cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
recurse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: recurses
form: recursing
form: recursed
form: recursed
Etymology: Back-formation from recursion.
Senses: examples: text: The algorithm then recurses on the children of the current tree node.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: recur
glosses: To execute a procedure recursively.
Related terms: recourse
recur
recurrence
recurrent
recursion
recursive
recursivity
cobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏbz
ipa: /kɒbz/
rhymes: -ɒbz
Senses: glosses: plural of cob
cobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏbz
ipa: /kɒbz/
rhymes: -ɒbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cob
balustrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæl.əˈstɹeɪd/
ipa: /ˈbæl.ə.stɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: balustrades
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French balustrade, from Italian balaustrata (“with balusters”), from balaustro (“baluster”), from balausta (“wild pomegranate flower”), via Latin balaustium, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion), from Semitic, compare Classical Syriac ܒܠܳܨܳܐ (blāṣā, “pomegranate shoot”)). So named because of resemblance to the swelling form of the half-open pomegranate flower. Also see baluster.
Senses: examples: text: So on a pleasant morning, as he leant / Into the sun-rise, o’er the balustrade [...]
ref: 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XXIII, page 60:
text: The Jester sat down on one of the marble balustrades and regarded Alvin with a curious intentness.
ref: 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 45:
glosses: A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
Hypernyms: parapet
Derived terms: balustraded
balustrading
Related terms: baluster
baluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaləstə/
ipa: /ˈbæləstɚ/
rhymes: -æləstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: balusters
form: ballister
form: balluster
form: balustre
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French balustre, from Italian balaustro (“pillar”), from balausta, balaustio (“wild pomegranate flower”), from Latin balaustium, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion), from Semitic (compare Classical Syriac ܒܠܳܨܳܐ (blāṣā, “pomegranate shoot”)). Doublet of banister.
Senses: examples: text: The two Posternes were answerable to those of others set downe before: and were cut out of the two round Towers which riz vp in proportionable measures, from the ground on the foreside with battlements and Ballisters round enclosing the tops, containing in all their heights — foote:
ref: 1604, Stephen Harrison, “The Deuice called, Cozmoz Neoz, New World.”, in The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince. Iames. ... at his Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London. vpon the 15th. day of march 1603. ..., via EEBO:
text: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Nick looked at the floor, and at the rhythm of the black-and-gilt S-shaped balusters.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
topics: architecture
synonyms: banister
glosses: A short column used in a group to support a rail, as commonly found on the side of a stairway or around a balcony; a banister.
Derived terms: balustered
balusterlike
Related terms: balustrade
lung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lŭng
ipa: /ˈlʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: lungs
Etymology: From Middle English lunge, longe, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō, an enlargement of *lungô (“the light organ, lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-, whence ultimately also light. Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish lunge, Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga, and also Russian лёгкое (ljóxkoje) (lung), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (elaphrós, “light in weight”) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister, bulge”). Compare Latin levis and Old English lēoht (Modern English light). See also lights (“lungs”). Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (“lung”), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (“lung”).
Senses: examples: text: I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
examples: text: He no longer has the lungs to play long rallies like he used to.
glosses: Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
examples: text: Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all the South-Western "lungs" - Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth - at unnaturally early hours[.]
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 123:
glosses: That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.
Synonyms: sense: organ
word: bellows
sense: organ
word: lights
Derived terms: aqualung
bagpipe lung
biolung
bird breeder's lung
bird fancier's lung
black lung
book lung
brown lung
diffuse parenchymal lung disease
farmer's lung
flock worker's lung
green lung
heart-lung machine
honeycomb lung
interstitial lung disease
iron lung
Labrador lung
leather-lunged
lung buster
lung-busting
lung butter
lung cancer
lung capacity
lung dart
lung-digit syndrome
lungectomy
lunged
lungedness
lunger
lung fever
lung fields
lungfish
lung flower
lungful
lung-grown
lungless
lunglessness
lung lichen
lunglike
lung power
lung sac
lung sick
lungsickness
lung toilet
lung volume
lungworm
lungwort
mahogany lung
midlung
miller's lung
miner's lung
nonlung
pigeon fancier's lung
popcorn lung
smoker's lung
whole lung lavage
woodworker's lung
wouldn't work in an iron lung
Related terms: pneumonic
pulmonary
hendecagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛnˈdɛkəɡ(ə)n/
Forms: form: hendecagons
Etymology: From hendeca- + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with eleven edges and eleven angles.
Synonyms: 11-gon
endecagon
undecagon
Related terms: hendecagonal
trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trăp
ipa: /tɹæp/
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔æp]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ap]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔äp]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɛp]
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: traps
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish trapp (“step, stair, stairway”), from Middle Low German trappe (“stair, step”).
Senses: glosses: A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
Derived terms: trappean
trappous
trappy
trap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: trăp
ipa: /tɹæp/
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔æp]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ap]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔äp]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɛp]
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: traps
form: trapping
form: trapped
form: trapped
Etymology: Akin to Middle English trappe (“trappings, gear”), and perhaps from Old Northern French trape, a byform of Old French drap, a word of the same origin as English drab (“a kind of cloth”).
Senses: examples: text: To decke his herce, and trap his tomb-blacke steed
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16:
text: [T]here she found her palfrey trapt / In purple blazon'd with armorial gold.
ref: 1840, Alfred Tennyson, “Godiva”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 114:
glosses: To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
Related terms: trapping
trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trăp
ipa: /tɹæp/
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔æp]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ap]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔äp]
ipa: [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɛp]
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: traps
Etymology: Clipping of trapezius.
Senses: topics: anatomy
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
glosses: The trapezius muscle.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: trip-trap
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: trap set
puritanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjʊəɹ.ɪˈtæn.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /pjɚ.ɪˈtæn.ɪ.kl̩/
Forms: form: more puritanical
form: most puritanical
form: Puritanical
Etymology: From puritanic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The host proposed divers puritanical fancies—nay, once hinted at a head of Cromwell himself; but the hostess overruled all these proposals, and stood firm by the Sun.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
examples: text: Exogamy […] has few or none of the quaint superstitions which lend a certain picturesque charm to totemism. It is, so to say, a stern Puritanical institution. Its rigid logic, its complex rules, its elaborate terminology, its labyrinthine systems of relationship, it presents an aspect somewhat hard and repellant.
ref: 1910, James George Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, volume 1, page xiv:
text: American society has a double standard when it comes to sexuality. We have a puritanical taboo against talking about sexuality directly, yet we are fine with the sexual images that pervade television and glossy magazines.
ref: 2014 May 21, Rey Junco, “What’s the big deal about sexting?”, in CNN:
glosses: Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid (often used by way of reproach or contempt).
puritanical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjʊəɹ.ɪˈtæn.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /pjɚ.ɪˈtæn.ɪ.kl̩/
Forms: form: puritanicals
form: Puritanical
Etymology: From puritanic + -al.
Senses: glosses: One who holds puritanical attitudes.
tor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː/
ipa: /toɹ/
ipa: /toː/
ipa: /tɔːɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: torr
homophone: tore (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (UK, pour–poor merger)
homophone: taw (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: tors
Etymology: From Middle English tor, torr-, from Old English torr, tor (“a high rock, lofty hill, tower”), possibly from Proto-Celtic, compare Old Welsh *tor (“hill”); ultimately from Latin turris (“tower”), from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis, “tower”), of non-Indo-European origin.
Cognate with Cornish tor, Scottish Gaelic tòrr, Welsh tŵr, Irish tor, French tor, and Romansch tor/tur/tuor; the first four are Celtic (from Latin turris), the last two directly from Latin turris (from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) and τύρσις (túrsis)). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. Doublet of tourelle, tower, and turret.
Senses: examples: text: Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, […]
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 183:
text: The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
ref: 1901 August – 1902 April, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter 9, in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], published 1902, →OCLC:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill, created by the erosion and weathering of rock.
examples: text: She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors—and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.
ref: 2008, Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night, Signet Eclipse, →ISBN, page 242:
qualifier: South-West England
glosses: A hill with such rock formation.
tor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː/
ipa: /toɹ/
ipa: /toː/
ipa: /tɔːɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: torr
homophone: tore (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (UK, pour–poor merger)
homophone: taw (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: more tor
form: most tor
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tore ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").
Related terms: TOR
Tor
torr
Torr
ecarte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /e.kʌɹˈte/
ipa: /e.kɑɹˈte/
Forms: form: écarté
Etymology: From French écarté.
Senses: examples: text: Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and the baronet played ecarte afterwards. - A. Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles
text: This invitation Lady Rotheles gave; and Lady Anne accepted, with reluctant civility; still, a pleasing and elegant looking woman like herself, fond of ecarté, which she played with great skill, whose daughters were both pretty and musical, rarely found herself at a loss what to do with her autumn.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: A card game for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.
betimes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈtaɪmz/
ipa: /bəˈtaɪmz/
rhymes: -aɪmz
Etymology: From Middle English betymes, from bi (“by”) + time + adverbial -s. By surface analysis, betime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare also betides.
Senses: examples: text: Behold, as wilde asses in the desart, goe they foorth to their worke, rising betimes for a pray: the wildernes yeeldeth food for them, and for their children.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 24:5:
text: They slept well that night and betimes next morning the mother of Alaeddin arose and went with her bowl to the King's court which she found closed.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: “I’ll answer for it, that he hath faced both the Catalan and the Moor, in his time, young as he may seem. Thou knowest that the nobles are wont to carry their sons, as children, early into the fight, that they may learn the deeds of chivalry betimes.”
ref: 1840, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter I, in Mercedes of Castile: Or, The Voyage to Cathay. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 20:
text: Smart lad to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay.
ref: 1896, A. E. Housman, “To An Athlete Dying Young,”, in A Shropshire Lad:
text: I was up betimes in the morning, but Holmes was afoot earlier still, for I saw him as I dressed, coming up the drive.
ref: 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 13, in The Hound of the Baskervilles:
text: However they dined very early, for the winter dusk fell betimes at this season [...].
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 786:
glosses: In good season or time; early, especially in the morning; seasonably.
examples: text: [O]ne prayed God right heartily aloud that He would send them betimes a knight that durst convoy them through this strait pass.
ref: 1898, The High History of the Holy Graal, translated by Sebastian Evans, Branch IX, Title II
text: Reproving betimes with sharpness...and afterward showing forth an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved[…]
ref: 1839, Doctrine and Covenants, 121:43:
glosses: In a short time, soon; quickly, forthwith.
dewlap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdu.læp/
ipa: /ˈdju.læp/
ipa: /ˈdjuː.læp/
rhymes: -uːlæp
Forms: form: dewlaps
Etymology: From Middle English dewlappe. The first element may be dew (and if not, seems to have been altered by folk etymology to resemble it); the second element is lap (“loose fabric”), Old English læppa (“a loose hanging piece”); compare jellop and jowlop (from jowl + lap), and dewclaw. Compare old Norwegian and Danish doglæp (the modern Danish word for "dew" is dug, but compare Old Norse dǫgg (“dew”) and Norwegian dogg). Old English instead terms such skin the frǣt-læppa (whence Middle English fresh-lappe).
Senses: examples: 1901 – 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
glosses: The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal.
examples: text: He ended up looking at himself in the mirror. His image stared back at him. He was developing a dewlap - a definite dewlap. He waggled under his chin scornfully with his fingers.
ref: 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, “Chapter 2”, in Midwinter Break, page 36:
glosses: The sagging flesh on the throat of an elderly human.
Derived terms: dewlapped
dewlapping
dewlapt
abandoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbændənɪŋ/
Senses: examples: Many have been abandoning their homes due to the violence. (progressive)
Their abandoning their homes means no tax revenues for the county. (gerund)
An abandoning husband can be a precursor to bankruptcy. (participial adjective)
glosses: present participle and gerund of abandon
Derived terms: unabandoning
abandoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbændənɪŋ/
Forms: form: abandonings
Senses: examples: text: Their sensuality—[…] —their universal and insatiable lustings, and disgraceful abandonings of their unhappy victims— […] may not be credited by those who have not proof of such crimes.
ref: 1842, Richard Oastler, The Fleet Papers, volume 2, page 306:
text: I […] owe the one who depends upon me the gentlest of abandonings, if I leave him.
ref: 1985, Annette Baier, “Frankena and Hume on Points of View”, in Postures of the Mind, →ISBN, page 174:
text: We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins and we cannot afford all these abandonings.
ref: 2003, Susan Peterson, The Craft and Art of Clay, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 315:
glosses: An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect
Aberdonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɚˈdoʊn.jən/
ipa: /ˌæb.əˈdoʊn.jən/
ipa: /ˌæb.ɚˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌæb.əˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɑbərˈdonjən/
ipa: /ebərˈdonjən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Aberdonia (“Aberdeen”) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Aberdeen.
Aberdonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɚˈdoʊn.jən/
ipa: /ˌæb.əˈdoʊn.jən/
ipa: /ˌæb.ɚˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌæb.əˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɑbərˈdonjən/
ipa: /ebərˈdonjən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Aberdonians
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Aberdonia (“Aberdeen”) + -an.
Senses: topics: anthropology
ethnography
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A citizen or inhabitant of, or person born in, Aberdeen, NE Scotland.
abetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abet
abetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abet
abetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛtɪŋ/
Forms: form: abettings
Senses: examples: text: aidings and abettings of every bad inclination in the popular mind
ref: 1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of one who abets.
abused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbjuːzd/
enpr: əbyo͞ozdʹ
rhymes: -uːzd
Forms: form: abus'd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abuse
abused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbjuːzd/
enpr: əbyo͞ozdʹ
rhymes: -uːzd
Forms: form: more abused
form: most abused
form: abus'd
Senses: glosses: Having been a victim of some form of abuse, most commonly child abuse or domestic violence.
glosses: Overused; used profligately or in excess.
examples: text: That be so farre abusyd
They cannot be excusyd
By reason nor by law; […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 5–7:
glosses: Deluded, deceived.
Derived terms: abusedly
nonabused
unabused
Related terms: ill-used
misused
abusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abuse
absolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absolve
absolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has been cleared from a sin or an offence.
Derived terms: unabsolved
ren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: renes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rēn. Doublet of rein (“kidney”).
Senses: examples: text: Having treated laſt of the expulſion of the inteſtinal fæces, we come next to conſider thoſe organs, which ſeparate and throw off another principal excrementitious matter, to wit, urine. The firſt of which is the renes or kidneys.
ref: 1759, Malcolm Flemyng, “Lecture XIX. On the kidneys and urinary bladder. Gravel; calculus.”, in An Introduction to Physiology, Being a Courſe of Lectures Upon the moſt important Parts of the Animal Œconomy: […], London: J. Nourse, →OCLC, page 259:
text: We find, however, that the detrita, consisting principally of effete hydrogen and carbon, brought into the circulation by the absorbents, are constantly making their escape from the system by way of the renes, skin, and lungs, in the forms of water, and carbonic-acid.
ref: 1810, William Tully, “On Aliment”, in Proceedings of the Presidents and Fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society, published 1884, page 326:
text: It would probably have been considered an important omission if I had not mentioned Water as a substance excreted freely by the renes or kidneys.
ref: 1858, William Tully, Materia Medica; Or, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, page 1195:
text: Renal. Belonging to the ren or kidney.
ref: 1893, Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A kidney.
Related terms: renal
ren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: rens
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Egyptian rn, r:n-A2
Senses: examples: text: For the Ren did not belong to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir again until it was time to go back.
ref: 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
ken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛn/
ipa: /kɪn/
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: Ken
homophone: kin (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: kens
form: kenning
form: kenned
form: kenned
Etymology: From Middle English kennen (“to give birth, conceive, generate, beget; to develop (as a fetus), hatch out (of eggs); to sustain, nourish, nurture”), from Old English cennan (“to give birth, conceive, generate, beget”), from Proto-West Germanic *kannjan, from Proto-Germanic *kanjaną.
Senses: examples: text: To the soul this ghostly bread is the learning and the teaching and the understanding in the commandments of God, wherethrough the soul is kenned and lives.
ref: 1524, Desiderius Erasmus, translated by Margaret Roper, A Devout Treatise upon the Paternoster:
glosses: To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
ken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛn/
ipa: /kɪn/
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: Ken
homophone: kin (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: kens
form: kenning
form: kenned
form: kenned
form: kent
form: kent
Etymology: Northern English dialects and Scots language from Middle English kennen, from Old English cennan (“make known, declare, acknowledge”) originally “to make known”, causative of cunnan (“to become acquainted with, to know”), from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną, causative of *kunnaną (“be able”), from which comes the verb can.
Cognate with West Frisian kenne (“to know; recognise”), Dutch kennen (“to know”), German kennen (“to know, be acquainted with someone/something”), Norwegian Bokmål kjenne, Norwegian Nynorsk kjenna, Old Norse kenna (“to know, perceive”), Swedish känna (“to know, feel”), Danish kende (“to know”). See also: can, con.
Senses: examples: text: It was noted by them that kenned best that her cantrips were at their worst when the tides in the Sker Bay ebbed between the hours of twelve and one.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Johnny: Is your name Maggie? / Maggie: How'd you ken that? / Johnny: It's just a hunch. Are you looking for the, uh, petulant dwarf?
ref: 1993, Mike Leigh, Naked (motion picture):
text: Ah thought he wis being harsh, flippant and show-oafy, until ah got sae far in. Now ah ken precisely what the cunt meant.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: To know, perceive or understand.
examples: text: 'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gate, / He riſes on the toe:
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], line 14:
text: I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of [the telescope] upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off.
ref: 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
text: We ken them from afar.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene v, page 1:
glosses: To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
Derived terms: beken
foreken
kenned
kenner
kenning
misken
miskenning
outken
underken
unken
unkenned
unkenning
Related terms: can
con
ken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛn/
ipa: /kɪn/
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: Ken
homophone: kin (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: kens
Etymology: Perhaps from kennel.
Senses: examples: text: Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
ref: 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:
text: Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans. Egad, you carry a bene blink aloft. Come to the ken alone—no! my blowen; did not I tell you I should bring a pater cove, to chop up the whiners for Dawson?
ref: 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 383:
text: Up she goes to any likely ken, where she knows there are women that are married or expect to get married, and commences begging.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 351:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A house, especially a den of thieves.
Derived terms: english: pub
translation: pub
word: boozing ken
english: pub
translation: pub
word: bousing ken
word: dossing-ken
english: outhouse
translation: outhouse
word: dunniken
word: dunny-ken
word: flatty-ken
word: gentry cove's ken
word: grubbing ken
word: padding-ken
english: prison
translation: prison
word: queer ken
word: stauling-ken
english: brothel
translation: brothel
word: wapping ken
ken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛn/
ipa: /kɪn/
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: Ken
homophone: kin (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: kenim
Etymology: From Hebrew קֵן (“nest”).
Senses: examples: text: Gilboa and Habonim Dror also run year-round programming, holding regional reunions (called kenim) up and down the state
ref: 2016 January 15, Dan Pine, “Hike, swim, fix the world: Kids mix it up at Gilboa camp”, in The Jewish News of Northern California:
text: Gavriella: At an annual movement conference. I went for the first time, and we proposed creating new kenim [branches] and it was approved, which is amazing!
ref: 2018 October 6, Meital Shapiro, “What It's Like to Be a Socialist Zionist in the U.S.”, in Israel News:
text: At the beginning of 1944 he was sent to Debreccen to operate the local ken and to organize self-defense.
ref: 2007, David Gur, דוד גור, Eli Netser, Brothers for Resistance and Rescue, page 87:
glosses: Youth or children's group.
ken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛn/
ipa: /kɪn/
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: Ken
homophone: kin (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: kens
form: ken
Etymology: From Japanese 間.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus.
ken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛn/
ipa: /kɪn/
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: Ken
homophone: kin (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: ken
Etymology: From Japanese 剣.
Senses: glosses: The tsurugi (type of sword).
Related terms: jan ken po
ken oath
bok
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑk/
ipa: /bɒk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Etymology: From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck. Compare German Bock (“willingness, desire”).
Senses: examples: "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."
glosses: Keen or willing.
bok
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑk/
ipa: /bɒk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: examples: text: And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.
ref: 2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices:
text: So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok, bok!'
ref: 2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory:
related: word: bawk#Interjection
glosses: The clucking sound of a chicken.
bok
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑk/
ipa: /bɒk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: boks
form: bokking
form: bokked
form: bokked
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: glosses: To make the clucking sound of a chicken.
Related terms: bok-bok
bok choy
abutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abut
mos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mores
Senses: glosses: singular of mores (“moral norms or customs”)
mos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mo (“month; molester”)
hout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houts
Etymology: From Afrikaans hout. Doublet of holt.
Senses: glosses: A black African.
den
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛn/
enpr: dĕn
ipa: /dɪn/
enpr: dĭn
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: din (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: dens
Etymology: From Middle English den, from Old English denn (“den, lair (of a beast), cave; a swine-pasture, a woodland pasture for swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“threshing-floor, barn-floor”). Cognate with Scots den (“den, lair”), Middle Dutch denne (“burrow, den, cave, attic”), Dutch den (“ship's deck, threshing-floor, mountain floor”), Middle Low German denne, danne (“threshing-floor, small dale”), German Tenne (“threshing-floor, barn for threshing”).
Senses: examples: text: a den of robbers
text: Daniel was put into the lions’ den.
synonyms: lair
luster
Wiktionary appendix of animal terms, including their homes
glosses: A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
examples: text: a den of vice
text: an opium den; a gambling den
text: Lying in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw and not much to say
ref: 1980, Colin Hay, Ron Strykert, “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work:
glosses: A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
synonyms: family room
glosses: A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
examples: text: Our little girls love using bedsheets and other stuff around the house to make dens in the living room and pretending they're on adventures.
glosses: Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”).
synonyms: word: fort
extra: (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”).
examples: text: I have made several visits of late to the Den of Rubislaw
ref: 1806, Sir William Forbes, An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D., including many of his Original Letters:
glosses: A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
glosses: A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
Derived terms: beard the lion in his den
Boris's den
denful
denlike
den mother
denner
den of iniquity
dragon's den
drug den
gambling den
lion's den
Maggie's den
Major's den
opium den
Tony's den
den
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛn/
enpr: dĕn
ipa: /dɪn/
enpr: dĭn
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: din (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: dens
form: denning
form: denned
form: denned
Etymology: From Middle English den, from Old English denn (“den, lair (of a beast), cave; a swine-pasture, a woodland pasture for swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“threshing-floor, barn-floor”). Cognate with Scots den (“den, lair”), Middle Dutch denne (“burrow, den, cave, attic”), Dutch den (“ship's deck, threshing-floor, mountain floor”), Middle Low German denne, danne (“threshing-floor, small dale”), German Tenne (“threshing-floor, barn for threshing”).
Senses: glosses: To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
examples: text: Although present in virtually all habitats, it preferred to den in caves, so its distribution, especially in cold, northern areas, may have been limited to limestone and other rocky regions where caves form.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 203:
text: “Denning” – behaviour around making dens – has changed and bears are swimming long distances, but, says Aars, there is still enough sea ice in the spring for the bears to hunt successfully.
ref: 2023 August 30, Patrick Greenfield, “Why it may be time to stop using the polar bear as a symbol of the climate crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of an animal, to use as a den; to take up residence in.
den
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛn/
enpr: dĕn
ipa: /dɪn/
enpr: dĭn
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: din (pin–pen merger)
Etymology: From Old French denier, from Latin denarius.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight).
den
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛn/
enpr: dĕn
ipa: /dɪn/
enpr: dĭn
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: din (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: dens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dene.
raw_tags: in place names
Derived terms: Walsden
den
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛn/
enpr: dĕn
ipa: /dɪn/
enpr: dĭn
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: din (pin–pen merger)
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of then, representing AAVE, Bermuda English.
Related terms: good-den
bos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bo
acceding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accede
accentuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accentuate
accompanied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌmpəniːd/
ipa: /əˈkʌmpniːd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accompany
accompanied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌmpəniːd/
ipa: /əˈkʌmpniːd/
Senses: glosses: Having accompaniment; being part of a group of at least two.
Synonyms: sense: past of accompany
word: acc.
Derived terms: nonaccompanied
self-accompanied
unaccompanied
fait accompli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfeɪt.əˈkɔm.pli/
ipa: /ˌfeɪt.əˌkɔmˈpli/
other: /fɛt-/
Forms: form: faits accomplis
Etymology: Borrowed from French fait accompli (“a completed fact”), from fait (“a fact”) + accompli (“completed; accomplished”).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Quiverful's appointment to the hospital was, however, a fait accompli, and Mr. Harding's acquiescence in that appointment was not less so.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, “Mr. Slope’s Parting Interview with the Signora”, in Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 272:
text: “In quarters where the fait accompli is an object of solicitude,” said Yeovil.
ref: 1913, Saki, When William Came, Chapter VII:
text: The phrase “Spanish Conquest” and all it implies has come down through history because the Spaniards were so concerned to depict their endeavors as conquests and pacifications, as contracts fulfilled, as providential intention, as faits accomplis.
ref: 2003, Matthew Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 65:
text: [Hal] Varian awards surveillance capitalists the privilege of the experimenter's role, and this is presented as another casual fait accompli.
ref: 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 10, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
synonyms: done deal
glosses: Something which has already happened, before those affected had the chance to raise objections or queries.
mout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He was quickly silenced, however, by a burly individual, who "reckoned that it mout be jist as well for the stranger to keep his clam-shell shut."
ref: 1858, Harper's Weekly:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of might, corresponding to US regional dialect.
Related terms: mought
bout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊt/
ipa: /bʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
rhymes: -ʌʊt
homophone: 'bout
Forms: form: bouts
form: bouting
form: bouted
form: bouted
Etymology: From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought.
For the sense development compare bender.
Senses: glosses: To contest a bout.
bout
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊt/
ipa: /bʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
rhymes: -ʌʊt
homophone: 'bout
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of about.
Senses: examples: text: They're talking bout you!
text: Maddy is bout to get beat up!
glosses: Aphetic form of about.
tik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Early 21st century, perhaps imitative of the popping sounds made by meth being lit and smoked.
Senses: examples: text: This Tuesday Special Assignment focuses on a deepening crisis in Cape Town. Many young adults and schoolchildren as young as 10 years are in the grip of a powerful drug called crystal methamphetamine – known locally as tik. It’s been on the fringes for several years but it is now catching on fast among the youth of the Western Cape.
ref: 2004 June 8, “On the Tik-Tik express”, in SABC News, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2006:
text: Over a third of all people seeking rehabilitation in the second half of 2005 reported that their primary problem was tik.
ref: 2006 May 13, Weekend Argus, page 12:
text: Hardly a week goes by without news of a crime bust of some kind involving one of the buses travelling cross-country, with everything from mandrax to tik, marijuana and abalone finding its way on board.
ref: 2020 October 10, Mike Simpson, “More seizures of drug consignments on long-distance buses”, in The South African:
glosses: crystal meth or speed.
sik
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sik
form: most sik
Senses: examples: text: 'Bali was awesome.'
'Yeah, I went there too. It was sik.'
ref: 2014, Jeremiah Messenger, Black Sheep White Light, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of sick (“cool, excellent”).
rik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of riq.
bereavement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈriːvmənt/
Forms: form: bereavements
Etymology: From bereave + -ment.
Senses: examples: 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost
glosses: The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.
Related terms: mourning
pagina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpædʒɪnə/
Forms: form: paginae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pāgina. Doublet of page.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.
primus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪməs/
rhymes: -aɪməs
Forms: form: primuses
Etymology: From Latin prīmus (“[the] first”); related to prior, the comparative form. Partially cognate to foremost, from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. Doublet of prime and primo.
Senses: examples: 1884, Gonzalo Canilla, speech at the Centenary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury
my own grandfather, some time Bishop of Edinburgh, among its Primuses
glosses: One of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.
Derived terms: primus-ship
Related terms: primus motor
primus inter pares
primate
cuniculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuniculi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cunīculus.
Senses: synonyms: latibulum[Appendix:Glossary#obsolete|obsolete]]>
glosses: A burrow or low underground passage, such as a rabbit warren, mine, or catacomb.
glosses: A burrow in the skin made by a mite.
Derived terms: cuniculiform
Related terms: cunicular
cuniculiform
direction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d(a)ɪˈɹɛk.ʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖæ.ɾekʃan/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖajɾekʃan/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖiˈɾekʃan/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: directions
Etymology: From Middle English direccioun, from Old French direccion, from Latin dīrēctiō. Equivalent to direct + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Keep going in the same direction.
text: Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).
glosses: A general trend for future action.
examples: text: The trombonist looked to the bandleader for direction.
glosses: Guidance, instruction.
examples: text: The screenplay was good, but the direction was weak.
glosses: The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
examples: text: I shall not rest satisfied with merely employing my capital in insuring ships. I shall buy up some good Life Assurance shares, and cut into the Direction.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.
examples: text: Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction.
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 218:
glosses: A person's address.
Derived terms: cardinal direction
codirection
co-direction
directional
directionality
Directioner
directionful
direction indicator
directionize
directionless
direction sign
direction vector
directive
director
eigendirection
general direction
intercardinal direction
is this the right direction for
misdirection
nondirection
ordinal direction
qibla direction
radio direction finder
redirection
self-direction
sense of direction
stage direction
stereodirection
unidirection
wind direction
x-direction
y-direction
z-direction
Related terms: direct
lingua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwə/
Forms: form: linguae
form: linguas
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin lingua (“the tongue”). Doublet of langue and tongue.
Senses: examples: text: Let your lingua loiter on its salty, hard surface. When you finally crack the nut, don’t swallow it right away.
ref: 2009, Alex J. Packer, Wise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, & Get Away from It All Without Alcohol Or Other Drugs, Read How You Want, →ISBN, page 24:
text: “I believe it’s from the condition he’s acquired,” she answered while moving closer to examine the elongated lingua. “You can put it back in your mouth now.”
ref: 2016, E.B. Mendel, If Frogs Could Fly, Sunbridge Books, →ISBN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of tongue.
synonyms: word: tongue
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A median process of the labium, at the underside of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.
Derived terms: interlingua
lingual
Related terms: lingua franca
directions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d(a)ɪˈɹɛk.ʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of direction
directions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d(a)ɪˈɹɛk.ʃənz/
Senses: examples: text: Please follow the attached directions when assembling these shelves.
text: I got so lost on my way downtown I had to ask for directions.
glosses: Instructions for how to reach a destination or how to do something