cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
recombination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recombinations
Etymology: From re- + combination.
Senses: glosses: Combination a second or subsequent time.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The formation of genetic combinations in offspring that are not present in the parents.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reverse of dissociation.
topics: astrophysics
coordinate_terms: cosmic microwave background
glosses: The process by which the plasma of electrons and protons produced after the Big Bang condensed into hydrogen, or the epoch in which this process occurred.
Coordinate terms: reionization
Derived terms: homologous recombination
radiative recombination
RecBCD
Recombination
recombination energy
Related terms: recombine
recondite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛk(ə)nˌdaɪt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɒndaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/
ipa: /ɹəˈkɑnˌdaɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈkɑnˌdaɪt/
Forms: form: recondites
form: reconditing
form: recondited
form: recondited
Senses: examples: text: Tendons: recondited, and hidde in their Muscle, as if they were in a purse imposed.
ref: 1578, John Banister, The Historie of Man, Sucked from the Sappe of the Most Approued Anathomistes, in this Present Age, […], London: Printed by Iohn Daye, […], →OCLC, book I, folio 32:
text: Theſe Species are conveyed to the Brain by the Optick Nerve, and are laid up in the Magazine of the Memory, otherways we ſhould not remember the Object any longer than it is in our Preference; and a remembring of thoſe Objects is nothing elſe but the Fancy's reviewing, or more properly the Soul of Man by the Fancy reviewing of theſe intentional Species, formerly received from the viſible Object unto the Organ of the Eye, and recondited into the Seat of the Memory.
ref: 1754, John Fraser, A Treatise Containing a Description of Deuteroscopia, Commonly Called the Second Sight, Edinburgh: [Printed and published by Andrew Simson], →OCLC, page 13:
text: To detail with perspicuity and elegance the facts which are recondited and preserved by others, is comparatively so easy a task, that a person of very limited experience might perform it with success; [...]
ref: 1817 January, “Art. I.—Philosophical Essays; to which are Subjoined, Copious Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Supplementary Narrative; with an Appendix. By James Ogilvie. Philadelphia. 1816. 8vo. pp. 413.”, in The Analectic Magazine, Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, together with Original Miscellaneous Compositions, volume ix, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published and sold by Moses Thomas, […], →OCLC, essay III (On the Modern Abuse of Moral Fiction, in the Shape of Novels), page 29:
text: The explorer or conquistador wanders, and yet his wandering is not totally random, it is ramose because as he goes upstream, as he follows the waterway each confluence becomes the source of emergent meaning. Donne and crew travel along the ramose path, along the river which recondites the opposites – life and death.
ref: 1973, Black Images: A Critical Quarterly on Black Culture, volume 2, Toronto, Ont.: Black Images Incorporated, →OCLC, page 33, column 2:
text: [...] Gaṅgas at the instigation of the lord of the Raṭṭas, cut off the head of Maṅgi in battle, terrified Kṛṣṇa and his ally Saṅkila, and burnt their capital (name not recorded), which obviously recondites the eventual theme of Chālukya-Rāṣṭrakūṭa relationship during the reigns of both Amoghavarṣa I and Kṛṣṇa II.
ref: 1990, A. P. Madan, The History of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: To conceal, cover up, hide.
unbefuckinglievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnbɪˌfəkɪŋˈliːvəbl/
Forms: form: more unbefuckinglievable
form: most unbefuckinglievable
form: unbe-fucking-lievable
form: un-be-fucking-lievable
form: unbefuckinlievable
form: unbe-fuckin-lievable
form: unbe-fuckin'-lievable
Etymology: From unbelievable + -fucking-, intensifying infix.
Senses: examples: text: The Red Sox were down three games and came back to beat the Yankees‽ That’s just unbefuckinglievable‼
glosses: Far beyond belief; completely extraordinary.
Synonyms: infuckingcredible
unfuckingbelievable
Related terms: fuckspeak
shader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪdɚ/
rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shaders
Etymology: From shade + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, shades.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of software instructions used to calculate rendering effects on graphics hardware.
Derived terms: compute shader
fragment shader
geometry shader
pixel shader
shaderless
vertex shader
shady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪdi/
rhymes: -eɪdi
Forms: form: shadier
form: shadiest
Etymology: From shade + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian skaadich, skaddich (“shady”), German schattig (“shady”).
Senses: glosses: Abounding in shades.
examples: text: The shady trees cover him with their shadow.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 40:22:
glosses: Causing shade.
examples: text: you may have rooms both for summer and winter; shady for summer, and warm for winter
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: I know the shadiest breeziest spots, hidden tables surrounded by trees that have lived longer than the neighborhoods around them.
ref: 2020 September 5, Jane Greenway Carr, “How we spent our summer not-vacations”, in CNN:
glosses: Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
examples: text: He is a shady character.
text: No sunshine in my life, the way I deal is shady
ref: 1991, “Blue Lines”, in Blue Lines, performed by Massive Attack:
text: Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
ref: 2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024:
text: People on the internet seemingly can’t get enough of the whole thing. The Guardian named it “pop’s shadiest power move.”
ref: 2018 November 29, Lisa Respers France, “Mariah Carey’s legendary Jennifer Lopez shade was her ‘trying to be nice’”, in CNN:
text: However, when Buster's character was still being developed, he was indeed a much shadier and less lovable character.
ref: 2022 September 13, Chris Hodges, “The Untold Truth Of The Sing Franchise”, in Looper:
synonyms: corrupt
dodgy
dubious
equivocal
seedy
sketchy
suspicious
glosses: Not trustworthy; disreputable.
examples: text: They were being proper shady to him. Even if you don't like someone, locking them out, stealing their clothes and ganging up on them to take the piss is just childish.
ref: 2006 May 24, Saucy Jack, “BB7: Did Shabazz just deserve that?”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):
text: I didn't even ask her to be in the 'Increase the Peace' campaign, which was well shady, 'cos if anyone knows anything about rudes and violence and getting dragged into stuff it's Uma.
ref: 2007, Grace Dent, Diary of a Chav 2: Slinging the Bling:
text: "Don't be shady," she said, "You know I always pay up."
ref: 2007, Chastity Danielle Infinity, Jamo Lorswal, A Rose So That It May Rain, page 155:
glosses: Mean, cruel.
Derived terms: keep shady
on the shady side of
shadily
shadiness
shaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: shaggier
form: shaggiest
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English sċeacga
Middle English *schagge
English shag
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English shaggy
From shag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a shaggy dog
text: They waited until Dorothy awoke the next morning. The little girl was quite frightened when she saw the great pile of shaggy wolves, but the Tin Woodman told her all. She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
text: Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?
ref: 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:
glosses: Having long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool.
glosses: Having a surface like shaggy hair; with a rough nap.
examples: text: Universal and Blumhouse’s M3gan is exactly the right amount of ridiculous, which is why it can afford to be a little shaggy toward the end.
ref: 2023 January 6, Charles Pulliam-Moore, “M3gan is a midrange delight about the horrors of 21st-century parenting”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2023:
glosses: Confused, muddled.
Derived terms: shaggily
shagginess
shaggy cut
shaggy dog story
shaggy dog tale
shaggy dwarf morning glory
shaggy God story
shaggy inkcap
shaggy mane
shaggy soldier
shaggy tuft
shale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: shales
Etymology: From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu (“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalu, from Proto-Germanic *skalō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”), from *(s)kel- (“to split, cleave”).
See also West Frisian skaal (“dish”), Dutch schaal (“shell”), schalie (“shale”), German Schale (“husk, pod”); also Lithuanian skalà (“splinter”), Old Church Slavonic скала (skala, “rock, stone”), Polish skała (“rock”), Albanian halë (“fish bone, splinter”), Sanskrit कल (kalá, “small part”); also Hittite [script needed] (iškalla, “to tear apart, slit open”), Lithuanian skélti (“to split”), Ancient Greek σκάλλω (skállō, “to hoe, harrow”). Doublet of scale. See also shell.
Senses: examples: text: the green shales of a bean
ref: c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:
text: Mr. Lyell next visited the red and green shales of Cabotville, north of Springfield in Massachusetts, where some of the best Ornithichnites have been procured, chiefly in the green shale.
ref: 1834 October 24, Charles Lyell, “On the fossil foot-prints of birds”, in The American Journal of Science, volume 45, page 395:
glosses: A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
examples: text: As on all large green roofs, the soil is not dirt exactly but a gravel-like growing medium of granulated pumice, shales, clays and other minerals.
ref: 2007 March 23, Patricia Leigh Brown, “The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition”, in The New York Times:
text: Five years in, ARPA–E’s priorities have shifted, too, for the same reason. The cheap natural gas freed from shale by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) has helped kill off bleeding-edge programs like Electrofuels, a bid to use microbes to turn cheap electricity into liquid fuels, […]
ref: 2014 March 20, David Biello, “Fracking Hammers Clean Energy Research”, in Scientific American:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
Derived terms: alum shale
bituminous shale
black shale
clay shale
oil shale
red shale
shale gas
shaleionaire
shale oil
shale shaker
shaley
shaly
Related terms: gneiss
schist
slate
shale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: shales
form: shaling
form: shaled
form: shaled
Etymology: From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu (“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalu, from Proto-Germanic *skalō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”), from *(s)kel- (“to split, cleave”).
See also West Frisian skaal (“dish”), Dutch schaal (“shell”), schalie (“shale”), German Schale (“husk, pod”); also Lithuanian skalà (“splinter”), Old Church Slavonic скала (skala, “rock, stone”), Polish skała (“rock”), Albanian halë (“fish bone, splinter”), Sanskrit कल (kalá, “small part”); also Hittite [script needed] (iškalla, “to tear apart, slit open”), Lithuanian skélti (“to split”), Ancient Greek σκάλλω (skállō, “to hoe, harrow”). Doublet of scale. See also shell.
Senses: glosses: To take off the shell or coat of.
Synonyms: shell
shriek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: shrieks
form: shreek
Etymology: From obsolete shrick (1567), shreke, variants of earlier screak, skricke (before 1500), from Middle English scrycke, from a North Germanic/Scandinavian language (compare Swedish skrika, Danish skrige, Icelandic skríkja), from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną, *skrik- (compare English screech). More at screech.
Senses: examples: text: Shrieks, clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek?
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: A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
glosses: An exclamation mark.
Derived terms: shriek owl
shriek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: shrieks
form: shrieking
form: shrieked
form: shrieked
form: shreek
Etymology: From obsolete shrick (1567), shreke, variants of earlier screak, skricke (before 1500), from Middle English scrycke, from a North Germanic/Scandinavian language (compare Swedish skrika, Danish skrige, Icelandic skríkja), from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną, *skrik- (compare English screech). More at screech.
Senses: examples: text: Feebly ſhe ſhriekt, but ſo feebly indeed / That Britomart heard not the ſhrilling ſound.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 95:
text: It was the owl that shrieked.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: At this she shriek'd aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: "[O]h, yes! the loon does shriek dreadfully - particularly when there's fine rain[.]"
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 286:
text: In winter the place was deserted and, with cold damp wind from the sea shrieking in the telegraph wires, the general feeling could be one of desolation.
ref: 1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 169:
glosses: To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
examples: text: The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33:
text: She shrieked his name to the dark woods.
ref: 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh […] , London: Longman […] :
glosses: To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
Synonyms: shrill
Derived terms: ashriek
shrieking sixties
sycophantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭk-ə-făn'tĭk
ipa: /sɪkəˈfæntɪk/
rhymes: -æntɪk
Forms: form: more sycophantic
form: most sycophantic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῡκοφᾰντῐκός (sūkophăntĭkós). By surface analysis, sycophant + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: I melt into a sycophantic soup, and all that’s left to do is giggle, fawn and swoon.
ref: 2011, Felix Hagan, “Just Like All The Rest”, in Dawn Breaks, the Monster Wakes...:
text: when the princess’s former nanny Marion Crawford, “Crawfie”, published an entirely anodyne and sycophantic memoir in 1950, she was cast into outer darkness by the family.
ref: 2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: Then, at the 40 minute mark, [US Vice President J.D.] Vance chimed in with some sycophantic nonsense.
ref: 2025 February 28, Jonah Goldberg, “Dishonor and Incompetence in the Oval Office”, in The Dispatch:
glosses: Excessively eager to please, especially for personal gain; obsequious, flattering.
Synonyms: word: asslicky
word: fawning
word: groveling
word: ingratiating
word: obsequious
word: oily
word: oleaginous
word: schmoozy
word: self-abasing
word: soapy
word: slimy
word: sycophantic
word: toadyish
word: toadying
word: truckling
word: unctuous
Hypernyms: word: effusive
word: flattering
word: servile
Related terms: word: sycophant
word: abased
word: insincere
word: mealy-mouthed
word: nauseating
word: suck up
syne
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪn/
homophone: sign
homophone: sine
ipa: /səin/
homophone: Seine
homophone: sane
homophone: sain
rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology: From Middle English syne, syn, sin, a contracted form of sithen (“since”). More at sithen.
Senses: examples: text: At last he comes, and on his knee
The wee tots a'thegether cling,
An' ilk yen strives to catch his ee,
Syne tugs his cwoat an' bids him sing.
ref: 1866, Susanna Blamire, edited by Sidney Gilpin, Songs and Poems, page 17:
text: Sic a pair o' friends aa nivvor seed either before or syne.
ref: 1894, Howard Pease, The Mark o' The Deil And Other Northumbrian Tales, page 20:
text: Yet in two-three years they'd chaved and saved enough for gear and furnishings, and were married at last, and syne Will was born, and syne Chris herself was born, and the Guthries rented a farm in Echt […].
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), Polygon, published 2006, page 38:
glosses: Subsequently; then.
examples: text: [Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne.
ref: W. Hamilton (Life of Wallace)
text: "I had rather it came to-morrow than a month hence. Come, I know, it will; and, as your country folks say, better soon than syne […]
ref: 1843, Walter Scott, Waverly, page 357:
glosses: Late.
raw_tags: in phrases like "soon as syne"
examples: text: I eat, drink, and sleep as sound as I did twenty years syne; yes, I laugh heartily too, and find as many subjects to employ that faculty upon as ever; fools, fops, and knaves, grow as rank as formerly, yet here and there, […]
ref: 1808, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Sheperd, page 64:
text: Camden Lyde had come to dwell in Mapleblade, a long while syne. His father had been in times past the parish parson, and the son was kindly affectionate to the old village scenes, and to the faces that seemed in some sort to belong to him[…]
ref: 1859, Old and Young, page 11:
glosses: Before now; ago.
Synonyms: sense: subsequently
word: ensuingly
word: followingly
word: then
syne
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪn/
homophone: sign
homophone: sine
ipa: /səin/
homophone: Seine
homophone: sane
homophone: sain
rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology: From Middle English syne, syn, sin, a contracted form of sithen (“since”). More at sithen.
Senses: examples: text: I've niver set fute i' Gibb's Ha' syne his father's death.
ref: 1840, Howitt, Hope On, page ii:
text: Shoo's […] gitten fair pratty, syne Maister Allen gat wed.
ref: 1880, Wooers, Banks, III, i:
glosses: Since.
Related terms: auld lang syne
synecdoche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/
ipa: /sɪˈnɛk.doʊ.ki/
Forms: form: synecdoches
form: syndoche
form: synechdoche
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin synecdochē, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”) from σύν (sún, “with”) + ἐκ (ek, “out of”) + δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to accept”), this last element related to δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, suppose, seem”).
Senses: examples: text: Synecdoche the whole for part will take,
Or part for whole, just for the metre's sake.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[The Seven Tropes.] Synecdoche.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 9:
text: "Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.
ref: 2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic:
text: Perhaps being in a touring band was, to Yorke, a synecdoche for the modern condition: disorientation, alienation, rootlessness, exhaustion, lack of control, occasional derangement, constant motion.
ref: 2017 May 17, Dorian Lynskey, “The 20-year-old black mirror that reflects the world today”, in BBC.com Culture:
hypernyms: trope
figure of speech
coordinate_terms: metonymy
metaphor
figurativeness
classifier
glosses: A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part, or a specific kind or instance to represent the general category, or the general category to represent a specific kind or instance, or the constituent material to represent the thing made from it.
synonyms: synecdochy
glosses: The use of this figure of speech.
Derived terms: synecdochic
synecdochical
synecdochically
synecdochize
synecdochy
Related terms: docetism
holonymy
meronymy
metalepsis
tabby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæb.i/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: tabbies
Etymology: Mid 17th century French tabis, from Arabic عَتَّابِيّ (ʕattābiyy), ultimately from Arabic الْعَتَّابِيَّة (al-ʕattābiyya), a quarter of Baghdad (named for a Prince عَتَّاب (ʕattāb)) which is associated with the manufacture of a certain type of waved silk. See also taffeta, another type of silk whose name derives from the Persian تافته (tâfta, “woven cloth”) and shares a similar etymological origin.
Senses: examples: text: "Ay, ay; she wore a flowered silk tabby sacque, on band days," said Toole, who had an eye and a corner in his memory for female costume, "a fine showy—I remember."
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Showing how Poor Mrs. Macnamara Was Troubled and Haunted Too, and Opening a Budget of Gossip”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 281:
glosses: A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
glosses: A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
examples: text: A wise tabby, a blinking sphinx, watched from her warm sill. Pity to disturb them. Mohammed cut a piece out of his mantle not to wake her.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A brindled cat.
examples: text: ‘The kids go for a drive in a borrowed car, park on another street between the corner lamps, and then there’s ructions because some little tabby gets up the stick.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 76:
glosses: A woman, irrespective of age, but often used for a young, attractive woman.
glosses: An old maid or gossip.
Synonyms: sense: old maid or gossip
word: old woman
tabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæb.i/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: tabbier
form: tabbiest
Etymology: Mid 17th century French tabis, from Arabic عَتَّابِيّ (ʕattābiyy), ultimately from Arabic الْعَتَّابِيَّة (al-ʕattābiyya), a quarter of Baghdad (named for a Prince عَتَّاب (ʕattāb)) which is associated with the manufacture of a certain type of waved silk. See also taffeta, another type of silk whose name derives from the Persian تافته (tâfta, “woven cloth”) and shares a similar etymological origin.
Senses: examples: a tabby waistcoat
glosses: Having a wavy or watered appearance.
examples: a tabby cat
glosses: Brindled; diversified in color.
tabby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæb.i/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: tabbies
form: tabbying
form: tabbied
form: tabbied
Etymology: Mid 17th century French tabis, from Arabic عَتَّابِيّ (ʕattābiyy), ultimately from Arabic الْعَتَّابِيَّة (al-ʕattābiyya), a quarter of Baghdad (named for a Prince عَتَّاب (ʕattāb)) which is associated with the manufacture of a certain type of waved silk. See also taffeta, another type of silk whose name derives from the Persian تافته (tâfta, “woven cloth”) and shares a similar etymological origin.
Senses: glosses: To give a wavy or watered appearance to (a textile).
Derived terms: tabby cat
tabby party
tacit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæsɪt/
rhymes: -æsɪt
homophone: tacet
homophone: tasset
Forms: form: more tacit
form: most tacit
Etymology: Borrowed from late Middle French tacite, or from Latin tacitus (“that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent”), from tacere (“to be silent”).
Senses: examples: text: tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection
text: He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.
ref: 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, page 62:
text: […] disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions and processes, especially among young people, […]
ref: 2004, Lawrence Pratchett, Vivien Lowndes, editors, Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary, →ISBN:
glosses: Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
Derived terms: tacitly
tacitness
tacit programming
tacit collusion
Related terms: tacet
taciturn
taciturnity
taciturnly
tact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Etymology: Borrowed from French tact, following a semantic shift from earlier tact (“sense of touch; feeling”), borrowed from Latin tāctus (“touched”). The borrowing was likely influenced by earlier English tact (“sense of touch; feeling”), which was a parallel borrowing directly from the Latin.
Senses: examples: text: By the use of tact, she was able to calm her jealous husband.
text: I used tact when I told my fat uncle that his extra weight made him look better.
text: He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her sex surpassed the tact of ours.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
synonyms: sensitivity
consideration
diplomacy
tactfulness
glosses: Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
glosses: Propriety; manners (etiquette).
Derived terms: tactful
tactfulness
tactless
tact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: tacts
Etymology: Directly borrowed from Latin tāctus.
Senses: examples: text: Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: Now, sight is a very refined tact.
ref: 1881, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition on the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision:
glosses: The sense of touch; feeling.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The stroke in beating time.
examples: text: Skinner (1957) saw such tacts as responses that are reinforced socially.
ref: 2013, Jacob L. Gewirtz, William M. Kurtines, Jacob L. Lamb, Intersections With Attachment:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
tact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: tacts
form: tacting
form: tacted
form: tacted
Etymology: Directly borrowed from Latin tāctus.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant).
tact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: tacts
Senses: examples: text: Wanda "Hey, can you show us?"
Karen "No"
Brent "We promise not to make fun of you."
Karen "No"
Lacey "Okay, we promise TO make fun of you."
Karen "I'm getting a drink"
Lacey "I was trying a different tact."
Wanda "Bad tack."
ref: 2006, “Block Party”, in Corner Gas:
glosses: Clipping of tactic.
Related terms: tact time
taint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: taints
Etymology: From Middle French teint, from Old French teint (past participle of teindre (“to dye, to tinge”)), from Latin tinctum (past participle of tingere); compare tint.
Senses: glosses: A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
examples: text: There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies, - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 216:
glosses: A tinge, trace or touch.
glosses: A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
glosses: Tincture; hue; colour.
examples: text: A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
text: He had inherited from his ancestors a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove.
ref: 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
glosses: Infection; corruption; deprivation.
examples: text: Using Apache version 1.3.29 and Perl version 5.8.2, we tracked the following sequence of taints […]
ref: 2006, Jim Chow, Stanford University. Computer Science Dept, Understanding data lifetime (page 33)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
Derived terms: boar taint
cork taint
taint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: taints
form: tainting
form: tainted
form: tainted
Etymology: From Middle French teint, from Old French teint (past participle of teindre (“to dye, to tinge”)), from Latin tinctum (past participle of tingere); compare tint.
Senses: examples: text: His unkindness may defeat my life, / But never taint my love.
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 IV, scene ii]:
glosses: To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
glosses: To spoil (food) by contamination.
examples: text: I cannot taint with fear.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
examples: text: Meat soon taints in warm weather.
glosses: To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
Synonyms: sense: to contaminate
word: leper
Related terms: tainture
taint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: taints
Etymology: From Middle English taynt, aphetic form of attaynt, atteynt, from Old French atteinte (“a blow, stroke”). Compare with attaint.
Senses: examples: text: This taint he follow'd with his sword, drawn from a silver sheath, Which lifting high, he struck his helm full where his plume did stand, On which it piecemeal brake, and fell from his unhappy hand.
ref: 1857, Homerus, translated by George Chapman, The Iliads: Never Before in Any Language Truly Translated, page 74:
glosses: A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
glosses: An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
taint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: taints
form: tainting
form: tainted
form: tainted
Etymology: From Middle English taynt, aphetic form of attaynt, atteynt, from Old French atteinte (“a blow, stroke”). Compare with attaint.
Senses: examples: text: Do not fear; I have / A staff to taint, and bravely.
ref: 1624 November 3 (first performance), Philip Massinger, “The Parliament of Love”, in W[illiam] Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol; […] by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. […], published 1805, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii, page 293:
glosses: To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
glosses: To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
taint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: taints
Etymology: Reportedly from the phrase “'tain't your balls and 'tain't your ass”. Ascribed to E.E. Landy's Underground Dict. (1972) is the following explanation: ‘'taint their ass and 'taint their pussy.’
Senses: examples: text: Sorry you feel that way. But since your mother sucks cocks in hell if I go there I won't be rotting.....I'll be on line right behind you hoping to get another good head job from your Mom or Sister....if you can remember which is which.......(Moms the one with the beard on her taint)
ref: 2000 June 17, Marc Newman, “Re: Americas are overated”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):
text: Even her taint's raw?
ref: 2005 July 14, Noodles Jefferson, “Re: My Wife's Raw Comments”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
text: Did you know that guy has absolutely no tan lines? He'll show his taint to prove it!
ref: 2010 February 22, Duchamanos, “Re: Huck Finn 2010-anyone going?”, in rec.sport.disc (Usenet):
text: Thats right, Alex Jones is trying to sell you sloppy wet rags for your tait [sic]. And-- and when you are done wiping down the area between your genitals and anus with a glorified wet nap...
And look-- look, this tactical taint wipe has demonstrated incredible results, hasn't it, Doctor?
ref: 2017, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, HBO:
glosses: The perineum.
taint
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Etymology: Contraction of it ain't.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'taint.
tally
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæli/
text: (US)
rhymes: -æli
Etymology: Clipping of tallyho.
Senses: examples: (Air Traffic Control): Speedbird 123, New York, traffic at two o’clock, seven miles, a Boeing 737, west-bound, at 4000 feet.
(Pilot): New York, Speedbird 123, tally.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
broadcasting
business
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
glosses: Target sighted.
Synonyms: sense: target sighted
word: tallyho
tally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæli/
text: (US)
rhymes: -æli
rhymes: -æli
ipa: /ˈtæli/
text: (US)
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: tallies
Etymology: From Middle English talie, from Anglo-Norman tallie and Old French taille (“notch in a piece of wood signifying a debt”), from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea (“a cutting, rod, stick”). Doublet of taille and talea.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of tally stick.
glosses: One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
examples: text: Bulgaria, inevitably, raised the tempo in the opening moments of the second half and keeper Joe Hart was forced into his first meaningful action to block a deflected corner - but England were soon threatening to add to their goal tally.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
glosses: Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
examples: text: So paired, so suited in their minds and persons,
That they were framed the tallies for each other.
ref: c. 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, Act V, scene 1:
glosses: One thing made to suit another; a counterpart or match.
glosses: A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
glosses: A tally shop.
glosses: A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
examples: text: But I’d advise thee t’ live tally for o that, if thou con mak it reet wi’ some owd damsel, ut does no’ care what folk say’n about owt o’th’sort.
ref: 1884, Ben Bierley, “Treadlepin Fold”, in Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life, page 47:
text: It is used in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, and, I dare say, various other counties. A tally-woman is the mistress of a married man, who is said to live tally with her.
ref: 1890, F.C. Birkbeck Terry, “Tally-woman”, in Notes and Queries, page 297:
text: Don, I don't care if we live tally, cos we don't need certificates except for proof of insanity.
ref: 2012, Ruth Hamilton, Lights of Liverpool:
glosses: A state of cohabitation, living with another individual in an intimate relationship outside of marriage.
examples: text: Then turnips isn't such good sale yet, but they may be soon, for winter's best for them. […] I buy turnips by the 'tally.' A tally's five dozen bunches.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor:
text: A bunch of Turnips, 12 and upwards. A bunch of Leeks, 6 and upwards. Bunches of Greens and of herbs vary much, according to kind, size, and season. Roll of Celery = 6, 8, to 12 heads. A tally = five dozen.
ref: 1890, Gardeners' Chronicle, volume 7, page 15:
glosses: Five dozen bunches of turnips.
Derived terms: live tally
strike tallies
tally light
tally-man
tally room
tally system
tally trade
tally-woman
Related terms: 𝍸
tally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæli/
text: (US)
rhymes: -æli
rhymes: -æli
rhymes: -æli
ipa: /ˈtæli/
text: (US)
rhymes: -æli
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: tallies
form: tallying
form: tallied
form: tallied
Etymology: From Middle English talien, from the noun (see above). Also from Medieval Latin taliare.
Senses: glosses: To count something.
glosses: To mathematically calculate a numeric result.
examples: text: The counter tallied the languages people were conversing in while walking along a set route that wove back and forth through the chairs and tables.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:
glosses: To record something by making marks.
examples: text: I am sorry to find they are not so well tallied to the present juncture as I could wish.
ref: 1822, Alexander Pope, quoting Jonathon Swift, “Letter IV. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. August 30, 1716”, in The Works of Alexander Pope, volume 9, with notes by Joseph Warton, page 11:
glosses: To make things correspond or agree with each other.
glosses: To keep score.
examples: text: In some I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel, and in others a little wall of bricks
ref: 1767 [1705], Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy &c. In the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, page 138:
text: Your idea, my dear lord, of the abusive paragraph on you being conceived at Paris, and transmitted hither, tallies exactly with mine.
ref: 1764 April 5, Horace Walpole, Letter to the Earl of Hertford:
text: This credulity will not be challenged here; yet it may be remarked that, assuming the unlimited and unvarying benevolence of the powerful planners, our analysis shows that it may be impossible for them ever to find out whether the results of their measures tally with their good intentions.
ref: 1957, Karl Popper, chapter 24, in The Poverty of Historicism, FIRST HARPER TORCH BOOK edition, page 91:
text: However, one abiding weakness with such data collection is that people’s beliefs about their speech habits may not necessarily tally with reality.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 9:
info_templates: extra_data: words: with
expansion: [with with]
glosses: To correspond or agree.
examples: text: I loaded a cargo of potatoes in Dublin, for Bangor and Caernarvon, all in bags, for three different parties—viz. 13 tons delivered at Bangor, which was tallied in and out; remainder to Caernarvon, and was not tallied in, but tallied out.
ref: 1873 August, William Mitchell, “Shipping and mercantile gazette correspondence”, in The Nautical Magazine, page 697:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
Synonyms: sense: count something
word: enumerate
word: number
word: count
Derived terms: tally on
tally up
tally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæli/
text: (US)
rhymes: -æli
rhymes: -æli
rhymes: -æli
ipa: /ˈtɔli/
ipa: /ˈtɔl.li/
ipa: /ˈtɑli/
ipa: /ˈtɑl.li/
ipa: /ˈtæli/
text: (US)
rhymes: -æli
rhymes: -æli
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: more tally
form: most tally
Etymology: From Middle English tally, talliche, equivalent to tall + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And you, Lodovick, / That stand so tally on your reputation, / You shall be he shall speak it.
ref: c. 1612, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, Act II, scene ii:
glosses: In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.
tamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪmɚ/
rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tamers
Etymology: From tame + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Only Enid could dare him at such a time, and even she felt occasionally that sinking of the heart which the bravest of tamers may experience as he unbars the gate of the cage.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: You came back from that island alive! Mate, yeer a bloomin' freak of nature! Yer a master! Yer a true tamer of the high seas! Yer more man than I am!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
glosses: One who tames or subdues.
Derived terms: bear tamer
brat tamer
lion tamer
tamer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪmɚ/
rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)
Etymology: From tame + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tame: more tame
tammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtami/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: tammies
form: tamin
form: tamine
form: taminy
Etymology: Uncertain; compare obsolete French tamise (but if there was borrowing, it is unclear in which direction).
Senses: glosses: A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
tammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtami/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: tammies
Etymology: From French tamis, assimilated to Etymology 1, above.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tamis (“culinary strainer”).
tammy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtami/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: tammies
form: tammying
form: tammied
form: tammied
Etymology: From French tamis, assimilated to Etymology 1, above.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To strain through a tammy.
tammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtami/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: tammies
Etymology: Ellipsis of tammy shanter.
Senses: glosses: A tam o’shanter hat.
tang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăng
ipa: /tæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: tangs
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: glosses: A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
tang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tăng
ipa: /tæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: tangs
form: tanging
form: tanged
form: tanged
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
examples: text: let thy tongue tang arguments of state
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: To make a ringing sound; to ring.
tang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăng
ipa: /tæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: tangs
Etymology: Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish tang (“seaweed”), Swedish tång, Icelandic þang
Senses: glosses: knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
tang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăng
ipa: /tæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: tangs
Etymology: Clipping of poontang.
Senses: examples: text: The guys like to look at her tang, because that's how they are […]
ref: 2002, Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: The vagina or vulva.
glosses: Sexual intercourse with a woman
tang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăng
ipa: /tæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: tangs
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: surgeonfish
glosses: Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
Derived terms: blue-eyed tang
blue tang
brown tang
clown tang
purple tang
Red Sea sailfin tang
sohal tang
spotted unicorn tang
yellow tang
Related terms: tangbao
tang hoon
acologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækəˈlɑdʒɪk/
Etymology: From acology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to acology