Russian SFSR
Tajik SSR
Turkmen SSR
Ukrainian SSR
Uzbek SSR
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Estonia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: cherrier
form: more cherry
form: cherriest
form: most cherry
Etymology: From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.
Senses: glosses: Containing or having the taste of cherries.
glosses: Of a bright red color; cherry red.
examples: text: A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.
ref: 2003, John Morgan Wilson, Blind Eye, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 108:
text: All of my action figures are cherry
ref: 2006, “White & Nerdy”, in "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics), Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic:
glosses: In excellent condition; mint condition.
raw_tags: of cars
Derived terms: taxonomic: Citropsis articulata
word: African cherry orange
taxonomic: Malpighia glabra
word: Barbados cherry
taxonomic: Yponomeuta evonymella
word: bird-cherry ermine
taxonomic: Alkekengi officinarum
alt: syn. Physalis alkekengi
word: bladder cherry
word: bob-cherry
word: bowl of cherries
word: cherry Bakewell tart
taxonomic: Betula lenta
word: cherry birch
word: cherry blossom
word: cherry bomb
word: cherry brandy
taxonomic: Ribes rubrum
word: cherry currant
taxonomic: Prunus caroliniana
alt: P. laurocerasus
word: cherry laurel
taxonomic: Capsicum annuum
word: cherry pepper
word: cherry-pick
word: cherry picker
word: cherry pie
word: cherry pitter
taxonomic: Prunus cerasifera
word: cherry plum
word: cherry red
word: cherrystone
taxonomic: Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
word: cherry tomato
word: cherrywood
alt: Cornus subg. Arctocrania, C. subg. Cornus, C. mas
word: cornelian cherry
taxonomic: Physalis spp.
word: ground cherry
taxonomic: Solanum pseudocapsicum
word: Jerusalem cherry
word: maraschino cherry
word: pop someone’s cherry
taxonomic: Physalis spp.
word: winter cherry
Related terms: word: cerise
word: black birch
word: Chinese lantern
word: gean
word: kirsch
taxonomic: Prunus cerasus var. marasca
word: marasca
word: morello
word: myrobalan
word: oxheart
word: sweet birch
word: tomatillo
word: tommyto
word: 🍒
cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: cherries
form: cherrying
form: cherried
form: cherried
Etymology: From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.
Senses: glosses: To redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.
glosses: To cheer, to delight.
Japanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒæpəˈniːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: more Japanese
form: most Japanese
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hokkien 日本 /Ji̍t-púnbor.
Malay Jepangbor.
Portuguese Japãobor.
Malay Jepangbor.
Dutch Japanbor.
English Japan
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Japanese
From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.
Senses: examples: text: A Japanese saw is one that cuts on the pull stroke rather than on the push stroke.
text: In the United States, Japanese animation has had a tremendous surge in popularity over the last few years.
text: Then, as I walked back to the Miyako Hybrid, the snow-white hotel, with its perfectly black parking lot and perfectly trimmed palm trees, looked more like a computer rendering of a building than a building itself. And that is very Japanese.
ref: 2010 March 8, Fred A. Bernstein, “Culture Shock | A Taste of Japan Off the 405”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2010:
text: Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
ref: 2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319:
text: As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.
ref: 2020 March 7, Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, “History’s deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II and you’ve probably never heard of it”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.
examples: text: The Ainu were subject to forced assimilation by the Japanese since at least the 18th century.
glosses: Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.
Of or relating to the Yamato people.
Synonyms: word: Japonian
word: Japonic
word: Nipponese
word: Nipponic
Japanese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒæpəˈniːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: Japanese
form: Japaneses
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hokkien 日本 /Ji̍t-púnbor.
Malay Jepangbor.
Portuguese Japãobor.
Malay Jepangbor.
Dutch Japanbor.
English Japan
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Japanese
From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.
Senses: examples: text: A Japanese will typically have black hair, brown eyes, and pale skin.
text: 2007 October 16, Madeleine Brand, “Japan Struggles to Meet Its CO2 Emissions Limits”, Day to Day, National Public Radio,
Motoyuki Shibata isn’t a typical Japanese.
text: How courteous is the Japanese;
He always says, "Excuse it, please."
ref: 1938, Ogden Nash, The Japanese:
glosses: A person living in or originating from Japan, or of Japanese ancestry.
examples: text: Let’s go out to eat. I’m in the mood for Japanese.
glosses: Ellipsis of Japanese food.
Synonyms: word: Japanee
word: Japanner
word: Japonian
word: Nipponese
Japanese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒæpəˈniːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hokkien 日本 /Ji̍t-púnbor.
Malay Jepangbor.
Portuguese Japãobor.
Malay Jepangbor.
Dutch Japanbor.
English Japan
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Japanese
From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.
Senses: examples: text: I’ve been studying Japanese for three years, and I still can’t order pizza in Tokyo!
text: What Japanese you speak also depends on your gender. There’s a “rough” language for men and a more “ladylike” language for women, but you must understand both.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
glosses: A language that is primarily spoken in East Asia and is the official language of Japan.
Synonyms: word: Nipponese
word: Nihongo
Derived terms: word: anti-Japanese
word: Hall's Japanese honeysuckle
taxonomic: Seriola quinqueradiata
word: Japanese amberjack
word: Japanese barberry
word: Japanese bear
word: Japanese beech
word: Japanese black bear
word: Japanese Bobtail
taxonomic: Allium fistulosum
word: Japanese bunching onion
taxonomic: Horornis diphone
word: Japanese bush warbler
word: Japanese cake
word: Japanese chestnut
word: Japanese climbing fern
word: Japanese clock
word: Japanese clover
word: Japanese crab
word: Japanese deer
word: Japanese dogwood
taxonomic: Glirulus japonicus
word: Japanese dormouse
word: Japanese earth
word: Japanese encephalitis
word: Japanese English
word: Japanese fever
word: Japanese flood fever
word: Japanese full stop
taxonomic: Andrias japonicus
word: Japanese giant salamander
word: Japanese honeysuckle
word: Japanese iris
word: Japanese ivy
taxonomic: Fallopia japonica
word: Japanese knotweed
word: Japanese lacquer tree
taxonomic: Alkekengi officinarum
alt: syn. Physalis alkekengi
word: Japanese lantern
word: Japanese lilac
word: Japanese millet
word: Japanese monkey
word: Japanese nightingale
word: Japanese pampas grass
word: Japanese pear
word: Japanese pheasant
word: Japanese pine
word: Japanese pond smelt
word: Japanese river fever
word: Japanese rose
alt: Mizuhopecten yessoensis
word: Japanese scallop
word: Japanese sea bass
taxonomic: Zalophus japonicus
word: Japanese sea lion
word: Japanese shield fern
word: Japanese slipper
word: Japanese smelt
word: Japanese spiny lobster
word: Japanese spitz
word: Japanese squash
word: Japanese squirrel
word: Japanese stiltgrass
word: Japanese studies
word: Japanese sumac
word: Japanese theorem
word: Japanese tree lilac
word: Japanese weasel
word: Japanese wolf
taxonomic: Taxus cuspidata
word: Japanese yew
word: Middle Japanese
word: non-Japanese
word: Sinico-Japanese
word: Trumpanese
word: wapanese
word: Yapanese
Related terms: Japan
Japanophile
Nipponize
Jap
Wiktionary’s coverage of Japanese terms
Slovene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊviːn/
ipa: /sləˈviːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Sln.
Etymology: From German Slowene, from Slovene Slovenec. Related to Slovak.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Slovenia, the Slovenes or the Slovene language.
Synonyms: Slovenian
Slovene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊviːn/
ipa: /sləˈviːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Slovenes
form: Sln.
Etymology: From German Slowene, from Slovene Slovenec. Related to Slovak.
Senses: glosses: A person from Slovenia.
Synonyms: Slovenian
Slovene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊviːn/
ipa: /sləˈviːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Sln.
Etymology: From German Slowene, from Slovene Slovenec. Related to Slovak.
Senses: glosses: The South Slavic language of the Slovenes and the official language of Slovenia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Slovene terms
NASDAQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: If you'd been using your approach a year ago, the list of A-rated funds for the preceding year—indeed, even for the preceding five years—would be loaded with funds invested in what the bizbabble channels call "the tech-heavy NASDAQ" (it's gotten to sound sort of like Homer's "wine-dark sea" and "rosy-fingered dawn" to me).
ref: 2001, Erwin S. Strauss, The Connection, issues 248–254
qualifier: official until 2017
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Nasdaq.
rupophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹu.pəʊˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Etymology: Possibly from Ancient Greek ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”) + -phobia (See rhypophobia). Alternatively, related to Latin rupes (“cliff, rock”).
Senses: examples: text: Patients with rupophobia, the fear of dirt, are at times encountered by the dermatologist. Some of these patients present a traumatic dermatitis, or a self inflicted lesion of the skin.
ref: 1925, Transactions of the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology of the American Medical Association at the Annual Session, page 189:
text: In fact it is known that in rupophobia there is always an obsessional component.
ref: 1983, Neuropsychobiology, page 75:
text: Today we see the triumph of hyper-hygiene, a sort of rupophobia. In a consumerist and fetishist way, this prescribes appearance, aesthetics, and narcissism.
ref: 2022, Cosimo Schinaia, Psychoanalysis and Ecology, page 65:
synonyms: mysophobia
ablutomania
glosses: The fear of rubbish or dirt.
Derived terms: rupophobic
bench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: benches
form: benching
form: benched
form: benched
form: benk
form: bink
Etymology: From Middle English bench, benk, bynk, from Old English benċ (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-.
Cognate with Scots benk, bink (“bench”), West Frisian bank (“bench”), Dutch bank (“bench”), German Bank (“bench”), Danish bænk (“bench”), Swedish bänk (“bench”), Icelandic bekkur (“bench”). Doublet of banc, banco, and bank.
Senses: examples: text: They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.
text: OK, you are out! You’re benched!
ref: 2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by hockey coach (Tate Donovan):
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: sideline
glosses: To remove a player from play.
glosses: To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
glosses: To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
examples: text: 'Twas benched with turf.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: stately theatres benched crescent-wise
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 2”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To furnish with benches.
examples: text: whom I […] have benched and reared to worship
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To place on a bench or seat of honour.
bench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: benches
form: benching
form: benched
form: benched
Etymology: From bench press by shortening.
Senses: examples: text: I heard he can bench 150 pounds.
text: 1988, Frederick C. Hatfield, "Powersource: Ties that bind", Ironman 47 (6): 21.
For the first several years of my exclusive career in powerlifting, I couldn't bench too well.
glosses: To lift by bench pressing
bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: benches
Etymology: From bench press by shortening.
Senses: examples: text: He became frustrated when his bench increased by only 10 pounds despite a month of training.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
bench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: benches
form: benching
form: benched
form: benched
Etymology: See bentsh.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bentsh.
solar system
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊl.ə ˌsɪs.təm/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.lɚ ˌsɪs.təm/
Forms: form: the solar system
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Solar System; the Sun and all the objects in orbit around it.
solar system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊl.ə ˌsɪs.təm/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.lɚ ˌsɪs.təm/
Forms: form: solar systems
Senses: examples: text: The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.
ref: 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage:
text: 1992, J. Laskar, page 31 in, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello (editor), "Chaos, resonance, and collective dynamical phenomena in the solar system", International Astronomical Union Symposium,
I would like to stress out that the meaning of unstable for our solar system is very different than for another solar system.
text: Every satellite has turned out to differ in some significant feature from its neighbor: "[…]the sense of novelty would probably not have been greater if we had explored a different solar system".
ref: 2001, Stuart Ross Taylor, Solar system evolution: a new perspective, 2nd edition, page xiii:
synonyms: planetary system
glosses: Any orbital system of at least one fusor and other heavenly bodies, like planets and other objects.
examples: text: Almost half of all U.S. households are unable to host a rooftop solar system because they rent or have inadequate roof space.
ref: 2022 April 19 (last accessed), “Planning a Home Solar Electric System”, in Energy.gov, U.S. Department of Energy:
glosses: Ellipsis of solar power system (“electric power system that supplies usable solar power by means of photovoltaics”).
Related terms: word: globular cluster
word: planetary system
english: or stellar system
translation: or stellar system
word: star system
academician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌka.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/
ipa: /ˌa.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/
ipa: /ˌæ.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/
ipa: /əˌkæ.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: academicians
Etymology: From academic + -ian (“one skilled in”), partly after French académicien.
Senses: examples: text: One can learn more about the nature of our society by sharing in a small way the life of its victims than by interacting intellectually with its privileged academicians.
ref: 1981 December 27, Dave Dellinger, quotee, Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 19:
glosses: A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
examples: text: ‘Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious Academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.’
ref: 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 9:
glosses: A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts.
Synonyms: sense: member of university faculty
word: academian
sense: member of university faculty
word: academic
Derived terms: academicianship
Related terms: academia
academy
beige
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪʒ/
ipa: /ˈbeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪʒ
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: beiges
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.
Senses: glosses: A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
glosses: Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
beige
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪʒ/
ipa: /ˈbeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪʒ
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: beiger
form: more beige
form: beigest
form: most beige
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.
Senses: examples: text: Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind:
text: Mr. Lauwaert of Sony said he realized that most consumers were not going to buy computers that cost far more than discount beige boxes.
ref: 2006 November 23, Michel Marriott, “When Beige Won’t Do”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: bland
indistinct
colorless
drab
glosses: Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
examples: text: Think about it: he grew up in Iowa, the beigest of states, was doted on, loved generously by his parents, the top of his class, probably voted Most Handsome of 2000.
ref: 2007, Prairie L. Markussen, Cover, page 48:
text: In the beigest parts of suburbia where I grew up, bridge was a game played by groups of parents in recreation rooms furnished with upright pianos and souvenir sombreros.
ref: 2010, Gerald J. McCarthy, A Man of Substances:
text: For a meal of relentlessly beige food, may I suggest the beigest of wines? That would be chardonnay, which will go beautifully with Melissa Clark’s chicken potpie.
ref: 2013 March 25, Eric Asimov, “A Beige Wine for a Beige Meal”, in NYT Diner’s Journal Blog:
text: He has no criminal record. He has no traffic tickets. His social media posts are just like... he's beige.
ref: 2016, Penelope Garcia, “The Witness”, in Criminal Minds, season 11, episode 2:
synonyms: bland
tedious
glosses: Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
Derived terms: Beige Book
beige box
beige fat
beige flag
beigeish
beigeist
beigely
beigeness
beige prose
beigey
beiging
beigist
sad beige
black
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: blăk
ipa: /blæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: blacks
form: blacking
form: blacked
form: blacked
form: blacke
form: Black
form: blk
form: blak
Etymology: From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low German blak, black (“blackness, black paint, (black) ink”), Old High German blah (“black”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg- (“to burn, shine”) (compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga, “radiance”)).
Sense 20 is a semantic loan from Cantonese 黑面 (hak1 min6, “to pull a long face, to scowl”).
Senses: examples: text: "I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty blackguard, or you wouldn't have treated a girl like that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake before the bully.
"Say that again, and I'll black your eye for you."
ref: 1859, Oliver Optic, Poor and Proud; or, The Fortunes of Katy Redburn, a Story for Young Folks:
text: Ted, you can black your face, and dye your hair, and squint, and some fine day, sooner or later, somebody'll come along and blab the whole thing.
ref: 1911, Edna Ferber, Buttered Side Down:
text: I saw red, and instead of a cab I fetched that policeman. Of course father did black his eye.
ref: 1922, John Galsworthy, A Family Man: In Three Acts:
synonyms: blacken
darken
swarten
glosses: To make black; to blacken.
examples: text: […] he must catch, curry, and saddle his own horse; he must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots).
ref: 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin:
text: But in a moment he went to Greenidge's bedside, and said, shyly, in a low voice, "Shall I black your boots for you?"
ref: 1861, George William Curtis, Trumps: A Novel:
text: Loving you, I could conceive no life sweeter than hers — to be always near you; to black your boots, carry up your coals, scrub your doorstep; always to be working for you, hard and humbly and without thanks.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: To apply blacking to (something).
examples: text: The plants were blacked by the Transport and General Workers' Union and a consumer boycott was organised; both activities contributed to what the union saw as a victory.
ref: 2003, Alun Howkins, The Death of Rural England, page 175:
synonyms: word: blackball
word: blacklist
word: black
word: blackball
word: blacklist
word: boycott
word: cancel
glosses: To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
Derived terms: blacker
black out
blackout
bootblack
shoeblack
Related terms: café noir
calamander
chernozem
melancholy
melena
nigrescence
nigrosine
rouge et noir
skean-dhu
blue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: blo͞o
ipa: /bluː/
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /blɪʊ̯/
enpr: blyo͞o
ipa: /bljuː/
homophone: blew
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: blues
form: blueing
form: bluing
form: blued
form: blued
form: blew
form: blewe
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from blew (past tense of blow).
Senses: examples: text: They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 311:
glosses: To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊld/
ipa: [ɡɔʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
enpr: gōld
ipa: /ɡoʊld/
ipa: /ɡold/
ipa: /ɡaʉld/
ipa: [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: /ɡuːld/
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: gold
form: golds
form: gould
form: ☉
Etymology: From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Dutch goud, German Gold, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
Senses: examples: text: You like to hear about gold.
A king filled his prison room
As full as the room could hold
To the top of his reach on the wall
With every known shape of the stuff.
’Twas to buy himself off his doom.
ref: 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:
glosses: A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
examples: text: The pirates were searching for gold.
glosses: A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.
glosses: A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
examples: text: Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.
glosses: The bullseye of an archery target.
examples: text: France has won three golds and five silvers.
glosses: A gold medal.
examples: text: That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!
text: Now obviously this meant that I went over my allotted time, but the theatre management didn't mind because I was giving them comedy gold and that's what gets bums on seats.
ref: 2010, Paul Hendy, Who Killed Simon Peters?:
text: Marge Quincey didn't deserve a husband like his dad. He was pure gold, and she wasn't worth a light beside him.
ref: 2012, Victor Pemberton, Leo's Girl:
synonyms: good as gold
glosses: Anything or anyone that is very valuable.
glosses: A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.
gold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊld/
ipa: [ɡɔʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
enpr: gōld
ipa: /ɡoʊld/
ipa: /ɡold/
ipa: /ɡaʉld/
ipa: [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: /ɡuːld/
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: golder
form: goldest
form: gould
form: ☉
Etymology: From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Dutch goud, German Gold, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
Senses: examples: text: a gold chain
text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: golden
glosses: Made of gold.
examples: text: gold sticker
text: gold socks
text: Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
ref: 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
text: Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: golden
glosses: Having the colour of gold.
glosses: Premium, superior.
raw_tags: of commercial services
examples: text: The album went gold, then platinum, thanks to a second hit single, "It's A Miracle".
ref: 2000, Billboard, volume 112, number 20, page 52:
coordinate_terms: platinum
glosses: Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.
examples: text: Coordinate term: green
text: Scholars who make their work green open access rather than gold never pay a fee to do so. Even when they choose the gold route, only 33% of peer-reviewed open access journals charge author-side fees.
ref: 2013 October 21, Peter Suber, “Open access: six myths to put to rest”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:
topics: academia
scholarly
sciences
glosses: Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is immediately available for to read for free with no embargo period.
gold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊld/
ipa: [ɡɔʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
enpr: gōld
ipa: /ɡoʊld/
ipa: /ɡold/
ipa: /ɡaʉld/
ipa: [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: /ɡuːld/
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: golds
form: golding
form: golded
form: golded
form: gould
form: ☉
Etymology: From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Dutch goud, German Gold, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
Senses: examples: text: I caught sight of something that seemed the nexus of all that glittered, all that golded: like a hallucination in the traffic's rotary heart, a saried creature giddily swirling her own razored rainbow roundabout, mirrored fabric sending light spinning like saberlike amidst the smoking, choking cars.
ref: 2010, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused:
text: You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor.
ref: 2011, Harry Nicholson, Tom Fleck, page 250:
text: Worked wonders, knowing a thing like that. Golded up your hair, even, for all your record said indeterminate. Golded up the whole world, really.
ref: 2011, D G Compton, A Usual Lunacy:
text: But I work still, a dead, unheeding man across the endless interface: wishing I was the sun who golds the lake or the lake, comprehending sun.
ref: 2011, Robert M. Ellis, “Pokhara Lake”, in North Cape: Selected Poems of a Poet Turned Philosopher, page 21:
text: Hair down to my shoulders; waved and liquid-golded. Eyebrows shaved to a different shape and golded. Handle-bar mustache, waxed to points and golded.
ref: 2021, Edward Elmer Smith, The Imperial Stars:
glosses: To appear or cause to appear golden.
Related terms: arsenic
auramine
aurata
aurate
aurated
aureate
aureation
aureity
aurelia
aurelian
aureola
aureole
aureoled
aureolin
aureoline
aureomycin
aureus
aurian
auric
auricomous
auride
auriferous
aurifex
aurific
aurification
aurify
aurigraphy
aurin
auriphrygiate
aurivorous
auro-
aurous
aurulent
aurum
chryselephantine
chryso-
kincob
Midas
or
ormolu
oroide
orphrey
orpiment
philosopher’s stone
zari
gold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊld/
ipa: [ɡɔʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
enpr: gōld
ipa: /ɡoʊld/
ipa: /ɡold/
ipa: /ɡaʉld/
ipa: [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: /ɡuːld/
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: gould
form: ☉
Etymology: From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.
Senses: examples: text: The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.
ref: 2004 November, “Half-Life 2 goes gold”, in HWM, page 10:
text: He felt bone-tired and twitchy, the way he did in the final stages of putting a video-game project together, almost ready to go gold and turn a new game loose on the public.
ref: 2011, Jordan Gray, Unearthed, page 6:
text: I had coded guilds into M59 over the weekend, shortly before we were supposed to go gold.
ref: 2011, Jessica Mulligan, Bridgette Patrovsky, quoting Damion Schubert, Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide, page 221:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
raw_tags: of software
gold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊld/
ipa: [ɡɔʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
enpr: gōld
ipa: /ɡoʊld/
ipa: /ɡold/
ipa: /ɡaʉld/
ipa: [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: /ɡuːld/
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: gould
form: ☉
Etymology: From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.
Senses: glosses: of or referring to a gold version of something
green
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: grēn
ipa: /ɡɹiːn/
enpr: grēn
ipa: /ɡɹin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: greens
form: greening
form: greened
form: greened
Etymology: From Middle English grenen, from Old English grēnian (“to become green, flourish”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōnijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōnijōną, *grōnijaną (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna.
Senses: examples: text: Great spring before greened all the year.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
text: Out of that tub had come the day before—Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 30:
glosses: To make or turn (something) green or greener.
examples: text: O rosetree planted in my grief, / And growing, on her tomb, / Her dust is greening in your leaf, / Her blood is in your bloom.
ref: 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Ancient Sage”, in Tiresias and Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 63:
text: by greening slope and singing flood
ref: 1886, John Greenleaf Whittier, Flowers in Winter:
glosses: To become or grow green in color.
examples: text: The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.
ref: 2000, AIA Guide to New York City, page 58:
glosses: To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
glosses: To become environmentally aware.
examples: text: "The SNP like to talk the talk about net zero targets, but they can't walk the walk. We need a fares freeze for everyone if we want to get serious about greening the economy and a public railway run in the public interest."
ref: 2023 June 28, Conrad Landin, “Network News: Scottish 4.8% rail fares rise labelled 'bad news'”, in RAIL, number 986, page 18:
glosses: To make (something) environmentally friendly.
Synonyms: sense: make [something] green
word: engreen
Derived terms: greenable
greening
green
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: grēn
ipa: /ɡɹiːn/
enpr: grēn
ipa: /ɡɹin/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From the colors used on traffic lights; green being the one that allows vehicles to move on.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
coordinate_terms: yellow
red
qualifier: procedure word
glosses: Used to indicate that the speaker wishes to commence (or to continue a previously stopped) sexual activity.
Related terms: biliverdin
chlorophyll
paloverde
salad days
salsa verde
secondary color
terre verte
thallium
thallus
verdant
verdigris
verdin
verditer
verdure
verjuice
vert
vireo
virescent
virid
viridescent
grey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: grā
ipa: /ɡɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: greys
form: greying
form: greyed
form: greyed
Etymology: From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).
Senses: examples: text: Now only a few hand-hewn cedar planks and roof beams remained, moss-grown and sagging—a few totem poles, greyed and split.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grā
ipa: /ɡɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: greys
Etymology: From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).
Senses: examples: text: Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey.
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “(please specify the canto number or page)”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
text: Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.
ref: 1833, Sporting Magazine, volume 6, page 400:
glosses: Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
Related terms: greys
magenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɛntə/
note: Indic
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɛnʈa/
note: mainly Tanglish, also
ipa: /-t̪a/
Forms: form: magentas
Etymology: Borrowed from French magenta, from Italian Magenta, sometime after the colour was named after the town to celebrate the Franco-Italian victory at the Battle of Magenta in 1859; possibly in reference to the colour of the uniforms worn by Zouave French troops there. The town's name derives from Latin castrum Maxentiae (“castle of Maxentius”).
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Dibble's face blazed with a magenta uprush of blood at that ultimatum and she screamed, "You dare try to do me out of my gin too! You dare!"
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 154:
glosses: A color which is close to an equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and blue light.
Synonyms: fuchsia
fuchsine
Derived terms: magenta box
magentaish
magenta
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɛntə/
note: Indic
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɛnʈa/
note: mainly Tanglish, also
ipa: /-t̪a/
Forms: form: more magenta
form: most magenta
Etymology: Borrowed from French magenta, from Italian Magenta, sometime after the colour was named after the town to celebrate the Franco-Italian victory at the Battle of Magenta in 1859; possibly in reference to the colour of the uniforms worn by Zouave French troops there. The town's name derives from Latin castrum Maxentiae (“castle of Maxentius”).
Senses: glosses: Having the color of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
mauve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊv/
ipa: /mɔːv/
ipa: /moʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
rhymes: -ɔːv
Forms: form: mauves
Etymology: Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.
Senses: glosses: A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
examples: text: Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 151:
glosses: A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.
Derived terms: mauvaniline
mauve box
mauveine
mauvelous
mauvely
mauveness
mauve stinger
mauvine
mauvish
mauvy
Perkin's mauve
mauve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊv/
ipa: /mɔːv/
ipa: /moʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
rhymes: -ɔːv
Forms: form: mauver
form: more mauve
form: mauvest
form: most mauve
Etymology: Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.
Senses: examples: text: [A]long their time-marked walls wistaria threw patches of mauve blossom.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 222:
glosses: Having a pale purple colour.