cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
arithmetic mean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmetic means
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: average (often synonymous when not otherwise specified, but see the usage note)
text: The arithmetic mean of 3, 6, 2, 3 and 6 is (3#43;6#43;2#43;3#43;6)#92;div 5#61;4.
topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
statistics
synonyms: mean[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]] synonymous>
arithmetic average
average
hypernyms: mean
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average
coordinate_terms: geometric mean
harmonic mean
quadratic mean
weighted mean
;
median
;
mode
glosses: The measure of central tendency of a set of values computed by dividing the sum of the values by their number.
Hypernyms: measure of central tendency
Pythagorean mean
geometric mean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geometric means
Senses: examples: text: The geometric mean of 2, 4 and 1 is √ = 2
text: The geometric mean of the arithmetic mean and the harmonic mean is the geometric mean. In symbols: if A(x,y)#61;#123;x#43;y#92;over 2#125;, H(x,y)#61;#123;2xy#92;overx#43;y#125;, and G(x,y)#61;#92;sqrt#123;xy#125;, then G(A(x,y),H(x,y))#61;#92;sqrt#58;Template#58;x#43;y#92;over 2#125;#92;cdot#123;2xy#92;overx#43;y#61;#92;sqrt#123;xy#125;#61;G(x,y).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A measure of central tendency of a set of n values computed by extracting the nth root of the product of the values.
Hypernyms: measure of central tendency
Pythagorean mean
Coordinate terms: arithmetic mean
harmonic mean
quadratic mean
median
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiː.dɪən/
ipa: /ˈmi.di.ən/
ipa: /ˈmiː.dɪən/
ipa: [ˈmɪi.di.ən]
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French median, from Latin mediānus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”). Doublet of mean and mizzen. Cognate with Old English midde, middel (“middle”). More at middle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: medial
mesial
glosses: Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
examples: text: Cellariiform, the orifices nearly confined to the convex frontal and lateral surfaces; the basal surface with a strong median calcareous keel, almost concealed by a flat membranous epitheca, which covers the whole zoarium […]
ref: 1957, Sidney Frederic Harmer, The Polyzoa of the Siboga Expedition, page 1106:
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Having the median as its value.
Derived terms: admedian
antemedian
anterior median fissure
anteromedian
antimedian
basomedian
bimedian
caudomedian
centromedian
dorsomedian
externomedian
extramedian
inframedian
internomedian
intramedian
median age
median effective time
median egret
median eminence
median lethal time
median line
medianly
median plane
median strip
median survival time
median system
nonmedian
paramedian
posteriomedian
posteromedian
postmedian
pseudomedian
submedian
supramedian
transmedian
ventromedian
Related terms: average
mean
mode
key off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keys off
form: keying off
form: keyed off
form: keyed off
Senses: examples: text: This logic keys off the user's social security number.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To take something as a controlling input datum.
examples: text: She keyed off the ignition and went into the house.
glosses: To turn off something (e.g. a car) using a key.
hot cross bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: hot cross buns
Senses: glosses: A bun, made with yeast and containing spices, currants and candied fruit, with a cross marked on the top, traditionally eaten on Good Friday in Christian countries.
Good Friday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Good Fridays
Etymology: From good (“holy”); compare good tide to refer to Christmas or Shrovetide (e.g. Goodtyde and Gudtyde in some British dialects), Good Wednesday, and the Good Book to refer to the Bible. Earlier called Old English Langa-Friġedæġ (“Long Friday”).
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: Holy Week < Eastertime
text: But Good Friday soon restored to lord Nelville all those religious emotions, the want of which he so much regretted on the preceding days.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book X. Holy week.] Chap[ter] IV.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 43:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: Holy Friday
Great Friday
Golden Friday
Black Friday
Pasch of the Cross
related: word: Palm Sunday
word: ;
word: Holy Monday
word: ;
word: Holy Tuesday
word: ;
word: Holy Wednesday
word: Good Wednesday
word: Spy Wednesday
word: ;
word: Holy Thursday
word: Maundy Thursday
word: Green Thursday
word: Sheer Thursday
word: White Thursday
word: ;
word: Holy Saturday
word: Black Saturday
glosses: The Friday before Easter Sunday, the commemoration of the day on which Christ was crucified.
Derived terms: Good Friday grass
Good Friday plant
crucify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuːsɪfaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: crucifies
form: crucifying
form: crucified
form: crucified
Etymology: From Middle English crucifien, from Old French crucefier, from Late Latin crucificō, from Latin crucifigō.
Senses: glosses: To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
examples: text: After his public gaffe, he was crucified in the media.
text: Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
ref: 1896 July 9, William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold speech
text: I crucify myself, nothing I do is good enough for you / I crucify myself every day
ref: 1992, Tori Amos, “Crucify”:
glosses: To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
examples: text: West Ham beat Manchester City five nil–they crucified them!
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.
Derived terms: crucifiable
decrucify
recrucify
Related terms: cross
crucifix
crucifixion
crucifixional
crux
crucifixion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹuːsɪˈfɪkʃən/
Forms: form: crucifixions
Etymology: From Middle English crucifixioun, from Late Latin noun of process crucifīxiō, from perfect passive participle crucifīxus (“fixed to a cross”), from crux (“cross”) + fīgō.
Senses: examples: text: Rome used crucifixions as a deterrent, and standard for the 'vilest' crimes, such as slave rebellion.
text: Centurion: Stabbed? Takes a second. Crucifixion lasts hours! It's a slow, horrible death! / Matthias: Well, at least it gets you out in the open air.
ref: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian:
glosses: An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
topics: Christianity
glosses: An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
The death of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The military punishment of being tied to a fixed object, often with the limbs in a stretched position.
examples: text: The suspects' hostile interrogation amounted to a public crucifixion.
glosses: An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.
Derived terms: crucifixional
crucifixionary
crucifixionlike
crucifixion thorn
recrucifixion
Related terms: crucify
crucifix
crucifix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuː.sɪˌfɪks/
Forms: form: crucifixes
Etymology: From Middle English crucifix, from Old French crocefis (French crucifix), from Latin crucifixus.
Senses: synonyms: cross
glosses: A wooden structure used for crucifixions, as by the Romans.
examples: text: Plain crosses are preferred by Protestants, but crucifixes by Catholics.
synonyms: cross
glosses: An ornamental or symbolic sculptural representation of Christ on a cross, often worn as a pendant or displayed in a Christian church.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The iron cross, a position on the rings where the gymnast holds the rings straight out on either side of the body.
Derived terms: crucifixlike
crucifix position
crucifix toad
lily crucifix
Related terms: crucifixion
crucify
pence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛns/
ipa: /pəns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Etymology: 14th century contraction of penies (“pennies”), collective plural of penny.
Senses: glosses: plural of penny (the subunit of the pound sterling or Irish pound).
Derived terms: eighteenpence
eightpence
elevenpence
fifteenpence
fivepence
fourpence
fourteenpence
ninepence
nineteenpence
penceless
sevenpence
seventeenpence
sixpence
sixteenpence
tenpence
thirteenpence
threepence
thruppence
twelvepence
twentypence
twopence
tuppence
meme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mēm
ipa: /miːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: memes
form: memeing
form: meming
form: memed
form: memed
Etymology: Shortened from mimeme, equivalent to mime + -eme.
Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Shortened (after gene) from mimeme (compare English phoneme), anglicized as if from a noun derived from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) with the deverbal suffix -μα (-ma), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitation, copy”). The concept was later applied to the Internet by Mike Godwin.
Senses: examples: text: One axiom commonly seen on /pol/ is "The Left Can't Meme"; in other words, left-wing meme jokes aren't funny.
ref: 2018, Eric W. Saeger, Russian Nazi Troll Bots!:
glosses: To create and use humorous memes.
examples: text: Scott Greer, a deputy editor of the Daily Caller, tweeted, “Cernovich memed #SickHillary into reality. Never doubt the power of memes.”
ref: 2016 October 31, Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump”, in The New Yorker, retrieved 02 Dec 2017:
text: David Moyes succeeding Slaven Bilić as West Ham United manager is being memed into existence by the internet, Football Burp understands.
ref: 2017 November 6, “David Moyes to West Ham “memed into existence by the internet””, in Football Burp, retrieved 02 Dec 2017:
text: “Succession’s language is so specific, unique and captivating that nearly every line is worthy of being ‘memed’, even if it’s just somebody saying ‘fuck off’ or ‘bad tweet!’” she says.
ref: 2022 September 22, Jess Thomson, “‘Becoming a meme totally helps a show’: is TV being written with epic gifs in mind?”, in The Guardian:
text: In my experience the films that typically get memed are either really terrible (Madame Web), so huge that they’re everywhere (Barbie), or have a cast stacked with familiar faces so the memes cast a wide net for potential sharing.
ref: 2024 March 5, Gabriella Paiella, quoting Messineo, “Why ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Became One of the Most Memed Films of the Year”, in GQ:
synonyms: memeify
glosses: To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve a goal in real life.
examples: text: actually, it wasn't my mental functioning. i'm just meming.
ref: 2004 May 17, you, “Truth vs. Lies”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
text: “[P]ewdiepie is, once again, doing exactly what neo-nazis want,” Kotaku reporter Nathan Grayson commented on Twitter in response to the incident. “[W]hether he’s just meming or he ascribes to these values, it doesn’t matter. [W]hat matters is that he normalizes these ideas as jokes on THE platform where kids increasingly get their first exposure to the world at large.”
ref: 2018 December 13, Aja Romano, “YouTube’s most popular user amplified anti-Semitic rhetoric. Again.”, in Vox:
text: Some of his fellow fascists thought he was just “meming and pranking”; others dismissed it as “some autistic phase.”
ref: 2019, Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, →ISBN:
glosses: To joke around.
Derived terms: meme on
meme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mēm
ipa: /miːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: memes
Etymology: From French mémé (“granny”).
Senses: examples: text: When my parents got a divorce my dad washed his hands of my mom and me. He just pretended neither she nor I existed. If it weren't for my Meme, I would have lost all contact with the Atwood family after the divorce.
ref: 2011, David G. Atwood II, Into Hell I Rode, page 32:
text: Then there was my Meme, my father's mother. She was one of the most wonderful, loving, craziest, funniest people I ever had in my life.
ref: 2014, Sarah O'Malley, Touching the Edge of Heaven, page 3:
qualifier: term of endearment
glosses: granny; nana
shilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: shillings
Etymology: From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill + -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling.
Senses: examples: text: A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
glosses: A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.
glosses: The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
glosses: A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
qualifier: New York and some other states
glosses: The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.
Synonyms: word: bob
word: generalise
word: gen
word: hog
word: Abraham's willing
word: deener
Derived terms: King's shilling
look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
poor man's shilling
Queen's shilling
shilling mark
shilling shocker
shilling sign
shillingsworth
take the shilling
tenpence to the shilling
the full shilling
Related terms: schilling
skilding
skilling
solidus
shilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Etymology: See shill.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shill
bob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏb
ipa: /bɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: bäb
ipa: /bɑb/
rhymes: -ɑːb
Forms: form: bobs
form: bobbing
form: bobbed
form: bobbed
Etymology: From Middle English bobben (“to strike, beat, shake, jog”), of uncertain origin. Compare Scots bob (“to mark, dance with a bobbing motion”), Icelandic boppa (“to wave up and down”), Swedish bobba (“to bob”), Dutch dobberen ("bobbing").
Senses: examples: text: The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.
text: The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.
text: The flowers were bobbing in the wind.
glosses: To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
examples: text: I bobbed my head underwater and saw the goldfish.
text: bob one’s head
glosses: To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
examples: text: She bobbed on his knob.
glosses: To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
To perform oral sex on someone.
glosses: To curtsy.
examples: text: And if any man hapned, by longe sittynge, to slepe, or, by any other countenance, to shewe him selfe to be weary, he was sodaynly bobbed on the face by the seruantes of Nero, […]
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, “In what wise musike may be to a noble man necessarie: and what modestie ought to be therin”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 1st book, page 26:
text: Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he vtters, his euaſions haue eares thus long, I haue bobd his braine more then he has beate my bones.
ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature [C4], recto:
glosses: To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
examples: text: After they had had supper Frank said, Do you remember those men whom we saw near Norwich, who sat in small boats all the night long, and with a line in each hand, bobbed for eels?
ref: 1876, George Christopher Davies, The Swan and Her Crew, page 134:
glosses: Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).
synonyms: word: blob
extra: catch eels using worms strung on thread
Derived terms: abob
apple bobbing
bobber
bobbish
bobble
bob-cherry
bobchin
bobfly
bob-job
bob under
bob up
emu bob
bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏb
ipa: /bɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: bäb
ipa: /bɑb/
rhymes: -ɑːb
Forms: form: bobs
Etymology: From Middle English bobben (“to strike, beat, shake, jog”), of uncertain origin. Compare Scots bob (“to mark, dance with a bobbing motion”), Icelandic boppa (“to wave up and down”), Swedish bobba (“to bob”), Dutch dobberen ("bobbing").
Senses: examples: text: a bob of the head
glosses: A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
glosses: A curtsy.
examples: text: Or yellow bobs turn’d up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.
ref: 1613, John Dennys, The Secrets of Angling:
glosses: A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
glosses: Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
Derived terms: plumb bob
bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏb
ipa: /bɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: bäb
ipa: /bɑb/
rhymes: -ɑːb
Forms: form: bobs
Etymology: From Middle English bobbe (“a cluster (of fruit); a twig with its leaves, a spray”), perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Irish baban "tassel, cluster," Gaelic babag).
Senses: glosses: A bob haircut.
examples: text: Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
glosses: Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
glosses: The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
glosses: The docked tail of a horse.
glosses: The short runner of a sled.
glosses: A bobsleigh.
glosses: A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
glosses: A working beam in a steam engine.
glosses: A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
glosses: A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
examples: text: A plain brown bob he wore.
ref: 1737, William Shenstone, The Extent of Cookery:
glosses: A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
examples: text: Ay, Ay, and Then to Bed, ſays the Bride. This Girl did but ſpeak the Widows Mind; for let Fleſh and Blood pretend what it will, to Bed, to Bed, will be the Bob of the Song.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Abstemius, &c.] Fab[le] CCLXXXIII. A Widow had a mind to Marry.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 248:
glosses: The refrain of a song.
coordinate_terms: wheel
bobwheel
glosses: A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
examples: text: Hee, that a Foole doth very wiſely hit,
Doth very fooliſhly, although he ſmart,
Seeme ſenſeleſſe of the bob.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii], page 203, column 1, lines 53–55:
glosses: A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
Derived terms: bingle
bits and bobs
bobcat
bob jerom
bobkitten
bobrun
bobweight
bob wig
Castle bob
dry bob
Dutch bob
earbob
gay bob
light bob
monobob
Pixie-bob
staggering bob
starry bob
wet bob
bob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏb
ipa: /bɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: bäb
ipa: /bɑb/
rhymes: -ɑːb
Forms: form: bobs
form: bobbing
form: bobbed
form: bobbed
Etymology: From Middle English bobbe (“a cluster (of fruit); a twig with its leaves, a spray”), perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Irish baban "tassel, cluster," Gaelic babag).
Senses: examples: text: I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?
glosses: To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
glosses: To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
glosses: To bobsleigh.
bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏb
ipa: /bɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: bäb
ipa: /bɑb/
rhymes: -ɑːb
Forms: form: bob
form: bobs
Senses: examples: text: One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 308:
text: “’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown]^([sic]) for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.”
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, pages 214–215:
text: […] there was a sound of barking and a great hefty dog of the Hound of the Baskervilles type came galloping at me, obviously intent on mayhem,[…]. And I was just commending my soul to God and thinking that this was where my new flannel trousers got about thirty bobs' worth of value bitten out of them, […]
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: A shilling.
glosses: A 10-cent coin.
examples: text: Spot me a few bob, Robert.
text: I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else.
text: A great many visitors are expected. They will take pictures of each other under the cherry blossoms and—the Chamber of Commerce hopes—spend a few bobs for hot logs, gasoline, eastern finery and souvenirs of the nation’s capital.
ref: 1949 March 23, “Capital Planning For Cherry Blossom Festival On April 3”, in Warren Times-Mirror, volume forty-nine, Warren, Pa., page twelve, column 1:
text: It was a Molotov cocktail to dispose of my mortal remains. / “Cor, what a beauty.” / “Hello, somebody’s thrown a match into a box of fireworks; easy to do.” / “A few bobs’ worth of whizzers gone up there, Mabel.”
ref: 1964, Len Deighton, “Tuesday, November 5th”, in Funeral in Berlin, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 1965, →LCCN, page 294:
glosses: An unspecified amount of money.
Derived terms: a bob each way
bent as a nine-bob note
bent as a two bob
bob-a-job
queer as a nine bob note
six bob a day tourist
two bob
two-bob bit
two bob each way
bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏb
ipa: /bɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: bäb
ipa: /bɑb/
rhymes: -ɑːb
Forms: form: bobs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of shishkabob.
bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏb
ipa: /bɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: bäb
ipa: /bɑb/
rhymes: -ɑːb
Forms: form: bobs
Etymology: Blend of blitter object
Senses: examples: text: The bob list determines the drawing priority […]
ref: 1986, Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2:
text: IMHO, youd ^([sic]) be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs, esp on a machine with fast ram.
ref: 1995, John Girvin, “Blitting bobs”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet):
text: Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code
ref: 2002, demoeffects, “Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene.”, in fm.announce (Usenet):
topics: computer-graphics
computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
Derived terms: shadebob
Related terms: bobbery-bob
bob wire
slack bob
yellow bob
decimalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛsɪməlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: decimalisations
form: decimalization
Etymology: From decimalise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In these days of decimalization and metrication it is a pity that SI units were not used as this will date a very useful little book prematurely.
ref: 1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, in Nature, volume 230, number 5296, →DOI, page 603:
glosses: Conversion to a decimal system.
glosses: Specifically, conversion of the currencies of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1971 from pounds, shillings and pence to a decimal system in which one pound was worth 100 new pence (later renamed simply pence).
Derived terms: predecimalisation
pre-decimalisation
Related terms: decimal
decimalise
old money
decimalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decimalizations
Etymology: From decimal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of decimalisation.
Derived terms: predecimalization
new pence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new penny
crag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: crags
form: craig
Etymology: From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Middle Irish carrac (compare Irish creig, Scottish Gaelic creag), possibly ultimately from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate [Term?] (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).
Senses: examples: text: "Have, then, thy wish!"—he whistled shrill, / And he was answered from the hill; / Wild as the scream of the curlieu, / From crag to crag the signal flew.
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto V. The Combat.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza IX, page 202:
text: Break, break, break, / At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! / But the tender grace of a day that is dead / Will never come back to me.
ref: 1835, Alfred Tennyson, “‘Break, Break, Break’”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 229:
glosses: A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
glosses: A rough, broken fragment of rock.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
glosses: A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.
Derived terms: cragbound
cragfast
Crag Foot
cragged
cragger
craggy
craglike
crag martin
cragsman
cragswoman
crag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: crags
Etymology: A variant of craw.
Senses: glosses: The neck or throat.
new penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new pence
form: new pennies
Senses: glosses: Following decimalisation, the name given to the coin worth one hundredth of a pound; now known simply as the penny. Symbol: p
Synonyms: penny
Related terms: old penny
bob haircut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bob haircuts
Senses: glosses: A women's haircut in which both the bangs and back are cut in a straight line, with the back generally off the neck.
sai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: sigh
homophone: psi
homophone: xi
homophone: scye
homophone: Si
Forms: form: sai
Etymology: From Japanese 釵 (sai).
Senses: glosses: A handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts.
sai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: sigh
homophone: psi
homophone: xi
homophone: scye
homophone: Si
Etymology: Compare Portuguese sahi, from Tupian sai (“monkey”).
Senses: glosses: A sajou; a capuchin (monkey).
sai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: sigh
homophone: psi
homophone: xi
homophone: scye
homophone: Si
ipa: /saɪ˦˨/
ipa: /saɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: sigh
homophone: psi
homophone: xi
homophone: scye
homophone: Si
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 屎 (sái, “shit”).
Senses: examples: text: […]the employer of the unfortunate maid that was forced to makan sai are indonesians.
ref: 1998 February 10, Thye Hoon Lin, “SM Lee was right - Johor is notorious for muggings!”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
text: It is Chek Lap Kok ho lang. You should makan sai. Are you an Orang Laut trying to speak Chinese?
ref: 1998 July 9, SimiSar, “[sangkancil] New HK airport faces barrage of criticism (fwd)”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
text: go and take your morning shower and wash your arse with water and soap after pang sai
ref: 2003 April 18, Bone Toad, “Christ won”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
glosses: Shit
Related terms: saw sam sai
Easter Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Easter, Eastertide, Eastertime
topics: Christianity
synonyms: Easter Day
Easter
Resurrection Sunday
related: word: Good Friday
word: Holy Saturday
word: Easter Monday
glosses: A Christian religious moveable holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Related terms: empty as the tomb on Easter
Christmas Day
holy day
Jesus Day
Lord's Day
resurrection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/
ipa: /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃn̩/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: resurrections
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman resurrectiun, from Old French resurrection (French: résurrection), from Late Latin resurrectionem (accusative of resurrectiō) from Latin resurgō (“I rise again”), from re- (“again”), + surgō (“I rise”). Displaced native Old English ǣrist.
Senses: glosses: The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
examples: text: But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 20:5–6:
topics: Christianity
Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The general resurrection.
glosses: A miraculous comeback or revival (e.g., of a TV series); recovery from a dire predicament.
glosses: The act of bodysnatching (illicitly exhuming a cadaver).
Synonyms: sense: of Jesus
word: anastasis
sense: of Jesus
word: Resurrection
sense: rising from the dead
word: gainrising
Derived terms: resurrectional
resurrectionary
resurrectionism
resurrectionist
resurrection lily
resurrection man
resurrection pie
resurrection plant
Related terms: resurge
resurgence
resurrect
surrection
Jesus Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiːzəs ˈkɹaɪst/
Forms: form: Jesus the Christ
Etymology: From Middle English Jesu Crist, Jesus Crist, from Latin Iēsūs Chrīstus. By surface analysis, Jesus + Christ. N.b. that Christ is a title, and not a surname.
Senses: examples: text: Almighty God, give us the grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life (in which thy son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility;)
ref: 1681, Church of England, The book of common prayer:
topics: Christianity
Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish religious preacher and craftsman (commonly understood to have been a carpenter, see Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, “builder”)) from Galilee, held to be a prophet, teacher and the Messiah, or Christ, in Christianity. Also held to be a prophet in Islam and the Baháʼí Faith.
Synonyms: word: Christ
word: Drighten
word: God the Son
word: Jesus
word: king of kings
word: Lamb of God
word: Logos
word: Lord
word: Lord of Lords
word: Messiah
word: Son of God
word: son of God
word: Word of God
word: ☧
roman: KHR
word: ΧΡ
roman: IĒS
word: ΙΗΣ
roman: IKHTHUS
english: Christogram forms
translation: Christogram forms
word: ΙΧΘΥΣ
Derived terms: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Jesus Christ lizard
Vicar of Jesus Christ
Related terms: Jesus
Yeshua
Christ
Messiah
Jesus Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiːzəs ˈkɹaɪst/
Forms: form: Jesus Christs
form: Jesus the Christ
Etymology: From Middle English Jesu Crist, Jesus Crist, from Latin Iēsūs Chrīstus. By surface analysis, Jesus + Christ. N.b. that Christ is a title, and not a surname.
Senses: glosses: A saviour; one who provides critical help or salvation to others in need.
Jesus Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiːzəs ˈkɹaɪst/
Forms: form: Jesus the Christ
Etymology: From Middle English Jesu Crist, Jesus Crist, from Latin Iēsūs Chrīstus. By surface analysis, Jesus + Christ. N.b. that Christ is a title, and not a surname.
Senses: examples: text: Jesus Christ, that hurt!
text: Oh Jesus Christ. Don't be so dramatic, okay?
ref: 2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), spoken by Jesse (Ethan Hawke):
text: Oh, Jesus Christ. It's not Millie.
ref: 2023, Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret:
qualifier: potentially offensive
glosses: An expletive or oath, usually an expression of surprise, shock, etc.
pendant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnd(ə)nt/
topics: nautical
transport
ipa: /ˈpɛnənt/
rhymes: -ɛndənt
homophone: pendent
Forms: form: pendants
form: pendaunt
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman pendaunt, Middle French pendant, noun use of adjective.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A supporting post attached to the main rafter.
glosses: A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.
glosses: The dangling part of an earring.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.
examples: text: One vase is the pendant to the other vase.
qualifier: fine arts
glosses: One of a pair; a counterpart.
glosses: The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
glosses: A lamp hanging from the roof.
glosses: An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
glosses: A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
examples: text: Many […] have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology:
glosses: An appendix or addition, as to a book.
glosses: Testicles.
examples: text: a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: A pendulum.
Derived terms: pendanted
pendant light
pendantlike
Related terms: penchant
pendent
pennant
to depend
to impend
to pend
pennant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnənt/
rhymes: -ɛnənt
Forms: form: pennants
Etymology: From Middle English penon, penoun, pynoun, Old French penon, French pennon, from Latin penna (“feather”). See pen (“a feather”), and compare pennon, pinion.
Senses: glosses: A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition.
The broad pennant flown by commodores.
glosses: A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition.
The church pennant indicating religious services are taking place aboard ship.
glosses: A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition.
The commissioning pennant flown on ceremonial occasions.
glosses: A small flag with pointed end, formerly carried by cavalry or other mounted troops to serve as a rallying point or ceremonial unit identification.
examples: text: The New York Yankees have won the American League pennant far more often than any other team.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The winning of a competition, represented by a flag.
glosses: A commemorative flag, traditionally triangular and made of felt, typically used to show support for a particular athletic team.
glosses: A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
glosses: A sandstone between coal measures in parts of South Wales
glosses: Either of two species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Macrodiplax, of the tropics and subtropics.
Derived terms: answering pennant
gin pennant
Irish pennant
pennanted
pennantless
wandering pennant
Related terms: pennon
pendant
major league
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major leagues
Senses: glosses: An association of sports teams which plays at the highest skill level of its sport, especially Major League Baseball.
examples: text: You can't be so casual. You're in the major leagues now.
glosses: The highest level of competition in a field of endeavor.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: big league
sense: all senses
word: majors
sense: all senses
word: big time
sense: association
word: superleague
sense: association
word: elite league
Coordinate terms: sense: both senses
word: minor league
sense: both senses
word: minors
sense: both senses
word: bush league
Derived terms: major-leaguer
major league
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more major league
form: most major league
form: major-league
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of or pertaining to a major sports league; belonging to the professional level of a sport, such as US baseball.
examples: text: That rock band is really major league.
text: Calatrava is a major league architect.
glosses: Analogous in importance to a major league sports team.
examples: text: The company made a major league effort to get the contract.
text: Bill accidentally faxed sensitive documents to our competitors, and such a major league mess-up could only be dealt with by firing Bill.
text: […]I'm experiencing a major-league anxiety attack, searching my pockets for Valium, Xanax, a leftover Halcion, anything, and all I find are three faded Nuprin in a Gucci pill-box, so I pop all three into my mouth and swallow them down with a Diet Pepsi and I couldn’t tell you where it came from if my life depended on it.
ref: 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: Serious, high-level; significant
minor league
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor leagues
Senses: glosses: An association of sports teams that plays at a level below the major leagues of a sport.
Derived terms: minor leaguer
Related terms: bush league
minor league
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minor league
form: most minor league
Senses: glosses: Having a quality less than the best possible.
bush league
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush leagues
Senses: glosses: A professional sports association at the lower levels of minor league organization.
glosses: A low-ranking or inferior level among groups, professions, organizations, etc.
Related terms: major league
bush league
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bush league
form: most bush league
form: bush-league
Senses: glosses: Of inferior quality.
glosses: Amateurish, unprofessional, unpolished, juvenile.
antitype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitypes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀντίτυπος (antítupos).
Senses: examples: text: Types are generally worked out in Old Testament times through ancient Israel, and have their antitype fulfillment in New Testament times through Christ and His Church.
ref: 2006, Timothy John Hayden, The Vision by the Tigris, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Type is inferior to antitype, in that it is only a shadow. However the type has real existence. The type is always temporal; the antitype is eternal.
ref: 2008, Paul Haffner, New Testament Theology, →ISBN, page 121:
text: When we talk about the type meeting the antitype, we mean the antitype materialized, or became manifest, to fulfill the type. Generally, the meeting of the type and the antitype is marked by an event of theological significance.
ref: 2012, Robert Johns, The Visions of Daniel the Hebrew Prophet, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Something that is symbolized or represented by a type, such as Christ by the Paschal Lamb; the fulfillment of a type.
examples: text: The figures of the confidence man and the painted woman were offered as antitypes of proper conduct in mid-nineteenth-century America.
ref: 1982, Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830–1870, page xv:
text: The historical effect of the persecution of witches was to restrict women's independent authority and to establish a strong antitype image of self-directed women.
ref: 2010, Winnie Tomm, Bodied Mindfulness: Women’s Spirits, Bodies and Places, →ISBN:
text: Just as the erotic imagination projects its antitype through an act of repression, Shelley's rhetoric begins in a negative gesture, banishing the truth of the origin's textualization.
ref: 2014, William A. Ulmer, Shelleyan Eros: The Rhetoric of Romantic Love, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: A type that represents the opposite or antagonist of another type.
Related terms: archetype
type
typology
typewriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈtaɪpˌɹaɪtə(ɹ)]
Forms: form: typewriters
Etymology: From type + writer.
Senses: glosses: A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
examples: text: He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.
ref: 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
text: The typewriter got up and disappeared out a back door, and soon she come back with a man, and he said, "Can I be of some help, Mr. Higgens?"
ref: 1953, Mike Harris, The Southpaw:
glosses: One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
examples: text: The battle had opened in earnest. From the wooded ridge came in reply the clacking of "typewriters,” and bullets whined over our heads.
ref: 1973, Edgar B. Jackson, Fall Out to the Right of the Road!, page 321:
text: It was like sinking to sleep in a soft, dry bed with a big drink of brandy in you after you're dog-tired from a tour of duty on the firing-step, or slipping into a warm bath when you're lousy-dirty and chilled to the bone from crawling through mud and filth and dodging flares and 'typewriter' bullets half the night.
ref: 1996, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Virtuous vampires, page 250:
text: Why, any day I'd go up against a typewriter, with a forty-five. One shot I'd need and there'd be time for three while he was getting that damn' thing swung around and pointed —
ref: 2001, Fredric Brown, Ben Yalow, From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown, page 234:
text: Fortunately we were on the edge of a shallow shell hole when the sentry caught our movements and Fritz cut loose with the "typewriters."
ref: 2005, R. Derby Holmes, A Yankee in the Trenches, page 60:
glosses: A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
glosses: A prank in which fingers are jabbed roughly onto someone's chest followed by striking them over the ear in imitation of using an old-fashioned typewriter.
Synonyms: word: typographer
sense: one who uses a typewriter
word: typist
Derived terms: blind typewriter
Chicago typewriter
Jewish typewriter
memory typewriter
microtypewriter
TV typewriter
typewriter apostrophe
typewriterless
typewriterlike
typewriter-paired
typewritery
Related terms: type
typewrite
typist
write
touch-typist
duck tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck tapes
Etymology: Originally (from late 19th century) from duck (“a tightly woven fabric”) + tape, due to the make-up of the tape. The adhesive tape now commonly known as "Duck tape" (a trademark in the United States) has its origins in a product first created for the US military during World War II,https://www.duckbrand.com/about and the word "duck" was later associated with the waterproof qualities of this tape, as in the idea of "water off a duck's back".http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/duckvsduct.html
The terms "duck tape" and "duct tape" overlap in modern usage. According to one theory, the modern product was originally called "duck tape". The term "duct tape" was then later applied because of mishearing and/or because the product was used to join together pieces of duct-work. However, this chronology has been questioned due to lack of documented evidence that "duck tape" predates "duct tape" as a name for the modern product.http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/03/14/tale_of_the_tape/ The Duck Brand website itself refers to "Duck Tape® Brand Duct Tape",https://www.duckbrand.com/products/duck-tape using "Duck tape" as the brand name, and "duct tape" as a generic description of the type of product.
Senses: examples: text: In belting from the motor, connect to as large a pulley as possible and practical, and use a heavy duck tape, one inch wide, such as printers use on their large presses.
ref: 1894, The Electrical World, volume 24:
glosses: A kind of tape made from, or incorporating, cotton "duck" fabric.
examples: text: If you can't fix it with duck tape, it's not worth fixing.
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A type of multi-purpose heavy-duty adhesive tape.
raw_tags: used generically
Synonyms: sense: duct tape
word: duct tape
sense: duct tape
word: gaff tape
sense: duct tape
word: gaffer tape
sense: duct tape
word: gaffer's tape
sense: duct tape
word: gray tape
duct tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duct tapes
form: duct-tape
Etymology: Probably a corruption or eggcorn of earlier duck tape (“thick, canvas-like tape”), resulting from the relative obscurity of the term duck (“a strong, durable, tightly woven fabric; canvas”), reinforced by the use of the tape in joining together heating and air conditioning duct work. See also the etymology at duck tape.
Senses: examples: text: I used duct tape to cover the hole in a leaky pipe.
synonyms: duck tape
gray tape
glosses: A generally gray waterproof adhesive tape used for many purposes and easy to cut with the hands.
duct tape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: duct tapes
form: duct taping
form: duct taped
form: duct taped
form: duct-tape
Etymology: Probably a corruption or eggcorn of earlier duck tape (“thick, canvas-like tape”), resulting from the relative obscurity of the term duck (“a strong, durable, tightly woven fabric; canvas”), reinforced by the use of the tape in joining together heating and air conditioning duct work. See also the etymology at duck tape.
Senses: examples: text: The government tells us we can protect against a chemical attack by duct taping the windows.
text: There are Schimmel Sister stickers, and Navajo Nation stickers, Cherokee Nation stickers, Idle No More, and AIM flags duct-taped to antennas.
ref: 2018, Tommy Orange, “Interlude”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: To use duct tape in order to tape one object to another.
Related terms: gaffer tape
gray tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪˌteɪp/
Forms: form: gray tapes
Senses: examples: text: Do you want the green gray tape or the red gray tape?
glosses: duct tape (often regardless of color)
Related terms: duck tape
gaffer tape