cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
arcade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈkeɪd/
ipa: /ɑːˈkeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: arcades
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).
Senses: examples: text: The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:
topics: architecture
glosses: A row of arches.
topics: architecture
glosses: A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
glosses: Synonym of amusement arcade.
synonyms: word: amusement arcade
Derived terms: amusement arcade
arcade adventure
arcaded
arcade game
arcadelike
arcader
arcadey
arcadian
arcading
barcade
parkade
penny arcade
video arcade
arcade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈkeɪd/
ipa: /ɑːˈkeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: arcades
form: arcading
form: arcaded
form: arcaded
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).
Senses: examples: text: […] its trottoirs brick-paved and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage—conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China”—these in places completely arcading the streets—the town of Nachitoches offered the aspect of a rus in urbe, or urbs in rure, whichever way you may wish it.
ref: 1873, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Choice of Sons-in-Law”, in The Death Shot. A Romance of Forest and Prairie. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 224:
glosses: To cover (something) as with a series of arches.
ono
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Bike for sale: €300 ono
glosses: Abbreviation of or near(est) offer.
ono
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of over and out.
ono
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ono
form: most ono
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻono (“delicious”).
Senses: glosses: good-tasting, delicious.
ono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ono
Etymology: From Hawaiian ono.
Senses: examples: text: Tunas and other pelagic fishes, especially mahimahi and ono (wahoo), are known to congregate under drifting objects, such as logs.
ref: 1990, Hawaiian Archipelago and Johnston Island Exclusive Economic Zone, Proposed Marine Mineral Lease Sale: Environmental Impact Statement, volume 1, page 237:
glosses: Synonym of wahoo (“type of fish”).
synonyms: word: wahoo
extra: type of fish
oni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈoʊniː]
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: onis
form: oni
Etymology: From Japanese 鬼 (oni).
Senses: examples: text: ONI 鬼. Generic name for devils, the representation of which in art is quite a common feature. Onis have claws, a square head with two horns, sharp teeth, and malignant eyes surmounted by big eyebrows; occasionally they wear trousers of tiger skin.
ref: 1908, Henri L. Joly, Legend in Japanese Art: A Description of Historical Episodes, Legendary Characters, Folk-lore, Myths, Religious Symbolism, Illustrated in the Arts of Old Japan, pages 263–264:
text: Across the ocean, in Japan, there once lived curious creatures called Onis. Every Japanese boy and girl has heard of them, though one has not often been caught.
ref: 1918, William Elliot Griffis, Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks:
text: "That's no human being playing the instrument," he thought in amazement. "It can only be an oni or some such being."
ref: 1979, Marian Ury, Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 147:
text: The standing Shoki holds with his left hand an oni on his leg.
ref: 1992, Karl M. Schwarz, Netsuke Subjects: A Study on the Netsuke Themes with Reference to Their Interpretation and Symbolism, Böhlau Verlag Wien, →ISBN, page 46:
text: This is actually a boy bishie in the form of an ogre. It's called an oni in Japanese. Onis have supernatural powers that can command the forces of nature such as wind (to create hurricanes) and lightning (to create thunderbolts).
ref: 2005, Christopher Hart, Manga Mania Shoujo: How to Draw the Charming and Romantic Characters of Japanese Comics, →ISBN, page 69:
text: The oni are a diverse group of evil spirits who take on the form of humanoid creatures so that they can enjoy the pleasures and vices of the flesh.
ref: 2011, Mike Shel, “Ecology of the Oni”, in Jade Regent: The Brinewall Legacy, Paizo Publishing, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: A Japanese evil spirit or demon.
apply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈplaɪ/
ipa: [əˈplaɪ]
ipa: [əˈplɑj]
ipa: [əˈplaɪ]
ipa: [əˈpləj]
ipa: [əˈplɑɪ]
rhymes: -aɪ
ipa: /ˈæp(ə)li/
ipa: /əˈplaɪ/
ipa: [əˈplaɪ]
ipa: [əˈplɑj]
ipa: [əˈplaɪ]
ipa: [əˈpləj]
ipa: [əˈplɑɪ]
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: more apply
form: most apply
Etymology: From apple + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of appley.
appointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɔɪnt.mɛnt/
ipa: /əˈpɔɪnt.mɪnt/
ipa: [əˈpʰɔɪ̯nʔmɪnʔ]
ipa: [əˈpʰɔɪ̯̃ʔmɪnʔ]
Forms: form: appointments
Etymology: From Middle English appoyntement, apoyntement, from Old French appointement, equivalent to appoint + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: His appointment as treasurer was deemed suitable.
synonyms: designation
glosses: The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust
examples: text: the appointment of treasurer
glosses: The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed
glosses: Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
examples: text: They made an appointment to meet at six.
text: I’m leaving work early because I have a doctor’s appointment.
glosses: An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
examples: text: to submit to the divine appointments
text: According to the appointment of the priests.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezra 6:9:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
topics: law
glosses: The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
topics: government
glosses: The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
examples: text: […] the house had been inhabited for years by his father, and in many of its appointments was old-fashioned and grim […]
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: The appointments were primitive, but the Schnitzel, the beer, and the cheese could not have been improved on.
ref: 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Soul of Laploshka”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 70:
glosses: Equipment, furniture.
examples: text: to have an appointment
glosses: An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.
glosses: The allowance paid to a public officer.
Derived terms: appointment diary
appointment in Samarra
appointment television
appointment TV
deed of appointment
dick appointment
double appointment
foreappointment
interappointment
midnight appointment
nonappointment
power of appointment
preappointment
reappointment
recess appointment
self-appointment
Related terms: calendar
meeting
schedule
fairy tale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy tales
form: fairy-tale
form: fairytale
form: faerie tale
Senses: examples: text: I used to love reading fairy tales when I was a child.
ref: 1717, Mrs Holt, A Fairy Tale Inscrib'd, to the Honourable Mrs. W----- With other poems, London: R. Burleigh:
text: The Wife of Bathes Tale is evidently a Fairy-tale. It thus commences: In olde dayes of the king Artour, / Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, / All was this land fulfilled of faerie.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 122:
text: The Arabian Nights rehears'd in bed! / The Fairy Tales in school-time read.
ref: 1828 April 12, The Hobart Town Courier, page 4, column 4:
glosses: A folktale or literary story featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.
examples: text: Their dresses were rich, and when they came bounding forward, their shapes of silver tissue, with their feathered diadems and faces of animated beauty, they might be imagined into scarcely less than the creations of fairy tale.
ref: 1819 February 27, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 4, column 3:
text: Mr. Shimerda kneels in front of the tree in prayer; a praying figure under a magic tree is a common one in fairy tale.
ref: 1989, Marilyn Berg Callander, Willa Cather and the Fairy Tale, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, page 27:
glosses: The literary genre of these stories.
examples: text: He's telling us another fairy tale about how great the software will be.
text: If emigrants will submit to the "fairy tales" of Mr. Thomas, and fall in with his suggestions, they must patiently submit to the disagreeable consequences.
ref: 1825 May 5, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 2, column 4:
text: Comedy as satire is acceptable, as fun it is a pleasant haven of escape, but the fairy tale of happiness ever after cannot be taken seriously; it belongs to the never-never land of childhood, which is protected from the realities that will become terribly known soon enough[.]
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 28:
glosses: A story presented as true that is not believable.
examples: text: I've been living in a fairy tale since I met Joe.
glosses: A delightful and ideal situation of a kind attained by very few.
Derived terms: fairy-talelike
Related terms: fairy story
warlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː.lɒk/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹ.lɑk/
Forms: form: warlocks
form: warluck
form: warlow
Etymology: From Middle English warloghe, warlowe, warloȝe, from Old English wǣrloga (“traitor, deceiver”, literally “truce-breaker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wārulogō (“liar”), equivalent to Old English wǣr (“covenant, truce, pact, promise”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁- (“true”); whence also Latin vērus) + loga (“liar”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô, related to Old English lēogan (whence English lie). The hard -ck ending originated in Scottish and Northern English, like the sense "male magic-user" (from the notion that such men were in league with the Devil and had thus broken their baptismal vows / betrayed Christianity). Cognate with Old Saxon wārlogo (“liar, unfaithful or insidious one”).
A few writers alternatively propose a derivation from Old Norse varðlokkur (“incantations, charms”, literally “ward songs”), but as the OED notes, this is implausible due to the extreme rarity of the Norse word, the semantic difference, and because forms without hard -k, which are consistent with the Old English etymology (“traitor”), are attested earlier than forms with -k, and forms with -ð- are not attested.
Senses: examples: text: He was himself a warlock, or wizard, which they knew by his taking the witch's part.
ref: 1730, Edward Burt, Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland:
text: It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: A male magic-user; a male witch; a wizard.
examples: text: “Is it because she was a warlock?” she asked. “I know different kinds of magic . . .” “No, that's not it, or at least . . .” Mereth paused, collecting her thoughts, then explained, “The warlockry doesn't help, Lady Sarai,[…]”
ref: 2015 February 25, Lawrence Watt-Evans, The Spell of the Black Dagger: A Legend of Ethshar, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 115:
text: It seemed like a strange thing for her to risk on a student she barely knew—but then, she was a warlock. Simon had no idea what they were capable of, but he was getting better at imagining.
ref: 2015 March 17, Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman, The Lost Herondale, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Usually she blended in with the rest of the Academy faculty, making it easy to forget she was a warlock (at least, if you overlooked the blue skin). But he'd noticed that whenever another Downworlder was on campus, Catarina went out[…]
ref: 2015 July 21, Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman, Pale Kings and Princes, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: “We're also looking for a couple of warlocks,” Magnus said. “A Korean woman and a green fellow with horns.” “Oh,” said Fang with a distinct change of mood. “Them.” “You've seen them?” Alec said, trying not to sound too eager.
ref: 2020 September 1, Cassandra Clare, Wesley Chu, The Lost Book of the White, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A magic-user (regardless of gender).
raw_tags: in fantasy
teapot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teapots
form: tea-pot
form: tea pot
Etymology: From tea + pot.
Senses: glosses: A vessel for brewing and serving tea, typically with a handle and spout.
Derived terms: as much use as a chocolate teapot
as useful as a chocolate teapot
Brown Betty teapot
celestial teapot
chocolate teapot
cosmic teapot
Newell teapot
Russell's teapot
storm in a teapot
teapot effect
tempest in a teapot
useful as a chocolate teapot
Utah teapot
Related terms: word: kettle
word: teakettle
Thomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒm.əs/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.məs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈt̪ʰɔ.məs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʈʰ-/
rhymes: -ɒməs
Forms: form: Thomases
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Thomas, from Latin Thōmās m (as in the Vulgate), from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς m (Thōmâs), the Biblical Greek transcription of Aramaic תאומא or תאמא (“twin”), the nickname of one of the Twelve Apostles.
In the gospel of John (11:16, 20:24), the Aramaic nickname is also translated into Greek, as δίδυμος m (dídumos). Used as a given name since the Middle Ages, e.g. Thomas the Presbyter (7th century), Thomas the Slav (8th century), Thomas of Bayeux (died 1100).
(infidel or doubter): In reference to the doubting Apostle.
Senses: examples: text: […] and if the surgeons do not preserve you, and place you on view, in pickle, they ought to, for the sake of historical doubters, for no one will believe that there ever was a man like you, unless you yourself are somewhere around to prove them Thomases.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: An infidel or doubter.
whatchamacallit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒtʃəməkɔːlɪt/
ipa: /ˈʍʌt͡ʃəməkɔlɪt/
ipa: /ˈwʌt-/
ipa: /ˈwʌt͡ʃməkɑlɪt/
ipa: /ˈwɔtʃəməkɔːɫət/
Forms: form: whatchamacallits
Etymology: Clipping of what-you-may-call-it. United States, 20th century (recorded in 1921).
Senses: examples: text: The Thingamajig and the Wachamacallit.
ref: 1921, Johnny Gruelle, Orphant Annie Story Book, Volume 7, page 69:
text: You’re—you must be the whatchamacallit, huh? The peer.
ref: 1969, J[ames] P[inckney] Miller, stage adaptation by F. Andrew Leslie, The People Next Door, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →OCLC, act II, page 42:
text: JESSICA: How many times do I have to say it? We were not stealing, Officer. We were just— / MONAHAN: I know. Performing some kind of whatchamacallit deed. Anyhow, they go to the clink, that's what happens to people who filch city property.
ref: 1972, Carolyn Lane, Child of Air: A One Act Play, Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC, page 13:
text: I'm a boy, so when I'm sick, they can call in poohaghooma, Indian doctor. But not Tom Mitchell! No, sir! [We] won't have Tom Mitchell to doctor me! 'Cause whatchamacallit, he always used to doctor me …
ref: 1996, Corbett Mack, as told by Michael Hittman, “Boyhood (1892–1905)”, in Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians), Lincoln, Neb.; London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 60:
text: "Think we ought to check this whatchamacallit?" / "No, that doodad over there seems to be the problem."
ref: 1998, David Alan Black, “There’s No Place Like Rome: The Parts of Speech and Their Function”, in It’s still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-understand Guide to Intermediate Greek, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, →ISBN, page 19:
text: You know, he looked at everybody and everything but not me as if just by letting his eyes rest on me for a moment would let out that he and I are having a whatchamacalit.
ref: 2001 [1992], Russell Heng, Lest the Demons Get to Me, revised version January 2001, via National Library Board Singapore, Act 1, page 4:
text: As you've said, the safety of the American people is our first priority. We have orders that if these EMP whatchamacallits can't be secured then they must be destroyed.
ref: 2014 October, Don Pendleton, chapter 15, in Domination Bid (Don Pendleton’s Stony Man: America’s Ultra-covert Intelligence Agency; Gold Eagle Book), Don Mills, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN, page 180:
glosses: A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.
Synonyms: thingy
Joseph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊzɪf/
enpr: jō'səf
enpr: jō'zəf
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊsəf/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊzəf/
rhymes: (US) -oʊsəf
Forms: form: Josephs
form: Jos.
Etymology: From Middle English Ioseph, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (Yoséf, literally “(God) shall add”); a son of Jacob. Doublet of Yusuf.
Senses: examples: text: Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 37:3:
text: A few shocks of corn in a corner of the fallow stood up as if alive; she imagined them bowing; perhaps her son would be a Joseph.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, by his wife Rachel.
examples: text: Meronym: Holy Family
text: And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 3:23:
synonyms: Saint Joseph
glosses: The husband of Saint Mary and the father of Jesus.
glosses: The 12th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Joseph of Arimathea; man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus.
examples: text: I'm going to call him Joseph / or Josephine if it's a girl. / Why? / Because it's a strong name, / Joe, Joseph. / You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life. / - - - So Joe it is. / He'll turn out strong. Strong and smart.
ref: 1998, Steven Herrick, A Place Like This, Univ. of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Army chief Joseph Aoun was voted president after two rounds of voting.
ref: 2025 January 9, Tamara Qiblawi, “US-backed army chief elected Lebanon’s president, ending years-long stalemate”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname:
An English surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A surname:
A French surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A city in Wallowa County, Oregon; named for Nez Perce chief Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it (called "Chief Joseph" in English).
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town in Sevier County, Utah; named for Mormon apostle Joseph Angell Young.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A ghost town in Idaho County, Idaho; named for Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it (Chief Joseph).
Derived terms: Jesus, Mary and Joseph
Jo
Joe
Joey
Jos.
Jos
Joseph-and-Mary
Joseph City
Josephs
Josephson
Mary-and-Joseph
St. Joseph
St Joseph
Saint Joseph
Related terms: word: Joe
word: Joey
word: Jo
sense: feminine equivalent
word: Josephine
word: Josephs
word: Josephson
word: Jos.
Joseph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊzɪf/
enpr: jō'səf
enpr: jō'zəf
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊsəf/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊzəf/
rhymes: (US) -oʊsəf
Forms: form: Josephs
form: Jos.
Etymology: From Middle English Ioseph, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (Yoséf, literally “(God) shall add”); a son of Jacob. Doublet of Yusuf.
Senses: examples: text: And my lady thought you a Joseph!
ref: 1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XXVII The Return”, in Queen's Folly:
text: You're a kid Casanova, you're no Joseph
It's a labor of love fucking yourself to death
Orgasm addict, you're an orgasm addict
ref: 1977, Buzzcocks, Orgasm Addict:
glosses: One whose chastity is above temptation (from the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife in Genesis xxxix).
Joe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jō
ipa: /d͡ʒəʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊ/
homophone: Jo
homophone: joe
homophone: Zhou
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: Short form (diminutive form) of various names beginning with Jo..., particularly the male names Joseph and, less often, Joel, Josiah and Josias. The spelling Jo is used more often for diminutives of similar female names.
Senses: examples: text: "With a name like Joe," Joe always said, "I had to open a bar and grill, just so I could put up a sign saying 'Joe's Bar and Grill'."
ref: 1981 Orson Scott Card, Second Movement, Nebula Winners: Science Fiction Writers of America, Harper&Row, 1981, page 207
text: With Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ decision to end his campaign on Wednesday, it’s now official: Former Vice President Joe Biden will be the Democratic presidential nominee this fall.
ref: 2020 April 8, Chris Cillizza, “Why Joe Biden starts as the general election front-runner”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Joseph, Josiah, Joel, or Josias.
glosses: Alternative form of Jo: a diminutive of various female given names.
Derived terms: Bobby Joe
Genocide Joe
half joe
hey Joe
Holy Joe
Jo
Jody
joe
Joebama
Joe Blakes
Joe Doakes
Joe Frogger
Joe Grant Cay
joe job
Joe Miller
Joe Random
Joe Strummer
Joe Who
Joey
Port St. Joe
Sleepy Joe
Uncle Joe
Joe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jō
ipa: /d͡ʒəʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊ/
homophone: Jo
homophone: joe
homophone: Zhou
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Joes
form: joe
Etymology: Short form (diminutive form) of various names beginning with Jo..., particularly the male names Joseph and, less often, Joel, Josiah and Josias. The spelling Jo is used more often for diminutives of similar female names.
Senses: examples: text: I'm just an ordinary Joe.
glosses: A male; a guy; a fellow.
examples: text: O what "a Joe," — what an "old Joe!" — / A very "old Joe!" — / Old Joe Miller made the joke before, / But nothing tells better that ^([sic]) a good old Joe!
ref: 1848, James Robinson Planché, The Golden Branch, page 22:
glosses: Synonym of Joe Miller (“an old joke”).
synonyms: word: Joe Miller
extra: an old joke
Derived terms: average Joe
Conky Joe
Eat at Joe's
G.I. Joe
Hobo Joe
Joe Average
Joe Blake
Joe Bloggs
Joe Blow
Joe Citizen
Joe College
joe job
Joe Lunchbucket
Joe Nobody
Joe Public
Joe Q. Public
Joe's
Joe Schmoe
Joe's Diner
Joe Sixpack
Joe Soap
Joe the Goose
mumbly Joe
regular Joe
Related terms: bare-bellied Joe
cup of joe
joe
joe-pye weed
sloppy joe
waiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪtə/
ipa: /ˈweɪtɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: waiters
Etymology: From late 14th century Middle English waiter, wayter (“attendant, watchman”). By surface analysis, wait + -er. Sense of "servant who waits at tables" is from late 15th century, originally in reference to household servants; in reference to inns, eating houses, etc., it is attested from 1660s. Feminine form waitress first recorded 1834.
The London Stock Exchange sense harks back to the early days of trading in coffee-shops.
Senses: examples: text: Waiter! There's a fly in my soup.
text: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
 ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.
examples: text: However, the NTPF also contained implicit negative incentives for the public sector by offering alternative private sector treatment for the longest waiters at no extra cost to patients or no penalty to public providers.
ref: 2013, Siciliani Luigi, Borowitz Michael, Moran Valerie, OECD Health Policy Studies: Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector:
glosses: Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.
glosses: A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange.
examples: text: Cautioning her, in these terms, not to trip over a heterogeneous litter of pastry-cook’s trays, lamps, waiters full of glasses, and piles of rout seats which were strewn about the hall, plainly bespeaking a late party on the previous night, the man led the way to the second story […]
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
glosses: A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. (See etymology of dumbwaiter.)
glosses: A custom house officer; a tide waiter.
glosses: A watchman.
Derived terms: cater-waiter
coast waiter
drinks waiter
dumbwaiter
landing waiter
landwaiter
quarter waiter
shad-waiter
tide waiter
time-waiter
waitered
waitering
wine waiter
Related terms: wait
waitress
waiter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪtə/
ipa: /ˈweɪtɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: waiters
form: waitering
form: waitered
form: waitered
Etymology: From late 14th century Middle English waiter, wayter (“attendant, watchman”). By surface analysis, wait + -er. Sense of "servant who waits at tables" is from late 15th century, originally in reference to household servants; in reference to inns, eating houses, etc., it is attested from 1660s. Feminine form waitress first recorded 1834.
The London Stock Exchange sense harks back to the early days of trading in coffee-shops.
Senses: examples: text: I had definitely had my fill of factory jobs, but had never worked in an office, nor bussed, nor waitered.
ref: 1992, James Kenneth Melson, “Iowa Boy in the Windy City”, in The Golden Boy, The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 46:
text: He dropped out and waitered at the Spain but was fired for throwing water in a customer’s face.
ref: 1993, Eric Gabriel Lehman, Quaspeck: A Novel, San Francisco, Calif.: Mercury House, →ISBN, page 102:
text: John [Jasper] started out as a cart boy, helping the ox-cart driver manage the oxen; but he was so smart that he was soon transferred to the house, where he waitered and worked in the garden.
ref: 2008, Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, “John Jasper”, in African American Religious Leaders (Black Stars), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 43:
glosses: To work as a waiter.
Coordinate terms: waitress
Related terms: barista
bartender
maître d'
server
waitress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/
Forms: form: waitresses
Etymology: From waiter + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: a waitress in a cocktail bar.
text: It would take a few more beers, but when the liquid courage kicked in, his wobbly legs were unable to keep pace with the fleetfooted waitress, who rolled her eyes, smiling, and finally twirled away.
ref: 2007 August 12, Andrew Gensler, “Dancing Away the Heartache, Tacos Included”, in The New York Times:
text: The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.
ref: 2007, Thomas Quealy, M + M:
text: I ask everybody… A waitress, flight attendant… …someone I’m shitting next to on the plane… “You know what my biggest hobby is?” Puking.
ref: 2024 May 16, very tall bart, [YTP] State of the Union, spoken by Penis Prager (Dennis Prager):
glosses: A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
Derived terms: cocktail waitress
sky waitress
waitress mom
wine waitress
Related terms: wait
waiter
waitress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/
Forms: form: waitresses
form: waitressing
form: waitressed
form: waitressed
Etymology: From waiter + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend.
ref: 2004, Janelle Taylor, Dying To Marry:
text: The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.
ref: 2007, Thomas Quealy, M + M:
qualifier: action
glosses: To work as a waitress.
Coordinate terms: waiter
inebriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌniːbɹiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: inebriations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin inēbriātiō, inēbriātiōnem (“drunkenness”).
Senses: examples: text: in a state of inebriation
synonyms: word: drunkenness
word: inebriacy
word: alecy
word: brick in one's hat
word: drunkenness
word: pissedness
word: staggers and jags
glosses: The state or characteristic of drunkenness.
drunkenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌŋkən.nəs/
Forms: form: drunkennesses
form: dronkennesse
Etymology: From drunken + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw that he had lost his senses for drunkenness, I put my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, […]
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
text: The Englishman had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony; it was said that overeating was the English vice, just as lust was the French vice and drunkenness the German vice. Some Englishmen became very fat, and were famous for being so. Henry VIII ate enormous meals, but as a young man he was slim, perhaps because he always took a great deal of physical exercise. By the time that he was forty-five he was suffering from painful ulcers in his leg which prevented him from riding or walking without the greatest difficulty; but though he ceased to take exercise, he ate as much as ever. He then became very fat.
ref: 1988, Jasper Ridley, A Brief History of the Tudor Age::
glosses: A state of being drunk.
Synonyms: word: alecy
word: brick in one's hat
word: drunkenness
word: pissedness
word: staggers and jags
Hypernyms: word: All are synonymous when the drug is not otherwise specified
word: buzz
word: inebriacy
word: inebriation
word: inebriety
word: inebrity
word: insobriety
word: intoxication
Coordinate terms: word: alcohol poisoning
Related terms: word: drunk
word: drunkard
word: drunken
word: punch-drunkenness
word: alcoholic
word: borrachera
metasyntactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + syntactic.
Senses: examples: text: Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar.
ref: 2001, John N. Shutt, What is Grammar?:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax.
Related terms: metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metasyntactic variables
Senses: examples: Use metasyntactic variables like foo and bar when you need a name but the particular name doesn't matter.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A conventional variable name used for an unspecified entity whose exact nature depends on context.
Related terms: foo
bar
baz
quux
fnord
fum
shme
zot
foobar
fred
wibble
derp
xyzzy
tier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tī'ə
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ə/
enpr: tī'ər
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
homophone: tire
homophone: tyre
rhymes: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tiers
Etymology: From tie + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ties (knots, etc.).
glosses: Something that ties.
glosses: A child's apron.
Derived terms: leaf tier
tier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tī'ə
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ə/
enpr: tī'ər
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
homophone: tire
homophone: tyre
rhymes: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)
enpr: tî
ipa: /ˈtɪə/
enpr: tîr
ipa: /ˈtɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)
enpr: tī'ə
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ə/
enpr: tī'ər
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
homophone: tire
homophone: tyre
rhymes: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tiers
Etymology: From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).
Senses: glosses: A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
examples: text: Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League.
text: Turians have 27 citizenship tiers, beginning with civilians (client races and children). The initial period of military service is the second tier.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Government Codex entry:
text: At various points during the (too frequent, mostly boring, school play-tier) dialogue.
ref: 2023 May 25, Nic Reuben, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A rank or grade; a stratum.
examples: text: This party headed towards the tiers and lakes, scouring the country while veering towards Bothwell.
ref: 2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 114:
text: On she drove, leaving the highway, up a skinny country road, past the snow-capped tier and into the forest on its foothills.
ref: 2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 141:
glosses: A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
glosses: A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
Derived terms: cable-tier
free-tier
god tier
mid-tier
multitier
n-tier
second-tier
S-tier
subtier
third-tier
tier list
top tier
top-tier
two-tier
two-tiered
two-tier Keir
Web-tier
tier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tī'ə
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ə/
enpr: tī'ər
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
homophone: tire
homophone: tyre
rhymes: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)
enpr: tî
ipa: /ˈtɪə/
enpr: tîr
ipa: /ˈtɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)
enpr: tī'ə
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ə/
enpr: tī'ər
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
homophone: tire
homophone: tyre
rhymes: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tiers
form: tiering
form: tiered
form: tiered
Etymology: From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).
Senses: glosses: To arrange in layers.
glosses: To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.
random number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæn.dəm ˈnʌm.bɚ/
Forms: form: random numbers
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see random, number.
glosses: A number allotted randomly using suitable generator (electronic machine or as simple "generator" as die).
examples: text: 1975, Gregory Chaitin, "Randomness and Mathematical Proof", Scientific American, (232), May 1975, pp. 47–52, reprinted in Information, Randomness & Incompleteness: Papers on Algorithmic Information Theory
Tossing a coin is a classical procedure for producing a random number .... Tossing a coin 20 times can produce any one of 2²⁰ ... binary series, and each of them has exactly the same probability.
text: A random number is a precisely defined mathematical concept in which every number should have an equal likeliness of occurrence....
ref: 1998, Stuart Mealing, The Art and Science of Computer Animation, Intellect Books, page 208:
text: To randomize the selection process, a random number from 1 to 50 should be used ... This could be done, for example, by using the last two digits of the serial number on a dollar bill. If those digits were 87, subtract 50, leaving 37.
ref: 2009, Larry Rittenberg, Karla Johnstone, Audrey Gramling, Auditing: A Business Risk Approach, Cengage Learning, page 362:
glosses: A number selected based on a uniform distribution, typically using a suitable generator (for example, rolling a die).
examples: text: The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
ref: 1970, Robert Coveyou (attributed)
glosses: A pseudorandom number.
Derived terms: random number generator
pseudorandom number
capacitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈpæ.sɪ.tə/
ipa: /kəˈpæ.sə.tɚ/
Forms: form: capacitors
Etymology: From capacity + -or.
Capacitor replaced the term condenser (coined by Alessandro Volta in 1782) to disambiguate it from steam condenser. The coiner is unknown but the change was recommended in 1926 by British Standard Glossary of Terms in Electrical Engineering.
Senses: examples: text: By placing the 0.02μF capacitor on top of the whistle chip, the circuit oscillates at a lower frequency. […] It is possible to pick resistors and capacitors that will make the pitch higher than humans can hear.
ref: 2021 December 24, “Snap Circuits Classic”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, page 27:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.
Synonyms: condenser
Coordinate terms: varactor
Derived terms: capacitorless
capacitor plague
electrolytic capacitor
ferroelectric capacitor
flux capacitor
gimmick capacitor
memcapacitor
nanocapacitor
pseudocapacitor
supercapacitor
ultracapacitor
Related terms: capacitance
capacity
-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭsh
ipa: /ɪʃ/
ipa: /əʃ/
ipa: /iʃ/
Etymology: From Middle English -ish, -isch, from Old English -isċ (“-ish”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-isk, from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos.
Cognate with Dutch -s; German -isch (whence Dutch -isch); Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish -isk or -sk; Lithuanian -iškas; Russian -ский (-skij); and the Ancient Greek diminutive suffix -ίσκος (-ískos). Doublet of -esque and -ski.
Senses: examples: text: Her face had a girlish charm.
text: […] ; for she had recently developed a magpie[-]ish tendency to appropriate and conceal trifling matters; […]
ref: 1859, Harriet Parr (as Holme Lee), Against Wind and Tide, volume 1, p. 273
glosses: Typical of, similar to, being like.
raw_tags: of adjectives from common nouns
examples: text: Her face had a bluish tinge.
text: By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
glosses: Somewhat, rather.
raw_tags: of adjectives from adjectives
with a diminutive force
examples: text: We arrived at tennish. We arrived tennish.
translation: We arrived sometime around ten.
english: We arrived sometime around ten.
text: I couldn't tell his precise age, but he looked fiftyish.
glosses: About, approximately.
raw_tags: of adjectives from numbers
of times and ages
examples: text: British, Cornish, Danish, English, Finnish, Irish, Jewish, Kentish, Polish, Scottish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish etc.
glosses: Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something).
raw_tags: of adjectives from roots of proper nouns denoting names of nations or regions
Synonyms: sense: being like
word: quasi-
sense: being like
word: para-
sense: being like
word: -oid
sense: being like
word: -form
sense: being like
word: -iform
sense: being like
word: -esque
sense: being like
word: -ly
sense: being like
word: -some
sense: being like
word: -y
sense: being like; restricted to casual registers
word: -ass
sense: being like; forms adjectives from nouns only
word: -like
Related terms: ish
-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭsh
ipa: /ɪʃ/
ipa: /əʃ/
ipa: /iʃ/
Etymology: From Middle English -ishen, -ischen, -issen, from Old French -iss-, -is- (a termination of the stem of some forms [present participle, etc.] of certain verbs), from Latin -ēscere, -īscere (an inchoative suffix), the formative -esc-, -isc- (-sc-, Greek -σκ- (-sk-)) being ultimately cognate with English -ish (Etymology 1). See -esce, -escent, etc.
Senses: glosses: An ending found on some verbs; see usage notes.
Related terms: sense: verbs borrowed from French
word: abolish
sense: verbs borrowed from French
word: accomplish
ish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Etymology: From is.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of is.
ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Etymology: Back-formation from -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The exam went well... mostly... ish.
text: "Was the film any good?" – "Ish."
text: This is where I started. Does Hermione like Dark Souls? Ish.
ref: 26 May 2012, Jason VandenBerghe, “The Five Domains of Play”, Gotland Game Conference, Uppsala University
glosses: somewhat, reasonably, fairly
examples: text: 'With luck, about twelve.' 'Ah,' said Bernard. 'Twelve-thirty. Ish.'
ref: 1974, Kingsley Amis, Ending up, page 11:
text: How old are you? Fifty-ish?" / "Ish." / The color flared in her cheeks but she didn't look as though she were going to shoot me.
ref: 2007, Marne Davis Kellogg, Friends in High Places, page 283:
text: (episode 38 of Manifest)
Eagen: "Don't blame Little House on the Prairie. I was very charming."
Angelina: "Did you lie about being an orphan too?"
ref: 2021 May, “Bogey”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
roman: Eagen: "Ish."
glosses: about, approximately
Synonyms: sense: somewhat
word: fairly
sense: somewhat
word: rather
sense: somewhat
word: somewhat
sense: approximately
word: about
sense: approximately
word: almost
sense: approximately
word: around
sense: approximately
word: close to
sense: approximately
word: loosely
sense: approximately
word: near
sense: approximately
word: nearly
sense: approximately
word: roughly
sense: approximately
word: round about
ish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: ishes
Etymology: From Pitman ess and eff, which it resembles phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. The change in vowel probably reflects the familiar suffix -ish.
Senses: glosses: The letter which stands for the sh sound /ʃ/ in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms: esh
the IPA letter for the same sound
zhee
ish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: ishes
Etymology: Phonetic spelling of the clipping of issue.
Senses: examples: text: "A LITTLE UNPLEASANTNESS" DEPT: Fantasy Digest says in it's^([sic]) latest ish: Quote: Some unpleasantness was caused when Don Wollheim and his brother Futurians were not allowed in the Convention Hall. Unquote.
ref: 1939 August 5, "Bob" Tucker, “Archived copy”, in Le Zombie, number 10, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2013, page 3:
text: Next ish: a guide to who is who of the Howard heroes in the centerspread.
ref: 1961 July, George H. Scithers, Amra, volume 2, number 16, page 2:
text: My sincerest apologies to Brother Ron Smith in the December ish.
ref: 1967 June, Drake Maynard, If, volume 17, number 6, page 160:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An instalment of a periodical; an issue.
Derived terms: annish
thish
ish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Senses: glosses: ick, yuck
Related terms: ishy
eesh
ish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Etymology: From earlier isht, a minced oath and metathetic alteration of shit.
Senses: examples: text: Anyone, really, but seriously, you'd think that people whose very passion depends on their lungs would want to cut that ish out
ref: 2010, Jill Murray, Break On Through, page 15:
text: I owe you a lot Dipal, so put that ish away.
ref: 2012, Dipal Parikh, Walking with Krishna: Based on True Life Events, page 154:
text: Now, it's time to get your ish together.
ref: 2013, Ivy McQuain, Get Your Head Out of the Clouds, This Is Business, page 25:
text: I passed on that craziness. I wasn't messing with that ish.
ref: 2015, Ni-Ni Simone, Amir Abrams, Lights, Love & Lip Gloss, page 51:
glosses: Shit (in various senses).
tele-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛl.ɪ/
ipa: /ˈtɛl.ə/
ipa: /ˈtɛl.ə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “at a distance, far off, far away, far from”).
Senses: examples: telegram
telerobot
glosses: over a distance
examples: telecast
telefantasy
telethon
glosses: television
examples: telepost
teletape
teletypewriter
glosses: telegraph
examples: telecheck
telesales
glosses: telephone
examples: telebooth
glosses: teleport
examples: telemarketing
glosses: telecommunication
thermo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɜː.məʊ-/
ipa: /θɜɹ.moʊ-/
Forms: form: therm-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm, hot”).
Senses: glosses: thermal: heat; temperature.
xylo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: zīʹ-lō
ipa: /ˈzaɪ.loʊ/
other: /ˈzaɪ.loʊ/
other: /ˈzaɪ.ləʊ/
rhymes: -aɪləʊ
Forms: form: xyl-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”).
Senses: glosses: wood
Derived terms: xylarium
xylobiose
xylocaine
xylocarpous
xylograph
xyloheptaose
xylohexaose
xylohydroquinone
xylology
xylooligomer
xylooligosaccharide
xylopentaose
xylophage
xylophagous
xylophagy
xylophone
xylopolist
xylose
xylotetraose
xylotheque
xylotherapy
xylotomy
xylotransferase
xylotriose
Related terms: xylem
xylene
-ase
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ās′
enpr: āz′
ipa: /-ˌeɪs/
ipa: /-ˌeɪz/
ipa: /-ˌæɪs/
ipa: /-ˌæɪz/
ipa: /-ˌes/
ipa: /-ˌez/
ipa: /-ˌeːs/
ipa: /-ˌeːz/
rhymes: -eɪs
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: -ases
Etymology: Derived from ending of diastase; a libfix.
Senses: glosses: Used to form the names of enzymes.
-gon
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”).
Senses: examples: text: A pentagon has five sides.
text: a 17-gon
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: -angle
glosses: Forms the names of plane figures containing a given number of internal angles, and thus bounded by that number of line segments (polygons).
Related terms: -gonal
-hedron
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -hedra
form: -hedrons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra, “face of a geometrical solid”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Forms the names of solid figures bounded by a certain number of planes (polyhedra).
Related terms: -hedral