cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: bedes
form: bead
Etymology: From Middle English bēde (“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), from Old English ġebed (“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bed, from Proto-Germanic *bedą (“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.
Senses: examples: text: Thus originated the alms-(or bede-) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England.
ref: 1875 March, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume 15, number 87:
text: By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede!
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: […] because miracles had frequently been done at his burial-place, even at the bede-house where he was buried.
ref: 2008, Time to Ditch St. George:
text: Because of the length of the original rosary, it became customary to pay someone, usually a resident of an almshouse, to recite the prayers. These people were referred to as bede women or men, and it was they who made the first bead flowers.
ref: 2011, Where Did Beaded Flowers Come From?:
glosses: Prayer, request, supplication
examples: text: In Pilgrimage from towne to towne: With offring and with Drilon: To them they bable on their bedes: That they may helpe them in their nedes.
ref: 1566, Sir David Lindsay, A Dialogue betweene Experience and a Courtier:
text: Or doe they use their Bedes alone to finde That tale of Paters which they seldome minde?
ref: 1642, William Prynne, A Pleasant Purge, for a Roman Catholike, to Evacuate His Evill Humours, page 20:
text: Towards a rude hermitage he made To fetch the priest unto his need, To bury her and say her bede
ref: 1870, William Morris, The Earthly Paradise:
text: Then the Little Serving Maid She went and laid her down, With her cross and her bede, In her new courting gown.
ref: 1910, Hilaire Belloc, “The Little Serving Maid”, in Verses, page 39:
glosses: Rosary.
bede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: bedes
form: beding
form: bade
form: bode
form: boden
form: bead
Etymology: From Middle English bēden (“to offer”), from Old English bēodan, from Proto-West Germanic *beudan, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-.
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian biada, Old Saxon biodan (Low German bieden, beden), Dutch bieden, Old High German biotan (German bieten), Old Norse bjóða (Swedish bjuda (“command, show”)), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (anabiudan). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek πεύθομαι (peúthomai, “ask for”), Sanskrit बोधयति (bodhayati, “wake”), Old Church Slavonic бъдѣти (bŭděti) (Russian будить (buditʹ, “wake”)), Lithuanian budeti (“awake”). See also bid.
Senses: examples: text: Sir, a bargan bede I you, / by it if ye will
ref: 15th c., “Conspiracio [The Conspiracy]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 210, lines 208–209:
english: Sir, I offer you a bargain. Buy it if you like.
translation: Sir, I offer you a bargain. Buy it if you like.
glosses: pray, offer, proffer
glosses: request, demand, order, command, forbid
examples: text: A turnement were best to bede.
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
glosses: proclaim, declare
examples: text: They of londone […] boden hem to ben lyht of herte.
ref: 1450, Merlin:
glosses: present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
bede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: bedes
form: bead
Etymology: Unknown?
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A kind of pickaxe.
derp
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɝp/
ipa: /dɜːp/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Etymology: Probably from dur, British informal exclamation for “stupid” or from duh, an exclamation indicating faltering speech and assumed stupidity, glottalized for emphasis. Popularized by BASEketball (1998) and "Succubus", a 1999 episode of South Park. See also twerp possibly related to Welsh twp meaning fool.
Derp was used in the 1934 movie 'College Rhythm' to refer to a nerdy or awkward type of person.
Senses: examples: text: I put chips in my soup instead of crackers. Derp.
text: Now that I think of it, i'm surprised that you didn't make fun of his first name as well- 'How could you believe in a guy who has a girly first name?' derp- you are a fool.
ref: 1997 February 25, Pete Treichler, “Re: Patrick Incompentence Redux”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.pit-penguins (Usenet), message-ID <Yn4ObEO00iV6A1SFx_@andrew.cmu.edu>#1/1>:
glosses: Draws attention to an act of foolishness or stupidity.
examples: text: Rob Schneider derp dee derp. Derp dee derpity derpy derp. Until one day, a derp a derp a derp a derp.
ref: 2002 November 27, Trey Parker, “The Biggest Douche in the Universe” (14:28), in South Park, season 6, episode 15:
text: Me: Hi, remember me from SSG? Can I ask you about herping the derp?
R1: Oh, hai Tom. Sure, that would be the derp that was herping blah blah blah...
ref: 2011 January 10, Tom Allen, “Re: Expression of a woman's sexuality”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet), message-ID <add2880c-51f2-48ba-bcb1-4f9bff60dd58@l24g2000vby.googlegroups.com>:
glosses: A placeholder for unimportant details, blah blah blah.
Derived terms: grimderp
herp derp
derp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɝp/
ipa: /dɜːp/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: derps
form: derping
form: derped
form: derped
Etymology: Probably from dur, British informal exclamation for “stupid” or from duh, an exclamation indicating faltering speech and assumed stupidity, glottalized for emphasis. Popularized by BASEketball (1998) and "Succubus", a 1999 episode of South Park. See also twerp possibly related to Welsh twp meaning fool.
Derp was used in the 1934 movie 'College Rhythm' to refer to a nerdy or awkward type of person.
Senses: glosses: To act stupidly or foolishly
examples: text: Wait, so we're allowed to have magic items from the start? I must of derped pretty hard.
ref: 2011 August 22, Scion-of-Fenrir, “Re: 4e Forgotten Realms Campaign”, in Google Groups: /tg/'s Google group, 184e4b33-8013-4f8f-b312-ce498111076a@b34g2000yqi.googlegroups.com:
glosses: To make a stupid mistake
examples: text: Also, there was a Derpy cameo in this one, but she didn't have derped eyes.
ref: 2012 April 22, Double Eight, “Re: Next Meetup”, in Google Groups: Windy City Bronies:
text: The eyes are wired to the same I2C address to prevent derping, but the three red mouth LED matrices are capable of displaying anything that fits on an 8×24 LED matrix.
ref: 2012 October 25, Brian Benchoff, “Electronic demon costume is surprisingly unnerving”, in Hack A Day:
glosses: To have one's eyes pointing in different directions; to exhibit strabismus.
Derived terms: derpy
derp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɝp/
ipa: /dɜːp/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: derps
Etymology: Probably from dur, British informal exclamation for “stupid” or from duh, an exclamation indicating faltering speech and assumed stupidity, glottalized for emphasis. Popularized by BASEketball (1998) and "Succubus", a 1999 episode of South Park. See also twerp possibly related to Welsh twp meaning fool.
Derp was used in the 1934 movie 'College Rhythm' to refer to a nerdy or awkward type of person.
Senses: glosses: A person who acts stupidly or foolishly; a person who derps.
glosses: A stupid mistake, stupidity.
examples: text: English has no word for "the constant, repetitive reiteration of strong priors". Yet it is a well-known phenomenon in the world of punditry, debate, and public affairs. On Twitter, we call it "derp".
ref: [2013 June 4, Noah Smith, “What is "derp"? The answer is technical.”, in Noahpinion (blog), Blogger, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2013:
glosses: The constant repeating of an opinion after facts have proved it incorrect, especially as a rhetorical tactic.
Derived terms: derpage
advisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more advisable
form: most advisable
form: adviseable
Etymology: From advise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps it will be advisable for me to state my reasons for marrying.
ref: 1813, Jane Austen, chapter 19, in Pride and Prejudice:
text: Owing to the war, it was not thought advisable to carry out repairs to this pier, as this would have involved the temporary narrowing of the channel, and it was not until 1919 that it was decided to proceed with the construction of a steel-pile coffer dam round the south pier.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: The High Level Bridge, Newcastle: Strengthening and Repairs”, in Railway Magazine, page 407:
synonyms: prudent
wise
glosses: Worthy of being recommended; desirable.
raw_tags: of a course of action
synonyms: counselable
glosses: Capable of being advised or willing to be advised.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: advisability
advisableness
advisably
inadvisable
unadvisable
huckles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huckle
huckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of huckle
dolcelatte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɒltʃəˈlɑːteɪ/
ipa: /ˌdɒltʃəˈlɑːtɪ/
ipa: /ˌdɒltʃəˈlatɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːteɪ
rhymes: -ɑːti
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: Dolcelatte
Etymology: A trademark, from the Italian dolce latte (“sweet milk”). Compare dulce de leche.
Senses: glosses: A mild, slightly sweet form of gorgonzola cheese.
gorgonzola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: gorgonzolas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Gorgonzola, a town in northern Italy where the cheese originated.
Senses: glosses: A blue-veined Italian cheese, made from cow's milk.
Derived terms: Cambozola
Gorgonzola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Gorgonzola.
Senses: glosses: A city in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
Gorgonzola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gorgonzolas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Gorgonzola.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gorgonzola (“cheese”).
mascarpone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæskə(ɹ)ˈpəʊni/
ipa: /ˌmɑːskə(ɹ)ˈpəʊni/
ipa: /ˌmɑːskə(ɹ)ˈpəʊneɪ/
enpr: măs'kər-pōʹnē
enpr: mäs'kər-pōʹnē
enpr: mäs'kər-pōʹnā
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: mascarpones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mascarpone, from Lombard.
Senses: glosses: A soft, creamy Italian cheese that is not pressed or aged; often used in desserts.
pecorino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pecorinos
form: pecorini
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pecorino, from pecora (“sheep”).
Senses: examples: text: Later that evening the two of them sat together in the tiny pantry just off the kitchen, the residue of pecorino cheese and cuts of hanging smoked pork strong and delicious around them.
ref: 2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 282:
glosses: Any of a family of Italian hard cheeses made from ewe's milk.
nogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nog
nogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noggings
form: noggin
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A horizontal beam used in the construction of a building, especially to strengthen upright posts.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: Rough brick masonry used to fill open spaces.
dwang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dwæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: dwangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch dwang, from Middle Dutch dwanc.
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A horizontal timber (or steel) section used in the construction of a building.
glosses: A large metal crowbar.
ricotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɒtə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɑtə/
ipa: /ɹəˈkɑtə/
rhymes: -ɒtə
Forms: form: ricottas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ricotta (literally “cooked again”), from Latin recocta.
Senses: glosses: A soft Italian unsalted whey cheese resembling cottage cheese.
wikipedia: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
Vincenzo Campi
U-value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U-values
Senses: glosses: thermal transmittance or thermal conductance
netty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: nettier
form: nettiest
form: nettie
form: neddy
Etymology: From net (“elegant, neat”) + -y (“forming adjs. of slightly lesser degree”).
Senses: examples: text: How prettie, how fine and how nettie,
Good huswife should yettie.
ref: 1573, Thomas Tusser, “Points of Huswifrie”, in Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry:
glosses: Neat, well-groomed, natty.
netty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: nettier
form: nettiest
form: nettie
form: neddy
Etymology: From net (“openwork fabric mesh”) + -y (“forming adjectives”).
Senses: examples: text: Ye ought for to keepe them close, till the day haue taken the gellie or netty rime, from the earth.
ref: 1587, Leonard Mascall, The Booke of Cattell: Sheep, page 214:
glosses: Netted: made of or employing a net.
glosses: Netlike.
netty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: netties
form: nettie
form: neddy
Etymology: Uncertain. Proposed derivations include a corruption of necessary, a euphemism for outhouse; French nettoyer (“to cleanse”); and Italian gabinetto (“toilet”).
Senses: examples: text: Neddy, Netty, a certain place that will not bear a written explanation, but which is depicted to the very life in a tail-piece in the first edition of Bewick's ‘Land Birds’ (1797), p. 285.
ref: 1825, John Trotter Brockett, Glossary of North Country Words::
text: A line of pit cottages... tiny back gardens with outside lavatories, ‘netties’, some of them emptied twice a week by the council.
ref: 1978, John Lewis, chapter III, in Uncertain Sound, page 75:
text: Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside.
ref: 1992 May 4, The Independent, page 13:
glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
examples: text: Netty, a privy or water-closet... A common name, amongst the working classes... In common use. In my recollection it was looked upon as a euphemism.
ref: 1903, English Dialect Dictionary, volume IV, page 255:
glosses: Any other place or fixture used for urination and defecation: a lavatory; a toilet.
Synonyms: sense: outhouse
word: bathroom
sense: toilet
word: toilet
Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Newcastle
form: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
form: Newcastle on Tyne
form: Newcastle-on-Tyne
Etymology: Use of the city's major river to distinguish it from other British places known as Newcastle; most notably Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Senses: examples: text: Similar statements were made in Britain, where the growing white lead industry in Newcastle-upon-Tyne caused waves of illness and even death among women workers: Dr Charles T. Thackrah had early on denounced the serious intoxications linked to the use of lead in industry and described the main symptoms allowing the disease to be diagnosed and patients to be distanced from the source of poisoning (1831), as had Henry Burton, who stated that a greyish coloration of the gums was an unmistakable symptom of lead poisoning, then known as the "Burtonian line" (1840).
ref: 2021, Judith Rainhorn, The Colour of Controversy..., pp. 8–9
synonyms: Toon[Geordie]]>
glosses: A large city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in northeastern England.
taleggio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təˈlɛdʒiəʊ/
Forms: form: taleggios
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian taleggio, from a place name.
Senses: glosses: A soft Italian cheese from Lombardy.
toma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian toma. Cognate with Sicilian tuma.
Senses: glosses: A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont
Assembly of God
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Assemblies of God
Senses: examples: Welcome to the webpage of the Urbana Assembly of God.
glosses: singular of Assemblies of God
Assemblies of God
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek, with Ancient Greek ἐκκλησίᾱ (ekklēsíā) translated as "assembly" (in the sense of "congregation") instead of "church".
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A Christian Pentecostal denomination made up of a number of autonomous groupings of churches in various countries.
assemblyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assemblymen
Etymology: From assembly + -man.
Senses: glosses: A male member of an assembly.
examples: text: "There is clearly a systemic problem," said Richard L. Brodsky, a Westchester assemblyman, who is sponsoring a bill to require that mercury gauges be replaced with nonmercury alternatives.
ref: 2000 October 8, Robert Worth, “HEALTH; A Little-Known Threat”, in The New York Times:
text: Thomas P. DiNapoli, a Nassau County assemblyman also interested in the job, said he would voluntarily limit those contributions to $10,000, but said that eliminating them altogether would make it unduly hard for the nonwealthy to run for the office.
ref: 2007 January 28, Nicholas Confessore, “Ex-Comptrollers Endured Controversy Themselves”, in The New York Times:
text: Having just elected to return the arms in question to their Catholic owners, Maryland's assemblymen were not about to authorize Nicholson's order to reconfiscate the arms and risk stirring up the anger of the colony's Catholics.
ref: 2012, Maura Jane Farrelly, Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity, →ISBN:
glosses: A member of the lower house of certain US state legislatures.
caffè americano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffè americanos
form: caffè Americano
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian caffè americano.
Senses: glosses: A drink made of espresso and hot water.
Synonyms: sense: espresso and water
word: americano
sense: espresso and water
word: cafe americano
Derived terms: Americola
Canadiano
Russiano
assemblywoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assemblywomen
Etymology: From assembly + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A female member of an assembly.
examples: text: The women were also subjected to “stories of his escapades with prostitutes, strip clubs, affairs with assemblywomen and massages with ‘happy endings,’ ” according to a letter that the lawyer, Johnny G. Destino, sent to Mr. Silver on Thursday.
ref: 2013 December 20, Thomas Kaplan, “3 Aides Say Assemblyman Sexually Harassed Them”, in The New York Times:
text: A state assemblywoman from suburban Buffalo was punished on Wednesday after an ethics investigation found that she had had a sexual relationship with a staff member in her office, then retaliated against him when he complained about her behavior.
ref: 2016 March 9, Vivian Yee, “New York Assemblywoman Is Punished After Sexual Relationship With Aide”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A member of the lower house of certain US state legislatures.
Related terms: english: gender-specific
translation: gender-specific
word: assemblyman
word: assemblymember
word: assemblyperson
corretto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correttos
Etymology: From Italian corretto.
Senses: examples: text: No more pizza, no more correttos, just another place renting VHS tapes.
ref: 2022, Peter Colt, Death at Fort Devens:
glosses: An espresso coffee with a dash of grappa or other liqueur.
caffè latte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffè lattes
form: café latte
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian caffè latte.
Senses: synonyms: latte
glosses: Espresso coffee with steamed milk.
pull station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pull stations
Senses: glosses: A button, lever, or other device in a building used to set off the fire alarm when manually pulled, pushed or otherwise activated.
howay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /haˈweɪ/
/həˈweɪ/
Forms: form: haway
form: ho'way
form: ha'way
Senses: examples: text: Howay the lads
text: Howay man ye slowin' wa doon like!
glosses: A general cry of encouragement.
Synonyms: come along!
come on!
fire alarm horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire alarm horns
Senses: glosses: A horn on a fire alarm that sounds in case of fire, either automatically when the system detects fire or manually when the alarm is pulled, to alert the occupants of a building or complex of the hazard.
glosses: A siren used to alert a town or neighborhood of fire.
caffè macchiato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffè macchiatos
Etymology: From Italian caffè macchiato.
Senses: examples: text: He ascends to the above and fetches double lattes, caffè macchiatos, triple mochas for the Programmer, coming back trembling at what he has seen:[…]
ref: 2009, Anne Finger, Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection, University of Nebraska Press, page 31:
text: I loved you before you were born, have waited for you to be born, went to that café today waiting for you to sit there and order three caffè macchiatos—with just the thinnest streak of coffee—and to see me and to recognize in me, beyond the mask of my years, the man you have been expecting even before you came into this world.
ref: 2010, Frederic Tuten, Self Portraits: Fictions, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, page 85:
text: Riley was carrying two cups of caffè macchiato.
ref: 2017, Rosa Temple, Playing Her Cards Right, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN:
text: ‘[…]I’ve had an idea! Let me explain …’ ‘Not before I’ve had some coffee!’ Francis hauled himself out of bed. Ten minutes later he crawled up the stairs again with two perfect caffè macchiatos. Only when he’d emptied his cup did he allow the conversation to proceed.
ref: 2021, Peter Scott-Morgan, Peter 2.0, Penguin Books, published 2022:
glosses: Synonym of macchiato.
synonyms: word: macchiato
annodated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annodated
form: most annodated
Senses: glosses: curved into the form of a letter S
distributary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distributary
form: most distributary
Etymology: From distribute + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: A posthumous child is as much entitled to a distributary share, under the statute of distributions, as one that is born at the time of the death of its father […]
ref: 1816, Tapping Reeve, The law of baron and femme, of parent and child, of guardian and ward, of master and servant, and of the powers of courts of chancery:
text: […] improving the channels in a distributary unit.
ref: 1991, Leslie E. Small, Farmer-Financed Irrigation: The Economics of Reform:
text: These deposits are commonly punctuated by metre-scale fining-upward, medium-grained, cross-bedded sandstones, interpreted as terminal distributary channels.
ref: 2014, Allard W. Martinius, editor, From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Margin, page 379:
glosses: That distributes.
distributary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distributaries
Etymology: From distribute + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: The bed of the distributary is at a slight elevation above that of the main canal, and in the latter is placed an ordinary check regulator controlled by flashboards […]
ref: 1894, Herbert Michael Wilson, Engineering Results of Irrigation Survey, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 270:
text: The physical condition of the distributary itself is in bad shape due to poor maintenance over longer periods of time, especially in the head reach.
ref: 1998, Sediment Behavior of Sangro Distributary, Mirpurkhas Sub-division, Sindh, page 6:
text: […] stretches of blowing sand and frequent changes in course of its distributaries, does not have the dense population characteristic of other alluvial districts in the Indian subcontinent.
ref: 2001, James R. Penn, Rivers of the World: A Social, Geographical, and Environmental Sourcebook, page 115:
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
antonyms: tributary
glosses: A stream of water (either natural or artificial) that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel.
Derived terms: interdistributary
Atchafalaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌt͡ʃæfəˈlaɪə/
Etymology: From Choctaw hvcha falaya (“long river”).
Senses: examples: text: “If you came by the Atchafalaya,
How have you nowhere encountered my Gabriel's boat on the bayous?”
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
glosses: A river in Louisiana, major distributary of the Mississippi River.
aides-de-camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aide-de-camp
amniocenteses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amniocentesis
ashcan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashcans
Etymology: From ash + can.
Senses: glosses: A container for collecting ashes, especially from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere.
examples: text: He chain-lit a fresh cigarette and flicked the old butt, still smouldering, into the steel ash-can beside his drawing table.
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 32:
glosses: A dustbin, trash can, or the like.
glosses: A kind of large firecracker.
Derived terms: ashcan of history
ashcan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ashcans
form: ashcanning
form: ashcanned
form: ashcanned
Etymology: From ash + can.
Senses: glosses: To throw out like rubbish; to ditch or trash.
ashcan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ash + can.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ashcan School of American art.
glosses: Describing a comic book originally published solely to retain ownership of a trademark, not intended for general release; later used for promotional comic books intended for limited release to the public.
Geordies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Geordie
stringed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English strynged, y-strenged, equivalent to string + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The violin is a stringed instrument but without frets.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having strings
Derived terms: stringed instrument
stringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of string
hatchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæt͡ʃəɹi/
Forms: form: hatcheries
Etymology: From hatch + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Next door is a trout hatchery, open to the public every day during the summer.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 57:
text: The poultry industry is characterized by a vertical integration in which an agribusiness firm, either through direct ownership or contract, controls the entire production process. Such firms own processing plants, feed mills, and hatcheries, and contract with farmers to raise the chickens.
ref: 2007, J. Dennis Lord, “Poultry”, in John T. Edge, editor, Foodways (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture; 7), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: A facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish or poultry.
Derived terms: hatcheryman
subhatchery
Related terms: hatcher
hatchlings
publishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of publisher
lavacicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavacicles
Etymology: Blend of lava + icicle
Senses: glosses: A geological formation consisting of a quantity of lava that dripped from the roof of a cave as it cooled and hardened, leaving a rounded protrusion.
Related terms: stalactite
dripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drip
stylist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪlɪst/
Forms: form: stylists
Etymology: From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.
Senses: glosses: A designer.
glosses: A hairdresser.
examples: text: If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?
ref: 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books:
glosses: A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.
examples: text: A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.
ref: 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:
glosses: An artist who has a particular distinctive style.
Derived terms: hair stylist
food stylist
Related terms: stylistics
hjem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: heyem
form: hyem
form: yem
form: home
Etymology: From Old English hām, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. Cognate with German Heim, Swedish hem, Dutch heem and heim-.
Senses: examples: text: Aa’m gannin hjem man!
glosses: home.
amortized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæmə(ɹ)taɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amortize
amortized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæmə(ɹ)taɪzd/
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Of a debt or liability, wiped out gradually or in installments.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Of an algorithm, in which the costs of running it is evened out over many iterations.
Derived terms: amortized constant time
preemie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːmi/
Forms: form: preemies
form: premie
form: premy
Etymology: From prem(ature) + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Prematurity is the leading cause of neonatal death, and preemies who survive are at risk for lifelong health problems.
ref: 2003 February 10, David Bjerklie, “A Campaign For Preemies”, in Time, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2011:
synonyms: pretermer
hypernyms: newborn#Noun
neonate#Noun
;
infant#Noun
;
baby#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: A baby that has been born prematurely.
Derived terms: micropreemie
too hot to hold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: too hot to hold someone
Etymology: "Hot" items are stolen goods.
Senses: examples: text: "He made England too hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever."
ref: 1901, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, page 18:
glosses: A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed.
colophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colophonies
Etymology: From Latin colophonia (“of Colophon”) resina (“resin”); named after the Ionic city of Colophon, which was known for producing hardened resin.
Senses: examples: text: This resin or turpentine is a very interesting and peculiar substance, or rather series of substances. It is valuable because tar, pitch, rosin, and colophony are obtained by distilling it.
ref: 1907, G. F. Scott Elliot, The Romance of Plant Life:
glosses: Rosin; the residue left after the distillation of oil of turpentine from liquid resin, used in pharmaceutical preparations, soldering fluxes, and by violinists.
Derived terms: colophene
colophonite
Related terms: colophon
vrouwen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dutch vrouwen.
Senses: glosses: plural of vrouw
rosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒz.ən/
ipa: /ˈɹɑz.ən/
ipa: /ˈɹɑz.əm/
ipa: /ˈɹɔz.əm/
Forms: form: rosins
form: rosil
form: rozin
Etymology: From Old French raisine, rousine, variants of résine. See resin.
Senses: examples: text: The action of the bow therefore depends almost entirely upon the application of rosin and upon its frictional properties. Violin rosin is a natural gum obtained from conifers such as larch that produce turpentine.
ref: 1998, Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 284:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components.
examples: text: ‘It is delicate,’ said Pansa, ‘but there is perhaps the least particle too much of rosin in its flavor.’
ref: 1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC:
text: From three o'clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so one had the picturesque spectacle of a rank, some two or three miles long, of tall, ascending columns of coal-black smoke; […]
ref: 1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 16, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:
text: A thick, fat smoke oozed out from the fire, and a heavy smell of burned rosin and singed hair filled the air.
ref: 1894 [1892], Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lot No. 249”, in Round the Red Lamp […] :
glosses: Resin.
Synonyms: colophony
Greek pitch
Derived terms: rosin oil
rosin paper
rosiny
rosin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒz.ən/
ipa: /ˈɹɑz.ən/
ipa: /ˈɹɑz.əm/
ipa: /ˈɹɔz.əm/
Forms: form: rosins
form: rosining
form: rosined
form: rosined
form: rosil
form: rozin
Etymology: From Old French raisine, rousine, variants of résine. See resin.
Senses: examples: text: We waited expectantly as the guest violinist rosined his bow in preparation for playing.
text: The devil opened up his case and he said, "I'll start this show."
And fire flew from his fingertips as he rosined up his bow.
ref: 1979, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”, in Charlie Daniels, Tom Crain, "Taz" DiGregorio, Fred Edwards, Charles Hayward, James W. Marshall (lyrics), Million Mile Reflections, performed by Charlie Daniels Band:
glosses: To apply rosin to (something); to rub or cover with rosin.
metamaterial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metamaterials
Etymology: From meta- + material.
Senses: examples: text: This study paves the way for investigating complex contact-based dynamics of microgranular media, demonstrates a novel acoustic metamaterial, and yields a new approach to studying micro- to nanoscale contact mechanics in multiparticle networks..
ref: 2015, Morgan Hiraiwa, Maroun Abi Ghanem, Samuel P. Wallen, Amey Khanolkar, Alexei A. Maznev, Nicholas Boechler, “Complex contact-based dynamics of microsphere monolayers revealed by resonant attenuation of surface acoustic waves”, in arXiv:
text: Planar metamaterials with subwavelength thickness, or metasurfaces, consisting of single-layer or few-layer stacks of planar structures, can be readily fabricated using lithography and nanoprinting methods, and the ultrathin thickness in the wave propagation direction can greatly suppress the undesirable losses.
ref: 2016, Hou-Tong Chen, Antoinette J Taylor, Nanfang Yu, “A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications”, in arXiv:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any material engineered to have a property that is rarely observed in naturally occurring materials; especially
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any material engineered to have a property that is rarely observed in naturally occurring materials; especially:
Any material that obtains its electromagnetic properties from its structure rather than from its chemical composition; especially a material engineered to have features of a size less than that of the wavelength of a class of electromagnetic radiation.
Derived terms: stereometamaterial
burra
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɹə/
rhymes: -ʌɹə
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बड़ा (baṛā, “large, important”).
Senses: examples: text: The most burra of burra sahibs resided in spacious, columned villas within the exclusive enclave of Alipore.
ref: 1997, John H. Esterline, Mae H. Esterline, Innocents Abroad: How We Won the Cold War, page 27:
text: Later she served the curried meal on an English blue and white flow-blue platter. “Spicy like my Maharanee. A burra meal, fit for a prince of India!”
ref: 2017, Lila Lee, The Lotus Blossom:
synonyms: bada
glosses: Big or important, used as a respectful honorific.
Derived terms: burra-khana
aptamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæpt.əˌmɚ/
Forms: form: aptamers
Etymology: From Latin aptus (“apt, proper”) + -mer (from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part, portion”); compare mero-).
Senses: examples: text: Aptamers are oligomers of RNA or DNA that spontaneously fold into specific three-dimensional shapes that can bind defined targets. The specificity of the shape of the binding site arises from the base sequence of the aptamer, which determines the base-pairing pattern of the oligomer.
ref: 2005, (US) National Research Council, Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks, page 117:
text: 2009, Corinne Ravelet, Eric Peyrin, Chapter 10: Aptamers in Affinity Separations: Stationary Separation, Yingfu Li, Yi Lu (editors), Functional Nucleic Acids for Analytical Applications, page 271,
The use of DNA or RNA aptamers as tools in analytical chemistry is a very promising field of research because of their capabilities to bind specifically the target molecules with an affinity similar to that of antibodies.
text: The field of aptamer research is also more targeted, with many more catalytic aptamers being examined rather than for binding alone.
ref: 2010, Dabid Loakes, “Nucleotides an Nucleic Acids; Oligo- and Polynucleotides”, in D. W. Allen, J. C. Tebby, John C. Tebby, David Loakes, editors, Organophosphorus Chemistry, page 144:
text: 2015, Caroli J et al, "APTANI: a computational tool to select aptamers through sequence-structure motif analysis of HT-SELEX data", Bioinformatics, 32 (2): 161-164, "3 Results".
To test APTANI performances and validate its findings, we analyzed a sequence library corresponding to an HT-SELEX experiment designed to isolate aptamers specific for murine IL4Ra (Roth et al., 2012).
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any subsequence of nucleic acid, selected from a large random sequence-pool, used to bind to a specific target molecule.
Derived terms: aptameric
aptasensor
thioaptamer
asphodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæsfədɛl/
Forms: form: asphodels
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphódelos). Doublet of daffodil.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses, juniper, ilex, yellow and white asphodel [translating asphodèles].
ref: 1962, Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Peter Green, The Prime of Life, Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, translation of La Force de l'âge, →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: Any of the flowering plants of the family Asphodelaceae, especially Asphodelus ramosus and Asphodelus albus; the flower of these plants.
examples: text: Her hand he seis'd, and to a shadie bank,
Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr'd
He led her nothing loath; Flours were the Couch,
Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel,
And Hyacinth, Earths freshest softest lap.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The flower said to carpet Hades, and a favorite food of the dead.
Derived terms: bog asphodel
Hawking radiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after English physicist Stephen Hawking.
Senses: glosses: The radiation presumed to be given off by a black hole by quantum mechanical processes.
bugan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊɡən/
ipa: /ˈbuːɡən/
ipa: /ˈbʌɡən/
rhymes: -uːɡən
Forms: form: bugans
Etymology: From Welsh bwgan (“hobgoblin”), from Middle Welsh, possibly from Middle English bugge.
Senses: glosses: hobgoblin, evil spirit
seines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seine
seines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seine
Julien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -uːliən
Etymology: Borrowed from French Julien.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French, equivalent to English Julian.
Derived terms: Saint-Julien
Related terms: Saint-Julien-du-Sault
calme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calme
form: most calme
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of calm.
julienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒuːliˈɛn/
ipa: /ˌʒuːliˈɛn/
Forms: form: juliennes
Etymology: From French julienne (1722), from given name Jules or Julien, presumably from an otherwise unknown chef of that name. Originally used in potage julienne (“Julienne potage, soup in the manner of Jules/Julien”), meaning “soup made from thin slices”; this sense is now known as chiffonade.
Senses: examples: text: I compose a Julienne of carrots, leeks, turnips, sorrel, French beans, celery, green peas, &c. These I prepare in the ordinary way, which consists in cutting the carrots, turnips, leeks, French beans and celery into small pieces, either round or long.
ref: 1812, M. Appert, anonymous translator, The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances, translation of original in French:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A garnish of vegetables cut into long, thin strips.
Synonyms: allumette
julienne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒuːliˈɛn/
ipa: /ˌʒuːliˈɛn/
Forms: form: juliennes
form: julienning
form: julienned
form: julienned
Etymology: From French julienne (1722), from given name Jules or Julien, presumably from an otherwise unknown chef of that name. Originally used in potage julienne (“Julienne potage, soup in the manner of Jules/Julien”), meaning “soup made from thin slices”; this sense is now known as chiffonade.
Senses: glosses: To prepare by cutting in this way.
pyroxenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroxenoids
Etymology: From pyroxene + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a large group of minerals physically resembling pyroxene
Related terms: pectolite
rhodonite
wollastonite
vérité
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [W]e've done some vérité, but we haven't structured our films totally around the use of vérité footage.
ref: 2005, Alan Rosenthal, John Corner, New Challenges for Documentary: Second Edition, page 158:
glosses: Ellipsis of cinéma vérité.
Related terms: audio vérité
vidéo vérité
in vino veritas
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn′ vē′nō vĕ′rĭ-täs
ipa: /ˌɪn ˈviː.nəʊ ˈvɛ.ɹɪ.tɑːs/
ipa: /ˌɪn ˈvi.noʊ ˈvɛ.ɹɪ.tɑs/
ipa: /ˌɪn ˈvi.noʊ ˈvɛ.ɹɪ.tɒs/
ipa: /ˌɪn ˈviː.nəʉ ˈve.ɹɪ.tɐːs/
ipa: /ˌən ˈviː.nɐʉ ˈve.ɹə.tɐːs/
ipa: /ˌɪn ˈvi.no ˈvɛ.ɹɪ.tas/
ipa: /ˌin ˈviː.noː ˈve.ɾi.ʈaːs/
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin in vīnō vēritās (literally “in wine there is truth”), from in (“in”) + vīnō, the ablative singular of vīnum (“wine”) + vēritās (“truth”). While various classical writers in both Greek and Latin make similar statements, the form in vino veritas is from the 16th-century humanist Erasmus, and is first attested in English writing soon afterwards in the same century.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:in vino veritas.
glosses: Synonym of in wine, there is truth (one tells the truth under the influence of alcohol)
synonyms: word: in wine
extra: one tells the truth under the influence of alcohol
word: there is truth
extra: one tells the truth under the influence of alcohol
wikipedia: Erasmus
collaboratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlæb.(ə).ɹə.tɪv.li/
Forms: form: more collaboratively
form: most collaboratively
Etymology: From collaborative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Cris “Space Rogue” Thomas, another ex-L0pht member who testified alongside Zatko that day, said that L0pht would do everything it could to get companies to collaboratively fix software issues the hacker group found.
ref: 2022 October 17, Sean Lyngaas and Clare Duffy, “How a 51-year-old celebrity hacker upended one of the world’s most influential social networks”, in CNN Business:
glosses: In a collaborative manner.
Synonyms: collectively
jointly
together
idolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdəlaɪz/
Forms: form: idolizes
form: idolizing
form: idolized
form: idolized
form: idolise
Etymology: From idol + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make an idol of, or to worship as an idol.
examples: text: idolize a celebrity
text: idolize someone blindly
text: Many young fans idolize pop stars.
text: She was idolized by her students.
glosses: To adore excessively; to revere immoderately.
Derived terms: de-idolize
deidolize
idolization
idolizer
idolizingly
unidolized
Julie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːli/
rhymes: -uːli
Senses: examples: text: The first-born Child had every dawning Grace / And promis'd Beauty in her form and face. / "We'll call her Julie if you please, my dear," / The Mother cry'd, "I doat on Julie Vere." / "What! no Remembrance of her Aunt! for Shame! / You doat indeed! be Barbara her name!"
ref: 1813, George Crabbe, “Tracy”, in Adolphus William Ward, editor, Poems by George Crabbe, The University Press, published 1907, page 455:
text: "I loathe the name of Julia. Julie, in the French way, is quite pretty, but Julia! - "
"Call her Cousin Julie then; I've no doubt she'll prefer it. She's nothing if not progressive, I believe."
ref: 1917, Grace Flandrau, Cousin Julia, D. Appleton and Company, page 3:
text: They were called Jim & Julie, professionally. It seemed such a waste to deal in fantasy, in illusion and pretend, and not christen one's endeavor more suggestively. Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.
ref: 2000, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mother Kind, page 156:
text: But Republicans and Porter's Democratic primary opponents have seized on an interview from last month that widely surfaced the week of Oct. 6 in which she reprimands CBS News California journalist Julie Watts multiple times.
ref: 2025 October 8, Jay Stahl, “Katie Porter goes viral again. This time, for berating a reporter.”, in USA Today:
glosses: A female given name from French Julie, popular in the latter half of the 20th century, equivalent to English Julia.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Julia.
Bert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːt/
ipa: /bɝt/
homophone: Burt
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Etymology: Shortened version of Bertrand, Albert, Bertram, Robert, Herbert, Gilbert or any name containing the Germanic element bert/berht/beraht/brecht "bright".
Senses: glosses: A diminutive form of male given names containing the element bert, such as Albert or Robert, also used as a formal given name.
Related terms: word: Bertie
word: Bertha
word: Paul Bert effect