cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
punto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌntəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpʊntəʊ/
Forms: form: puntos
Etymology: From Latin punctum (“point”) via Italian and Spanish punto, from pungō (“to prick, to puncture”). Doublet of point, pointe, ponto, puncto, punctum, and punt.
Senses: examples: text: To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse, to see thee here, to see thee there, to see thee pass thy puncto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
related: word: puncto
glosses: A hit or point.
glosses: A traditional small Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 0.16 mm.
Synonyms: sense: fencing term
word: point
sense: fencing term
word: strike
sense: fencing term
word: hit
sense: unit of length
word: Spanish point
sense: unit of length
english: Spanish contexts
translation: Spanish contexts
word: point
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of length
word: linea (12 puntos)
sense: unit of length
word: dedo (108 puntos)
sense: unit of length
word: pulgada (144 puntos)
Derived terms: sense: a direct or straight hit
word: punto diritto
word: punto reverso
word: punto riverso: a back-handed strike
dos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: do's
Senses: examples: text: With the coming of Monday arrived a new life for David—a curious life full of "don'ts" and "dos." David wondered sometimes why all the pleasant things were "don'ts" and all the unpleasant ones "dos."
ref: 1916, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter VIII, in Just David:
glosses: plural of do
dos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːz/
rhymes: -uːz
ipa: /dəʊz/
ipa: /doʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
ipa: /duːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: do's
Senses: examples: text: In functional harmonic progression, three “Dos” in a row within the Do-Ti test indicate chord changes that can only be this descending third pattern.
ref: 2020, Jennifer Snodgrass, Teaching Music Theory, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 212:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: plural of do
coma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊmə/
enpr: kōʹmə
ipa: /ˈkoʊmə/
rhymes: -əʊmə
homophone: comber (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: comas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).
Senses: examples: text: go into a coma
text: slip into a coma
text: come out of a coma
text: An a aphrodisiac, it results in santonin poisoning, followed by coma and death.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215:
text: I wonder if a person who comes out of a coma feels refreshed and well rested.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:
glosses: A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
Derived terms: comalike
comatic
comatose
coma vigil
coma vigile
dot-coma
food coma
hyperosmolar coma
hyperosmolar hyperglycemic nonketoic coma
induced coma
precoma
pseudocoma
semicoma
turkey coma
Related terms: comatose
persistent vegetative state
brain death
coma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊmə/
enpr: kōʹmə
ipa: /ˈkoʊmə/
rhymes: -əʊmə
homophone: comber (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: comae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
capital letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital letters
Senses: synonyms: big letter
capital
majuscule
upper-case letter
upper case
uppercase
antonyms: lower-case letter
minuscule
small letter
glosses: An upper-case letter (A, B, C, ... as opposed to a, b, c, ...), used for emphasis, for starting sentences and proper names, etc.
Derived terms: in capital letters
Related terms: lowercase
lower case
uppercase
upper case
George
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
Etymology: Name of an early saint, from Middle English George, from Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργῐος (Geṓrgĭos), from γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) Doublet of Jorge and Geevarghese.
The aircraft autopilot sense is probably from George DeBeeson, who patented an early (1931) autopilot system, and/or a reference to the expression let George do it. The Pullman porter sense derives from George Pullman, who hired Black people to staff his sleeping cars, and the patrons of the service seeing the Black people as servants of George Porter, much like how an enslaved person was named after the enslaver.
Senses: synonyms: Golf
qualifier: World War II era; joint US/RAF; World War II era; joint US/RAF
glosses: radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter G.
George
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: Georges
Etymology: Name of an early saint, from Middle English George, from Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργῐος (Geṓrgĭos), from γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) Doublet of Jorge and Geevarghese.
The aircraft autopilot sense is probably from George DeBeeson, who patented an early (1931) autopilot system, and/or a reference to the expression let George do it. The Pullman porter sense derives from George Pullman, who hired Black people to staff his sleeping cars, and the patrons of the service seeing the Black people as servants of George Porter, much like how an enslaved person was named after the enslaver.
Senses: examples: text: Take the Georges, Pew, and don’t stand here squalling.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: A coin bearing King George's profile.
examples: text: […] the King appears to be wearing a George containing the motto inside the gems, as it is in the jewel at Windsor.
ref: 1908, Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, A History of the George Worn on the Scaffold by Charles I, page 93:
glosses: A jewelled figure of St George slaying the dragon, worn by Knights of the Garter.
Derived terms: english: a counterfeit coin
translation: a counterfeit coin
word: George plateroon
Jorge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔː(ɹ)ˈheɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Derived from Spanish and Portuguese Jorge, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios). Doublet of George.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English George.
Derived terms: San Jorge
essay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: sense 1
ipa: /ˈɛs.eɪ/
note: senses 2-4
ipa: /ɛˈseɪ/
rhymes: -ɛseɪ
homophone: ese
homophone: SA (sense 1)
Forms: form: essays
Etymology: Since late 16th century, borrowed from Middle French essay, essai (“essay”), meaning coined by Montaigne at the same time, from the same words with the earlier meanings 'experiment; assay; attempt', from Old French essay, essai, assay, assai, from Latin exagium (“weight; weighing, testing on the balance”), from exigere + -ium.
Senses: examples: text: In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”
ref: 2013 January 24, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017, page 64:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.
glosses: A test, experiment; an assay.
examples: text: My first essay at getting employment was fruitless; but after no small number of mortifying rebuffs from various parties to whom I applied for assistance, I was at last rewarded by a comparative success.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 16:
text: This was Lee's first essay in the kind of offensive-defensive strategy that was to become his hallmark.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 455:
glosses: An attempt.
topics: business
finance
hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.
Derived terms: argumentative essay
automated essay scoring
counteressay
eight-legged essay
essayette
essayic
essayish
essayism
essaykin
essaylet
essaylike
essay mill
essay question
in this essay I will
miniessay
photo-essay
photo essay
video essay
Related terms: assay
essayist
essayistic
essay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: sense 1
ipa: /ˈɛs.eɪ/
note: senses 2-4
ipa: /ɛˈseɪ/
rhymes: -ɛseɪ
homophone: ese
homophone: SA (sense 1)
ipa: /ɛˈseɪ/
note: sense 1
ipa: /ˈɛs.eɪ/
note: senses 2-4
ipa: /ɛˈseɪ/
rhymes: -ɛseɪ
homophone: ese
homophone: SA (sense 1)
Forms: form: essays
form: essaying
form: essayed
form: essayed
Etymology: From Middle French essayer, essaier, from Old French essaiier, essayer, essaier, assaiier, assayer, assaier, from essay, essai, assay, assai (“attempt; assay; experiment”) as above.
Senses: examples: text: Shall we essay a walk on the promenade?
text: He retraced his steps to the front gate, which he essayed to open.
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter II, in The House Behind the Cedars:
text: The train took the slow to branch spur at the north end at a not much slower speed, then essayed the short sharply curved climb with a terrific roar, smoke rising straight from the chimney to a height of some 60 ft., the long train twisting and curling behind.
ref: 1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, page 260:
text: There was the counter, there was the bulletin board, above her the dull sound of music being played over headphones. Something jaunty. She liked the beat. Then the sound of a chair being pushed back, and someone humming as they walked away from her, and she darted up to plunge the bayonet into their kidneys from behind. A followup stroke through the back of the neck, and the second soldier was down. She didn't even stop to see if it was a man or a woman, young or old. There were further hurdles to essay before she reached her destination.
ref: 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
glosses: To attempt or try.
glosses: To move forth, as into battle.
Derived terms: unessayed
narrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæɹətɪv/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈnæɹətɪv/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˈnæɹəɾɪv]
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈnɛɹətɪv/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˈnɛɹəɾɪv]
note: Indic
ipa: /nəˈreʈɪv/
Forms: form: more narrative
form: most narrative
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”).
Senses: glosses: Telling a story.
examples: text: But wise through time, and narrative with age.
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “(please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from)”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: Overly talkative; garrulous.
examples: text: the narrative thrust of a film
text: There is a deep divide in our species. On one side, the narrators: those who are indeed intensely narrative, self-storying, Homeric, in their sense of life and self, whether they look to the past or the future.
ref: 2004 January 10, Galen Strawson, “Review: Making Stories by Jerome Bruner”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of or relating to narration.
Derived terms: grounded narrative inquiry
narratively
narrative present
narrative structure
narrative verdict
narrativise
narrativization
narrativize
nonnarrative
pseudonarrative
seminarrative
semionarrative
narrative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæɹətɪv/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈnæɹətɪv/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˈnæɹəɾɪv]
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈnɛɹətɪv/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˈnɛɹəɾɪv]
note: Indic
ipa: /nəˈreʈɪv/
Forms: form: narratives
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”).
Senses: glosses: The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
glosses: That which is narrated.
examples: text: changing, controlling the narrative
text: Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
text: [Alexandra] Bell challenges the dominant coverage of Brown’s killing with the aim of introducing “a perspective and a narrative which is probably how a lot of people from these communities saw it go down”.
ref: 2017 May 30, Francisco Navas, quoting Alexandra Bell, “'It feels important': the counter-narrative artist challenging how news is reported”, in The Guardian:
text: The posters quickly became embroiled in the interminable battle over narrative in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
ref: 2023 November 10, Chris McGreal, “‘It’s like a fire in the world’: how the Israeli ‘kidnapped’ posters set off a phenomenon and a backlash”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A representation of an event or story in a way to promote a certain point of view.
examples: text: The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling.
text: The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
ref: 2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175:
qualifier: creative writing
glosses: A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work.
Derived terms: antenarrative
antinarrative
counternarrative
cybernarrative
geonarrative
grand narrative
ludonarrative
metanarrative
micronarrative
multinarrative
narrative hook
narrativeless
narrativist
narrativistic
narrativity
narreme
self-narrative
sequential art narrative
subnarrative
Related terms: narrate
narration
narrator
conformateur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conformateurs
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A device for registering the shape of a head so that a precisely-fitting hat may be made.
radians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radian
triliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- (“three”) + Latin litera (“letter”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he philologist may well refuse to accept a body of triliteral roots, developed on a highly artificial and uniform plan, as the ultimate fact in Semitic lexicography.
ref: 1911 December 13, C. J. Ball, “A Study in Biblical Philology”, in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, volume XXXIII, number CCXLIX, London: Society of Biblical Archaeology, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: Of word roots in Afroasiatic languages: consisting of three letters.
triliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triliterals
Etymology: From tri- (“three”) + Latin litera (“letter”) + -al.
Senses: glosses: A word root in an Afroasiatic language that consists of three letters.
Related terms: quadriliteral
quadriliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + literal.
Senses: glosses: Used to describe word roots in Afroasiatic languages which consist of four letters
quadriliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadriliterals
Etymology: From quadri- + literal.
Senses: glosses: A word root in an Afroasiatic language which consists of four letters
Related terms: triliteral
Semitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmɪt.ɪk/
ipa: /səˈmɪt.ɪk/
ipa: [səˈmɪɾ.ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: semitic
form: Shemitic
form: shemitic
Etymology: From Semite + -ic (18th century), from German semitisch, from Ancient Greek Σήμ (Sḗm), from the Hebrew שֵׁם (Šēm, “Shem”), the name of the eldest son of Noah in biblical tradition (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), considered the forefather of the Semitic peoples. Perhaps derived from Akkadian 𒈬 (šumu, literally “name" or "son”). The word was coined and first applied to the Semitic languages by August Ludwig von Schlözer in 1781.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afroasiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.
examples: text: On the other hand, scholars say that the Philistines were an Indo-European people not related to the Semitic Palestinians.
ref: 2008, Gary A. Tobin, The Trouble with Textbooks, page 93:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Semitic.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
Of or pertaining to the descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
Of or pertaining to the Israeli, Jewish, or Hebrew people.
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: Thus we trace ever and again the similarities which are to be found among the Semitic religions.
ref: 1893, George Thomas Bettany, Mohammedanism and Other Religions of Mediterranean Countries, page 45:
text: The Semitic religions (Christianity and Islam) are nationally honored in much of Africa.
ref: 2011, Makau Mutua, Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique, page 114:
text: In contrast to these Semitic religions some religions of Indian origin like Buddhism and Jainism, are pacifist to the extent of banning the killing of animals even for food.
ref: 2005, Xavier William, World Religions, True Beliefs and New Age Spirituality, page 45:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
Of or pertaining to any of the religions which originated among the Semites; Abrahamic.
Semitic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmɪt.ɪk/
ipa: /səˈmɪt.ɪk/
ipa: [səˈmɪɾ.ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: semitic
form: Shemitic
form: shemitic
Etymology: From Semite + -ic (18th century), from German semitisch, from Ancient Greek Σήμ (Sḗm), from the Hebrew שֵׁם (Šēm, “Shem”), the name of the eldest son of Noah in biblical tradition (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), considered the forefather of the Semitic peoples. Perhaps derived from Akkadian 𒈬 (šumu, literally “name" or "son”). The word was coined and first applied to the Semitic languages by August Ludwig von Schlözer in 1781.
Senses: glosses: The Semitic languages in general.
Related terms: anti-Semite
antisemite
anti-semite
antisemitic
anti-semitic
anti-Semitic
antisemitism
anti-semitism
anti-Semitism
pro-semite
prosemite
pro-Semite
prosemitic
pro-semitic
pro-Semitic
prosemitism
pro-semitism
pro-Semitism
Sem
Semite
Semitics
Semitism
Shem
rime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rīm
ipa: /ɹaɪm/
homophone: rhyme
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: rimes
form: riming
form: rimed
form: rimed
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English rim, rime, rym, ryme (“hoar frost; rime”), from Old English hrīm (“frost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm (“rime; hoar frost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą (North Germanic), *hrīmaz, *hrīmô (“rime; hoar frost”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to graze, touch; to streak”).
The verb is derived from the noun. (The Old English equivalent, which did not survive into modern English, was behrīman.)
Cognates
* Middle Dutch riim, rijm, rīm (modern Dutch rijm (“hoar frost”))
* Old Danish *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Danish rim (“hoar frost”))
* Old French rime, rimee (Middle French rime, rimee (“hoar frost”), Anglo-Norman rime, rimee (“hoar frost”))
* Old High German rīm (Middle High German rīm, Bavarian Reim (“dew; fog; light frost”) (dialectal))
* Old Norse hrím (Icelandic hrím, Norwegian rim (“hoar frost”))
* Old Saxon hrīm
* Old Swedish *riim, *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Swedish rim)
* West Frisian rime, rym
Senses: examples: text: ―No more ſhall hoary Boreas, iſſuing forth / VVith Eurus, lead the tempeſts of the North; / Rime the pale Davvn, or veil'd in flaky ſhovvers / Chill the ſvveet boſoms of the ſmiling Hours.
ref: 1791, [Erasmus Darwin], “Canto IV”, in The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. […], London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, part I (The Economy of Vegetation), page 186, lines 311–314:
text: [T]he hoar was a blanching on post and hedge, riming the dykes, […]
ref: 1933 July, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Stratus”, in Cloud Howe, London: Jarrolds Publishers […], →OCLC, page 193:
glosses: To cover (something) with rime (noun sense 1 or sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
examples: text: Oh, London, London! […] the mornings silvery gray, and the multitudinous monuments rimed by years, thunder of hoofs in ways without end, and the silence of mighty parks—Bud lay awake in the nights to think of them.
ref: 1907, Neil Munro, chapter XXXII, in Bud […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 300:
glosses: To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
glosses: Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
Derived terms: word: riming
rime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rīm
ipa: /ɹaɪm/
homophone: rhyme
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: rimes
form: riming
form: rimed
form: rimed
Etymology: A variant of rhyme (noun and verb), from Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical sound in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”, noun), and Middle English rimen, rymen, rim, rime (“to recite or write verse; to sing songs; to tell a story in verse; to fit into verse; (figurative) to agree, make sense”, verb): see further at rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?
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 IV, scene ii], page 125, column 2:
text: VVill you Rime vpon't, / And vent it for a Mock'rie? Heere is one: / Tvvo Boyes, an Oldman (tvvice a Boy) a Lane, / Preſeru'd the Britaines, vvas the Romanes bane.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 393, column 1:
text: How Panurge and the rest rim'd with Poetick Fury [chapter title]
ref: 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], chapter XLVII, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume II, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 5th book, page 418:
text: “He was aye rimin’,” said Miss Newbigging, “about this bonny countryside and the dacent folk that bode in it.”
ref: 1936 July, John Buchan, “Sanctuary”, in The Island of Sheep, London: Hodder and Stoughton, published July 1938, →OCLC, part II (Laverlaw), pages 152–153:
glosses: Archaic spelling of rhyme.
Derived terms: word: rimer
rime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rīm
ipa: /ɹaɪm/
homophone: rhyme
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: rimes
form: riming
form: rimed
form: rimed
Etymology: From Middle English rimen, rime (“to count, enumerate”) [and other forms], from Old English rīman, rȳman (“to count, number, reckon; to calculate, compute, count up; to enumerate, recount; to account, esteem as”) (rare), from Proto-Germanic *rīmijaną, *rīmaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Indo-European *(a)rēy- (“to add; to count; to customize; to order, regulate”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to arrange; to count”), ultimately from *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix; to slot”), and thus a doublet of rhyme.
Senses: synonyms: enumerate
glosses: Followed by up: to count (something); to number, to reckon.
rime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rīm
ipa: /ɹaɪm/
homophone: rhyme
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: rimes
form: riming
form: rimed
form: rimed
Etymology: From Middle English rimen, rime (“to clear (a way); to make room for (something); to open up (something); to prepare (something)”) [and other forms], from Old English rīman, rȳman (“to make roomy, enlarge, extend, spread, widen; to make clear by removing obstructions, to clear a way, clear, open up; to amplify; to prolong”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *rūmijan (“to clear out, make room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmijaną (“to clear out, make room”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewh₁- (“to open; wide”). Doublet of room.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ream.
To enlarge (a hole), especially using a tool such as a reamer.
glosses: Synonym of ream.
To remove debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole or a pipe) using a tool.
Derived terms: english: to enlarge (a hole), etc.
translation: to enlarge (a hole), etc.
word: ream
word: rimer
rime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rīm
ipa: /ɹaɪm/
homophone: rhyme
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: rimes
form: riming
form: rimed
form: rimed
Etymology: From Irish ruaim, from Old Irish rúam (“alder tree; alder bark; dye for wool made from alder bark; dun or red colour”) (probably whence Irish ruaimnigh, Old Irish rúamnaigid (“to dye red”)); further etymology unknown.
Senses: glosses: To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.
Derived terms: word: riming
rime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rīm
ipa: /ɹaɪm/
homophone: rhyme
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: rimes
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English rim (“cleft, crack, fissure”), from Latin rīma (“chink, cleft, crack, fissure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)reyH- (“to cut; to tear”). Doublet of rima.
The verb is derived from Latin rīmārī, the present active infinitive of rīmor (“to explore; to probe; to search”), from rīma (see above) + -or.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he ſevvet of oxen […] is alſo good againſt the inflammation of the eares, the ſtupidity and dulneſſe of the teeth, the running of the eyes, the vlcers and rimes of the mouth, and ſtiffneſſe of the neck.
ref: 1607, Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner]; Edward Topsell, “Of Cowes”, in The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 83:
text: [T]hough birds have no Epiglottis, yet can they ſo contract the rime or chinck of their Larinx, as to prevent the admiſſion of vvet or dry ingeſted, […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Passage of Meate and Drinke”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 4th book, paragraph 10, page 198:
glosses: A narrow aperture or opening; a chink, a crack, a fissure; a rent, a rip.
Related terms: rima
rime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rīm
ipa: /ɹaɪm/
homophone: rhyme
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: rimes
form: riming
form: rimed
form: rimed
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English rim (“cleft, crack, fissure”), from Latin rīma (“chink, cleft, crack, fissure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)reyH- (“to cut; to tear”). Doublet of rima.
The verb is derived from Latin rīmārī, the present active infinitive of rīmor (“to explore; to probe; to search”), from rīma (see above) + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Our act was, with finger, and nail, and eye, to rime into every jot of it [a case]; and our words were—'I am sure there is something inside. If not, it would open sensibly.'
ref: 1877, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, “Hermetically Sealed”, in Erema: Or My Father’s Sin […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: Followed by into: to probe, to pry.
coda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.də/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.də/
ipa: /ˈkəʉ.də/
ipa: /ˈkɐʉ.də/
rhymes: -əʊdə
homophone: coder (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: codas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian coda (literally “tail”), from Latin cauda. Doublet of queue and cola.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: finale
coordinate_terms: chorus
refrain
glosses: A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
examples: text: The word “salts” has three consonants — /l/, /t/, and /s/ — in its coda, whereas the word “glee” has no coda at all.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: auslaut
antonyms: anlaut
onset
holonyms: rime
syllable
coordinate_terms: inlaut
glosses: The optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
examples: text: Downstairs, a little later, in the drawing room, the coda of the party was unwinding, and Gerald opening new bottles of champagne as though he made no distinction between the boring drunks who "sat," and the knowing few of the inner circle, gathered round the empty marble fireplace.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier.
text: Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."
ref: 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 39:
glosses: A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.
glosses: A series of clicks used by sperm whales for communicating with each other.
Derived terms: codaless
codalike
d.c. al coda
Related terms: vowel
𝄌
coda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.də/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.də/
ipa: /ˈkəʉ.də/
ipa: /ˈkɐʉ.də/
rhymes: -əʊdə
homophone: coder (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: codas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of CODA.
stare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stâr
ipa: /stɛɚ/
ipa: /stɛə/
ipa: /steː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /steə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /stiə/
ipa: /steɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /stɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: stair
homophone: steer (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: stir (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: stares
Etymology: From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-.
Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.
Senses: examples: text: the stares of astonished passers-by
text: Who's that lounging in my chair? / Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?
ref: 1997, “Sex and Candy”, performed by Marcy Playground:
glosses: A persistent gaze.
Derived terms: Antarctic stare
death stare
fluoride stare
Gen Z stare
Generation Z stare
hundred-yard stare
Kubrick stare
thousand-mile stare
thousand-yard stare
stare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stâr
ipa: /stɛɚ/
ipa: /stɛə/
ipa: /steː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /steə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /stiə/
ipa: /steɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /stɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: stair
homophone: steer (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: stir (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: stares
Etymology: From Middle English star, ster, from Old English stær (“starling”), from Proto-Germanic *starô (“starling”), from Proto-Indo-European *stor- (“starling”).
Cognate with German Star (“starling”), Danish stær (“starling”), Swedish stare (“starling”), Norwegian Nynorsk stare (“starling”), Icelandic stari (“starling”). Compare also Old English stearn (“a type of bird, starling”).
Senses: examples: text: The Stares be bigger than thoſe in England, as blacke as Crovves, being the most troubleſome, and injurious bird of all others, pulling up the cornes by the roots, vvhen it is young, […]
ref: 1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 29:
synonyms: common starling
European starling
glosses: A starling.
Related terms: stare decisis
nor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nô
ipa: /nɔː/
enpr: nôr
ipa: /nɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: gnaw (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: nors
Etymology: From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of NOR.
Coordinate terms: and
nand
or
xor
fubar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of FUBAR.
fubar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fubars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foobar.
wank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: wanks
form: wanking
form: wanked
form: wanked
Etymology: Origin unknown. First known use as a verb is 1905, as a noun 1948. Perhaps compare regional slang term wang, whang (“to whack or beat”). Compare Dutch wanken (“to move back and forth; move with the hands”).
Senses: examples: text: I was so embarrassed when my mother caught me wanking.
text: She wanked me in the morning.
synonyms: word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To argue in an inappropriate manner or about pretentious or insubstantial matters; to engage in wank.
Related terms: word: wanker
word: wankery
word: wankfest
word: wanky
word: wank off
wank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: wanks
Etymology: Origin unknown. First known use as a verb is 1905, as a noun 1948. Perhaps compare regional slang term wang, whang (“to whack or beat”). Compare Dutch wanken (“to move back and forth; move with the hands”).
Senses: examples: text: He’s having a wank!
synonyms: word: jerk off
word: toss
word: tug
word: fingering
word: celebrating Palm Sunday
word: choking the chicken
word: ham shank
word: hand shandy
word: Hand Solo
word: ipsation
word: jacking off
word: jerking off
word: lone rangering
word: manustupration
word: mastupration
word: masturbation
word: milking the sausage
word: onanism
word: peeling the cucumber
word: pocket pool
word: polishing the jewels
word: romancing the bone
word: secret vice
word: self-abuse
word: self-defilement
word: self-love
word: self-pleasure
word: self-pollution
word: shaking hands with the milkman
word: shaking out the curtains
word: solitary vice
word: spanking the monkey
word: tossing off
word: wank
glosses: An act of masturbation.
examples: text: You utter wank! How could you behave like that?
glosses: An undesirable person.
examples: text: This opera is wank.
text: Did you see that thing on Channel 4? Yeah, it was wank.
text: I do sell a lot of wank, don't I?
ref: 2000, Dylan Moran, “Cooking the Books”, in Black Books, season 1, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Fran (Tamsin Greig):
glosses: Nonsense, rubbish.
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: wankery
glosses: Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or unsubstantial.
examples: text: Sometimes those involved in the wank will attempt to steer discussion by disguising themselves with a different user name and posting their own support.
ref: 2010, Karen Hellekson, “History, the Trace, and Fandom Wank”, in Heather Urbanski, editor, Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric, page 64:
text: As we've seen, the wank that broke out at the very first Supernatural fan convention (Asylum) in Coventry, UK in 2007 was partly inspired by Jensen Ackles' joke about Wincest.
ref: 2011, Katherine Larsen, Lynn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 156:
text: The general mission of Twankhard was to highlight various wanks in the fandom and cultivate anon-based discussion of them.
ref: 2013, "AngstGoddess", quoted in Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, unknown page
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Drama, turmoil, or disagreement within a fannish space.
Derived terms: danger wank
fanwank
posh wank
tit wank
wank bank
wank sock
wankstain
only
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊn.li/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈəʊn.i/
ipa: /ˈɑːn.li/
ipa: /ˈoʊn.li/
ipa: [ˈoːn.li]
ipa: [ˈɔːn.lɪ]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈonli/
note: Indic
ipa: /(w)ɵnˈli/
note: "one-ly"
ipa: /ˈwanli/
rhymes: -əʊnli
Forms: form: onely
form: onlie
Etymology: From Middle English oonly, only, from Old English ānlīċ, ǣnlīċ (“only; singular; solitary”), from Proto-Germanic *ainalīkaz, equivalent to one + -ly. Cognate with obsolete Dutch eenlijk, German ähnlich (“similar”), Old Norse álíkr, Swedish enlig (“unified”). Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.
Senses: examples: text: You're welcome to borrow my bicycle, only please take care of it.
qualifier: clause-initial
glosses: Introduces a clause with negative polarity, often one which upsets the listener's expectations.
Under the condition that; but.
examples: text: I would enjoy running, only I have this broken leg.
text: She would get good results only she gets nervous.
text: You look like me, only shorter.
text: […] and pleasant it was, only for the dust.
ref: 1664 April 22, The Diary of Samuel Pepys:
text: And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 8:28:
qualifier: clause-initial
glosses: Introduces a clause with negative polarity, often one which upsets the listener's expectations.
But, except; but in fact.
Related terms: if only
only
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊn.li/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈəʊn.i/
ipa: /ˈɑːn.li/
ipa: /ˈoʊn.li/
ipa: [ˈoːn.li]
ipa: [ˈɔːn.lɪ]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈonli/
note: Indic
ipa: /(w)ɵnˈli/
note: "one-ly"
ipa: /ˈwanli/
rhymes: -əʊnli
Forms: form: onlys
form: onlies
form: onely
form: onlie
Etymology: From Middle English oonly, only, from Old English ānlīċ, ǣnlīċ (“only; singular; solitary”), from Proto-Germanic *ainalīkaz, equivalent to one + -ly. Cognate with obsolete Dutch eenlijk, German ähnlich (“similar”), Old Norse álíkr, Swedish enlig (“unified”). Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes, secondborns marry onlys and the conflicts are similar.
ref: 1995, Don Martin, Maggie Martin, Pat Jeffers, Is Your Family Making You Fat?, page 101:
text: The consistent finding […] that infants who are onlies do not differ from those who have siblings despite their lesser history of exposure to differential treatment is perplexing.
ref: 2013, Sybil L. Hart, Maria Legerstee, Handbook of Jealousy:
text: And in 2016, researchers in China took MRI brain scans and found that, compared with kids with siblings, onlies showed greater flexibility—a measurement of creativity—but lower agreeableness.
ref: 2022 November 1, Chiara Dello Joio, “Why Are People Weird About Only Children?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: An only child.
only
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊn.li/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈəʊn.i/
ipa: /ˈɑːn.li/
ipa: /ˈoʊn.li/
ipa: [ˈoːn.li]
ipa: [ˈɔːn.lɪ]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈonli/
note: Indic
ipa: /(w)ɵnˈli/
note: "one-ly"
ipa: /ˈwanli/
rhymes: -əʊnli
Forms: form: onely
form: onlie
Etymology: From Middle English oonly, only, from Old English ānlīċ, ǣnlīċ (“only; singular; solitary”), from Proto-Germanic *ainalīkaz, equivalent to one + -ly. Cognate with obsolete Dutch eenlijk, German ähnlich (“similar”), Old Norse álíkr, Swedish enlig (“unified”). Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.
Senses: examples: text: Just need to replace the filter only.
text: “No, you must listen to me,” the other replied. “I am Goh Chok Tong.”
“I am the President, even bigger than you.”
“President only! I am president of all the countries of the world!”
ref: 2022, Daren Shiau, chapter VIII, in Heartland, Ethos Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: that's all
word: nia
glosses: Placed at the end of a sentence to emphasize that something is trivial, small, undemanding or deserving of belittlement.
Related terms: word: what
word: lah1–14
word: lor2–3
word: lor1
word: ah6–7
word: leh1–2
word: mah
word: leh3–6
word: one1–3
word: hor1
word: know
word: nia
word: sia
word: hor2
word: ah1–3
word: hah1–3
word: meh
word: ba2
word: leh7–11
word: ba1
word: liao
word: already
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: Gupta
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: A. F. (1992)
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: in
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: volume 18
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: number 1
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: →DOI
multiplication sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiplication signs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any symbol (in particular ×, * or ·) used to denote the operation of multiplication.
Related terms: division sign
minus sign
plus sign
division sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: division signs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any symbol (in particular ÷, / or : ) used to denote the operation of division.
Coordinate terms: minus sign
multiplication sign
plus sign
Related terms: fraction bar
theme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θiːm/
rhymes: -iːm (for all senses)
rhymes: -iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only)
Forms: form: themes
Etymology: From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.
Senses: examples: text: "Had not you once a beautiful daughter, named Mary?" said the stranger.
"It is a heartrending question, man," said Andrew; "but certes, I had once a beloved daughter named Mary."
"What became of her?" asked the stranger.
Andrew shook his head, turned round, and began to move away; it was a theme that his heart could not brook.
ref: 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
glosses: A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
examples: text: variations on the theme of entrepreneurial resourcefulness
glosses: A recurring idea; a motif.
A concept with multiple instantiations.
examples: text: switch to a dark theme to conserve battery power
glosses: A recurring idea; a motif.
Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
synonyms: colorway
examples: text: Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.
ref: 1917, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
text: […] his themes and exercises were in constant demand for what we called cogging and American students rather grandly called plagiarization.
ref: 1979, Tri-Quarterly, numbers 46-47, page 273:
glosses: An essay written for school.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
video-games
glosses: A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: An additional puzzle within the crossword, typically involving a set of non-standard clues or answers.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The stem of a word.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: rheme
comment
glosses: Topic, what is generally being talked about.
glosses: A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
Related terms: thema
thematic
thematisation
thematise
theme music
theme park
theme song
theme tune
theme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θiːm/
rhymes: -iːm (for all senses)
rhymes: -iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only)
Forms: form: themes
form: theming
form: themed
form: themed
Etymology: From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.
Senses: examples: text: We themed the birthday party around superheroes.
glosses: To give a theme to.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).