cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: sens
form: sen
Etymology: From Indonesian sen, from Dutch cent, from Old French cent (“hundred”). See further etymology at cent.
Senses: glosses: A unit of Indonesian currency, worth one hundredth of a rupiah.
sen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: sens
form: sen
Etymology: From Malay sen, from English cent. See further etymology at cent.
Senses: glosses: A unit of Malaysian currency, worth one hundredth of a ringgit.
glosses: A coin of this value.
sen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: From Thai เส้น (sên).
Senses: glosses: A unit of length equal 20 wa, 40 meters.
Related terms: sen high
sepal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛp(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈsiːp(ə)l/
rhymes: -iːpəl
Forms: form: sepals
Etymology: From French sépale, from New Latin sepalum.
Senses: examples: text: 1836, The Family Magazine, Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume III, Redfield & Lindsay, page 367,
When the sepals are distinct, or separate from each other, the calyx is said to be polysepalous.
text: The sepal and the petal are essentially leaf-like in form and anatomy but generally simpler in detailed structure than a foliage leaf.
ref: 2009, Shubhrata R. Mishra, Understanding Plant Reproduction, Discovery Publishing House, page 164:
text: In tomato, for example, the first sepal primordium is formed as an outgrowth at the periphery of the apex and the subsequent sepal primordia are initiated in a helical fashion at an angle of approximately 137° from the previous one.
ref: 2017, Taylor A. Steeves, Vipen K. Sawhney, Essentials of Developmental Plant Anatomy, Oxford University Press, page 29:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when such components are not fused into a single structure.
Derived terms: polysepalous
sepalous
Related terms: petal
sepalar
tepal
sepoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːˌpɔɪ/
ipa: /sɪˈpɔɪ/
rhymes: -iːpɔɪ
Forms: form: sepoys
Etymology: From Portuguese sipae, from Urdu سِپاہی (sipāhī) / Hindi सिपाही (sipāhī), from Classical Persian سِپَاهِی (sipāhī, “soldier, horseman”), from سِپَاه (sipāh, “army”). Doublet of spahi and sipahi.
Senses: examples: text: If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore.
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 238:
text: They proved to be the wives of a body of sepoys, also from the 5th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry; the sepoys had perished, and their families been enslaved, when their pattamar had been captured by the Qawasim some months before.
ref: 1997, Charles E. Davies, The Blood-red Arab Flag: An Investigation Into Qasimi Piracy, 1797-1820, University of Exeter Press, →ISBN, page 312:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.
glosses: The holder of an infantry enlisted rank equivalent to private in other countries.
septic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛp.tɪk/
Forms: form: more septic
form: most septic
form: septick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “characterized by putridity”), from σηπτός (sēptós), from σήπω (sḗpō).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sepsis.
glosses: Causing sepsis or putrefaction.
examples: text: septic tank
text: a septic system
glosses: Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage.
Derived terms: septic abortion
septic fever
Related terms: antiseptic
asepsis
aseptic
sepsis
septicemia
septicity
septic shock
septic tank
septic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛp.tɪk/
Forms: form: septics
form: septick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “characterized by putridity”), from σηπτός (sēptós), from σήπω (sḗpō).
Senses: examples: 1750, John Pringle, Further Experiments on Substances Resisting Putrefaction, in 1809, Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson (editors), The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume X: 1750—1755, page 86,
But, in the prosecution of this subject, he had met with very few real septics; and found many substances, commonly accounted such, of a quite opposite nature.
glosses: A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction.
examples: text: Acid-base balance data revealed moderately abnormal metabolic balance for both septics and nonseptics (in either direction) with normal respiratory balance or mild alkalosis.
ref: 1983 May/June, Ivo Giovannini, Giuseppe Boldrini, Marco Castagneto, Gabriele Sganga, Giuseppe Nanni, Mauro Pittiruti, Giancarlo Castiglioni, “Respiratory Quotient and Patterns of Substrate Utilization in Human Sepsis and Trauma”, in Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, volume 7, number 3, →DOI, page 227:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who has sepsis.
examples: text: The question is whether there are any spatial differences in how septics impact water quality, and whether these spatial variations should be considered when regulating septic improvement or removal.
ref: 2008, Alexey Voinov, Systems Science and Modeling for Ecological Economics, page 244:
glosses: A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system.
Coordinate terms: drainfield
leach drain
leach drainfield
leach field
water closet
Related terms: sense: septic tank, septic system
word: septic drain
sense: septic tank, septic system
word: septic drainfield
sense: septic tank, septic system
word: septic field
sense: septic tank, septic system
word: septic system
sense: septic tank, septic system
word: septic tank
septic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛp.tɪk/
Forms: form: septics
Etymology: From Latin septem (“seven”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Enriques states that it is possible to construct a family of septics with a singular curve of degree 7 and genus 4 having a triple point that degenerates to the above configuration[…].
ref: 2002, Ingrid C. Bauer, Fabrizio Catanese, Roberto Pignatelli, “Canonical Rings of Surfaces Whose Canonical System has Base Points”, in Ingrid C. Bauer et al., editors, Complex Geometry: Collection of Papers Dedicated to Hans Grauert, page 66:
text: Now consider the two septics C = U⁷ᵢ₌₁Cᵢ, D = U⁷ᵢ₌₁Dᵢ and note that for i = 1,2,3,4,5,6 the lines Cᵢ and Dᵢ are parallel, so that the intersection of two septics S' consists of 6⁶^([sic]) + 6 + 1 = 43 points and it is the singular set of a foliation of degree 6.
ref: 2003, Antonio Campillo, Santiago Encinas, “Two Dimensional Complete Ideals”, in Luchezar L. Avramov et al., editors, Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Geometry: International Conference, page 71:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical object (function, curve, surface, etc.) of degree seven.
septic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛp.tɪk/
Etymology: From Latin septem (“seven”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of the seventh degree or order.
septic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛp.tɪk/
Forms: form: septics
form: Septic
Etymology: Short form of Cockney rhyming slang septic tank (“Yank”).
Senses: examples: text: Typical septic. Can't understand why the rest of the world thinks he's a fuck-knuckle.
ref: 1998 April 21, Justin Downey, “Re: rachel is awful cute!”, alt.nuke.the.USA, aus.flame.usa, and alt.flame
text: “Didn′t enjoy the septics,” he says jokingly about the Americans.
ref: 2011, Roger Rees, Out of Calamity: Stories of Trauma Survivors, unnumbered page:
text: “What′s the septics′ Achilles heel?” I said using the slang septic tank, meaning Yank.
ref: 2012, John Righten, The Benevolence of Rogues, page 97:
glosses: An American, a Yank.
serine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serines
Etymology: From Latin sericus (“silken”). The compound was first obtained from silk protein, a particularly rich source, in 1865. See also serge.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nonessential amino acid, CH₂OH.CH(NH₂)COOH, found in most animal proteins, notably silk.
Synonyms: Ser
Derived terms: phosphatidylserine
serum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪəɹəm/
ipa: /ˈsiːɹəm/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹəm/
ipa: /ˈsiɹəm/
rhymes: (UK) -ɪəɹəm
rhymes: (US) -ɪɹəm
Forms: form: serums
form: sera
Etymology: From Latin serum (“whey”). Cognates include French sérum, Spanish suero, Italian siere, siero, Portuguese soro. Doublet of suero.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of blood serum.
examples: Near-synonym: antiserum
glosses: Blood serum used as a blood product, in the practice of medicine: blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals (human or nonhuman), containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual (human or nonhuman).
glosses: A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister.
glosses: The watery portion of certain other animal fluids, such as milk; whey.
glosses: A skincare product of varying consistencies with a high concentration of one or more active ingredients, for a targeted purpose, such as preventing acne, repairing sun damage, or moisturizing.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from serum
word: antiserum
sense: Terms derived from serum
word: blood serum
sense: Terms derived from serum
word: convalescent serum
sense: Terms derived from serum
word: immune serum
sense: Terms derived from serum
word: serous
sense: Terms derived from serum
word: serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase
sense: Terms derived from serum
word: serum sickness
sense: Terms derived from serum
word: truth serum
Related terms: sero-
antidote
antitoxin
antivenom
servo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.vəʊ/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.voʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vəʊ
Forms: form: servos
Etymology: Clipping of servomotor.
Senses: examples: text: A Lockheed Type 6 remote servo adds a 1.9 multiplier to the pedal pressures and, at about £140, is rather cheaper than all the Girling single line remote servos I′ve seen advertised.
ref: 2003, Roger Williams, How to Improve Triumph TR5, 250 and 6, page 45:
text: If you are using Futaba servos with the application, make sure that you change the data values accordingly.
ref: 2004, Myke Predko, 123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius, page 300:
text: The servo is an autonomic element of a control system: Setting a desired value of an output parameter makes a servo do its job independently of other factors as long as the specified value remains constant.
ref: 2008, Mark L. Latash, Neurophysiological Basis of Movement, page 95:
glosses: A servomechanism.
glosses: A servomechanism.
A servomotor.
Derived terms: servo drive
servocontrol
servocontroller
servo-driven
servosystem
servo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.vəʊ/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.voʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vəʊ
Forms: form: servos
form: servoing
form: servoed
form: servoed
Etymology: Clipping of servomotor.
Senses: glosses: To control by means of servocontrol
servo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.vəʊ/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.voʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vəʊ
Forms: form: servos
Etymology: Clipping of service station + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Two hours later Susan pulled the Pajero off the road onto the floodlit apron of the servo at the end of the Bowen bypass.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 83:
text: Crude oil is purchased in US dollars, so the price of the petrol at your local servo is heavily influenced by the rate of exchange between the greenback and the Aussie dollar.
ref: 2008, Roz Hopkins, Pumped, page 12:
ref: 2011 July 16, “Beechboro servo bandit escapes with cash”, in The West Australian:
ref: 2011 July 17, “Teen arrested over servo robbery”, in Illawarra Mercury:
glosses: A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities.
shad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: shad
form: shads
Etymology: From Middle English shadde, from Old English sceadd, possibly from Celtic (compare Scottish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian/North Germanic (compare dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”), Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”)), but the order of borrowing is unclear and the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.
Senses: examples: text: Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts.
ref: 2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 1, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale:
glosses: Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
glosses: Any bluefish of species Pomatomus saltatrix.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Alosa sphaerocephala
word: Agrakhan shad
taxonomic: Alosa alabamae
word: Alabama shad
taxonomic: Alosa alosa
word: allis shad
taxonomic: Alosa sapidissima
word: American shad
taxonomic: Alosa caspia persica
word: Astrabad shad
taxonomic: Alosa tanaica
word: Azov shad
taxonomic: Alosa maeotica
word: Black Sea shad
taxonomic: Alosa kessleri
word: Caspian anadromous shad
taxonomic: Alosa braschnikowi
word: Caspian marine shad
taxonomic: Alosa caspia caspia
word: Caspian shad
taxonomic: Alosa caspia knipowitschi
word: Enzeli shad
taxonomic: Alosa fallax
word: European shad
alt: Dorosoma spp. et al.
word: gizzard shad
taxonomic: Alosa mediocris
word: hickory shad
taxonomic: Alosa killarnensis
word: Killarney shad
taxonomic: Alosa curensis
word: Kura shad
taxonomic: Tenualosa thibaudeaui
word: Laotian shad
taxonomic: Alosa macedonica
word: Macedonia shad
taxonomic: Alosa algeriensis
word: North African shad
taxonomic: Alosa immaculata
word: Pontic shad
taxonomic: Tenualosa reevesii
word: Reeves' shad
taxonomic: Alosa spp.
word: river shad
taxonomic: Alosa saposchnikowii
word: Saposhnikovi shad
word: shad-bellied
word: shadbird
word: shadbush
taxonomic: Amelanchier spp.
word: shad bush
taxonomic: Rana halecina
word: shad frog
word: shad-spirit
taxonomic: Prosopium cylindraceum
word: shad-waiter
taxonomic: Alosa chrysochloris
word: skipjack shad
taxonomic: Tenualosa toli
word: Toli shad
taxonomic: Alosa vistonica
word: Thracian shad
word: twait shad
taxonomic: Alosa fallax
word: twaite shad
taxonomic: Alosa volgensis
word: Volga shad
shalom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːˈloʊm/
ipa: /ʃəˈləʊm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālóm, “peace, well-being; Hello, good-bye”). Doublet of salaam, the same word via Arabic.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell.
Related terms: brit shalom
Shabbat shalom
shalom aleichem
shalom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːˈloʊm/
ipa: /ʃəˈləʊm/
Forms: form: shaloms
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālóm, “peace, well-being; Hello, good-bye”). Doublet of salaam, the same word via Arabic.
Senses: examples: text: He exchanged shaloms with a group of young people coming out of the synagogue and turned left toward a corner.
ref: 2014, David Morrell, The League of Night and Fog:
glosses: The traditional Jewish greeting of "shalom".
examples: text: In Hebrew, bonai shalom means “builders of peace,” and the congregation welcomes both Jews and non-Jews to participate in all aspects of the community.
ref: 2025 June 4, Cindy Von Quednow, TuAnh Dam, “Their synagogue taught them to build peace. An antisemitic attack is testing their resilience”, in CNN:
glosses: Peace.
shalom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːˈloʊm/
ipa: /ʃəˈləʊm/
Forms: form: shaloms
form: shaloming
form: shalomed
form: shalomed
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālóm, “peace, well-being; Hello, good-bye”). Doublet of salaam, the same word via Arabic.
Senses: glosses: To greet somebody with "shalom".
Related terms: Salome
Shalom
Shlomo
Shula
Shulamith
Solomon
shaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɔː/
ipa: /ʃɔ/
ipa: /ʃɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: Shaw
homophone: sure
homophone: shore (Received Pronunciation, pour–poor merger)
homophone: shah (US, cot–caught merger, father-bother merger)
homophone: zzxjoanw
Forms: form: shaws
form: shawe
Etymology: From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.
Senses: examples: text: All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XII, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
english: All this heard Sir Lamorak, and on the morn Sir Lamorak took his horse and rode unto the forest, and there he met with two knights hoving under the wood-shaw
translation: All this heard Sir Lamorak, and on the morn Sir Lamorak took his horse and rode unto the forest, and there he met with two knights hoving under the wood-shaw
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text: Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XXXIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
english: Then said Sir Kay: I require you let us prove this adventure. I shall not fail you, said Sir Gaheris. And so they rode that time to a lake that was that time called the Perilous Lake, and there they abode under the shaw of the wood
translation: Then said Sir Kay: I require you let us prove this adventure. I shall not fail you, said Sir Gaheris. And so they rode that time to a lake that was that time called the Perilous Lake, and there they abode under the shaw of the wood
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text: The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
ref: 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, V, lines 1-2:
glosses: A thicket; a small wood or grove.
examples: text: Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 35:
coordinate_terms: straw
stover
trash
glosses: The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
Derived terms: Shaw
Shaw Bridge
Shawbridge
shay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: chez
Forms: form: shays
Etymology: A back-formation from chaise (originally from French), with the /z/ of that word taken as the plural ending -s.
Senses: examples: text: The poſt-ſhay ſhall be at the door by ſix o'clock in the morning; and if Miſs Fanny does not get into it, vvhy I vvill, and ſo there's an end of the matter.
ref: 1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 57:
text: Master sent me over with the shay-cart, to carry your luggage up to the house. He’d ha’ sent some saddle-horses, but he thought you’d rather walk, being a cold day.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: A chaise.
sheave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: sheaves
Etymology: From Middle English, from a Germanic base akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split”). For more see shive.
Senses: examples: text: To an exceptional degree the duties on these inclines have been passed on from father to son; many a boy has begun his working life in oiling the sheaves and, after passing through every grade, has reached the age of retirement in the responsible position of brakesman.
ref: 1942 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “The Stanhope & Tyne Railway: II–Self-Acting Inclines”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
glosses: A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
glosses: A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
sheave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: sheaves
form: sheaving
form: sheaved
form: sheaved
Etymology: See sheaf.
Senses: examples: text: From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
Their country's harvest.
ref: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
glosses: To gather and bind into a sheaf.
shill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪl/
homophone: she'll (in some accents)
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: shills
form: shilling
form: shilled
form: shilled
Etymology: Unknown; attested as verb 1914, as noun 1916. Perhaps an abbreviation of shillaber, attested 1913. The word entered English via carny, originally denoting a carnival worker who pretends to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction.
Speculatively an extended form of German Schieber (“black marketeer, profiteer”) via *shi-la-ber.
There are some suggestions that it originates in the surname Shilaber or Shillibeer, especially George Shillibeer, but proposed origins are dubious as the word is first attested in North America in the 20th century, while proposed models are 19th century British.
American humorist Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814–1890) was known to write under the name Mrs. Ruth Partington to lend credibility to some of his ideas. This is one more possible origin of the word, although there is no specific evidence supporting a connection.
Senses: examples: text: That contractor seems to be shilling for a certain brand of building materials.
text: That contractor seems to be shilling that specific epoxy.
text: Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
ref: 1996, Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World:
text: Over the last six months, as A-list celebrities have shilled for digital currencies and NFTs, Mr. McKenzie, a TV actor best known for his starring role in “The O.C.,” has become an outspoken skeptic.
ref: 2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly; sometimes extended sarcastically even to those not paid but strongly biased in favor.
shill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪl/
homophone: she'll (in some accents)
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: shills
form: shilling
form: shilled
form: shilled
Senses: glosses: To put under cover; to sheal.
shill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪl/
homophone: she'll (in some accents)
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: shills
form: shilling
form: shilled
form: shilled
Senses: glosses: To shell.
Related terms: hawk
prostitute
sell out
whore
shim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: shims
Etymology: Unknown; from Kent. Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.
Senses: glosses: A wedge.
examples: text: The second adjustment [to a door that keeps swinging open] will require the screws to be loosened, and a shim or packing piece pushed behind the hinge to bring it into line.
ref: 2016 January 30, Jeff Howell, “Swinging doors: it's not open and shut”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), page 15:
glosses: A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
examples: text: Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution.
ref: 2010, Russell Smith, Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
glosses: A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
synonyms: slim jim
glosses: A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
shim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: shims
form: shimming
form: shimmed
form: shimmed
Etymology: Unknown; from Kent. Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.
Senses: glosses: To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.
glosses: To adjust something by using shims.
glosses: To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field, after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
shim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: shims
Etymology: Blend of she + him.
Senses: examples: text: He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.
ref: 1998, The Seneca review, Hobart Student Association:
text: "We call him shim— short for 'she-him.'
ref: 1995 May 30, The Advocate, page 11:
text: Yes Maam, or Sir or just what / how do you address a shim?
ref: 2004 July 26, grdog, “Wisdom of Great Leaders”, in alt.bitch.pork (Usenet):
synonyms: word: he-she
glosses: A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
examples: text: […] that I was a hermaphrodite, and that things would probably be getting much, much worse as other "parts" of me began to grow manly and I made the full transformation into a "shim."
ref: 2009, Laurie Notaro, The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
Related terms: word: shis
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: shim-pua marriage
shiv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪv/
rhymes: -ɪv
Forms: form: shivs
form: chib
form: chiv
form: shive
Etymology: First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).
Senses: examples: text: It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail—that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks.
ref: 1971, Abbie Hoffman, “Introduction”, in Steal This Book, Pirate Editions / Grove Press:
text: Mr. Simpson finished “If I Did It” with the help of a ghostwriter, but after a public outcry, the book was shelved, and the woman who had agreed to publish it lost her job. “Basically, I got the shiv,” Ms. Regan said in a phone interview this week.
ref: 2024 April 13, Jacob Bernstein, quoting Judith Regan, “When O.J. Simpson ‘Confessed’ to Murder”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: shank
glosses: A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
glosses: A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.
Derived terms: shivvy
shiv
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪv/
rhymes: -ɪv
Forms: form: shivs
form: shivving
form: shivved
form: shivved
form: chib
form: chiv
form: shive
Etymology: First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower.
ref: 2016, Andrew Shaffer, The Day of the Donald, Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN, page 6:
synonyms: word: jab
word: shank
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 stab (someone) with a shiv.
glosses: To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.
shoji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shojis
form: shoji
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 障子 (shōji).
Senses: glosses: A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional Japanese architecture.
sial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SiAl
form: sal
Etymology: Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as a blend of translingual Si (silicon) + Al (aluminum).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The rocks rich in silicon and aluminum that form the upper layer of the earth's crust, which lies beneath all continental landmasses.
Coordinate terms: sima
nife
Derived terms: sialic
ensialic
Related terms: KREEP
sial
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Etymology: From Malay sial.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sia.
Related terms: sial ah
sial lah
sib
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: sibber
form: sibbest
Etymology: From Middle English sib, from Old English sibb (“related, akin, sib”), from Proto-Germanic *sibjaz (“related”), from Proto-Indo-European *sebʰ-, *swebʰ- (“one's own”). Cognate with West Frisian besibbe (“related”), Middle Dutch sibbe (“related”), Middle Low German sibbe (“related”), Middle High German sippe (“related”), Icelandic sifi (“related”).
Senses: examples: text: […] they are sibber to you than ever Miss Innes was or will be; and if like to bid me, […]
ref: 1871 [reprinted 2023], Ellen Ross, The Wreck of the White Bear: Vol. 1, page 207
text: seeing that his Majesty is "sibber to him than all the brothers and sons he has in the world." So far, James Haig had played his part with consummate skill.
ref: 1881, John Russell, The Haigs of Bemersyde: A Family History, page 144:
text: "You talk about the crook in our Campbell tongue in one breath," said he, "and in the next you would make yourself a Campbell more sib to the chief than I am myself. Don't you think we might put off our little affairs of family history till we find a lady and a child in Strongara?"
ref: 1898, Neil Munro, John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman and the Little Wars of Lorn, Copp, Clark, page 126:
glosses: Having kinship or relationship; related by same-bloodedness; kindred.
examples: text: […] we are so much the sibber to Christ that we suffer; […]
ref: 1637 July 6, Letter CLIV to William Glendinning [from Samuel Rutherford in Aberdeen], published in 1821, Joshua Redivivus; Or, Three Hundred and Fifty Two Religious Letters ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, page 199
text: 1701. June 19. Dewar of Lassody against Scott of Spencerfield's Factor and Creditors. […]; and that creditors seemed to be much sibber to these annualrents than the factors.
ref: 1826, Scotland. Court of Session, Mungo Ponton Brown, Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session, page 503:
text: I like my cousins in Holland immensely, but I feel more sib to the Northerners. Your description of Lofoten is fine. I can see them. They must be enchanting in their way, cod's head and tails or no. There is a fine eau de Javelle smack about a Dutch canal, by the way, that takes[…]
ref: 1906, Oliver Elton, Frederick York Powell: A Life and a Selection from His Letters and Occasional Writings, page 249:
glosses: Akin (to); similar (to).
sib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: sibs
Etymology: From Middle English sib, sibbe, from Old English sibb (“relationship; gossip; friendliness, kindness; love, friendship, peace, concord, unity, tranquility; peace of mind; a relative, kinsman, kinswoman”), from Proto-West Germanic *sibbju, from Proto-Germanic *sibjō (“kinship”), from Proto-Indo-European *sebʰ-, *swebʰ- (“one's own”).
Cognate with West Frisian sibbe (“relative, family member”), Dutch sibbe (“sib”), German Sippe (“tribe, clan”), Icelandic sifjar (“in-laws”), Latin suus (“one's own”).
Senses: glosses: Kindred; kin; kinsmen; a body of persons related by blood in any degree.
examples: text: But she got up to go, and Domenico obeyed me too in mock meekness, making himself sib and coeval to Hortense, submissive to frowning elder brother, something incestuous in it.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
glosses: A kinsman; a blood relation; a relative, near or remote; one closely allied to another; an intimate companion.
glosses: A sibling, brother or sister (irrespective of gender)
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any group of animals or plants sharing a corresponding genetic relation
glosses: A group of individuals unilaterally descended from a single (real or postulated) common ancestor
Derived terms: half-sib
little sib
sib-bred
sib-in-law
sibling
sibred
Related terms: gossip
sib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: sibs
form: sibbing
form: sibbed
form: sibbed
Etymology: From Middle English *sibben, *sibbien, from Old English sibbian (“to make peace; rejoice”), from Proto-Germanic *sibjōną (“to reconcile”), Proto-Indo-European *sebʰ-, *swebʰ- (“one's own”). Cognate with German sippen (“to be in relationship with, become related to”).
Senses: glosses: To bring into relation; establish a relationship between; make friendly; reconcile.
sib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: sibs
form: sibbing
form: sibbed
form: sibbed
Etymology: From the abbreviation SIB, or self-injurious behavior, a behavior found in autism.
Senses: topics: clinical-psychology
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To engage in repetitive behaviors such as eye-poking, skin-picking, hand-biting, or head-banging.
sibyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪ.bəl/
ipa: [ˈsɪ.bɫ̩]
homophone: Cybil
homophone: Cybill
homophone: Sibyl
homophone: Sybil
Forms: form: sibyls
form: Sibyl
form: Sybill
Etymology: From Latin Sibylla, from Ancient Greek Σίβυλλα (Síbulla).
Senses: examples: text: A Sybill that had numbred in the world
The Sun to courſe, two hundred compaſſes,
In her Prophetticke furie ſow'd the Worke:
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 327:
text: "Are you very anxious," asked he, "to consult the sibyl?" "Nay," replied Francesea; "I want faith." "You will," replied he, "nevertheless be amused with Madame de I'Hôpital's tact; she knows enough of the history of the individuals around to give a shrewd guess at the favourite fantasy of each, and that it will be successful is the summing up of her prophecy. She tells each what he wishes, and so obtains an easy belief."
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 45:
text: `Nay, wait, Kallikrates,' said Ayesha, who, standing with the lamp raised above her head, flooding with its light her own rich beauty and the cold wonder of the death-clothed form upon the bier, resembled an inspired Sibyl rather than a woman, as she rolled out her majestic sentences with a grandeur and a freedom of utterance which I am, alas! quite unable to reproduce.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: I used to read these tales in Homer when I was a lad. Then the Sibyl! I saw her at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys cried to her, ‘Sibyl, what would you?' she'd answer, ‘I would die,'-- both of ‘em speaking Greek."
ref: 1922 T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland: Epigraph (translated from 61 Petronius' The Satyricon: Chapter 8, Lines 80 -86)
glosses: A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.
sifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪftɚ/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sifters
Etymology: From sift + -er.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: sieve
glosses: A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
examples: text: He was employed as a sifter.
glosses: One who sifts.
glosses: Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.
Derived terms: sugar sifter
silage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪlɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -aɪlɪdʒ
Forms: form: silages
Etymology: Alteration (probably by influence of silo) of ensilage (1881), itself from French ensilage, from ensiler (“put in a silo”), from Spanish ensilar.
Senses: examples: text: Compared to the corn silages, the sweetclover silages are much higher in digestible crude protein, but lower in total digestible nutrients.
ref: 1939, Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 57, page 506:
glosses: Fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp.
Hyponyms: cornlage
haylage
oatlage
ryelage
wheatlage
silage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪlɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -aɪlɪdʒ
Forms: form: silages
form: silaging
form: silaged
form: silaged
Etymology: Alteration (probably by influence of silo) of ensilage (1881), itself from French ensilage, from ensiler (“put in a silo”), from Spanish ensilar.
Senses: glosses: To ensile.
silane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌɪleɪn/
ipa: /ˈsɪleɪn/
Forms: form: silanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of silicon hydrides that are analogous to alkanes (the paraffin hydrocarbons); especially the parent compound SiH₄.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Monosilane (SiH₄).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic derivative of monosilane.
Derived terms: acylsilane
alkoxysilane
alkylsilane
allenylsilane
allylsilane
azidosilane
chlorodimethylsilane
chlorosilane
cyclopentasilane
dichlorodifluorosilane
dichlorosilane
dimethylchlorosilane
dimethyldichlorosilane
dimethylsilane
epoxysilane
fluorochlorosilane
halosilane
hexafluorodisilane
hexamethyldisilane
hydrosilane
iodosilane
mercaptosilane
oligosilane
organosilane
polysilane
silanate
silane-modified polymer
silanide
silanization
silanize
silanyl
tetrachlorosilane
tetraphenylsilane
trichlorosilane
trisilane
vinylsilane
silyl
monosilanyl
Related terms: disilane
disilene
disilyne
silene
silenyl
silyne
silynyl
alkane
the carbon analog to silanes
silt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: silts
Etymology: PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile + -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).
Senses: examples: text: A large tube is then followed over several silt banks to surface after a total dive of 200 m in a large passage containing an active streamway – The San Agustin Way. 5 m before the passage surfaces another line junction is passed, ...
ref: 2006, Duncan Price, Welsh Sump Index, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 41:
synonyms: slitch
glosses: Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
glosses: Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
examples: text: Above the lower headcut, phreatophytic mesquite and little leaf sumac hug the banks, drawing pendulate water from the silts remaining from former marsh deposits and sending long taproots into channel stores.
ref: 2007, Susan L. Woodward, “Modern Vegetation of the Murray Springs Area and the Upper San Pedro Valley”, in Caleb Vance Haynes, Bruce B. Huckell, editor, Murray Springs, page 58:
text: The gravels, initially deposited by surf-zone processes during the Pleistocene low stands in this area were drowned by quartzose sands, and then the prodeltaic silts and clays deposited by the seaward prograding-feather edge of the Holocene Orange Delta were subsequently integrated into the delta-front by bioturbation.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Infaunal Benthic Communities from the Inner Shelf off Southwestern Africa Are Characterised by Generalist Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
Related terms: alluvium
varve
silt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: silts
form: silting
form: silted
form: silted
Etymology: PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile + -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).
Senses: glosses: To clog or fill with silt.
examples: text: Subject to flooding by the six small rivers coming together just west of the city, the main river below the city has long been shallow and subject to silting. The Communists have both maintained the earlier pattern of dredging the river, and have built a bypass flood canal around the city on the south side to relieve flood pressures. Though dredging can keep the river navigable for small ships, a new artificial port, Sinkang, able to take 10,000 ton ships at all times, was created at T'ang-ku. This is kept open for about two months during winter by icebreakers.
ref: 1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1140, column 1:
text: They are city-dwellers, men whose lives pass in the shadows of buildings, whose lungs are silted with coalsmoke, and few will ever cross the sea.
ref: 2017, Sarah Moss, “London, summer 1878”, in Signs for Lost Children, New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: To become clogged with silt.
glosses: To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Derived terms: silt up
silting
desilt and desilting
sima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪmə
Forms: form: simas
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “bent upwards”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma.
sima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪmə
Etymology: Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as a blend of silicon + magnesium.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium.
Coordinate terms: sial
nife
Derived terms: simatic
ensimatic
Related terms: Si
KREEP
simar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simars
form: simarre
form: symar
Etymology: Borrowed from French simarre (“type of robe”), from Italian cimarra, zimarra. Doublet of chimer.
Senses: examples: text: [T]heir beautiful tresses were braided and incensed; and they were wrapped in symars whiter than alabaster.
ref: 1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […] [Vathek], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
english: Vathek
translation: Vathek
text: [T]he profusion of her sable tresses, which, each arranged in its own spiral of twisted curls, fell down upon as much of a snow-white neck and bosom as a simarre of the richest Persian silk, […]
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 146–147:
glosses: A woman's loose, long dress or robe; sometimes specifically, an undergarment or chemise.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A type of ecclesiastical vestment, similar to a cassock.
glosses: A light covering; a cloak or mantle.
sinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪntə/
ipa: /ˈsɪntəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sinters
Etymology: From German Sinter. Doublet of cinder.
Senses: examples: text: That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter, thrown down by thermal springs, […]
ref: 1883 June, John Magens Mello, “Quartz: its Varieties and Formation”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 23:
text: It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter.
ref: 1913, David Paul Gooding, chapter V, in Picturesque New Zealand:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
examples: text: Consider a copper sinter material with spherical sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).
ref: 2008, John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering, page 55:
glosses: A mass formed by sintering.
examples: text: A combination of fully and partly automatic working provides speed, efficiency and manpower economy in unloading coal, home ore, foreign ore and coke and concentrates from incoming wagons and loading outgoing wagons for despatch to the company's Ebbw works with export ore and sinter.
ref: 1962 December, “Railways and the Spencer Steelworks”, in Modern Railways, page 410:
glosses: A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.
Derived terms: calc-sinter
pearl sinter
sinter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪntə/
ipa: /ˈsɪntəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sinters
form: sintering
form: sintered
form: sintered
Etymology: From German Sinter. Doublet of cinder.
Senses: examples: text: Most, if not all, metals may be sintered.
ref: 1980, “Advanced Automation for Space Missions: Appendix 4C”, in Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study:
text: A properly made, fully sintered and fully annealed metal clay piece should be able to stand up to any traditional metalsmithing technique.
ref: 2010, Kate McKinnon, Sculptural Metal Clay Jewelry: Techniques and Explorations, Loveland, Colo.: Interweave Press, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: To heat a compacted powder mass to form a hardened mass.