cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overhaul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹvə-hôl'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌhɔːl/
enpr: ō'və-hôlʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈhɔːl/
enpr: ōʹvər-hôl'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌhɔl/
enpr: ō'vər-hôlʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhɔl/
enpr: ōʹvər-häl'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌhɑl/
enpr: ō'vər-hälʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: overhauls
form: overhauling
form: overhauled
form: overhauled
Etymology: From over- + haul.
Senses: examples: text: While the engines are dealt with in the diesel shop, their parent locomotives are overhauled in the erecting shop.
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 159:
text: In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.
ref: 2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother^([200]), Vanguard Press, →ISBN:
text: Although they believe they can overhaul their 2-0 deficit, they cannot afford to be as lethargic as this at Camp Nou, and the time is surely approaching when Manuel Pellegrini's faith in Martín Demichelis wavers.
ref: 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:
text: A non-hormonal birth control capsule that women can insert just before sex. A rape kit that gives victims more agency and streamlines the evidence collection process. An overhauled design for a 150-year-old tool used in postpartum vaginal tearing.
ref: 2021 June 8, Jacqui Palumbo, “These innovative designs are tackling taboo health issues for women”, in CNN:
glosses: To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
examples: text: An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
ref: 1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 808-809:
text: In theory there was a runner ahead of him who would pause to sleep. Who would falter and fall. Who would despair at the size of the desert. Because Logan did none of these he would overhaul the runner and kill him.
ref: 1967, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, May 1976 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 109:
text: The slowing New Jersey has veered out of line, and is forced to check its fire briefly as Iowa overhauls it, but then resumes fire as damage-control crews work hard below. Admiral Lee's other two ships, coming up behind, take Yamato under fire with their forward guns as well.
ref: 2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 37:11 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022:
glosses: To pass, overtake, or travel past.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs.
glosses: To search (a ship) for contraband goods.
Derived terms: overhaulable
overhauler
unoverhauled
trotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trotters
Etymology: From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.
ref: 2013, Stephen Dobyns, Saratoga Bestiary:
text: ... empiricism “A lame cripple going along the right road can overtake a trotter if the latter is running along the wrong road. Moreover, the faster the trotter runs, once having lost the path, the further he lags behind the cripple”.[…]
ref: 2013 October 22, D. Ter Haar, Collected Papers of P.L. Kapitza: Volume 3, volume 3, Elsevier, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174:
glosses: One who trots.
examples: text: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
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, page 58:
glosses: In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.
examples: text: grange cookbook recipes for trotters
text: Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 51:
text: In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 220:
glosses: The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.
examples: text: Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.
ref: 2004, Charley Hester, Kirby Ross, The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-popping Cow Waddy, page 27:
glosses: A person's foot.
examples: text: One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^([sic]) of his county.
ref: 1830, William Cobbett, Eleven Lectures on the French and Belgian Revolutions, page 8:
glosses: A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.
Derived terms: globetrotter
pig's trotter
term-trotter
trotter case
trotter-man
tusk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌsk/
ipa: /ˈtʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: tusks
Etymology: From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūx, tūsc (“canine tooth, tusk, molar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tų̄sk, *tunsk, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“canine tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth.
Senses: examples: text: Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
glosses: One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
glosses: A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
glosses: A tusk shell.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
glosses: A sharp point.
glosses: The share of a plough.
Derived terms: milk tusk
tusked
tuskless
tusklike
tusk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌsk/
ipa: /ˈtʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: tusks
form: tusking
form: tusked
form: tusked
Etymology: From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūx, tūsc (“canine tooth, tusk, molar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tų̄sk, *tunsk, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“canine tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth.
Senses: glosses: To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
glosses: To gore with the tusks.
glosses: To bare or gnash the teeth.
Related terms: tusked
tusker
tusklike
tusky
tusk tenon
tusk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌsk/
ipa: /ˈtʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: tusks
Senses: glosses: A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
walrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈwɒl.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈwɑl.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/
Forms: form: walruses
form: walrus
form: walrusses
form: walri
form: walrii
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.
Senses: examples: text: Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.
ref: 1887, James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251:
glosses: A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
examples: text: You old walrus, don't you think it is time for you to lop your whiskers off?
ref: 2008, James E. Martin, The Chartreuse Mongoose, page 145:
text: One, a rumpled, whiskered walrus of a man, held a lantern near Mother's face.
ref: 2013, Marione Ingram, The Hands of War:
glosses: A man with a walrus moustache.
Synonyms: word: morse
word: sea horse
Coordinate terms: eared seal
earless seal
Derived terms: Ambien walrus
she-walrus
walruslike
walrus moustache
walrus mustache
walrus operator
Related terms: seal
sea lion
sealion
walrus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈwɒl.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈwɑl.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/
Forms: form: walruses
form: walrusses
form: walrusing
form: walrussing
form: walrused
form: walrused
form: walrussed
form: walrussed
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.
Senses: examples: text: It's strange to see parties of merrymakers gather where I nearly drowned, and later walrused with David Isaakovich, Father Basil and the rest of them.
ref: 2016, Andrey Kurkov, The President's Last Love, Kiev, 9 May 1985:
glosses: To hunt walruses
examples: text: Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat
ref: 2020, Will Ferguson, The Finder: A Novel:
glosses: To be like a walrus
To move dragging one's belly along the floor
examples: text: His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth
ref: 2000, Michael L. McCoy, The Hunter, the Hound and a Rogue:
glosses: To be like a walrus
To hang like a walrus's moustache
examples: text: Where a mammal had its canine teeth, great fangs walrused down from the grezzen's upper jaw, as long as scimitars and as thick as human thighs.
ref: 2011, Robert Buettner, Overkill:
glosses: To be like a walrus
To be prominent, like tusks
flipper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪpə/
ipa: /ˈflɪpɚ/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flippers
form: flippering
form: flippered
form: flippered
Etymology: From flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”).
Senses: glosses: To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.
pinball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnˌbɔːl/
Forms: form: pinballs
Etymology: From pin + ball.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A game, played on a device with a sloping base (a pinball machine), in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.
glosses: The ball used in pinball.
examples: text: The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas.
ref: 2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players.
Synonyms: silver ball
Derived terms: pinballer
pinball machine
pinball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnˌbɔːl/
Forms: form: pinballs
form: pinballing
form: pinballed
form: pinballed
Etymology: From pin + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Like most immigrants, Gibbs came South for economic reasons and soon found himself pinballing around a world circumscribed by the hot growth markets...
ref: 1996, Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture:
text: They went off the road and pinballed alongside a stretch of guardrail as the Bambis scattered.
ref: 2004, David Baldacci, Hour Game:
glosses: To dart about rapidly.
Related terms: bagatelle
pachinko
raft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːft/
ipa: /ɹæft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
Forms: form: rafts
Etymology: Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).
Senses: examples: text: They floated down the river on an inflatable raft
glosses: A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
examples: text: When George Stephenson built the Liverpool & Manchester Railway he encountered the same difficulty at Chat Moss and solved the problem by constructing a kind of raft made of brushwood that more or less floated on the surface of the bog. On this he placed as much firm soil as his raft could carry, when the operation was repeated, the first raft being thereby sunk with its load of solid earth, which was not displaced.
ref: 1934 February, G. W. Tripp, “How Nature Harasses the Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:
text: Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it...
I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door.
There was plenty of room on the raft.
I know. I know, I know.
ref: 2016 February 2, Kate Winslet et al., Jimmy Kimmel Live!:
glosses: Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
examples: text: Pelicans, bills stuck forward, would gather in small rafts to move along in comical formation, before diving in unison […]
ref: 2010, John Roome, A Persistent Passage, page 140:
glosses: A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
glosses: A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
qualifier: when ordering food
glosses: A slice of toast.
glosses: A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
Derived terms: Adam and Eve on a raft
Christ on a raft
fire raft
life raft
Moses on a raft
pumice raft
raft dog
raft duck
raft port
raft-rope
raft-up
skinheads on a raft
raft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːft/
ipa: /ɹæft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
Forms: form: rafts
form: rafting
form: rafted
form: rafted
Etymology: Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).
Senses: examples: text: For timber I imported pine logs from Manchuria, rafted them two hundred miles down the Yalu River, three hundred miles over the Yellow Sea, and twenty miles up the Tatung River, where a thirty-five-foot tide lifted the consignment to Pyongyang.
ref: 1969, Stella Parker Peterson, “Growing Pains”, in It Came in Handy, Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: To convey on a raft.
glosses: To make into a raft.
glosses: To travel by raft.
examples: text: The ToolStripContainer provides built-in rafting and docking of ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls.
ref: 2007, Dinesh Maidasani, Straight to the Point - Visual Basic 2005, page 11:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
Related terms: rafter
whitewater rafting
raft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːft/
ipa: /ɹæft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
Forms: form: rafts
Etymology: Alteration of raff.
Senses: examples: text: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Pomeroy asked me a raft of factual-type questions (how old were you when you began menstruating? did you ever see your parents having intercourse? did you have many friends in high school? how was your relationship with your father?). It seemed he had a written questionnaire & checked off answers as I have them.
text: Among those arrested was the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who found himself facing a raft of charges based on the specious evidence of former knights [...].
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 31:
text: The goals and entertainment dried up after the break as Wales made a raft of substitutions but, with more meaningful challenges to come, a capacity crowd at the Stok Racecourse appreciated the bigger picture with Croatia on the horizon.
ref: 2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
raft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːft/
ipa: /ɹæft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
Senses: examples: text: Colin Clout raft me of his brother
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of reave
bleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: bleeps
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
examples: text: What the bleep are you doing?
text: Who the bleep are you, Bob Kavin, to tell lesbians whether or not it's "appropriate" for us to gather together as women?
ref: 1990 February 4, Beth Elliott, “Not Men's Property”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 3:
glosses: A general euphemism for any expletive.
examples: text: See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep. I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work.
ref: 2005, Jennie Kermode, “What is gothic?”, in alt.gothic (Usenet):
text: A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone.
ref: 2005, oldgoth, “Theaving^([sic]) Goths”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet):
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pager, usually one held by a doctor or nurse in a hospital.
Derived terms: bleep test
bleep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: bleeps
form: bleeping
form: bleeped
form: bleeped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.
text: The basic toilet has quite a heavy door, which then bleeps to remind you to lock it - with a nice, peace of mind, manual lock.
ref: 2024 January 24, Pip Dunn, “Adventure on a GA Class 20 Aventra”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 52:
glosses: To emit one or more bleeps.
synonyms: blip
glosses: To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
examples: text: If his condition gets any worse, please bleep the registrar on call.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To contact someone by pager.
Derived terms: bleepable
bleeper
bleep out
bleepy
bullbleep
unbleeped
halibut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæ.lɪ.bət/
ipa: /ˈhɒ.lɪ.bət/
Forms: form: halibuts
form: halibut
form: hallibut
form: holibut
form: halibutt
form: holibutt
Etymology: From Middle English *halibutt, equivalent to holy + but (“flatfish”), since the fish was often eaten on holy days. Compare Dutch heilbot, German Heiligbutt, Heilbutt, Heilbutte. Compare also Danish helleflynder, Swedish helgeflundra and Norwegian Nynorsk hellefisk.
Senses: examples: text: [...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:
glosses: A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hippoglossus hippoglossus
word: Atlantic halibut
word: bastard halibut
word: California halibut
word: Greenland halibut
word: halibuter
word: haliver oil
word: Monterey halibut
taxonomic: Hippoglossus stenolepis
word: Pacific halibut
obduracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒb.dʊ.ɹə.si/
ipa: /-djʊ-/
ipa: /ˈɑbdʊɹəsi/
ipa: /-djʊ-/
Forms: form: obduracies
Etymology: From obdurate + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: By this hand thou, thinkeſt me as farre in the diuels booke, as thou and Falſtaffe, for obduracie and perſiſtancie, let the end trie the man, [...]
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: It might also serve to condemn the obduracy and hard-heartedness of the Jews, who relented not, when even the earth trembled and the rocks rent.
ref: 1713, Nehemiah Walter, A discourse concerning the wonderfulness of Christ, Boston: Eleazer Phillips, page 156:
text: True mountain Liberty alone may heal
The pain which Custom's obduracies bring.
ref: 1812, Percy Bysshe Shelley, On Leaving London for Wales, lines 5–6:
text: She snatched up a stick and hit Cora across the rump with it. The stick was rotten and broke, without having caused Cora to budge an inch. Exasperated at an image of obduracy, the old woman scrabbled up another stick and began whacking at Cora with it[.]
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 132:
text: Chanderpaul's obduracy might have broken lesser men, but Panesar more than matched him for relentlessness.
ref: 2007 June 20, Simon Hughes, “Chanderpaul finally outwitted by master”, in Telegraph.co.uk:
glosses: The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.
Related terms: word: obdurate
idiomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭd′ē-ə-măt′ĭk
ipa: /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation; General Australian
ipa: /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪd.i.əˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌəd.iː.əˈmɛt.ək/
ipa: /ˌɪd.i.əˈmat.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪɖ.iː.oˈmaʈ.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more idiomatic
form: most idiomatic
form: idiomatick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰδιωματικός (idiōmatikós, “related to an idiom”), from ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “idiom”).
Senses: examples: text: The inclusion or omission of definite articles follows idiomatic norms in each language and depends on context and intent.
text: In English, the only idiomatic position for a pronoun as the object of a phrasal verb is before the particle, whereas a noun as object can fall either before or after the particle; thus only he picked them up but either he picked his tools up or he picked up his tools.
glosses: Pertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language.
examples: text: An idiomatic phrase that warns us against Pollyannaism is "don't count your chickens before they're hatched".
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an idiom.
glosses: Using many idioms.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Relating to parts or pieces which are written both within the natural physical limitations of the instrument and human body and, less so or less often, the styles of playing used on specific instruments.
Coordinate terms: etymonic
Derived terms: idiomatically
idiomatize
idiomatology
non-idiomatic
Related terms: idiom
idiomatical
idiomaticity
idiomaticize
idiomaticness
idiomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭd′ē-ə-măt′ĭk
ipa: /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation; General Australian
ipa: /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪd.i.əˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌəd.iː.əˈmɛt.ək/
ipa: /ˌɪd.i.əˈmat.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪɖ.iː.oˈmaʈ.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: idiomatics
form: idiomatick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰδιωματικός (idiōmatikós, “related to an idiom”), from ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “idiom”).
Senses: examples: text: A preprocessing (or text normalization) module is necessary as a front end, since TTS [text-to-speech] systems should in principle be able to read any text, including numbers, abbreviations, acronyms, and idiomatics in any format.
ref: 2003, Thiery Dutoit, Yannis Stylianou, “Text-to-Speech Synthesis”, in Ruslan Mitkov, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 325:
glosses: Synonym of idiom.
synonyms: word: idiom
Whitby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtbi/
/ˈʍɪtbi/
Forms: form: Whitbys
form: Whidbee
form: Whidby
Etymology: From Old Norse hvítr býr (“white town”). Equivalent to white + -by.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A town, seaport, and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref NZ8911).
glosses: A placename:
A town in the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand.
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Related terms: urls: http://www.thewhitbyguide.co.uk
word: Whitby Tourist Information
set phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set phrases
Etymology: From set + phrase.
Senses: examples: text: Bally remarks in passing, as Hall does not, that the inversion in toujours est-il que is part of a set phrase and hence invariable.
ref: 1951, Gordon M. Messing, “Structuralism and Literary Tradition”, in Language, volume 27, number 1, page 3:
text: American courts sometimes use cherry in place of apple, but the latter fruit vastly predominates. The American version is that rare set phrase that is not so well set, variations on the phrase being more common than the main phrase itself.
ref: 2009, Bryan A. Garner, Garner on Language and Writing, page 525:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An established expression whose wording is subject to little or no variation, and which may or may not be idiomatic.
examples: text: If it proves clearly unfeasible to make the audience laugh at a thin and far-fetched joke, it is always better to change the way the joke works . . . for instance, a pun based on the speaker's taking literally some set phrase or metaphor with a pun based on phonetic similarity.
ref: 1992, Stanislaw Baranczak, "How to Translate Shakespeare's Humor?: (Reflections of a Polish Translator)", in the Performing Arts Journal, volume 14, number 3, page 83
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An idiomatic expression in general.
Synonyms: fixed phrase
Related terms: word: catchphrase
english: cliche
translation: cliche
word: cliché
word: collocation
word: colloquialism
word: idiom
word: proverb
word: saying
Yorkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɔːkʃə/
ipa: /ˈjɔː(ɹ)kʃɪə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English Yorkschire; equivalent to York (“English city”) + shire. Displaced native cognate Middle English Everwich schire, from Old English Eoforwīcsċīr.
Senses: glosses: England's largest county. Situated in the north-east of England; divided into three ridings, (North, West and East, and The City Of York). Since 1974 for administration purposes local government has used different divisions.
glosses: A British English dialect as spoken (and possibly written) in the county of Yorkshire.
Synonyms: word: Tyke
Hypernyms: english: one of the nine official regions of England
translation: one of the nine official regions of England
word: Yorkshire and the Humber
Derived terms: come Yorkshire over
West Riding of Yorkshire
Yorks
Yorkshire Dales
Yorkshire fog
Yorkshire grease
Yorkshire grit
Yorkshireman
Yorkshire mixture
Yorkshire parkin
Yorkshire pudding
Yorkshire square
Yorkshire terrier
Yorkshire white
Yorkshirewoman
Related terms: riding
wapentake
Yorkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɔːkʃə/
ipa: /ˈjɔː(ɹ)kʃɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Yorkshires
Etymology: From Middle English Yorkschire; equivalent to York (“English city”) + shire. Displaced native cognate Middle English Everwich schire, from Old English Eoforwīcsċīr.
Senses: glosses: A Yorkshire pudding.
examples: text: The Yorkshire Canary Club was founded in 1894. The Yorkshire can be up to 6¾ inches in length, and stands tall so that its height is obvious. Yorkshires are available in many colors and can have variegations on them.
ref: 2007, Diane Grindol, The Canary: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet:
glosses: A Yorkshire canary.
Gentoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gentoos
Etymology: Of Anglo-Indian origin (17th century), apparently a borrowing from Portuguese gentio (“heathen”) (compare gentile (“pagan”)).
Senses: examples: text: The Greeks, and all the Celtic nations, accordingly, burned the bodies of the dead, as the Gentoos do at this day; while the Egyptians, among whom fuel was extremely scarce, placed them in pyramidal monuments, which were the symbols of fire; hence come those prodigious structures which still adorn that country.
ref: 1786, Richard Payne Knight, On the Worship of Priapus, section XI:
text: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Spiritual Laws” in Essays (First Series), Boston: James Munroe, p. 133,
The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing, unless it have an outside badge, — some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat, or Calvinistic prayer- meeting, or philanthropic society, or a great donation, or a high office, or, any how, some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat.
glosses: A non-Muslim inhabitant of India, a Hindu; specifically, in Southern India, an ethnic-Telugu.
glosses: The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua), a species of penguin.
Gentoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of Anglo-Indian origin (17th century), apparently a borrowing from Portuguese gentio (“heathen”) (compare gentile (“pagan”)).
Senses: glosses: The Telugu language.
halogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hălʹə-jən
enpr: hāʹlə-jən
ipa: /ˈhæl.ə.d͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈheɪ.lə.d͡ʒən/
Forms: form: halogens
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt" or "sea”) + γεν- (gen-), "to produce" (coined by Berzelius in 1842). By surface analysis, halo- (“salt”) + -gen (“forming”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: nonmetal#Noun
<
element
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: chalcogen
pnictogen
metalloid#Noun
metal#Noun
glosses: Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine and tennessine.
glosses: A light fixture in which the filament is surrounded by an atmosphere of a halogen gas.
Derived terms: dehydrohalogenate
dihalogen
halogenase
halogenate
halogenation
halogenite
halogen lamp
halogenoderma
halogenous
halogen oven
halogen stove
halon
halothane
interhalogen
nonhalogen
organohalogen
radiohalogen
Related terms: halide
halite
quartz halogen lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartz halogen lamps
Senses: glosses: An incandescent light bulb in which the envelope is made of quartz instead of glass, and the filament is surrounded by an atmosphere of a halogen gas, usually iodine.
Related terms: metal halide lamp
incandescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.ənt/
ipa: /ˌɪŋ.kænˈdɛs.ənt/
ipa: /ˌɪn.kənˈdɛs.ənt/
ipa: /ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.ənt/
ipa: /ˌɪn.kənˈdɛs.ənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more incandescent
form: most incandescent
Etymology: Borrowed from French incandescent, from Latin incandescens, from incandesco (“be heated, glow”), from in- (intensifying prefix) + candesco (“become white”), from candidus (“white”).
Senses: examples: text: We will all go together when we go / All suffused with an incandescent glow
ref: 1959, Tom Lehrer, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”:
text: Rather than burning out as incandescent bulbs do, L.E.D.’s light output dims over tens of thousands of hours. L.E.D.’s are also more resistant to vibration than incandescents or screw-in fluorescent bulbs, and do not flicker or hum.
ref: 2007 March 1, Matthew L. Wald, “Room to Improve”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2017:
glosses: Emitting light as a result of being heated.
examples: text: Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].
ref: 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2017:
glosses: Shining very brightly.
examples: text: The incandescent performance enraptured the audience.
glosses: Showing intense emotion, as of a performance, etc.
examples: text: She is incandescent with rage because someone stole her wallet.
glosses: Extremely angry; furious.
Derived terms: incandescent lamp
nonincandescent
subincandescent
Related terms: incandescence
incandescently
incandescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.ənt/
ipa: /ˌɪŋ.kænˈdɛs.ənt/
ipa: /ˌɪn.kənˈdɛs.ənt/
ipa: /ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.ənt/
ipa: /ˌɪn.kənˈdɛs.ənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: incandescents
Etymology: Borrowed from French incandescent, from Latin incandescens, from incandesco (“be heated, glow”), from in- (intensifying prefix) + candesco (“become white”), from candidus (“white”).
Senses: examples: text: Compact fluorescents are typically rated at 7,500 to 10,000 hours, and incandescents at about 1,500 hours.
ref: 2007 March 1, Matthew L. Wald, “Room to Improve”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2017:
glosses: An incandescent lamp or bulb.
Related terms: fluorescent
whisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪsk/
ipa: /ʍɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: whisks
Etymology: From Middle English whisk, borrowed from Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wiskō (“bundle of hay, wisp”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys-.
Cognates
Cognate with Danish visk, Dutch wis, German Wisch, Latin virga (“rod, switch”), viscus (“entrails”), Lithuanian vizgéti (“to tremble”), Czech věchet (“wisp of straw”), Sanskrit वेष्क (veṣka, “noose”).
Compare also Old English wiscian (“to plait”), granwisc (“awn”).
The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound; compare the same development in whip and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh.
Senses: examples: text: With a quick whisk, she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
glosses: A quick, light sweeping motion.
examples: text: He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
glosses: A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
examples: text: Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
glosses: A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
examples: text: I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
glosses: A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
glosses: A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
examples: text: My wife in her new lace whiske.
ref: 1665 March 22 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “March 12th, 1664–1665 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
Hyponyms: eggwhisk
Derived terms: champagne whisk
tea whisk
whisk fern
whisk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪsk/
ipa: /ʍɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: whisks
form: whisking
form: whisked
form: whisked
Etymology: From Middle English whisk, borrowed from Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wiskō (“bundle of hay, wisp”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys-.
Cognates
Cognate with Danish visk, Dutch wis, German Wisch, Latin virga (“rod, switch”), viscus (“entrails”), Lithuanian vizgéti (“to tremble”), Czech věchet (“wisp of straw”), Sanskrit वेष्क (veṣka, “noose”).
Compare also Old English wiscian (“to plait”), granwisc (“awn”).
The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound; compare the same development in whip and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh.
Senses: examples: text: Vernon whisked the sawdust from his workbench.
text: He that walks in gray, whisking his riding Page.
ref: 1626 February 13 (licensing date), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: She held out her empty glass and it was adroitly whisked from her hand.
ref: 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 40:
glosses: To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
examples: text: The chef prepared to whisk the egg whites for the angel's food cake.
text: First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
ref: 2012 May 8, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, Random House, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
examples: text: July 3, 1769, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Strafford
I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
text: The governess whisked the children from the room before they could see their presents.
glosses: To move something rapidly and with no warning.
examples: text: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: The children whisked down the road to the fair, laughing and chattering as they went.
glosses: To move lightly and nimbly.
glosses: To move whiskers.
Derived terms: tim-whiskey
whisk away
whiskey
whisk off
whisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪsk/
ipa: /ʍɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Etymology: So called from the rapid action of sweeping the cards off the table after a trick has been won.
Senses: examples: text: Trump, noddy, whisk, hole[…]
ref: 1621, John Taylor, Taylor's Motto:
glosses: The card game whist.
catacomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætəkuːm/
note: less often
ipa: /ˈkætəkəʊm/
ipa: /ˈkætəkoʊm/
note: less often
ipa: /ˈkætəkum/
Forms: form: catacombs
Etymology: From Middle English catacombe, from Old English catacumbe, catacumbas pl, from Late Latin catacumbae pl, name of the underground cemetery of St. Sebastian in Rome, of unclear origin. Perhaps a dissimilation (influenced by *cumbō (“to lie, recline”)) of Late Latin cata tumbās (literally “among the tombs”) (from Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “under”) and τύμβος (túmbos, “tomb”)). Some sources suggest Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “drinking vessel”) as an alternative etymon, but the semantic link is unclear.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: crypt, ossuary
hypernyms: cuniculus
glosses: An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.
wikipedia: Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
Derived terms: catacombic
Related terms: cataphile
tunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌn(ə)l/
rhymes: -ʌnəl
Forms: form: tunnels
Etymology: From Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation. Related to Old English tunne (“tun; cask; barrel”). More at tun.
Senses: examples: text: In 1865 an outfit called the East London Railway Company bought the Brunel tunnel for £800,000, and in 1869 they opened a railway through it.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: An underground or underwater passage.
examples: text: But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Tunnels often feature in fictional journeys, so I will end with quotations from a fairly recent novel, Howard Spring's "Fame is the Spur", published in 1940, in which there is a journey from Manchester to Bradford via the Calder Valley route: "Ay, we're going through Todmorden. We'll soon be in t' tunnel, and when we get to t' other end we'll be in Yorkshire," and "Ah think this is t' filthiest tunnel in t' world."
ref: 1957 May 24, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
text: There are more than 1,500 railway tunnels in Britain and the majority are still in use, carrying working tracks beneath Britain's most inconvenient geographic features.
ref: 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 42:
glosses: A passage through or under some obstacle.
glosses: A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
glosses: A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
examples: text: And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence, / The smoke forth threw
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:
glosses: The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
examples: text: Especially in the Eden Valley, trees create what is almost a green tunnel (particularly in summer).
ref: 2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 43:
glosses: Anything that resembles a tunnel.
Hyponyms: base tunnel
running tunnel
summit tunnel
precision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
ipa: [pɹɪˈsɪʒ.n̩]
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: precisions
Etymology: From Middle French precision. Equivalent to precise + -ion.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: exactitude, exactness; accuracy
glosses: The state of being precise or exact; especially, both exact and accurate.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: repeatability; reproducibility
text: The classic example of the difference between precision and accuracy is that in target practice, if the grouping is tight but the group is off-center, your precision is good but your accuracy needs calibration.
synonyms: nicety
coordinate_terms: accuracy
qualifier: strictly
glosses: The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.
Synonyms: exactitude
Derived terms: arbitrary-precision
arbitrary-precision arithmetic
double-precision
double precision
high-precision
hyperprecision
imprecision
multiprecision
non-precision approach
overprecision
precision agriculture
precisional
precision approach
precision dice
precision die
precision F-strike
precisionism
precisionist
precisionize
precision medicine
pseudoprecision
quadruple-precision
single-precision
ultraprecision
underprecision
Related terms: accuracy
precision
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
ipa: [pɹɪˈsɪʒ.n̩]
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Etymology: From Middle French precision. Equivalent to precise + -ion.
Senses: examples: precision instruments
glosses: Used for exact or precise measurement.
examples: text: But there was nothing he could do about Villa's second when Agbonlahor crossed from the left and Bent finished with a precision volley.
ref: 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Made, or characterized by accuracy.
Wierzbowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wierzbowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Wierzbowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
zecchino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zecchinos
form: zecchini
form: chequin
form: chequine
form: zecchine
Etymology: From Italian zecchino. Doublet of zecchin.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he modern Philosophy holds the Eternity of the Earth, or at least an Antiquity of 50,000 Years; & Mr. Byers gets thirty Zecchines apiece for his Infidel Lectures from all the English who travel thro' Rome […].
ref: 1786 June 27, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: An old gold coin of Italy; a sequin.