cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Hawaiʻi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: If confine your Hawaiʻi vacation to resort areas such as Waikiki, Kaʻanapali, or Kona, you are unlikely to see a native honey-creeper. But birds are always around (even sometimes on your breakfast table!) and a little attention to them will broaden your tropical horizons. In this section we will take you on a bird tour of the Hawaiʻi seen by most visitors, and the only Hawaiʻi known to a surprisingly large number of residents, most of whom, after all, dwell in cities and towns.
ref: 1996, H. Douglas Pratt, A Pocket Guide to Hawaiʻi's Birds, Taiwan: Mutual Publishing, →ISBN, page 15:
text: “With the majority of Hawaiʻi’s COVID-19 cases linked to travel, it is critical that we further mitigate the spread of the virus by both residents and visitors who are coming from out-of-state,” Gov. David Ige said in a statement. “This plan was developed in collaboration with our county mayors and Hawaiʻi’s business, community and visitor industry leaders.”
ref: 2020 March 22, David Ige, quotee, “Hawaii to quarantine all arrivals to the state for 14 days”, in AP News, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2020:
text: In November, a 14,000-gallon fuel leak at a Navy storage facility contaminated much of the drinking water on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi, a leak that may cause irreparable damage to the island’s water supplies.
ref: 2022 January 13, Andrea Malji, Michael A. Allen, Carla Martinez Machain, “The Navy’s fuel leak in Hawaiʻi outraged local activists. That’s happened around the globe.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 May 2022, Monkey Cage:
text: With Covid-19 regulations a thing of the past, Hawaiʻi is primed to be a top destination in 2022 thanks to a load of fresh offerings.
ref: 2022 July 1, Will McGough, “Planning a dream trip to Hawai'i? What's new on the islands”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2022, Travel:
text: In the United States, Hawaiʻi offers tourists some of the country’s best volcano-viewing experiences. In fact, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park encompasses two of the world’s most active volcanoes — Kīlauea and Mauna Loa.
ref: 2023 February 22, Grae Gleason, “Tour 6 of Hawaiʻi's volcanoes in this immersive photo gallery”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:
text: Scalloped hammerhead sharks off the Kona coast of Hawaiʻi Island.[…]
Mark Royer, a shark biologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was inspired to investigate the scalloped hammerhead’s secret heating technique after noticing how deep they were diving during a different research project. He attached a package of sensors near the dorsal fins of six hammerheads near Hawaii.
ref: 2023 May 11, Darren Incorvaia, “How Deep-Diving Sharks Stay Warm Will Take Your Breath Away”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2023, Trilobites:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Hawaii: a state of the United States.
wikipedia: National Park Service
Derived terms: Hawaiʻian
Big Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Islands of Hawaii, Pacific, Hawaii, United States; The largest of the Hawaiian Islands, for which the island chain and the state are named.
glosses: An island in Pawtuckaway Lake, New Hampshire, USA.
glosses: An island in Umbagog Lake, New Hampshire, USA.
glosses: An island in the Chemung River, located in Chemung County, New York, USA.
glosses: An island on Woodhull Lake in Herkimer County, New York.
glosses: An island in the Wisconsin River in Wood County, Wisconsin.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Marion County, Ohio, USA.
glosses: A census-designated place in northern Bedford County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: The largest of the Ramea Islands in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A peninsula in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A small, uninhabited island located in Hudson Bay near the community of Puvirnituq, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A small, uninhabited island located in James Bay near the community of Chisasibi, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: Former name of Imiliit (“an uninhabited island in the Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada”).
glosses: Former name of Qikiqtarjuaq (“an uninhabited island located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada”).
glosses: An island in the Bay of Quinte in Lake Ontario, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An island in Chemong Lake, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An island in Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An island in Pigeon Lake, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: Besar Island, an island off the coast of mainland Malacca in Malaysia.
glosses: Te Poho-o-Tairea, an island to the west of Stewart Island in New Zealand.
glosses: Copeland Island, an island in the north Irish Sea, north of Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Synonyms: sense: largest Hawaiian island
word: Hawai'i
sense: largest Hawaiian island
word: Hawaii
sense: largest Hawaiian island
word: Hawaii Island
sense: largest Hawaiian island
word: Hawai'i Island
sense: largest Hawaiian island
word: Island of Hawaii
sense: largest Hawaiian island
word: Island of Hawai'i
Related terms: Hawaii
Hawai'i
Hilo
Kailua-Kona
Kamuela
Kona
Puna
Hilo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Hilo, of uncertain etymology but possibly related to hilo (“to twist”).
Senses: glosses: The largest town on the island of Hawaii, in Hawaii County, Hawaii, located at the eastern corner of the island.
Related terms: Puna District
good day
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: good-day
Senses: examples: text: Good day, gentlemen.
text: Good day, and happineſſe, deere Roſalind.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 200:
synonyms: word: g'day
glosses: A somewhat formal greeting generally used between sunrise and sunset.
examples: text: Perhaps another time. Good day.
text: This is an invitation-only party! Now, good day!
ref: 2012, Mike Cerrone, Bobby & Peter Farrelly, The Three Stooges (motion picture), spoken by Carbunkle (Ray Collins):
glosses: A dismissal; sometimes used to express annoyance.
guten Tag
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German guten Tag.
Senses: glosses: Hello; hullo; good day; good afternoon.
regen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈdʒɛn/
ipa: /ˈɹiːdʒɛn/
Forms: form: regens
Senses: examples: text: The council announced a new project for the urban regen of the waterfront area.
text: After the fire, the community focused on the regen of local businesses.
text: Economic regen has brought new life to the once-declining town.
glosses: Clipping of regeneration.
glosses: A regenerative radio receiver.
topics: automotive
rail-transport
railways
transport
vehicles
glosses: Clipping of regenerative braking.
glosses: A kind of yo-yo trick that adds spin without having to return the yo-yo to the thrower's hand.
Derived terms: bush regen
regen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈdʒɛn/
ipa: /ˈɹiːdʒɛn/
Forms: form: regens
form: regenning
form: regenned
form: regenned
Senses: glosses: Clipping of regenerate.
paedophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paedophilias
Etymology: From paedo- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, really. Blanchard has expanded the DSM's "paraphilia" section (where crimes such as paedophilia and exhibitionism go) to include transvestic disorder.
ref: 2012 December 9, Paris Lees, “Transgender people get a status update”, in The Guardian:
glosses: British standard spelling of pedophilia.
dude
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: do͞od
ipa: /duːd/
ipa: /duːd/
ipa: [dʉːwd]
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖ(j)uɖ/
rhymes: -uːd
other: /j/
other: /dj/
other: [d͡ʒ]
Etymology: Uncertain, though likely a clipping of doodle (“fool, simpleton, mindless person”), perhaps with reference to the fashionable “Yankee Doodle dandy” in the 18th-century lyrics of the song “Yankee Doodle”; the word is first attested in 1883 as a New York City slang term of contempt for a “fastidious man, fop”. If so, then related to German Low German Dudeldop, Dudendop (“fool, dunce”), Saterland Frisian Duddigegen (“idiot”).
It has also been suggested that the word is derived from dudes (“old rags”; compare duds) and dudesman (“scarecrow”), or possibly related to dawdle; It has also been suggested the word derives from the Irish dúid.
The common claim that the term derives from (or is) a word for a camel's foreskin (or some other vulgar thing, like a hair on a cow, horse, donkey, or elephant's bottom) is false.
Senses: examples: text: Dude! You finally called!
text: And, feckin' A, you ain't never gonna guess this one—dude! […] Thinking this is a little worse than me watching porn. Dude.
ref: 2011, Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever: A Novel (The Fever Series; 5), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: mate
glosses: A term of address, usually for a man, conveying awe, excitement, surprise, annoyance, etc.
sherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: sherries
Etymology: Back-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).
Senses: examples: text: He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
examples: text: They produce several quality sherries.
glosses: A variety of sherry.
examples: text: Would you like a sherry?
glosses: A glass of sherry.
Coordinate terms: Madeira
madeira
Marsala
marsala
Porto
port
porto
Derived terms: word: cooking sherry
word: natural sherry
word: sherried
word: sherrylike
word: sherry vinegar
word: washing sherry
Related terms: amontillado
stridulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪdjʊleɪt/
Forms: form: stridulates
form: stridulating
form: stridulated
form: stridulated
Etymology: Back-formation from stridulation. (From earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”))
Senses: examples: text: A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 191:
text: The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note.
ref: 1984, John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick, page 55:
synonyms: chirp
chirr
glosses: To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
Related terms: stridulation
stridulous
stridulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stridulations
Etymology: 1838, from earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”).
Senses: examples: text: The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.
ref: 1994, John Christopher, A Dusk of Demons:
glosses: A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
Related terms: stridulate
stridulous
ramollissement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French ramollissement.
Senses: glosses: A morbid softening of some organ or tissue of the body.
goof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: goofs
Etymology: Perhaps from dialectal English goff (“foolish clown”), from earlier goffe, in which case further etymology is uncertain.
Perhaps from Middle English goffen (“to speak in a frivolous manner”), possibly from Old English gaf, ġegaf (“base; wanton; lewd”, adjective), ġegaf (“buffoonery; scurrility”, noun), gaffetung, golfettung (“buffoonery; mockery”). Compare English dialectal gauffin (“lightheaded; foolish; giddy”), Scots gaff, gawf (“to talk loudly; babble”), Scots gaffaw (“a loud laugh”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Middle French goffe (“awkward; stupid”). Compare also Spanish gofo, Italian goffo.
Senses: examples: text: I made a goof in that last calculation.
synonyms: word: blooper
word: boo-boo
word: error
word: faux pas
word: fluff
word: gaffe
word: lapse
word: mistake
word: slip
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: aberration
word: barbarism
word: bloomer
word: blooper
word: blunder
word: boner
word: boo-boo
word: break
word: clanger
word: cock-up
word: error
word: fault
word: faux pas
word: floater
word: flub
word: fluff
word: fuckup
word: gaffe
word: goof
word: howler
word: inaccuracy
word: lapse
word: lapsus
word: mess-up
word: misstep
word: mistake
word: oopsy
word: screwup
word: slip
word: slip-up
word: slipup
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: wrength
word: solecism
word: erroneity
glosses: A mistake or error.
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
synonyms: word: blooper
word: boo-boo
word: error
word: faux pas
word: fluff
word: gaffe
word: lapse
word: mistake
word: slip
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: aberration
word: barbarism
word: bloomer
word: blooper
word: blunder
word: boner
word: boo-boo
word: break
word: clanger
word: cock-up
word: error
word: fault
word: faux pas
word: floater
word: flub
word: fluff
word: fuckup
word: gaffe
word: goof
word: howler
word: inaccuracy
word: lapse
word: lapsus
word: mess-up
word: misstep
word: mistake
word: oopsy
word: screwup
word: slip
word: slip-up
word: slipup
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: wrength
word: solecism
word: erroneity
glosses: A mistake or error.
An error made during production which finds its way into the final release.
examples: text: Your little brother is a total goof.
glosses: A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.
glosses: A rapist.
goof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: goofs
form: goofing
form: goofed
form: goofed
Etymology: Perhaps from dialectal English goff (“foolish clown”), from earlier goffe, in which case further etymology is uncertain.
Perhaps from Middle English goffen (“to speak in a frivolous manner”), possibly from Old English gaf, ġegaf (“base; wanton; lewd”, adjective), ġegaf (“buffoonery; scurrility”, noun), gaffetung, golfettung (“buffoonery; mockery”). Compare English dialectal gauffin (“lightheaded; foolish; giddy”), Scots gaff, gawf (“to talk loudly; babble”), Scots gaffaw (“a loud laugh”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Middle French goffe (“awkward; stupid”). Compare also Spanish gofo, Italian goffo.
Senses: examples: text: It's my fault. I goofed.
text: GCN is in a sticky situation because we goofed and bought 10 pounds of a type of wax that we cannot use.
ref: 1986 August 9, “Attention Art World”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
glosses: To make a mistake.
examples: text: We were just goofing by painting the neighbor's cat green.
synonyms: goof around
glosses: To engage in mischief.
Derived terms: goof around
goofball
goofer
goofery
goofish
goof off
goof-off
goof on
goofproof
goof up
goofus
goofy
stakeholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪkˌhəʊl.də/
ipa: /ˈsteɪkˌhoʊl.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈstæɪkˌhəʉl.də/
note: some speakers
ipa: [ˈstæɪkˌhɐʉl.də]
ipa: /ˈstæɪkˌhɐʉl.də/
rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stakeholders
Etymology: From stake + holder.
Senses: glosses: A person holding the stakes of bettors, with the responsibility of delivering the pot to the winner of the bet.
topics: law
glosses: A person such as a trustee, escrow agent or garnishee, who holds money or assets under trust for another party in a contractual agreement or as part of a claim.
examples: text: Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce (TVCC) and other stakeholders are now increasingly concerned about the risks of delay and urging progress on a project with a strong economic, commercial and environmental case.
ref: 2019 October, Ruth Bagley tells James Abbott, “Crunch time for Heathrow western link”, in Modern Railways, page 74:
topics: business
glosses: A person or organisation with a legitimate interest (a stake) in a given situation, action or enterprise.
Derived terms: multistakeholder
multi-stakeholder
stakeholder capitalism
stakeholderism
stakeholder society
Related terms: seat at the table
gent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: djent
Forms: form: gents
Etymology: Short for gentleman.
Senses: glosses: A gentleman.
Derived terms: city gent
ladies and gents
Related terms: genteel
gentile
gentle
gent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: djent
Forms: form: more gent
form: most gent
Etymology: From Middle English gent, from Old French gent, ultimately from Latin genitum (“born”).
Senses: examples: text: He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent, / That him againe lou'd in the least degree […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
examples: text: Her body gent and small.
ref: 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Miller’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […], 2nd edition, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860, →OCLC:
glosses: neat; pretty; elegant
gent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: djent
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of gentamicin.
sojourn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈsɒd͡ʒɜːn/
ipa: /ˈsəʊd͡ʒɜːn/
ipa: /ˈsoʊd͡ʒɚn/
note: verb alternatively
ipa: /soʊˈd͡ʒɝn/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)n
rhymes: -ɒdʒɜː(ɹ)n
rhymes: -əʊdʒə(ɹ)n
rhymes: -əʊdʒɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: sojourns
Etymology: From Middle English sojourne (noun) and sojournen (verb), from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).
Senses: examples: text: Better the dark, silent, and fated waves of ocean, than the troubled waves of life. There are some whose sojourn on this earth is brief as it is bitter.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XLIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 367:
text: But if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts of the work could have been written much earlier, perhaps even during his sojourn with his father in Chiang-su.
ref: 1978, Timothy C. Wong, edited by William Schultz, Wu Ching-tzu, Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 30:
text: The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues[…]
ref: 2006, Joseph Price Remington, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science And Practice Of Pharmacy, page 1168:
glosses: A short stay somewhere.
examples: text: Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, 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:
synonyms: word: peregrination
english: abroad, obsolete
translation: abroad, obsolete
glosses: A temporary residence.
Synonyms: abode
Derived terms: sojourn time
sojourn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈsɒd͡ʒɜːn/
ipa: /ˈsəʊd͡ʒɜːn/
ipa: /ˈsoʊd͡ʒɚn/
note: verb alternatively
ipa: /soʊˈd͡ʒɝn/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)n
rhymes: -ɒdʒɜː(ɹ)n
rhymes: -əʊdʒə(ɹ)n
rhymes: -əʊdʒɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: sojourns
form: sojourning
form: sojourned
form: sojourned
Etymology: From Middle English sojourne (noun) and sojournen (verb), from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).
Senses: examples: text: Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 12:30:
text: The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
glosses: To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
Synonyms: word: stay over
word: stop
word: keep
word: lodge
word: quarter
word: sleep over
word: sojourn
word: stay
word: stop off
word: stop over
word: tarry
Hypernyms: word: reside
Hyponyms: word: billet
word: camp
word: house-sit
Related terms: sojourner
sojourney
din
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭn
ipa: /dɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: dins
Etymology: From Middle English dyne, dynne, from Old English dyne, from Proto-West Germanic *duni, from Proto-Germanic *duniz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰún-is, from *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”).
Cognate with English tone, Sanskrit धुनि (dhúni, “sounding”), ध्वनति (dhvánati, “to make a noise, to roar”), Old Norse dynr, Norwegian Nynorsk dynja, Swedish dån, dön.
Senses: examples: text: Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: [B]red to war, / He knew the battle’s din afar, / And joyed to hear it swell.
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Fifth. The Court.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza IV, page 245:
text: How often, hither wandering down,
My Arthur found your shadows fair,
And shook to all the liberal air
The dust and din and steam of town:
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LXXXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 129:
text: The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: So many faces Clive had never seen by daylight, and looking terrible, like cadavers jerked upright to welcome the newly dead. Invigorated by this jolt of misanthropy, he moved sleekly through the din, ignored his name when it was called, withdrew his elbow when it was plucked [...]
ref: 1998, Ian McEwan, Amsterdam, New York: Anchor, published 1999, Part 1, Chapter 1, pp. 9-10:
text: England certainly made a mockery of the claim that they might somehow be intimidated by the Glasgow din. Celtic Park was a loud, seething pit of bias.
ref: 2014 November 18, Daniel Taylor, “England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
Synonyms: word: ballyhoo
word: blast
word: bobbery
word: bombilation
word: charivari
word: clangour
word: clash
word: clatter
word: crash
word: din
word: durdum
word: hubbub
word: hurly
word: noise
word: outcry
word: racket
word: ruckus
word: uproar
word: vociferance
word: vociferation
Hypernyms: word: sound
Hyponyms: word: bang
word: bellow
word: boom
word: clang
word: peal
word: roar
word: shout
word: swell
word: thud
Derived terms: dinful
dinsome
earthdin
Related terms: word: cacophony
din
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭn
ipa: /dɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative spelling of deen (“religion, faith, religiosity”).
Synonyms: word: ballyhoo
word: blast
word: bobbery
word: bombilation
word: charivari
word: clangour
word: clash
word: clatter
word: crash
word: din
word: durdum
word: hubbub
word: hurly
word: noise
word: outcry
word: racket
word: ruckus
word: uproar
word: vociferance
word: vociferation
Hypernyms: word: sound
Hyponyms: word: bang
word: bellow
word: boom
word: clang
word: peal
word: roar
word: shout
word: swell
word: thud
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "din"
word: beth din
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "din"
word: din-din
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "din"
word: din-dins
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "din"
word: dindle
word: cacophony
corned beef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corned beefs
form: corn beef
form: corn-beef
form: cornbeef
form: corned-beef
Etymology: From corn (“to preserve (meat) in coarse corns of salt”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.
Senses: glosses: Smoke-cured and salted beef.
examples: text: Here’s a grocery list of foods Chestnut has eaten competitively, drawn from his Major League Eating bio: apple pie, asparagus, boysenberry pie, brats, burritos, chicken spiedies (a kind of sandwich), chicken wings, chili, corned beef sandwiches, eggs, fish tacos, funnel cake, grilled cheese sandwiches, gyoza, Krystal hamburgers, horseshoe sandwiches, hot dogs, ice cream, jalapeno poppers, kolaches, pastrami sandwiches, Philly cheesesteaks, pierogi, pizza, pork ribs, pulled pork, poutine, salt potatoes, shrimp, tacos, tamales, turkey and Twinkies.
ref: 2015 July 2, Michael Pearson, “6 things to know about hot dog king Joey Chestnut”, in CNN:
glosses: Beef conserved in tins (cans).
examples: text: Steve and I raced for the building and began climbing the wall, before any of the screws knew what was happening. […] The Corned Beef came out first and initiated the ploy to get us down.
ref: 1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz:
glosses: The chief officer of a prison.
Related terms: bully beef
pastrami
smoked meat
salt beef
broomstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹum.stɪk/
Forms: form: broomsticks
form: broom-stick
Etymology: From broom + stick.
Senses: glosses: The handle of a broom (sweeping tool); (sometimes) the entire broom.
examples: text: Witches of all ages attended these lively gatherings by flying away on their broomsticks[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 106:
text: She really was a witch now. No one but a witch could fly a broomstick.
ref: 1997, Diana Wynne Jones, Witch Week:
text: Harry ripped the parcel open and gasped as a magnificent, gleaming broomstick rolled out onto his bedspread. [...] It was a Firebolt, identical to the dream broom Harry had gone to see every day in Diagon Alley.
ref: 1999, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, →ISBN:
text: Greebo, hiccuping occasionally, oozed into his accustomed place among the bristles of Nanny’s broomstick. As they rose above the forest a thin plume of smoke also rose from the castle.
ref: 2002, Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad, page 97:
text: Most people are familiar with the age-old superstition that witches fly on broomsticks to their covens (though they were formerly also reputed to use shovels, cleft sticks, eggshells, ANIMALS and other means of flight).
ref: 2003, David Pickering, Cassell's Dictionary of Superstitions:
glosses: A broom imbued with magic, enabling one to fly astride the handle.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A control stick of an airplane or other vehicle.
examples: text: Gangdem known for the shootings, go ask Ramz – got whooshed with a broomstick.
ref: 2020 January 19, Sin Squad & Mloose, “Don't Ride Back”:
synonyms: boomstick
broom
glosses: A firearm.
Derived terms: broomsticking
broomstickless
broomsticklike
marry over the broomstick
Related terms: witch's besom
witch's broom
broomstick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹum.stɪk/
Forms: form: broomsticks
form: broomsticking
form: broomsticked
form: broomsticked
form: broom-stick
Etymology: From broom + stick.
Senses: examples: text: BATTY: But, Mother Witch, I want to go broomsticking, too.
ref: 1955, Grade Teacher, volume 73, page 14:
text: Cynthia the Witch, whenever she broomsticked back into town would not even be given the chance to lay eyes on my machine or my clothes.
ref: 2006, Brandi Scollins-Mantha, Floaters, page 75:
glosses: To fly on a broomstick, as witches are said to.
scanlation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skænˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: scanlations
form: scanslation
Etymology: Blend of scan + translation
Senses: topics: comics
literature
manga
media
publishing
glosses: The process of scanning and translating foreign-language comics (especially Japanese manga or Korean manhwa) into the translator's language, for free distribution over the Internet.
topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A comic that has been scanned, translated, and with translation overlaid onto the original text to produce a second-language version of the comic; a scanlated comic.
Coordinate terms: fansub
fandub
fanslation
Related terms: scanlate
scanlator
chiaroscuro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˌɑːɹəˈskʊəɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˌkjɑɹəˈsk(j)ʊɹoʊ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəʊ
rhymes: -ʊɹəʊ
Forms: form: chiaroscuros
form: chiaroscuri
form: chiaro-oscuro
form: claro-obscuro
form: chiaro-scuro
Etymology: Mid-17th century, borrowed from Italian chiaroscuro, from chiaro (“clear, bright”) + oscuro (“dark, obscure”).
Senses: qualifier: painting
glosses: An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of strong contrasts between light and dark in order to create the illusion of volume.
qualifier: painting
glosses: A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A woodcut technique in which several woodcut blocks are used to print different shades of a color, or a woodcut print made by this technique.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
synonyms: Rembrandt lighting
glosses: A photographic technique in which one side of the subject, for example a face, is well lit and the other is in shadow.
Coordinate terms: contrast
Derived terms: chiaroscurist
chiaroscuroed
chiaroscuro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˌɑːɹəˈskʊəɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˌkjɑɹəˈsk(j)ʊɹoʊ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəʊ
rhymes: -ʊɹəʊ
Forms: form: more chiaroscuro
form: most chiaroscuro
form: chiaro-oscuro
form: claro-obscuro
form: chiaro-scuro
Etymology: Mid-17th century, borrowed from Italian chiaroscuro, from chiaro (“clear, bright”) + oscuro (“dark, obscure”).
Senses: examples: text: It has been a very chiaroscuro day—lots of sunlight and shadow.
ref: 1913, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 185, Issue 7, page 21:
text: It is cruder than the others, more graphic, less chiaroscuro.
ref: 1962, Charles Neider, The frozen sea: a study of Franz Kafka, page 90:
text: A somewhat " chiaroscuro " effect, which imparts a strong feeling of rotundity to the bronze helmet, is achieved by the artist's bold use of broad hatching along its upper contours.
ref: 1970, Archeologia classica - Volumes 22-23, page 56:
text: 'Rome's a very chiaroscuro city, I've always thought,' said Tom Richardson eventually, sensing that the lull in the conversation was going to be a protracted one.
ref: 1983 -, Max Davidson, The Wolf, page 68:
text: I heard them discussing painting, and the two pictures Veronique had purchased from Allegra's sale: a haunting nude, very chiaroscuro, and another — more colorful and enigmatic — of a woman before a screen, holding an Oriental mask.
ref: 1984, Francesca Stanfill, Shadows and light:
text: To minimize the problem, we used dark skies, very chiaroscuro lighting, and decided that the whole film would take place at night."
ref: 1993, American Cinematographer - Volume 74, page 55:
text: HP, however, preferred the more chiaroscuro quality of the original CD.
ref: 1994, The Absolute Sound - Volume 19, Issues 95-98, page 111:
text: A very chiaroscuro sort of man he was, arm on balcony, staring down into the dusty street below.
ref: 1995, Frank Waters, The Lizard Woman, page 3:
text: At times the image is so chiaroscuro as to be nearly illegible, such that one can only imagine the discussions between Lang and the Technicolor advisors.
ref: 2007, Gerd Gemünden, Mary R. Desjardins, Dietrich Icon, page 265:
text: The shooting bright light from the outside contrasted sharply from the coal black shadows of the interior giving the compound a very chiaroscuro quality.
ref: 2017, P.L. Hawks, I Love Paris:
text: Overhead lights swung wildly around the hole that it had burned through the ceiling. The very walls were warping from heat near the craft, metal panels peeling apart and some of the exposed wiring smoldering or outright aflame. Heat-waves rippled around the room’s camera array, and the white-hot gas that curled up from underneath the shuttle made shadows in the darkened, fiery chamber flicker in stark chiaroscuro.
ref: 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 15, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 275:
glosses: Possessing the qualities of a work of chiaroscuro.
gizzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪzəd/
ipa: /ˈɡɪzɚd/
rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: gizzards
Etymology: From Middle English gyser, geser, from Old French gesier, giser et al. (French gésier), from Latin gigēria.
Senses: examples: text: As fortune has it, kingbirds, like owls, lack a grinding gizzard and regurgitate hard fragments from their meals.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: A specialized organ constructed of thick muscular walls found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans, and used for grinding up food, often aided by particles of stone or grit.
examples: text: "Pushing a man's face into his own breakfast is beyond rules or reason, and deserves a punch in the gizzard."
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 51:
glosses: The (human) stomach.
Derived terms: dotted gizzard shad
fret the gizzard
gizdodo
gizzardless
gizzard shad
gizzard stone
stick in one's gizzard
Related terms: crop
fons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fon
fons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fon
palisade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæ.lɪˈseɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: palisades
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) + -ade.
Senses: glosses: A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
examples: text: We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: Before the clearing had been half crossed the Arabs opened up a withering fire from behind the palisade.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 135:
text: I realize how universal the desire to injure your fellow man is. … Only hear the government of laws and lawyers puts a palisade up. They can injure you a lot, make your life hideous, but they can't actually do you in.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 261:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
glosses: A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.
Derived terms: impalisade
Pacific Palisades
palisade cell
palisade-hedge
palisade mesophyll
palisade parenchyma
palisade tissue
palisade-tree
palisade trench
palisade worm
palisadic
pseudopalisade
Willow Palisade
palisade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæ.lɪˈseɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: palisades
form: palisading
form: palisaded
form: palisaded
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) + -ade.
Senses: examples: text: The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that could not be easily carried, without artillery."
ref: 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte:
text: But where, through the development of trade or any other cause, a good many of them grew up close together within a narrow compass, they gradually coalesced into a kind of compound town; and with the greater population and greater wealth, there was naturally more elaborate and permanent fortification than that of the palisaded village.
ref: 1890, John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States Considered with:
text: They stood at bay in an old palisaded fort.
ref: 1909, John R. Musick, The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story:
text: The ensuing dispute led to a bloody battle on the island, in which the English rushed up to the palisaded fort, began firing in at the portholes, and set fire to the village.
ref: 1957, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Bacon's Rebellion, 1676:
glosses: To equip with a palisade.
obliterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblɪtəɹət/
ipa: /əˈblɪtəɹət/
ipa: /oʊ-/
ipa: [-ɾə-]
ipa: /əˈblɪtəɹət/
ipa: /əˈblɪtəɹət/
ipa: /oʊ-/
ipa: [-ɾə-]
Forms: form: more obliterate
form: most obliterate
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin obliterātus (see more at Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix, of participial origin)).
Senses: examples: text: [G]o to the herald's office, […] and thou shalt find in that office as many records of attainted families, and escheated families, and impoverished and forgotten, and obliterate families, as of families newly erected and presently celebrated.
ref: 1628 January 4 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), John Donne, “Sermon V. Preached at St. Paul’s on Christmas-Day, 1627.”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 90:
text: It may maintain a bright conjecture, againſt a ruſty Truth: a legible poſſeſſion, againſt an obliterate Claime: […]
ref: 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, page 32:
text: And they being in a capacity to forget by reaſon of deſuetude, it vvill be a nevv pleaſure to them to recall to minde their almoſt obliterate ſpeculations.
ref: 1659, Henry More, chapter IV, in The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, book III, paragraph 9, page 374:
text: […] then how swiftly and how wonderfully, he reads all the obscurest and most obliterate inscriptions he finds in his memory; […]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
qualifier: except poetic
glosses: Completely destroyed or erased; effaced, obliterated.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of markings on an insect: difficult to distinguish from the background; faint, indistinct.
Derived terms: word: obliterateness
guesstimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛs.tə.mət/
ipa: [ˈɡɛs.tɪ̈.mɪ̈ʔ(t̚)]
Forms: form: guesstimates
form: guestimate
Etymology: Blend of guess + estimate.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: educated guess
text: I'm not sure how many people were at the festival. My best guesstimate is 50,000.
glosses: An estimate that is hardly any better than a guess, often because it is based on insufficient or unreliable data.
Related terms: guesswork
guesstimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛs.təˌmeɪt/
ipa: [ˈɡɛs.tɪ̈ˌmeɪ̯ʔ(t̚)]
Forms: form: guesstimates
form: guesstimating
form: guesstimated
form: guesstimated
form: guestimate
Etymology: Blend of guess + estimate.
Senses: glosses: To make a guesstimate.
glosses: To make a guesstimate of a specific quantity.
Derived terms: guesstimative
guesstimator
misguesstimate
overguesstimate
underguesstimate
braggadocio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Italianate
ipa: /bɹaɡaˈdoːt͡ʃo/
ipa: /ˌbɹæ.ɡəˈdəʊ.t͡ʃəʊ/
ipa: /ˌbɹæɡ.əˈdoʊ.ʃiˌoʊ/
Forms: form: braggadocios
form: braggadocioes
form: braggadocii
form: braggadose
Etymology: After Braggadocchio, boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps.
ref: 1652, Thomas Urquhart, “Εκσκυβαλαυρον (The Jewel)”, in The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight, Edinburgh: Thomas Maitland Dundrennan, published 1834, →ISBN, page 217:
text: Having received an Inſult from Otho H. W. Luckett, for which he refuſed to make the Reparation demanded―I do declare him a Coward, a Bragadochio, and a Fellow, at whom the ☞ Finger of Contempt ſhould always be pointed.
ref: 1803 September 27, William Chapman, “To The Public”, in The Hornet (Frederick, Maryland):
synonyms: word: blowhard
word: blower
word: blowhard
word: blusterer
word: boaster
word: braggadocian
word: braggadocio
word: braggart
word: bragger
word: bully
word: cacafogo
word: cacafuego
word: cracker
word: gascon
word: huffcap
word: huffer
word: poseur
word: pseud
word: vaunter
glosses: A braggart.
examples: text: He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: He’s also come to be known for his braggadocio about his net worth during his 2016 run.
ref: 2015 August 27, Michael Signer, “What Happens When Donald Trump Stirs Up 'Passionate' Supporters”, in The Atlantic:
text: Russia’s use of social media in America’s 2016 presidential race reflected particularly poorly on Facebook, which was seen as doing too little to stamp out deceptive ads and fake news stories. As for nuclear braggadocio on Twitter, let’s not even go there.
ref: 2018 January 20, Eve Smith, “The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do”, in The Economist:
synonyms: big talk
glosses: Empty boasting.
Derived terms: braggadocian
Related terms: braggadocious
machismo
annihilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnaɪ.ə.leɪt/
Forms: form: annihilates
head_nr: 1
form: annihilating
head_nr: 1
form: annihilated
head_nr: 1
form: annihilated
head_nr: 1
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin annihilātus, perfect passive participle of annihilō (“to reduce to nothing”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
text: But eagerness in this case, as in most others, annihilated its own delight; down came the tottering height, while the disappointed builder found relief for his sorrow in anger—sorrow's best remedy after all.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 237:
head_nr: 1
glosses: To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
head_nr: 1
glosses: To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
examples: text: of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
head_nr: 1
glosses: To treat as worthless, to vilify.
head_nr: 1
glosses: To render null and void; to abrogate.
Synonyms: sense: to reduce to nothing
word: benothing
sense: to reduce to nothing
word: destroy
sense: to reduce to nothing
word: eradicate
sense: to reduce to nothing
word: extinguish
Derived terms: annihilator method
coannihilate
self-annihilate
Related terms: annihilable
annihilation
annihilative
annihilator
annul
nihilism
nihilist
null
nullify
vanquish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/
Forms: form: vanquishes
form: vanquishing
form: vanquished
form: vanquished
Etymology: From Middle English venquysshen, vaynquisshen, borrowed from a conjugated form of Old French veincre, from Latin vincō.
Senses: examples: text: In ſingle Combat thou ſhalt buckle vvith me; / And if thou vanquiſheſt, thy vvords are true, / Othervviſe I renounce all confidence.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 98, column 2:
text: This bold assertion has been so fully vanquish'd in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.
ref: 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation; […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Sheldonian] Theater, →OCLC:
text: They […] vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: To defeat (someone); to overcome.
Related terms: convince
evince
victor
ire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪɹ/
ipa: /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English ire, yre, from Old English īre, ȳre, īr, ȳr, shortened form of īren (“iron”). More at iron.
Senses: examples: text: […] 'Tell I'm rud as the smith makes the pieces of ire; […]
ref: 1806, Richard Polwhele, The Language, Literature, and Literary Characters of Cornwall: with Illustrations from Devonshire, page 25:
text: A ire thing, moore smart by haff, / That zeed var off 's za theene 's a laff, / An' zum zes edden' 'xac'ly saff, / Stan's in th' place ee did.
ref: 1842, George Philip Rigney Pulman, Rustic Sketches; being poems on angling ... in the dialect of East Devon, page 55:
glosses: Iron.