cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈsɛt/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.sɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɛt/
ipa: /ɹəˈsɛt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈsɛt/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.sɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: resets
form: resetting
form: resetted
form: resetted
form: ressett
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots resett, from Early Scots reset, from Anglo-Norman recet (noun), recetter (verb), from Latin receptus (noun), receptāre (verb). Compare receipt.
Senses: examples: text: Criminal resetting of property shall not be limited to the receiving of property taken by theft or robbery, but shall extend to the receiving of property appropriated by breach of trust and embezzlement and by falsehood, fraud and wilful imposition.
ref: 1995, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part VI, section 51”, in Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995, page 41:
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To receive and hide (stolen goods, or a criminal, etc.)
Related terms: resetter
rethink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈθɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: rethinks
form: rethinking
form: rethought
form: rethought
Etymology: From re- + think.
Senses: examples: text: Disability rights advocates are encouraging people to rethink the words "crazy" and "insane" as they stigmatize mental health.
text: There's a myth that incest survivors are an extremely small percentage of the gay male community. But that belief is something that needs to be rethought. One in six men (gay and straight) polled in a 1985 Los Angeles Times survey reported being sexually abused before the age of 18.
ref: 1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 8:
text: But the NCC has been forced to rethink its approach and has already extended the deadline three times, at short notice.
ref: 2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN:
glosses: To think again about something, with the intention of changing or replacing it.
rethink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːθɪŋk/
Forms: form: rethinks
Etymology: From re- + think.
Senses: examples: text: This business plan of yours looks risky. It needs a rethink.
text: Guardiola needed a rethink and his hand was forced when De Bruyne was forced off in the 58th minute after a check by Rüdiger.
ref: 2021 May 29, David Hytner, “Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City”, in The Guardian:
text: There was a complete rethink in 2020, following a review into why costs rose by £100 million in the space of a year.
ref: 2022 September 21, Howard Johnston, “Network News: HS2's Interchange station to create 1,000 extra jobs”, in RAIL, number 966, page 16:
glosses: The act of thinking again about something.
rethought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-thôt′
ipa: /ɹiːˈθɔːt/
ipa: /ɹiˈθɔt/
ipa: /ɹiˈθɑt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rethink
rewind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: rewinds
form: rewinding
form: rewound
form: rewound
Etymology: From re- + wind.
Senses: examples: text: A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 440:
text: […] she was winding and rewinding bandages that were dripping in blood, smiling strangely at her as the plasma spilled from buckets all over the floor.
ref: 2012, Paul Kelly, The Surgeon Was a Lady:
glosses: To wind (something) again.
examples: text: If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.
ref: 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:
glosses: To wind (something) back, now especially of a cassette or a video tape, CD, DVD etc.; to go back on a video or audio recording.
examples: text: If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"
ref: 2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson:
text: To understand Russia, you have to dive deep into its history — boyars and czars, Pushkin and Pasternak, Stalin and Stalingrad. To understand the perils of underestimating Russia, you don't have to go back that far. Just rewind to 2001, when George W. Bush naively sized up Vladimir Putin as a leader he could work with, a conclusion Bush reached when he looked into the Russian leader's eyes and "found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.
ref: December 12 2016, Editorial Team, “Editorial: Trump, Putin and the risks of a reset”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
Derived terms: be kind, rewind
rewind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: rewinds
Etymology: From re- + wind.
Senses: glosses: The act of rewinding.
examples: text: I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.
glosses: A button or other mechanism for rewinding.
Related terms: fast forward
rewound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-wound′
ipa: /ɹiːˈwaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rewind
rewrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiː.ɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹi.ɹaɪt/
rhymes: -iːɹaɪt
ipa: /ɹiːˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: rewrites
Etymology: From re- + write.
Senses: examples: text: The film script underwent a rewrite for the European market.
text: After a month of writing and another month for rehearsals and re-writes, the three planned a one-night-only performance billed as a work in progress at Josie's Cabaret and Juice Joint in San Francisco.
ref: 1991 August 24, Maridee BonaDea, “Pomo Afro Homos On The Road”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 7:
glosses: The act of writing again or anew.
glosses: Something that has been written again.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The replacement of subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.
Derived terms: page-one rewrite
rewriteman
rewrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiː.ɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹi.ɹaɪt/
rhymes: -iːɹaɪt
ipa: /ɹiːˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: rewrites
form: rewriting
form: rewrote
form: rewritten
Etymology: From re- + write.
Senses: examples: text: The editor asked me to rewrite my article for a non-technical audience.
text: If we are going to rewrite all of those diagrams and change the duties of all of those staff, it will take a few weeks.
ref: 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Timetable cuts as demand falls and staff are protected”, in Rail, page 7:
text: The conservative establishment will have to ask themselves, what else they can do? […] And even though they rewrite the electoral rules in their favour, their parties still lose the election.
ref: 2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World):
glosses: To write again, differently; to modify; to revise.
glosses: To write again (without changes).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To replace subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.
Derived terms: rewritable
rewrite history
rewrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-rōt′
ipa: /ɹiːˈɹəʊt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɹoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Senses: glosses: simple past of rewrite
rewritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-rĭt′n
ipa: /ɹiːˈɹɪt.ən/
ipa: /ɹiˈɹɪt.ən/
rhymes: -ɪtən
Forms: form: re-written
Senses: glosses: past participle of rewrite
South China Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the South China Sea
Senses: examples: text: The Philippine Islands are an archipelago southeast of Asia. They extend almost due north and south from Formosa to Borneo, and they separate the South China Sea from the Pacific Ocean.
ref: 1898 May, “The Philippine Islands”, in The Locomotive, volume XIX, number 5, Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, →OCLC, page 77:
text: Ignoring international law, the Chinese have claimed sovereignty over most of the South China Sea and are embarked upon a massive land reclamation and construction program to bolster these claims.
ref: 2015, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America, Threshold Editions, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 222:
text: “We are aware that there has been an unauthorized release of video footage from flight deck cameras onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) of the F-35C Lightning II crash that occurred Jan. 24, in the South China Sea. There is an ongoing investigation into both the crash and the unauthorized release of the shipboard video footage,” Cmdr. Zach Harrell, spokesperson for Commander, Naval Air Forces, said in an email.
ref: 2022 February 7, Brad Lendon and Ivan Watson, “Newly leaked video shows F-35 crashing in flames on aircraft carrier”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: East Vietnamese Sea
alt: Vietnam
word: East Sea
alt: Vietnam
word: West Philippine Sea
alt: Philippines
coordinate_terms: East China Sea
Bohai Sea
glosses: The western arm of the Pacific Ocean, between the Asian mainland and Taiwan, Borneo and the Philippines.
Related terms: nine-dash line
rode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rōd
ipa: /ɹəʊd/
ipa: /ɹoʊd/
ipa: /rod/
homophone: Rhode
homophone: road
homophone: rowed (toe–tow merger)
rhymes: -əʊd
Senses: glosses: simple past of ride
examples: text: No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief[…]
ref: 1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] , page 26:
text: We dined at Martin's, and then came on to father Low's: we have rode but eight miles this day.
ref: 1827 [1780], Francis Asbury, The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury […] , volume II:
text: I have rode with the Kings, man, and I have rode with the best! I know what the truth is, and the truth is that I count and you don't.
ref: 2014 May 5, Eric Bogosian, 100 (monologues), Theatre Communications Group, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: past participle of ride
rode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rōd
ipa: /ɹəʊd/
ipa: /ɹoʊd/
ipa: /rod/
homophone: Rhode
homophone: road
homophone: rowed (toe–tow merger)
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: rodes
form: roding
form: roded
form: roded
Senses: examples: text: "When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.
rode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rōd
ipa: /ɹəʊd/
ipa: /ɹoʊd/
ipa: /rod/
homophone: Rhode
homophone: road
homophone: rowed (toe–tow merger)
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: rodes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The line from a vessel to its anchor.
Synonyms: warp
rode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rōd
ipa: /ɹəʊd/
ipa: /ɹoʊd/
ipa: /rod/
homophone: Rhode
homophone: road
homophone: rowed (toe–tow merger)
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: rodes
Senses: examples: text: Thomas Carlysle, &c. rode a Forrey to Dunglas, and there seased and brought away 80 Nolt, 200 Shepe, 22 Naggs. A Rode made to a Stede called the Hayrebed, and there they gate 30 Nolt, 3 or 4 Naggs.
ref: 1544 October 23, Lord Evre, Letters:
text: There dwelt a ſaluage nation, which did liue / Of ſtealth and ſpoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders[…]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 461:
text: And Achiſh said, Whither haue ye made a rode to day? And Dauid said, Againſt the South of Iudah, and againſt the South of the Ierahmeelites, and againſt the South of the Kenites.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 27:10, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of road.
ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭd′n
ipa: /ˈɹɪd.n̩/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɪ.dn̩]
ipa: [ˈɹʷɪ.d̚n̩]
other: [ˈɹʷɪ.ɾn̩]
homophone: written stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪdən
Etymology: Morphologically ride + -en.
See ride (verb).
Senses: glosses: past participle of ride
ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭd′n
ipa: /ˈɹɪd.n̩/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɪ.dn̩]
ipa: [ˈɹʷɪ.d̚n̩]
other: [ˈɹʷɪ.ɾn̩]
homophone: written stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪdən
Forms: form: more ridden
form: most ridden
Etymology: Morphologically ride + -en.
See ride (verb).
Senses: glosses: Full of.
glosses: Oppressed, dominated or plagued by.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: angst-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: bedridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: book-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: bug-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: caste-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: church-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: cliché-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: cloud-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: conflict-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: court-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: crime-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: crisis-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: debt-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: devil-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: disease-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: drudgery-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: drug-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: dust-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: fever-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: flea-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: gout-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: guilt-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: hagridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: louse-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: memory-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: money-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: obstacle-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: passion-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: plague-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: priest-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: rat-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: scandal-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: scum-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: sex-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: sin-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: sleaze-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: slum-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: sorrow-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: storm-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: strife-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: violence-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: war-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: waste-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: witch-ridden
sense: Terms derived from ridden
word: wormridden
ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭd′n
ipa: /ˈɹɪd.n̩/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɪ.dn̩]
ipa: [ˈɹʷɪ.d̚n̩]
other: [ˈɹʷɪ.ɾn̩]
homophone: written stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪdən
Etymology: Morphologically rid + -en.
See rid.
Senses: examples: text: As the New York traders to reach the Miami country passed through that of the Iroquois, the French devised a plan, which, if successful, would soon have ridden them of the English encroachments.
ref: 1752, Journal of Captain William Trent from Logstown to Pickawillany:
glosses: past participle of rid
ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭng
ipa: /ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
homophone: wring
Forms: form: rings
Etymology: From Middle English ringen, from Old English hrinġan (“to ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną. Cognate with Dutch ringen, Swedish ringa. Of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
text: The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
glosses: The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
examples: text: The name has a nice ring to it.
glosses: A pleasant or correct sound.
examples: text: Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.
glosses: A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
examples: text: I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
glosses: A telephone call.
examples: text: the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
examples: text: St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
text: as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
Derived terms: give a ring
give someone a ring
ring-a-ding
ringback
ring cadence
ring-in
ringtone
telephone ring
ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭng
ipa: /ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
homophone: wring
Forms: form: rings
Etymology: From a shortening of German Zahlring (“number(s) ring”) (coined by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1892). Apparently first used in English in 1930, E. T. Bell, “Rings whose elements are ideals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
Senses: examples: text: The set of integers, #92;mathbb#123;Z#125;, is the prototypical ring.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
examples: text: The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2#92;mathbb#123;Z#125; of even integers to be a ring.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: rng
glosses: An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
Hypernyms: pseudo-ring
rng
semiring
Hyponyms: algebra over a field
field
Euclidean domain
principal ideal domain
unique factorization domain
Noetherian domain
integral domain
commutative ring
Meronyms: group of units
ideal
Derived terms: Boolean ring
polynomial ring
ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭng
ipa: /ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
homophone: wring
Forms: form: rings
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
measure-theory
sciences
glosses: A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
topics: mathematics
order-theory
sciences
glosses: A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
Hyponyms: english: of sets
translation: of sets
word: algebra
word: σ-ring
rang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: răng
ipa: /ɹæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
homophone: wrang
Senses: glosses: simple past of ring (only in senses related to a bell — etymology 2)
rung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rŭng
ipa: /ɹʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
homophone: rng
homophone: wrung
Forms: form: rungs
Etymology: From Middle English rung, from Old English hrung, from Proto-West Germanic *hrungu, from Proto-Germanic *hrungō. Cognate with Dutch rong (“pole, stanchion”), German Runge (“stake, pole, stanchion”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌰 (hrugga, “a staff”).
Senses: glosses: A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
examples: text: One of its arms was a disabled flail which used to be wielded by Goodman Rigby, before his spouse worried him out of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was composed of the pudding stick and a broken rung of a chair, tied loosely together at the elbow.
ref: 1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Feathertop: a Moralized Legend”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
examples: text: the lowest rung of the society
text: “I’m very proud that I’ve worked on every rung of the ladder,” Ashley says. “When you go to college, you don’t want to be a senior right away—you want to be a freshman.”
ref: 2023 June 15, Kat Moon, “Ashley Park’s Main Character Energy From ‘Joy Ride’ Is Here To Stay: ‘I’m Treating Myself Like A Lead Now’”, in Women's Health:
glosses: A position in a hierarchy.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A floor timber in a ship.
glosses: One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
rung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rŭng
ipa: /ɹʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
homophone: rng
homophone: wrung
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: past participle of ring (only in senses related to a bell)
examples: text: With ecchoing Shouts the vaulted Chamber rung, / Belle Chuck was now the TOAST of ev'ry Tongue.
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section VI:
text: Mr. Seibels, in his testimony, said I rung him up to see about labels. He is very much mistaken. I rung him up to see about bottles.
ref: 1906, South Carolina. General Assembly, Report of State Officers, Board and Committees to the General ..., page 229:
text: So they rung him up, and the next day he came to me and wanted to know where that pitch was.
ref: 1996, Peter Golenbock, Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs, page 435:
text: "I just rung him up, told him I was looking for an apartment and some work and got both of them the same day," Moe said.
ref: 2008, Dean Kuipers, Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke, page 70:
glosses: simple past of ring
rung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rŭng
ipa: /ɹʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
homophone: rng
homophone: wrung
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: examples: text: […] he passed by his gate with a decided scowl on his furrowed brow, and grunting and growling like a newly rung pig.
ref: 1842, American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, volume 13, page 335:
text: A "rung" pig is comfortable as long as he confines his food hunt to the surface of the ground. Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
ref: 1919, Popular Science, volume 95, number 4, page 31:
glosses: Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.
parasol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹəˌsɒl/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəˌsɑl/
Forms: form: parasols
Etymology: From French parasol, from Italian parasole, from para- (“to shield”) + sole (“sun”).
Senses: glosses: A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.
glosses: A miniature paper umbrella used as a decoration in tropical-themed cocktails.
glosses: A sun umbrella for garden use etc., mounted on a stand; these can be foldable and demountable.
topics: architecture
glosses: A roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun.
glosses: Any of various Asian species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Neurothemis.
glosses: A parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera)
Synonyms: sense: umbrella used for protection against the sun
word: sunshade
sense: umbrella used for protection against the sun
word: sun umbrella
sense: umbrella used for protection against the sun
english: often large
translation: often large
word: beach umbrella
sense: umbrella used for protection against the sun
word: chatta
sense: umbrella used for protection against the sun
english: royal & religious symbol in South & East Asia
translation: royal & religious symbol in South & East Asia
word: chatra
Hyponyms: sense: umbrella used for protection against the sun
word: umbrella
Derived terms: microparasol
parabrella
parasol ant
parasol beech
parasol cell
parasolette
parasol leaf tree
parasol mushroom
parasol pine
parasol tree
parasol wing
parasol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹəˌsɒl/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəˌsɑl/
Forms: form: parasols
form: parasoling
form: parasolling
form: parasoled
form: parasoled
form: parasolled
form: parasolled
Etymology: From French parasol, from Italian parasole, from para- (“to shield”) + sole (“sun”).
Senses: examples: text: Now old ladies, who dare venture a-shopping, go parasolling their withered perfections along, and entertain a decided dread of injuring the immaterial whiteness of their skins, which have ceased to he compared to "lilies" and "snows," and other sonnet-like similes, for more than thirty summers […]
ref: 1826, The Monthly Magazine, page 161:
text: […] the buffaloes in the mire, and rows of trees parasolling houses along the waterways.
ref: 2013, Geoff Ryman, The King's Last Song, page 19:
glosses: To protect with, or as if with, a parasol; to shade.
rise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rīz
ipa: /ɹaɪz/
homophone: ryes
homophone: wries
rhymes: -aɪz
ipa: /ɹaɪs/
Forms: form: rises
Etymology: From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hrīs, from Proto-Germanic *hrīsą (“twig; shoot”). More at rice.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
Derived terms: rise-wood
Related terms: risel
risen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭz′ən
ipa: /ˈɹɪ.zən/
rhymes: -ɪzən
Etymology: Morphologically rise + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of rise
risen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭz′ən
ipa: /ˈɹɪ.zən/
rhymes: -ɪzən
Etymology: Morphologically rise + -n.
Senses: examples: text: the scent of newly risen bread
glosses: Having risen.
run
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌn/
ipa: /ɹʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: rin
form: ren
Etymology: From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.
Senses: examples: text: Put some run butter on the vegetables.
text: Samples of the regular run butter were sealed in 1 pound tins and sent to Washington, where the butter was scored and examined.
ref: 1921, L. W. Ferris, H. W. Redfield, W. R. North, “The Volatile Acids and the Volatile Oxidizable Substances of Cream and Experimental Butter”, in Journal of Dairy Science, volume 4, page 522:
glosses: In a liquid state; melted or molten.
examples: text: [...] the Sides are generally made of Holland's Tiles, or Plates of run Iron, ornamented variously as Fancy dictates, [...]
ref: 1735, Thomas Frankz, A tour through France, Flanders, and Germany: in a letter to Robert Savil, page 18:
text: Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind of run steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks.
ref: 1833, The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the Manufactures in Metal, volume 2, Iron and Steel (printed in London), page 314
text: For making tea I have a kettle,
Besides a pan made of run metal;
An old arm-chair, in which I sit well —
The back is round.
ref: c. 1839, (Richard of Raindale, The Plan of my House vindicated, quoted by) T. T. B. in the Dwelling of Richard of Raindale, King of the Moors, published in The Mirror, number 966, 7 September 1839, page 153
glosses: Cast in a mould.
glosses: Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
examples: text: The temperature of the water is consequently much higher than in either England or Scotland, and many newly run salmon will be found in early spring in the upper waters of Irish rivers where obstructions exist.
ref: 1889, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing: Salmon and Trout, fifth edition, page 185:
text: It may be very much a metallic appearance as opposed to the silver freshness of a recently run salmon.
ref: 1986, Arthur Oglesby, Fly fishing for salmon and sea trout, page 15:
text: Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles.
ref: 2005, Rod Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, page 86:
glosses: Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
raw_tags: of a zoology
examples: run brandy
glosses: Smuggled.
run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌn/
ipa: /ɹʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: rin
form: ren
Etymology: From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.
Senses: glosses: past participle of rin
Synonyms: word: gallop
word: run
Hypernyms: word: move
word: move quickly
Hyponyms: word: race
word: speed
word: sprint
word: scamper
word: scurry
word: bolt
word: flee
Related terms: word: walk
word: way
word: gait
word: journey
word: quickly
word: rush
word: speedy
ran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: răn
ipa: /ɹæn/
rhymes: -æn
Senses: glosses: simple past of run
glosses: simple past of rin
examples: text: […]rather to convince the Underſtanding, than to be eaſily capable of being anſwered ; excuſing your ſelf that you have ran into an Error, ſo foreign as you have declared from your Intention,[…]
ref: 1731, Philippus van Limborch, translated by Samuel Chandler, The History of the Inquisition, volume 1, page 231:
text: " Heretics and schismatics, because they rebel against her, and only belong to the church, as deserters to an army from which they have ran away ;[…]
ref: 1837, William Keary, Romanism exposed; or, Strictures on two lectures […] , Goddard and Brown, page 6:
text: I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones.
ref: 2012 March 5, Helen Summer, Running Crazy, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: past participle of run
ran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: răn
ipa: /ɹæn/
rhymes: -æn
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: on the ran tan
said
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕd
ipa: /sɛd/
enpr: sād
ipa: /seɪd/
rhymes: -ɛd
homophone: sed
Forms: form: saide
form: sayde
form: seyde
form: sayed
form: sed
Etymology: From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English sǣde, sæġde (preterite) and ġesæġd (past participle), equivalent to say + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of say
said
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕd
ipa: /sɛd/
enpr: sād
ipa: /seɪd/
rhymes: -ɛd
homophone: sed
Forms: form: saide
form: sayde
form: seyde
form: sayed
form: sed
Etymology: From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English sǣde, sæġde (preterite) and ġesæġd (past participle), equivalent to say + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The said party has denied the charges.
text: How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore...
ref: 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90, words written by Scott:
glosses: Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.
said
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕd
ipa: /sɛd/
enpr: sād
ipa: /seɪd/
rhymes: -ɛd
homophone: sed
Forms: form: saide
form: sayde
form: seyde
form: sayed
form: sed
Etymology: From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English sǣde, sæġde (preterite) and ġesæġd (past participle), equivalent to say + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Said party has denied the charges.
glosses: Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.
saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sô
ipa: /sɔː/
enpr: sô
ipa: /sɔ/
note: intrusive R, New England
ipa: [sɔɹ]
enpr: sä
ipa: /sɑ/
note: rare, idiosyncratic, past tense of see (for example, as used by Dina Cappiello of the Associated Press)
ipa: /sɑl/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: soar
homophone: sore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: saws
Etymology: The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).
The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
Senses: glosses: A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
glosses: A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
glosses: A musical saw.
glosses: A sawtooth wave.
glosses: The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
Hyponyms: word: alligator saw
word: backsaw
word: band saw
word: bandsaw
word: bench saw
word: bone saw
word: bonesaw
word: bow saw
word: bucksaw
word: buzz saw
word: cabinet saw
word: chainsaw
word: chop saw
word: circular saw
word: clearing saw
word: cold saw
word: compass saw
word: concrete saw
word: consaw
word: contractor's saw
word: coping saw
word: crosscut saw
word: cross-cut saw
word: crown saw
word: diamond saw
word: drywall saw
word: endless saw
word: Finn saw
word: foxtail saw
word: frame saw
word: fretsaw
word: Gigli saw
word: goose saw
word: grub-saw
word: hacksaw
word: handsaw
word: hole saw
word: hot saw
word: hybrid saw
word: ice-saw
word: jab saw
word: jigsaw
word: jig saw
word: jobsite saw
word: keyhole saw
word: miter saw
word: mitre saw
word: pad saw
word: panel saw
word: pendulum saw
word: plain saw
word: power saw
english: e.g., Japanese saw
translation: e.g., Japanese saw
word: pull saw
word: quartersaw
word: radial arm saw
word: radial saw
word: razor-tooth saw
word: reciprocating saw
word: rift saw
word: rip saw
word: rotary saw
word: rubber saw
word: sabre saw
word: saw-cut
word: Sawzall
word: sawzall
word: scroll saw
word: segment saw
word: singing saw
word: snow saw
word: Swede saw
word: sweep saw
word: swing saw
word: table saw
word: tenant saw
word: tenon saw
word: tile saw
word: two-man saw
word: veneer saw
word: wire saw
Derived terms: saw-stool
saw-trestle
saw doctor
saw-edged
saw file
saw gin
saw palmetto
saw set
saw wrest
sawback
sawblade
sawbones
sawbuck
sawgrass
sawhorse
sawist
sawlog
sawman
sawmill
sawpit
saw-scaled viper
saw-whet owl
sawtooth
saw-tooth
saw-toothed
sawyer
saw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sô
ipa: /sɔː/
enpr: sô
ipa: /sɔ/
note: intrusive R, New England
ipa: [sɔɹ]
enpr: sä
ipa: /sɑ/
note: rare, idiosyncratic, past tense of see (for example, as used by Dina Cappiello of the Associated Press)
ipa: /sɑl/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: soar
homophone: sore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: saws
form: sawing
form: sawed
form: sawed
form: sawn
Etymology: The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).
The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
Senses: examples: text: They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:37:
glosses: To cut (something) with a saw.
examples: text: He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]
ref: 1835, James Hogg, The Story of Euphemia Hewit:
glosses: To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
examples: text: The timber saws smoothly.
glosses: To be cut with a saw.
examples: text: to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
text: to saw shingles
text: to saw out a panel
glosses: To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
Derived terms: saw gourds
saw logs
saw off
saw off the branch one is sitting on
saw the baby in half
saw wood
saw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sô
ipa: /sɔː/
enpr: sô
ipa: /sɔ/
note: intrusive R, New England
ipa: [sɔɹ]
enpr: sä
ipa: /sɑ/
note: rare, idiosyncratic, past tense of see (for example, as used by Dina Cappiello of the Associated Press)
ipa: /sɑl/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: soar
homophone: sore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past of see
examples: text: Mr. Harbaugh. All instances that I have saw.
ref: 1907, Report of the Special Committee of Investigation of the Government Hospital for the Insane, Govrnment Printing Office, page 297:
text: “I think so. He might have saw him already. Shit dude, I don't know. You run the place.”
ref: 2006, K.C. Carceral, Prison, Inc: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 68:
text: “I might have saw something,” I told him. “At least I think I might have saw something. Only I couldn't say what.”
ref: 2014 October 7, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Anybody Shining, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: past participle of see
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: saw sam sai
seen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēn
ipa: /siːn/
enpr: sĭn
ipa: /sɪn/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -ɪn (UK, dialectal)
homophone: scene
homophone: sin (UK, dialectal)
Etymology: Morphologically see + -n.
Senses: examples: text: Justice must be seen to be done.
glosses: past participle of see
examples: text: I seen it with my own eyes.
text: "Tut, tut, Sir Benjimen," said Bill, "stir up your memory, sir; cast your eye over them felons in the dock, and tell the Court how you seen them steal the bag."
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 156:
glosses: simple past of see; saw.
examples: text: Everything irie, seen?
glosses: Understood; comprehended.
seen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēn
ipa: /siːn/
enpr: sĭn
ipa: /sɪn/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -ɪn (UK, dialectal)
homophone: scene
homophone: sin (UK, dialectal)
Forms: form: seens
Etymology: From Arabic سِين (sīn).
Senses: glosses: The letter س in the Arabic script.
seek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēk
ipa: /siːk/
homophone: Sikh
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: seeks
form: seech
form: seeke
Etymology: From Middle English seken (also sechen, whence dialectal English seech), from Old English sēċan (compare beseech); from Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną (“to seek”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek out”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian säike (“to seek”), West Frisian sykje (“to seek”), Dutch zoeken (“to seek”), Low German söken (“to seek”), German suchen (“to seek”), Danish søge (“to seek”), Swedish söka, Norwegian Bokmål søke (“to seek”), Norwegian Nynorsk søkja (“to seek”), Icelandic sækja (“to seek”). The Middle English and later Modern English hard /k/ derives from Old English sēcð, the third person singular; the forms with /k/ were then reinforced by cognate Old Norse sǿkja.
Senses: examples: text: The number of seeks to retrieve a shot […] depends on the location of those frames on physical blocks.
ref: 2012, Aidong Zhang, Avi Silberschatz, Sharad Mehrotra, Continuous Media Databases, page 120:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The operation of navigating through a stream.
sought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔːt/
ipa: /sɔt/
ipa: /sɑt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
homophone: sort (non-rhotic)
homophone: sot (cot–caught merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seek
Related terms: sought-after
sell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛl/
homophone: cel
homophone: cell
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: sells
Etymology: From Middle English sellen, from Old English sellan (“give; give up for money”), from Proto-West Germanic *salljan, from Proto-Germanic *saljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁-.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots sell (“to sell”), Danish sælge (“to sell”), Faroese, Icelandic selja (“to sell”), Norwegian Bokmål selge (“to sell”), Norwegian Nynorsk selja, selje (“to sell”), Swedish sälja (“to sell”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (saljan, “to pay tribute, make an offer”).
Senses: examples: text: Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.
ref: 1963, American Society of Travel Agents, ASTA Travel News, volume 32, page 55:
glosses: An act of selling; sale.
examples: text: This is going to be a tough sell.
glosses: The promotion of an idea for acceptance.
glosses: An easy task.
examples: text: "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 12”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: What a sell for Lena!
ref: 1922, Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)
glosses: An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.
Derived terms: hard sell
sell-up
soft sell
tough sell
Related terms: sale
sell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛl/
homophone: cel
homophone: cell
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: sells
form: selle
Etymology: From French selle, from Latin sella.
Senses: examples: text: The tyrant proud frown’d from his loftie cell, [...].
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 56:
glosses: A seat or stool.
examples: text: turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell, / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A saddle.
sell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛl/
homophone: cel
homophone: cell
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: sells
Etymology: From Old Saxon seill or Old Norse seil. Cognate with Dutch zeel (“rope”), German Seil (“rope”).
Senses: examples: text: He picked up the sell from the straw-strewn barn-floor, snelly sneaked up behind her and sleekly slung it around her swire while scryingː "dee, dee ye fooking quhoreǃ".
glosses: A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).
Derived terms: bowsell
sold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊld/
ipa: [sɒʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: /sɛlt/
ipa: /soʊld/
ipa: /soʊld/
ipa: [soɫd]
ipa: /səʉld/
ipa: [sɔʊɫd]
ipa: /sɐʉld/
ipa: [sɒʊɫd]
ipa: [sɔːɫd]
rhymes: -əʊld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sell
Derived terms: oversold
undersold
sold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊld/
ipa: [sɒʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: /sɛlt/
ipa: /soʊld/
ipa: /soʊld/
ipa: [soɫd]
ipa: /səʉld/
ipa: [sɔʊɫd]
ipa: /sɐʉld/
ipa: [sɒʊɫd]
ipa: [sɔːɫd]
rhymes: -əʊld
Etymology: From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier and Danish sold (via Low German). Doublet of sol, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.
Senses: examples: text: But were your will her sold to entertaine
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers.
ref: 1601, William Barlow, A Defense of the Articles of the Protestant Religion in answer to a libell lately cast abroad:
glosses: salary; military pay