cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cornu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornua
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cornū (“horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and horn.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: infundibulum, choana, pelvis
glosses: A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
glosses: A brass instrument from Ancient Rome about 3 metres long in the shape of a letter 'G'.
Derived terms: postcornu
Related terms: cornu ammonis
desert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛz.ət/
enpr: dĕz'ərt
ipa: /ˈdɛz.ɚt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
enpr: dəzärt'
ipa: /dəˈzɑɹt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
rhymes: -ɛzə(ɹ)t
Etymology: From Middle English desert (“wilderness”), from Old French desert, from Latin dēsertum, past participle of dēserō (“to abandon”). Generally displaced native Old English wēsten.
Senses: examples: text: They were marooned on a desert island in the Pacific.
text: And he said vnto them, Come yee your selues apart into a desert place, and rest a while. For there were many comming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eate.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark vi:31:
text: He […] went aside privately into a desert place.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke ix:10:
text: See, from afar, yon Rock that mates the Sky, / About whoſe Feet ſuch Heaps of Rubbiſh lye: / Such indigeſted Ruin; bleak and bare, / How deſart now it ſtands, expos'd in Air!
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 441, lines 252–255:
text: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
ref: 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 14:
synonyms: word: forsaken
word: peopleless
word: vacant
word: abandoned
word: derelict
word: deserted
word: desolate
word: discarded
word: dropped
word: forlorn
word: forsaken
word: high and dry
word: left behind
word: orphaned
word: beingless
word: desert
word: deserted
word: desolate
word: disinhabited
word: inhabitantless
word: inhabited
word: lifeless
word: peopleless
word: solitary
word: tenantless
word: unhabited
word: uninhabited
word: unoccupied
word: unpeopled
word: unpopulated
word: untenanted
word: vacant
word: wasteful
glosses: Usually of a place: abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited.
desert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛz.ət/
enpr: dĕz'ərt
ipa: /ˈdɛz.ɚt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
enpr: dəzärt'
ipa: /dəˈzɑɹt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
rhymes: -ɛzə(ɹ)t
ipa: /dɪˈzɜːt/
ipa: /dɪˈzɝt/
ipa: /dəˈzɝt/
homophone: dessert
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ˈdɛz.ət/
enpr: dĕz'ərt
ipa: /ˈdɛz.ɚt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
enpr: dəzärt'
ipa: /dəˈzɑɹt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
rhymes: -ɛzə(ɹ)t
Forms: form: deserts
form: deserting
form: deserted
form: deserted
Etymology: Borrowed from French déserter, from Late Latin desertō, from Latin desertus, from deserō (“abandon”).
Senses: examples: text: You can't just drive off and desert me here, in the middle of nowhere.
glosses: To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.
examples: text: Anyone found deserting will be punished.
glosses: To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.
Derived terms: deserter
desertion
desert the diet
undeserting
desert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛz.ət/
enpr: dĕz'ərt
ipa: /ˈdɛz.ɚt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
enpr: dəzärt'
ipa: /dəˈzɑɹt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
rhymes: -ɛzə(ɹ)t
ipa: /dɪˈzɜːt/
ipa: /dɪˈzɝt/
ipa: /dəˈzɝt/
homophone: dessert
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
enpr: dĭ-'zûrt
homophone: dessert
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ˈdɛz.ət/
enpr: dĕz'ərt
ipa: /ˈdɛz.ɚt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
enpr: dəzärt'
ipa: /dəˈzɑɹt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
rhymes: -ɛzə(ɹ)t
ipa: /dɪˈzɜːt/
ipa: /dɪˈzɝt/
ipa: /dəˈzɝt/
homophone: dessert
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: deserts
Etymology: From Middle English desert, deseert, from Old French deserte, from deservir (“to deserve”), from Vulgar Latin dēserviō (“to gain or merit by giving service”).
Senses: examples: text: just deserts
text: From the highest spire of contentment / my fortune is thrown; / and fear and grief and pain for my deserts / are my hopes, since hope is gone.
ref: 1600, John Dowland, Flow My Tears:
text: Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 17”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: July 4, 1789, Alexander Hamilton, Eulogium on Major-General Greene
His reputation falls far below his desert.
text: "Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me to hear such a word. I would not hear it of you. And I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: "It is true that certain common sense precepts of justice, particularly those which concern the protection of liberties and rights, or which express the claims of desert, seem to contradict this contention."
ref: 1971, John Rawls, A Theory of Justice:
text: "For Aristotle, justice means giving people what they deserve, giving each person his or her due. But what is a person due? What are the relevant grounds of merit or desert?"
ref: 2009, Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?:
qualifier: now chiefly technical (in philosophy) or fossil
glosses: That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.
Derived terms: desertful
desertless
desertness
desert principle
indesert
just deserts
misdesert
desert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛz.ət/
enpr: dĕz'ərt
ipa: /ˈdɛz.ɚt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
enpr: dəzärt'
ipa: /dəˈzɑɹt/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
rhymes: -ɛzə(ɹ)t
ipa: /dɪˈzɜːt/
ipa: /dɪˈzɝt/
ipa: /dəˈzɝt/
homophone: dessert
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
enpr: dĭ-'zûrt
homophone: dessert
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: deserts
Senses: examples: text: Francis, besides being an excellent Cook, knowing how to provide genteel Dinners, and giving aid in dressing them, prepared the Desert, made the Cake, and did every thing that Hyde & wife conjointly do;—[…]
ref: 1790 September 20, George Washington, Letters from George Washington to Tobias Lear: With an Appendix Containing Miscellaneous Washington Letters and Documents; Reprinted from the Originals in the Collection of Mr. William K. Bixby, of St. Louis, Mo.; With Introduction and Notes, Rochester, N.Y., published 1905, page 8:
text: They answer for caramel or gum paste baskets, for desert or suppers. […] BARBERRIES / For Deserts, or Second Course Pastry. […] Under these impressions—admitting, as they would, such a variety of combinations, the Author has confined himself to a plain selection of the principal articles in season in each month, merely to give a good general idea of laying out a table for deserts, leaving to the house[-]keeper to vary, and increase or diminish, according to her taste, or the extent of her company.
ref: 1816, John Simpson, A Complete System of Cookery, on a Plan Entirely New; Consisting of an Extensive and Original Collection of Receipts, in Cookery, Confectionary, etc. […], London: […] W. Stewart, […]; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, […]; Gale and Fenner, […], pages 518, 525, and 541:
text: The deserts are far more superb; the painter, the florist, the decorator, and even the sculptor being engaged to complete them. Formerly a desert at a splendid fete in a private house has cost a thousand pounds, exclusive of plate and glass.
ref: 1818, Peter Hervé, How to Enjoy Paris; Being a Complete Guide to the Visiter of the French Metropolis. […], 2nd edition, London: […] the Author: […] Mr. Egerton, Whitehall; Messrs. Hoitt, […]; and Mesers.^([sic]) Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], page 286:
glosses: Obsolete form of dessert.
passer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːsə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpæsəɹ/
rhymes: -æsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: passers
Etymology: From pass + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The distributions of scores on the exam for passers and failers are plotted […]
ref: 2008, David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman, Health Measurement Scales:
glosses: One who succeeds in passing a test, etc.
examples: text: a passer of counterfeit banknotes
glosses: One who passes something along; a distributor.
examples: text: A superb passer of the ball, we expected him to wipe the floor with the opposition.
ref: 1991, Rex Mossop, The Moose That Roared, Sydney: Ironbark Press, page 157:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass.
A football player who makes a forward pass, who may be (but not limited to) the quarterback.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A passed pawn.
examples: text: There was a promise of it in the gorgeous purity of the western sky; there was an intimation in the mild, unimpertinent gaze of the passers of a certain natural facility in things.
ref: 1878, Henry James, The Europeans:
text: Passers stopped and began to stare. A policeman was approaching up the street. Dave dodged back into the cab and banged the door.
ref: 1904, National Magazine, volume 20, page 147:
glosses: One who passes; a passer-by.
examples: text: Explores the history, literature, and sociology of passing, and provides case studies of six individuals who are "passers," including a black man who passed as a white Jew and a lesbian naval officer who passed as straight.
ref: 2003, Brooke Kroeger, Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are:
text: Passers and would-be passers make every effort to be convincing in their chosen gender role […]
ref: 2014, Risa Bear, Homecomings, page 69:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: One who is able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard them as belonging.
Related terms: buck-passer
flat passer
gas passer
laissez-passer
passer-by
passer-through
surd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːd/
enpr: sûrd
ipa: /sɝd/
ipa: /sʌɹd/
ipa: /søːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /seːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /sɛːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: surds
Etymology: First attested in the mid 16th century from Latin surdus (“deaf, mute”), used in mathematics for “irrational,” reflecting ἄλογος (álogos, “irrational, speechless”) as found in Euclid, apparently transmitted via Arabic جِذْر أَصَمّ (jiḏr ʔaṣamm, “deaf root”). The phonetic sense, “voiceless,” emerged in the 18th century. Doublet of surdo.
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: An irrational number, especially one expressed using the √ symbol.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: sonant
glosses: A voiceless consonant.
Derived terms: quadratic surd
surd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːd/
enpr: sûrd
ipa: /sɝd/
ipa: /sʌɹd/
ipa: /søːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /seːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /sɛːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more surd
form: most surd
Etymology: First attested in the mid 16th century from Latin surdus (“deaf, mute”), used in mathematics for “irrational,” reflecting ἄλογος (álogos, “irrational, speechless”) as found in Euclid, apparently transmitted via Arabic جِذْر أَصَمّ (jiḏr ʔaṣamm, “deaf root”). The phonetic sense, “voiceless,” emerged in the 18th century. Doublet of surdo.
Senses: examples: text: …how all Words fall to the Ground, spent upon such a surd and Earless Generation of Men, stupid unto all Instruction…
ref: 1670s, published 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, part 3, section 6
glosses: Lacking the sense of hearing; deaf.
examples: text: To this errour, of blending the ſurd and vocal modes of articulation together, may be added the too frequent uſe of compound articulations both vocal and ſurd.
ref: 1773, William Kenrick, A New Dictionary of the English Language, section 3, page 5:
glosses: unheard
examples: a surd expression or quantity; a surd number
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Involving surds, or irrational numbers; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: sonant
glosses: unvoiced; voiceless
Related terms: absurd
turd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɜːd/
enpr: tûrd
ipa: /tɝd/
ipa: /tʌɹd/
ipa: /tøːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /teːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /tɛːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: turds
form: turding
form: turded
form: turded
Etymology: From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tord, from Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”). Cognate with Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”). More at tear, treddle.
Senses: examples: text: You ought to see that owlet […] . We brought it to table and it turded in F's salad, it sits on your finger and squeaks like Peggy does when she gets tipsy.
ref: 1926, Hart Crane, letter, 7 May
text: [P]iano dropped chords like a Wolfean horse turding in the steamy Brooklyn winter morn
ref: c. 1952, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody:
glosses: To defecate.
thorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɔːn/
ipa: /θoɹn/
ipa: [θo̞ɹn]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
note: rhotic
ipa: /θɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /θɔːn/
Forms: form: thorns
form: thorning
form: thorned
form: thorned
Etymology: From Middle English thorn, þorn, from Old English þorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”).
Cognates
Near cognates include West Frisian toarn, Low German Doorn, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, Danish and Norwegian torn, Swedish torn, törne, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃 (þaurnus). Further cognates include Old Church Slavonic трънъ (trŭnŭ, “thorn”), Russian тёрн (tjorn), Polish cierń, Kamkata-viri taňi, tai (“thorn”), Sanskrit तृण (tṛ́ṇa, “grass”).
Senses: examples: text: […] human nature is, above all things, lazy, and needs to be thorned and goaded up those heights where it ought to fly.
ref: 1869, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Old Town Folks:
text: Even Judge Bradley's callused sentiments were thorned by the narration of Jaclyn's journals.
ref: 2003, Scott D. Zachary, Scorn This, page 175:
glosses: To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).
Related terms: eth
edh
eð
ð
wynn
wen
ƿ
ᚦ
draft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɑːft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
ipa: /dɹæft/
rhymes: -æft
Forms: form: drafts
form: drafting
form: drafted
form: drafted
form: draught
Etymology: A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”), equivalent to draw + -t. Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur.
Senses: glosses: To write a first version; to make a preliminary sketch.
glosses: To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
glosses: To write a law.
examples: text: There was a campaign to draft Smith to run for President.
text: They drafted me to be the chairperson of the new committee.
text: Class "H16" 4-6-2T No. 30516 has been drafted to the Fawley branch and is here seen working a 747-ton test train across Frost Lane crossing, near Hythe, on March 6 [...].
ref: 1960 May, “Southern Newsreel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 315, photo caption:
glosses: To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
examples: text: He was drafted during the Vietnam War.
glosses: To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
To conscript (a person); to force (a person) to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
examples: text: The calves were drafted from the cows.
glosses: To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
examples: text: After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
examples: text: At the restart, the positions of the Mercedes drivers was reversed. Hamilton drafted Bottas down to Turn One and took the lead around the outside, controlling the race from there.
ref: 2020 September 13, Andrew Benson, “Tuscan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton claims 90th win after incredible race”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: slipstream
glosses: To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
glosses: To draw out; to call forth.
glosses: To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: To play a collectible card game by selecting from a shared pool of cards.
Derived terms: draftable
draftee
draft in
drafting site
draft up
misdraft
redraft
draft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɑːft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
ipa: /dɹæft/
rhymes: -æft
Forms: form: draught
Etymology: A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”), equivalent to draw + -t. Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur.
Senses: examples: text: I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer.
glosses: Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.
examples: text: A Clydesdale is a draft horse.
glosses: Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.
Related terms: draw
draught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɑːft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
ipa: /dɹæft/
rhymes: -æft
homophone: draft
ipa: /dɹɔt/
Etymology: From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw + -t.
Senses: examples: text: draught beer or cider
text: draught oxen, a draught horse
glosses: Alternative spelling of draft
draught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɑːft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
ipa: /dɹæft/
rhymes: -æft
homophone: draft
ipa: /dɹɔt/
Forms: form: draughts
form: draughting
form: draughted
form: draughted
Etymology: From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw + -t.
Senses: examples: text: The Parliament so often draughted and drained.
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of draft.
reply
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: replies
form: replying
form: replied
form: replied
Etymology: From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“I fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“I fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica.
Senses: examples: (intransitive) Please reply to my letter.
(transitive) "Sorry I'm late," replied the student.
(transitive) He replied that he was not sure.
glosses: To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
examples: text: Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.
text: It is a sound to be dreaded until you ascertain that it is being made by friendly forces; even then, your welcome to it must be tempered with some caution, because gunfire usually leads to replying gunfire[…]
ref: 1988, Emmanuel Doe Ziorklui, Ghana: Nkrumah to Rawlings:
text: […] bulged the onion bag for the Blades, and Downes and Prendergast replied for the Owls.
ref: 2012, Steve Cowens, Steel City Rivals:
glosses: To act or gesture in response.
glosses: To repeat something back; to echo.
Synonyms: respond
answer
retort
answer back
react
rejoin
counter
return
revert
follow up
get back to
reply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: replies
Etymology: From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“I fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“I fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica.
Senses: glosses: A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
glosses: Something given in reply.
glosses: A counterattack.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The answer of a figure.
topics: law
glosses: A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.
Synonyms: word: answer
word: comeback
word: response
word: retort
word: return
word: account
word: rejoinder
word: riposte
word: reaction
word: rebuttal
Derived terms: auto-reply
business reply
international reply coupon
refer someone to the reply given in Arkell v Pressdram
replyallpocalypse
reply all storm
reply device
reply girl
reply guy
reply-ping
reply vehicle
timestamp reply
Related terms: word: respond
empty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmp.ti/
ipa: /ˈɛm.ti/
rhymes: -ɛmpti
rhymes: -ɛmti
Forms: form: empties
form: emptying
form: emptied
form: emptied
Etymology: From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet.
The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.
Senses: examples: text: to empty a well or a cistern
text: The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
text: The suspected thief was requested to empty her pockets.
text: If the clouds be full of raine, they emptie themselues vpon the earth[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 11:3:
text: He saddens, all the magic light
⁠Dies off at once from bower and hall,
⁠And all the place is dark, and all
The chambers emptied of delight: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto VIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: It's a 58-minute journey with seven intermediate stops, including a reversal at Cromer - another popular destination. The train starts to empty at North Walsham, and then there is an exodus at Cromer. The coach is almost empty for the final few miles into Sheringham.
ref: 2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 54:
synonyms: void#Verb
evacuate
glosses: To make empty; to remove the contents of.
examples: text: Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.
text: Of these the Rhine empties into the Northern ocean and the Danube into the Euxine.
ref: 1899 [2nd century], Horace White, transl., Appian:
glosses: Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
Derived terms: emptiable
empty the clip
empty the tank
overempty
unemptied
empty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmp.ti/
ipa: /ˈɛm.ti/
rhymes: -ɛmpti
rhymes: -ɛmti
Forms: form: empties
Etymology: From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet.
The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.
Senses: examples: text: Put the empties out to be recycled.
text: The east-west flow consists in the westerly direction of the agricultural and industrial products of East Anglia; imports through London and Parkeston (Harwich); special traffic in coke to the Northamptonshire ironfield; and mineral empties returning to the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and South Yorkshire coalfields.
ref: 1954 August, “Marshalling Yard Reorganisation, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 570:
text: A shaft runround was made to conduct the empties from the tippler to the empty side of the shaft where they would rejoin the old circuit.
ref: 1960, The Iron and Coal Trades' Review - Volume 180, page 1411:
text: In 1960 Willem de Kooning said of [Leo] Castelli, ‘That son of a bitch, you could give him two beer cans and he could sell them.’ [Jasper] Johns laughed and created a sculpture of two Ballantine Ale empties. Castelli immediately sold the work to collectors Robert and Ethel Scull.
ref: 2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:
text: A number of locomotives have been drafted into the area to cover the traction shortfall, including two Class 60s: here No 60039 accelerates away from Eastleigh on the Chandlers Ford branch with the lunchtime Fareham to Whatley quarry empties [empty wagons] on 20 August 2019.
ref: 2019 October, Steve Stubbs, photo caption, “'60' on the stone”, in Modern Railways, page 20:
glosses: A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
Derived terms: run on empty
Related terms: dead soldier
job
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɒb/
ipa: /dʒɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: jobs
form: jobbing
form: jobbed
form: jobbed
form: j*b
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).
examples: text: He had ‘jobbed out’ the eye of one gentleman.
ref: 1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 33, in Martin Chuzzlewit:
synonyms: word: jab
word: run through
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
examples: text: A stranger jobbed me in the mug so hard that I fell off my chair.
ref: 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 40:
glosses: To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɒb/
ipa: /dʒɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: jobs
form: j*b
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face.
ref: 1937 October 14, The Western Mail, Perth:
glosses: A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.
Rangoon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæŋˈɡuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Etymology: From the pronunciation of Burmese ရန်ကုန် (rankun) in the Rakhine dialect.
Senses: glosses: Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar before Naypyidaw was made the capital in 2006.
Derived terms: crab Rangoon
Rangoonese
Yangon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑŋˈɡɑn/
ipa: /jɑŋˈɡoʊn/
ipa: /jæŋˈɡɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
rhymes: -əʊn
Etymology: Borrowed from Burmese ရန်ကုန် (rankun), pronounced /jàɴɡòʊɴ/ in standard Burmese.
Senses: glosses: The largest city and former capital of Myanmar; formerly, Rangoon (19th–21st c.), Dagon (16th–18th c.), and Dagoon (rare).
smog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɒɡ/
enpr: smäg
ipa: /smɑɡ/
ipa: /smɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: smogs
Etymology: Blend of smoke + fog.
Senses: examples: text: A widow since 1967, she lives now in Honolulu because, she says, she can enjoy the Californialike climate without the smog.
ref: 1973 April 22, Martha Weinman Lear, “Clare Boothe Luce, she who is behind ‘The Women’”, in The New York Times:
text: Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.
ref: 2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145:
synonyms: pea-souper
pea-soup fog
glosses: A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
Hyponyms: english: combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog
translation: combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog
word: black smog
english: brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog
translation: brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog
word: photochemical smog
word: summer smog
Derived terms: electronic smog
smoggy
vog
smog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɒɡ/
enpr: smäg
ipa: /smɑɡ/
ipa: /smɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: smogs
form: smogging
form: smogged
form: smogged
Etymology: Blend of smoke + fog.
Senses: examples: text: If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.
glosses: To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.
Related terms: smaze
dry fog
dry haze
haze
haze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hāz
ipa: /heɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: hays
homophone: heys
Forms: form: hazes
form: hazing
form: hazed
form: hazed
form: hase
Etymology: * The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century.
* Possibly back-formation from hazy.
* Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”).
Senses: examples: text: Pyramids of clouds now fringed its edge, and the centre had hazed into a sandy mist.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 268:
glosses: To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
haze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hāz
ipa: /heɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: hays
homophone: heys
Forms: form: hazes
form: hazing
form: hazed
form: hazed
form: hase
Etymology: Possibly from hawze (“terrify, frighten, confound”), from Middle French haser (“irritate, annoy”)
Senses: glosses: To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
examples: text: […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter I, in The Understanding Heart:
glosses: To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
glosses: In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
examples: text: Hazing a bear involves creating a "negative experience for a bear that seeks out human food or loses its natural avoidance of humans and developed areas," the release said. That involves using non-lethal rubber shotgun slugs, or rubber rounds and noise-deterrent rounds in sequence to scare bears away, according to the release.
ref: 2016 July 18, Annie Zak, “Brown bear seriously injured in 'hazing' attempt in Southeast Alaska”, in Anchorage Daily News:
glosses: To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
Derived terms: hazee
hazer
semi-weekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semiweekly
Etymology: From semi- + weekly.
Senses: glosses: Occurring twice a week; occurring once every one-half a week
semi-weekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: semiweekly
Etymology: From semi- + weekly.
Senses: glosses: Twice a week.
semi-weekly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-weeklies
form: semiweekly
Etymology: From semi- + weekly.
Senses: glosses: A periodical published twice a week.
Synonyms: word: biweekly
bi-weekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In all cases of this sort, it will be sufficient, that a letter is put into the post-office early enough after the day of the dishonor of the Note to go by the next post, whether it be a bi-weekly, or tri-weekly, or a mere weekly conveyance, if it be the ordinary mode of communication.
ref: 1845, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes and Guaranties of Notes and Checks on Banks and Bankers, page 388:
text: Joyce had a major but not leading role in a good bi-weekly TV serial daytime program.
ref: 1999, Stella Chess, Goodness of Fit: Clinical Applications from Infancy Through Adult Life:
text: Although the prison discontinued our family reunion weekend visits, our bi-weekly visits continued for a couple of hours every other Sunday.
ref: 2014, W. Malave, To Love One Another, page 189:
glosses: Alternative form of biweekly.
bi-weekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Meet weekly or bi-weekly to discuss duties and responsibilities and to encourage other girls in the squads to greater participation and better results.
ref: 1944 January 24, Marion E. Purbeck, “Pupil Leadership in the High School”, in The Journal of Health and Physical Education, volume 15, number 1, page 11:
text: With a Site Coordinator at each agency responsible for day-to-day operations and service assistance, the support groups meet bi-weekly in addition to individual counseling sessions and other types of group activities.
ref: 1996, M. Joanna Mellor, Special Aging Populations and Systems Linkages, page 15:
text: To maintain whiteness apply the strips bi-weekly or once a month.
ref: 2015, Louisa Graves, Age-Proof: Beauty Alternatives You Need to Know:
glosses: Alternative form of biweekly.
semi-annually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: semiannually
Etymology: From semi- + annual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Occurring twice yearly; biannually.
Related terms: semiannual
final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪnl̩/
enpr: fī'nəl
ipa: /ˈfaɪn(ə)l/
ipa: [-nəɫ]
rhymes: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: finals
form: finall
Etymology: From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”).
Senses: examples: text: It was tough cramming for those midterms and finals, staying up 72 hours straight hepped up on caffeine and pizza.
ref: 2005 April 13, Robert MacMillan, “Steal This Song”, in The Washington Post, retrieved 03 Oct 2008:
glosses: A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
Derived terms: and that’s final
consolation final
cup final
eighth final
head-final
petite final
petit final
quarter final
quarter-final
semi-final
short finals
sports final
final
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪnl̩/
enpr: fī'nəl
ipa: /ˈfaɪn(ə)l/
ipa: [-nəɫ]
rhymes: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: finals
form: finaling
form: finalling
form: finaled
form: finaled
form: finalled
form: finalled
form: finall
Etymology: From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”).
Senses: examples: text: Mike finalled in both the 400 meter and the 800 meter races.
text: Early in his swimming career, Baker finaled in the 200 fly at both the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Trials and was a two-time Pacific 10 Champion in the event for the University of Arizona.
ref: 2007 January 30, Archive Team, “A Day in the Life: Dennis Baker, Day 1”, in Swimming World:
text: Last year, Carlson would have A finaled in the 100-yard breast (58.75) and B finaled in the 200-yard breast (2:09.66).
ref: 2009 May 10, Archive Team, “Swimming World Six Star Kasey Carlson Makes College Pledge”, in Swimming World:
text: Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.
ref: 2011 January 9, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian:
text: In Summer 2019, he finaled in a pair of events at Gainesville Sectionals before going on to take 22nd in the 100m and 200m free at Greensboro Futures.
ref: 2021 January 17, Chandler Brandes, “UNC Snags Verbal from Sprinter Tyler Roberton of Tampa Bay Aquatics for 2022-23”, in Swimming World:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To qualify for the final round of a competition.
Related terms: word: medal
word: podium
sense: Terms etymologically related to the adjective or noun final
word: finale
sense: Terms etymologically related to the adjective or noun final
word: fine
sense: Terms etymologically related to the adjective or noun final
word: finish
sense: Terms etymologically related to the adjective or noun final
word: finite
semifinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: semifinals
form: semi-final
Etymology: From Latin semifinalis, equivalent to semi- + final.
Senses: examples: text: Roger Federer extended his grasscourt streak to 57 matches with a victory over Marcos Baghdatis and will play Nicolas Kiefer in the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany.
ref: 2008 June 14, The Associated Press, “Federer Extends Streak”, in The New York Times:
text: In the 1991 Wimbledon semifinal between Michael Stich and Stefan Edberg, there was just one service break in the entire match, and the guy whose serve was broken, Stich, ended up winning the match!
ref: 2008, Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo, Pete Sampras: A Champion's Mind, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: The highly anticipated all-American matchup between Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe — marking the first US Open semifinals between two US men in nearly 20 years — will cost you quite a few Honey Deuces to attend.
ref: 2024 September 6, Jordan Valinsky, “Ticket prices for the all-American men’s matchup at the US Open are surging”, in CNN:
text: Badosa has the slightly more explosive power, but if Navarro can redirect the pace of Badosa’s shots effectively, she could well be on the way to a first Grand Slam semifinal.
ref: 2024 September 9, Michael Dominski, “Everything that happened on Day 9 of the US Open with Navarro, Fritz and Tiafoe advancing to the semifinal”, in The New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A playoff in the round with only four players or teams left, the stage before the final.
glosses: A competition that narrows a field of contestants (semifinalists) to a set of finalists, for a subsequent final.
Synonyms: last four
semi
Derived terms: semifinalist
Related terms: final
quarterfinal
quarter-final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-finals
Senses: examples: text: England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative form of quarterfinal.
Derived terms: quarter-finalist
semester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmɛstə/
enpr: sĭ-mĕstʹər
ipa: /sɪˈmɛstɚ/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: semesters
form: semestre
Etymology: From German Semester, from New Latin sēmestris (“lasting six months”), from sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”).
Senses: examples: text: I will graduate at the end of the spring semester.
glosses: Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester.
glosses: A period or term of six months.
Derived terms: semester hours
semester school
Related terms: bimester
half-year
term
trimester
trimester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹ(a)ɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /tɹ(a)ɪˈmɛs.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈmɛs.təɹ/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trimesters
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).
Senses: examples: text: She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy.
glosses: A period of three months or about three months; (financial): quarter.
examples: text: The school operates on a trimester schedule.
synonyms: trisem
glosses: One of the terms of an academic year in those learning institutions that divide their teaching in three roughly equal terms, each about three months long. Compare semester.
Hypernyms: sense: term of academic year
word: term
Coordinate terms: sense: term of an academic year
word: quarter
sense: term of an academic year
word: semester
Derived terms: fourth trimester
per
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜː/
ipa: /pɝ/
ipa: /pɛr/
ipa: /pøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /peː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /pɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /pɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: purr (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: pair
homophone: pare
homophone: pear (all fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: per
form: pers
form: pers
form: perself
Etymology: Shortening of person, coined by Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979)
Senses: examples: text: This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?
ref: 1997 April 22, Anthony and Joy Hilbert, “ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):
glosses: They (singular). Gender-neutral neologistic third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
examples: text: This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?
ref: 1997 April 22, Anthony and Joy Hilbert, “ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):
text: "Kalypso!" I call out as phe disappears on the horizon. I did not know it, but I loved per.
ref: 1998, Katherine Phelps, “Odysseus, She”, in Storytronics:
text: Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.
ref: 2006 November 15, Richard Ekins, Dave King, The transgender phenomenon, Sage Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC HQ77.9.E55 2006, page 160:
glosses: Them (singular) Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place of him and her.
Synonyms: word: they
word: ey
word: e
word: sie
word: shi
word: ze
Hyponyms: sense: as subject
word: he
sense: as subject
word: she
sense: as object
word: him
sense: as object
word: her
Derived terms: perself
per
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜː/
ipa: /pɝ/
ipa: /pɛr/
ipa: /pøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /peː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /pɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /pɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: purr (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: pair
homophone: pare
homophone: pear (all fair–fur merger)
Etymology: Shortening of person, coined by Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979)
Senses: examples: text: Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.
ref: 2006 November 15, Richard Ekins, Dave King, The transgender phenomenon, Sage Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC HQ77.9.E55 2006, page 160:
glosses: Belonging to per, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her.
Synonyms: word: their
word: eir
word: hir
Hyponyms: his
her
Derived terms: pers
Related terms: other attested
semi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛmi/
ipa: /ˈsɛmi/
ipa: /ˈsɛmaɪ/
rhymes: -ɛmi
Forms: form: semis
Etymology: The prefix semi- (from Latin) used as a noun.
Senses: examples: text: 2008, Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property, Career FAQs, Australia, page 40,
I′m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.
text: The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.
ref: 2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain, page 52:
text: The roads were lined with cramped little semis and 1960s bungalows: Britain's cheapest houses, in their flimsy, pebble-dashed glory.
ref: 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: A semi-detached house.
examples: text: I was hungry an' freezin' an' done caught a chill / When the lights of a big semi topped the hill
ref: 1967, Tommy Faile, “Phantom 309”, performed by Red Sovine:
text: All night we couldn′t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.
ref: 2011, Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run, Australia: Allen & Unwin, unnumbered page:
glosses: A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
glosses: A semifinal.
examples: text: The twink got a semi just from that look.
ref: 2010, Mickey Erlach, Video Boys, page 158:
glosses: A partial erection of the penis.
examples: text: See these niggas through the reticle sight up on my semi
[…]
For niggas plottin', I might blow it at your fitted
Get your bitch-ass slimed out, it ain't no kiddin'
Ain't no kiddin', got that semi
ref: 2023 April 28, “Got Dat Muneh” (track 10, 0:48 from the start), in Summrs (lyrics), GHOST:
glosses: A semiautomatic firearm.