cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nightingale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/
Forms: form: nightingales
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nyghtyngale, nightingale, niȝtingale, alteration (with intrusive n) of nyghtgale, nightegale, from Old English nihtegala, nihtegale (“nightingale; night-raven”, literally “night-singer”), from Proto-West Germanic *nahtigalā (“nightingale”), equivalent to a compound of night + gale. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noachtegoal (“nightingale”), Dutch nachtegaal (“nightingale”), German Low German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), Danish nattergal (“thrush nightingale”), Swedish näktergal (“nightingale”), Icelandic næturgali (“nightingale”).
Senses: examples: text: Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine eare
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 68, column 2:
text: Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like the nightingale in love with the roſe.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:
text: The oaks around were the home of a tribe of nightingales.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine
High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose
That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.
ref: 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:
text: The air, too, was heavy with perfume, and a nightingale, high in the heavens, gave out a cheery song of welcome.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 222:
glosses: A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.
Synonyms: philomel
Derived terms: Ceylon nightingale
Chinese nightingale
common nightingale
Dutch nightingale
fen nightingale
Indian nightingale
Irish nightingale
Japanese nightingale
mock nightingale
nightingale finch
nightingale floor
nightingale of the East
nightingale-thrush
nightingale-wren
Palestine nightingale
Persian nightingale
Scotch nightingale
thrush nightingale
Virginia nightingale
nightingale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/
Forms: form: nightingales
Etymology: Named after Florence Nightingale.
Senses: glosses: A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.
guinea fowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪni ˌfaʊl/
Forms: form: guinea fowls
form: guinea fowl
form: Guinea fowl
form: guinea-fowl
form: guineafowl
Etymology: Named after Guinea as it was imported from there.
Senses: examples: text: A tiny white head with a small red wattle hanging from its beak was peeking into our tent. It whistled softly. I laughed. A guinea fowl.
ref: 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 273:
glosses: Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges.
examples: text: While Lawrence had given her the uncut version of his divorce, she had stolidly munched her way through a vast plate of guinea fowl stuffed with foie gras, boulangère potatoes and a wigwam of French beans.
ref: 1998, Judy Astley, chapter 13, in Every Good Girl, Leicester: Ulverscroft, published 1999, →ISBN, page 211:
text: To the right is a long table housing a mouth-watering buffet of roast duck on platters, surrounded by smaller plates of guinea fowl, French bread, cold meats, and egg segments.
ref: 2012, Lynda Renham, chapter 33, in Croissants and Jam: A Romantic Comedy, 2nd edition, [Combe]: Raucous Publishing, →ISBN, page 272:
text: The waiter reappeared with plates of guinea fowl, baked with pancetta and apples.
ref: 2015, M[ary] L[ou] Longworth, “M. Verlaque Senior Ventures Beyond the Place des Vosges”, in The Mystery of the Lost Cézanne (Verlaque and Bonnet Mysteries; 5), New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: The meat of this bird.
Derived terms: black guineafowl
crested guineafowl
helmeted guineafowl
plumed guineafowl
vulturine guineafowl
white-breasted guineafowl
tit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: tits
Etymology: Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
Senses: glosses: A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
tit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: tits
form: titting
form: titted
form: titted
Etymology: Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
Senses: examples: text: Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?
ref: 1897 [1607], John Webster, “Northward Hoe”, in The Dramatic Works of John Webster, page 203:
glosses: To strike lightly, tap, pat.
examples: text: they would vpbraid me therewith calling me idle Drone; Titting and flouting at me, that I should offer to sit downe at boord with cleane hand.
ref: 1623, James Mabbe, The Rogue: Or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, translation of Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán:
glosses: To taunt, to reproach.
great tit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪt tɪt/
Forms: form: great tits
form: Great Tit
form: Great tit
form: great-tit
Senses: glosses: A bird in the Paridae family, Parus major.
peacock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpikɑk/
ipa: /ˈpiːkɒk/
Forms: form: peacocks
Etymology: From Middle English pecok, pekok, pocok, pacok, equivalent to pea (“peafowl; peacock”) + cock. Compare Old Norse páfugl (“peacock”, literally “pea-fowl”), and English peahen, peachick, etc.
Senses: examples: text: The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:
coordinate_terms: turkeycock
glosses: A male peafowl, especially Pavo cristatus, notable for its brilliant iridescently ocellated tail.
glosses: A peafowl (of the genus Pavo or Afropavo), either male or female.
synonyms: turkeycock
glosses: A pompous or vainglorious person [from the 14th c.].
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various Asian species of papilionid butterflies of the genus Papilio.
Synonyms: topics: ornithology
biology
natural-sciences
word: peafowl
Hyponyms: english: young peafowl
translation: young peafowl
word: peachick
english: female peafowl
translation: female peafowl
word: peahen
Derived terms: East Atlantic peacock wrasse
European peacock
giant peacock moth
Indian peacock
meacock
Peacock Alley
peacock bass
peacock blue
peacock butterfly
peacock chair
peacock copper
peacockery
peacock fish
peacock flounder
peacock flower
peacocking
peacockish
peacockism
peacock jumping spider
peacocklike
peacock mantis shrimp
peacock mite
peacock moth
peacock ore
peacock parachute spider
peacock-pheasant
peacock pheasant
peacock spider
peacockwise
peacock worm
peacocky
proud as a peacock
peacock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpikɑk/
ipa: /ˈpiːkɒk/
Forms: form: peacocks
form: peacocking
form: peacocked
form: peacocked
Etymology: From Middle English pecok, pekok, pocok, pacok, equivalent to pea (“peafowl; peacock”) + cock. Compare Old Norse páfugl (“peacock”, literally “pea-fowl”), and English peahen, peachick, etc.
Senses: examples: text: A routine border-check in upstate New York had turned into a back-room interrogation, and I was worried, because the three friends I was traveling with didn’t respond to authority well. I could almost hear the wry grins cracking their faces as the officers peacocked. “Is U.S. Customs a joke to you?” one officer asked. My friend Alex said, “No law against smiling, sir.”
ref: 2014 May 30, Will Butler, “The Mark of Cane”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: To strut about proudly or haughtily.
glosses: To engage in peacocking, ostentatious dress or behaviour to impress women.
Related terms: pajock
butterfly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/
ipa: [ˈbʌ.ɾɚ.flaɪ]
ipa: [ˈbʌ.tə.flaɪ]
Forms: form: butterflies
form: butterflying
form: butterflied
form: butterflied
Etymology: From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English buterflēoge, equivalent to butter + fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey-thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-excretor”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.
An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been Old English butor- (“beater”), a mutation of bēatan (“to beat”), but this would not explain the cognates in other languages or the other names formed with milk products.
Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).
Senses: examples: text: butterflied shrimp
text: Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
glosses: To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
examples: text: After everyone had obeyed his commands, the lieutenant motioned for two medics that now appeared to enter the room and attend to Dr. Carter. They bandaged him up, butterflying some of the deeper gashes and gave him a couple of shots.
ref: 2006, Paul Garber, Newton's Force, page 256:
glosses: To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
examples: text: Pearl Harbor not happening would've butterflied Taylor Swift.
glosses: To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
raw_tags: of the point of divergence of an alternate history scenario
Related terms: caterpillar
flutterby
moth
rumor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹumɚ/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rumors
form: rumour
Etymology: From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumeur, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewH- (“to shout, to roar”).
Senses: examples: text: There's a rumor going round that he's going to get married.
text: vile rumor
text: a rumor going round
text: vicious rumors
text: spread a rumor
glosses: A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.
examples: text: They say he used to be a thief, but that's just rumor.
glosses: Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims.
examples: text: It stands a city aloof. There hath been no rumour of it—I alone have dreamed of it, and I may not be sure that my dreams are true.
ref: 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Report, news, information in general.
glosses: Fame, reputation.
glosses: Clamor, din, outcry.
Synonyms: sense: information of questionable accuracy
word: gossip
sense: information of questionable accuracy
word: hearsay
sense: information of questionable accuracy
word: talk
sense: information of questionable accuracy
word: tittle-tattle
word: bruit
word: buzz
word: fame
word: moot
word: on dit
word: rumor
word: sough
word: muttering
word: noise
word: tale
word: word
word: word on the street
word: word on the wire
word: whisper
word: whispering
Hypernyms: word: information
word: talk
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from rumor (noun)
word: all rumors are true
sense: Terms derived from rumor (noun)
word: playground rumor
sense: Terms derived from rumor (noun)
word: rumor campaign
sense: Terms derived from rumor (noun)
word: rumor has it
sense: Terms derived from rumor (noun)
word: rumor mill
sense: Terms derived from rumor (noun)
word: rumormonger
Related terms: word: rumour has it
word: the story goes
word: tattle
rumor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹumɚ/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rumors
form: rumoring
form: rumored
form: rumored
form: rumour
Etymology: From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumeur, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewH- (“to shout, to roar”).
Senses: examples: text: John is rumored to be next in line for a promotion.
glosses: To tell a rumor about; to gossip.
raw_tags: used in the passive voice
rumour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹuːmɚ/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rumours
Etymology: From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”).
Senses: examples: text: Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: "Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.
ref: 1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
text: I myself gave support to the summoning of the Estates General ... as merely mistaken . Similarly it might be held that Paradise originated in a rumour invented in hell to make society the more interesting . ' ' We need a saviour .
ref: 1969, Peter Vansittart, Pastimes of a Red Summer: A Novel, Owen, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 140:
text: Dame Rumour outstrides me yet again.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 18:
glosses: British, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor.
examples: text: Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.
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 II, scene iv], page 18:
glosses: A prolonged, indistinct noise.
rumour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹuːmɚ/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rumours
form: rumouring
form: rumoured
form: rumoured
Etymology: From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”).
Senses: examples: text: Two of the four main routes over the Border were rumoured to be threatened with withdrawal of, or heavy cuts in, passenger services.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Drastic cuts in Scotland?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 644:
glosses: Commonwealth standard spelling of rumor.
hierarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɑː(ɹ).ki/
Forms: form: hierarchies
Etymology: From Middle English ierarchie, jerarchie, from Old French ierarchie, jerarchie, from Late Latin ierarchia, from Latin hierarchia, from Ancient Greek ἱεραρχία (hierarkhía, “rule of a high priest”), from ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs, “high priest”), from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “I rule”), equivalent to hiero- + -archy. The H was re-added c. 1500 due to influence from Classical Latin.
Senses: examples: text: Gay men and bisexuals were blamed for the [AIDS] epidemic for much the same reason that the church hierarchy in the Middle Ages accused Jewish people of creating bubonic plague by "poisoning the wells."
ref: 2007 May 26, Leslie Feinberg, “Care & prevention, not repression”, in Workers World:
text: The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
ref: 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023:
glosses: A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
examples: text: Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many. Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.
ref: 2023 June 7, Charles Hugh Smith, Look Around and What Do You See? Social Defeat, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023:
glosses: A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
examples: text: ... the surviving portions provide enough detail to outline its principal features: the hierarchy of beings to whom his liturgy was to be addressed (we previously considered Plethon's hierarchy of gods in our examination of his Summary[…]
ref: 2017 June 1, Peter Mark Adams, The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola-Busca Tarocchi, Scarlet Imprint, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
Derived terms: antihierarchy
arithmetical hierarchy
arithmetic hierarchy
Chomsky hierarchy
command hierarchy
hierarchial
hierarchism
hierarchy of effects
Kleene hierarchy
Kleene-Mostowski hierarchy
Lévy hierarchy
phonological hierarchy
polyhierarchy
subhierarchy
superhierarchy
time hierarchy theorem
Related terms: hierarch
hierarchic
hierarchical
hierarchically
hierarchization
hierarchize
holarchy
thearchy
impose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpəʊz/
ipa: /ɪmˈpoʊz/
ipa: /ɪmˈpəʉz/
ipa: /əmˈpɐʉz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: imposes
Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English imposen (“to place, set; to impose (a duty, etc.)”), borrowed from Middle French imposer, and Old French emposer, enposer (“to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”) (modern French imposer), from im-, em- (variants of en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’)) + poser (“to place, put”), modelled after:
* Latin impōnere (“to place or set (something) on; (figurative) to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘on, upon’)) + pōnō (“to place, put; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *tḱey- (“to cultivate; to live; to settle”)); and
* Latin impositus (“established; put upon, imposed”), the perfect passive participle of impōnō: see above.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: According to your Ladiſhips impoſe, / I am thus early come, to knovv vvhat ſeruice / It is your pleaſure to command me in.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 34, column 1:
glosses: An act of placing or putting on something chiefly immaterial, especially something regarded as burdensome as a duty, a task, etc.; an imposition.
power
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯.ə/
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈpʰaə]
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈpʰaː]
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈpʰɑː]
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯ɹ/
ipa: [ˈpʰaʊ̯ɚ]
ipa: [ˈpʰaʊ̯ɹ]
ipa: /ˈpæʊ̯.ə/
ipa: [ˈpʰæʊ̯ə]
ipa: [ˈpæɔ̯ə]
ipa: [ˈpʰɛəː]
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯.(ə)ɹ/
ipa: [p(ʰ)äʊ̯(ə)ɹ]
ipa: /ˈpʌʊ̯.(ə)ɹ/
ipa: [p(ʰ)əw(ə)ɹ]
rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: powers
form: powering
form: powered
form: powered
form: powre
Etymology: From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.
Senses: examples: text: This CD player is powered by batteries.
glosses: To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
examples: text: United keeper Edwin van der Sar was the unlikely provider as his clearance found Rooney, who had got ahead of last defender Richard Dunne, and the forward brilliantly controlled a ball coming from over his shoulder before powering a shot past Brad Friedel.
ref: 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC:
glosses: To hit or kick something forcefully.
examples: text: Abdul Sattar Edhi came to Karachi as a poor man from an Indian village in 1947. Starting with a small pharmacy tent, his work rapidly expanded, powered by donations from ordinary citizens.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To enable or provide the impetus for.
examples: text: Playing with freedom and no fear, Ashleigh Barty has powered into the Australian Open third round without even a coach. Barty clubbed China’s Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time.
ref: 2019 January 16, “Ashleigh Barty loses coach but wins latest Australian Open encounter”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To move or advance with great force or speed.
Derived terms: bepower
depower
empower
outpower
overpower
power ahead
power down
power off
power on
power through
power up
repower
underpower
unpower
power
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯.ə/
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈpʰaə]
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈpʰaː]
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈpʰɑː]
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯ɹ/
ipa: [ˈpʰaʊ̯ɚ]
ipa: [ˈpʰaʊ̯ɹ]
ipa: /ˈpæʊ̯.ə/
ipa: [ˈpʰæʊ̯ə]
ipa: [ˈpæɔ̯ə]
ipa: [ˈpʰɛəː]
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯.(ə)ɹ/
ipa: [p(ʰ)äʊ̯(ə)ɹ]
ipa: /ˈpʌʊ̯.(ə)ɹ/
ipa: [p(ʰ)əw(ə)ɹ]
rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more power
form: most power
form: powre
Etymology: From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.
Senses: examples: text: Check out the POWER Mee Rebus & Lontong in this newly established Nasi Padang coffee shop at Market Street Carpark.
ref: 2001, Thian, Makan Time:
text: Their performance is very the Power!
ref: 2005, Bayya, Bayya Eats ... and Other Stuff:
text: His hokkien is damn power lah!
ref: 2010, Caihong Lim, Kesheng Lim, Footprints All Over: Love, Happiness,Joy:
text: Eh his soccer skills damn power one.
ref: 2015, SGMOJI, Your Ultimate Guide to Locally-Grown Emojis, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
glosses: Impressive.
power
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯.ə/
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈpʰaə]
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈpʰaː]
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈpʰɑː]
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯ɹ/
ipa: [ˈpʰaʊ̯ɚ]
ipa: [ˈpʰaʊ̯ɹ]
ipa: /ˈpæʊ̯.ə/
ipa: [ˈpʰæʊ̯ə]
ipa: [ˈpæɔ̯ə]
ipa: [ˈpʰɛəː]
ipa: /ˈpaʊ̯.(ə)ɹ/
ipa: [p(ʰ)äʊ̯(ə)ɹ]
ipa: /ˈpʌʊ̯.(ə)ɹ/
ipa: [p(ʰ)əw(ə)ɹ]
rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: powre
Etymology: From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.
Senses: glosses: Used as a cheer to express support
Related terms: more power to someone
proportionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: prə-pôʹshə-nət
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔːʃənət/
enpr: prə-pôrʹshə-nət
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənət/
enpr: prə-pôʹshə-nāt
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔːʃəneɪt/
enpr: prə-pôrʹshə-nāt
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔɹʃəneɪt/
Forms: form: more proportionate
form: most proportionate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōportiōnātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, proportion + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: What is proportionate to his transgression.
ref: 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:
antonyms: disproportionate
nonproportionate
unproportionate
glosses: In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
glosses: Harmonious and symmetrical.
Derived terms: proportionately
proportionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prə-pôʹshə-nət
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔːʃənət/
enpr: prə-pôrʹshə-nət
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənət/
enpr: prə-pôʹshə-nāt
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔːʃəneɪt/
enpr: prə-pôrʹshə-nāt
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔɹʃəneɪt/
Forms: form: proportionates
form: proportionating
form: proportionated
form: proportionated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōportiōnātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, proportion + -ate.
Senses: glosses: To make proportionate.
Related terms: apportion
proportion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/
ipa: /pɹəˈpɔːʃən/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /pɹəˈpo(ː)ɹʃən/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /pɹəˈpoəʃən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃən
Forms: form: proportions
form: proportioning
form: proportioned
form: proportioned
Etymology: From Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion.
Senses: examples: text: In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty.
ref: 1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237:
glosses: To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
glosses: To form symmetrically.
topics: art
arts
glosses: To set or render in proportion.
glosses: To correspond to.
outcome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtkʌm/
Forms: form: outcomes
Etymology: From out + come.
Senses: examples: text: A quality automobile is the outcome of the work of skilled engineers and thousands of workers.
synonyms: fate
glosses: That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process.
examples: text: Three is a possible outcome of tossing a six-sided die.
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.
examples: text: The outcomes of this course are outlined in your syllabus.
topics: education
synonyms: learning objective
glosses: The anticipated or desired results or evidence of a learning experience (often used in the phrase learning outcomes).
examples: text: Spain failed to move through the gears despite exerting control for lengthy spells and a measure of perspective must be applied immediately to the outcome.
ref: 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The scoreline; the result.
Derived terms: outcome delivery
outcome variable
pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛzənt/
rhymes: -ɛzənt
Forms: form: pheasants
Etymology: From Middle English fesaunt, fesant, from Old French fesan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φᾱσιανός (phāsianós), meaning “[bird] of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)”, from where, it was supposed, the bird spread to the west. Replaced native Old English wōrhana, a variant of mōrhana. More at moorhen.
Senses: examples: text: The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:
text: Or sometimes, passing too near a sequestered copse, the shy tenants were startled, and the superb plumage of the pheasant dashed aside the branches, and the stately bird soared up on rattling wing.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.
examples: text: Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock.
ref: 1989, Allan Gurganus, “Black, White, and Lilac”, in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, book two (Time Does That), page 231:
text: Célestin Lainé sat on the edge of the bed, a tray on his lap, eating pheasant and roast vegetables with a red wine reduction.
ref: 2013, Stuart Neville, chapter 30, in Ratlines, New York, N.Y.: Soho Crime, →ISBN, page 158:
text: Bring a dish of berries with cream to me there. Bread, too. And a slice of pheasant.
ref: 2015, Shauna Roberts, chapter 41, in Ice Magic, Fire Magic, Overland Park, Kan.: Hadley Rille Books, →ISBN, page 266:
glosses: The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
Derived terms: Amherst pheasant
argus pheasant
Billingsgate pheasant
blood pheasant
cheer pheasant
Chinese pheasant
college pheasant
common pheasant
crow pheasant
Elliot's pheasant
golden pheasant
green pheasant
Impeyan pheasant
Japanese pheasant
kalege pheasant
kalij pheasant
khalege pheasant
Lady Amherst's pheasant
peacock-pheasant
peacock pheasant
pea-pheasant
pheasant berry
Pheasant coronavirus
pheasant coucal
pheasant cuckoo
pheasantless
pheasantlike
pheasant pigeon
pheasantry
pheasant's eye
pheasant shell
pheasant-tailed jacana
pheasant under glass
pheasantwood
reed pheasant
Reeves's pheasant
ring-necked pheasant
sea pheasant
sea-pheasant
silver pheasant
Swinhoe's pheasant
magpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɡˌpaɪ/
Forms: form: magpies
Etymology: From Mag, a nickname for Margaret that was used to denote a chatterer, + archaic pie (“magpie”), from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker, magpie”). Displaced native Old English agu, "magpie".
Senses: synonyms: word: maggie
word: Eurasian magpie
word: European magpie
word: common magpie
word: pica
word: pie
word: piet
glosses: One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
glosses: A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen, in the family Artamidae.
examples: text: Not only is Mr. Booker a voracious magpie (who does not always acknowledge the sources of his ideas), but he also turns out to be an annoyingly biased and didactic one.
ref: 2005 April 15, Michiko Kakutani, “The Plot Thins, or Are No Stories New?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects.
glosses: A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The third circle on a target, between the inner and outer.
glosses: A halfpenny.
examples: text: Kitty and I were engaged. The next day I met those accursed “magpie” Jhampanies at the back of Jakko, and, moved by some passing sentiment of pity, stopped to tell Mrs. Wessington everything.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 12:
text: The worst part of my experience in this magpie livery was yet to come, for I was to appear in it the next day at church.
ref: 1889, Henry White, The Record of My Life: An Autobiography, Cheltenham: Henry White, page 60:
glosses: A pattern resembling the pied plumage of a magpie.
Derived terms: word: Australian magpie Cracticus tibicen
word: Gymnorhina tibicen
taxonomic: Cyanopica cyanus
word: azure-winged magpie
taxonomic: Strepera spp.
word: bell-magpie
taxonomic: Pica hudsonia
word: black-billed magpie
taxonomic: Platysmurus leucopterus
word: black magpie
taxonomic: Urocissa spp.
word: blue magpie
taxonomic: Pica pica
word: Eurasian magpie
taxonomic: Cissa spp.
word: green magpie
taxonomic: Pica pica
word: holarctic magpie
taxonomic: Cyanopica cooki
word: Iberian magpie
taxonomic: Pica sericea
alt: syn. Pica pica sericea
word: Korean magpie
word: Magpie Festival
taxonomic: Anseranas semipalmata
word: magpie goose
taxonomic: Coprinopsis picacea
word: magpie inkcap
word: magpieish
taxonomic: Cyanocorax colliei
alt: C. formosus
word: magpie-jay
taxonomic: Grallina cyanoleuca
word: magpie-lark
word: magpielike
word: magpie moth
taxonomic: Copsychus spp.
word: magpie-robin
alt: Urolestes melanoleucus
word: magpie shrike
taxonomic: Cissopis leverianus
word: magpie tanager
taxonomic: Grallina cyanoleuca
word: Murray magpie
taxonomic: Pica serica
word: oriental magpie
taxonomic: Haematopus spp.
word: sea-magpie
taxonomic: Pica nuttalli
word: yellow-billed magpie
magpie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɡˌpaɪ/
Forms: form: magpies
form: magpieing
form: magpied
form: magpied
Etymology: From Mag, a nickname for Margaret that was used to denote a chatterer, + archaic pie (“magpie”), from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker, magpie”). Displaced native Old English agu, "magpie".
Senses: examples: text: The little rail-enclosed plots that lay between the pavements and the hotels were magpied with torn paper […]
ref: 1914, Oliver Onions, Mushroom Town, New York: George H. Doran, Part 4, Chapter 3, pp. 292-293:
text: […] she stood at the window and saw the lake blue with spring and a few patches of snow that magpied the hills.
ref: 1952, Michael McLaverty, chapter 15, in Truth in the Night, Dublin: Poolbeg, published 1986, page 179:
text: […] they looked down upon Highmost Redmanhey, timber and plaster magpied by the moon, and a lamp in the window of the room where Susan lay.
ref: 1963, Alan Garner, chapter 8, in The Moon of Gomrath, New York: Collins, published 1979, page 64:
text: […] young Inspector Cruse arrived at the Dun Cow, entering through a door tricked out as Tudor and set into a façade magpied with white paint and nailed-on beams […]
ref: 1979, Jack S. Scott, chapter 6, in A Clutch of Vipers,, New York: Harper & Row, page 76:
synonyms: mottle
glosses: To mark with patches of black and white or light and dark.
examples: text: […] she liked to be able to have a picturesque fact or two with which to support herself when she too, to hold attention, wanted to issue moving statements as to revolutions, anarchies and strife in the offing. And she had noticed that when she magpied Tietjens’ conversations more serious men in responsible positions were apt to argue with her and to pay her more attention than before....
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., Part 2, Chapter 1:
text: “I had to borrow those photographs Aunt Nettie was storing in her closet.”
“Isn’t that interesting?” May said. “I have to say, I never did understand why Mrs. Hatch asked me to magpie them out of the library.”
ref: 1999, Peter Straub, chapter 131, in Mr. X, New York: Random House, page 469:
text: I have magpied from here and there, borrowing influences from Morocco, Greece, Italy and my notebooks to end up with a handful of easy little dishes that complement each other.
ref: 2012, Alice Hart, Friends at My Table, London: Quadrille, page 175:
glosses: To steal or hoard (items) as magpies are believed to do.
examples: text: He knew how people were magpieing with their malicious chatter that she had committed the cardinal sin of believing love was permanent […]
ref: 1978, Jean Rikhoff, Where Were You in ’76?, New York: Richard Marek Publishers, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 28:
synonyms: chatter
gossip
glosses: To talk idly; to talk about other people's private business.
green woodpecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹinˈwʊdpɛkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: green woodpeckers
Senses: examples: text: His skin was scarlet like the head of the green woodpecker.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 19:
synonyms: green-peak
popinjay
yaffle
yarrow
glosses: Any of species Picus viridis of European woodpeckers.
alpine chough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈalpaɪn ˈtʃʌf/
Forms: form: alpine choughs
form: Alpine Chough
form: Alpine chough
Senses: examples: text: In a sense these sections form refrains to the two couplets, in which two types of material are used: birdsong, consisting of the calls and cries of the alpine chough and the raven, and passages representing the flight of the alpine chough and the flight of the golden eagle.
ref: 1989, Robert Sherlaw Johnson, Messiaen, page 138:
text: The alpine chough was seen by Edmund Hillary on his way to the summit of Mount Everest at 28,000 feet, and I believe it is likely that the little cache of biscuits and candy placed on the summit by Tensing Norkay in May, 1953, was visited by alpine choughs on their patrols in search of human debris.
ref: 2000, Lawrence W. Swan, Tales of the Himalaya: Adventures of a Naturalist, page 97:
text: 2002, Chough, entry in Maurice Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Chickaree - crabs, 3rd Edition, page 451,
Red-billed and alpine choughs live in mountainous regions, but while the latter is strictly a montane species, the former also occurs at lower altitudes. In most countries where both species are found the alpine chough is more numerous.
glosses: A species of bird in the crow family (Corvidae) (Pyrrhocorax graculus), that breeds locally in the highest mountains of southern Europe, the Alps, across central Asia and India.
turtle dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːtəldʌv/
ipa: /ˈtɝtəldʌv/
Forms: form: turtle doves
form: turtle-dove
form: turtledove
Etymology: From Middle English turtildove, turteldoufe (cognate with Old High German turtultūba, turtulatūba, turtiltūba, Middle High German turteltūbe, türteltūbe, German Turteltaube; German Low German Turtelduuv, Dutch tortelduif, Faroese turtildúgva, Icelandic turtildúfa), Danish turteldue, Norwegian Bokmål turteldue, Norwegian Nynorsk turteldue, Swedish turturduva. The first element is from Latin turtur (“turtledove”) (compare the archaic synonym turtle (“turtle dove (bird)”); the word is not related to turtle (“reptile with a shell”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several (species of) birds, called by this traditional name, mainly in the genus Streptopelia, of the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons, which also included the extinct passenger pigeon, dodo, and solitaire).
examples: text: Out for their evening constitutional. A lovely pair of turtledoves. Around the jolly corner, and off to the park.
ref: 1961, 101 Dalmatians:
glosses: A lover or couple as a pair.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Streptopelia hypopyrrha
word: Adamawa turtle dove
word: Australian turtle dove
taxonomic: Streptopelia capicola
word: Cape turtle dove
taxonomic: Zenaida macroura
word: Carolina turtle dove
taxonomic: Streptopelia lugens
word: dusky turtle dove
word: Eurasian turtle dove
taxonomic: Streptopelia turtur
word: European turtle dove
taxonomic: Spilopelia senegalensis
word: laughing turtle dove
word: Madagascar turtle dove
taxonomic: Nesoenas picturatus
word: Malagasy turtle dove
taxonomic: Streptopelia orientalis
word: oriental turtle dove
taxonomic: Streptopelia lugens
word: pink-breasted turtle dove
taxonomic: Streptopelia tranquebarica
word: red turtle dove
taxonomic: Streptopelia orientalis
word: rufous turtle dove
taxonomic: Spilopelia chinensis
word: spotted turtle dove
taxonomic: Zenaida macroura
word: western turtle dove
owl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊ(ə)l/
rhymes: -aʊl
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: owls
form: owling
form: owled
form: owled
Etymology: From Middle English oule, owle, from Old English ūle, from Proto-West Germanic *uwwilā, from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare West Frisian ûle, Dutch uil, Danish and Norwegian ugle, German Eule), diminutive of *uwwǭ (“eagle-owl”) (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Old English ūf or hūf, Swedish uv (“horned owl”), Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up- (compare Latvian ũpis (“eagle-owl”), Czech úpět (“to wail, howl”), Avestan 𐬎𐬟𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬨𐬌 (ufiieimi, “to call out”). A Germanic variant *uwwilǭ was the source of Old High German ūwila (German Eule).
Senses: glosses: To smuggle contraband goods.
tawny owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔːni aʊl/
Forms: form: tawny owls
Senses: glosses: Any of species Strix aluco of strigid owls, of Europe, western Asia, and the Middle East.
starling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stär′lĭng
ipa: /ˈstɑɹ.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɑː.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Forms: form: starlings
Etymology: From Middle English starling, sterling, sterlinge, from Old English stærling, from stær (“starling”) + -ling (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck (“starling”).
Senses: glosses: A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
examples: text: Vast flights of starlings, fleeing the racket, beat across the sky at high speed, like Squall-clouds,— Evening at Noon-tide.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 52, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 501:
glosses: A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
synonyms: word: European starling
word: stare
qualifier: hydraulic engineering
glosses: An enclosure like a coffer-dam, formed of piles driven closely together, before any work or structure as a protection against the wash of the waves, commonly used to protects the piers of a bridge.
synonyms: sterling
glosses: One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater.
synonyms: boregat
bodieron
glosses: A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.
Derived terms: word: amethyst starling
word: common starling
taxonomic: Sturnus vulgaris
word: European starling
word: New Zealand starling
word: pied starling
word: plum-colored starling
word: plumcoloured starling
word: plum-coloured starling
word: rose-colored starling
word: rose-coloured starling
taxonomic: Pastor roseus
word: rosy starling
taxonomic: Sturnus unicolor
word: spotless starling
word: violet-backed starling
black grouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæk ɡɹɑʊs/
Forms: form: black grouse
form: black grouses
Senses: examples: text: The shy black grouse, “with an eye on every feather,” can only thrive in vast, absolutely undisturbed heath and moorlands. Therefore, unfortunately, there are not too many black grouse.
ref: 1979, Rien Poortvliet, translated by Marlies Comjean, “The Black Grouse”, in The Living Forest: A World of Animals, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Peacock Press/Bantam Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A large, black bird with a lyre-shaped tail, Lyrurus tetrix (syn. Tetrao tetrix).
Hyponyms: sense: Lyrurus tetrix
word: blackcock
sense: Lyrurus tetrix
word: heath cock
sense: Lyrurus tetrix
word: grey hen
sense: Lyrurus tetrix
word: greyhen
sense: Lyrurus tetrix
word: heath hen
capercaillie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæpəˈkeɪli/
ipa: /kæpɚˈkeɪli/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: capercaillies
form: capercailye
form: capercaillye
form: capercailzie
form: capercally
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots capercailzie (for the -z-, see Mackenzie and tailzie), a corruption of Scottish Gaelic capall (“horse”) + coille (“of the woods”).
Senses: glosses: A large, black grouse of the genus Tetrao in the bird family Phasianidae, especially the western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus.
Synonyms: sense: Tetrao urogallus
word: wood grouse
Derived terms: black-billed capercaillie
western capercaillie
blackbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblakbəːd/
ipa: /ˈblækˌbɚd/
rhymes: -ækbə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: blackbirds
Etymology: From Middle English blakebird, blacbrid (“ouzel; Eurasian blackbird”), equivalent to black + bird.
Senses: glosses: A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
glosses: A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).
qualifier: among slavers and pirates
glosses: A native of the South Pacific islands.
Synonyms: sense: Turdus merula
word: common blackbird
sense: Turdus merula
word: Eurasian blackbird
sense: Turdus merula
word: merle
sense: Turdus merula
word: merl
sense: Turdus merula
word: ouzel
sense: Icteridae
word: icterid
Derived terms: word: blackbirder
word: blackbirding
word: blackbirdlike
word: Blackbird Leys
word: skunk blackbird
word: Michaelmas blackbird
taxonomic: Agelaioides oreopsar
word: Bolivian blackbird
taxonomic: Agelaius assimilis
word: red-shouldered blackbird
taxonomic: Agelaius phoeniceus
word: red-winged blackbird
taxonomic: Agelaius humeralis
word: tawny-shouldered blackbird
taxonomic: Agelaius tricolor
word: tricolored blackbird
taxonomic: Agelaius xanthomus
word: yellow-shouldered blackbird
word: Agelaius
taxonomic: Agelasticus thilius
word: yellow-winged blackbird
taxonomic: Agelasticus cyanopus
word: unicolored blackbird
taxonomic: Agelasticus xanthophthalmus
word: pale-eyed blackbird
word: Agelasticus
taxonomic: Amblyramphus holosericeus
word: scarlet-headed blackbird
taxonomic: Chrysomus ruficapillus
word: chestnut-capped blackbird
taxonomic: Chrysomus icterocephalus
word: yellow-hooded blackbird
word: Chrysomus
taxonomic: Anumara forbesi
alt: syn. Curaeus forbesi
word: Forbes's blackbird
taxonomic: Curaeus curaeus
word: austral blackbird
word: Curaeus
taxonomic: Dives warczewiczi
word: scrub blackbird
taxonomic: Ptiloxena atroviolaceus
alt: syn. Dives atroviolaceus
word: Cuban blackbird
taxonomic: Dives dives
word: melodious blackbird
word: Dives
taxonomic: Euphagus cyanocephalus
word: Brewer's blackbird
taxonomic: Euphagus carolinus
word: rusty blackbird
word: Euphagus
taxonomic: Gnorimopsar chopi
word: Chopi blackbird
taxonomic: Gymnomystax mexicanus
word: oriole blackbird
taxonomic: Nesopsar nigerrimus
word: Jamaican blackbird
taxonomic: Sturnella militaris
word: red-breasted blackbird
taxonomic: Sturnella superciliaris
word: white-browed blackbird
word: Sturnella
taxonomic: Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
word: yellow-headed blackbird
taxonomic: Xanthopsar flavus
word: saffron-cowled blackbird
word: New World blackbird
taxonomic: Turdus boulboul
word: grey-winged blackbird
taxonomic: Turdus albocinctus
word: white-collared blackbird
taxonomic: Turdus simillimus
word: Indian blackbird
taxonomic: Turdus maximus
word: Tibetan blackbird
word: Turdus
word: Old World blackbird