cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
good afternoon
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Probably a shortening of "I wish you a good afternoon."
Senses: examples: text: Good afternoon everyone and thank you for coming to our special meeting today.
text: Jeeves: Good afternoon, madam.
Landlady: Don't you good afternoon me. I'm a respectable woman.
Jeeves: I have no reason to doubt it, madam.
ref: 1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:
qualifier: rather formal in US
glosses: A greeting or farewell said in the afternoon.
Coordinate terms: good morning
good noon
good day
good evening
good night
good night
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: good-night
form: goodnight
form: g'night
Etymology: Probably a shortening of "May you have a good night."
Senses: glosses: A farewell said in the evening or before going to sleep.
examples: text: […] peculiarities of your law always interest me. What is 'legitim'?"
"Oh! Good-night!" I said derisively.
"But I am in dead earnest, and really want to know," he added with a perfectly serious face; "I have a small bet on."
ref: 1920, William Darling Lyell, The House in Queen Anne Square: A Tale, page 34:
text: Together they pried into the sodden mass, yanking out what was left of the record books.
"Oh, good night!" Joe moaned in dismay. "The fire extinguisher liquid has messed up what the fire didn't."
ref: 1954, Franklin W. Dixon, The Yellow Feather Mystery:
glosses: Expressing incredulity.
Synonyms: night
night night
Coordinate terms: good afternoon
good day
good evening
good morning
Derived terms: word: goodnight
word: good-night
word: goodnight Vienna
Related terms: nighty night
abductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdʌk.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæbˌdək.tɪv/
rhymes: -ʌktɪv
Etymology: From abduct + -ive.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Related or pertaining to abductor muscles and their movement.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to a logical process of abduction or inference.
examples: text: The logs showed that between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the abductive day, 10,718 SIMs connected with the seven […] Some people in the kidnap zone would of course have called each other innocently, but […]
ref: 2010, Steve Hendricks, A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Abducting, pertaining to an abduction (a kidnapping).
Derived terms: abductively
nonabductive
Related terms: abductive reasoning
conundrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnʌn.dɹəm/
Forms: form: conundrums
form: conundra
Etymology: A word of unknown origin with several variants, gaining popularity for its burlesque imitation of scholastic Latin, as hocus-pocus or panjandrum. If there is more to its origin than a nonce coinage, Anatoly Liberman suggests the best theory is that connecting it with the Conimbricenses, 16th c. scholastic commentaries on Aristotle by the Jesuits of Coimbra which indulge heavily in arguments relying on multiple significations of words.
Senses: examples: text: “Why should I understand that, or anything else?” asked the girl. “Don’t bother my head by asking conundrums, I beg of you. Just let me discover myself in my own way.”
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 2, in Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
text: Besides assisting in unravelling these two etymological conundrums, the present research also made an effort to approach a greater accuracy in presenting the original sources of borrowed words.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255:
synonyms: brain-teaser
enigma
puzzle
riddle
glosses: A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
examples: text: 2004, Martha Stewart, statement read before being sentenced to five months in prison
And while I am more concerned about the well-being of others than for myself, more hurt for them and for their losses than for my own, more worried for their futures than for the future of Martha Stewart the person, you are faced with a conundrum, a problem of monumental, to me, proportions.
text: Herb was initially overcome by Jakarta ('The impressions of noise, chaos, tremendous crowdedness and I suppose whitelessness were perhaps the strongest, and I felt something of a stranger') and faced with the familiar conundrum ('again the sensation of the thousands of hungry people all around – happy looking often, pluckily cheerful but in fact hungry – is strange and upsetting'), but he quickly slipped into the volunteer lifestyle with relish, borrowing a bike from Soewarto, a friend from Kempen, and spending a lot of his time with volunteers, including Lance Castles and John Gare.
ref: 2011, Jemma Purdey, From Vienna to Yogyakarta:
synonyms: word: dilemma
word: Catch-22
word: dilemma
word: Morton's fork
word: no-win situation
word: quandary
word: Sophie's choice
glosses: A difficult choice or decision that must be made.
plain
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: pane–pain merger
enpr: plān
homophone: plane
ipa: /pleɪn/
ipa: [pl̥eɪn]
note: Indic
ipa: /plɛjn/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /plen/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: plaine
Etymology: From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, and Old French plain, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.
Senses: examples: text: It was just plain stupid.
text: I plain forgot.
glosses: Simply.
examples: text: Tell me plain: do you love me or no?
glosses: Plainly; distinctly.
plain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: pane–pain merger
enpr: plān
homophone: plane
ipa: /pleɪn/
ipa: [pl̥eɪn]
note: Indic
ipa: /plɛjn/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /plen/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: plains
Etymology: From Old French plain, from Latin plānum (“level ground, a plain”), neuter substantive from plānus (“level, even, flat”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.
Senses: examples: text: Him the Ammonite / Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, 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: 1961, J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
For Plato the life of the philosopher is a life of struggle towards the goal of knowledge, towards “searching the heavens and measuring the plains, in all places seeking the nature of everything as a whole”
synonyms: flatland
grassland
hypernyms: land
terrain
glosses: An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
examples: text: Fair ship, that from the Italian shore,
⁠Sailest the placid ocean-plains
⁠With my lost Arthur’s loved remains,
Spread thy full wings, and waft him o’er.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
examples: text: You have stormed no town and found the money there ; neither did you find it in the plains of Plassey after the defeat of the Nawab
ref: 1899, Alexander John Arbuthnot, Lord Clive: The Foundation of British Rule in India:
text: Lead forth my soldiers to the plain.
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, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield.
synonyms: word: field in reference to a battlefield
glosses: Alternative spelling of plane: a flat geometric field.
Derived terms: abyssal plain
alluvial plain
Bell Plain
Boss of the Plains
Central Plain
Depsang Plains
Emu Plains
etchplain
flood plain
floodplain
gibber plain
Golden Plains
Great Plains
High Plains
Manchurian Plain
Mitchells Plain
Moree Plains
North China Plain
Northeast China Plain
Nullarbor Plain
peneplain
plainful
plainland
plainlike
Plain of Esdraelon
plain of Mars
Plains
plainsfolk
plains lovegrass
plainspeople
plainswoman
plain wanderer
riverplain
Salisbury Plain
salt plain
sandplain
Scotch Plains
Sharon Plain
Staked Plain
the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain
transplains
walled plain
West Plains
White Plains
Related terms: esplanade
explain
plain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: pane–pain merger
enpr: plān
homophone: plane
ipa: /pleɪn/
ipa: [pl̥eɪn]
note: Indic
ipa: /plɛjn/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /plen/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: plains
form: plaining
form: plained
form: plained
Etymology: From Old French plain, from Latin plānum (“level ground, a plain”), neuter substantive from plānus (“level, even, flat”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.
Senses: examples: text: Frownst thou thereat aspiring Lancaster,
The sworde shall plane the furrowes of thy browes,
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: We would rake Europe rather, plain the East;
ref: 1612, George Wither, Prince Henrie’s Obsequies, Elegy 24, in Egerton Brydges (editor), Restituta, Volume I, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814, p. 399, Though kept by Rome’s and Mahomet’s chiefe powers; They should not long detain him there in thrall
roman: Dispeople the whole Earth before the doome:
glosses: To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
examples: text: What’s dumb in show, I’ll plain with speech.
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, prologue]:
glosses: To make plain or manifest; to explain.
plain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: pane–pain merger
enpr: plān
homophone: plane
ipa: /pleɪn/
ipa: [pl̥eɪn]
note: Indic
ipa: /plɛjn/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /plen/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: plains
form: plein
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman plainer, pleiner, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French pleindre, plaindre, from Latin plangere.
Senses: examples: text: The warrior-threat, the infant's plain,
The mother's screams, were heard in vain;
ref: 1815, Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Isles, Canto IV, part IX:
glosses: A lamentation.
plain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: pane–pain merger
enpr: plān
homophone: plane
ipa: /pleɪn/
ipa: [pl̥eɪn]
note: Indic
ipa: /plɛjn/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /plen/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: plains
form: plaining
form: plained
form: plained
form: plein
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman plainer, pleiner, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French pleindre, plaindre, from Latin plangere.
Senses: examples: text: Persones and parisch prestes · pleyned hem to þe bischop / Þat here parisshes were pore · sith þe pestilence tyme […].
ref: c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “[Prologue]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:
glosses: To complain.
examples: text: to plain a loss
text: Shepheards, that wont[…]
Oft times to plaine your loves concealed smart
ref: 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegie vpon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney.”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Thy mother could thee for thy cradle set
Her husband's rusty iron corselet;
Whose jargling sound might rock her babe to rest,
That never plain'd of his uneasy nest.
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
text: Then, again, she almost thought that the soft and wailing wind which swept mournfully through the sepulchral boughs of the large old yews, had a voice not of this world—was it the inarticulate plaining of her brother's gentle spirit, debarred from intercourse, but still keeping over her the deep and eternal watch of love?
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 9:
text: Then came I crying, and to-day, / With heavier cause to plain, / Depart I into death away, / Not to be born again.
ref: 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, "XXV", lines 5–9
glosses: To lament, bewail.
Related terms: complain
plaint
plaintive
plain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: pane–pain merger
enpr: plān
homophone: plane
ipa: /pleɪn/
ipa: [pl̥eɪn]
note: Indic
ipa: /plɛjn/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /plen/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: plainer
form: plainest
Etymology: From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Old French plein, from Latin plēnus (“full, filled, complete”). Ultimately from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Doublet of plene, plenary, and full.
Senses: glosses: Full, complete in number or extent.
blow football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indoor tabletop game, normally for children, simulating football (soccer), in which plastic straws are blown through in order to move a small ball and score goals.
bain-marie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbænməˈriː/
Forms: form: bains-marie
form: bain marie
Etymology: Borrowed from French bain-marie, from Medieval Latin balneum Mariae (literally “Maria's bath”).
Senses: examples: text: Steam tables, bains marie, and chaffing dishes require that an accurate external probe thermometer be used.
ref: 2003, Ronald H. Schmidt, Gary E. Rodrick, Food Safety Handbook, page 511:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A large pan containing hot water, into which other smaller pans are set in order to cook food slowly, or to keep food warm.
glosses: A unit comprising an array of such pans.
Synonyms: word: water bath
english: not always differentiated
translation: not always differentiated
word: steam table
english: not always differentiated
translation: not always differentiated
word: double boiler
goodnight Vienna
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: Good Night, Vienna
form: good night, Vienna
form: good night Vienna
form: goodnight, Vienna
Etymology: From Goodnight, Vienna, a 1932 operetta.
Senses: examples: text: If the ship takes on any more water, it’ll be goodnight Vienna for us all.
text: So I met the girl, we had a few drinks. Back to her place, and Good Night, Vienna.
glosses: Events have reached a state of completion; nothing more can be done.
wikipedia: Goodnight, Vienna
Related terms: goodnight Irene
childer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪldə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English childer, childre, from Old English ċildra, ċildru.
Senses: examples: text: Parents, I've noticed, have a trick of saying their prayers through their childer on weathersome days.
ref: 1906, Halliwell Sutcliffe, A Benedick in Arcady:
qualifier: obsolete elsewhere
glosses: Plural of child.
topics: fantasy
glosses: Plural of childe (“self-turned vampire”).
childer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪldə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: childers
form: children
Etymology: From Middle English childer, childre, from Old English ċildra, ċildru.
Senses: examples: text: As yo ma be quoit shure where there's agret family a childer, a wumman's loik tubbe varra throng ina monin
ref: 1839, Abel BYWATER, The Sheffield Dialect. [A Series of Papers in that Dialect, with a Glossary.], page 223:
text: Aye has he, Dan'l Drax, so do ee larn him what cums to they as lets off rebels. He be safter nor turnips, nor boiled turnips, so he be. Was blubberin' while back over yon rebel an'a childer !
ref: 1894, Emily Lawless, Maelcho: A Sixteenth Century Narrative:
text: Ay, a childer's class, tha' knows — a Katty — Katty — Aw dunna know wot they caw'n it.
ref: 1899, Frederick R. Smith, Doxie Dent: A Clog-shop Chronicle:
text: Yebbut...she ain't a childer any more...she's stuck in no-mans-land for the next few years.
ref: 2003 September 13, Guy King, “Re: Hi from Kran”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):
glosses: A child.
Related terms: Childermas
Pali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːli/
rhymes: -ɑːli
Etymology: A learned borrowing from Sanskrit पालि (pāli).
Senses: glosses: A Middle Indo-Aryan language of north India, closely related to Sanskrit; the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism.
Related terms: alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/pli
word: pli
word: pli ⁠
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Pali terms
Pali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːli/
rhymes: -ɑːli
Forms: form: Palis
form: Pally
Etymology: Clipping of Palestinian, influenced by Paki.
Senses: glosses: A Palestinian person.
Pali
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːli/
rhymes: -ɑːli
Forms: form: Pally
Etymology: Clipping of Palestinian, influenced by Paki.
Senses: glosses: Palestinian.
Related terms: Pallywood
Pali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːli/
rhymes: -ɑːli
Etymology: Clipping of Palisades.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: The Pacific Palisades coast.
irises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pink- and apricot-coloured irises have also been bred in some species.
text: The flag irises are for the most part of the easiest culture and easily propagated.
glosses: plural of iris
irises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of iris
asea
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: a-sea
Etymology: From a- + sea.
Senses: glosses: on the ocean; on a boat on the ocean
synonyms: at sea
glosses: uncertain; (psychologically) adrift.
asea
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: a-sea
Etymology: From a- + sea.
Senses: glosses: in the direction of the sea, seaward.
dribble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪ.bəl/
ipa: /dɹɪ.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɹɪ.bɫ̩/
ipa: /ˈdɹɪ.b(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: dribbles
form: dribbling
form: dribbled
form: dribbled
Etymology: From drib + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.
examples: text: The baby dribbled onto its bib.
glosses: To let saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
glosses: To fall in drops or an unsteady stream; to trickle.
examples: text: Denny slid over a couple of steps and swung feebly at it. The ball hit the wooden frame of his racket and dribbled into the net.
ref: 1952, Charles Coombs, Young Readers Sports Treasury, page 14:
text: Derrick's hand passed along the plate while the catcher flipped and fell on his back in a huge cloud of dust. The ball went dribbling toward the backstop.
ref: 1991, David Halecroft, Wild Pitch, →ISBN, page 56:
text: After two minutes and 25 seconds, he scored with a pea-roller that totally foxed Stoke keeper Dennis Herod and dribbled in off a post.
ref: 2017, Scott Murray, The Title: The Story of the First Division, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: To move or roll slowly.
examples: text: let her [the cook] follow him softly with a ladle full, and dribble it all the way up stairs to the dining-room
ref: 1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To let something fall in drips.
glosses: To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
glosses: To perform a card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
Derived terms: bedribble
dripple
overdribble
dribble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪ.bəl/
ipa: /dɹɪ.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɹɪ.bɫ̩/
ipa: /ˈdɹɪ.b(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: dribbles
Etymology: From drib + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: Drool; saliva.
examples: text: Your pieces are amateur at best—at worst they are a commercial hoax—something you’d find at Kmart for the kids to take back to their dorms. Frankly, I’m shocked you would waste my time with this dribble. You are no artist, my dear.
ref: 2006, Mary Carter, chapter 27, in She’ll Take It, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 231:
text: “Are these mangers also called ‘Labor Camps’? Those baby production lines Hitler set up to produce a race of pure bloods.” / “No,” said Ute, openly irritated at the remark. She looked over at Captain Browder, saying with her eyes, “Do we have to keep on with this dribble?” / Browder broke in, “Trank, let’s cut out this insignificant ramble. Let’s go straight to the subject of mangers where girls can give birth in secret.”
ref: 2007, Paul F. F. Hood with Carra Leah Hood, chapter 15, in Tomorrow, Soldier, part 3 (Himmler’s Gas Station), Bloomington, Ind.; Central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 244:
text: I’ve returned everything that I borrowed and then some, but it never sat well with her father and he disowned her right along with me. Michael, did you know that I’m low life scum? Well, that’s what he called me the last time we were together. I apologize, I should never have bothered you with this dribble.
ref: 2016, William McChesney, “Back to the War”, in Retribution: They Must All Die, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Rubbish; worthless matter.
glosses: A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
glosses: A small amount of a liquid.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it.
glosses: A card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
Derived terms: dribblesome
dripple
seal dribble
Related terms: crossover dribble
double dribble
dribble glass
dribble penetration
dribbly
kill one's dribble
prepare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛː/
ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /pɹəˈpɛ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: prepares
form: preparing
form: prepared
form: prepared
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: prepare
form: prepare
form: prepared
form: prepare
form: preparest
form: prepared
form: preparedst
form: prepares
form: prepareth
form: prepared
form: prepare
form: prepared
form: prepare
form: prepared
form: prepare
form: -
form: preparing
form: prepared
Etymology: Partially a back-formation from preparation; and partially borrowed from Middle French preparer, from Classical Latin praeparāre (“make ready in advance”), from prae- (“pre-”) + parāre (“make ready”). Compare Middle English preparaten (“to prepare”).
Senses: examples: text: We prepared the spacecraft for takeoff.
text: that they may prepare a city for habitation
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 107:36:
text: our souls, not yet prepared for upper light
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.
examples: text: We prepared a fish for dinner.
glosses: To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
examples: text: We prepared for a bumpy ride.
text: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Tourists visited a memorial hall adorned by a slogan in the handwriting of Chiang Kai-shek, Taiwan's divisive former nationalist leader: "Stay alert and prepare for battle."
ref: 2023 April 10, “Taiwan's frontline islanders resigned in face of Chinese military might”, in France 24, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023:
synonyms: get
glosses: To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
examples: text: She prepared a meal from what was left in the cupboards.
glosses: To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
Synonyms: word: busk
word: graith
word: ready
word: yark
sense: To make oneself ready
word: get ready
Derived terms: failure to prepare is preparing to fail
foreprepare
fore-prepare
hope for the best, prepare for the worst
if you want peace, prepare for war
prepare ahead
prepare the ground
prepare the way
prepare up
pre-prepare
unprepare
Related terms: preparation
preparatory
prepare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛː/
ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /pɹəˈpɛ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Etymology: Partially a back-formation from preparation; and partially borrowed from Middle French preparer, from Classical Latin praeparāre (“make ready in advance”), from prae- (“pre-”) + parāre (“make ready”). Compare Middle English preparaten (“to prepare”).
Senses: examples: text: Go levy men, and make prepare for war;
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], line 130:
glosses: preparation
Old French
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The French language as spoken or written from the 9th to the early 14th century.
Related terms: Middle French
Wiktionary’s coverage of Old French terms
vacillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /væsɪˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: vacillations
Etymology: From Latin vacillātiō (“swaying”).
Senses: glosses: Indecision in speech or action.
glosses: Changing location by moving back and forth.
Synonyms: sense: indecision
word: hesitation
sense: indecision
word: wavering
sense: motion
word: swing
sense: motion
word: swinging
Related terms: vacillate
johnson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑnsən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒnsən/
rhymes: -ɒnsən
Forms: form: johnsons
form: Johnson
Etymology: Compare the use of other men’s names as slang terms for the penis, e.g. peter and others listed in that entry.
Senses: examples: text: Fuck your sympathy! I don't need your sympathy, man, I need my fucking Johnson!
ref: 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by The Dude (Jeff Bridges):
synonyms: word: anaconda
word: baloney pony
word: bald-headed hermit
word: banana
word: birdie
word: bobby
word: boonga
word: cack
word: choad
word: choda
word: chode
word: chopper
word: cigar
word: cock
word: corey
word: crank
word: cucumber
word: custard launcher
word: D
word: dick
word: dicklet
word: diddle
word: diddly
word: dingaling
word: ding-a-ling
word: ding-dong
word: dinger
word: dingle
word: dingus
word: dingy
word: dink
word: dinkle
word: dipstick
word: dirk
word: disco stick
word: dog bone
word: dong
word: donger
word: Donkey Kong
word: doodle
word: dork
word: down
word: fire hose
word: fuckpole
word: gherkin
word: hairy canary
word: hammer
word: hog
word: hot dog
word: hot rod
word: hoo-hoo
word: hooter
word: it
word: jade stalk
word: jamoke
word: jigger
word: jimmy
word: jock
word: johnson
word: John Thomas
word: joint
word: Jonathan
word: joystick
word: kielbasa
word: knob
word: lad
word: langer
word: lingam
word: love muscle
word: love stick
word: love truncheon
word: love sausage
word: love wand
word: machine
word: magnum
word: Master John Goodfellow
word: male member
word: manhood
word: man-meat
word: meat
word: meat puppet
word: meat rod
word: meat scepter
word: meatstick
word: meat stick
word: member
word: membrum virile
word: nature's scythe
word: nob
word: old chap
word: old fellow
word: one-eyed trouser snake
word: organ
word: package
word: pecker
word: peen
word: pee-pee
word: pee-wee
word: pego
word: penis
word: Percy
word: peter
word: phallus
word: pickle
word: piece
word: piece of pork
word: pike
word: pillicock
word: pingas
word: pink cigar
word: pink oboe
word: pintle
word: pipe
word: pisser
word: piston
word: pizzle
word: plonker
word: pork sword
word: prick
word: pud
word: purple-headed yogurt slinger
word: putz
word: p-word
word: python
word: ramrod
word: rape tool
word: rod
word: root
word: rutter
word: salami
word: sausage
word: schlong
word: schmuck
word: sex tool
word: shaft
word: shlong
word: shmekl (qualifier
word: colloquial
word: Yiddish)
word: short arm
word: skin flute
word: snake
word: snausage
word: spitstick
word: stem
word: stretcher
word: sucker
word: swipe
word: tadger
word: tagger
word: tail
word: tallywhacker
word: tarse
word: thing
word: thingy
word: third leg
word: tic tac
word: todger
word: tool
word: trouser monkey
word: trouser snake
word: truncheon
word: tube steak
word: unit
word: virile member
word: wang
word: weapon
word: wee-wee
word: weenie
word: weeny
word: whang
word: wick
word: widgie
word: widdler
word: wiener
word: willie
word: willy
word: wingwang
word: winkle
word: winky
word: yard
word: ying-yang
glosses: Penis.
Classical Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The form of the Ancient Greek language used during the classical period of Greek literature: approximately 600 to 300 BCE.
Ancient Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Any of the various forms of the Greek language of classical antiquity, particularly the classical Attic dialect used in Athenian literature.
Synonyms: Greek
Meronyms: Boeotian
Lesbian
Aeolic
Aeolic Greek
Arcadic
Cypriot
Arcado-Cypriot
Arcadocypriot Greek
Attic
Attic Greek
Cretan
Doric
Epic Greek
Homeric Greek
Ionic
Ionic Greek
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Ancient Greek terms
Ancient Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ancient Greeks
form: ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ancient Greek (“a native or inhabitant of Ancient Greece”).
Synonyms: Greek
Ancient Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ancient Greek (“of or relating to Ancient Greece”).
moss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒs/
enpr: môs
ipa: /mɔs/
enpr: mäs
ipa: /mɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: mosses
form: mossing
form: mossed
form: mossed
Etymology: From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss”), German Low German Moss (“moss”), German Moos (which shows the same polysemy of "moss" and "bog, fen"), Danish mos (“moss”), Swedish mossa (“moss”), Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Latin muscus (“moss”), Russian мох (mox, “moss”), Polish mech. Doublet of mousse.
Senses: examples: text: An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
glosses: To become covered with moss.
glosses: To cover (something) with moss.
examples: text: You just got mossed!
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make a spectacular catch over 1 or multiple defenders.
Related terms: muscoid
moss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒs/
enpr: môs
ipa: /mɔs/
enpr: mäs
ipa: /mɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: mosses
form: mossing
form: mossed
form: mossed
Senses: examples: text: Although I really shouldn't... I feel like cracking this stout and just mossing in the sun with a splif. Shit, maan. Its^([sic]) relaxation time!
ref: 2014 August 29, @7oneZ_FuckTDSB, Twitter:
synonyms: moss out
glosses: To relax, chill out.
arbour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbours
form: arbor
Etymology: From Middle English arbere, arber, an alteration of herber, erber (“pleasure garden; herb garden”) influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: UK standard spelling of arbor.
Derived terms: Annarbour
arboured
SDP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We believed that the Trots represented a mad, extreme form of Labour that was never going to do anything for anybody, yet we felt strongly that nothing would be achieved by jumping ship and defecting to the SDP.
ref: 2008, Cherie Blair, Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Social Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Session Description Protocol.
qualifier: Singaporean politics
glosses: Initialism of Singapore Democratic Party
examples: text: SDP Chairman Antti Rinne, as leader of the largest party, will have first shot at forming a government, and at becoming the first left-wing prime minister in Finland since 2003.
ref: 2019 April 15, Leona Siaw, “Center-left party wins Finland parliamentary election”, in CNN:
qualifier: Finnish politics
glosses: Initialism of Social Democratic Party of Finland (“Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue”).
SDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SDPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of symmetrized dot pattern.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of stochastic dynamic programming.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of service discovery protocol.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of service data point.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of sexually dangerous person.
bdelloid rotifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bdelloid rotifers
Etymology: From bdelloid (“leech-like”), from Ancient Greek βδέλλα (bdélla, “leech”).
Senses: glosses: One of a class of rotifers in the class Bdelloidea, found in freshwater and moist soil.
rotifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotifers
Etymology: From Latin rota (“wheel”) + -fer (“-bearing”), after Italian rotifero.
Senses: synonyms: wheel animal
wheel animalcule
glosses: Any of many minute aquatic multicellular organisms, of the phylum Rotifera, that have a ring of cilia resembling a wheel.
Derived terms: bdelloid rotifer
Related terms: rotiferan
EBCDIC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛbsəˌdɪk/
ipa: /ˈɛbsɪdɪk/
ipa: /ˈɛbkəˌdɪk/
Senses: examples: text: Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.
ref: 1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 218:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code, an 8-bit character set and encoding representing 256 alphanumeric and special characters, devised by and used primarily by IBM.
Derived terms: UTF-EBCDIC
Related terms: english: Binary-Coded-Decimal
translation: Binary-Coded-Decimal
word: BCD
word: ASCII
word: Unicode
IBM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌɪbiːˈɛm/
Senses: examples: text: "I was one of them," recalled Mr. Detmer, who is now 47. "When I graduated from high school in 1966, I got my first job working on the assembly line at the I.B.M. plant, where I earned $2 an hour putting together mainframe computers.
ref: 1994 October 30, Penny Singer, “Bob Detmer, a Visionary Video Maker”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2022:
text: The study found that U.S. technology company IBM had by far the largest number of AI-related patents, with 8,920.
ref: 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019:
glosses: Initialism of International Business Machines.
glosses: Initialism of International Brotherhood of Magicians.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc.
Derived terms: IBMer
IBMese
IBM-compatible
IBM PC
IBM Pollyanna Principle
IBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌɪbiːˈɛm/
Forms: form: IBMs
Senses: examples: text: They see this last possibility in an international agreement to stop further atomic and thermonuclear bomb tests and halt the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles (IBMs).
ref: 1956 June, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 12, number 6, page 186:
text: Today we need a defense against IBM attack. When as chief of R&D I urged Army Ordnance to develop an antimissile missile, I heard repeatedly that you can't hit a bullet with a bullet, so it is impossible to develop such a missile.
ref: 1987, Kenneth David Nichols, The Road to Trinity, page 294:
text: Thus, they limit to a strictly defined number the quantity of armed IBMs in the USSR and the United States, as well as ballistic missiles of submarines.
ref: 1990, William Elliott Butler, Perestroika and International Law, page 155:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
related: word: ICBM
glosses: Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of inclusion body myositis.
examples: text: Univac was the IBM of the computer industry's incipiency; in 1952 Univac had virtually 100% of the market.
ref: 1968, George Washington University, Computers-in-Law Institute, National Law Center, The Law of Software: 1968 Proceedings
text: First, to Sperry Univac, the descendent^([sic]) of the first real computer company, which might have become the IBM of the industry had it not blown its early lead;
ref: 1982, Tracy Kidder, The Soul Of A New Machine, →ISBN, page 238:
text: The US lead was mainly due to one firm, the IBM of its small, specialized field: Cray Research Inc.
ref: 1990, Alfred Balk, The Myth of American Eclipse: The New Global Age, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: A company that dominates its field.
populate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒp.jʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.pjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɔp.jəˌlæɪt/
Forms: form: populates
form: populating
form: populated
form: populated
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin populātus, past participle of populor (“populate”), from Latin populus (“people”).
Senses: glosses: To supply with inhabitants; to people.
glosses: To live in; to inhabit.
glosses: To increase in number; to breed.
examples: text: John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.
text: Clicking the refresh button will populate the grid.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To fill initially empty items in a collection.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.
Derived terms: word: populatable
word: populated
word: populator
sense: Prefixed forms
word: autopopulate
sense: Prefixed forms
word: depopulate
sense: Prefixed forms
word: outpopulate
sense: Prefixed forms
word: overpopulate
sense: Prefixed forms
word: prepopulate
sense: Prefixed forms
word: repopulate
sense: Prefixed forms
word: underpopulate
sense: Prefixed forms
word: unpopulate
Related terms: people
popular
population
populous
populate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒp.jʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.pjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɔp.jəˌlæɪt/
Forms: form: more populate
form: most populate
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin populātus, past participle of populor (“populate”), from Latin populus (“people”).
Senses: examples: text: Now, a famous King, and ſtrengthened with a Prince of ſingular expectation, and in the prime of his years, owner of the entire Iſle of Britain, enjoying Ireland populate and quiet, and infinitely more ſupported by Confederates of the Low-Countries, Denmarke, divers of the Princes of Germany and others.
ref: a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Bacon Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, “Notes of a Speech, concerning a War with Spaine”, in Letters, Memoirs, Parliamentary Affairs, State Papers, &c., London: Robert Stephens, published 1736, page 228:
glosses: populous
inhabit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhæbɪt/
rhymes: -æbɪt
Forms: form: inhabits
form: inhabiting
form: inhabited
form: inhabited
form: enhabit
Etymology: From Old French enhabiter, from Latin inhabitare (in + habitare).
Senses: examples: text: The Inuit inhabit the Arctic.
text: O, who would inhabit this bleak world alone?
ref: 1813, Thomas Moore, The Last Rose of Summer:
synonyms: word: bedwell
word: abide
word: bedwell
word: belive
word: dwell
word: haunt
word: inhabit
word: live
word: occupy
word: reside
word: stay
glosses: To live or reside in.
examples: text: Strange thoughts inhabit my mind.
synonyms: occupy
glosses: To be present in.
Derived terms: coinhabit
inhabitability
inhabitable
inhabitancy
inhabitation
inhabiter
inhabitor
reinhabit
Related terms: inhabitant
task
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: täsk
ipa: /tɑːsk/
ipa: /task/
enpr: tăsk
ipa: /tæsk/
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: -ɑːsk
Forms: form: tasks
Etymology: From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to censure; to charge”). Doublet of tax.
Senses: examples: text: daily task
text: monotonous task
text: regular task
text: parental task
text: The employee refused to complete the assignment, arguing that it was not one of the tasks listed in her job description.
glosses: A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
examples: text: carry out a task
text: complete a task
text: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
glosses: Any piece of work done.
examples: text: [T]here is a well-defined run in which the stages of Atalanta’s run are punctuated by finite rests, arguably showing the possibility of completing an infinite series of finite tasks in a finite time
ref: 2002 April 30, “Zeno’s Paradoxes”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
glosses: A single action undertaken by a given agent.
examples: text: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
ref: 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: A difficult or tedious undertaking.
glosses: An objective.
examples: text: The user killed the frozen task.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A process or execution of a program.
examples: text: Art thou the Collector of the Kings taske? […] Thou haſt thy taske money for all that be heere, […]
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
glosses: A tax or charge.
Synonyms: sense: piece of work
word: chore
sense: piece of work
word: job
sense: difficult undertaking
word: undertaking
word: objective
word: goal
sense: process
word: process
Derived terms: call to task
multitasking
on task
Sally-Anne task
Sternberg task
subtask
supertask
take to task
taskable
taskbar
task control
task failed successfully
task-force
task force
task group
taskless
tasklet
task manager
taskmaster
task-negative
task-oriented
task-positive
task-specific
task
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: täsk
ipa: /tɑːsk/
ipa: /task/
enpr: tăsk
ipa: /tæsk/
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: -ɑːsk
Forms: form: tasks
form: tasking
form: tasked
form: tasked
Etymology: From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to censure; to charge”). Doublet of tax.
Senses: examples: text: On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
text: All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of the Iliad.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:
text: By 1966 the building was considered so unsafe that the Royal Engineers were tasked with demolishing it.
ref: 2021 May 19, “Network News: HS2 unearths 900 years of history in Buckinghamshire”, in RAIL, number 931, page 23:
glosses: To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
examples: text: He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
examples: text: Too impudent to task me with those errors.
ref: c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii:
glosses: To charge, as with a fault.
Derived terms: multitask
multi-task
task
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: täsk
ipa: /tɑːsk/
ipa: /task/
enpr: tăsk
ipa: /tæsk/
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: -ɑːsk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taisch.
zoccolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoccolos
form: zoccoli
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zoccolo. Doublet of socle.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A plinth.
glosses: A kind of ancient clog, consisting of a thick wooden sole and leather strap.
Irak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Ben Shohnah relates, that in the year 456 of the Hejira, in the reign of Caiem, the twenty-sixth caliph of the house of Abbas, a report was raised in Bagdad which immediately spread throughout the whole province of Irak, that some Turks being out hunting saw in the desert a black tent, beneath which there was a number of people of both sexes, who were beating their cheeks, and uttering loud cries, as is the custom in the East when any one is dead.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 41:
qualifier: dated and non-native speakers' English
glosses: Rare spelling of Iraq.