cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
frown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: frowns
form: frowning
form: frowned
form: frowned
Etymology: From Middle English frounen (“to frown as an expression of disapproval, displeasure, shame, fear, or jealousy”), from Old French frognier (“to frown or scowl”), from Gaulish *frognā (“nostril”), from Proto-Celtic *srognā.
Senses: examples: text: She frowned when I told her the news.
glosses: To have a frown on one's face.
examples: text: Noisy gossip in the library is frowned upon.
text: The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.
examples: text: Let us frown the impudent fellow into silence.
glosses: To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.
examples: text: Frank frowned his displeasure with my proposal.
text: As the band paused between songs, a gust of wind blew a distinctive Worthy Farm odour in the direction of drummer/vocalist Julien Ehrich: “Wow,” he frowned, “this place smells of cow shit.”
ref: 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To communicate by frowning.
Synonyms: scowl
Derived terms: afrown
frown at
frowner
frown on
frown upon
outfrown
concatenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/
Forms: form: concatenates
form: concatenating
form: concatenated
form: concatenated
Etymology: From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).
Senses: examples: text: Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.
ref: 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 182:
glosses: To join or link together, as though in a chain.
examples: text: Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To join (text strings) together.
Derived terms: concatemer
concatenation
concatenative
deconcatenate
nonconcatenated
reconcatenate
unconcatenate
unconcatenated
Related terms: catenate
concatenate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/
Etymology: From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).
Senses: examples: text: The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.
ref: 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Joined together as if in a chain.
Parkinson's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after English physician James Parkinson (1755-1824).
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: A chronic neurological disorder affecting movement, characterized by tremor, slowness of movement (bradykinesia), cogwheel or lead-pipe rigidity, and postural instability.
wikipedia: James Parkinson
Synonyms: word: paralysis agitans
word: Parkinson's
Derived terms: antiparkinsonian
parkinsonian
parkinsonian facies
parkinsonism
oughtn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.tn̩t/
ipa: /ɔːnt/
ipa: /ˈɔt.n̩t/
note: cot-cought merger
ipa: /ˈɑt.n̩t/
rhymes: -ɔːnt
rhymes: -ɔːtənt
rhymes: -ɔtn̩t
rhymes: -ɑtn̩t
Etymology: From ought + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: We ought to wake dad, oughtn't we?
glosses: (US, Philippines, dated, rare) ought not (negative auxiliary).
Coordinate terms: can't
couldn't
mayn't
mightn't
shan't
shouldn't
won't
wouldn't
Related terms: oughten
mustn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌs.n̩t/
Etymology: must + -n't
Senses: examples: text: You mustn't blame yourself for this tragedy.
text: We must go, mustn't we?
text: 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
"Now, listen," said Mother; "it's quite true that we're poor, but we have enough to live on. You mustn't go telling everyone about our affairs--it's not right. And you must never, never, never ask strangers to give you things. Now always remember that--won't you?"
text: Look, we mustn't mistake ourselves for regular people. We're artists.
ref: 1989: Batman (movie)
glosses: must not (negative auxiliary); used to indicate that something is forbidden or, in a tag question, that something is not necessary.
Related terms: shouldn't
can't
oughtn't
mightn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪtn̩t/
ipa: [ˈmaɪʔn̩ʔ]
Etymology: From might + n't.
Senses: examples: text: Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]
ref: 1931, Mary Hunter Austin, Starry Adventure, page 274:
text: “But, mightn’t there have been something unusual about the Stimatis contract itself?” [Perry Mason cross-examining Roger Correll.]
ref: 1963, Perry Mason, The Case of the Greek Goddess (Television Season 6, Episode 25)
text: "But at night she would still think the same thing: mightn't it be that he wouldn't come to see her anymore?"
ref: 1974, Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: A Novel, Harper & Row (First Rayo Edition, 2005), page 275
glosses: might not (negative auxiliary)
Coordinate terms: can't
couldn't
mayn't
oughtn't
shan't
shouldn't
won't
wouldn't
mayn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
rhymes: -eɪənt
Forms: form: mayn't
form: mightn't
Etymology: From may + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: I mayn't have much head, master, but I’ve head enough to remember those that use me ill.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 40.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: "Now, father," said Nancy, "is there any call for you to go home to tea? Mayn't you just as well stay with us?--such a beautiful evening as it's likely to be."
ref: 1861, George Eliot, chapter 17, in Silas Marner:
text: "Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't believe it—"
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Mock Turtle’s Story”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 142:
text: You mayn't hardly believe it, but at the present moment I am absolutely without a farthing.
ref: 1914, Saki, The Romancers:
text: I can't help about other people. But I surely would like to have a spot to stop till daylight. Still - if people don't relish this place, mayn't it be because it's getting so run-down?
ref: 1930, H. P. Lovecraft, Madusa's Coil:
glosses: may not (negative auxiliary)
Coordinate terms: can't
couldn't
mightn't
oughtn't
shan't
shouldn't
won't
wouldn't
usedn't to
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːsn̩t tə/
/ˈjuːsn̩t tu/
/ˈjuːsn̩ tə/
/ˈjuːsn̩ tu/
Forms: form: usen't to
Senses: examples: text: He usedn’t to live in London.
text: Usedn't your uncle to live with you?
text: Usedn't you to be at the old Chatham Club in Chinatown in New York?
qualifier: obsolete elsewhere
glosses: used not to, didn't use to
raw_tags: in British
sha'n't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑːnt/
rhymes: -ɑːnt
ipa: /ˈʃænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Etymology: Contraction of shall not.
Senses: examples: text: Bel[linda] […] Nay you ſha'n't go one ſtep out of the room. / […] Lady B[rute] Pray give me leave. / Lady Fanc[yfull] You know I won't. / Lady B. Indeed I muſt. / Lady Fanc. Indeed you ſha'n't. / Lady B. Indeed I will. / Lady Fanc. Indeed you ſha'n't. / Lady B. Indeed I will. / Lady Fanc. Indeed you ſha'n't. Indeed Indeed Indeed you ſha'n't. (Exit Lady Fanc. running. They follow.
ref: 1697, [John Vanbrugh], The Provok'd Wife: A Comedy, as It is Acted at the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, London: Printed by J. O. for R. Wellington, at the Lute in St. Paul's Church Yard, and Sam. Briscoe in Covent-Garden, →OCLC, act III, page 33:
text: [Alice:] I'm sure I sha'n't be able!
ref: 1866, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 2, →ISBN, page 14:
text: That's not a threat, sir, for they have played fair with me, and I sha'n't sacrifice a penny of their money—unless they force me to do so. But—I'm in control. I'm sitting pretty. They can't unseat me, and I warn them not to try.
ref: 1922, Rex [Ellingwood] Beach, “chapter XXIV”, in Flowing Gold, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, by arrangement with Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 290:
glosses: Dated spelling of shan't.
wo'n't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
We indeed!” cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his tail. “As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always hated cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don’t let me hear the name again!”
“I wo’n’t indeed!” said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of conversation. “Are you—are you fond—of—of dogs?”
glosses: Archaic spelling of won't.
wo'n't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wouldn't
cant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kănt
ipa: /kænt/
homophone: can't stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: Homophone: Kant (in anglicized pronunciation)
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: cants
Etymology: From Latin cantō probably via Old Northern French canter (“sing, tell”). Doublet of chant.
Senses: examples: text: He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger.
text: I am aware that the phrase free inquiry has become too much a cant phrase soiled by the handling of the ignorant and the reckless by those who fall into the mistake of supposing that religion has its root in the understanding and by those who can see just far enough to doubt and no further.
ref: 1836, Three discourses preached before the Congregational Society in Watertown, page 65
synonyms: argot
jargon
slang
glosses: An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
synonyms: argot
jargon
slang
glosses: A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
glosses: A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
examples: text: He is too well grounded for all your philoſophical Cant to hurt.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing Such Very Deep and Grave Matters, that Some Readers, Perhaps, May Not Relish It”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 23:
text: Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world,—though the cant of hypocrites may be the worſt,—the cant of criticiſm is the moſt tormenting!
ref: 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 60:
text: ... he knew very well that if they thought him clever they were being taken in, but it pleased him to have been able to take them in, and he tried to do so still further; he was therefore a good deal on the look-out for cants that he could catch and apply in season, and might have done himself some mischief thus if he had not been ready to throw over any cant as soon as he had come across another more nearly to his fancy ...
ref: 1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 46, in The Way of All Flesh:
text: The German population as a whole had been fed 12 years of Nazi propaganda, including demonizing and dehumanizing cant about homosexual men and women.
ref: 2004 October 14, Leslie Feinberg, “Anti-gay terror in Nazi Germany”, in Workers World:
glosses: Empty, hypocritical talk.
glosses: Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
examples: text: […]but numbers of these tenants or their descendants are now offering to sell their leases by cant,
ref: 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Intelligencer, number 19:
glosses: A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
Derived terms: cantish
cant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kănt
ipa: /kænt/
homophone: can't stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: Homophone: Kant (in anglicized pronunciation)
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: cants
form: canting
form: canted
form: canted
Etymology: From Latin cantō probably via Old Northern French canter (“sing, tell”). Doublet of chant.
Senses: examples: text: The Doctor here, I will proceed with the learned. / VVhen he diſcourſeth of diſſection, / Or any point of Anatomy: that hee tells you, / Of Vena caua, and of vena porta, / The Meſeraicks, and the Meſenterium. / VVhat does he elſe but cant? […] / Does he not cant? VVho here does vnderſtand him?
ref: 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv, page 59:
text: […]that uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language rather, if I may so call it
ref: 1854, Robert Sanderson, “The case of the liturgy”, in The Works of Robert Sanderson, D.D., Sometime Bishop of Lincoln, volume 5, page 56:
glosses: To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
glosses: To speak in set phrases.
examples: text: [I]f he proue not yet / The cunningſt, ranckeſt Rogue that euer Canted, / Ile neuer ſee man againe, […]
ref: c. 1607–1611 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], Iohn Fletcher, Cupids Revenge. […], London: […] Thomas Creede for Iosias Harison, […], published 1615, →OCLC, Act IV, signature H3, recto:
text: [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
ref: 1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC, page 145:
glosses: To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
examples: text: […]labouring with all their might for preventing the bishops from letting their revenues at a moderate half value[…] at the very instant, when they were every where canting their own land upon short leases, and sacrificing their oldest tenants for a penny an acre advance.
ref: 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for the Use of Irish Manufacture:
glosses: To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
Derived terms: outcant
Related terms: jargon
sociolect
cant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kănt
ipa: /kænt/
homophone: can't stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: Homophone: Kant (in anglicized pronunciation)
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: cants
Etymology: From Middle English cant (“edge, brink”), from Middle Dutch cant (“point, side, edge”) (Modern Dutch kant (“side, edge”)), ultimately of Celtic or Latin origin. Related to Medieval Latin cantus (“corner, side”), from Latin canthus.
Senses: examples: text: under the cant of a hill
text: The firſt and principall perſon in the temple, vvas IRENE, or Peace; ſhe vvas placed aloft in a Cant, […]
ref: 1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), B[en] Jon[son], “The Other at Temple Barre”, in B. Jon: His Part of King James His Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through His Honorable Cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] [and George Eld] for Edward Blount, published 1604, →OCLC, signature C2, recto:
glosses: Side, edge, corner, niche.
examples: text: Owing to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “‘Pieces of Eight’”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 218:
glosses: Slope, the angle at which something is set.
synonyms: corner
glosses: A corner (of a building).
glosses: An outer or external angle.
synonyms: bevel
slope
tilt
glosses: An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
examples: text: It is not only of great service in keeping the boat in her due position on the sea, but also in creating a tendency immediately to recover from any sudden cant, or lurch, from a heavy wave; and it is besides beneficial in diminishing the violence of beating against the sides of the vessel which she may go to relieve.
ref: 1830, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia, volume 3, page 621
glosses: A movement or throw that overturns something.
examples: text: to give a ball a cant
glosses: A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
glosses: A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
glosses: A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
qualifier: lumbering
glosses: An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
Derived terms: cantboard
cant-dog
cant dog
cant hook
cant rail
cantrail
cant strip
Related terms: cantilever
cant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kănt
ipa: /kænt/
homophone: can't stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: Homophone: Kant (in anglicized pronunciation)
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: cants
form: canting
form: canted
form: canted
Etymology: From Middle English cant (“edge, brink”), from Middle Dutch cant (“point, side, edge”) (Modern Dutch kant (“side, edge”)), ultimately of Celtic or Latin origin. Related to Medieval Latin cantus (“corner, side”), from Latin canthus.
Senses: examples: text: to cant a cask
text: to cant a ship
text: Mirrors in the compartments have been canted out of the vertical plane to reduce reflections to the passengers when seated.
ref: 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 396:
glosses: To set (something) at an angle; to tilt.
examples: text: to cant round a stick of timber
text: to cant a football
glosses: To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
glosses: To bevel an edge or corner.
glosses: To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
Derived terms: alt: Etymology 2
word: recant
cant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kănt
ipa: /kænt/
homophone: can't stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: Homophone: Kant (in anglicized pronunciation)
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: cants
form: canting
form: canted
form: canted
Etymology: Unknown, but compare Provençal cantel (“corner, piece”) or Old Northern French cantel (“piece broken off”). The verb is attested from the 15th century, and the noun from the 16th. See cantle, from which cant is possibly back-formed as if it contained the suffix -le.
Senses: glosses: To divide or parcel out.
cant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kănt
ipa: /kænt/
homophone: can't stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: Homophone: Kant (in anglicized pronunciation)
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: cants
Etymology: Unknown, but compare Provençal cantel (“corner, piece”) or Old Northern French cantel (“piece broken off”). The verb is attested from the 15th century, and the noun from the 16th. See cantle, from which cant is possibly back-formed as if it contained the suffix -le.
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: A parcel, a division.
cant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kănt
ipa: /kænt/
homophone: can't stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: Homophone: Kant (in anglicized pronunciation)
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: kant
Etymology: From Middle English cant, kaunt, presumably from Middle Low German *kant, perhaps a slang word related to kant (“edge, rim”), from Medieval Latin canthus. Attested from the 13th or 14th century.
Senses: glosses: Lively, lusty.
wont
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəʊnt/
ipa: /wɒnt/
enpr: wŏnt
enpr: wônt
enpr: wōnt
enpr: wŭnt
ipa: /wɑnt/
ipa: /wɔnt/
ipa: /woʊnt/
ipa: /wʌnt/
ipa: /wʊnt/
rhymes: -əʊnt
rhymes: -ɒnt
rhymes: -ɔːnt
rhymes: -ʌnt
homophone: want (one pronunciation)
homophone: won't (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: wonts
form: wonting
form: wonted
form: wonted
Etymology: From Middle English wonten (“to accustom”), from wont (adjective). See above.
Senses: examples: text: I have heard it remarked by the old farmers, that when beasts are first transferred from one place to another, that if they keep them without food for two or three days, it will go far towards wonting them to their new situation.
ref: 1830, [Joseph Plumb Martin], “Campaign of 1780”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier; Interspersed with Anecdotes of Incidents that Occurred within His Own Observation, Hallowell, Me.: Printed by Glazier, Masters & Co. No. 1, Kennebec-Row, →OCLC, page 141:
glosses: To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
examples: text: What be the ſweet delights of learning a treaſure, / That wont with Comick ſock to beautify / The painted Theaters, and fill with pleaſure / The liſtners eyes, and eares with melodie; […]
ref: c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. VVhereof the Next Page Maketh Mention, London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, →OCLC; republished in “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in The Faerie Qveen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Pöet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into One Volume, and Carefully Corrected, London: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1617, →OCLC
text: But by record of antique times I finde / That wemen wont in warres to beare most ſway, / And to all great exploites them ſelues inclind: […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book III, canto II, stanza II, page 411:
glosses: To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).
petrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛt.ɹəl/
homophone: petrel
note: Indic
ipa: /pɛʈɾol/
Forms: form: petrols
Etymology: From French (essence de) pétrole, from Medieval Latin petroleum, from Ancient Greek πετρέλαιον (petrélaion, “oil of the rock”), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”)+ ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil, any oily substance”). Doublet of petroleum.
Senses: examples: text: 1987 October 29, Advertisement, New Scientist, page 31,
We were the first company to introduce unleaded petrol in Britain, opening our first pump in June 1986.
text: 2000 September 27, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress, Second Session, Volume 146, Part 14, page 19605,
European oil firms are beginning to follow the example of their American counterparts by adding convenience stores to their pumps: the typical American petrol station now makes some 40 percent of its profits from the sale of non-oil products, such as cigarettes and beer.
text: 2003, S. Srinivasan, Automotive Mechanics, Tata McGraw Hill, India, 2nd Edition, page 149,
At a crank angle 6° before the TDC, the electric spark ignites the petrol mixture.
text: He also admitted that when big trucks bring in petrol, they park along Langata Road[…].
ref: 2006 February 10, Kenya Gazette, page 354:
text: 2006 August, Economic Scenario, Pratiyogita Darpan, page 218,
The increase in rates comes just a few days after India raised petrol prices by 9-2% and diesel prices by 6-6% which boosed inflation expectations in Indian economy.
text: 2008, Robin Stonecash, Joshua Gans, Stephen King, Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Macroeconomics, Cengage Learning Australia, page 122,
Most major Australian cities receive their petrol from a single refinery.
qualifier: excluding Canada
glosses: A fluid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, primarily consisting of octane, commonly used as a motor fuel.
examples: text: However, I do feel entitled to criticise the car. There are lots of different versions: manuals and automatics; petrols and diesels; two-wheel drives and four-wheel drives, and it's possible to spend thirty grand on one.
ref: 2016, Honest John, George Fowler, Car-tastrophes: 80 Automotive Atrocities from the past 20 years:
glosses: A motor vehicle powered by petrol (as opposed to diesel).
Synonyms: word: gasoline
word: gas
Derived terms: petrolage
petrol blue
petrol bomb
petrol cap
petrol-electric
petrol engine
petroleomics
petroleous
petrol filling station
petrol garage
petrolhead
petroliana
petrolic
petroliferous
petrolism
petrolist
petrolization
petrolize
petrolless
petrolly
petrol pump
petrol sniffer
petrol station
petrol tank
petrol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛt.ɹəl/
homophone: petrel
note: Indic
ipa: /pɛʈɾol/
Forms: form: petrols
form: petroling
form: petrolling
form: petroled
form: petroled
form: petrolled
form: petrolled
Etymology: From French (essence de) pétrole, from Medieval Latin petroleum, from Ancient Greek πετρέλαιον (petrélaion, “oil of the rock”), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”)+ ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil, any oily substance”). Doublet of petroleum.
Senses: glosses: To fill or supply (a vehicle, etc.) with petrol.
Related terms: benzene
diesel
kerosene
leaded
lead-free
paraffin
petroil
unleaded
heir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: âr
ipa: /ɛɚ/
ipa: /ɛə/
ipa: /eː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /eə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /iə/
ipa: /eɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: air
homophone: Ayr
homophone: eyre
homophone: heir
homophone: are (“unit of measurement”)
homophone: err (one pronunciation)
homophone: e'er (US)
homophone: ear (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: err (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: heirs
form: heiring
form: heired
form: heired
form: heire
Etymology: From Middle English heir, from Anglo-Norman eir, heir, from Latin hērēs.
Senses: examples: text: […] Leonard Houtz & John Myer to be executors to this my last will & testament & lastly my children shall heir equally, one as much as the other.
ref: 1950, quoted in Our Garst family in America (page 27)
glosses: To inherit.
Related terms: legatee
devisee
yore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yô
ipa: /jɔː/
enpr: yôr
ipa: /joɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: yōr
ipa: /jo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /joə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: your
homophone: you're (pour–poor merger)
homophone: yaw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ȝore, ȝare, ȝeare, from Old English ġeāra (“long ago”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *jērǫ̂ (literally “of years”), the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”). More at year.
Senses: examples: text: This word comes from the days of yore.
text: It appeared strange to me that the “little dipper” should be still diving quietly in the river, as of yore; and it suggested that this bird might continue to dive here when Concord should be no more.
ref: 1860, Henry David Thoreau, The Last Days of John Brown:
text: In days of yore and times long gone before there was a Sultan of India who begat three sons; the eldest hight Prince Husayn, the second Prince Ali, and the youngest Prince Ahmad; moreover he had a niece, named Princess Nur al-Nihár, the daughter of his cadet brother who, dying early, left his only child under her uncle's charge.
ref: 1886-88, Richard Francis Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
text: Several logistics executives told me that if half-full freight vans from multiple firms kept congesting the streets, the best solution might be for every retailer to use a single firm instead. One delivery service to rule them all – just like the postal service of yore.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A time long past.
Synonyms: foretime
yestertide
the past
yore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: yô
ipa: /jɔː/
enpr: yôr
ipa: /joɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: yōr
ipa: /jo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /joə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: your
homophone: you're (pour–poor merger)
homophone: yaw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ȝore, ȝare, ȝeare, from Old English ġeāra (“long ago”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *jērǫ̂ (literally “of years”), the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”). More at year.
Senses: examples: text: Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, / Yet I to them for iudgement iust do fly
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 26:
glosses: In time long past; long ago.
Synonyms: long since
of old
long ago
yaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yô
ipa: /jɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: yore (non-rhotic)
homophone: your
homophone: you're (some non-rhotic accents, especially with the pour–poor merger)
homophone: y'all (l-vocalization)
Forms: form: yaws
Etymology: Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).
Senses: glosses: The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
glosses: The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
examples: text: the yaw of an aircraft
coordinate_terms: pitch
roll
glosses: The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
Derived terms: adverse yaw
yaw damper
yaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yô
ipa: /jɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: yore (non-rhotic)
homophone: your
homophone: you're (some non-rhotic accents, especially with the pour–poor merger)
homophone: y'all (l-vocalization)
Forms: form: yaws
form: yawing
form: yawed
form: yawed
Etymology: Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To swerve off course to port or starboard.
examples: text: Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.
ref: 1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
glosses: To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
Related terms: heading
pitch
roll
surge
scend
yaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yô
ipa: /jɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: yore (non-rhotic)
homophone: your
homophone: you're (some non-rhotic accents, especially with the pour–poor merger)
homophone: y'all (l-vocalization)
Forms: form: yaws
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes there remains one large Yaw, high and knobbed, red and moist; this is called the master Yaw; […]
ref: 1770, William Northcote, The Marine Practice of Physic and Surgery, page 408:
glosses: A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "yaw"
word: yaw-haw
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "yaw"
word: yaw-weed
yawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yôn
ipa: /jɔːn/
enpr: yôn
ipa: /jɔn/
enpr: yän
ipa: /jɑn/
ipa: /joːn/
homophone: yon (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: yawns
Etymology: Partly from Middle English yanen, yonen, yenen (“to yawn”), from Old English ġeonian, ġinian (“to yawn, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *ginōn, from Proto-Germanic *ginōną (“to yawn”); and partly from Middle English gonen (“to gape, yawn”), from Old English gānian (“to yawn, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *gainōn, from Proto-Germanic *gainōną (“to yawn, gape”); both from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰi-, *ǵʰeyh₁- (“to yawn, gape”).
Cognate with North Frisian jåne (“to yawn”), Saterland Frisian jaanje, joanje (“to yawn”), Middle Dutch genen, ghenen (“to yawn”), German Low German jahnen (“to yawn”), German gähnen (“to yawn, gape”), dialectal Swedish gana (“to gape, gawk”), dialectal Norwegian gina (“to gape”).
Compare also Old Church Slavonic зѣѭ (zějǫ) (Russian зи́нуть (zínutʹ), зия́ть (zijátʹ)), Greek χαίνω (khaínō)), Latin hiō, Tocharian A śew, Tocharian B kāyā, Lithuanian žioti, Sanskrit जेह् (jeh)
Senses: examples: text: At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, “How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! […]”
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 11, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: But Mrs. MacWhirr, in the drawing-room […], stifled a yawn—perhaps out of self-respect—for she was alone.
ref: 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter 6, in Typhoon:
glosses: The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.
examples: text: The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn. I was glad when it finished.
glosses: A particularly boring event.
Derived terms: multicolour yawn
Technicolor yawn
yawnfest
yawnless
yawn-sigh
yawnsome
yawny
jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jô
ipa: /d͡ʒɔː/
enpr: jô
ipa: /d͡ʒɔ/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: jaws
form: jawing
form: jawed
form: jawed
Etymology: From Middle English jawe/jowe (“jaw; sides of the lower face”, 14th century), the further origin of which is disputed. Either:
* From Anglo-Norman jowe, from Old French joe (“cheek; jaw”), from Vulgar Latin *ga(v)ota (“cheek”), of uncertain further origin.
** It has been objected that the rhyming of jowe (“jaw”) with clowe (“claw”) in Middle English demonstrates that it did not have the vowel /uː/. This would be a concern if /uː/ were the vowel to expect from a borrowing of the Old French word, which it is not. Compare English paw < Middle English pawe/powe < Anglo-Norman powe < Old French poe.
* From Middle English *chowe, from Old English *ċēowe. The main difficulties with this theory are the notable lack of evidence and the late attestation of chaw (early 16th century). If it is correct, then the further origin would be Proto-West Germanic *keuwā (“jaw”), whence Saterland Frisian Kiuwe, Dutch kieuw, German Keu, Käu. For the initial consonant, compare jowl as a variant of chavel/chawl.
It is also conceivable that the word is a merger of two coincidentally similar sources. Gradually displaced Middle English chavel (from Old English ċeafl).
Senses: examples: 1933, Ethel Lina White, The Spiral Staircase (Some Must Watch), Chapter 4, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300931.txt
He built the Summit, so as to have no neighbours. And Lady Warren couldn't abide It. She was always jawing him about it, and they had one awful quarrel, in his study.
glosses: To assail or abuse by scolding.
examples: text: […] he waked him, which put him in a main high passion, and he swore woundily at the lieutenant, and called him lousy Scotch son of a whore […], and swab, and lubber, whereby the lieutenant returned the salute, and they jawed together fore and aft a good spell, till at last the captain turned out, and, laying hold of a rattan, came athwart Mr. Bowling's quarter: whereby he told the captain that, if he was not his commander, he would heave him overboard […]
ref: 1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 24, in The Adventures of Roderick Random:
glosses: To scold; to clamor.
examples: text: Today the beastly boat is level at last and the sun’s out and we have all been jawing about what to do.
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: To talk; to converse.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
Derived terms: jaw down
jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jô
ipa: /d͡ʒɔː/
enpr: jô
ipa: /d͡ʒɔ/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: jaws
form: jawing
form: jawed
form: jawed
Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since 1513 (as a verb and noun) in Scots. The DSL speculates that it might be related to Scots (and Northern English dialectal) jall, joll "knock, bump; toll (a bell)" via the notion of knocking "one thing against another, as waves on a rock". The EDD compares Old Norse jaga (“move to and fro”).
Senses: examples: text: Bletherum bore her to the vestry, Jaw'd some water in her face; […]
ref: 1863, James Nicholson, Kilwuddie and other poems, page 80:
text: Nae need to jaw watter on a droun'd moose.
ref: 1896, Peter Hay Hunter, James Inwick: Ploughman and Elder, page 145:
glosses: To pour or throw out.
examples: text: 'Twas freezin', thowin', rainin', snawin', In souple turns; While sheughs an' deep fur-drains were jawin' To spate the burns.
ref: 1877, Walter Watson, The Poems and Songs of Walter Watson, page 100:
text: ... a burn "whiles jawin' like a sea."
ref: 1879, David Gilmour, Reminiscences of the Pen' Folk: Paisley Weavers of Other Days, Etc, page 52:
text: ... stately tower, […] Whilk proud defies the jawing wave, Built on a rock[…]
ref: 1885, Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, page 223:
glosses: To splash; to surge.
raw_tags: of water
Derived terms: jawbox
jaw-hole
jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jô
ipa: /d͡ʒɔː/
enpr: jô
ipa: /d͡ʒɔ/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: jaws
Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since 1513 (as a verb and noun) in Scots. The DSL speculates that it might be related to Scots (and Northern English dialectal) jall, joll "knock, bump; toll (a bell)" via the notion of knocking "one thing against another, as waves on a rock". The EDD compares Old Norse jaga (“move to and fro”).
Senses: examples: text: Upo' the briny Borean jaws to float,
ref: 1815, Robert Fergusson, The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, and a Sketch of His Writings; with a Copious Glossary Annexed, page 269:
text: ... a craft […] That, like the white sea-mew, jinket the jaws On the briny breist o' the main.
ref: 1880, James E. Watt, Poetical Sketches of Scottish Life and Character, page 20:
text: ... ugly , ugly were the jaws That rowd unto their knee.
ref: 1882, Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, page 21:
text: Scores o' our sturdiest farmers fail / To jouk the jaw, / An' broken-hearted[…]
ref: 1892, James Lumsden, Samuel Mucklebackit, Sheep-head and Trotters: Being Savoury Selections, Poetic and Prosaic, from the Bulky Literary Remains of Samuel Mucklebackit and Thomas Pintail, Late Parnassian Hill and Arable Farmers in Lothian..., page 164:
glosses: A wave, a billow, a breaker.
examples: text: But sweetly bends the reamin' bicker, To drown dull care in jaws o' liquor.
ref: 1813, Ebenezer Picken, Miscellaneous Poems, Songs, &c., Partly in the Scottish Dialect: With a Glossary, page 80:
text: The nauseous mixture fell, When full in play; Wi' jaws upon the sprawling hash, […]
ref: 1817 [1685?], Robert Brown, Comic Poems of the Years 1685, and 1793: On Rustic Scenes in Scotland, at the Times to which They Refer : with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes, page 62:
text: But Fisher - Willie and the lairds […] wash't their gebbies and their beards In sparklin' jaws o' claret. They're comin'! cry'd a bodie out; They're comin' now[…]
ref: 1827, William Tennant, Papistry Storm'd: Or, The Dingin' Down O' the Cathedral : Ane Poem, in Sax Sangs, page 84:
text: Wi' jaws o' yell some durty beutts / Pat loft suin in a slatter;
ref: 1866, Sidney Gilpin, The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland: To which are Added Dialect and Other Poems ; with Biographical Sketches, Notes, and Glossary, page 275:
text: ... a certain slight rollick in his voice and accent , perhaps due to the "jaws o' yell" in the yard yonder.
ref: 1876, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg: A Novel ..., page 279:
text: ... , when he was gaun to be very big, and order in a great jaw of drink for the company, […]
ref: 1887, John Service, The Life and Recollections of Doctor Duguid of Kilwinning, page 125:
glosses: A dash or spurt of water; any large quantity of water or other liquid.
jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: jô
ipa: /d͡ʒɔː/
enpr: jô
ipa: /d͡ʒɔ/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology: Uncertain; see Jew's harp for more.
Senses: glosses: used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump.
paw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pô
ipa: /pɔː/
enpr: pô
ipa: /pɔ/
enpr: pä
ipa: /pɑ/
ipa: /poː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: poor (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
homophone: pore
homophone: pour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: par (non-rhotic, cot–caught merger, father-bother merger)
homophone: pa (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: paws
Etymology: From Middle English pawe, from Old French poue, poe, from Frankish *pōta (compare Dutch poot, Low German Pote, German Pfote), from Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”) (compare Dutch poten (“to plant”)), from Proto-Germanic *putōną (compare Old English potian (“to push”), pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”), Icelandic pota (“to stick”)). See more at put.
Senses: synonyms: hand
foot
hypernyms: extremity
holonyms: limb
meronyms: claw
finger
coordinate_terms: hoof
talon
glosses: The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
examples: text: Get your grubby paws off my things!
text: Mrs. Hauksbee laid her hand lightly upon the ungloved paw that rested on the turned-backed ’rickshaw hood, and, looking the man full in the face, said tenderly, almost too tenderly, “I believe in you if you mistrust yourself.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 35:
glosses: A hand.
Derived terms: bear paw
Bearspaw
bear's-paw
catpaw
cat's paw
chicken paw
facepaw
footpaw
forepaw
fox's paw
give paw
grandpaw
grinch paw
kangaroo paw
monkey's paw
northpaw
on the other paw
paddy paw
pawdicure
pawer
pawful
pawgun
pawjob
pawless
pawlice
pawlike
pawmark
pawpad
pawprint
pawrent
pawshake
pawsies
pawsitive
pawsome
pawstep
pawternity leave
pawtism
pawty
peet
southpaw
tiger paw
paw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pô
ipa: /pɔː/
enpr: pô
ipa: /pɔ/
enpr: pä
ipa: /pɑ/
ipa: /poː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: poor (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
homophone: pore
homophone: pour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: par (non-rhotic, cot–caught merger, father-bother merger)
homophone: pa (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: paws
Etymology: The word probably has an origin in baby talk. See pa.
Senses: synonyms: word: ayr
word: ba
word: baba
word: da
word: dad
word: dada
word: daddio
word: daddy
word: father
word: Father
word: fatherling
word: old man
word: pa
word: pap
word: papa
word: papaw
word: pappaw
word: pappy
word: Pappy
word: pater
word: patriarch
word: paw
word: pawpaw
word: peepaw
word: pepaw
word: pop
word: poppa
word: poppy
word: pops
word: sire
hypernyms: word: guardian
word: foster
word: parent
word: relative
word: man
qualifier: nonstandard or rustic
glosses: Father; pa.
Derived terms: pawpaw
Related terms: pa
pause
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: pôz
ipa: /pɔːz/
enpr: pôz
ipa: /pɔz/
enpr: päz
ipa: /pɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
homophone: paws
homophone: pores
homophone: pours (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of pausa.
Senses: synonyms: no homo
glosses: Used immediately after a statement to indicate that there was no innuendo or homosexual meaning intended, especially when such a meaning is a reasonable interpretation.
gauze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gôz
ipa: /ɡɔːz/
ipa: /ɡɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
homophone: gores (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: gauzes
form: gause
Etymology: Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).
Senses: glosses: A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
glosses: A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
glosses: Ellipsis of wire gauze
glosses: Mist or haze
Derived terms: gauzeless
gauzelike
gauze mat
gauze pad
gauzoma
gauzy
wire gauze
gauze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gôz
ipa: /ɡɔːz/
ipa: /ɡɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
homophone: gores (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: gauzes
form: gauzing
form: gauzed
form: gauzed
form: gause
Etymology: Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).
Senses: glosses: To apply a dressing of gauze
examples: text: The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28:
glosses: To mist; to become gauze-like.
Related terms: wire netting