cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪt.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈbɪt.ʰə]
ipa: [ˈbɪʔ.ə]
ipa: /ˈbɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈbɪ.ɾɚ]
homophone: bidder stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bitters
Etymology: From Middle English bitter, bittre, from Old English bitter, biter (“bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitr, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz (“bitter”), equivalent to bite + -er (agent noun suffix) used attributively. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bitter, West Frisian bitter, Low German bitter, Dutch bitter, German bitter, Swedish bitter, Icelandic bitur (all meaning “bitter”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters,
"Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters.
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
qualifier: usually in the plural bitters
glosses: A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
glosses: A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A turn of a cable about the bitts.
Synonyms: topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
word: English pale ale
topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
word: EPA
Derived terms: best bitter
brought up to a bitter
Mishmi bitter
session bitter
bitter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪt.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈbɪt.ʰə]
ipa: [ˈbɪʔ.ə]
ipa: /ˈbɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈbɪ.ɾɚ]
homophone: bidder stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bitters
form: bittering
form: bittered
form: bittered
Etymology: From Middle English bitter, bittre, from Old English bitter, biter (“bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitr, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz (“bitter”), equivalent to bite + -er (agent noun suffix) used attributively. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bitter, West Frisian bitter, Low German bitter, Dutch bitter, German bitter, Swedish bitter, Icelandic bitur (all meaning “bitter”).
Senses: examples: text: bittered with the hop
ref: 1766, John Wilkinson, Tutamen Nauticum:
glosses: To make bitter.
bitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪt.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈbɪt.ʰə]
ipa: [ˈbɪʔ.ə]
ipa: /ˈbɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈbɪ.ɾɚ]
homophone: bidder stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bitters
Etymology: From bit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: However, 16-bitters are far more expensive than the 8-bit variety. And, unfortunately, have only a handful of business applications software packages that really take advantage of them.
ref: 1983, Computerworld, volume 17, number 49, page 21:
text: The company believes that the 32-bit market will almost equal that of 16-bitters by the end of the decade. Chip maker Zilog Inc., not a major player in the 16-bit arena, is even more bullish about 32-bitters as it readies its own version for market.
ref: 1984, Electronic Business, volume 10, page 154:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
cotton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒt.n̩/
ipa: [ˈkʰɒt.n̩]
ipa: /ˈkɑt.n̩/
ipa: [ˈkɑ.ʔn̩]
rhymes: -ɒtən
homophone: Cotten
Etymology: From Middle English cotoun, from Anglo-Norman cotun, Old French coton, from (Genoese) Old Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun).
Senses: glosses: Made of cotton.
cotton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒt.n̩/
ipa: [ˈkʰɒt.n̩]
ipa: /ˈkɑt.n̩/
ipa: [ˈkɑ.ʔn̩]
rhymes: -ɒtən
homophone: Cotten
Forms: form: cottons
form: cottoning
form: cottoned
form: cottoned
Etymology: 1560s, either from Welsh cydun, cytun (“agree, coincide”) (cyduno, cytuno), from cyd, cyt + un (“one”), literally “to be at one with”, or by metaphor with the textile, as cotton blended well with other textiles, notably wool in hat-making.
Senses: examples: text: What meanes this? doth he dote so much of this strange harlot indeed? now I perceiue how this geare cottens.
ref: 1629, Richard Bernard, “Andria”, in Terence in English, page 42:
text: I want to tell you the Dukes, both mother and son, are cottoning to her fast enough.
ref: 1873, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, “Notes of Gold?”, in All the Year Round, page 286:
text: The conference—Mr. Allen’s first gathering, and, depending on the economic outlook, maybe his last—brought together entrepreneurs, techies, writers and even some middle managers who’ve cottoned on to his ideas.
ref: 2009 March 21, Farhad Manjoo, “A Conference That Starts on Time and Stays on Schedule”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
Derived terms: cotton on
cotton to
cotton onto
cotton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒt.n̩/
ipa: [ˈkʰɒt.n̩]
ipa: /ˈkɑt.n̩/
ipa: [ˈkɑ.ʔn̩]
rhymes: -ɒtən
homophone: Cotten
Etymology: 1560s, either from Welsh cydun, cytun (“agree, coincide”) (cyduno, cytuno), from cyd, cyt + un (“one”), literally “to be at one with”, or by metaphor with the textile, as cotton blended well with other textiles, notably wool in hat-making.
Senses: synonyms: shine
glosses: A liking.
Derived terms: take a cotton to
Related terms: jones
bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒt.l̩/
enpr: bŏtʹəl
ipa: /ˈbɑ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɔʔʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbɔʈɪl/
note: Indic
ipa: /-əl/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: bottles
form: bottling
form: bottled
form: bottled
Etymology: From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija.
Displaced native and pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Broadly overtook Old English flasce.
Senses: examples: text: This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
text: The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.
ref: 2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
examples: text: Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
glosses: To feed (an infant) baby formula.
examples: text: The rider bottled the big jump.
glosses: To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
examples: text: Arsenal bottled the Premier League.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To throw away a leading position.
examples: text: He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
glosses: To strike (someone) with a bottle.
examples: text: Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
glosses: To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
examples: text: Closely related to creep is the process of bottling. As you may have noticed from your folded sheet of paper, pages don't merely creep when they're folded — they also rotate slightly. This rotation or bottling is caused by the thickness or bulk of the paper.
ref: 2002, Against the Clock, QuarkXPress 5: Advanced Electronic Documents, page 58:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
Derived terms: bottleable
bottle away
bottle down
bottle it
bottle off
bottle out
bottle up
bottling
rebottle
your blood's worth bottling
bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒt.l̩/
enpr: bŏtʹəl
ipa: /ˈbɑ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɔʔʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbɔʈɪl/
note: Indic
ipa: /-əl/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: bottles
Etymology: From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl (“building, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (literally “to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).
Cognate with North Frisian budel, bodel, bol, boel (“dwelling, inheritable property”), Dutch boedel, boel (“inheritance, estate”), Danish bol (“farm”), Icelandic ból (“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related to Old English bytlan (“to build”). More at build.
Senses: glosses: A dwelling; habitation.
glosses: A building; house.
bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒt.l̩/
enpr: bŏtʹəl
ipa: /ˈbɑ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɔʔʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbɔʈɪl/
note: Indic
ipa: /-əl/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: bottles
Etymology: From Middle English botel (“bundle (of hay)”), from Old French botel, ultimately related to modern French botte (“bundle”).
Senses: examples: text: I was no ſooner in the middle of the pond, but my horſe vaniſht away, and I ſat vpon a bottle of hey, neuer ſo neare drowning in my life: […]
ref: 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature E2, recto:
text: […]Me-thinkes I haue a great deſire to a bottle of hay: good hay, ſweete hay hath no fellow.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 157, column 1:
text: Don Pedro. Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument. / Benedick. If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Can you deny that you've been off and on lately between flunkydom and The Cause, like a donkey between two bottles of hay?
ref: 1850, [Charles Kingsley], Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
behavior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈheɪ.vjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/
ipa: /bɪˈhæɪ.vjə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪvjə(ɹ)
note: Indic
ipa: /bɪˈheːvɪjɚ/
Forms: form: behaviors
form: behaviour
form: behavoure
form: behavier
form: behavor
form: behavour
Etymology: From Middle English behavoure, behaver, from behaven (modern behave), with the ending apparently in imitation of havour (see 'havior), a corruption of Old French aveir and/or avoir (“a having”), ultimately from Latin habēre. Compare Scots havings (“behavior”), from have (“to behave”). Replaced Old English ġebǣru.
Senses: examples: text: Teachers will probably be on their best behaviour for your visit – but don't be upset if they don't even notice you; they've got enough going on.
ref: 2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Human conduct relative to social norms.
glosses: The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.
examples: text: He was on his best behavior when her family visited.
glosses: A state of probation about one's conduct.
topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Observable response produced by an organism.
glosses: The way a device or system operates.
Synonyms: comportment
conduct
demeanor
deportment
Derived terms: behavioral
behavioralism
behavioralist
behavioral science
behavioreme
behaviorism
behaviorist
behavioristic
behaviormetric
behaviormetrics
behavior pattern
behaviorwise
body-focused repetitive behavior disorder
dialectical behavior therapy
eigenbehavior
health behavior
human behavior
ideal-seeking behavior
macrobehavior
misbehavior
neurobehavior
photobehavior
routine response behavior
Related terms: behave
comb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kōm
ipa: /kəʊm/
enpr: kōm
ipa: /koʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
Forms: form: combs
form: combing
form: combed
form: combed
Etymology: From Middle English comb, from Old English camb (“comb”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (“comb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth”), a doublet of cam. The verb is derived from the noun and displaced the older verb kemb.
Cognates
Compare Saterland Frisian Koum, Swedish/Dutch kam, Danish kam, Norwegian kam, German Kamm; also Tocharian B keme, Lithuanian žam̃bas (“sharp edge”), Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ), Albanian dhëmb, Ancient Greek γομφίος (gomphíos, “backtooth, molar”), Sanskrit जम्भ (jambha)).
Senses: examples: text: I need to comb my hair before we leave the house.
glosses: To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
raw_tags: of hair or fur
glosses: To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
examples: text: Police combed the field for evidence after the assault.
glosses: To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
examples: text: The aircraft split up so as to attack from different, preselected bearings, thus confusing the gunners and making it difficult for the ship to comb torpedo tracks.
ref: 2010, Jim Crossley, Bismarck: The Epic Chase:
text: Sixteen torpedo bombers divided their attention between the two ships. Repulse combed the torpedo wakes and knocked down two of the attackers.
ref: 2013, Steve Backer, British Battlecruisers of the Second World War, page 10:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
Derived terms: backcomb
combability
combable
comb down
combing ridge
comb one's hair
comb out
comb over
comb someone's hair the wrong way
comb through
overcomb
Welsh-comb
comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kōm
ipa: /kəʊm/
enpr: kōm
ipa: /koʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
ipa: /kɒmb/
enpr: kōm
ipa: /kəʊm/
enpr: kōm
ipa: /koʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
Forms: form: combs
Etymology: From combination.
Senses: synonyms: combo
glosses: Abbreviation of combination.
Related terms: english: New Latin naturalized into scientific English
translation: New Latin naturalized into scientific English
word: comb. nov.
comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kōm
ipa: /kəʊm/
enpr: kōm
ipa: /koʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
ipa: /kɒmb/
ipa: /kuːm/
enpr: kōm
ipa: /kəʊm/
enpr: kōm
ipa: /koʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
ipa: /kɒmb/
Forms: form: combs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of combe.
comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kōm
ipa: /kəʊm/
enpr: kōm
ipa: /koʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
ipa: /kɒmb/
ipa: /kuːm/
Forms: form: combs
Senses: examples: text: [Regarding a period of agricultural depression] Even on the good land where the farmer hadn't enough capital to look after it and have it properly drained he couldn't hold on. He'd be getting a yield of eight combs of wheat and ten combs of barley per acre. But that wasn't good enough: it gave him no leeway. This is understandable when you recollect the price of wheat at that time.
ref: 1971, George Ewart Evans, quoting auctioneer Aston Gaze, Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Alternative form of coomb.
committee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /kəmɪˈʈi/
enpr: kə-mĭtʹē
ipa: /kəˈmɪt.i/
rhymes: -ɪti
ipa: /ˌkɒmɪˈtiː/
rhymes: -iː
enpr: käm-ĭ-tēʹ
ipa: /ˌkɑmɪˈtiː/
Forms: form: committees
form: cttee
form: cmte
form: cmte.
form: com
form: com.
form: comm
form: comm.
Etymology: From commit + -ee, or else revival of Anglo-Norman commite, past participle of commettre (“to commit”), from Latin committere, from con- (“with”) + mittere (“to send”). The OED3 prefers the first etymology.
Senses: examples: text: My uncle is on the committee.
glosses: A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.
glosses: A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after themselves.
topics: business
finance
qualifier: British Pakistani
glosses: Alternative form of kameti.
Hypernyms: group
Hyponyms: program committee
Coordinate terms: council
squad
task force
team
workgroup
working group
Derived terms: a camel is a horse designed by a committee
by committee
central committee
clearness committee
comitology
committal
committeeing
committeeism
committeeless
committeeman
committee of the whole
committeepeople
committeeperson
committee room
committeeship
committeewoman
concom
executive committee
exploratory committee
God committee
itty bitty titty committee
joint committee
multicommittee
riding committee
school committee
select committee
standing committee
steering committee
subcommittee
supercommittee
tissue committee
vigilance committee
by
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bī
ipa: /baɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: bi
homophone: buy
homophone: bye
Forms: form: bye
Etymology: From Middle English by, bi, from Old English bī (“by; near; around”), from Proto-West Germanic *bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near; by; around; about”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
Cognate with West Frisian by (“by; near”), Afrikaans by (“at; by; near”), Saterland Frisian bie (“near; by”), Dutch bij (“near; by”), German Low German bi (“by; near; at”), German bei (“by; near; at”).
Senses: examples: text: a by path; a by room
glosses: Out of the way, off to one side.
examples: text: by catch; a by issue
glosses: Subsidiary, incidental.
Derived terms: English terms prefixed with by-
by
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bī
ipa: /baɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: bi
homophone: buy
homophone: bye
Forms: form: bys
form: bye
Etymology: From Middle English by, bi, from Old English bī (“by; near; around”), from Proto-West Germanic *bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near; by; around; about”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
Cognate with West Frisian by (“by; near”), Afrikaans by (“at; by; near”), Saterland Frisian bie (“near; by”), Dutch bij (“near; by”), German Low German bi (“by; near; at”), German bei (“by; near; at”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bye.
by
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: bī
ipa: /baɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: bi
homophone: buy
homophone: bye
Forms: form: bye
Etymology: From Middle English by, bi, from Old English bī (“by; near; around”), from Proto-West Germanic *bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near; by; around; about”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
Cognate with West Frisian by (“by; near”), Afrikaans by (“at; by; near”), Saterland Frisian bie (“near; by”), Dutch bij (“near; by”), German Low German bi (“by; near; at”), German bei (“by; near; at”).
Senses: glosses: Dated form of bye (“goodbye”).
box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒks/
enpr: bäks
ipa: /bɑks/
rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: boxes
Etymology: From Middle English box (“a blow; a stroke with a weapon”); further origin uncertain, with relation to Proto-Germanic *boki-, whence Danish bask (“a blow; a stripe”), Danish baske (“to flap, move around, beat violently”), Middle Dutch boke (“a blow, a hit”), bōken (“to slap, strike”) (modern Dutch beuken (“to slap”)), West Frisian bûkje, bûtse, bûtsje (“to slap”), West Frisian and Saterland Frisian batsje (“to slap”), Low German betschen (“to slap, beat with a flat hand”), Middle High German buc (“a blow, a stroke”), bochen (“to slap, strike”), and further onomatopoeic shaping.
The verb is from Middle English boxen (“to beat or whip (an animal)”), which is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: That he hath a neighbourly charitie in him, for he borrowed a boxe of the eare of the Engliſhman, and ſwore he would pay him againe when hee was able : I thinke the Frenchman became his ſuretie, and ſeald vnder for another.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 166:
text: And then he whispered something to the girl which made her laugh, and give him a good-humoured box on the ear.
ref: 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Bold Dragoon, or The Adventure of My Grandfather”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 62:
text: "Now, you are a nice young fellow, ain't you?" said Sowerberry, giving Oliver a shake and a box on the ear.
ref: 1837 May, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Oliver Continues Refractory”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1838, →OCLC, page 110:
glosses: A blow with the fist.
Synonyms: blow
cuff
punch
box
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒks/
enpr: bäks
ipa: /bɑks/
rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: boxes
form: boxing
form: boxed
form: boxed
Etymology: From Middle English box (“a blow; a stroke with a weapon”); further origin uncertain, with relation to Proto-Germanic *boki-, whence Danish bask (“a blow; a stripe”), Danish baske (“to flap, move around, beat violently”), Middle Dutch boke (“a blow, a hit”), bōken (“to slap, strike”) (modern Dutch beuken (“to slap”)), West Frisian bûkje, bûtse, bûtsje (“to slap”), West Frisian and Saterland Frisian batsje (“to slap”), Low German betschen (“to slap, beat with a flat hand”), Middle High German buc (“a blow, a stroke”), bochen (“to slap, strike”), and further onomatopoeic shaping.
The verb is from Middle English boxen (“to beat or whip (an animal)”), which is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: to box someone’s ears
text: Leave this place before I box you!
text: Mrs. Reed soon rallied her spirits: she shook me most soundly, she boxed both my ears, and then left me without a word.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 42–43:
glosses: To strike with the fists; to punch.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: BoxAerobics
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: boxaerobics
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: box clever
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: boxer
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: Boxer
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: boxercise
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: boxiana
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: boxing
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: box it out
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: box oneself into a corner
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: box-on
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: box on
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: box someone's ears
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: box the Jesuit
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: cage box
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: kickbox
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: out-box
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: shadow-box
sense: Terms derived from box (verb, etymology 3)
word: shadowbox
box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒks/
enpr: bäks
ipa: /bɑks/
rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: boxes
Etymology: From Latin bōx, from Ancient Greek βῶξ (bôx, “box (marine fish)”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye, view”), a reference to the large size of the fish's eyes relative to its body.
Senses: examples: text: BOX. Box (Boops), […] In both jaws a single anterior series of broad incisors, notched at the cutting margin; no molars.
ref: 1859, Albert Günther, “Fam. 7. SPARIDÆ”, in Catalogue of Acanthopterygian Fishes in the Collection of the British Museum, volume I (Gasterosteidæ, Berycidæ, Percidæ, Aphredoderidæ, Pristipomatidæ, Mullidæ, Sparidæ), London: Printed [by Taylor and Francis] by order of the trustees [of the British Museum], →OCLC, page 418:
text: The Bogue. […] Box or Boops. Generic Character.—Body elongated, rounded, the dorsal and ventral profiles alike, and the general aspect peculiarly trim.
ref: 1860, William Yarrell, “The Bogue”, in John Richardson, editor, Second Supplement to the First Edition of the History of British Fishes, […], London: John Van Voorst, […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: BOGUE. BOX. OXEYE. […] In some parts of the European side of the Mediterranean the Bogue is a common fish, and where it frequents it is in great abundance.
ref: 1862, Jonathan Couch, A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, volume I, London: Groombridge and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 225:
glosses: A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
brain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brān
ipa: /bɹeɪn/
homophone: brane
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: brains
form: braining
form: brained
form: brained
Etymology: From Middle English brayn, brain, from Old English bræġn (“brain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną (“brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰnom (“skull, brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ- (“marrow, sinciput”) + *-mn̥ (“nominal suffix”).
Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein, Brain (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge, Bräienge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek βρεχμός (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”).
Senses: glosses: To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
examples: text: Lambdon would require medical attention for a fractured skull. It seemed that Fen had passed his wife a couple of telling pictures, whereupon the drab Mrs. Lambdon had brained her husband with a table lamp.
ref: 2014, K.J. Charles, Think of England, page 166:
glosses: To strike (someone) on the head.
examples: text: There thou maiſt braine him,
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 III, scene ii], page 12:
text: It was the ſwift celeritie of his death / […] That brain'd my purpoſe:
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 82, column 2:
text: He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe, which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed his soul, when we were directly attracted to the sleeping rigger.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 21, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To destroy; to put an end to.
examples: text: 'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen / Tongue, and brain not.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
glosses: To conceive in the mind; to understand.
examples: text: My brain isn't braining right now.
glosses: To think effectively.
goshawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒshɔːk/
ipa: /ˈɡɑshɑk/
rhymes: -ɒshɔːk
rhymes: -ɑshɑk
Forms: form: goshawks
Etymology: From Middle English goshauk, from Old English gōshafoc (“goose hawk”), from gōs (“goose”) and hafoc (“hawk”). Compare also Old Norse gáshaukr and Late Middle English gosling. The bird gets its name from the fact that the birds of the species are hawks that were alleged to prey on geese.
Senses: examples: text: But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Abbot. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 43:
glosses: Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Accipiter tachiro
word: African goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter melanoleucus
word: black goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter melanochlamys
word: black-mantled goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter fasciatus
word: brown goshawk
word: chanting goshawk
taxonomic: Erythrotriorchis buergersi
word: chestnut-shouldered goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter soloensis
word: Chinese goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter trivirgatus
word: crested goshawk
taxonomic: Melierax metabates
word: dark chanting goshawk
taxonomic: Melierax poliopterus
word: eastern chanting goshawk
word: Fiji goshawk
word: Frances' goshawk
word: Gabar goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter poliogaster
word: grey-bellied goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter novaehollandiae
word: grey goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter poliocephalus
word: grey-headed goshawk
word: Henst's goshawk
word: Meyer's goshawk
word: Moluccan goshawk
word: New Britain goshawk
alt: Astur gentilis
word: northern goshawk
taxonomic: Melierax canorus
word: pale chanting goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter albogularis
word: pied goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter toussenelii
word: red-chested goshawk
taxonomic: Erythrotriorchis radiatus
word: red goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter trinotatus
word: spot-tailed goshawk
word: Sulawesi goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter haplochrous
word: white-bellied goshawk
taxonomic: Accipiter novaehollandiae
word: white goshawk
sparrowhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparrowhawks
form: sparrow-hawk
form: sparrow hawk
form: sparhawk
form: spar-hawk
Etymology: From Middle English sparhauk, sperhauk, from Old English spearhafoc, spearhabuc (“sparrow-hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *sparwahabuk, from Proto-Germanic *sparwahabukaz, equivalent to sparrow + hawk. Cognate with Danish spurvehøg (“sparrowhawk”), Swedish sparvhök (“sparrowhawk”), Icelandic sparrhaukur (“sparrowhawk”).
Senses: glosses: A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.
A female such bird, a male being a musket.
glosses: Any of numerous other relatively small birds of Old World species of Accipiter, that prey on smaller birds or otherwise resemble A. nisus.
glosses: Alternative form of sparrow hawk; American kestrel, Falco sparverius, of similar size and habit.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Accipiter minullus
word: African little sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Falco sparverius
word: American sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter melanoleucus
word: black sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter castanilius
word: chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter soloensis
word: Chinese sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter cirrocephalus
word: collared sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter nisus
word: Eurasian sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter nanus
word: dwarf sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter francesiae
word: Frances’s sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter melanoleucus
word: great sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter ovampensis
word: Hilgert's sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter imitator
word: imitator sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter gularis
word: Japanese sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter brevipes
word: Levant sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter minullus
word: little sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter madagascariensis
word: Madagascan sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter brachyurus
word: New Britain sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter butleri
word: Nicobar sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter nisus
word: northern sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter ovampensis
word: Ovambo sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter erythropus
word: red-legged sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter erythropus
word: red-thighed sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter rufiventris
word: rufous-breasted sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter rufiventris
word: rufous-chested sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter erythrauchen
word: rufous-necked sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter luteoschistaceus
word: slaty-backed sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter luteoschistaceus
word: slaty-mantled sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter nanus
word: small sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter trinotatus
word: spot-tailed sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter rhodogaster
word: vinous-breasted sparrowhawk
taxonomic: Accipiter erythropus
word: western little sparrowhawk
lark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: läk
ipa: /lɑːk/
enpr: lärk
ipa: /lɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: lakh (one pronunciation)
homophone: lawk (cot–caught merger)
homophone: lock
homophone: Locke (father-bother merger)
Forms: form: larks
form: laverock
form: lavrock
Etymology: From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwarikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ, *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
glosses: Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
synonyms: early bird
early riser
antonyms: owl
glosses: One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
examples: text: Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: A jolly or peppy person.
Hyponyms: sense: species in Alaudidae
word: woodlark
sense: species in Alaudidae
word: skylark
sense: species in Alaudidae
word: magpie-lark
sense: species in Alaudidae
word: horned lark
sense: species in Alaudidae
word: sea lark
sense: species in Alaudidae
word: crested lark
sense: species in Alaudidae
word: shorelark
Derived terms: word: Beesley's lark
taxonomic: Mirafra spp.
word: bushlark
taxonomic: Melanocorypha spp.
word: calandra lark
taxonomic: Galerida cristata
word: crested lark
word: day lark
word: gay as a lark
word: greater short-toed lark
word: happy as a lark
word: hoopoe-lark
taxonomic: Eremophila alpestris
word: horned lark
taxonomic: Calamospiza melanocorys
word: lark bunting
word: lark buttonquail
word: larker
word: larkheel
word: larklike
word: lark-plover
taxonomic: Tropaeolum majus
word: lark's-heel
taxonomic: Chondestes grammacus
word: lark sparrow
taxonomic: Delphinium spp.
word: larkspur
word: lark's tongue
taxonomic: Grallina cyanoleuca
word: magpie-lark
word: meadowlark
word: mudlark
word: pink-billed lark
word: rise with the lark
word: rising lark
taxonomic: Alaudala rayta
word: sand lark
word: scribble lark
alt: Anthus petrosus et al.
word: sea lark
word: shore lark
taxonomic: Eremophila spp.
word: shorelark
taxonomic: Alauda arvensis
word: skylark
word: songlark
word: sparrow-lark
taxonomic: Anthus pratensis
word: titlark
word: torrent-lark
word: up with the lark
taxonomic: Lullula arborea
word: woodlark
word: writing lark
lark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: läk
ipa: /lɑːk/
enpr: lärk
ipa: /lɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: lakh (one pronunciation)
homophone: lawk (cot–caught merger)
homophone: lock
homophone: Locke (father-bother merger)
Forms: form: larks
form: larking
form: larked
form: larked
form: laverock
form: lavrock
Etymology: From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwarikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ, *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.
Senses: examples: text: to go larking
glosses: To catch larks (type of bird).
lark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: läk
ipa: /lɑːk/
enpr: lärk
ipa: /lɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: lakh (one pronunciation)
homophone: lawk (cot–caught merger)
homophone: lock
homophone: Locke (father-bother merger)
Forms: form: larks
form: laverock
form: lavrock
Etymology: Uncertain, either
* from a northern English dialectal term lake /laik (“to play”) (around 1300, from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)), with an intrusive -r- as is common in southern British dialects; or
* a shortening of skylark (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in speelvogel (“playbird, a person of markedly playful nature”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Ha! ha!’ laughed Master Bates, ‘what a lark that would be, wouldn’t it, Fagin? I say, how the Artful would bother ’em wouldn’t he?’
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 43, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: “Oh, dear, no,” said the young Englishman; “my cousin was coming over on some business, so I just came across, at an hour’s notice, for the lark.”
ref: 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
text: Thanks partly to Tom Wolfe’s raised-eyebrow account, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” that bohemian lark has been retrospectively hailed as the flash point of the emerging hippie counterculture.
ref: 2011 August 4, Stephen Holden, “Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: What began as a lark has grown into something very, very big, inflating the company’s ambitions.
ref: 2018 November, Alexis C. Madrigal, “The Dangers of YouTube for Young Children”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A frolic or romp, some fun.
examples: text: doolittle. […] [T]hanks to your silly joking, he leaves me a share in his Pre-digested Cheese Trust worth three thousand a year on condition that I lecture for his Wannafeller Moral Reform World League as often as they ask me up to six times a year. / higgins. The devil he does! Whew! [Brightening suddenly] What a lark!
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act V, page 173:
glosses: A prank.
Synonyms: whim
especially in phrase on a whim
Derived terms: blow this for a lark
fuck this for a lark
larkish
larksome
larky
on a lark
screw this for a lark
sod this for a lark
Related terms: english: play; in verb sense
translation: play; in verb sense
word: skylark
lark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: läk
ipa: /lɑːk/
enpr: lärk
ipa: /lɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: lakh (one pronunciation)
homophone: lawk (cot–caught merger)
homophone: lock
homophone: Locke (father-bother merger)
Forms: form: larks
form: larking
form: larked
form: larked
form: laverock
form: lavrock
Etymology: Uncertain, either
* from a northern English dialectal term lake /laik (“to play”) (around 1300, from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)), with an intrusive -r- as is common in southern British dialects; or
* a shortening of skylark (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in speelvogel (“playbird, a person of markedly playful nature”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey laugh at us old boys,” thought old Pendennis. And he was not far wrong; the times and manners which he admired were pretty nearly gone—the gay young men “larked” him irreverently […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 68, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: […] the porter at the rail-road had seen a scuffle; or when he found it was likely to bring him in as a witness, then it might not have been a scuffle, only a little larking […]
ref: 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 35, in North and South:
glosses: To sport, engage in harmless pranking.
glosses: To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.
Derived terms: lark about
lark around
larkingly
skylark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪlɑːk/
ipa: /ˈskaɪlɑɹk/
rhymes: -aɪlɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: skylarks
Etymology: From sky + lark.
Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details.
Senses: glosses: A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Alauda arvensis
word: Eurasian skylark
taxonomic: Alauda japonica
word: Japanese skylark
taxonomic: Alauda gulgula
word: oriental skylark
skylark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪlɑːk/
ipa: /ˈskaɪlɑɹk/
rhymes: -aɪlɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: skylarks
form: skylarking
form: skylarked
form: skylarked
Etymology: From sky + lark.
Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details.
Senses: examples: text: I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 5:
glosses: To jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks.
Derived terms: skylarker
skylarking
phonetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnɛtɪks/
ipa: /fəˈnɛtɪks/
note: Dublin
ipa: /fəˈnɛʔəks/
note: Dublin
ipa: /fəˈnɛhəks/
rhymes: -ɛtɪks
Etymology: From phonetic + -s.
Senses: examples: text: This dictionary shows the phonetics of the words.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: phonics
coordinate_terms: phonemics
phonics
glosses: The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.
Derived terms: acoustic phonetics
articulatory phonetics
auditory phonetics
ideophonetics
psychophonetics
sociophonetics
Related terms: International Phonetic Alphabet
phonetic
phonetician
phonology
analyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænəlɪst/
homophone: annalist
Forms: form: analysts
Etymology: From French analyste.
Senses: glosses: Someone who analyzes.
glosses: Someone who is an analytical thinker.
glosses: A mathematician who studies real analysis.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A systems analyst.
examples: text: “I had a difficult session with my analyst last evening and the slightest thing is apt to set me off.”
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 185:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
glosses: A financial analyst; a business analyst.
Derived terms: autoanalyst
bioanalyst
color analyst
colour analyst
conspiracy analyst
cryptanalyst
cryptoanalyst
cyberanalyst
database analyst
discourse analyst
glycoanalyst
hypnoanalyst
microanalyst
narcoanalyst
nonanalyst
psychoanalyst
quantitative analyst
schizoanalyst
technical analyst
Related terms: analyst programmer
anchovy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.t͡ʃə.vi/
ipa: /ˈæn.t͡ʃəʊ.vi/
ipa: /ænˈt͡ʃəʊ.vi/
ipa: /ˈænt͡ʃoʊ.vi/
rhymes: -əʊvi
Forms: form: anchovies
Etymology: From Spanish anchoa, from Genoese Ligurian anciôa or related Corsican anchjuva, anciua. The term's ultimate origin is unclear; some suggest it may have derived from an unattested Vulgar Latin term *apiuva, from Latin aphyē, apua, from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē) (which may be formed like Sanskrit अभ्व (ábhva-, “monster”)); others suggest it comes from Basque antxu, anchu (“dried fish”), from anchuva (“dry”), if that Basque term is not itself derived from Latin via some intermediary. None of these hypotheses is satisfactory because of the phonetic irregularities.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40:
hypernyms: fish
coordinate_terms: sardine
glosses: Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in sixteen genera, those of the genus Engraulis being widely sold as food.
Derived terms: anchovette
anchovied
anchovylike
anchovy paste
anchovy pear
anchovy salad
anchovy toast
Californian anchovy
European anchovy
Mediterranean anchovy
northern anchovy
anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.kə/
enpr: ăngʹkər
ipa: /ˈæŋ.kɚ/
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: anchors
form: anchoring
form: anchored
form: anchored
form: anchour
Etymology: From Middle English anchoren, ankeren, either from the noun or perhaps (via Old French ancrer) from a Medieval Latin verb ancorare, from the same Latin word ancora.
Senses: glosses: To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
examples: text: Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
glosses: To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
examples: text: My invention […] anchors on Isabel.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To stop; to fix or rest.
glosses: To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
glosses: To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
examples: text: It is an incredible tale and one that makes no sense on so many levels. Only two years ago Leicester were anchored to the foot of the Premier League and staring at the prospect of relegation to the Championship under Nigel Pearson.
ref: 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
Synonyms: sense: to hold an object to a fixed point
word: affix
sense: to hold an object to a fixed point
word: fix
sense: to cast anchor
word: drop anchor
sense: to stop
word: cease
word: hold
sense: to provide emotional stability
word: support
sense: to perform as a TV anchorman
word: host
sense: to perform as a TV anchorman
word: present
sense: to be stuck
word: bog down
sense: to be stuck
word: embog
sense: to be stuck
word: enmire
Derived terms: anchorer
disanchor
reanchor
unanchor
anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.kə/
enpr: ăngʹkər
ipa: /ˈæŋ.kɚ/
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: anchors
form: anchour
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ankre, ancre, from Old English ancer, ancra, from Latin anachōrēta, anachōrīta, either with significant shortening of the word within Old English or via an unattested Old Irish form.
Senses: examples: text: Nor earth to me giue foode, nor heauen light, / Sport and repoſe lock from me day and night, / To deſperation turn my truſt and hope, / And Anchors cheere in priſon be my ſcope, […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signature H2, verso:
glosses: An anchorite or anchoress.
Derived terms: anchorism