cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
experiment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mɛnt/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mɛnt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɛksp(ə)rɪmɛɳʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪksp(ə)rɪˈmɛɳʈ/
Forms: form: experiments
form: experimenting
form: experimented
form: experimented
Etymology: From Middle English experiment, from Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.
Senses: examples: text: We're going to experiment on rats.
text: As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.
ref: 1951 October, “Models Assist Rolling Stock Design”, in Railway Magazine, page 647:
text: Bob is a shameless tourist: Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, Twin Peaks, ad infinitum. I think walking the streets with a map in hand looks dumb; experimenting is much more fun.
ref: 1978 August 19, David Brill, “California Here I Come!”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 10:
glosses: To conduct an experiment.
examples: text: The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.
ref: 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)
glosses: To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
examples: text: Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.
ref: 1481, The Mirrour of the World, William Caxton, 1.5.22:
glosses: To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
Derived terms: experimenter
unexperimented
learn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lûn
ipa: /lɜːn/
enpr: lûrn
ipa: /lɝn/
enpr: lä(r)n
ipa: /lɑː(ɹ)n/
ipa: /lɛːrn/
ipa: /lɛrn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: learns
form: larn
form: learne
Etymology: From Middle English lernen (“to learn", also, "to teach"”), from Old English leornian (“to learn", rarely also, "to teach”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnōn, from Proto-Germanic *lizaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(le-)lóys-e, stative from the root *leys- (“track, furrow, trace, trail”).
Cognate with Old Frisian lernia, lerna (“to learn”), Middle Low German lernen (“to learn", also, "to teach”), Middle Dutch leernen (“to learn", also, "to teach”) (whence Dutch lernen (“to study scripture”)), German lernen (“to learn”). See also lore and lear.
Senses: examples: text: I did a quick learn of the place by watching the people shuffle in. There was a healthy mix of beautiful and freaky people, who shared a few common denominators[…]
ref: 2003, Gregory A. Raymer, The Woodie Chronicles: My Journey Through America on the road t recovery in a 1949 Woodie Wagon:
glosses: The act of learning something.
Related terms: lore
bold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊld/
ipa: [ˈbɒʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: /boʊld/
ipa: /bold/
ipa: /baʉld/
ipa: [bɒʊ(ɫ)d]
rhymes: -əʊld
homophone: bowled
Forms: form: bolds
form: bolding
form: bolded
form: bolded
Etymology: From Middle English bolden, balden, from Old English baldian, bealdian, from Proto-Germanic *balþōną, related to *balþaz (see above). Cognate with Old High German irbaldōn (“to become bold, dare”).
Senses: examples: text: Please bold all these subheads.
synonyms: boldface#Verb
embolden#Verb
coordinate_terms: italicize#Verb
strike through#Verb
underline#Verb
glosses: To make (a font or some text) bold.
examples: text: […] for this buſines,
It touches vs, as France inuades our land
Not bolds the King, with others whome I feare,
Moſt iuſt and heauy cauſes make oppoſe.
ref: c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: To make bold or daring.
glosses: To become bold or brave.
Synonyms: embolden
Derived terms: nonbolded
unbolded
bold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊld/
ipa: [ˈbɒʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: /boʊld/
ipa: /bold/
ipa: /baʉld/
ipa: [bɒʊ(ɫ)d]
rhymes: -əʊld
homophone: bowled
Forms: form: bolds
form: bolde
form: boolde
Etymology: From Middle English bold, from Old English bold, blod, bolt, botl (“house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple”), from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą (“house, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, wax, swell”) or *bʰuH-.
Cognate with Old Frisian bold (“house”) (whence North Frisian bol, boel, bøl (“house”)), North Frisian bodel, budel (“property, inheritance”), Middle Low German būdel (“property, real estate”). Related to build.
Senses: glosses: A dwelling; habitation; building.
Related terms: bottle
build
how
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: hou
ipa: /haʊ/
ipa: /huː/
ipa: /haʊ/
ipa: /hʌʊ/
ipa: [həu̯]
ipa: /hæɔ/
ipa: /hæʊ/
ipa: /hæʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: 'ow
form: hoo
Etymology: From Middle English how, hou, hu, hwu, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō, from Proto-Germanic *hwō (“through what, how”), from the same root as hwæt (“who, what”). /hw/ > /h/ due to wh-cluster reduction in Old English; compare who, which underwent this change later, and thus is spelt wh (Middle English spelling of /hw/) but pronounced /h/ (it previously had a different vowel, hence avoided the spelling and sound change in Old English). Vowel change per Great Vowel Shift.
Akin to Scots hoo, foo (“how”), North Frisian ho, hü, hur (“how”), Saterland Frisian wo (“how”), West Frisian hoe (“how”), Dutch hoe (“how”), Low German ho, wo, wu (“how”), German wie (“how”), Swedish hur (“how”). See who and compare why.
Senses: examples: text: She told me how her father was a doctor.
text: “There’s this real Al Capone fear that they’re going to get our guys, not on marijuana, but on something else,” Mr. Edson said, referring to how Capone was eventually charged with tax evasion rather than criminal activity.
ref: 2010 April 24, Jesse McKinley, “Don’t Call It ‘Pot’ in This Circle; It’s a Profession”, in The New York Times, page A1:
glosses: That, the fact that.
how
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hou
ipa: /haʊ/
ipa: /huː/
ipa: /haʊ/
ipa: /hʌʊ/
ipa: [həu̯]
ipa: /hæɔ/
ipa: /hæʊ/
ipa: /hæʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: hows
form: how's
form: 'ow
form: hoo
Etymology: From Middle English how, hou, hu, hwu, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō, from Proto-Germanic *hwō (“through what, how”), from the same root as hwæt (“who, what”). /hw/ > /h/ due to wh-cluster reduction in Old English; compare who, which underwent this change later, and thus is spelt wh (Middle English spelling of /hw/) but pronounced /h/ (it previously had a different vowel, hence avoided the spelling and sound change in Old English). Vowel change per Great Vowel Shift.
Akin to Scots hoo, foo (“how”), North Frisian ho, hü, hur (“how”), Saterland Frisian wo (“how”), West Frisian hoe (“how”), Dutch hoe (“how”), Low German ho, wo, wu (“how”), German wie (“how”), Swedish hur (“how”). See who and compare why.
Senses: examples: text: I am not interested in the why, but in the how.
text: It is an a posteriori argument, evincing the fact, but not the how.
ref: 1924, Joseph Rickaby, Studies on God and His Creatures, page 102:
text: A wham-bam caper flick, efficiently directed by Roger Donaldson, that fancifully revisits the mysterious whos and speculative hows of a 1971 London bank heist.
ref: 2008 March 21, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, in New York Times:
glosses: The means by which something is accomplished.
how
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hou
ipa: /haʊ/
ipa: /huː/
ipa: /haʊ/
ipa: /hʌʊ/
ipa: [həu̯]
ipa: /hæɔ/
ipa: /hæʊ/
ipa: /hæʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: hows
form: howe
form: 'ow
form: hoo
Etymology: From Middle English howe, hough, hogh, partly from Old English hōh (“promontory”), and partly from Old Norse haugr (“a how, mound”). Compare Old French höe (“hillock, hill”), from the same Germanic source.
Senses: examples: text: Fianlly, as regards the places in which these rites and mysteries may have been held, certain writers believe them to have been the "Fairy Hills" or "howes" in various parts of Scotland.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 136:
text: The fairy feast inside the howe (and this barrow is hill-sized) reminds one of nothing so much as a tale in the Icelandic Eyrbyggia saga, written in the mid thirteenth century.
ref: 1985, Jennifer Westwood, Albion, published 1992, page xi. 432:
text: Then, the story goes, a certain man
plundered the hoard in that immemorial howe[.]
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 87:
glosses: An artificial barrow or tumulus; in later folklore, associated with fairies.
glosses: In northern England, a low hill.
how
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hou
ipa: /haʊ/
ipa: /huː/
ipa: /haʊ/
ipa: /hʌʊ/
ipa: [həu̯]
ipa: /hæɔ/
ipa: /hæʊ/
ipa: /hæʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: howgh
form: 'ow
form: hoo
Etymology: From a Siouan language; compare Lakota háu. Alternatively from Wyandot haau.
Senses: glosses: A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech.
crimson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪmzən/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪmzən/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪmsən/
rhymes: -ɪmzən
rhymes: -ɪmsən
Forms: form: crimsons
Etymology: PIE word
 *kʷŕ̥mis
Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesín, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš. Cognate with Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.
Senses: examples: text: To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.
ref: 1904 January 30, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Priory School”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: A deep, slightly bluish red.
crimson
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪmzən/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪmzən/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪmsən/
rhymes: -ɪmzən
rhymes: -ɪmsən
Forms: form: more crimson
form: most crimson
Etymology: PIE word
 *kʷŕ̥mis
Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesín, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš. Cognate with Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.
Senses: examples: text: Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:
text: Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast:
glosses: Having a deep red colour.
glosses: Immodest.
crimson
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪmzən/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪmzən/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪmsən/
rhymes: -ɪmzən
rhymes: -ɪmsən
Forms: form: crimsons
form: crimsoning
form: crimsoned
form: crimsoned
Etymology: PIE word
 *kʷŕ̥mis
Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesín, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš. Cognate with Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.
Senses: examples: text: Eugenie's quick apprehensions seized the foul thought. Her eyes flashed—her cheek crimsoned.
ref: 1841, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XIII, in Night and Morning […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC:
text: 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Ring” in The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Volume 2, p. 662,
Father. Why do you look so gravely at the tower?
Miram. I never saw it yet so all ablaze
With creepers crimsoning to the pinnacles,
text: Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy saying an unladylike thing like that out loud she'd be ashamed of her life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was sure the gentleman opposite heard what she said. But not a pin cared Ciss.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To become crimson or deep red; to blush.
examples: text: Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,
Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed, in a voice of the greatest emotion, “Good God! Willoughby, what is the meaning of this? […]”
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 153:
text: […] that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress […]
ref: 1936, William Faulkner, chapter 5, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, published 1951, page 138:
glosses: To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
Derived terms: alizarin crimson
Crimhead
crimson clover
crimson finch
crimsonish
crimson lake
crimsonly
crimsonness
crimson rosella
crimson tide
crimson wave
crimsonwing
crimson-winged woodpecker
crimsony
dark crimson underwing
encrimson
masked crimson tanager
Related terms: kermes
carmine
Slovio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsloʊ̯vioʊ̯/
Senses: glosses: An artificial language based on the Slavic languages and written in either the Latin or Cyrillic script, intended to be readily understandable by speakers of any modern Slavic language.
bisque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: bisques
Etymology: Borrowed from French bisque, possibly from Biscaye.
Senses: examples: text: lobster bisque
glosses: A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
glosses: A pale pinkish brown colour.
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
Derived terms: bisque doll
bisqueware
mocha bisque
bisque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Etymology: Borrowed from French bisque, possibly from Biscaye.
Senses: glosses: Of a pale pinkish brown colour.
Related terms: word: biscuit
bisque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: bisques
form: bisquing
form: bisqued
form: bisqued
Etymology: Borrowed from French bisque, possibly from Biscaye.
Senses: examples: text: I use an electric kiln strictly for bisquing my pots.
ref: 2018, Melissa Weiss, Handbuilt, A Potter's Guide, page 147:
glosses: To prepare ceramics in the bisque style.
bisque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: bisques
Etymology: Borrowed from French bisque, of unknown origin; Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, suggests a comparison with Spanish bisca (“gambling house, gambling den”).
Senses: examples: text: Going round with Angus McTavish carrying your bag, she mused, was equivalent to about four bisques to the opposition. Angus McTavish was the sort of man who, just by going about looking like a frozen asset, takes all the edge and zip out of a girl's game.
ref: 1937 March 19, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Lord Emsworth and Others, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 851336728; republished Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-58567-277-6, pages 137–138
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
A free point in a handicap real tennis match.
glosses: Exemption from work or other duty on a particular day.
A day's leave an employee may take without warning or reason and not be counted as annual leave.
qualifier: chiefly BBC
glosses: Exemption from work or other duty on a particular day.
Permission for an MP to be absent from a vote, granted by the whips when the absence is not likely to affect the outcome.
qualifier: British parliament
Derived terms: bisquer
azure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæʒə/
ipa: /ˈæz.jʊə/
ipa: /ˈæʒjʊə/
ipa: /əˈzjʊə/
other: /ˈeɪ.ʒə/
homophone: Asia (/ˈeɪʒə/)
ipa: /ˈæʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈæz.jʊɹ/
other: /əˈzʊɹ/
other: /əˈʒʊɹ/
other: /əˈzjʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
other: /ˈæʒə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈæzjʊə(ɹ)/
other: /əˈz(j)ʊə(ɹ)/
other: /əˈʒʊə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈæʒʊə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈæʒjʊə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈeɪ-/
Forms: form: azures
form: az.
form: b.
form: bl.
Etymology: From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l'. The Arabic is from Classical Persian لاجورد (lājward, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Badakhshan.
Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.
Senses: examples: text: In robes of azure.
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, Extracts from An Evening Walk:
text: For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]
ref: 2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 59:
glosses: The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
examples: text: Berington of Chester (on the authority of Harleian manuscript No. 1535) is said to bear a plain shield of azure. Personally I doubt this coat of arms […]
ref: 1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London : T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 41:
text: In Bb [Glover's Roll], the conventional letter B is used to indicate azure in most items.
ref: 1997, Brault, Early Blazon:
text: Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy: before 1399: or, a lion rampant azure, differentiated with a label gules (a blue lion rampant on a field of gold, differentiated with a red label signifying the first-born son) […]
ref: 2010, E. Baumgaertner Wm E. Baumgaertner, Wm E. Baumgaertner, Squires, Knights, Barons, Kings: War and Politics in Fifteenth Century England, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
examples: text: Not like those steps / On heaven's azure.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Not a single cloud mars the flawless azure; / Not a shadow moves o'er the moveless crops; [...]
ref: 1889, Mathilde Blind, “[Poems of the Open Air.] Reapers.”, in The Ascent of Man, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 140:
glosses: The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
glosses: Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
glosses: Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
glosses: Lapis lazuli.
Derived terms: azurean
azure jay
azure lunula
azurely
azureness
azureous
azuresin
azure tit
azurin
azurish
azurite
azurity
azurous
azury
azure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæʒə/
ipa: /ˈæz.jʊə/
ipa: /ˈæʒjʊə/
ipa: /əˈzjʊə/
other: /ˈeɪ.ʒə/
homophone: Asia (/ˈeɪʒə/)
ipa: /ˈæʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈæz.jʊɹ/
other: /əˈzʊɹ/
other: /əˈʒʊɹ/
other: /əˈzjʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
other: /ˈæʒə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈæzjʊə(ɹ)/
other: /əˈz(j)ʊə(ɹ)/
other: /əˈʒʊə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈæʒʊə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈæʒjʊə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈeɪ-/
Etymology: From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l'. The Arabic is from Classical Persian لاجورد (lājward, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Badakhshan.
Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.
Senses: examples: text: When Britain first, at Heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main.
ref: 1740, James Thomson, Rule, Britannia!:
synonyms: cerulean
glosses: Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.
glosses: Cloudless.
examples: text: ‘I forget your coat of arms.’
‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’
ref: 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:
text: On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways.
ref: 1957 February 23, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In blazon, of the colour blue.
azure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæʒə/
ipa: /ˈæz.jʊə/
ipa: /ˈæʒjʊə/
ipa: /əˈzjʊə/
other: /ˈeɪ.ʒə/
homophone: Asia (/ˈeɪʒə/)
ipa: /ˈæʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈæz.jʊɹ/
other: /əˈzʊɹ/
other: /əˈʒʊɹ/
other: /əˈzjʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
other: /ˈæʒə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈæzjʊə(ɹ)/
other: /əˈz(j)ʊə(ɹ)/
other: /əˈʒʊə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈæʒʊə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈæʒjʊə(ɹ)/
other: /ˈeɪ-/
Forms: form: azures
form: azuring
form: azured
form: azured
Etymology: From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l'. The Arabic is from Classical Persian لاجورد (lājward, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Badakhshan.
Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.
Senses: examples: text: Our readers are aware that much of the sugar sold in many countries goes through an azuring treatment; blue is added to granulated sugar with the view of making it appear whiter than it actually is.
ref: 1907, The Sugar Beet, volume 28, page 271:
glosses: To colour blue.
Afrikaans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌafɹɪˈkɑːnz/
ipa: /ˌɑːfɹɪˈkɑːnz/
rhymes: -ɑːnz
Etymology: From Afrikaans Afrikaans or Dutch Afrikaans.
Senses: glosses: A Germanic language descending from Dutch; the primary language of the descendants of Dutch and other European settlers, as well as many mixed-race (e.g. Rehoboth Basters) living in South Africa and in Namibia. Also, one of the eleven official languages of South Africa and until 1990 one of three official languages of Namibia.
Afrikaans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌafɹɪˈkɑːnz/
ipa: /ˌɑːfɹɪˈkɑːnz/
rhymes: -ɑːnz
Forms: form: Afrikaans
Etymology: From Afrikaans Afrikaans or Dutch Afrikaans.
Senses: synonyms: Afrikaner
glosses: A person from South Africa or Namibia who speaks Afrikaans. (More properly called "Afrikaans people" or Afrikaners.)
Afrikaans
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌafɹɪˈkɑːnz/
ipa: /ˌɑːfɹɪˈkɑːnz/
rhymes: -ɑːnz
Etymology: From Afrikaans Afrikaans or Dutch Afrikaans.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Afrikaans language.
Derived terms: Afrikaansness
aquamarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌɑ.kwə.məˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: aquamarines
Etymology: From Latin aqua marīna (“sea water”), adjective form from mare (“sea”).
Senses: glosses: The bluish-green colour of the sea.
examples: text: Before we could embark on the details of his mother's health we were joined by a fair, plump woman of indefinite age, who had once been—and at moments still was—very pretty. She wore a simple black silk dress, perhaps in deference to Tilly's death, though the note of mourning was jarred by flamboyant aquamarine ear-rings and too much rouge.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: A transparent bluish-green, sometimes yellow-green, variety of beryl.
aquamarine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌɑ.kwə.məˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From Latin aqua marīna (“sea water”), adjective form from mare (“sea”).
Senses: glosses: Of a bluish-green colour.
Derived terms: Madagascar aquamarine
Related terms: maxixe
chartreuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːˈtɹɜːz/
ipa: /ʃɑɹˈtɹuːz/
ipa: /ʃɑɹˈtɹuːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z
rhymes: -uːz
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: chartreuses
Etymology: Borrowed from French chartreuse. Doublet of charterhouse.
Senses: examples: text: Old Tinker, in evening dress, sat uncomfortably, sideways, upon the edge of a wicker and brocade “chaise lounge,” finishing a tiny glass of chartreuse, while Talbot Potter, in the middle of the room, took leave of a second guest who had been dining with him.
ref: 1921, Booth Tarkington, Harlequin and Columbine:
text: Many liqueurs, among them chartreuse and benedictine, have long been held in great esteem as aphrodisiac aids.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 138:
glosses: A yellow or green liqueur made by Carthusian monks.
examples: text: Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse microbus.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
glosses: A greenish-yellow color.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A kind of enamelled pottery.
examples: text: ARRANGE DIFFERENT KINDS OF COOKED VEGETABLES IN A CASSEROLE […] The dish resembles a chartreuse.
ref: 1977, Joseph Dommers Vehling Apicius, Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome, page 238:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A French dish of vegetables (and sometimes meat) wrapped tightly in a decorative layer of salad or vegetable leaves and cooked in a dome-shaped mould.
chartreuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːˈtɹɜːz/
ipa: /ʃɑɹˈtɹuːz/
ipa: /ʃɑɹˈtɹuːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z
rhymes: -uːz
rhymes: -uːs
Etymology: Borrowed from French chartreuse. Doublet of charterhouse.
Senses: glosses: Of a bright yellowish-green colour.
endowment policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endowment policies
Senses: glosses: a life assurance savings scheme designed to pay out a lump sum when the policy matures
Related terms: endowment-linked mortgage
collateral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlætəɹəl/
rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Forms: form: collaterals
Etymology: Recorded since c.1378, from Old French, from Medieval Latin collaterālis, from Latin col- (“together with”) (a form of con-) + the stem of latus (“side”). By surface analysis, col- + lateral.
Senses: examples: text: "The decline in the quality of eligible collateral is a grave problem. The ECB is now buying corporate bonds that are close to junk, and the haircuts can barely deal with a one-notch credit downgrade. The reputational risk of such actions by a central bank would have been unthinkable in the past."
ref: 2016, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, “Euro 'house of cards' to collapse, warns ECB prophet”, in The Telegraph:
text: In colonial times, when land was not worth much and banks didn’t exist, most lending was based on human property. In the early 1700s, slaves were the dominant collateral in South Carolina.
ref: 2019 August 14, Matthew Desmond, “In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
synonyms: collateral security
pledge
glosses: A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
qualifier: genealogy
glosses: A collateral (not linear) family member.
examples: text: Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
glosses: A contemporary or rival.
Derived terms: collateralise
collateralize
marketing collateral
Related terms: lateral
mortgage
annuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈn(j)uɪti/
Forms: form: annuities
Etymology: From French annuité, from Medieval Latin annuitās, from Latin annuus (“annual”). Cf. annuality.
Senses: topics: business
insurance
qualifier: pensions
glosses: A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.
Derived terms: annuitant
annuitize
life annuity
retirement annuity contract
retirement annuity plan
Related terms: perpetuity
annual
per annum
perennial
mortage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mortgage.
mortage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mortgage.
life assurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From life + assurance.
Senses: glosses: An insurance policy that pays out on death (or on certain other conditions).
annually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.jʊə.li/
ipa: /ˈæn.ju.ə.li/
ipa: /ˈæn.jʊə.li/
Etymology: From annual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Sunshine Festival is held annually, at the end of May.
text: The cult of the holiday camp has brought seasonal expresses to fresh destinations such as Penychain, in North Wales; over 250,000 people go by train annually to Butlin's holiday camps alone.
ref: 1957 July 23, D. S. M. Barrie, “Sixty Years of British Express Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 456:
text: Minimum age of Maiasaura individuals was determined by counting the number of annually deposited lines of arrested growth (see [10 –12 ] for descriptions of skeletochronology methods).
ref: 2015 July 9, “First Reported Cases of Biomechanically Adaptive Bone Modeling in Non-Avian Dinosaurs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Once every year without fail, yearly
Synonyms: perennially
Derived terms: multiannually
pluriannually
semi-annually
monthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌnθli/
rhymes: -ʌnθli
Forms: form: mon.
Etymology: From month + -ly (adjectival suffix), perhaps via Middle English *monethly (attested only adverbially), from Old English mōnaþlīċ (“monthly”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþlīk, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþlīkaz (“monthly”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Danish månedlig (“monthly”), Swedish månatlig (“monthly”), Norwegian Bokmål månedlig (“monthly”), Icelandic mánaðarlegur (“monthly”).
Senses: examples: text: It's time give the dog its monthly bath.
text: all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial.
ref: 2024 June 9, maia arson crimew, “israeli national police found trying to purchase stalkerware”, in maia blog:
glosses: Occurring every month.
Derived terms: half-monthly
monthly bill
monthly friend
monthly meeting
monthly tugboat
monthly visitor
semi-monthly
thrice-monthly
monthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌnθli/
rhymes: -ʌnθli
Forms: form: mon.
Etymology: From Middle English monethly, equivalent to month + -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), Dutch maandelijks (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Swedish månatligen (“monthly”).
Senses: examples: text: Rent must be paid monthly.
glosses: Every month.
monthly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌnθli/
rhymes: -ʌnθli
Forms: form: monthlies
form: mon.
Etymology: From Middle English monethly, equivalent to month + -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), Dutch maandelijks (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Swedish månatligen (“monthly”).
Senses: examples: text: Of the 10 monthlies with the worst declines in January, four were Condé Nast magazines: Wired, Architectural Digest, Vogue and Lucky.
ref: 2009 January 5, Stephanie Clifford, “Prominent Magazines Lose Weight, Shedding Nearly Half Their Ads”, in New York Times:
glosses: A publication that is published once a month.
examples: text: Katherine assumed she was having her monthly. She could recall times when her own monthly was so intense that it showed on her face.
ref: 2008, Monica Dixon, Through Closed Eyes, page 230:
glosses: The menstrual period.
Synonyms: every month
each month
mensually
Derived terms: sense: From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?
word: alt-monthly
sense: From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?
word: bimonthly
sense: From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?
word: intermonthly
sense: From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?
word: intramonthly
sense: From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?
word: midmonthly
sense: From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?
word: monthlyish
sense: From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?
word: nonmonthly
sense: From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?
word: semimonthly
sense: From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?
word: submonthly
sense: From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?
word: trimonthly
Related terms: weekly
daily
yearly
frequency
weekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːk.li/
rhymes: -iːk.li
homophone: weakly
Etymology: From Middle English wykely (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly (adverbial suffix) or week + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”).
Senses: examples: text: She visits her mother weekly.
glosses: Once every week.
glosses: Every week.
Synonyms: hebdomadally
Derived terms: biweekly
semi-weekly
thrice-weekly
twice-weekly
twi-weekly
weekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːk.li/
rhymes: -iːk.li
homophone: weakly
Etymology: From Middle English wykely (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly (adverbial suffix) or week + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a week.
examples: text: He's going for his weekly check-up at the hospital.
text: In summer, we cut the grass on a weekly basis.
text: In Virginia, gone are the weekly outings to Walmart to stock up on provisions; to El Ranchito, the Mexican convenience store, to buy shell-shaped concha pastries; and to the laundromat to machine wash heavily soiled garments.
ref: 2020 October 19, Miriam Jordan, “Migrant Workers Restricted to Farms Under One Grower’s Virus Lockdown”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2020:
glosses: Happening once a week, or every week.
Synonyms: word: hebdomadal
word: hebdomadary
weekly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːk.li/
rhymes: -iːk.li
homophone: weakly
Forms: form: weeklies
Etymology: From Middle English wykely (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly (adverbial suffix) or week + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”).
Senses: glosses: A publication that is published once a week.
Derived terms: alt-weekly
Related terms: frequency
quarterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quarter + -ly (adjectival).
Senses: examples: text: quarterly rent payments
text: The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.
ref: 2021 September 27, Priya Krishnakumar, “Murders rose sharply in 2020 but data is lacking across much of the country”, in CNN:
glosses: Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.
examples: text: The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.
Derived terms: quarterly court
Related terms: quarter day
quarterly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterlies
Etymology: From quarter + -ly (adjectival).
Senses: examples: text: “We’re hoping (that) getting the message out in the quarterlies is going to teach people, as well as their supervisors … you can’t do this stuff,” FBI assistant director Candice Will told CNN this week.
ref: 2013 February 22, Scott Zamost and Drew Griffin, “FBI battling ‘rash of sexting’ among its employees”, in CNN:
glosses: A periodical publication that appears four times per year.
quarterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quarter + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: glosses: Once every quarter year (three months).
examples: text: It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […].
ref: 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:
text: Within a blue garter inscribed "Great Northern Railway Ireland" is a shield, on which are marshalled the arms of the principal towns in the company's area. The shield is divided quarterly with the arms of Dublin in the first quarter, Londonderry in the second quarter, Enniskillen in the third, and Belfast in the fourth; and overall is a gold inescutcheon (a small shield placed in the centre of the large shield) charged with the red left hand of Ulster.
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, pages 476-477:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
Derived terms: quarterly quartered
Related terms: grand-quarterly
half-yearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: halfyearly
Etymology: From half-year + -ly; or half- + yearly.
Senses: examples: text: However, a Carlisle newspaper got hold of the story, and at the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, held on March 17, 1863, a shareholder, Mr. Meiklem, questioned the Chairman, Lt.-Col. Salkeld, regarding a "Chase of Engines," described in the newspaper article. The Chairman admitted that the statements made in the article were perfectly true.
ref: 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, pages 54–55:
glosses: Of which there are two in a year; once every six months semiannual; biyearly.
half-yearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: halfyearly
Etymology: From half-year + -ly; or half- + yearly.
Senses: glosses: Twice in a year; semiannually.
mortgage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.ɡɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹ.ɡɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹ.ɡɘd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: mortgages
form: morgage
Etymology: From Middle English morgage and Middle French mortgage, from Anglo-Norman morgage, from Old French mort gage (“dead pledge”), after a translation of judicial Medieval Latin mortuum wadium, with wadium from Frankish *wadi (“wager, pledge”). Compare gage and also wage. So called because rents and profits from the land were owed to the lender for as long as the gage existed (comparable to interest on a loan today), as opposed to the living gage, in which rents and profits automatically reduced the debt (paying it off over time).
Senses: examples: text: We're renting a property in the city centre because we can't afford to get a mortgage yet.
topics: law
glosses: A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property, such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.
examples: text: lands given in mortgage
glosses: State of being pledged.
Derived terms: anaconda mortgage
conventional mortgage loan
dragnet mortgage
endowment-linked mortgage
endowment mortgage
jumbo mortgage
liar's mortgage
mortgage-backed
mortgage-backed security
mortgage belt
mortgage bond
mortgage burner
mortgage deed
mortgage lender
mortgageless
mortgage lifter
mortgage packager
mortgage roll
mortgagor
multimortgage
nonmortgage
repayment mortgage
reverse mortgage
shared appreciation mortgage
submortgage
tracker mortgage
Welsh mortgage
wraparound mortgage
zombie mortgage
Related terms: hypothecation
mortgage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.ɡɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹ.ɡɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹ.ɡɘd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: mortgages
form: mortgaging
form: mortgaged
form: mortgaged
form: morgage
Etymology: From Middle English morgage and Middle French mortgage, from Anglo-Norman morgage, from Old French mort gage (“dead pledge”), after a translation of judicial Medieval Latin mortuum wadium, with wadium from Frankish *wadi (“wager, pledge”). Compare gage and also wage. So called because rents and profits from the land were owed to the lender for as long as the gage existed (comparable to interest on a loan today), as opposed to the living gage, in which rents and profits automatically reduced the debt (paying it off over time).
Senses: examples: text: to mortgage a property, an estate, or a shop
text: We mortgaged our house in order to start a company.
topics: law
glosses: To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.
examples: text: She mortgaged her future for the pleasures of the relationship with the sculptor, a relationship she knew would be short.
ref: 1982, Verne Moberg, The Truth and Work of Victoria Benedictsson, page 72:
text: Like a latter-day Faustus who has mortgaged his soul to the pursuit of his art, Harrison now desperately craves the paternal love from which his learning has estranged him.
ref: 2001, Antony Rowland, Tony Harrison and the Holocaust, page 193:
glosses: To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term.
Derived terms: mortgageable
mortgagor
nonmortgaged
overmortgage
remortgage
unmortgage
Related terms: mortgagee
mortgager
endowment mortgage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endowment mortgages
Senses: topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: repayment mortgage
glosses: A type of mortgage (typically a loan to buy a house) where, over the term of the loan, the borrower's regular payments to the lender cover only the interest charged by the lender. At the same time, the borrower makes regular payments into a separate savings or investment plan. When this plan matures, the borrower uses the proceeds to repay the principal of the loan.
chocolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɒk.(ə.)lɪt/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɒk.(ə.)lət/
ipa: /t͡ʃɔk.(ə.)lət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔːk.(ə.)lət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑk.(ə.)lɪt/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑk.lət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔk.(ə.)lət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑk.(ə.)lɪt/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈtʃɔk(ɵ)leʈ/
ipa: /ˈtʃokoleɪt/
Forms: form: more chocolate
form: most chocolate
Etymology: Etymology tree
Classical Nahuatl chocolatlbor.
Spanish chocolatebor.
English chocolate
Via Spanish chocolate from a Nahuatl word, widely given as chocolātl (with the second element being a reflex of Classical Nahuatl ātl (“water”)), although such a word does not appear in Nahuatl until the mid-18th century according to Karttunen. Dakin and Wichmann propose chicolātl as the original form (saying it survives in several modern Nahuatl dialects) and say the chicol- element refers to a special wooden stick used to prepare chocolate. Another theory is that the prefix came from Yucatec Maya chocol (“hot”).
Senses: glosses: Made of or containing chocolate.
glosses: Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
examples: text: She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.
ref: 2005, Patrick Goines, Unfinished Business, page 29:
text: Therefore, African Americans complexion range from fair to mahogony. When a baby is born, it's always a mystery of the hue of the child. Sometimes the child will be as white as the slave owner or as chocolate as a great great grandparent.
ref: 2010, Delores J. Dillard, Papua, New Guinea, 1983, page 27:
text: If you are as chocolate as an African queen, do you really think you'll look better as a bottle blonde?
ref: 2011, Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Daily Cornbread, page 200:
glosses: Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).
chocolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɒk.(ə.)lɪt/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɒk.(ə.)lət/
ipa: /t͡ʃɔk.(ə.)lət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔːk.(ə.)lət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑk.(ə.)lɪt/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑk.lət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔk.(ə.)lət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑk.(ə.)lɪt/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈtʃɔk(ɵ)leʈ/
ipa: /ˈtʃokoleɪt/
Forms: form: chocolates
form: chocolating
form: chocolated
form: chocolated
Etymology: Etymology tree
Classical Nahuatl chocolatlbor.
Spanish chocolatebor.
English chocolate
Via Spanish chocolate from a Nahuatl word, widely given as chocolātl (with the second element being a reflex of Classical Nahuatl ātl (“water”)), although such a word does not appear in Nahuatl until the mid-18th century according to Karttunen. Dakin and Wichmann propose chicolātl as the original form (saying it survives in several modern Nahuatl dialects) and say the chicol- element refers to a special wooden stick used to prepare chocolate. Another theory is that the prefix came from Yucatec Maya chocol (“hot”).
Senses: glosses: To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
raw_tags: in the past participle
examples: text: Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.
ref: 1992 August 23, R. Rennie, “Laboratory and Clinical Evaluations of Media for the Primary Isolation of Haemophilus Species”, in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, volume 30, number 8, page 1917:
text: It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.
ref: 2000, Ochei Et Al, Medical Laboratory Science : Theory And Practice, page 843:
text: The mixture is incubated at 75°C until chocolating has taken place.
ref: 2003, Mark A. Herbert, Haemophilus influenzae Protocols, page 73:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.