cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lĕd
ipa: /lɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
homophone: led
Forms: form: leads
form: leading
form: leaded
form: leaded
form: ♄
Etymology: From Middle English led, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laud (“lead”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”).
Cognate with Scots leid, lede (“lead”), North Frisian lud, luad (“lead”), West Frisian lead (“lead”), Dutch lood (“lead”), Low German Lod (“solder, plummet”), German Lot (“solder, plummet, sounding line”), Swedish lod (“solder, plummet”), Icelandic lóð (“a plumb, weight”), Irish luaidhe (“lead”) Latin plumbum (“lead”), Finnish luoti (“bullet”). Doublet of loth. More at flow.
* (graphite in a pencil): Graphite was once believed to be a form of lead; see black lead and plumbago.
Senses: examples: text: continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
glosses: To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
examples: text: to lead a page
text: leaded matter
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To place leads between the lines of.
Related terms: sense: terms related to the element lead
word: anglesite
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: aplomb
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: cerussite
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: galena
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: litharge
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumb
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbagin
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbago
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumballophane
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbane
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbary
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbate
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbator
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumb dulcis
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbean
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbeous
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumber
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbian
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbic
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbicon
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbiferous
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbine
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbing
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbism
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbisolvency
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbisolvent
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbite
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumb-joint
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbless
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbly
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbous
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumb-
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumbo-
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plumby
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: plummet
sense: terms related to the element lead
word: TEL
lead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lĕd
ipa: /lɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
homophone: led
enpr: lēd
ipa: /liːd/
ipa: /lid/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: leed
homophone: lede
homophone: lied (“song”)
enpr: lĕd
ipa: /lɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
homophone: led
Forms: form: lede
form: leed
Etymology: From Middle English leden, from Old English lǣdan (“to lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijan, from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to cause one to go, lead”), causative of Proto-Germanic *līþaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to leave, die”).
Cognate with West Frisian liede (“to lead”), Dutch leiden (“to lead”), German leiten (“to lead”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lede (“to lead”), Norwegian Nynorsk leia (“to lead”), Swedish leda (“to lead”). Related to Old English līþan (“to go, travel”).
Senses: examples: text: The contestants are all tied; no one has the lead position.
text: For the first time ever, the senior architect and lead developer for a key enterprise system on NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission shares the secrets to one of the most difficult technology tasks […]
ref: 2006, Ronald Mak, The Martian Principles for Successful Enterprise Systems:
synonyms: first
front
head
leader
leading
glosses: Foremost.
examples: text: the lead guitarist in band
text: the lead developer on a software project
text: Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's ex-prime minister, has missed a verdict in a negligence trial that could have seen her jailed, prompting the Supreme Court to say it will issue an arrest warrant fearing she is a flight risk, according to the lead judge in the case.
ref: 2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera
glosses: Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
Derived terms: forecast lead time
lead character
lead climber
lead dog
lead fiddle
lead guitar
lead-lag
lead name
lead plane
lead sheet
lead singer
lead single
lead tenant
lead vocalist
lead vocals
lead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lĕd
ipa: /lɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
homophone: led
enpr: lēd
ipa: /liːd/
ipa: /lid/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: leed
homophone: lede
homophone: lied (“song”)
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of led.
ilk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: ilke
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”).
The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.
Senses: examples: text: By semblaunt, was that ilke image
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Very; same.
ilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: ilks
form: ilke
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”).
The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.
Senses: examples: text: "Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago[…]
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXV, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
text: The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.
ref: 1931, Ogden Nash, The Cow:
text: On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services. That makes him a servant of the powers-that-be that have no time for Nobby and his scrounging ilk.
ref: 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
glosses: A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
Synonyms: kind
likes
sort
type
hue
Derived terms: of that ilk
thilk
arise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: arises
form: arising
form: arose
form: arisen
form: arised
form: arose
form: arize
Etymology: From Middle English arisen, from Old English ārīsan (“to arise, get up; rise; spring from, originate; spring up, ascend”), from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsaną (“to rise up, arise”), equivalent to a- + rise. Cognate with Scots arise, aryse (“to arise, rise up, come into existence”), Middle Low German errīsen (“to stand up, arise”), Old High German irrīsan (“to rise up, fall”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”). Eclipsed Middle English sourden, sorden, borrowed from Old French sordre, sourdre (“to arise, originate, fly up”).
Senses: examples: text: to arise from a kneeling posture
synonyms: rise
spring
stand up
glosses: To come up from a lower to a higher position.
examples: text: He arose early in the morning.
synonyms: awaken
see Thesaurus:wake
glosses: To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
examples: text: A cloud arose and covered the sun.
text: A new challenge will arise every time you think you've solved the last one.
text: The issue began to arise when the team members couldn't agree on the plan.
text: Problems can arise unexpectedly, but we need to be prepared for them.
text: There arose up a new king […] which knew not Joseph.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:8:
text: the doubts that in his heart arose
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Because Plato allowed them to co-exist, the meaning and connotations of the one overlap those of the other, and ambiguities arise.
ref: 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 454:
glosses: To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
Synonyms: sense: spring up; to come into being
word: appear
word: emerge
word: originate
word: pop up
english: resume existing
translation: resume existing
word: reappear
word: surface
word: come into being
sense: spring up; to come into action
word: come about
word: come to pass
word: occur
word: happen
Derived terms: arist
rearise
unarisen
unarising
Related terms: arisal
arise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: arises
form: arize
Etymology: From Middle English arisen, from Old English ārīsan (“to arise, get up; rise; spring from, originate; spring up, ascend”), from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsaną (“to rise up, arise”), equivalent to a- + rise. Cognate with Scots arise, aryse (“to arise, rise up, come into existence”), Middle Low German errīsen (“to stand up, arise”), Old High German irrīsan (“to rise up, fall”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”). Eclipsed Middle English sourden, sorden, borrowed from Old French sordre, sourdre (“to arise, originate, fly up”).
Senses: examples: text: And if before the Sunne haue meaſured heauen
With triple circuit thou regreet vs not,
We meane to take his mornings next ariſe.
For meſſenger, he will not be reclaim’d,
And meane to fetch thee in deſpight of him.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:
glosses: Arising, rising.
arose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: simple past of arise
examples: text: And I was tane for him, and he for me,
And thereupon theſe errors are arroſe.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 99, column 2:
text: Mr Bray, diſregarding his own intereſt, and the great profit which would have aroſe from finiſhing his Courſe of Lectures on the plan he had formed,[…]
ref: 1748, Biographia Britannica […] , volume 2, page 963:
text: The whole debate seems to have arose from what appears to some of your honors to include the whole Island in the disturbances alluded to[…]
ref: 1863, Debates and Proceedings of the Legislative Council, of the Province of Prince Edward Island […] , "The Examiner" Office, page 12:
text: The amniote egg is most likely to have arose along the portion of the phylogeny denoted by the solid shading, and is less likely to have arose along the portion denoted by the cross-hatched shading.
ref: 1997 January 5, M. Y. S. Lee, P. Spencer, “Crown Clades and Taxonomic Stability”, in Stuart Sumida, Karen L.M. Martin, editors, Amniote Origins: Completing the Transition to Land, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: past participle of arise
arisen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɪzən/
rhymes: -ɪzən
Senses: glosses: past participle of arise
Moslem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒzləm/
ipa: /ˈmɒsləm/
Forms: form: Moslems
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of Muslim.
Moslem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒzləm/
ipa: /ˈmɒsləm/
Forms: form: more Moslem
form: most Moslem
Senses: examples: text: Eliza Wyatt's Mirror-Images attempts to explore the conflict between modern and traditional ways of life for residents of an unnamed Moslem country, with an emphasis on women.
ref: 1985 August 24, Mara Math, “Note This!”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 19:
glosses: Dated spelling of Muslim.
Muslim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʊz.lɪm/
ipa: /ˈmʌz.ləm/
ipa: /ˈmʊz.lɪm/
note: more Arabized
ipa: /ˈmʊs.lɪm/
note: more Arabized
ipa: /ˈmʊs.ləm/
rhymes: -ʌzlɪm
rhymes: -ʊzlɪm
rhymes: -ʊslɪm
Forms: form: more Muslim
form: most Muslim
form: Moslem
Etymology: Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s l m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety".
Senses: examples: text: The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.
ref: 2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi:
text: Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.
ref: 2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN:
glosses: Being or relating to a believer of Islam.
Synonyms: Islamic
Muslim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʊz.lɪm/
ipa: /ˈmʌz.ləm/
ipa: /ˈmʊz.lɪm/
note: more Arabized
ipa: /ˈmʊs.lɪm/
note: more Arabized
ipa: /ˈmʊs.ləm/
rhymes: -ʌzlɪm
rhymes: -ʊzlɪm
rhymes: -ʊslɪm
Forms: form: Moslem
Etymology: Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s l m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety".
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Guindulungan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines.
Islam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪs.lɑːm/
ipa: /ˈɪz.lɑːm/
ipa: /ɪsˈlɑːm/
ipa: /ɪzˈlɑːm/
other: /-læm/
rhymes: -ɑːm
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: Islams
form: Islaam
form: Islām
form: Eslam
Etymology: Borrowed around 1610 from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م (s l m).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Islam.
glosses: A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.
examples: text: It is no doubt true that other civilizations, prior to, or wholly alien to, the medieval West, such as the Roman Empire, Byzantium, Islam, or China, were familiar with forms of higher education which a number of historians, for the sake of convenience, have sometimes described as universities.
ref: 2003, Jacques Verger, edited by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, A History of the University in Europe. Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, Patterns, pages 35–76:
glosses: A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.
Muslimdom (the sphere of influence of the religion).
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Synonyms: english: now often considered offensive
translation: now often considered offensive
word: Mohammedanism
word: Moslemism
word: Muslimism
word: Islamism
Hypernyms: religion
monotheism
Abrahamism
Coordinate terms: sense: subdivisions
word: Sunni
sense: subdivisions
word: Shi'a
sense: subdivisions
word: Ibadi
Derived terms: Chrislam
Nation of Islam
Pisslam
Prislam
Siqatul Islam
Related terms: Islamic
Islamic calendar
Islamise
Islamize
Islamism
Islamist
Islamness
Islamologist
Islamology
Islamophobia
Allah
hadith
hajj
mosque
Muslimness
Qur'an
sharia law
chat room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chat rooms
form: chatroom
form: chat-room
Senses: examples: text: If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:
glosses: Part of a website or other network where visitors can converse in typed messages.
Related terms: chat site
copyright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒpiˌɹaɪt/
homophone: copywrite
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: copyrights
Etymology: From copy + right.
Senses: examples: text: Copyright is a separate legal area from trademarks.
text: One of the important points that would have to be examined in such a discussion would be how far the growth of this class has been artificially stimulated by the law of copyright.¹
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 420:
glosses: The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.
examples: text: The artist lost the copyrights to her songs when she signed the contract.
text: The images are still copyright of the original artist.
text: For me personally, the copyrights and "copywrongs," as I have called them, simply boil down to either one or two things, and that is it's either an act of distribution or it is an act of consumption.
ref: 2005, Gerard M Stegmaier, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: 2005 supplement:
text: The 1994 law in question was designed to put the United States in compliance with global treaties on intellectual property– the Berne Convention and the so-called Uruguay Round. The federal legislation created copyrights to foreign works that had not previously been covered.
ref: 2012 January 18, Bill Mears, “Justices allow copyrights on foreign works”, in CNN:
glosses: Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.
examples: text: no copyright intended
text: Anyone accused of copyright would have sixty days to opt-out of the Copyright Claims Board process, in which case the plaintiff would have to seek legal action in court.
ref: 2019 October 23, Christine Fisher, “House passes controversial copyright bill that could be abused by trolls”, in Engadget:
glosses: A violation of copyright law; copyright infringement.
Derived terms: ad interim copyright
anticopyright
copyfighter
copyfree
copyleft
copyreich
copyrightability
copyrighter
copyright infringement
copyright laundering
copyrightless
copyright symbol
copyright trap
copyright troll
copystrike
poor man's copyright
recopyright
uncopyrightability
copyright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒpiˌɹaɪt/
homophone: copywrite
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: copyrights
form: copyrighting
form: copyrighted
form: copyrighted
Etymology: From copy + right.
Senses: examples: text: Every book will be copyrighted that the publisher believes will have such a market as will justify him in going to the expense of copyrighting to prevent competition from other publishers.
ref: 1907, United States Congress House. Committee on Appropriations, District of Columbia Appropriations, page 253:
text: Further, Mr. Mullins writes FOR YOU-THE-PEOPLE, copyrighting to protect listings and to make a statement—but willingly shares his work for, after all, if it is not read then of what worth is a book?
ref: 1993, Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn, The Beast at Work, →ISBN, page 161:
text: The sealed contents inside postmarked by the United States Post office will be proof enough of exactly when your work was completed. The disadvantage to this form of copyrighting is that your work is not traceable for anyone who is interested in acquiring information regarding copyright ownership.
ref: 1997, Marc Davison, All Area Access: Personal Management for Unsigned Musicians, →ISBN, page 171:
text: J. J. Jameson: The Green Goblin. You like that? Made it up myself. These weirdos all gotta have a name now. Hoffman! Call the patent office, copyright the name "Green Goblin". I want a quarter every time somebody says it.
ref: 2002, Spider-Man (film)
text: When your script is completed you need to copyright it with the Library of Congress in Washington DC (you can get the forms from: Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 20559. Request form PA, or you can download them from www.loc.gov/copyright).
ref: 2006, Josh Becker, Bruce Campbell, The Complete Guide to Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Everything else that is written or created is automatically copyrighted.
ref: 2008, Ann Gaines, Don't Steal Copyrighted Stuff!, →ISBN:
glosses: To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
examples: text: I won’t play this track, I don’t wanna get copyrighted.
glosses: To flag for copyright violation, to copystrike.
Derived terms: copyrightable
Related terms: copyfight
copyleft
copyright infringement
exclusive right
copywrong
SAU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SAUs
Senses: topics: education
qualifier: New Hampshire
glosses: Initialism of school administrative unit.
⠁
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: a
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter a, including the independent word a.
⠁
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The digit 1
raw_tags: in the context of the number sign ⠼
cork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹk/
ipa: /kɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: corks
Etymology: From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: phellem
glosses: The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
examples: text: I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own
ref: 1908, Edwin George Pinkham, Fate's a fiddler, page 108:
text: Because cork is porous, it expands and contracts with changes in humidity.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 48:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: phellem
glosses: The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
examples: text: Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
glosses: A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
glosses: An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
glosses: The cork oak, Quercus suber.
Derived terms: roman: gɔ́k
word: → Thai: ก๊อก
cork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹk/
ipa: /kɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: corks
Etymology: From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
Derived terms: english: two such maneuvers in a single jump
translation: two such maneuvers in a single jump
word: double cork
english: three such maneuvers in a single jump
translation: three such maneuvers in a single jump
word: triple cork
english: four such maneuvers in a single jump
translation: four such maneuvers in a single jump
word: quad cork
cork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹk/
ipa: /kɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: corks
form: corking
form: corked
form: corked
Etymology: From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: To perform such a maneuver.
facet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæsɪt/
rhymes: -æsɪt
Forms: form: facets
Etymology: Borrowed from French facette.
Senses: examples: text: This facet of the diamond was masterfully cut to enhance its value.
glosses: Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
examples: text: The child's learning disability was only one facet of the problems contributing to his delinquency.
synonyms: aspect
glosses: One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
examples: text: We had just about completed the research facet of the project when the order came to cancel it.
glosses: One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
examples: text: the articular facet of a bone
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A smooth circumscribed surface.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
topics: architecture
glosses: The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
Derived terms: articular facet
facetal
facetectomy
faceter
facetlike
facet name
facet syndrome
geofacet
microfacet
multifacet
multifaceted
subfacet
facet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæsɪt/
rhymes: -æsɪt
Forms: form: facets
form: faceting
form: facetting
form: faceted
form: faceted
form: facetted
form: facetted
Etymology: Borrowed from French facette.
Senses: glosses: To cut a facet into a gemstone.
eyelash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪlæʃ/
Forms: form: eyelashes
form: eye-lash
form: eye lash
Etymology: From eye + lash.
Senses: topics: anatomy
dermatology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: cilium
lash
glosses: One of the hairs which grows along the edge of eyelids.
Derived terms: word: bat an eyelash
word: by an eyelash
word: eyelash black
taxonomic: Atheris ceratophora
word: eyelash bush viper
word: eyelash curler
word: eyelashed
word: eyelash extensions
word: eyelash forceps
word: eyelash gecko
word: Rhacodactylus ciliatus
word: eyelash grass
word: Bouteloua gracilis
word: eyelash mite
word: eyelash viper
word: Bothriechis schlegelii
word: eyelash yarn
word: false eyelash
word: false eyelashes
taxonomic: Trachyboa boulengeri
word: northern eyelash boa
word: without batting an eyelash
Related terms: mascara
eyelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.lɪd/
rhymes: -aɪlɪd
Forms: form: eyelids
Etymology: From Middle English eyelidd, eye-led, eiȝelid, eghe-lydd, yȝe-lydd, ehlid, yhelidd, from an unrecorded Old English *ēaghlid (“eyelid”), from Proto-West Germanic *augahlid (“eyelid”), equivalent to eye + lid. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oogenlid (“eyelid”), West Frisian eachlid (“eyelid”), Dutch ooglid (“eyelid”), German Low German Ooglidd (“eyelid”), German Augenlid (“eyelid”).
Generally superseded non-native Middle English palpebre (“eyelid”), borrowed from Latin palpebra (“eyelid”) (see Modern English palpebra).
Senses: examples: text: By his neeſings a light doth ſhine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 41:18, column 2:
text: […] the frightened or insane eyes of an animal, sometimes with eyelids closed in escapeful slumber.
ref: 2000, Joshua P. Warren, The Evil in Asheville, page 246:
text: Allergan, the company that turned an obscure muscle paralyzer for eyelid spasms, Botox, into a blockbuster wrinkle smoother, hopes to perform cosmetic alchemy yet again.
ref: 2009 January 14, Natasha Singer, “Love the Eyelashes. Who Is Your Doctor?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
Synonyms: blepharon
palpebra
Derived terms: bat an eyelid
double eyelid
eyelidded
eyelidless
floppy eyelid syndrome
hang by the eyelids
monolid
single eyelid
without blinking an eyelid
Related terms: eyebrow
eyelash
nictitating membrane
eyesore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪsɔː/
ipa: /ˈaɪsoɹ/
enpr: īʹsôr
rhymes: -aɪsɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: eyesores
form: eye-sore
Etymology: From Middle English eye sor, eie-sor, eyen soore, eæge-sare, equivalent to eye + sore.
Senses: glosses: An eye lesion.
examples: text: The building, towering over its surroundings with its square concrete frame and reflective walls of gold-tinted glass, was an eyesore visible throughout the city.
text: Two entrants shared this award for their work on two quite different stations, but with the same purpose of bringing a redundant station building back into use for the benefit of the community, with the added result of conserving an historic building. Saltash Town Council bought Saltash station building after it had become very decrepit and 'an eyesore' - such that it was nearly pulled down to make way for housing.
ref: 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Network Rail Community Award: Saltash and Stow”, in RAIL, number 946, page 58:
antonyms: feast for the eyes
eye candy
glosses: A displeasing sight; something prominently ugly or unsightly.
Related terms: earsore
nosesore
awake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈweɪk/
ipa: /əˈweːk/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [əˈweːk]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [əˈwɛːk]
rhymes: -eɪk
Etymology: From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
Senses: examples: text: By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86:
synonyms: conscious
lucid
wide awake
antonyms: word: asleep
word: unconscious
word: awake
glosses: Not asleep; conscious.
examples: text: They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
text: The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.
ref: 1845, The Sportsman's Magazine of Life in London and the Country, page 355:
text: ‘Sammy,’ whispered Mr. Weller, looking cautiously round; ‘[…] Me and a cab’net-maker has dewised a plan for gettin’ him out. A pianner, Samivel—a pianner!’ […]
‘And wot ‘ud be the good o’ that?’ said Sam.
‘Let him send to my friend, the cabinet-maker, to fetch it back, Sammy,’ replied Mr. Weller. ‘Are you avake, now?’
‘No,’ rejoined Sam.
‘There ain’t no vurks in it,’ whispered his father. ‘It ‘ull hold him easy, vith his hat and shoes on, and breathe through the legs, vich his holler. […]
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: And so we see in our own world a revolution of rising expectations. The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution.
ref: 1965 June, Martin Luther King, Jr., Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution:
synonyms: word: wary
word: woke
word: alert
word: aware
word: heedful
word: hip
word: observant
word: on guard
word: on the lookout
word: on the watch
word: on watch
word: vigilant
word: wakeful
word: wakesome
word: wary
word: watchful
word: woke
antonyms: heedless
oblivious
glosses: Alert, aware.
Synonyms: word: alert
word: awake
word: caffeinated
word: conscious
word: invigorated
word: invigorating
word: lively
word: wakeful
word: wakesome
word: woke
Hyponyms: word: broad awake
word: wide awake
Derived terms: awakeness
be awake
broad awake
half-awake
nonawake
unawake
wide-awake
wideawake
Related terms: word: bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
word: up and at 'em
word: vigilant
word: wake
word: wakefulness
awake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈweɪk/
ipa: /əˈweːk/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [əˈweːk]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [əˈwɛːk]
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: awakes
form: awaking
form: awoke
form: awaked
form: awoken
form: awaked
form: awoke
form: awaken
Etymology: From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English āwacan and āwacian. By surface analysis, a- + wake.
Senses: examples: text: Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
ref: 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:
synonyms: word: awaken
word: wake up
word: abraid
word: arise
word: arouse
word: awake
word: awaken
word: get up
word: rise
word: rouse
word: stir
word: wake
word: wake up
word: waken
antonyms: word: fall asleep
word: awake
word: awaken
word: wake
word: wake up
glosses: To become conscious after having slept.
examples: text: Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “primum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
text: [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
synonyms: word: bring round
word: cry
word: wake up
word: arouse
word: awake
word: awaken
word: bring round
word: cry
word: knock up
word: rouse
word: roust
word: uprouse
word: wake
word: wake up
word: waken
antonyms: put to sleep
glosses: To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
glosses: To make aware of something.
glosses: To excite or to stir up something latent.
glosses: To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
examples: text: 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England
The national spirit again awoke.
text: Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 15:34:
glosses: To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
Derived terms: awakable
awaker
reawake
Related terms: awake to
awaken
wake
wake up
woke
advocate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.və.kət/
ipa: /ˈæd.və.keɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɖvɵˈkeʈ/
Forms: form: advocates
Etymology: From Middle English advocat, advoket, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus (“an advocate”), from the substantivization of the perfect passive participle of advocāre (“to call for”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from a calque of Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos) (whence English paraclete). Doublet of advoke, avocat, avouch, and avow. The verb derives from the noun on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
examples: text: I neuer did incense his Maiestie / Against the Duke of Clarence, but haue bin / An earnest aduocate to plead for him.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
examples: text: "I think," replied the young advocate, unwilling to give up a point in which his feelings were interested, "that even you would believe in Walter Maynard's success in life, if you knew him. What has brought the world to its present state, but individual talent?"
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 104:
text: He became a tireless advocate for the needs of adults with IMD throughout Britain and internationally.
ref: 2011 October 9, Alix Lee, The Guardian:
glosses: A person who speaks in support of something, or someone; proponent
examples: text: Since she started working with her advocate, she has become much more confident.
glosses: A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
Derived terms: advocate general
advocateship
advocatess
advocatory
angel's advocate
badvocate
devil's advocate
judge advocate
nonadvocate
special education advocate
subadvocate
Windvocate
Related terms: advocacy
advocation
advocator
avocate
advocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.və.kət/
ipa: /ˈæd.və.keɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɖvɵˈkeʈ/
Forms: form: advocates
form: advocating
form: advocated
form: advocated
Etymology: From Middle English advocat, advoket, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus (“an advocate”), from the substantivization of the perfect passive participle of advocāre (“to call for”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from a calque of Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos) (whence English paraclete). Doublet of advoke, avocat, avouch, and avow. The verb derives from the noun on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: 7 March, 1624, Robert Sanderson, sermon at the Assizes, at Lincoln
To advocate the cause of thy client.
16 June, 1784, Edmund Burke, speech on reform of representation in the House of Commons
This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated.
glosses: To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
examples: text: I like trees, but I do not advocate living in them.
text: Those who have advocated the closure of the G.C. have so far failed to say by which alternative route this North-to-West traffic could be carried.
ref: 1960 December, B. Perren, “The role of the Great Central—present and future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 765:
text: Varys even leans on Jon to assume the Iron Throne, which means he very well knew he wasn’t going to be around much longer, if he’s openly advocating others commit treason as well.
ref: 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:
text: Back in 1963, how could Beeching advocate closure of the electrified Liverpool-Southport commuter route, just because its books didn't balance? The busy North London line between Richmond and Broad Street was also for the axe, as was Leeds to Bradford and Ilkley.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:
glosses: To encourage support for something.
examples: text: We have been advocating for changes in immigration law.
text: And why has no one in the [rail] industry advocated for a universal requirement for face covering (even if it's just a scarf or old tea towel), [...].
ref: 2020 June 3, Christian Wolmar, “Unworkable policies cripple our beleaguered railway”, in Rail, page 51:
glosses: To engage in advocacy.
raw_tags: with for
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To call a case before itself for decision.
raw_tags: in higher courts
Derived terms: advocater
advocative
hyperadvocate
Related terms: advocacy
awoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-wōk'
ipa: /əˈwəʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Senses: glosses: simple past of awake
glosses: past participle of awake
were
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: weak form
ipa: /wə(ɹ)/
enpr: wər
note: weak form
note: strong form
ipa: /wɜː/
enpr: wûr
note: strong form
note: weak form
ipa: /wɚ/
note: strong form
ipa: /wɝ/
note: strong form
ipa: /wɛr/
note: strong form
ipa: /wøː/
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
enpr: wûr
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
ipa: /weː/
enpr: wâr
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
ipa: /wɛː/
note: strong form
ipa: /wɑːɹ/
enpr: wär
note: strong form
homophone: we're
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: whirr (wine–whine merger, fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: ware (fair–fur merger)
homophone: where (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: ware
form: weare
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English were, weren, from Old English wǣre, wǣron, wǣren, from Proto-West Germanic *wāʀīn, from Proto-Germanic *wēzun, *wēzīn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-. More at was.
Senses: examples: text: John, you were the only person to see him.
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of be
examples: text: We were about to leave.
text: Mary and John, you were right.
text: They were a fine group.
text: They were to be the best of friends from that day on.
glosses: plural simple past indicative of be
examples: text: I wish that it were Sunday.
text: I wish that I were with you.
text: Were it simply that she wore a hat, I would not be upset at all. (= If it were simply...)
Were father a king, we would have war. (= If father were a king,...)
ref: If you were to move your chair a little, we'd all fit. with “if” omitted, put first in an “if” clause
text: Maccabi would have been out of contention were it not for Stoke's profligacy, but their fortune eventually ran out as the visitors opened the scoring.
ref: 2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1 - 2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: simple subjunctive of be
glosses: first/third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
Synonyms: english: thou; used with
translation: thou; used with
word: wast
english: thou; used with
translation: thou; used with
word: wert
Related terms: am
are
art
be
been
beest
being
is
was
wast
wert
were
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: weak form
ipa: /wə(ɹ)/
enpr: wər
note: weak form
note: strong form
ipa: /wɜː/
enpr: wûr
note: strong form
note: weak form
ipa: /wɚ/
note: strong form
ipa: /wɝ/
note: strong form
ipa: /wɛr/
note: strong form
ipa: /wøː/
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
enpr: wûr
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
ipa: /weː/
enpr: wâr
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
ipa: /wɛː/
note: strong form
ipa: /wɑːɹ/
enpr: wär
note: strong form
homophone: we're
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: whirr (wine–whine merger, fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: ware (fair–fur merger)
homophone: where (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: weres
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English were, wer, see wer.
Senses: examples: text: 1799-1805, Sharon Turner, History of the Anglo-Saxons
Every man was valued at a certain sum, which was called his were.
text: If by that he failed to pay or give security for the were, or fine, at which murder was legally rated; he might be put to death by the relatives of the murdered man.
ref: 1867, John Lingard, T. Young, Introduction to English History … arranged … by T. Young, page 19:
text: Written statutes busied themselves only with the amount of the were, or fine, or (for the first century after the Conquest) with the method of procedure.
ref: 1908, Frederic Jesup Stimson, The Law of the Federal and State Constitutions of the United States, page 13:
text: The consequence of conviction was, the payment to the person injured, of a were, or penalty, proportioned to the offencel but though this was the ordinary course, the recovery of the were was not the only object of the proceedings. "The were," says Reeve, "in cases of homicide, and the fines that were paid in cases of theft of various kinds, were only to redeem the offender from the proper punishment of the law, which was death, and that was reddemable, not only by paying money, but by undergoing some personal pains; hence it is that we hear a great variety of corporal punishments..."...
ref: 2004, James Fitzjames Stephen, A General View of the Criminal Law of England, →ISBN, pages 12–13:
glosses: Alternative form of wer (“man; wergeld”).
were
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: weak form
ipa: /wə(ɹ)/
enpr: wər
note: weak form
note: strong form
ipa: /wɜː/
enpr: wûr
note: strong form
note: weak form
ipa: /wɚ/
note: strong form
ipa: /wɝ/
note: strong form
ipa: /wɛr/
note: strong form
ipa: /wøː/
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
enpr: wûr
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
ipa: /weː/
enpr: wâr
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
note: fair–fur merger, strong form
ipa: /wɛː/
note: strong form
ipa: /wɑːɹ/
enpr: wär
note: strong form
homophone: we're
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: whirr (wine–whine merger, fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: ware (fair–fur merger)
homophone: where (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: weres
Etymology: Back-formation from werewolf and other terms in were-, from the same source as English wer, were (“man”) (above).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.