cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.və.ʃuːt/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.vɚˌʃut/
ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈʃuːt/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃut/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: overshoots
form: overshooting
form: overshot
form: overshot
Etymology: From Middle English overshoten, oversheten (“to shoot beyond, shoot past, pour down from above”), perhaps continuing Old English ofersċēotan (“to shoot down”), equivalent to over- + shoot.
Senses: examples: text: When you drive, you must remember to not overshoot the parking space and end up with two wheels over the line.
text: As a result of the accident at Southend Airport when a Hermes aircraft overshot the runway and fouled the down Shenfield to Southend Victoria line between Rochford and Prittlewell, the Eastern Region is considering warning arrangements, which have already been provided on some lines running past aerodromes.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Aircraft on rail tracks”, in Trains Illustrated, page 650:
text: A ScotRail Driver: […] A good friend of mine overshot two stations back-to-back a couple of years ago. He tried to stop at one station and slid by it. Tried to stop at the next station. He slid by that, too.
ref: 2021 December 15, Paul Clifton, “There is nothing you can do”, in RAIL, number 946, page 37:
glosses: To go past something; to go too far.
examples: text: not to overshoot his game
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To shoot beyond; to shoot too far to hit something.
glosses: To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
examples: text: to overshoot the truth
text: That fire abated that impells rash youth,
Proud of his speed to overshoot the truth,
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems: by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq., →OCLC:
text: Measured this way humanity was last at sustainable levels in the 1980s. Now it has overshot by some 20 percent.
ref: 2004, Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, “Author's preface”, in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, →ISBN:
text: The amount a letter overshoots is based on the design, but your eye shouldn’t notice it.
ref: 2019, Reece Patton, Formatting for Print:
glosses: To exceed.
glosses: To venture too far; to overreach (oneself).
glosses: To record too much photographic footage.
Derived terms: overshooter
overshoot the mark
overshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′vər-shŏt′
ipa: /ˈəʊ.vəˌʃɒt/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.vɚˌʃɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overshoot
overshot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′vər-shŏt′
ipa: /ˈəʊ.vəˌʃɒt/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.vɚˌʃɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: more overshot
form: most overshot
Senses: glosses: powered by water that flows over the top from above (of a water wheel)
glosses: Having the upper teeth projecting beyond the lower, as in the jaws of some dogs.
overshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′vər-shŏt′
ipa: /ˈəʊ.vəˌʃɒt/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.vɚˌʃɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: overshots
Senses: glosses: An overshot water wheel.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: A pattern resulting from a plainweave ground fabric and floats of supplemental weft, associated with coverlets in the colonial United States.
Related terms: undershot
oversleep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈsliːp/
ipa: /oʊvəɹˈslip/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: oversleeps
form: oversleeping
form: overslept
form: overslept
Etymology: From over- + sleep.
Senses: examples: text: I overslept and was late for school.
glosses: To sleep for longer than intended.
examples: text: After such a train of fatigue and restless nights, I had unhappily overslept myself […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: Theodore made awkward excuses, and attributed his delay to having overslept himself.
ref: 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section IV:
text: The following morning, Toad, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast disgracefully late, [...].
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: To sleep for longer than one intended.
examples: text: to oversleep one's usual hour of rising
glosses: To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.).
Derived terms: oversleeper
Related terms: outsleep
sleep in
sleep it out
overslept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′vər-slĕpt′
ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈslɛpt/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈslɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversleep
overtake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈteɪk/
ipa: /oʊvɚˈteɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)teɪk/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚteɪk/
Forms: form: overtakes
form: overtaking
form: overtook
form: overtaken
Etymology: From Middle English overtaken, likely a replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (“to take”)), of Middle English overnimen (“to overtake”), from Old English oferniman (“to take by surprise, overtake”), equivalent to over- + take.
Senses: examples: text: The racehorse overtook the lead pack on the last turn.
text: The car was so slow we were overtaken by a bus.
text: "I won't over-walk myself," he said, cheerfully. "If the coach doesn't overtake me on the road, I can wait for it where I stop to breakfast. Dry your eyes, my dear; and give me a kiss."
ref: 1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, chapter II, in No Name. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, 4th (Aldborough, Suffolk), pages 176–177:
text: The station is planned to include platform loops enabling fast trains to overtake slower ones and is expected to be served by at least four trains per hour towards London.
ref: 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
synonyms: forge
antonyms: undertake[curbside]]>
glosses: To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
examples: text: Grocery sales in the north have overtaken those in the south.
glosses: To become greater than something else in quantity, worth, etc.
examples: text: Our plans were overtaken by events.
text: VVhy didſt thou promiſe ſuch a beautious day, / And make me trauaile forth vvithout my cloake, / To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my vvay, / Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten ſmoke.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 34”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: To take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away.
Derived terms: overtakable
overtakeless
overtaker
reovertake
Related terms: exceed
Not to be confused with take over
surpass
overtake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈteɪk/
ipa: /oʊvɚˈteɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)teɪk/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚteɪk/
Forms: form: overtakes
Etymology: From Middle English overtaken, likely a replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (“to take”)), of Middle English overnimen (“to overtake”), from Old English oferniman (“to take by surprise, overtake”), equivalent to over- + take.
Senses: examples: text: There wasn't enough distance left before the bend for an overtake, so I had to trundle behind the tractor for another mile.
glosses: An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.
overtook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ.vɚˈtʊk/
ipa: /əʊ.vəˈtʊk/
ipa: /o.vəɹˈtʉk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Senses: glosses: simple past of overtake
overtaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹteɪkən/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Senses: glosses: past participle of overtake
overtaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹteɪkən/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Forms: form: more overtaken
form: most overtaken
Senses: examples: text: I was overtaken by events.
glosses: Taken by surprise; overcome.
examples: text: Indeed, he was 'dithguthted' at his condition; and if upon the occasion just described he had allowed himself to be somewhat 'intoxicated with liquor,' I must aver that I do not recollect another instance in which this worthy little gentleman suffered himself to be similarly overtaken. Now and then a little 'flashy' he might be, but nothing more serious—and rely upon it, this was no common virtue in those days.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
text: Once John, being overtaken in drink on the roadside by the cottage, and dreaming that he was burning in hell, awoke and saw the old wife hobbling toward him. Thereupon he fled soberly to the hills, and from that day became a quiet-living, humble-minded Christian.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: drunk; intoxicated
Synonyms: drunk
Derived terms: overtakenness
unovertaken
overthrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈθɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈθɹoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ˈəʊvəθɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌθɹoʊ/
Forms: form: overthrows
Etymology: From Middle English overthrowen, equivalent to over- + throw. Compare Dutch overdraaien, German überdrehen, Old English oferweorpan (“to overthrow”).
For the noun sense, compare Middle English overthrow, overthrowe (“destruction, downfall”), from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Once more I come to know of thee King Harry, / If for thy Ranſome thou wilt now compound, / Before thy moſt aſſured Ouerthrow: […]
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 87, column 1:
text: But Judge Livingstone decided that no resistence to law, however extensive or violent, is treason if overthrow of the government is not its object.
ref: 1891, Henry Boynton, “America”, in History of the Nineteenth Century in the United States and Europe, period I (During the Triumphs of Napoleon’s Empire), Augusta, Me.: Press Co., […], page 352:
text: What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: [Edward B.] Marks believed that [Milton] Cohen had paid spies everywhere to keep him up-to-date about impending political overthrows in the countries where he needed to stop, as he always escaped fine and dandy from every revolution he had to face.
ref: 2004, Carlos G. Groppa, “The Tango’s Influence on Other Popular Music”, in The Tango in the United States: A History, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, pages 59–60:
text: [T]he narrator's football team has recently returned triumphant from Buenos Aires after winning the Copa Infantil Evita (Evita Youth Cup), part of the Juegos Evita (Evita Games) that were established in 1948 for children across Argentina, and which ran until the overthrow of Juan Perón in 1955
ref: 2017, David Wood, “Argentina beyond El Proceso: Narratives of National Reconstruction”, in Football and Literature in South America (Routledge Research in Sports History), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force; usurpation.
glosses: An act of throwing something to the ground; an overturning.
Hypernyms: downfall
usurpation
Coordinate terms: collapse
overthrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈθɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈθɹoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ˈəʊvəθɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌθɹoʊ/
Forms: form: overthrows
form: overthrowing
form: overthrew
form: overthrown
Etymology: From over- + throw.
Senses: examples: text: He overthrew first base, for an error.
text: Unlike the gymnast landing on the firm floor and able to control his balance within fairly wide limits, the diver has little or no control of his position as he enters the water. If he overthrows on entry there is little he can do about it.
ref: 1999, H. C. Dubey, “Rules and Regulations”, in Diving (DPH Sports Series), London: Discovery Publishing House, →ISBN, page 179:
text: To avoid [arm and shoulder injuries], strengthen muscles by throwing, increasing the repetitions and speed slowly; warm up slowly and thoroughly, stretching in advance; pursue weight training. Avoid overthrowing, especially early in the season.
ref: 1999, Penny Hastings, “Softball”, in Sports for Her: A Reference Guide for Teenage Girls, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: On May 6, 1995, eight-year-old Johnny Lupoli was warming up before a baseball game in Wallingford, Connecticut (Sports Illustrated, 1996). Johnny, a pitcher for the Kovacs Insurance team in the Yalesville Little League overthrew his catcher during the pre-game session and hit a spectator. Carol LaRosa, the injured spectator, who's^([sic – meaning whose]) son was a teammate of Lupoli, sued the young pitcher for $15,000 in damages.
ref: 2000, Thomas Appenzeller, Herb Appenzeller, “Injuries to Spectators”, in Youth Sport and the Law: A Guide to Legal Issues, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, →ISBN, page 65:
text: One afternoon the local reverend and Curtis are tossing the football around at the park. When the reverend overthrows the ball, Curtis demands that Jasmine put down her book and throw the ball back. This is the moment where Curtis is handed a glimpse of her potential as a football player and begins his quest to inspire her to play.
ref: 2015, Viridiana Lieberman, “M.V.P.: The Most Vulnerable Player in Children’s Sports Films”, in Sports Heroines on Film: A Critical Study of Cinematic Women Athletes, Coaches and Owners, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
overthrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈθɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈθɹoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ˈəʊvəθɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌθɹoʊ/
Forms: form: overthrows
Etymology: From over- + throw.
Senses: examples: text: [A]n energy shift accompanies the onset of emotion. Failure to recognize this can lead to disruptions in performance. A quarterback who fails to acknowledge his excitement in a big game is prone to countless overthrows until the excitement has subsided.
ref: 2002, International Journal of Sport Psychology: Official Journal of the International Society of Sports Psychology, volume 33, Rome: Pozzi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41:
text: The one-man lift is effective in creating enough of a contest in the air to disrupt the opposition or force an overthrow. The defender at the back of the lineout is perfectly positioned to catch an overthrow, and deter the attacking halfback from running around the back of the lineout.
ref: 2013, Marcus Blackburn, “Lesson 5: Defend as a Team”, in Coaching Rugby Sevens, 2nd edition, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 92:
text: A late-scoring push forced overtime, but even in added time, the team was forced to go for a field goal on their initial drive after a pass rusher forced an overthrow from Purdy. This allowed Mahomes in and the emerging all-time great doesn’t often make mistakes.
ref: 2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, in CNN.com:
text: He overthrew the ball and it went for four runs.
text: Of all the cricket skills, good throwing is the one most readily appreciated by spectators, whether it be from the outfield or the infield. […] All throws must be "backed-up" by the nearest available fielder to prevent overthrows at both the bowler's and the wicket-keeper's ends. Nothing is more depressing than a fielding side giving away overthrows from bad throwing and backing-up.
ref: 1999, Ashok Kumar, “Fielding”, in Cricket (DPH Sports Series), New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, published 2006, →ISBN, page 49:
text: England required 15 from the last over of the regular match. Ben Stokes hit a six and benefited when a throw from the deep hit him and went for four overthrows.
ref: 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A throw that goes too far.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A throw that goes too far.
A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.
overthrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ.vɚ.θɹu/
Senses: glosses: simple past of overthrow
overthrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ.vɚ.θɹoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Senses: glosses: past participle of overthrow
Derived terms: unoverthrown
slept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleep
sleeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsliːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of sleep
sleeping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsliːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: We found a sleeping child inside the church.
text: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
glosses: Asleep.
glosses: Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
sleeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsliːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Forms: form: sleepings
Senses: examples: text: And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.
ref: c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, section I:
text: […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.
ref: 1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, page 144:
glosses: The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
Derived terms: African sleeping sickness
born sleeping
co-sleeping
let sleeping dogs lie
let the sleeping dogs lie
sleeping at the switch
sleeping bag
sleeping barber problem
Sleeping Beauty
sleeping beauty
sleeping car
sleeping dictionary
sleeping dragon
sleeping draught
sleeping giant
sleeping hours
sleeping language
sleeping lions
sleeping mat
sleeping pad
sleeping partner
sleeping pill
sleeping policeman
sleeping power
sleeping quarters
sleeping room
Sleeping Sexton
sleeping sickness
sleeping suit
sleeping table
sleeping tablet
combover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combovers
form: comb over
form: comb-over
Etymology: From comb + over.
Senses: examples: text: With his funny comb-over and shy manner he was a strange man but she knew that he was a good man, and it is goodness that counts.
ref: 2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 191:
glosses: A manner of combing hair from one side to the other in an attempt to conceal a medial bald patch.
comb-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comb-overs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of combover.
headbanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headbangers
form: heidbanger
Etymology: From head + banger.
Senses: glosses: One who dances by violently shaking the head in time to the music.
glosses: One who enjoys heavy metal (rock) music, to which this sort of dance is usually performed.
glosses: A violently deranged, extreme or fanatical person; a nutcase.
glosses: A silly or eccentric person.
examples: text: We would therefore paralyse ourselves for no good reason other than the propagandistic appeasement of the Daily Mail, the Sun, my noble friend Lord Hamilton and a few other headbangers in the Commons on the Conservative side.
ref: 2010, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report:
text: Corbyn's lack of ambition would turn out to be one of his great selling points. He was the man at the margin: a headbanger for most and a man of principles for a few.
ref: 2021 March 2, Donald Sassoon, Morbid Symptoms: An Anatomy of a World in Crisis, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 140:
text: Even the Brexit headbangers of the European Research Group rolled over like pussycats.
ref: 2021 November 2, John Crace, A Farewell to Calm: The New Normal Survival Guide, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: A political hardliner, especially an obstructive one.
examples: text: We also had a heavy crew of home-grown headbangers who were likely to get involved in any IRA - UVF battles. It would not have taken much to tip Scotland into the serial sectarian violence that was rife in Belfast and the surrounding areas.
ref: 2005 November 15, Les Brown, Robert Jeffrey, Glasgow Crimefighter: The Les Brown Story, Black & White Publishing, →ISBN:
text: John had a nasty side to him – he wanted to see the handiwork, if y'know what I mean. That sorta thing didn't interest me. He had a lot of headbangers around him but that was his style. He wanted to outdo the UDA – he hated them with a passion.
ref: 2011 October 14, Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men: Assassins and Terror Bosses in the Ireland Conflict, Random House, →ISBN:
text: In the Long Bar, you had 'Chuck' Berry and his mob. You had Lenny Murphy and his mob. And you had them in the Rex Bar, and you had them in the Windsor Bar. All different, separate groups of all headbangers. Now, from time to time, the leaders would have given them instructions to carry out certain murders or given approval for certain murders.
ref: 2023 November 2, Martin Thomas, The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 674:
glosses: A person who engages in street violence, especially in support of a political group.
glosses: A kind of chin-up or pull-up exercise where the head is kept in line with the bar.
Synonyms: sense: heavy metal fan
word: metalhead
sense: heavy metal fan
word: metaller
Related terms: headbang
headbanging
dead president
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛd ˈpɹɛzɪdənt/
rhymes: -ɛzɪdənt
rhymes: -ənt
Forms: form: dead presidents
Etymology: From the fact that the presidents whose faces decorate US currency are deceased.
Senses: examples: text: So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent
So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint
So I start my mission, leave my residence
Thinkin' how could I get some dead presidents
ref: 1987, Eric B. & Rakim, “Paid In Full”, in Paid In Full:
text: I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?)
 I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?)
 I'm out for dead presidents to represent me
ref: 1994, Nas, “The World Is Yours”, in Illmatic:
text: Finding a new job just meant driving to another office-park campus with dopey street names (Disc Drive, Resistor Road, Infinite Loop) to endure more geeksploitation in exchange for dead presidents, stock options, a flexible schedule, no dress code, and all the junk food I could eat.
ref: 2000, Richard Grayson, The Silicon Valley Diet and Other Stories, Red Hen Press, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: A piece of US paper currency.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, president.
Related terms: Benjamin
Franklin
Hamilton
Jackson
Lincoln
Washington
big face
blue face
money
McJob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: McJobs
Etymology: From Mc- + job, entry-level jobs at McDonald's restaurants being considered to be this sort of job.
Senses: examples: text: What are you going to do this summer? –I'm going to find a McJob for the evenings and hang out at the beach during the day.
text: Many politicos claim most new jobs are low-pay, dead-enders, “McJobs.”
ref: 1987 March 9, Steve Forbes, “Major problem with the American economy: hypochondria”, in Forbes, 139, p33:
text: Shortly after the opening of the Latham McDonald’s, the first in the Capital District, Zdunek, then 16, hopped on his Cushman motor scooter, rode from his Halfmoon home and applied for his first Mcjob. The wage was $1.25 an hour.
ref: 1989 October 19, Paul Grondahl, “Managers get behind the grill”, in Albany Times Union, page C1:
text: The car was the color of butter and bore a bumper sticker saying WE’RE SPENDING OUR CHILDREN’S INHERITANCE, a message that I suppose irked Dag, who was bored and cranky after eight hours of working his McJob (“Low pay, low prestige, low benefits, low future”).
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: A typically entry-level job, often part-time or temporary, generally paying low wages and requiring minimal training, such as entry-level positions at fast-food restaurants.
Related terms: McWages
McWorker
List of words formed from the prefix Mc- derived from McDonald’s
partake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pär-tāk'
ipa: /pɑɹˈteɪk/
enpr: pär-tāk'
ipa: /pɑːˈteɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: partakes
form: partaking
form: partook
form: partaken
Etymology: Back-formation from Middle English part-takinge, part-takynge (“a sharing; partaking”), a calque of Latin particeps (“participating”); equivalent to part + take. Compare take part. In the sense of taking a share or portion of something, displaced native Old English onbītan (“to taste of, to partake of”).
Senses: examples: text: Brutes partake in this faculty.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
info_templates: extra_data: words: in
expansion: [with in]
glosses: To take part in an activity; to participate.
examples: text: Will you partake of some food?
text: The steak and chips partaken of for lunch seemed now to belong to another decade. He regretfully recognized the fact that he would not make a success of a hunger strike.
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary:
info_templates: extra_data: words: of
in
expansion: [with of or in]
glosses: To take a share or portion.
examples: text: c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
the Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster , who partakes of both qualities, partly of a judge in the court, and partly of an attorney-general
text: The people are encouraged to perceive their liberation in historic terms and to trust that new events will partake of past glories.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1107:
info_templates: extra_data: words: of
expansion: [with of]
glosses: To have something of the properties, character, or office.
Derived terms: partakeable
partaker
repartake
unpartaken
unpartaking
partook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pär-to͝ok'
ipa: /pɑːˈtʊk/
ipa: /pɑɹˈtuːk/
ipa: /pɑɹˈtʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Senses: glosses: simple past of partake
partaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pär-tā′kən
ipa: /pɑːˈteɪ.kən/
ipa: /pɑɹˈteɪ.kən/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Senses: examples: text: The human heart was never made for solitude; thoughts were meant to be expressed, feelings meant to be partaken.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: past participle of partake
pay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pā
ipa: /peɪ/
ipa: [pʰeɪ̯]
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: pays
Etymology: From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin pācāre (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin pācāre (“to pacify”). In this sense, displaced native Old English ġield (“pay”) and ġieldan (“to pay”), whence Modern English yield.
Senses: examples: text: Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing their pays.
text: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
examples: text: "You can if you like. I'll drop in each day to see how she gets on." "Oh, will you? That's a relief. All the same, I wouldn't say she was a very good pay, if you spend too much time on her." "Oh, bad pays make up half a doctor's job."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 36:
glosses: A paying job; a paying concern.
Derived terms: autopay
back pay
base pay
basic pay
beyond one's pay grade
combat pay
copay
danger pay
dead-pay
equal pay
equal pay for equal work
for-pay
gay for pay
gross pay
half pay
hand pay
hazard pay
holiday pay
in the pay of
isolation pay
midpay
min pay
net pay
pay advice
payband
paybill
paybook
paybox
pay by bank
paycheck
pay check
pay cheque
paycheque
pay cut
payday
pay day
pay freeze
pay gap
paygrade
pay grade
payless
payline
paylist
payload
paymaster
paymeter
paymistress
pay-neutral
paynight
pay office
pay packet
PayPal
paypig
pay pig
pay piggy
paypoint
pay raise
payraise
payrise
pay rise
payroll
payrun
payscale
paysheet
paysite
payslip
pay spine
paystreak
pay stub
pay table
paythrough
pay train
paytriot
paywall
payware
postpay
repay
say on pay
separation pay
severance pay
sick pay
take-home pay
pay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pā
ipa: /peɪ/
ipa: [pʰeɪ̯]
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin pācāre (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin pācāre (“to pacify”). In this sense, displaced native Old English ġield (“pay”) and ġieldan (“to pay”), whence Modern English yield.
Senses: examples: text: pay toilet
glosses: Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
examples: text: pay television
glosses: Pertaining to or requiring payment.
Derived terms: payphone
pay phone
pay television
pay toilet
pay train
pay TV
pay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pā
ipa: /peɪ/
ipa: [pʰeɪ̯]
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: pays
form: paying
form: payed
form: payed
form: paid
form: paid
Etymology: From Old French peier, from Latin picāre (“to cover with pitch”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
Synonyms: word: ante up
word: cough up
word: defray
word: do the needful
word: expend
word: foot the bill
word: fork out
word: fork over
word: lay out
word: pay
word: pay the freight
word: pay the piper
word: pay the price
word: pay up
word: pony up
word: quit
word: shell out
word: spend
word: stump up
Hypernyms: word: compensate
word: give
Hyponyms: word: ante
word: BNPL
word: bribe
word: disburse
word: fund
word: invest
word: pay off
word: pay out
word: pay the penalty
word: reimburse
word: repay
word: settle
word: splurge
word: squander
Related terms: word: cash on the barrelhead
word: plunk
paid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pād
ipa: /peɪd/
ipa: /peɖ/
ipa: /pɛjɖ/
ipa: /pe(j)ɖ/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: payed
Forms: form: payed
Etymology: From pay + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pay
Derived terms: all expenses paid
all-expenses-paid
best-paid
better-paid
bought and paid for
high-paid
lowest-paid
low-paid
nonpaid
paid-in
paid up
paid-up
post-paid
postpaid
put paid to
taxpaid
underpaid
unpaid
well-paid
paid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pād
ipa: /peɪd/
ipa: /peɖ/
ipa: /pɛjɖ/
ipa: /pe(j)ɖ/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: payed
Forms: form: payed
Etymology: From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay + -ed.
Senses: examples: paid service
synonyms: nonfree
for-pay
antonyms: free
gratis
glosses: That is not free of charge; that costs money.
examples: text: I thought his house would be nicer than this. I thought that motherf*cker was paid.
glosses: Having money (i.e. rich, wealthy, etc.).
plead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pliːd/
rhymes: -iːd
ipa: /plɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: pleads
form: pleading
form: pleaded
form: pleaded
form: pled
form: pled
form: plead
form: plead
Etymology: From Middle English pleden, plaiden, from Old French plaider (“to plead, offer a plea”), from plait, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc.", in Classical Latin, "an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placeō (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleitear (“to litigate, take to court”).
Senses: examples: text: The defendant has decided to plead not guilty.
text: O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 16:21:
text: At the High Court in Aberdeen in September, NR pleaded guilty to a series of failings, including failing to tell the driver that it was unsafe to drive the train at the 75mph line speed.
ref: 2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15:
glosses: To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
examples: text: He pleaded with me not to leave the house.
text: He was pleading for mercy.
synonyms: appeal
ask
beg
request
entreat
glosses: To beg, beseech, or implore, especially emotionally.
examples: text: Not wishing to attend the banquet, I pleaded illness.
text: It is no defence to plead that you were only obeying orders.
text: From there Prince Rupert, the Royalist general and nephew of Charles I, demanded over £2,000 from the mayor of Leicester to pay the king's forces who were camped around Queniborough. The mayor, however, pleaded poverty and sent only £500.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 329, about Queniborough:
synonyms: allege
claim
cry
maintain
glosses: To offer by way of excuse.
glosses: To discuss by arguments.
Derived terms: counterplead
emplead
implead
interplead
misplead
outplead
pleadable
plead down
pleader
plead out
plead over
plead the belly
plead the blood of Jesus
plead the Fifth
plead up
replead
unpleaded
Related terms: plea
pleasant
please
pleasurable
pleasure
pled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: plĕd
ipa: /plɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: pleaded
Etymology: From Middle English pladde (preterite) & pladd (past participle) of Middle English pleden (“to plead”).
Senses: examples: text: When the indictment was read over, and the Jury sworn in, the prisoner pled guilty.
ref: 1802, The Edinburgh Magazine, v. XIX (new series), p. 70
glosses: simple past and past participle of plead
Derived terms: unpled
pleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpliːdɪd/
rhymes: -iːdɪd
Forms: form: pled
Senses: qualifier: excepting Scotland
glosses: simple past and past participle of plead
pre-set
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
homophone: preset (adjective, verb)
Forms: form: pre-sets
form: pre-setting
form: pre-set
form: pre-set
Etymology: From pre- + set.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preset.
proofread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹuːfɹiːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹuːfɹɛd/
Forms: form: proofreads
form: proofreading
form: proofread
form: proofread
form: proof-read
Etymology: From proof + read.
Senses: glosses: To check a written text for errors in spelling, grammar, syntax, and punctuation.
Synonyms: word: proof
english: esp. quickly
translation: esp. quickly
word: look over
word: copyedit
Hypernyms: examine
Coordinate terms: prooflisten
Derived terms: proofreader
proofreading
proofread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹuːfɹiːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹuːfɹɛd/
Forms: form: proofreads
form: proof-read
Etymology: From proof + read.
Senses: examples: text: At 3:30 she put the finishing touches on her memo, printed it, gave it a proofread, then handed it to the attorney.
ref: 1999, James Scott Bell, “Part Three: The Fallen”, in Final Witness, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, published 2003, →ISBN, chapter four, page 515:
text: I want to thank Sherri and Dee Humphreys, Mark Randolph and Paul Gonzalez for their proofreads and input.
ref: 2002, Rick Turnbull, “Acknowledgements”, in Gum’s Story: A Novel, Augusta, Ga.: Harbor House, →ISBN:
text: To Veronique Kaemerer and her eng. 101 students, Michael Horanburg and Brady Meador for their proofreads.
ref: 2013, Ray Ayles, “Acknowledgements”, in Love’s Promise Is Forever, Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, →ISBN, page [3]:
text: Triple-check spellings, dates, and addresses, and ask someone to give it a proofread before you send your newsletter out.
ref: 2016, Rosalind Davis, Annabel Tilley, “[Communication] Newsletters”, in What They Didn’t Teach You in Art School: What You Need to Know to Survive as an Artist, London: Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 57:
text: If you send it to me, I’ll copy and paste it into the page. I’ll give it a proofread, too, if you like.
ref: 2017, Donna Alward, chapter 7, in Somebody’s Baby (A Darling, VT Novel), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: Synonym of proofreading.
synonyms: word: proofreading
prove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pro͞ov
ipa: /pɹuːv/
rhymes: -uːv
Forms: form: proves
form: proove
Etymology: From Middle English proven, from Old English prōfian (“to esteem, regard as, evince, try, prove”) and Old French prover (“to prove”), both from Latin probō (“test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove”, verb), from probus (“good, worthy, excellent”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front, prominent”), from *pro-, *per- (“toward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). Displaced native Middle English sothen (“to prove”), from Old English sōþian (“to prove”). Doublet of probe. More at for, be, soothe.
Senses: examples: text: You may also need to think about what the prove is doing to the loaf of bread — it is warming the dough and making it moist, allowing it to rise […]
ref: 2009, Paul Allam, David McGuinness, Bourke Street Bakery: the ultimate baking companion:
topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The process of dough proofing.
prove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pro͞ov
ipa: /pɹuːv/
rhymes: -uːv
ipa: /pɹəʊv/
enpr: pro͞ov
ipa: /pɹuːv/
rhymes: -uːv
Etymology: Simple past form of proove, conjugated as a Germanic strong verb, on the pattern of choose → chose.
Senses: glosses: simple past of proove
proved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹuːvd/
rhymes: -uːvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prove
Synonyms: word: proven
proven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pro͞oʹvən
enpr: prōʹvən
ipa: /ˈpɹuː.vn̩/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.vn̩/
enpr: pro͞oʹvən
ipa: /ˈpɹu.vn̩/
enpr: prōʹvən
ipa: /ˈpɹoː.vən/
rhymes: -uːvən
rhymes: -əʊvən
Forms: form: more proven
form: most proven
Etymology: From Scottish English, as past participle of preve, a Middle English variant of prove – compare woven (from weave) and cloven (from cleave), both of which feature -eve → -oven. Preve died out in England, but survived in Scotland, where proven developed, initially in a legal context, as in “The jury ruled that the charges were not proven.” See usage notes for historical usage patterns.
Earlier, from Late Latin probō (“test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove”, verb), from Latin probus (“good, worthy, excellent”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front, prominent”), from *pro-, *per- (“toward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”).
Morphologically prove + -n.
Senses: examples: text: It's a proven fact that morphine is a more effective painkiller than acetaminophen is.
text: Mass lexical comparison is not a proven method for demonstrating relationships between languages.
glosses: Having been proved; having proved its value or truth.
Derived terms: not proven
proven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pro͞oʹvən
enpr: prōʹvən
ipa: /ˈpɹuː.vn̩/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.vn̩/
enpr: pro͞oʹvən
ipa: /ˈpɹu.vn̩/
enpr: prōʹvən
ipa: /ˈpɹoː.vən/
rhymes: -uːvən
rhymes: -əʊvən
Etymology: From Scottish English, as past participle of preve, a Middle English variant of prove – compare woven (from weave) and cloven (from cleave), both of which feature -eve → -oven. Preve died out in England, but survived in Scotland, where proven developed, initially in a legal context, as in “The jury ruled that the charges were not proven.” See usage notes for historical usage patterns.
Earlier, from Late Latin probō (“test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove”, verb), from Latin probus (“good, worthy, excellent”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front, prominent”), from *pro-, *per- (“toward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”).
Morphologically prove + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of prove
put
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: po͝ot
ipa: /pʊt/
ipa: [pʰʊʔt]
ipa: /pʌt/
ipa: /pʉt/
homophone: putt (without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -ʊt
Forms: form: puts
form: putt
Etymology: From Middle English putten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
examples: text: He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
text: c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange
A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Short for put option.
examples: text: the put of a ball
text: The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
examples: text: Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
glosses: An old card game.
Related terms: call
option
put
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: po͝ot
ipa: /pʊt/
ipa: [pʰʊʔt]
ipa: /pʌt/
ipa: /pʉt/
homophone: putt (without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -ʊt
ipa: /pʌt/
homophone: putt
enpr: po͝ot
ipa: /pʊt/
ipa: [pʰʊʔt]
ipa: /pʌt/
ipa: /pʉt/
homophone: putt (without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -ʊt
Forms: form: puts
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).
Senses: examples: text: Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,
And of lost hospitality complain.
ref: 1733, James Bramston, The Man of Taste:
text: The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 244:
text: The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!
ref: 1870, Frederic Harrison, “The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair,”, in Fortnightly Review:
glosses: A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
put
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: po͝ot
ipa: /pʊt/
ipa: [pʰʊʔt]
ipa: /pʌt/
ipa: /pʉt/
homophone: putt (without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -ʊt
ipa: /pʌt/
homophone: putt
Forms: form: puts
Etymology: From Old French pute.
Senses: examples: text: And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A prostitute.
quit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭt
ipa: /kwɪt/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪt]
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: quight
Etymology: From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus, which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of coy, quite, quiet, and quietus.
Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.
Senses: examples: text: With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'.
ref: 1990, Claude de Bèze, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, University Press, page 153:
glosses: Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
raw_tags: followed by of
quit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭt
ipa: /kwɪt/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪt]
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: quits
form: quight
Etymology: Probably of imitative origin.
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.
Derived terms: bananaquit
grassquit
orangequit
Related terms: guitguit
quitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪtəd/
rhymes: -ɪtəd
Senses: examples: text: He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 25:
text: Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.
ref: 1941, Chapman Miske, The Thing in the Moonlight:
glosses: simple past and past participle of quit
Synonyms: quit