cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaʊt/
ipa: [skʌʊt]
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: Scout
Forms: form: scouts
form: scouting
form: scouted
form: scouted
Etymology: Uncertain. The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) groups the verb scout, scoot (/skut/, regionally /skʌut/) "cause liquid to gush" and a noun scout "sudden gush or flow of water, as from a spout or over rock", and consider it of Scandinavian origin, perhaps related to Old Norse skjóta (“shoot”); however, scout (or scut) was formerly also found as a word for "flow of water over rocks, waterfall; ridge or overhang of rocks" in various northern and central English dialects, and there suggested to be of Norse origin, but in this case related to Old Norse skúti (“cave formed by jutting rocks”); it is possible that noun and the verb are unrelated. It is also unclear whether the noun meaning "guillemot" is related; it might derive from their habit of pouring forth excrement.
Senses: glosses: To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.
scout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaʊt/
ipa: [skʌʊt]
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: Scout
Forms: form: scouts
Etymology: Uncertain. The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) groups the verb scout, scoot (/skut/, regionally /skʌut/) "cause liquid to gush" and a noun scout "sudden gush or flow of water, as from a spout or over rock", and consider it of Scandinavian origin, perhaps related to Old Norse skjóta (“shoot”); however, scout (or scut) was formerly also found as a word for "flow of water over rocks, waterfall; ridge or overhang of rocks" in various northern and central English dialects, and there suggested to be of Norse origin, but in this case related to Old Norse skúti (“cave formed by jutting rocks”); it is possible that noun and the verb are unrelated. It is also unclear whether the noun meaning "guillemot" is related; it might derive from their habit of pouring forth excrement.
Senses: glosses: The guillemot.
Related terms: Scout in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
scow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: scows
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch schouw.
Senses: examples: text: This steamboat was exactly like a decked scow.
ref: 1899, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Heart of Darkness:
glosses: A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
Derived terms: garbage scow
mud scow
scow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: scows
form: scowing
form: scowed
form: scowed
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch schouw.
Senses: glosses: To transport in a scow.
scowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skoul
ipa: /skaʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
Forms: form: scowls
Etymology: From Middle English scowlen, scoulen, skoulen (also as Middle English schoulen), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish skule (“to scowl”), Norwegian skule (“to scowl”).
Senses: examples: text: She made a scowl.
glosses: The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
examples: text: Mr. Pynsent, who had asked Miss Amory to dance, came up on one occasion to claim her hand, but scowls of recognition having already passed between him and Mr. Arthur Pendennis in the dancing-room, Arthur suddenly rose up and claimed Miss Amory as his partner for the present dance […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
Derived terms: scowlful
scowly
scowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skoul
ipa: /skaʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
Forms: form: scowls
form: scowling
form: scowled
form: scowled
Etymology: From Middle English scowlen, scoulen, skoulen (also as Middle English schoulen), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish skule (“to scowl”), Norwegian skule (“to scowl”).
Senses: examples: text: She scould, and frownd with froward countenaunce
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35:
glosses: To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
examples: text: The scowling heavens.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
examples: text: to scowl a rival into submission
glosses: To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
examples: text: to scowl defiance
glosses: To express by a scowl.
scowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skoul
ipa: /skaʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
Senses: glosses: Old workings of iron ore.
scraggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: scraggier
form: scraggiest
Senses: examples: text: Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue
Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
ref: c. 1890, William Dean Howells, Tennyson, stanza 18:
text: [H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
ref: 1894, Gilbert Parker, chapter 10, in The Trail of The Sword:
glosses: Rough and irregular; jagged.
examples: text: On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 2, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Lean or thin, scrawny.
Derived terms: scraggily
scragginess
scraper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹeɪpɚ/
ipa: /ˈskɹeɪpə/
rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scrapers
Etymology: From scrape + -er.
Senses: examples: text: and that in trying to scrape the mud off a very unsteady little shoe, he generally got his leg over the scraper.
ref: 1874, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2016:
text: There is a scraper as well as a mat, and Mrs. Challenger is most particular.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: An instrument with which anything is scraped.
An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud by drawing them across it.
examples: text: A scraper is a large scoop, mounted on pneumatic-tyre wheels, in which earth is collected by a steel cutting-blade at the front, and from which the earth is dumped wherever required. It is operated by the driver of the caterpillar tractor which hauls it.
ref: 1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
glosses: An instrument with which anything is scraped.
An instrument drawn by oxen, horses or a tractor, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
glosses: An instrument with which anything is scraped.
An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
glosses: An instrument with which anything is scraped.
In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
glosses: An instrument with which anything is scraped.
A hoe.
glosses: An instrument with which anything is scraped.
A tool used by engravers.
examples: text: Instead, they made finely crafted bone points to haft onto their spears, reserving the use of flint mostly for blades and scrapers.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 218:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An instrument with which anything is scraped.
A prehistoric unifacial tool thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking.
glosses: An instrument with which anything is scraped.
Clipping of bellyscraper.
glosses: One who scrapes horns.
glosses: One who plays a violin incompetently, producing cacophonous sounds.
glosses: One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
glosses: A cocked hat.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or process that scrapes data, such as a screen-scraper.
glosses: A freshwater fish of the carp family, genus Capoeta.
Derived terms: bath scraper
bellyscraper
bench scraper
bootscraper
bowl scraper
catgut scraper
dough scraper
earthscraper
end-scraper
grill scraper
gut-scraper
hog scraper
ice scraper
knuckle-scraper
lint-scraper
pan scraper
plate scraper
road scraper
screen-scraper
shellfish scraper
skyscraper
sweat scraper
tractor-scraper
scrappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: scrappier
form: scrappiest
Etymology: From scrap + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That was a scrappy lecture.
glosses: Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency.
examples: text: He's a scrappy dog and will charge at you if you taunt him.
text: In those days PGS [Portsmouth Grammar School] was full of sadistic staff and scrappy boys called things like Smudger, Muzz and Titch.
ref: 2012, Mark Rice-Oxley, Underneath the Lemon Tree:
text: The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
ref: 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: Having an aggressive spirit; inclined to fight or strive.
glosses: (Of a fight) characterised by lots of ungainly or wild punches, grabs, wrestling, etc.
glosses: (Of a sports match) characterised by awkward or clumsy play.
Synonyms: sense: fragmentary
word: disconnected
sense: aggressive
word: feisty
sense: aggressive
word: pugnacious
Derived terms: scrappily
scrappiness
scratchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ætʃi
Forms: form: scratchier
form: scratchiest
Etymology: From scratch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: Characterized by scratches.
glosses: Irritating; itchy.
raw_tags: of a sore throat
examples: text: The FM station two hundred miles away was receivable, but the audio was too scratchy to positively identify.
glosses: Noisy, lossy; marred by white noise or static as a result of poor or low signal, interference or unfavourable atmospheric conditions.
raw_tags: of an analogue radio transmission
examples: text: Once he almost fell asleep, and then the little record player started up in his mother and father's bedroom. Mom was playing her scratchy Elvis 45s again.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: Having popping and/or crackling sounds due to excessive wear, especially from scratch marks.
raw_tags: of a phonograph record
examples: text: 'Now, now, don't get scratchy,' said Casali. 'You've got enough troubles of your own. […]
ref: 1978, Attilio Veraldi, The Payoff, page 105:
glosses: Irritable; tetchy.
scribble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɪbəl/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: scribbles
form: scribbling
form: scribbled
form: scribbled
Etymology: From Middle English scribblen, scriblen, scryblen, scribelen, equivalent to scribe + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I suddenly remembered I needed to buy bleach, so scribbled it down on my shopping list.
glosses: To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.
glosses: To doodle.
glosses: To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: scrawl
Coordinate terms: sense: write hurriedly
word: jot
Derived terms: scribble down
scribbler
scribbleress
transcribble
Related terms: scribe
scribble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɪbəl/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: scribbles
Etymology: From Middle English scribblen, scriblen, scryblen, scribelen, equivalent to scribe + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing
Derived terms: scribble lark
scribble-scrabble
scribble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɪbəl/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: scribbles
form: scribbling
form: scribbled
form: scribbled
Senses: glosses: To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.
scribe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹaɪb/
ipa: [skɹaɪ̯b]
ipa: [skɹaɪ̯b]
ipa: [skɹɑɪ̯b]
ipa: [skɹaɪ̯b]
ipa: [skɹəjb]
ipa: [skɹɑe̯b]
ipa: [skɹɑjb]
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: scribes
Etymology: From Middle English scribe, from Old French scribe (“scribe”), from Late Latin usage of scrība (“secretary”) (used in the Vulgate Bible translation to render Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew סופר (“writer, scholar”)) from scrībere (“to write, draw, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy; orig. to scratch”), probably akin to scrobs (“a ditch, trench, grave”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
ref: 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28:
glosses: Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
examples: text: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.ᵂ
glosses: A journalist.
glosses: A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
glosses: A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
Synonyms: amanuensis
scrivener
tabellion
Derived terms: air scribe
etching scribe
scribal
scribely
scribacious
Related terms: notary
scribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹaɪb/
ipa: [skɹaɪ̯b]
ipa: [skɹaɪ̯b]
ipa: [skɹɑɪ̯b]
ipa: [skɹaɪ̯b]
ipa: [skɹəjb]
ipa: [skɹɑe̯b]
ipa: [skɹɑjb]
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: scribes
form: scribing
form: scribed
form: scribed
Etymology: From Middle English scryben (“to write”), from Latin scrībō (“to write”). Doublet of shrive.
The carpentry sense comes from the way a workman uses a compass to mark a line before cutting.
Senses: glosses: To write.
examples: text: There—at Ioue wexed wroth, and in his ſpright / Did inly grudge, yet did it well conceale; / And bade Dan Phœbus Scribe her Appellation ſeale.
ref: c. 1597–1598, Edmund Spenser, “Two Cantos of Mutabilitie: […]. Book VII, Canto VI.”, in The Faerie Queene, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, published 1609, →OCLC, stanza 35, page 356:
text: he scribed his name on the mould, and wrote it on the two pieces of pasteboard
ref: 1812, anonymous author, The Trial:
text: There was the curious fascination expressed regarding the triangular relationship between the poor white, the black, and the hookworm — suggesting a desire to differentiate and segregate the poor white body from that of the black and to scribe more boldly what was often, for the poorest people of the South, a very thin line.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 121:
glosses: To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
glosses: To record, as a scribe.
glosses: To write or draw with a scribe.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
glosses: To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Related terms: ascribe
circumscribe
describe
inscribe
prescribe
proscribe
shrive
transcribe
scrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: scrimps
Etymology: From Scots scrimp (“meager”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, wrinkle”), from Old Dutch *scrimpan, from Frankish *skrimpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and sċrincan (“to shrivel up”). Doublet of shrink, shrimp, and shrim.
Senses: glosses: A pinching miser; a niggard.
scrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: scrimps
form: scrimping
form: scrimped
form: scrimped
Etymology: From Scots scrimp (“meager”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, wrinkle”), from Old Dutch *scrimpan, from Frankish *skrimpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and sċrincan (“to shrivel up”). Doublet of shrink, shrimp, and shrim.
Senses: examples: text: to scrimp the pattern of a coat
text: The company scrimped on the design so badly that it ended up defective.
synonyms: scant
contract
shorten
;
skimp
glosses: To make too small or short; to shortchange.
examples: text: For, as a general thing, the English merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English whaler.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: There the Master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread, / There a single sordid attic holds the living and the dead.
ref: 1886, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After”, in Locksley Hall Sixty Years After etc., London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
examples: text: “Oh, Electra, jewel of women, darling of my heart, we are free at last, we roll in wealth, we need never scrimp again. It's a case for Veuve Cliquot!”
ref: 1904, Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest:
text: They had to scrimp each month to afford it out of pocket.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 334:
synonyms: skimp
glosses: To be frugal, whether to a reasonable and wise extent or to a miserly and unwise extent.
Derived terms: scrimp and save
scrimp together
scrimper
scrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: more scrimp
form: most scrimp
Etymology: From Scots scrimp (“meager”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, wrinkle”), from Old Dutch *scrimpan, from Frankish *skrimpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and sċrincan (“to shrivel up”). Doublet of shrink, shrimp, and shrim.
Senses: glosses: Short; scanty; curtailed.
Scylla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Etymology: From Latin Scylla, from Ancient Greek Σκύλλα (Skúlla).
Senses: examples: text: I have never yet been able to steer my lovers through the Scylla of presence, or the Charybdis of absence.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XII. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirlpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying between Scylla and Charybdis signifies a great peril on either hand.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A personification of said rock as a ravenous monster.
examples: text: Ah cease rash Youth! desist e'er 'tis too late, / Fear the just Gods, and think of Scylla′s Fate!
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto III:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A princess, daughter of King Nisos of Megara, who fell in love with King Minos and betrayed her city to him.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The main belt asteroid 155 Scylla.
Derived terms: between Scylla and Charybdis
Related terms: Charybdis
scythe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪð/
ipa: /ˈsaɪθ/
rhymes: -aɪð
rhymes: -aɪθ
Forms: form: scythes
form: sithe
form: sythe
form: zive
Etymology: From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Immediate Germanic cognates include Middle Low German sēgede, Dutch zicht, Icelandic sigð (all “sickle”). More distantly related with Dutch zeis, German Sense (both “scythe”). Also akin to English saw, which see.
The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).
The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: Early next morning the gudewife took a scythe on her shoulder, and went out in the fields with the hay-mowers to mow.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 41:
glosses: An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
glosses: A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The tenth Lenormand card.
Derived terms: nature's scythe
scytheman
scythe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪð/
ipa: /ˈsaɪθ/
rhymes: -aɪð
rhymes: -aɪθ
Forms: form: scythes
form: scything
form: scythed
form: scythed
form: sithe
form: sythe
form: zive
Etymology: From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Immediate Germanic cognates include Middle Low German sēgede, Dutch zicht, Icelandic sigð (all “sickle”). More distantly related with Dutch zeis, German Sense (both “scythe”). Also akin to English saw, which see.
The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).
The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To use a scythe.
glosses: To cut with a scythe.
glosses: To cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
examples: text: The boy began to keen, and the high-pitched noise scythed through Song's head.
ref: 2011, Catherine Sampson, The Pool of Unease:
text: The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 20:09 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: To attack or injure as if cutting.
raw_tags: with through
Derived terms: scythe down
scyther
secondary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkənd(ə)ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈsɛkənˌdɛɹi/
Forms: form: secondaries
Etymology: From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The defensive backs.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
examples: text: the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
text: Old Escalus […] is thy secondary.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A secondary circle.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A satellite.
examples: text: There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.
topics: education
glosses: A secondary school.
glosses: Ellipsis of secondary colour.
glosses: Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
secondly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕkʹəndlē
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)ndli/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)ntli/
ipa: /ˈsɛkəndli/
Forms: form: 2ndly
form: 2dly
form: 2ᵈˡʸ
Etymology: From second + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants. […] Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
glosses: In the second place.
Synonyms: sense: less jarring for many speakers
word: second
sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: sedges
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *sagjaz
Proto-West Germanic *sagi
Old English seċġ
Middle English segge
English sedge
From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”).
Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
examples: text: But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges; perennial herbs with triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grass-like leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.
glosses: Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
Derived terms: acute sedge
beaksedge
Bicknell's sedge
blue wood sedge
bottle sedge
broom sedge
cat-tail sedge
claspbract sedge
common sedge
creeping sedge
few-flowered sedge
fox sedge
glaucous sedge
Krause's sedge
long hair sedge
mud sedge
Pennsylvania sedge
plantainleaf sedge
rare spring-sedge
sallow sedge
sand sedge
sedged
sedge-darter
sedge fly
sedge frog
sedge grass
sedge hat
sedgeland
sedgelike
sedge-skipper
sedge warbler
sedge wren
silvery sedge
slender sedge
soft fox sedge
star sedge
string sedge
tussock sedge
wood sedge
Related terms: bulrush
reed
Carex
sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: sedges
Etymology: By contraction from sedge fly.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: sedges
Etymology: Variant spellings.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of siege.
glosses: A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.
segregate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕ'grəgət
ipa: /ˈsɛɡɹəɡət/
enpr: sĕ'grəgāt
ipa: /ˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/
Forms: form: more segregate
form: most segregate
Etymology: From Latin sēgregātus, perfect passive participle of sēgregō (“to separate”), from sē- (“apart”) + gregō (“to flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious, aggregate.
Senses: glosses: Separate; select.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Separated from others of the same kind.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Separate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.
segregate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕ'grəgət
ipa: /ˈsɛɡɹəɡət/
enpr: sĕ'grəgāt
ipa: /ˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/
Forms: form: segregates
form: segregating
form: segregated
form: segregated
Etymology: From Latin sēgregātus, perfect passive participle of sēgregō (“to separate”), from sē- (“apart”) + gregō (“to flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious, aggregate.
Senses: examples: text: One aim of the reorganisation on both routes is to segregate completely the operation of the District and Tilbury Lines between London and Upminster, removing physical connections between the two.
ref: 1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 529:
text: Throw me in cuffs, no chance of parole / Back in the house, thirty days in the hole / Segregate me from the local population, your love is, uh, incarceration
ref: 2015, “Your Love is Incarceration”, in Clutch:
glosses: To separate.
examples: text: Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.
glosses: In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.
examples: text: Although the California State Supreme Court ended the official segregation of public schools in 1877, Sacramento continued to segregate well into the 1880s (Sacramento African American Historical and Cultural Society [SAAHCS] 1990:9, 20).
ref: 2016 June 16, Terry L Jones, Jennifer E Perry, Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Although some lunch counters continued to segregate well into 1965, despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter relented on July 25, 1960.26 Unwilling for the slow process of litigation in federal courts to work its way through[…]
ref: 2019 March 28, Peter Charles, The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950–1975, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 137:
text: […] the National Guard continued to segregate and practice racial discrimination; and black soldiers often found it difficult to obtain decent housing in surrounding communities.
ref: 2021 December 15, Christy McGuire, Taps For A Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.
Synonyms: word: isolate
word: separate
word: sequester
word: sunder out
word: insulate
word: segregate
word: set apart
Hypernyms: word: divide
Hyponyms: word: particularize
word: single out
Derived terms: self-segregate
Related terms: word: segregation
word: unmix
segregate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕ'grəgət
ipa: /ˈsɛɡɹəɡət/
enpr: sĕ'grəgāt
ipa: /ˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/
Forms: form: segregates
Etymology: From Latin sēgregātus, perfect passive participle of sēgregō (“to separate”), from sē- (“apart”) + gregō (“to flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious, aggregate.
Senses: examples: text: A segregate becomes conspicuous once it is removed from its aggregate.
text: […] to determine whether geographic segregates are discernible.
ref: 1949, Agriculture Handbook, number 401, page 171:
text: […] the first three segregates are included in a superordinate category at a lower level than that of the segregate ultimately including hawk, horse, and crocodile.
ref: 1987, Stephen A. Tyler, Cognitive Anthropology: Readings, page 49:
glosses: An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.
segregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/
Forms: form: segregations
Etymology: 1555. From Latin segregatio. Morphologically segregate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
examples: text: The fact that one is gay or one's brother is gay […] — this has less influence on the average HK person's attention or attitude than how he or she finds a job, the way he lives and the way he eats, which is like New York or oter large cities. There tends to be a segregation between a person's private life and his job or other affairs. It does not mean that they are liberal, just that city life fosters this individualism.
ref: 1982 December 18, Siong-huat Chua, Sam Sasha, Philip Fung, “Hong Kong And The Emergence Of An Asian Gay Consciousness”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 9:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
topics: government
politics
qualifier: public policy
glosses: The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
examples: text: It has long been recognised that complete segregation of control of the respective services provided by the two undertakings, and of the power supply, signalling, and tracks relating to each was desirable.
ref: 1956 July, “New Works on District Line, L.T.”, in Railway Magazine, page 485:
glosses: Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
Synonyms: apartheid
Jim Crow law
Derived terms: administrative segregation
antisegregation
cosegregation
hypersegregation
interface segregation principle
macrosegregation
malsegregation
microsegregation
missegregation
nonsegregation
postsegregation
resegregation
segregational
segregation distorter
segregationism
segregationist
segregationless
ultrasegregationist
Related terms: segregate
segregative
segregator
selflessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selflessnesses
Etymology: From selfless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But the truth is that I came to cherish Japan’s civility and selflessness.
ref: 2011 March 19, Nicholas Kristof, “The Japanese Could Teach Us a Thing or Two”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: selfishness
glosses: The quality or state of being selfless.
self-reliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-reliant
form: most self-reliant
Etymology: From self- + reliant.
Senses: examples: text: The Constitution deliberately makes the President and the Congress competitors as well as partners. The Founding Fathers created an elaborate system of checks and balances to keep each partner self-reliant while still assuring their interdependence. No brief account can fully capture the complexity of this relationship, in which each partner contributes his own share of stubbornness, pride, hostility, warmth, suspicion, skill, and affection.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Bite the Bullet”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 438:
synonyms: self-sufficient
glosses: Reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
Related terms: self-reliance
septette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septettes
Senses: examples: a septette of singers
glosses: A set of seven persons or objects.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; a septuor.
sequential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈkwɛntʃəl/
Etymology: From Latin sequentia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Hitest keeps the complexity of its pattern generation under control by not allowing extensive time searches in attempts to drive fault data to and through sequential elements. Rather it treats the inputs to sequential elements as pseudoprimary outputs, and treats outputs of sequential elements as pseudoprimary inputs that are fixed for any given simulation time.
ref: 1988, Robert J. Feugate, Steven M. McIntyre, Introduction to VLSI Testing, page 122:
antonyms: non-sequential
glosses: Succeeding or following in order.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: non-sequential
glosses: Succeeding or following in order.
Expressing succession of events.
raw_tags: of a verb and adjective form in Korean
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism.
Derived terms: homosequential
hypersequential
isosequential
nonsequential
parasequential
prequential
sequential algorithm
sequential analysis
sequential art
sequential art narrative
sequential compactness
sequential continuity
sequential file
sequentialisation
sequentiality
sequentialization
sequential logic
sequentially
sequential manual gearbox
sequentialness
sequential probability ratio test
sequential reaction
sequential valve timing
unsequential
serviette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜː.viˈɛt/
ipa: /ˌsɝ.viˈɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: serviettes
Etymology: From Middle English serviotis pl, from Middle French serviette.
Senses: examples: text: 1887, “A Member of the Aristocracy”, Manners and Rules of Good Society; Or Solecisms to Be Avoided, 1999 facsimile edition, Angus&Robertson, page 116,
She should unfold her serviette and place it on her lap. It is immaterial whether she places the bread on the right or left-hand side of the cover when taking it from the serviette.
A gentleman should do the same with his serviette and bread, placing the one across his knees, and the other at his right or left hand.
text: 1914, Arnold Bennett, The Price of Love, 2005, Echo Library, page 40,
And then, when the meal finally did begin Mrs. Maldon′s serviette and silver serviette-ring had vanished.
text: Nature of goods.—Toilet paper, paper handkerchiefs, paper towels, paper serviettes and paper covers for lavatory seats, none being medicated.
ref: 1955 October 25, The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, page 1145:
text: • To provide the guest with a means of wiping his/her hands and mouth, and
• To make the restaurant look attractive.
ref: 2004, Tracey Dalton, The Food and Beverage Handbook, Orchard Publishing, South Africa, page 36, There is a wide variety of serviette folds, but serviettes themselves have two basic functions
text: 2006, K.E. Silva, A Simple Distance, Akashic Books, US, page 90,
I told them to put the paper serviettes out on the table, and look, they′ve put out the cloth napkins! Here, take these back to the kitchen and bring me the stack of paper serviettes.
text: Avoid the temptation to lick your fingers – a finger bowl filled with warm water is usually placed on the table to wash your fingers at the end of the meal and serviettes should be on hand to dry them.
ref: 2007, Sarina Singh, South India, Lonely Planet, page 83:
glosses: A table napkin, now especially a paper one.
glosses: A lazy Susan.
Synonyms: sense: table napkin
word: napkin
sense: table napkin
word: table napkin
Derived terms: serviette-ring
setback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛtbæk/
rhymes: -ɛtbæk
Forms: form: setbacks
Etymology: Deverbal from set back. Compare drawback.
Senses: examples: text: After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.
text: DUKAT: I blame no one but myself. I was indiscreet. I compromised myself and have been punished accordingly. If someone under my command had behaved so outrageously, I would do the same thing to him. Besides, I assure you, this is only a temporary setback. Everything I have lost, I will regain. It's only a matter of time.
ref: 1996, “Return to Grace”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 4, episode 14 (Science Fiction), →OCLC:
text: The Constitutional Court has ruled today, November 17th, that Section 1448 of the Thai Civil and Commercial, stating that “a marriage can take place only between a man and a woman”, is constitutional under the Thai constitutional law. This decision could be a major setback for many Thai LGBTQ activist groups’ continued journey of what they call basic human rights to legally allow same-sex marriages in Thailand.
ref: 2021 November 17, Nop Meechukhun, “Thailand’s Constitutional Court rules Section 1448 of heterosexual marriages lawful, LGBTQ rights groups ‘disappointed’”, in The Pattaya News, Bangkok: The Pattaya News Company Limited, retrieved 17 Nov 2021:
synonyms: rebuff
glosses: An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
glosses: Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress.
glosses: The required distance between a structure and a road.
examples: text: Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
topics: architecture
synonyms: stepback
glosses: A step-like recession in a wall.
examples: text: Fuel savings from thermostat setbacks have long been accepted as fact, but little documentation existed to support it.
ref: 1980, Popular Science, volume 217, number 4:
glosses: An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
glosses: A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
glosses: A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
Derived terms: turn a setback into a comeback
sett
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕt
ipa: /sɛt/
homophone: set
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: set
Etymology: A variant of set to distinguish various technical senses.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of set (particularly as a simple past and past participle).
settee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛˈtiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: settees
Etymology: Unclear, possibly from settle (“seat, long bench”) + -ee (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
ref: 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 18, in The Subtle Minotaur:
text: “You might have to calm this down, my darling. I'm not sure this settee can take it.” “This settee has taken centuries of our love.”
ref: 2022 July 12, Stefani Robinson & Paul Simms, “Reunited” (9:01 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 1:
glosses: A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
Derived terms: bed settee
settee bed
Related terms: loveseat
couch
divan
sofa
settee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛˈtiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: settees
form: setee
Etymology: From French scétie, scitie.
Senses: glosses: A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean.
shabby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæbi/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: shabbies
form: shabbying
form: shabbied
form: shabbied
Etymology: The adjective is derived from shab (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) scaly skin disease; skin disease of sheep; crust forming over wound, scab”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).
The verb is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* Dutch schabbig (“poor, needy, shabby”)
* Middle High German schebic (modern German schäbig (“shabby”))
* Middle Low German schabbich (“miserable”) (modern Low German schabbig, schäbbig)
* Scots shabby (“in poor health, ill”)
* Swedish sjabbig (“shabby, mangy, scruffy”), skabbig (“scabby”)
Senses: glosses: To make (something) shabby (adjective sense 1); to shabbify.
examples: text: You'll be one of those tough, square, solid middle-aged men, like a shabbying brown bear, your golden crew-cut greying judiciously at the temples.
ref: 1962, Doris Lessing, “The Golden Notebook”, in The Golden Notebook (Flamingo Modern Classics), London: Flamingo, HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1993, →ISBN, page 544:
glosses: To become shabby; to shabbify.