cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stark
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: stärk
ipa: /stɑɹk/
enpr: stärk
ipa: /stɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: stock (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Etymology: From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc (“stiff, rigid, unyielding, obstinate, hard, strong, severe, violent”), from Proto-West Germanic *stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz (“stiff, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian sterc (“strong”), Dutch sterk (“strong”), Low German sterk (“strong”), German stark (“strong”), Danish stærk (“strong”), Swedish stark (“strong”), Norwegian sterk (“strong”), Icelandic sterkur (“strong”). Related to starch.
In the phrase stark naked: an alternation of Middle English stert naked, from stert (“tail”), a literal parallel to the modern butt naked.
Senses: examples: text: He's gone stark, staring mad.
text: She was just standing there, stark naked.
text: […] held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
text: “… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: Starkly; entirely, absolutely.
Derived terms: stark bollock naked
stark raving mad
stark staring mad
stark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stärk
ipa: /stɑɹk/
enpr: stärk
ipa: /stɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: stock (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: starks
form: starking
form: starked
form: starked
Etymology: From Middle English starken, from Old English stearcian (“to stiffen, become hard, grow stiff or hard”), from Proto-Germanic *starkōną, *starkēną (“to stiffen, become hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with German erstarken (“to strengthen”).
Senses: glosses: To stiffen.
Related terms: starkish
starkly
starkers
statistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈtɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more statistic
form: most statistic
Etymology: Back-formation from statistics.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of statistical.
statistic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈtɪstɪk/
Forms: form: statistics
Etymology: Back-formation from statistics.
Senses: glosses: A single item in a statistical study.
glosses: A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
examples: text: By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.
glosses: A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
Synonyms: word: reduced to item of information
word: statistic
Hyponyms: word: mean
word: standard deviation
word: variance
word: median
word: modus
word: percentile
word: quantile
word: decile
word: quartile
word: quintile
word: sextile
word: moment
word: t statistic
word: chi-square statistic
word: f statistic
word: order statistic
word: skewness
word: kurtosis
Derived terms: order statistic tree
out-statistic
statistically
statistician
vital statistic
zombie statistic
Related terms: word: probability distribution
word: :Category:Statistics
statistic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈtɪstɪk/
Forms: form: statistics
form: statisticking
form: statisticked
form: statisticked
Etymology: Back-formation from statistics.
Senses: examples: text: This is the only subject in the world which has not been statisticked, which is another proof of scientific neglect by the investigators.
ref: 1912 April 13, W. Kee Maxwell, “A Cold in the Head”, in The Judge, volume 62,, number 1591:
text: When you get us all neatly docketed and statisticked, where will you put me?
ref: 1926, Earning a Living by the Pen, page 81:
text: Statisticked, are thirty other estates, ranging from that of a Mr. Morrison who has only one house, one garage, 65 stables, 2 kennels, 480 cattle, and 1250 acres, to the little hideaway of William Woodward which boasts 29 houses, 90 horses, 100 cattle, one tennis court, 26 vehicles, and 2200 acres.
ref: 1935, Advertising Fortnightly - Volume 25, page 64:
text: The proposals can be broken down to easily understood issues, they may be developed, illustrated, "statisticked,” to whatever point is necessary.
ref: 1943, American Society of Planning Officials, Planning, page 68:
text: The direct empirical knowledge of these circumstances, available to individuals involved in production, cannot be quantified, statisticked or otherwise frozen for the central planner's use.
ref: 1970, Sudha R. Shenoy, Under-development and Economic Growth, page 16:
glosses: To analyze or describe using statistics.
examples: text: When a fellow quits statisticking for a while, they say, "Oh, haven't you one more statistic?”
ref: 1925, National Safety Council, Proceedings of the National Safety Council Annual Safety Congress, page 136:
text: I ran into what to me is the most horrible statistic I have ever run into in some thirty-five years of statisticking.
ref: 1966, The Negro American - Volume 2, page 299:
text: A lot of books about the Rape of the Land have shouted or wheedled or statisticked at us.
ref: 1953, New York Herald Tribune Book Review - Volume 30, Part 1, page 6:
text: Some substitute for negative evidence, such as counting, and statisticking, is required.
ref: 1994, Lila R. Gleitman, Barbara Landau, The Acquisition of the Lexicon, page 14:
glosses: To cite or calculate statistics.
examples: text: The afternoon game was pitched by Walter Johnson and was the start of the sixteen-game winning streak which statisticked that one in Boston, four in St. Louis, four in Chicago, four in Detroit, three in Cleveland and none for the little boy who lives down the lane.
ref: 1962, Frank Graham, Dick Hyman, Baseball Wit and Wisdom: Folklore of a National Pastime, page 82:
glosses: To comprise (as statistics)
statuette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstætjuˈɛt/
ipa: /ˌstætʃuˈɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: statuettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f + -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et). By surface analysis, statue + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George's elder brother.
ref: 1921, The Graphic, volume 103, page 444:
text: Some statuettes are not monochrome but represent characters. That is why they are called nanofigures.
ref: 2019 March 7, Filip, “LEGO Microfigures, Minifigures, and Nanofigures”, in Minifigures Blog:
glosses: A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.
Related terms: figurine
stave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stāv
ipa: /steɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: staves
Etymology: Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff.
Senses: examples: text: For the Cherubims ſpread foorth their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the ſtaues thereof, aboue.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 5:8:
coordinate_terms: hoop
head
glosses: One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
glosses: One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
examples: text: Let us chaunt a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
examples: text: Ley, in his work on the Metrical Forms of Hebrew Poetry, 1866, has taken too little notice of these frequently occurring alliteration staves; Lagarde communicated to me (8th Sept. 1846) his view of the stave-rhyme in the Book[…]
ref: 1874, Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, page 73:
text: [The] stave that binds the two halves of the line together the on-verse must be classified as D in spite of the f-stave . . stave-rhyme (OED s.v. Stave sb.)
ref: 1974, John Collins Pope, Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope, page 193:
text: ... consisting only of the two staves, folches . . . fehta. […] Line 63 contains the two-stave rhyme, aerist ... asckim; the suggested reduplicative rhyme [...] is technically doubtful according to the standards we have[…]
ref: 1975, Studies in Medieval Culture, page 11:
text: This may seem sparse and incomplete, but is reminiscent of the Old Norse stave rhyme technique in which one avoided two alliterating staves in one dipod – which the poets of that time considered superfluous.
ref: 2005, Studia musicologica Norvegica:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
glosses: A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
glosses: A staff or walking stick.
Derived terms: bookstave
Jedburgh stave
quarter-stave
runestave
stave-acre
stave acre
stave church
stave-rhyme
stave rhyme
wring-stave
stead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stěd
ipa: /stɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: steads
form: steading
form: steaded
form: steaded
Etymology: From Middle English sted, stede (noun) and steden (verb), from Old English stede, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing, location”). Doublet of stad.
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots steid (“location, place”), North Frisian Stair, Stat, steed, stää (“city, town; place, stead”), Saterland Frisian Steede (“place, stead”), Stääd (“city, town”), West Frisian stêd (“city, town”), Bavarian Stådt (“city, town”), Dutch stad, stede (“city, town”), German Stadt (“city, town”), Statt (“abode, place, stead”), Stätte (“place, spot, venue”), German Low German Stee (“location, place”), Luxembourgish Stad (“city, town”), Vilamovian śtaod (“city, town”), Yiddish שטאָט (shtot, “city, town”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål stad (“city, town”), sted (“place”), Faroese stað (“place”), staður (“location, place; town”), Icelandic staður (“location, place”), Norn sta (“domicile, farm”), Norwegian Nynorsk stad (“place; city, town”), Swedish stad, stadh, stedt (“city, town”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 (staþs, “location, place”). See the doublet stasis.
Senses: examples: text: May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I know your answer?
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: I could never better stead thee than now.[…]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: Some food we had and some fresh water that / A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, / Out of his charity,—who being then appointed / Master of this design,—did give us, with / Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, / Which since have steaded much:[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, 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 help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful.
glosses: To fill the stead or place of something.
Derived terms: bestead
stead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stěd
ipa: /stɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: steads
Etymology: Clipping of steady.
Senses: examples: text: C'mon lah!! Wake up.. Y R U stupid girls so CHEAP!! Imagine a baby making out with an adult! Want to have stead,.. Go find 1 16yr old rich kid lah!! At for let those men take advantage!! Remember Men CANNOT be Trusted!! Boys maybe can.
ref: 1997 May 27, Ordinary People, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
text: I prefer to know a guy better as a friend first before even considering him as a potential stead.
ref: 1998 April 17, L.Angel, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
text: One of the best dates I had was with his person who did attempt to impress me with expensive gifts or flowers. My date did asked though but I said no because for somebody who's not my stead and I dun feel there was a need to.
ref: 1999 February 13, L.Angel, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
text: after 2 week or so I decide to tell her I like her and asked her to be my stead. But she tell me she had another guy. So we remain as friend.
ref: 2004 January 30, Fann Low, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
glosses: One's partner in a romantic relationship.
steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪk/
ipa: /stɛːk/
homophone: stake
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: steaks
Etymology: From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”).
The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as speak and wreak.
Senses: hypernyms: cut#Noun
coordinate_terms: filet#Noun
;
roast#Noun
glosses: Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
examples: text: venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks
text: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
glosses: A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
hypernyms: cut#Noun
coordinate_terms: filet#Noun
glosses: A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
Derived terms: all sizzle and no steak
book steak
bucket steak
burger steak
butcher's steak
butler steak
carpetbag steak
cheesesteak
chicken-fried steak
chipsteak
chip steak
chuck steak
club steak
country-fried steak
cowboy steak
cube steak
Delmonico steak
finger steak
flank steak
flap steak
flat-iron steak
flatiron steak
flat iron steak
Florentine steak
frying steak
Gaelic steak
grillsteak
hamburger steak
Hamburger steak
hamburg steak
Hamburg steak
ham steak
hanger steak
Hawaiian steak
liberty steak
minute steak
Montreal steak seasoning
Montreal steak spice
nonsteak
oyster blade steak
pepper steak
pimp steak
point steak
poor man's steak
pork steak
porterhouse steak
rib eye steak
ribeye steak
rib-eye steak
rib steak
ribsteak
robber steak
rump steak
Salisbury steak
shell steak
sizzle steak
skirt steak
Spencer steak
Steak and Blowjob Day
steak and kidney pie
steak au poivre
steak bake
steak bomb
steakburger
steak chips
steak commando
steak-cut
steak Diane
steakette
steakfish
steak fork
steak fries
steak hammer
steakhouse
steak house
steak knife
steakless
steaklet
steaklike
steakmaker
steak on the hoof
steak sauce
steak set
steak tartare
strip steak
Swiss steak
T-bone steak
tenderloin steak
tomahawk steak
tube-steak
tube steak
two-eyed steak
steak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪk/
ipa: /stɛːk/
homophone: stake
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: steaks
form: steaking
form: steaked
form: steaked
Etymology: From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”).
The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as speak and wreak.
Senses: examples: text: Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked. If they are to be steaked, they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.
ref: 2000, Nick Karas, The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing, page 353:
glosses: To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
stealthily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛlθɪli/
Forms: form: more stealthily
form: most stealthily
Etymology: From stealthy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The dog obeyed the significant beck of his finger, and they drew off, stealthily, together.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: So intent was he upon this personal appraisement of his features that he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him as a great body pushed itself stealthily through the jungle; nor did his companion, the ape, hear either, for he was drinking and the noise of his sucking lips and gurgles of satisfaction drowned the quiet approach of the intruder.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
glosses: In a stealthy manner, furtively.
steed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stēd
ipa: /stiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: steeds
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stede (“steed”), from Old English stēda (“stallion, stud”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōdijō; (compare Old Dutch stoti (“herd of horses”), Old High German stuot (“herd of horses”)).
Senses: examples: text: The studded bridle on a ragged bough
Nimbly she fastens: -- O, how quick is love! --
The steed is stalled up, and even now
To tie the rider she begins to prove:
Backward she push'd him, as she would be thrust,
And govern'd him in strength, though not in lust.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
text: The torch-eyed ſavage, with growl tremendous, riſing up, diſlocated at one blow the arched neck of Sadit's Arabian ſteed, and brought the unfortunate omrah to the duſt, expiring between his extended claws.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 7:
synonyms: mount
glosses: A stallion, especially one used for riding.
examples: text: silent steed
text: In the green lanes of Merrie England the bicycle rider in his natty uniform, speeding along on his silent steed, is met with almost as often as vehicles drawn by horses, and it is safe to say that in the various countries of the world not less than half a million bicycles and tricycles are now in use.
ref: 1887 July 26, Thomas Stevens, “Bicycle chat for boys”, in Harper's Young People, volume VIII, number 404, page 614:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bicycle.
Derived terms: barbel steed
Saxon steed
Related terms: horse
steep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stēp
ipa: /stiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: steeper
form: steepest
Etymology: From Middle English steep, from Old English stēap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, stick”).
Compare Old Frisian stāp ("high, towering"; > Modern Saterland Frisian stiep (“steep”)), Dutch stoop (“grand; proud”), Middle High German stouf (“towering cliff, precipice”), Middle High German stief (“steep”)). The Proto-Indo-European root (and related) has many and varied descendants, including English stub; compare also Scots stap (“to strike, to forcibly insert”).
The sense of “sharp slope” is attested circa 1200; the sense “expensive” is attested US 1856.
Senses: examples: text: a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep barometric gradient
text: They will be called upon to deal with freight trains of up to 900 tons over gradients considerably steeper than those of the Central Section—for example, the frequent stretches of 1 in 100 between Victoria and the Medway towns—and their running to fast schedules will include the haulage of the "Night Ferry", which may load up to as much as 700 tons, and fully-fitted trains of 30 or more heavy Continental train ferry wagons.
ref: 1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 123:
text: Up these steep walkways cannelured for footpurchase, the free passage of roaches.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 21:
text: […] Category Two implement hitches and doubled high-traction agricultural tires hung four to each massive rear axle to breast the steepest, softest dune or guckiest swamp […]
ref: 2010, Robert Beeman, No More Time for Sorrow, page 133:
antonyms: shallow
gentle
glosses: Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
examples: text: Twenty quid for a shave? That's a bit steep.
glosses: Expensive.
examples: text: Her ears and thoughts in steep amaze erected
ref: 1596, George Chapman, De Guiana, carmen Epicum:
glosses: Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
examples: text: The steep rake of the windshield enhances the fast lines of the exterior.
qualifier: or a car's windshield
glosses: resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular.
raw_tags: of the rake of a ship's mast
Synonyms: word: brant
word: hilly
Derived terms: steep-down
steepen
steeply
steepness
steep-slope roof
steep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stēp
ipa: /stiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: steeps
Etymology: From Middle English steep, from Old English stēap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, stick”).
Compare Old Frisian stāp ("high, towering"; > Modern Saterland Frisian stiep (“steep”)), Dutch stoop (“grand; proud”), Middle High German stouf (“towering cliff, precipice”), Middle High German stief (“steep”)). The Proto-Indo-European root (and related) has many and varied descendants, including English stub; compare also Scots stap (“to strike, to forcibly insert”).
The sense of “sharp slope” is attested circa 1200; the sense “expensive” is attested US 1856.
Senses: examples: text: It ended precipitously in a dark and narrow ravine, formed on the other side by an opposite mountain, the lofty steep of which was crested by a city gently rising on a gradual slope
ref: 1833, Benjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy:
text: [L]ess scared, but not built for gazelle cavorting, so awkward on the steep that she had to take to hands and knees, and looked more like a monkey.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 98:
glosses: The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.
steep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stēp
ipa: /stiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: steeps
form: steeping
form: steeped
form: steeped
Etymology: From Middle English stepen, from Old Norse steypa (“to make stoop, cast down, pour out, cast (metal)”), from Proto-Germanic *staupijaną (“to tumble, make tumble, plunge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Danish støbe (“cast (metal)”), Norwegian støpe, støype, Swedish stöpa (“to found, cast (metal)”), Old English stūpian (“to stoop, bend the back, slope”). Related to stoop.
Senses: examples: text: They steep skins in a tanning solution to create leather.
text: The tea is steeping.
text: A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 123:
text: In refreshing dews to steep / The little, trembling flowers.
ref: 1820, William Wordsworth, Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower:
qualifier: middle voice
glosses: To soak or wet thoroughly.
examples: text: a town steeped in history
text: The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
text: We fought against each other, two brothers steeped in blood / But I never doubted that your heart was broken in the flood / And though we had to shoot you down in golden Béal na mBláth / I always knew that Ireland lost her greatest son of all.
ref: 1989, Black 47, Big Fellah:
glosses: To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in.
glosses: To make tea (or other beverage) by placing leaves in hot water.
Derived terms: insteep
rot-steep
steep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stēp
ipa: /stiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: steeps
Etymology: From Middle English stepen, from Old Norse steypa (“to make stoop, cast down, pour out, cast (metal)”), from Proto-Germanic *staupijaną (“to tumble, make tumble, plunge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Danish støbe (“cast (metal)”), Norwegian støpe, støype, Swedish stöpa (“to found, cast (metal)”), Old English stūpian (“to stoop, bend the back, slope”). Related to stoop.
Senses: examples: text: Corn steep has many industrial uses.
glosses: A liquid used in a steeping process
glosses: A rennet bag.
stenograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛn.ə.ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈstɛn.ə.ɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈstɪn.ə.ɡɹæf/
Forms: form: stenographs
Etymology: From steno- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.
glosses: A shorthand character.
glosses: A stenography machine.
stenograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛn.ə.ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈstɛn.ə.ɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈstɪn.ə.ɡɹæf/
Forms: form: stenographs
form: stenographing
form: stenographed
form: stenographed
Etymology: From steno- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: To write or report in stenographic characters.
stent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛnt/
ipa: /stɪnt/
homophone: stint
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: stents
Etymology: Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.
Senses: examples: text: Tiny metal sleeves placed in arteries to keep blood flowing, stents have become such a popular quick fix for clogged coronary vessels that Americans will receive more than 1.5 million of them this year.
ref: 2006 October 21, Barnaby J. Feder, “Doctors Rethink Widespread Use of Heart Stents”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
Derived terms: intrastent
microstent
poststent
stentectomy
stented
stentgraft
stentless
stent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛnt/
ipa: /stɪnt/
homophone: stint
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: stents
form: stenting
form: stented
form: stented
Etymology: Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
stent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛnt/
ipa: /stɪnt/
homophone: stint
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: stents
Etymology: See stint.
Senses: examples: text: The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided.
ref: 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:
glosses: An allotted portion; a stint.
stent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛnt/
ipa: /stɪnt/
homophone: stint
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: stents
form: stenting
form: stented
form: stented
Etymology: See stint.
Senses: examples: text: Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:
glosses: To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
glosses: To stint; to stop; to cease.
stickleback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticklebacks
Etymology: From dialectal stickle (“a prickle, spine, sting”), from Old English sticel + bæc. See stick (transitive verb) and compare banstickle.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n my exile and irkeſome diſcontented abandonment, the ſillieſt millers thombe, or contemptible ſtickle-banck of my enemies, is as buſie nibbling about my fame, as if I were a deade man throwne amongeſt them to feede vpon.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 1:
synonyms: word: minnow
word: sticklebag
word: sharpling
glosses: Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.
Derived terms: three-spined stickleback
stillbirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stillbirths
form: still-birth
Etymology: From still + birth.
Senses: glosses: The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
examples: text: Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child.
ref: 1988, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5890:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation.
Related terms: stillborn
coffin birth
death
livebirth
maternal death
jellyfish baby
stingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭnʹjē
ipa: /ˈstɪnd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒi
Forms: form: stingier
form: stingiest
Etymology: Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of sting (verb).
Senses: examples: text: "Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."
ref: 1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter XVIII, in Anne of Avonlea:
glosses: Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
examples: text: The realization of this joint oppression is like discovering that the stingy crusts of bread being held out by society have mold on them.
ref: 1985 April 13, Charles Henry Fuller, “Learning to Draw my Name”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
text: As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.
ref: 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Small, scant, meager, insufficient.
Synonyms: word: as tight as Dick's hatband
word: cheap
word: cheeseparing
word: chintzy
word: close
word: close as wax
word: close-fisted
word: illiberal
word: mean
word: miserable
word: miserly
word: narrow-fisted
word: niggardly
word: nipcheese
word: parsimonious
word: peddling
word: penny-wise
word: penny-pinching
word: penurious
word: scrooge-like
word: scrubby
word: shabby
word: still got one's communion money
word: stingy
word: swear
word: tight
word: tight-fisted
word: tight as a tick
word: tighter than Dick's hatband
word: ungenerous
word: ungiving
Hypernyms: word: cautious
word: frugal
word: greedy
Derived terms: stinge
stingily
stinginess
Related terms: word: economy
word: frugality
word: parsimoniousness
word: parsimony
word: thrift
word: thriftiness
word: miser
stingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭnʹjē
ipa: /ˈstɪnd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒi
enpr: stĭngʹē
ipa: /ˈstɪŋi/
rhymes: -ɪŋi
enpr: stĭnʹjē
ipa: /ˈstɪnd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒi
Forms: form: stingier
form: stingiest
Etymology: From sting + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Bumble bee – Bumble bee / I send to you this sonnet, / But please don't be – Bumble bee / The stingy bee in my bonnet.
ref: 2015, Kelvin Smith, Four Little Soldiers, page 33:
glosses: Stinging; able or inclined to sting.
Synonyms: word: as tight as Dick's hatband
word: cheap
word: cheeseparing
word: chintzy
word: close
word: close as wax
word: close-fisted
word: illiberal
word: mean
word: miserable
word: miserly
word: narrow-fisted
word: niggardly
word: nipcheese
word: parsimonious
word: peddling
word: penny-wise
word: penny-pinching
word: penurious
word: scrooge-like
word: scrubby
word: shabby
word: still got one's communion money
word: stingy
word: swear
word: tight
word: tight-fisted
word: tight as a tick
word: tighter than Dick's hatband
word: ungenerous
word: ungiving
Hypernyms: word: cautious
word: frugal
word: greedy
Derived terms: stingy nettle
Related terms: word: economy
word: frugality
word: parsimoniousness
word: parsimony
word: thrift
word: thriftiness
word: miser
stockinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛt
Forms: form: stockinets
form: stockinette
Etymology: Alteration of stocking net.
Senses: examples: text: The black cloth bodies were stuffed, and were sometimes made of stockinet, or old stockings, for everyone wore black ones in those days.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 162:
glosses: An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, undergarments, etc., are made.
Derived terms: stockinette stitch
stout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /staʊt/
ipa: /stʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: stout
form: the malt brew stout
form: stouts
Etymology: From Middle English stoute, from Old French estout (“brave, fierce, proud”) (Modern French dialectal stout (“proud”)), from earlier Old French estolt (“strong”), from Frankish *stolt, *stult (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, stand”).
Cognate with Dutch stout (“stout, bold, naughty”), Low German stolt (“stately, proud”), German stolz (“proud, haughty, arrogant, stately”), Old Norse stoltr (“proud”) (Danish stolt (“proud”), Icelandic stoltur (“proud”)).
Meaning "strong in body, powerfully built" is attested from First attested in c. 1386, but has been to a large extent displaced by the euphemistic meaning "thick-bodied, fat and large," which is first recorded 1804. Original sense preserved in stout-hearted (1552).
The noun "strong, dark-brown beer" is first recorded 1677, from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: Stout is darker, stronger and sweeter than porter beer.
topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: porter
glosses: A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.
examples: text: Incidentally the survey pointed up the sad plight of the stylish stouts, today's “forgotten men.” The clothing situation is getting so critical for them that they may have to choose between eating and dressing.
ref: 1946, Printers' Ink:
glosses: An obese person.
examples: 1918, Isidor Rosenfeld, The Practical Designer for Women's and Misses' Underwear - The Study of the Stout Form
The all-around waist is increased or over-built, according to size, which makes this form a stout.
glosses: A large clothing size.
Derived terms: breakfast stout
double stout
Imperial stout
invalid stout
milk stout
pastry stout
white stout
stout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /staʊt/
ipa: /stʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: stouts
form: stouting
form: stouted
form: stouted
Etymology: From Middle English stouten, from the adjective (see above).
Senses: glosses: To be bold or defiant.
synonyms: brook
thole
glosses: To persist, endure.
stout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /staʊt/
ipa: /stʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: stouts
form: stoat
form: stut
Etymology: From Middle English stout, from Old English stūt (“gnat; midge”).
Senses: synonyms: midge
glosses: Gnat.
synonyms: horsefly
glosses: Gadfly.
glosses: Firefly or miller (moth).
Derived terms: stoat-fly
strain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: strains
form: straining
form: strained
form: strained
Etymology: From Middle English strenen (“to beget, father, procreate”), from Old English strēonan, strīenan, strȳnan (“to beget, generate, gain, acquire”), from Proto-Germanic *striunijaną (“to furnish, decorate, acquire”).
Senses: examples: text: A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.
text: Man, look at that cat straining that kitty.
text: Sir, as I have a soul, ſhe is an Angell; / Our King has all the Indies in his Armes, / And more, and richer, when he ſtraines that Lady, / I cannot blame his Conſcience.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 224, column 2:
glosses: To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
strainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹeɪnɚ/
rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: strainers
Etymology: From Middle English strener, streynour, strenyour, equivalent to strain + -er.
Senses: synonyms: sile
glosses: A device through which a liquid is passed for purification, filtering or separation from solid matter; anything (including a screen or a cloth) used to strain a liquid.
glosses: A perforated screen or openwork (usually at the end of a suction pipe of a pump), used to prevent solid bodies from mixing in a liquid stream or flowline.
examples: text: A strainer is something on the surface of the water that allows water to pass through it but not solid objects, like boats and people. Strainers are likely to consist of fallen trees, old fencing, guardrails […]
ref: 2010, Kevin L. Erskine, Erica J. Armstrong, Water-Related Death Investigation, page 99:
glosses: Debris in water that blocks the passage of solid objects.
examples: text: An important factor with respect to recurrence [of rectal prolapse] is the fact that many of these patients are chronic strainers.
ref: 2008, Kirby I. Bland, Michael G. Sarr, Markus W. Büchler, General Surgery: Principles and International Practice, page 843:
glosses: One who strains.
Synonyms: sieve
sile
temse
Derived terms: cocktail strainer
fish strainer
gnat-strainer
soup strainer
spider strainer
strainer post
tea strainer
stray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: strā
ipa: /stɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: strays
Etymology: From Middle English stray, strey, from Anglo-Norman estray, stray, Old French estrai, from the verb (see below).
Senses: glosses: Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
examples: text: But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?
ref: 1624, John Donne, “13. Prayer”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 329:
glosses: A person who is lost, either literally or figuratively.
glosses: An act of wandering off or going astray.
glosses: An area of common land for use by domestic animals.
examples: text: waifs and strays
topics: law
glosses: An article of movable property, of which the owner is not known (see waif).
examples: text: This invention relates broadly to radio communication, but more particularly to a radio receiving system used for the reception of high frequency current signals wherever they are subject to interference from "static" or strays of an untuned or aperiodic character.
ref: 1926, Popular Radio, volume 9, page 191:
text: Because of their shortness, such signals are usually easy to distinguish from the bomb returns but, when such a stray is recorded just before the bomb return, too close to be distinguished by ear […]
ref: 1942, John C. Mathisson, Radio Acoustic Ranging, page 652:
text: Electromagnetic interference EMI, radio interference RI, television interference TVI, and radio frequency interference RFI, can all be described as a confusion to received radio signals due to strays and undesirable signals.
ref: 1976, IEEE Power Engineering Society, Nuclear Power: Health, Safety, Waste Disposal, page 20:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: An instance of atmospheric interference.
glosses: A casual or offhand insult.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
antonyms: collared
glosses: A submissive that has not committed to submit to any particular dominant.
examples: text: Hit by a stray, but I pray that there's a hood in heaven
ref: 1993, “Just Another Day”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:
glosses: Ellipsis of stray bullet.
Derived terms: catch a stray
Related terms: astray
estray
stray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: strā
ipa: /stɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: strays
form: straying
form: strayed
form: strayed
Etymology: From Middle English strayen, partly from Old French estraier, from Vulgar Latin via strata, and partly from Middle English strien, streyen, streyȝen (“to spread, scatter”), from Old English strēġan (“to strew”).
Senses: examples: text: Thames among the wanton valleys strays.
ref: 1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill:
glosses: To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
glosses: To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
examples: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
It was a derby that left Manchester United a long way back in Manchester City’s wing-mirrors and, in the worst moments, straying dangerously close to being their own worst enemy.
glosses: To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
examples: text: Hath not else his eye / Strayed his affection in unlawful love,
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 51:
text: To ease myself I was compelled to leave my basket behind me, trusting to return and find it, if I should ever reach safety and discover on what pathless hill I had been strayed.
ref: 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:
glosses: To cause to stray; lead astray.
stray
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: strā
ipa: /stɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: From Middle English stray, from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: text: The alley is full of stray cats rummaging through the garbage.
text: The organisation fills many gaps left by the state, operating a dizzying array of services, including homes for victims of domestic violence, food banks and a shelter for stray animals.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Having gone astray; strayed; wandering
examples: text: a stray comma
text: a stray bullet
glosses: In the wrong place; misplaced.
Derived terms: stray bullet
stray dog
stray line
stray mark
straightforward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more straightforward
form: straighterforward
form: most straightforward
form: straightestforward
Etymology: From straight + forward.
Senses: glosses: Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating.
examples: text: For the most part they are of straightforward design and the largest group is the ex-Prussian "T16" Class 0-10-0 of Type "94", [...].
ref: 1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:
text: Poland played with great energy, quick to the ball, strong in the challenge, and projecting the clear sense they had absolutely no intention whatsoever of making this a straightforward night.
ref: 2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Easy, simple, uncomplicated, without difficulty.
examples: text: A great deal of the uneasiness about Clinton reflects his propensity to dance away from straightforward yes or no answers to any character question.
ref: 1992 April 20, George J. Church, “Why Voters Don't Trust Clinton”, in Time, page 38:
synonyms: unvarnished
glosses: Direct; forthright; frank; sincere.
Derived terms: straightforwardly
straightforwardness
unstraightforward
straightforward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more straightforward
form: straighterforward
form: most straightforward
form: straightestforward
Etymology: From straight + forward.
Senses: glosses: In a straightforward manner; straightforwards; straightforwardly.
Hypernyms: forward
stringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪn.d͡ʒənt/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒənt
Forms: form: more stringent
form: most stringent
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin stringēns, stringentem, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, to shear, stiff”).
Senses: examples: text: They have stringent quality requirements outlining what is acceptable.
glosses: Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe
Derived terms: overstringent
stringently
stringentness
stroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹəʊl/
ipa: /stɹoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: strolls
Etymology: Borrowed from German strollen, a variant of Alemannic German strolchen, from Strolch (“vagabond; rascal”).
Senses: synonyms: wander
meander
stroll
glosses: A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble; a saunter.
qualifier: preceded by definite article
glosses: A dance of the 1950s in which dancers leisurely stepped, cross-stepped, and dipped at the knee to the beat of the music.
Derived terms: ho stroll
stroll in the park