cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaʊt/
ipa: /tɹʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: trout
form: trouts
Etymology: From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.
Senses: examples: text: Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.
text: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: “This morning,” he said, “We will fish, Turner. We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.”
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: Roman matrons, sexually exhausted, were fond of trout caught in a little stream in the Vosges Mountains.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 237:
glosses: Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
examples: text: Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!
text: But French observers were perplexed not just by the Benny Hill-style frenzy, but by the ensuing British tabloid handwringing about how unfair it was that the UK's women ministers were such a load of ugly trouts compared to Sarkozy's sexy French ladies.
ref: 2009 March 28, Angelique Chrisafis, “The mystery of the bikini-clad minister”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An objectionable elderly woman.
Derived terms: word: Beardslee trout
taxonomic: Oncorhynchus rhodurus
word: Biwa trout
word: brook trout
taxonomic: Salmo trutta
word: brown trout
word: bull trout
word: coral trout
word: cutthroat trout
word: cypress trout
word: Dolly Varden trout
word: Dublin trout
word: fur-bearing trout
word: Gila trout
word: Kamloops rainbow trout
word: Kamloops trout
word: lake trout
word: mackinaw trout
word: Quebec red trout
taxonomic: Oncorhynchus mykiss
word: rainbow trout
word: salmon and trout
taxonomic: Salmo gairdneri
word: salmon trout
taxonomic: Salmo trutta morpha trutta
word: sea trout
taxonomic: Salmo ischchan
word: Sevan trout
word: silver trout
word: speckled trout
word: Sunapee trout
word: Troutbeck
word: trout cod
word: Trout Lake
word: trout lily
word: trout-perch
word: trout pout
word: Trout River
word: trout-slap
word: trout slap
trout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaʊt/
ipa: /tɹʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: trouts
form: trouting
form: trouted
form: trouted
Etymology: From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.
Senses: examples: text: God bless me! is it possible that you, a tall fellow with a black moustache, can be the curly fair-haired boy I have so often carried on my back and saddle-bow, and taught to make flies of red spinner and drakes’ wings, when we trouted together at Llyn Cwellyn among the hills yonder?
ref: 1871 October, James Grant, “Under the Red Dragon”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume IX, chapter III (By Express), pages 251–252:
text: We found not more than three birds in any one place, and many times only one old bird, and this where we knew they had bred, for our pointer Rex found them while we were trouting.
ref: 1908 January 18, Ernest M. Gross, “The Ruffed Grouse Scarcity”, in Forest and Stream: A Journal of Outdoor Life, Travel, Nature Study, Shooting, Fishing, Yachting, volume LXX, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Forest and Stream Publishing Co., page 92, column 3:
text: He didn’t want to go out on the water. I wouldn’t say he was afraid of it, because every time he was home he was always out in the boat trouting.
ref: 1987, Douglas House, edited by Cle Newhook, But Who Cares Now? The Tragedy of the Ocean Ranger, St. John’s, Nfld.: Breakwater Books, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: To fish for trout.
qualifier: Internet chat
glosses: To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
seventieth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛvnti.əθ/
Etymology: From earlier seventeth, from Middle English seventiþe, seventithe; equivalent to seventy + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number seventy.
Synonyms: 70th
Derived terms: seventiethly
seventieth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛvnti.əθ/
Forms: form: seventieths
Etymology: From earlier seventeth, from Middle English seventiþe, seventithe; equivalent to seventy + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
Senses: examples: text: All the septuagenarians remembered their seventieths fondly.
glosses: The person or thing in the seventieth position.
glosses: One of seventy equal parts of a whole.
eightieth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.ti.əθ/
Etymology: From earlier eighteth, from Middle English eightithe, eiȝtetithe, eiȝtithe; equivalent to eighty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number eighty.
Synonyms: 80th
Derived terms: eightiethly
eightieth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.ti.əθ/
Forms: form: eightieths
Etymology: From earlier eighteth, from Middle English eightithe, eiȝtetithe, eiȝtithe; equivalent to eighty + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the eightieth position.
glosses: One of eighty equal parts of a whole.
ninetieth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪn.ti.əθ/
Etymology: From earlier ninteth, from Middle English nyntithe; for the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number ninety.
Derived terms: ninetiethly
ninetieth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪn.ti.əθ/
Forms: form: ninetieths
Etymology: From earlier ninteth, from Middle English nyntithe; for the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the ninetieth position.
glosses: One of ninety equal parts of a whole.
hundredth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/
ipa: /ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/
enpr: hŭn′drədth
enpr: hŭn′drətth
rhymes: -ʌndɹədθ
Etymology: From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.
Senses: examples: text: This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.
ref: 2012 March 15, Bruce Springsteen, keynote speech, South by Southwest Music Conference
synonyms: 100th
100ᵗʰ
glosses: The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
Derived terms: hundredthly
hundredth monkey
three-hundredth
hundredth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/
ipa: /ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/
enpr: hŭn′drədth
enpr: hŭn′drətth
rhymes: -ʌndɹədθ
Forms: form: hundredths
Etymology: From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the hundredth position.
glosses: One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.
Related terms: one-hundredth
five-hundredth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number five hundred.
Synonyms: 500th
five-hundredth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five-hundredths
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the five-hundredth position.
glosses: One of five hundred equal parts of a whole.
thousandth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθaʊzən(d)θ/
ipa: /ˈθaʊzən(d)ð/
rhymes: -aʊzəntθ
Forms: form: 1000th
Etymology: From thousand + -th (suffix forming an ordinal number).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal numeral form of one thousand; last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth.
thousandth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθaʊzən(d)θ/
ipa: /ˈθaʊzən(d)ð/
rhymes: -aʊzəntθ
Forms: form: thousandths
form: 1000th
Etymology: From thousand + -th (suffix forming an ordinal number).
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the thousandth position.
examples: text: “Ah, Alan,” murmured Dorian, with a sigh, “I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.”
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XIV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 256:
glosses: One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.
Related terms: one-thousandth
one thousandth
four-thousandth
three-thousandth
millionth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪljənθ/
ipa: /ˈmɪli.ənθ/
rhymes: -ɪljənθ
Etymology: From million + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number one million.
Synonyms: word: 1
word: 000
word: 000th
english: also written without commas, or, in technical usage with a thin space replacing each comma
translation: also written without commas, or, in technical usage with a thin space replacing each comma
word: 000th
millionth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪljənθ/
ipa: /ˈmɪli.ənθ/
rhymes: -ɪljənθ
Forms: form: millionths
Etymology: From million + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the millionth position.
examples: text: Or, to put it another way, every time that young man or woman watches their favourite soap opera, it equates to one millionth of their life gone.
ref: 2012 February 16, David Spiegelhalter, “Microlives: A lesson in risk taking”, in BBC Future:
glosses: One of a million equal parts of a whole. Term ppm (parts per million) is also used.
gâteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gâteaux
form: gâteaus
Senses: examples: text: We were served pancakes with smoked salmon, followed by thick slices of gâteau.
ref: 1993, Christopher Evans, Aztec Century, London: Gollancz, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: Julie was a froster, the glamour job at the factory. She wore her cute white hat cocked at a jaunty angle while working a big white bag of frosting, twisting it rapidly in her hands to create the various designs on top of the gâteaux.
ref: 2016, Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes, Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism, page 88:
glosses: Alternative form of gateau.
Related terms: petit gâteau
crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔːsɪŋ/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɹɑsɪŋ/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɒsəŋ/
ipa: [ˈkɹɔ̟səŋ]
rhymes: -ɒsɪŋ
rhymes: -ɔːsɪŋ
Forms: form: crossings
form: xing
Etymology: By surface analysis, cross + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Cross-breeding.
glosses: Opposition; thwarting.
examples: text: The lynchpin of the work was replacement of the flat crossing at Newark, where the ECML crosses the Nottingham to Lincoln line, with this work taking place across the three days of the bank holiday weekend.
ref: 2019 October, “Newark crossing renewed”, in Modern Railways, page 23:
glosses: An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
glosses: A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
glosses: The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
glosses: A voyage across a body of water.
topics: architecture
glosses: The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
examples: text: For example, experts in kinesics — body language — recognize that a person sends out hundreds of nonverbal signals — eyebrow twitches, frowns, leg crossings and uncrossings — every second while he or she is speaking and listening.
ref: 1989, Stephen N. Tchudi, Diana D. Mitchell, Explorations in the Teaching of English, page 270:
glosses: Movement into a crossed position.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A pair of intersecting edges.
glosses: A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
glosses: The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
glosses: Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
Derived terms: backcrossing
barrow crossing
common crossing
crossing guard
crossing keeper
crossing loop
crossing-sweeper
crossing time
Dead Women Crossing
diamond crossing
flat crossing
grade crossing
level crossing
panda crossing
pedestrian crossing
pelican crossing
puffin crossing
railroad crossing
railway crossing
school crossing attendant
scissors crossing
scramble crossing
Stephenville Crossing
toucan crossing
train crossing
undercrossing
wallcrossing
wildlife crossing
wombat crossing
zebra crossing
crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔːsɪŋ/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɹɑsɪŋ/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɒsəŋ/
ipa: [ˈkɹɔ̟səŋ]
rhymes: -ɒsɪŋ
rhymes: -ɔːsɪŋ
Forms: form: xing
Etymology: By surface analysis, cross + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.
crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔːsɪŋ/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɹɑsɪŋ/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɒsəŋ/
ipa: [ˈkɹɔ̟səŋ]
rhymes: -ɒsɪŋ
rhymes: -ɔːsɪŋ
Forms: form: xing
Etymology: By surface analysis, cross + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross
ford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːd/
ipa: /fɔɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: fords
form: foorth
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Indo-European *pértus
Proto-Germanic *furduz
Proto-West Germanic *furdu
Old English ford
English ford
Inherited from Middle English fōrd, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).
Doublet of firth, fjord, and fjard, all via Old Norse; and port, distantly via Latin. Cognate with Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord. See also forth and Persian پل (pol, “bridge”).
Senses: examples: text: He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:
synonyms: water-splash
glosses: A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
examples: text: With water of the ford / Or of the clouds.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 34:
text: Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcyone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A stream; a current.
Derived terms: Abbotsford
Allerford
Ammanford
Ashford
Bathford
Battleford
Bedford
Blackford
Boxford
Bradford
Brantford
Brayford
Brentford
Bridgeford
Camelford
Castleford
Chandler's Ford
Chelmsford
Colyford
Cranford
Crayford
Dartford
Eaton Ford
fordage
Ford Green
fordless
Fordtown
Guildford
Hartford
Hertford
Hayford
Hemmingford
Hereford
Ilford
Kentford
Knutsford
Latchford
Longford
Luxford
Milford
Nobleford
Old Ford
Oxford
Pigford
Redford
Rexford
Rocky Ford
Romford
Saltford
Seaford
Stakeford
Stamford
Stanford
Stepford
Stratford
Stretford
Tideford
Turtleford
Waterford
Weatherford
Woolford
Yeoford
ford
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːd/
ipa: /fɔɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: fords
form: fording
form: forded
form: forded
form: foorth
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Indo-European *pértus
Proto-Germanic *furduz
Proto-West Germanic *furdu
Old English ford
English ford
Inherited from Middle English fōrd, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).
Doublet of firth, fjord, and fjard, all via Old Norse; and port, distantly via Latin. Cognate with Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord. See also forth and Persian پل (pol, “bridge”).
Senses: examples: text: He named that place, for it was near her dwelling, and on the road between Balerynie and Heriotside, which fords the Sker Burn.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Since the time of Seyavi the deer have shifted their feeding ground across the valley at the beginning of deep snows, by way of the Black Rock, fording the river at Charley's Butte, and making straight for the mouth of the cañon that is the easiest going to the winter pastures on Waban.
ref: 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain, Houghton Mifflin, pages 31–2:
text: Ratau drove with reckless authority through the quiet morning fires of his father's and forefathers' town and forded a river of goats on the road leading out of it.
ref: 1982, Nadine Gordimer, “A Hunting Accident”, in A Soldier's Embrace, Penguin, page 59:
text: 2016, Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd, "EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2016" in earthsky.org, http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide
Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream.
glosses: To cross a stream by walking through it.
Derived terms: fordable
forder
fording
reford
Aragonese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌærəɡəˈniːz/
Etymology: From Aragon + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Aragon, Spain.
glosses: Of the Aragonese language.
Aragonese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌærəɡəˈniːz/
Etymology: From Aragon + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The language of Aragon, nowadays spoken as a mother tongue by only a few thousand people in some valleys of the Pyrenees.
glosses: The Spanish language spoken in Aragon when influenced by Aragonese traits.
Derived terms: Navarro-Aragonese
Aragonese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌærəɡəˈniːz/
Etymology: From Aragon + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The people of Aragon.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Aragonese terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/arg
word: an
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/arg
word: arg
word: arg ⁠
regional lockout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regional lockouts
Etymology: Coined by the video game community and opponents of the lockout practice. The practice originated with and was devised by the video game industry and was later adopted by the film industry with the advent of DVDs.
Senses: topics: DVD
broadcasting
media
television
video-games
glosses: The programming practice, code, or chip used to prevent the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device.
Related terms: regional converter
region-free
region-locked
console converter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: console converters
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A peripheral used to bypass regional lockout on a video game console, allowing imported video games to be played on domestic video game consoles, but without circumventing copy protection.
Yoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊʃi/
ipa: /ˈjɒʃi/
rhymes: -əʊʃi
rhymes: -ɒʃi
Etymology: From Japanese ヨッシー (Yosshī, “Yoshi, the Super Mario Bros. dinosaur character”), 義 (Yoshi, common Japanese male given name), and many other spellings. See よし.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
glosses: A fictional dinosaur character from the Mario franchise.
alchemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.kə.mɪst/
Forms: form: alchemists
Etymology: From Old French alquemiste (French alchimiste), from Medieval Latin alchemista. Equivalent to alchemy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [K]nowledge of philtres, aphrodisiacs, and other sexual stimulants spread from the Arabs and the Moors, from Egypt and India into the European herbals, pharmacopeias, and apothecaries’ lore, and, on a more indeterminate level, among alchemists, wizards, and occultists.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 155:
text: Years later, scientists learned that the sun’s light—visible and invisible—is merely the by-product of a process alchemists had vainly tried to reproduce for centuries—the transmutation of one element into another. That nature accomplishes this before our very eyes, and that it is what creates the solar heat and light that supports all life, was suspected by no one. The revelation came as a complete surprise.
ref: 2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: One who practices alchemy.
glosses: One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.
Synonyms: word: alchemist
word: fire philosopher
word: philosopher by fire
word: philosopher of fire
Hypernyms: word: magician
word: natural philosopher
word: philosopher
Derived terms: alchemistic
alchemistical
Related terms: alchemical
alchemy
elixir
elixir of life
philosophers' stone
philosopher's stone
fate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: fates
Etymology: From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
Senses: examples: text: Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: destiny
natural order
antonyms: free will
glosses: The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
glosses: The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
synonyms: destiny
antonyms: accident
chance
glosses: An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
examples: text: Accept your fate.
synonyms: doom
portion
wyrd
antonyms: fortune
luck
glosses: Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
examples: text: It’s important to research chemical fate because chemical fate is the best tool we have for understanding and managing human health risks or environmental damage caused by chemical release.
ref: 2019 July 12, Danielle Freeman, “Archived copy”, in Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2022:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: developmental pathway
glosses: The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
Synonyms: word: chance
word: destin
word: destiny
word: doom
word: fatality
word: fate
word: foredoom
word: foreordination
word: fortune
word: kismet
word: lot
word: orlay
topics: paganism
religion
lifestyle
word: portion
word: predestination
word: predestiny
word: preordination
word: qadar
topics: Islam
religion
lifestyle
word: weird
word: wyrd
Hypernyms: word: sure thing
Hyponyms: word: happy ever after
word: wanweird
Derived terms: as fate would have it
cheat fate
fatal
fatalism
fatality
fated
fate-fraught
fatefraught
fateful
fateless
fatelike
fate map
fatesome
fickle finger of fate
fucked by the fickle finger of fate
leave someone to their fate
quirk of fate
red string of fate
seal someone's fate
sure as fate
tempt fate
twist of fate
Related terms: alt: Amor fati
word: amor fati
word: determinism
word: indeterminism
word: date with destiny
word: twist of fate
word: quirk of fate
word: inevitable
word: inevitably
fate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: fates
form: fating
form: fated
form: fated
Etymology: From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
Senses: examples: text: The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
text: At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.
ref: 2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays, page 119:
glosses: To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
eighty-one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number following eighty and preceding eighty-two.
Synonyms: word: one and eighty
word: 81
eighty-first
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The answer appears on the eighty-first page of the book.
text: She finished eighty-first in the race.
glosses: The ordinal form of the number eighty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 81 of a sequence.
Synonyms: 81st
eighty-first
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eighty-firsts
Senses: examples: text: An eighty-first of 1620 is 20.
glosses: One of eighty-one equal parts of a whole.
Atlantis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ətˈlæntəs/
ipa: /ətˈlæntəs/
ipa: [ət̚ˈlæɾ̃ɪs]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís), from Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.
Senses: examples: text: How far, since then, the ocean streams / Have swept us from that land of dreams, / That land of fiction and of truth, / The lost Atlantis of our youth!
ref: 1880, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Dedication to G. W. G.”, in Ultima Thule:
text: I might have drifted on for my whole life as a psychical Researcher, showing a sympathetic, but more or less dilettante attitude towards the whole subject, as if we were arguing about some impersonal thing such as the existence of Atlantis or the Baconian controversy.
ref: 1918, Arthur Conan Doyle, The New Revelation:
glosses: A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.
Derived terms: Atlantean
Lemuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ləˈmjuːɹi.ə/
Etymology: From Latin Lemuria.
Senses: glosses: A religious feast of Ancient Rome during which rites were performed to exorcise the malevolent ghosts of the dead from their homes.
Derived terms: Lemurian
Lemuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ləˈmjuːɹi.ə/
Etymology: From lemur + -ia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical lost country, continent, or island proposed to explain the existence of lemurs and their relatives on two continents.
Coordinate terms: Atlantis
Hyperborea
Mu
Derived terms: Lemurian
think about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪŋk əˌbaʊt/
Forms: form: thinks about
form: thinking about
form: thought about
form: thought about
Senses: examples: text: I've been thinking about human rights since watching that documentary.
glosses: To ponder.
examples: text: You should think about getting that leaky roof repaired.
glosses: To consider as a course of action.
popcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒp.kɔː(ɹ)n/
ipa: /ˈpɑp.kɔɹn/
ipa: /ˈpʌp.kɔɹn/
ipa: [ˈpʌp.kɒːn]
ipa: [ˈpʌp.kɔɹn]
Forms: form: popcorns
form: popcorning
form: popcorned
form: popcorned
form: pop-corn
form: popped corn
Etymology: Short for popped corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn.
Senses: examples: text: Popcorning behavior is a fun sight—as long as you know what it is. Otherwise, it can scare you. During this action a pig runs around very fast and suddenly leaps straight up in the air, twitching and squeaking. It then lands and takes off again, often in another direction. This activity shows pure joy. Babies start to popcorn when they are about two weeks old or so—they may try it earlier, but they usually fall down instead.
ref: 2000, Dale L. Sigler, A Grown-up's Guide to Guinea Pigs, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: To stand or jump up quickly.
raw_tags: of a guinea pig or chinchilla
glosses: To pop repeatedly, like popcorn cooking.
examples: text: You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.
ref: 2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To use the popcorn stitch.
screed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹiːd/
ipa: /skɹid/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: screeds
Etymology: Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh.
Senses: examples: text: "Wi' hat in hand," sweet lass, quo I, / "Wer't in my power to sooth thy sigh, / My hame-bor'd whistle I wad try, / An' gie't a screed, / Atween whar Tiviot murmurs by, / An' bonny Tweed."
ref: 1811, Andrew Scott, “Answer to Mr. J. M.’s Epistle”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kelso, Roxburghshire: […] Alexander Leadbetter, for the author; and sold by W[illiam] Creech, […], →OCLC, page 123:
glosses: A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
examples: text: Right o'er the ſteep he leans, / When his well-pleniſh'd king-hood voiding needs; / And, ſploiting, ſtrikes the ſtane his grany hit, / Wi' piſtol ſcreed, ſhot frae his gorlin doup.— [...]
ref: 1789, David Davidson, “Spring”, in Thoughts on the Seasons, &c. Partly in the Scottish Dialect, London: […] the author; and sold by J[ohn] Murray, […]; and W[illiam] Creech, […], →OCLC, page 34:
glosses: The sound of something scratching or tearing.
screed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹiːd/
ipa: /skɹid/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: screeds
form: screeding
form: screeded
form: screeded
Etymology: Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh.
Senses: examples: text: [T]wa Cheels we White Sarks, and a wee Wean with a white Sark got aboon whar the Whiſtle-Pipes war, the yen lilted, and the other Skirled and Screeded till them, and ſtill I ſweeted, I thought they never wad hea done.
ref: 1731 May 17, “The North-Country-Man’s Description of Christ-Church; in a Letter to a Friend. Portferry, May 6th. 1731. [Julian calendar]”, in James Row, The Wounds o’ the Kirk o’ Scotland: In a Sermon Preech’d in St. Geil’s, the Great Kirk in Edinbrough, in the Year of Our Lord 1638. […], Dublin: […] J. Carson […], published 1732, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
glosses: To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
examples: text: In life's gay morn, or youthfu' prime, / Ere fancy droops her wing, / Screed up your reed, for that's the time / For bards to rant and sing; [...]
ref: 1811, Andrew Scott, “Epistle to a Brother Poet”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kelso, Roxburghshire: […] Alexander Leadbetter, for the author; and sold by W[illiam] Creech, […], →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: To play (a sound or tune) on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
screed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹiːd/
ipa: /skɹid/
rhymes: -iːd
Etymology: From scree (“loose, stony debris”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: We clambered up a screed slope.
text: A safety fence edged the curve of the road and beyond this the screed slope increased in grade to a precipitous cliff.
ref: 1986, D[orothy] Michell, Australian Tales of Ghost and Fantasy, Sydney, N.S.W.: Management Developments Publishers, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Son and father reached the mouth of the canyon and were leading their mounts on foot up a screed hill face that looked down on the tracks.
ref: 2009, Boston Teran [pseudonym], The Creed of Violence, Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: Strewn with scree.
sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænwɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈsændwɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈsænwɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈsændwɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: [ˈsæmwɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈsæ̃wɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: [ˈsæmˌwɪt͡ʃ]
ipa: [ˈsæmˌɪt͡ʃ]
ipa: [ˈsæ̃ˌwɪt͡ʃ]
note: Maryland
ipa: /ˈsæn(d)wɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/
homophone: SDCH
Forms: form: sammich
form: Sandwich
Etymology: Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).
Senses: glosses: Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.
seventy-first
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The answer appears on the seventy-first page of the book.
text: She finished seventy-first in the race.
glosses: The ordinal form of the number seventy-one, describing a person or thing in position number 71 of a sequence.
seventy-first
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seventy-firsts
Senses: examples: text: A seventy-first of 1420 is 20.
glosses: One of seventy-one equal parts of a whole.
perennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɛn.ɪ.əl/
ipa: /pəˈɹɛn.j(ə)l/
ipa: /pəˈɹɛn.i.əl/
Forms: form: perennials
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Latin perennis (“lasting through the whole year or for several years, perennial; continual, everlasting, perpetual”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Perennis is derived from per- (“completive or intensifying prefix with the sense of doing something all the way through or entirely”) + annus (“year; season, time”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et- (“to go”)). By surface analysis, per- + -ennial.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* Middle French pérenne (modern French pérenne (“lasting through the whole year, perennial”))
* Italian perenne (“lasting for a long time”)
* Spanish perenne (“eternal; permanent; a perennial plant”)
Senses: examples: text: One would have supposed from the appearance of the country at the end of the first season after the eruption that practically all plants except the trees and bushes had been destroyed, and that revegetation must be due to new seedlings started on the ash. Such, however, is not the case. Excavation of the root systems of the new plants shows that they are old perennials which have come through the ash from the old soil.
ref: 1917 January, Robert F[iske] Griggs, “The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes”, in National Geographic, volume XXXI, number 1, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society […], →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: annual
biennial
evergreen
glosses: A plant that is active throughout the year, or has a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.
glosses: A thing that lasts forever.
examples: text: Some of the stars on our list are perennials who fill huge venues year after year after year, but there's also a returning superstar on our list of the hottest summer tours of 2019.
ref: 2019 June 21, Sterling Whitaker, “Hottest Country Tours to See in Summer 2019”, in Taste of Country, archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
glosses: A person or thing (such as a problem) that appears or returns regularly.
Derived terms: hardy perennial
hamlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæm.lɪt/
ipa: /ˈhæm.lət/
homophone: Hamlet
Forms: form: hamlets
Etymology: From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haim, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home). Equivalent to Middle English ham (“home, village”) + -let (“small”).
Senses: synonyms: thorp
glosses: A small village or a group of houses.
glosses: A village that does not have its own church.
glosses: Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
Hypernyms: sense: small village
word: settlement
Derived terms: Blaise Hamlet
Broughton Hamlet
Bures Hamlet
Clint cum Hamlets
Crediton Hamlets
Dawley Hamlets
hamleted
hamleteer
hamletted
Holsworthy Hamlets
Okehampton Hamlets
Stockley Hamlet
Tower Hamlets
thousand one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: thousand one
form: one thousand one
form: a thousand one
form: thousand and one
form: one thousand and one
form: a thousand and one
Senses: glosses: One thousand plus one hundred. (1100)
thousand one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thousand one
form: one thousand one
form: a thousand one
form: thousand and one
form: one thousand and one
form: a thousand and one
Senses: examples: text: I have a thousand and one things to do today.
glosses: A great number.
Čech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Derived terms: Stone-Čech compactification
Čech-Stone compactification
sigma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɡmə/
rhymes: -ɪɡmə
Forms: form: sigmas
form: sigmata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῖγμα (sîgma), σίγμα (sígma), probably from the root sig- as seen in σίζω (sízō) (< sig-yo "to hiss") + -μα (-ma).
Senses: examples: text: Their names, which are expressive of some bodily or mental excellence, all end with the same letter---the letter which is called San by the Dorians, and Sigma by the Ionians.
ref: "Herodotus: On The Customs of the Persians", I.139
glosses: The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (Σ, σ), the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series.
examples: 2011, Paul Rincon, (bbc.co.uk) LHC: Higgs boson 'may have been glimpsed'
None of the spikes seen by the experiments is at much more than the "two sigma" level of certainty.
A level of "five sigma" is required to claim a discovery, meaning there is less than a one in a million chance the data spike is down to a statistical fluke.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution.
glosses: A sigma male (a self-reliant and assertive male).
Derived terms: word: delta-sigma converter
word: final sigma
word: lunate sigma
word: sigma additivity
word: sigma-algebra
word: sigma bond
taxonomic: Austroaeschna sigma
word: sigma darner
word: sigma-delta converter
word: sigmalike
word: sigma male
word: sigmatic
word: sigmatism
word: Six Sigma
word: the sigma
word: within one sigma
sigma
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɡmə/
rhymes: -ɪɡmə
Forms: form: more sigma
form: most sigma
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῖγμα (sîgma), σίγμα (sígma), probably from the root sig- as seen in σίζω (sízō) (< sig-yo "to hiss") + -μα (-ma).
Senses: glosses: Possessing characteristics of a sigma male.
upsilon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(j)uːpsɪˌlɒn/
ipa: /ˈ(j)ʊpsɪˌlɒn/
ipa: /ˈʌpsɪˌlɒn/
ipa: /(j)uːpˈsaɪlən/
ipa: /(j)ʊpˈsaɪlən/
ipa: /əpˈsaɪlən/
ipa: /ˈ(j)upsɪˌlɑn/
ipa: /ˈ(j)ʊpsɪˌlɑn/
ipa: /ˈʌpsɪˌlɑn/
ipa: /ˈ(j)upsɪˌlɒn/
ipa: /(j)ɪu̯psɪˌlɒn/
Forms: form: upsilons
form: upsila
form: ypsilon
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὖ ψιλόν (û psilón, “simple Υ”).
Senses: glosses: The twentieth letter of Classical and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An upsilon meson, or bottomonium.
Derived terms: upsilon particle
phi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: fie
ipa: /fiː/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: fee
Forms: form: phis
Etymology: From Late Latin phi, from Ancient Greek φεῖ (pheî).
Senses: glosses: Φ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph".
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The golden ratio.
examples: text: […] tolerance (Frenkel-Brunswik 1949) for it showed that those persons with the strongest defences against internal conflict, i.e. obsessionals and conversion hysterics, were those least able to perceive the reality-conflicting phenomenon of phi.
ref: 1963, Psychology Through Experiment (George Humphrey, Jaroslav Antonio Deutsch), page 90
text: The illusion of movement in a highway construction sign is an instance of the phi phenomenon, which is also at work in motion pictures and television.
ref: 2007, Wayne Weiten, Psychology: Themes and Variations: Themes And Variations, page 138:
text: Is it the phi phenomenon or the persistence of vision? Originally, the illusion of motion that movies excel at was thought to be the effect of the persistence of vision.
ref: 2013, Francis Glebas, The Animator's Eye: Composition and Design, page 66:
glosses: A visual illusion whereby a sequential pattern of lights produces a false sense of motion.
Derived terms: phi-feature
phinary
phi phenomenon
chi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: chis
form: khi
Etymology: From Latin chī, from Ancient Greek χεῖ (kheî).
Senses: glosses: The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
Derived terms: chi-by-eye
chi-rho
chi-square distribution
chi-square test
chi distribution
chi-square
chi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
ipa: /t͡ʃiː/
ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: chis
form: ch'i
form: ki
form: qi
Etymology: From the Mandarin 氣／气 (qì) from the Wade–Giles romanization: chʻi⁴, from Middle Chinese 氣 (MC khj+jH), from Old Chinese 氣 (OC *kʰɯds, “breath, vapor”). Compare modern Japanese 気(き) (ki), Korean 기(氣) (gi) and Vietnamese khí (氣).
Senses: examples: text: Early Taoist philosophers and alchemists regarded ch'i as a vital force inhering in the breath and bodily fluids and developed techniques to alter and control the movement of ch'i within the body; their aim was to achieve physical longevity and spiritual power.
ref: [1987, “ch'i”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 3, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 186, column 3:
text: He took several deep breaths, finding his chi as Butler had taught him.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, Viking Press, page 196:
text: At the greenmarket, it’s still mostly potatoes and apples. There are no tender greens, fava beans, peas, asparagus, artichokes, sorrel, rhubarb or early strawberries.
Those harbingers of the season are said to be full of chi, or qi, the Chinese word for life force. We’re craving them as we’re craving lighter, brighter-tasting meals, food that is greener and fresher.
ref: 2013 April 2, David Tanis, “Hurry Up, Spring”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2013, Dining & Wine:
text: According to traditional Chinese medicine, blood carries chi, your “life force,” which fuels all the functions of the body. When you lose blood, you lose chi, and this causes your body to go into a state of yin (cold). When yin (cold) and yang (hot) are out of balance, your body will suffer physical disorders.
ref: 2017 January 8, Leslie Hsu Oh, “I tried the Chinese practice of ‘sitting the month’ after childbirth”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2017, Health & Science:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation.
Related terms: chi kung
ether
huna
life force
orgone
prana
qigong
chi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
ipa: /t͡ʃiː/
ipa: /t͡ʃə/
ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
ipa: /t͡ʃiː/
Forms: form: chis
form: chih
form: ch'ih
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 尺 (chǐ). Doublet of chek.
Senses: glosses: The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm.
glosses: The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ of a meter.
glosses: The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.
glosses: The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters.
Synonyms: sense: mainland
word: Chinese foot
word: Taiwanese foot
word: Hong Kong foot
word: chek
Related terms: shaku
the equivalent Japanese unit
chi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
ipa: /t͡ʃiː/
ipa: /t͡ʃə/
Forms: form: chis
Senses: glosses: Clipping of chihuahua.
Related terms: chi chi
chi-chi
chi chi man
chi-ike
chi ko pek
tai chi
tai-chi
tai chi chuan
psi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: psī
enpr: sī
ipa: /psaɪ/
ipa: /saɪ/
homophone: xi
homophone: sigh
homophone: scye
homophone: sai
homophone: Si stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: xi
homophone: sigh
homophone: scye
homophone: sai
homophone: Si
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: psis
Etymology: From Middle English psi, from Latin psī, from Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî), the name for the twenty-third letter of the alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
Senses: glosses: The twenty-third letter of Classical and Modern Greek and the twenty-fifth letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
examples: text: ‘Come, lad,’ he said. ‘We will take tea together and speak of the noumenon, the psi and other more heterogenous phenomena.’
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
text: When an event is classified as a psi phenomenon, it is claimed that all known channels for the apparent interaction have been eliminated.
ref: 1996, Michael F. Stoeber, Hugo Anthony Meynell, Critical Reflections on the Paranormal (page 60)
text: It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have psi powers and come together as a hive mind, thus creating a gestalt super-being.
ref: 2005, Michael Ashley, Transformations: The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1950 to 1970, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, page 133:
topics: literature
media
parapsychology
pseudoscience
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A form of psychic energy.
Derived terms: psi function
psi particle