cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pelvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛlvɪk/
Senses: examples: text: pelvic cellulitis
text: pelvic movement
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis
Derived terms: abdominopelvic
cephalopelvic
dolichopelvic
en
endopelvic
extrapelvic
femoropelvic
fetopelvic
genitopelvic
hemipelvic
hydropelvic
infrapelvic
infundibulopelvic
intrapelvic
lumbopelvic
midpelvic
nonpelvic
parapelvic
pelvically
pelvic arch
pelvic cavity
pelvic diaphragm
pelvic fin
pelvic floor
pelvic girdle
pelvic inflammatory disease
pelvic inflammatory disorder
pelvic lines
pelvic thrust
pelvic tilt
platypelvic
plesiopelvic
prepelvic
sacropelvic
spinopelvic
subpelvic
suprapelvic
thoracoabdominopelvic
ureteropelvic
uteropelvic
vertebropelvic
pelvic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛlvɪk/
Forms: form: pelvics
Senses: glosses: pelvic fin
examples: 2022 Sunshine Smith, quoted in Spencer Beswick, "The model for mobilizing to protect abortion rights beyond voting", The Washington Post, May 17.
[W]omen learn the basics of self-cervical exams, do pelvics on each other, and learn how to do menstrual extraction.
glosses: a pelvic examination
penna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pennae
Etymology: From Latin penna (“feather”). Doublet of panne, pen, and pinna.
Senses: glosses: a contour feather
Derived terms: pennage
penner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: penners
Etymology: From pen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: the penners of those bookes
ref: 1594, Hugh Broughton, A Seder Olam:
glosses: One who pens; a writer.
examples: text: He collects his penner that holds his writing quills, his knife, and his horn tube containing ink. He carries these in his belt[…]
ref: 2008, Robert Hull, Merchant, page 16:
glosses: A case for holding pens.
pep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: peps
form: pepping
form: pepped
form: pepped
Etymology: Abbreviation of pepper (“spice”)
Senses: examples: text: At least a couple of weeks since I last slept,
Kept takin' sleepers, but now I keep myself pepped.
ref: 1995, Faithless, “Insomnia”:
glosses: To inject with energy and enthusiasm.
Derived terms: pep up
pep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: peps
Etymology: Abbreviation of pepper (“spice”)
Senses: examples: text: She was particularly pleased with the wine, which at not infrequent intervals she tasted. Beyond all doubt it promised to be of vintage quality. Clearly the long hot summer had put more than a little pep into the berries.
ref: 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren:
glosses: Energy, high spirits.
Synonyms: energy
high spirits
vim
Derived terms: pepful
pep in one's step
pepless
pep pill
peppy
pep rally
pep squad
pep talk
pew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: Pugh
homophone: Pew
Forms: form: pews
Etymology: From Middle English pewe, from Old French puiee, puïe (“balustrade, balcony”), from Latin podia, plural of podium (“parapet, podium”), from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, “little foot”), from πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of podia.
Senses: examples: text: In many churches some pews are reserved for either clerical or liturgical officials such as canons, or for prominent families.
text: The pews are filling up, notably with young people, Gen Z's attendance at church has quadrupled in recent years—from a small base, but the significance lies more in the direction of travel.
ref: 2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:
glosses: One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.
examples: text: At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, firefighters in dress blues and white gloves escorted families to the pews for a memorial service, led by Mr. Bloomberg, to honor the 343 Fire Department employees killed on 9/11.
ref: 2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family.
examples: text: [H]e, a lollard indeed over his elbovv-cuſhion, in almoſt the ſeaventh part of 40. or 50. years teaches them ſcarce half the principles of religion; and his ſheep oft-times ſit the vvhile to as little purpoſe of benifiting as the ſheep in thir pues at Smithfield; […]
ref: 1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLC, pages 57–58:
text: my wife and I […]did get into the play, the only one we have seen this winter: it was “The Five Hours’ Adventure:” but I sat so far I could not hear well, nor was there any pretty woman that I did see, but my wife, who sat in my Lady Fox’s pew with her.
ref: 1689 February 25 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 15th, 1688–1689”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
glosses: Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold.
examples: text: Pull up a pew.
text: Victor Crabbe's headmaster was a little man called Boothby […] who subscribed to a popular book club and had many long-playing records, who invited people to curry tiffin and said, "Take a pew."
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 38:
glosses: A chair; a seat.
Derived terms: bepewed
churchwarden's pew
pewage
pewdom
pewfellow
pewful
pewholder
pewholding
pewless
pewlike
pewmate
pew-opener
pull up a pew
take a pew
pew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: Pugh
homophone: Pew
Forms: form: pews
form: pewing
form: pewed
form: pewed
Etymology: From Middle English pewe, from Old French puiee, puïe (“balustrade, balcony”), from Latin podia, plural of podium (“parapet, podium”), from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, “little foot”), from πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of podia.
Senses: examples: text: building a gallery and altering the pewing in the church at Catherington
ref: 1834, The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information […] :
glosses: To furnish with pews.
Derived terms: repew
pew
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: Pugh
homophone: Pew
Forms: form: P U
form: P.U.
form: peeyoo
form: phew
Etymology: See phew.
Senses: glosses: An expression of disgust in response to an unpleasant odor.
pew
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: Pugh
homophone: Pew
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun, particularly a blaster in science fiction.
Derived terms: pew pew
pewee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpi.wi/
Forms: form: pewees
Etymology: Imitative, from its note.
Senses: glosses: The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus).
glosses: A woodcock.
examples: text: He was clumsy at the new games, but his teachers did not hoot at him. Instead they quarreled for the privilege of showing him how to hold the pewee stick. There are several schools of technique in pewee.
ref: 1932, John Steinbeck, Junius Maltby:
glosses: An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.
Derived terms: eastern wood pewee
wood pewee
smoke-colored pewee
phenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛnɪl/
ipa: /ˈfinɪl/
ipa: /ˈfiːnaɪl/
ipa: /ˈfiːnɪl/
note: Indic
ipa: /pʰɪˈnajl/
rhymes: -ɛnɪl
rhymes: -iːnɪl
rhymes: -iːnaɪl
Forms: form: phenyls
Etymology: Borrowed from French phényle, derived from the root of Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine”) plus ὕλη (húlē, “wood; material, substance”). Equivalent to phen- + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent hydrocarbon radical, C₆H₅ (benzene minus one hydrogen atom), and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives.
wikipedia: phenyl
Derived terms: adapalene
alphenal
alprazolam
aminophenyl
biphenyl
bromophenyl
carboxyphenyl
carfecillin
cefedrolor
clomifene
cyanophenyl
darifenacin
dichlorophenylphosphine
diisopropylphenyl
dimethoxyphenylpenicillin
dinitrodiphenylamine
diphenyl
diphenylacetyl
diphenylhydantoin
enalapril
enilospirone
febuxostat
felbamate
fendosal
fengabine
fenthion
fluorophenyl
halophenyl
hydroxyphenyl
ibuprofen
iodophenyl
iofendylate
lofendazam
mephenytoin
methoxyphenyl
methylenedioxyphenyl
miconazole
monophenyl
nefazodone
nitrophenyl
oligophenyl
pentaphenyl
phenacaine
phenetol
phenibut
pheno-
phenone
phenose
phensuximide
phenylacetaldehyde
phenylacetamide
phenylacetic
phenylacetone
phenylacetylene
phenylalanine
phenylalkane
phenylaniline
phenylated
phenyl azide
phenylbenzene
phenylboric
phenylboronic
phenylboronic acid
phenylbutanoic
phenylbutanoic acid
phenylbutyrate
phenylcarbinol
phenylcoumarin
phenyldiazirine
phenylephedrine
phenylephrine
phenylethyl
phenylethylamide
phenylethylamine
phenylethylene
phenylheptatriene
phenylheptatriyne
phenylhydrazine
phenylhydrazone
phenylhydroxylamine
phenylic
phenylindole
phenylisothiocyanate
phenylketone
phenyllithium
phenyl mercaptan
phenylmercurial
phenylmercuric
phenylmercury
phenylmethane
phenylmethyl
phenylnitrone
phenylosazone
phenylpiperazine
phenylpiperidine
phenylpiracetam
phenylpropane
phenylpropene
phenylpyrazole
phenylpyrrole
phenylpyruvate
phenyltetrazolium
phenylthiocarbamide
phenylthiohydantoin
phenylthiol
phenylthiourea
phenyltropane
phenyracillin
polyphenyl
sildenafil
tamoxifen
terphenyl
tetraphenyl
tetraphenylborate
tetraphenylphosphonium
tetraphenylsilane
thiophenyl
tranylcypromine
trichlorophenol
trifluoromethylphenyl
trihexyphenidyl
trimethylphenyl
trimethylphenylammonium
triphenyl
venlafaxine
Related terms: pheno-
phenol
cyclohexyl
phloem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfləʊ.əm/
other: /ˈfləʊ.ɛm/
enpr: flōʹəm
ipa: /ˈfloʊ.əm/
other: /ˈfloʊ.ɛm/
rhymes: -əʊəm
rhymes: -əʊɛm
Forms: form: phloems
form: phlœm
form: phloëm
form: phlöem
Etymology: First attested in 1872. From German Phloëm, coined by Swiss botanist Carl Nägeli in 1858 from Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “husk, bark”) + a Greek-sounding ending -em (cf. System).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot.
Coordinate terms: xylem
Derived terms: epiphloeum
leptophloem
metaphloem
periphloem
phloematic
phloemic
phloemlike
phloeophagous
protophloem
phobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊbɪk/
ipa: /ˈfoʊbɪk/
rhymes: -əʊbɪk
Forms: form: more phobic
form: most phobic
Etymology: From phobia + -ic, see -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: Anything can become a phobic stimulus.
glosses: Relating to a phobia.
examples: text: The mail carrier was phobic of dogs.
text: Even so, in many cases the homophobe truly is phobic of gays and lesbians, […]
ref: 2009, Martin Kantor, Homophobia: The State of Sexual Bigotry Today, 2nd Edition, →ISBN:
text: Yes, our society is backwards, full of violent phobic unexamined idiot fear people constantly throw at innocent others.
ref: 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 40:
glosses: Experiencing or expressing phobia (strong fear and/or dislike).
Derived terms: antiphobic
counterphobic
multiphobic
nonphobic
phobically
phobic avoidant
phobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊbɪk/
ipa: /ˈfoʊbɪk/
rhymes: -əʊbɪk
Forms: form: phobics
Etymology: From phobia + -ic, see -phobic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has a phobia.
phon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒn
Forms: form: phons
Senses: qualifier: acoustics
glosses: A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.
phonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.nɪk/
ipa: /ˈfɒn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.
Derived terms: biphonic
exophonic
isophonic
multiphonic
neurophonic
normophonic
phonically
phonic wheel
Related terms: audio
phonon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊ.nɑn/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.nɔn/
Forms: form: phonons
Etymology: From phono- + -on. From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). Modelled after photon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The quantum of acoustic or vibrational energy (sound), considered a discrete particle rather than a wave.
Coordinate terms: photon
plasmon
Derived terms: hyperphonon
magnetophonon
multiphonon
phononic
phononics
phononless
piezophonon
Related terms: quasiparticle
phonon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊ.nɑn/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.nɔn/
Forms: form: phonons
Etymology: From phono- + -on. From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A unit of phonemics.
Coordinate terms: lexon
semon
photon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊtɒn/
rhymes: -əʊtɒn
Forms: form: photons
Etymology: From photo- + -on. Coined by American physicist Leonard Troland in 1916 as a unit of light hitting the retina, and later popularized in a more modern sense by Gilbert N. Lewis, with the term gaining acceptance in the physics community by the late 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref: 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.
wikipedia: Gilbert N. Lewis
Derived terms: antiphoton
biophoton
biphoton
diphoton
dual photon absorptiometry
graviphoton
last photon orbit
monophoton
multiphoton
notoph
photino
photon belt
photon circle
photonic
photonics
photon mapping
photon sail
photon sphere
photon tunnelling
proto-photon
soft photon
super-photon
superphoton
triphoton
Related terms: phonon
plasmon
pica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪkə/
enpr: pīkə
ipa: /ˈpaɪkə/
rhymes: -aɪkə
Forms: form: picas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pīca (“jay; magpie”). Doublet of pie (“magpie”).
* (pathology): From the idea that magpies will eat almost anything.
Senses: examples: text: The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil.
ref: 1986, George S Baroff, Mental retardation: nature, cause, and management:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: allotriophagy
word: chthonophagia
word: cittosis
word: geophagy
word: pique
glosses: A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
glosses: A magpie.
pica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪkə/
enpr: pīkə
ipa: /ˈpaɪkə/
rhymes: -aɪkə
Forms: form: picas
Etymology: From Medieval Latin pica (“pica: a service book”), possibly from Latin pīca (“magpie”) after the piebald appearance of the typeset page (cf. pie (“disordered type”)). The relation to the printer's measure is unclear, as no edition of the text in pica type is known. The French pica derives from English rather than vice versa.
Senses: examples: text: I had been at Baldwin's before dinner in consequence of a letter from him which showed me that, by using a pica instead of an English letter in printing my book, I might comprise it within such a number of sheets as a guinea-volume should contain […].
ref: 1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 30:
topics: media
printing
publishing
typography
glosses: A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A font of this size.
raw_tags: with qualifier
topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: cicero
em
en
point
glosses: A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.
Derived terms: double pica
two-line pica
double small pica
pica stick
small pica
two-line double pica
pica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪkə/
enpr: pīkə
ipa: /ˈpaɪkə/
rhymes: -aɪkə
Forms: form: picas
Senses: examples: text: Most travellers in the Himalaya are familiar with the pretty little Rodents, known as picas, tailless hares, or mouse-hares, which may be seen in the higher regions[…]
ref: 1895, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History, volume 3, page 190:
glosses: Archaic form of pika (“small lagomorph”).
piked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: peaked
pointed
glosses: Furnished with a pike; ending in a point.
glosses: Describing a dive in which the knees are kept straight, but the body is bent at a right-angle at the hips.
Derived terms: unpiked
piked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pike
pilfer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪl.fə/
ipa: /ˈpɪl.fɚ/
Forms: form: pilfers
form: pilfering
form: pilfered
form: pilfered
form: pilfre
Etymology: From earlier pilfre, from Middle English pilfre (“booty”), from Old French pelfre (“plunder, booty, spoils”), of unknown origin. Compare pelf.
Senses: examples: text: pilfer goods
text: pilfer from a store
text: pilfer small items
text: The boy tried to pilfer sweets from the shop.
text: Office supplies often get pilfered by employees.
glosses: To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
Derived terms: pilferable
pilferage
pilferer
pilferingly
pilferproof
unpilfered
Related terms: pelf
fib
pinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪŋ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpɪŋ.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pingers
Etymology: From ping + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We couldn't take the boat into the shallows near the reef because our sonar pinger was broken.
glosses: A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound burst, such as in sonar or other echo location systems.
examples: text: The scientist attached a pinger to the carapace of the sea turtle to track its migration.
glosses: A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking.
examples: text: Some people like fancy pingers with extra features, but I always use the default ping application.
glosses: A computer program that sends a ping message over a network.
examples: text: Every time we replace the main page, we get flooded with pingers making sure our web site is still there.
glosses: A user of a ping program; one who pings.
examples: text: That was a great party. Everyone took a pinger or two.
glosses: An illicit drug, especially ecstasy, taken for recreational purposes.
pinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pinners
Etymology: From Middle English pynner, pynnere, pinnere, equivalent to pin + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This wrestler or pahlwan was a devotee of the old type of wrestling, in which the opponent is thrown down and pinned, unable to get out from under the pinner.
ref: 2009, Harold Bergsma, The Opium Eaters, page 181:
glosses: Agent noun of pin; one who pins.
glosses: A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
examples: text: Inſtead of Home-ſpun quoifs were ſeen / Good Pinners, edg'd with Colberteen: [...]
ref: 1708, [Jonathan Swift], “The Metamorphosis of Baucis and Philemon, Burlesqu’d; from the 8th Book of Ovid”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. […], London: […] H. Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 7:
text: If by the dairy's hatch I chance to hie, / I ſhall her goodly countenance eſpie, / For there her goodly countenance I've ſeen, / Set off with kerchief ſtarch'd and pinners clean.
ref: 1714, J[ohn] Gay, “Friday; or, The Dirge”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […], →OCLC, page 44, lines 55–58:
glosses: A cloth band for a gown.
Derived terms: pinner-up
pinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pinners
Etymology: Variant of pinder, from Middle English pindere, pyndere, pundere, pendere, equivalent to pend (“to pen”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who pins or impounds cattle; a pinder.
pion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪɒn/
rhymes: -aɪɒn
Forms: form: pions
Etymology: From pi + -on, as alteration of pi-meson.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.
Synonyms: pi meson
Derived terms: antipion
dipion
hyperpion
multipion
photopion
pionful
pionic
pionium
pionless
pion rocket
technipion
pith
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: piths
form: pithing
form: pithed
form: pithed
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English pith, pithe (“central tissue of a plant’s stem or a tree’s trunk and branches; other spongy inner tissue in a plant; flesh of a fruit, pulp; inner tissue in a body; inner part of an object; essential part, essence, quintessence; importance, value; energy, force, strength, vigour; severity”) [and other forms], from Old English piþa [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *piþô, from earlier *piþō (oblique *pittan); further etymology unknown. Doublet of pit (“seed or stone inside a fruit”).
The verb is derived from the noun (Middle English pethen (“to give courage or strength”), from pith (noun), did not survive into modern English).
Cognates
* Dutch peen (“carrot”)
* Middle Low German peddek, peddik, piddek (“bone marrow; medulla; spinal cord; inner part of a horn or quill; (figurative) core, essence”) (the last spelling rare) (Low German Peddik (“core; pulp”))
* West Frisian piid (“pulp, kernel”)
Senses: glosses: To render insensate or kill (an animal, especially cattle or a laboratory animal) by cutting, piercing, or otherwise destroying the spinal cord.
examples: text: And yet, instead of exclaiming "Send this inconceivable Satanist to the stake," the respectable newspapers pith me by announcing "another book by this brilliant and thoughtful writer."
ref: 1901–1903, [George] Bernard Shaw, “To Arthur Bingham Walkley”, in Man and Superman. A Comedy and a Philosophy, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, page xxxiv:
glosses: To extract the pith from (something or (figurative) someone).
pith
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
ipa: /paɪθ/
rhymes: -aɪθ
ipa: /pɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: pi-th
Etymology: From pi (“constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter”) + -th (suffix forming ordinal numerals).
Senses: examples: text: The pith root of pi is approximately 1.439…
text: (e^pi*i*i/2), or e^(-pi/2), which is the reciprocal of the square root of e to the pith power.
ref: 1998 June 21, Hbr…@my-dejanews.com, “For what x is x^x real?”, in alt.algebra.help (Usenet), message-ID <6mhv6n$13l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>:
text: That's nothing. I have an IMEI changer that will do all of the above and beat you off at the same time, while whistling the adaggio from Spartacus in Armenian and calculating pi to the pith power in swahili.
ref: 2000 August 9, alice, “IMEI Changer T-10”, in aus.comms.mobile (Usenet), message-ID <B5B6F806.53B5%alice@alice-didit.com>:
text: already, we know what is minus one from Euler: it is the I*pith power of e, such that ln(-1) = i*pi
ref: 2017 March 5, abu.ku…@gmail.com, “The non existence of p’th root of any prime number, for (p>2) prime”, in sci.math (Usenet), message-ID <cabe6746-8a13-44f0-9e95-30eec727654a@googlegroups.com>:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The ordinal form of the number pi (π; approximately 3.14159…).
pith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
ipa: /paɪθ/
rhymes: -aɪθ
ipa: /pɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: piths
form: pi-th
Etymology: From pi (“constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter”) + -th (suffix forming ordinal numerals).
Senses: examples: text: not only that, but your "radian" axis can be labelled as *being* in units of pis, as opposed to the redundancy of 0pi, pi/2, pi etc.; conversely, your circumferential measure can be rational (or units) and your radius can be transcendental (or piths .-)
ref: 1997 April 26, Brian Hutchings, “Trigonometric Functions”, in sci.math (Usenet), message-ID <1997Apr26.204554.24471@lafn.org>:
text: thought it was the two-sixths power of pi, and teh^([sic]) secondpower of six piths
ref: 2016 April 2, abu.ku…@gmail.com, “pi^2/6 and 6/pi^2”, in sci.math (Usenet), message-ID <d1d13d13-c4c0-43c3-b4cb-7911dcb24cc7@googlegroups.com>:
text: of course, although a pith is less than a third, hence pi is more than three, say, thirty-one tenths, but 22/7 is still less than pi, and that's a rather small gore
ref: 2017 January 13, thugst…@gmail.com, “Electron-positron annihilation”, in sci.physics (Usenet), message-ID <89a35ff8-1df1-4ab5-baf5-fdc605207710@googlegroups.com>:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: One divided by pi, that is, 1/π (approximately 0.31831…).
pitman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪt.mən/
rhymes: -ɪtmən
Forms: form: pitmans
form: pitmen
Etymology: From pit + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The train proceeded to North Pittington Colliery, 600 yd. away, where the Duke viewed the new winning, examined the pumping and drawing engines, and saw how pitmen descended and ascended the shaft.
ref: 1948 January and February, “Notes and News: Duke of Wellington's Early Railway Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 55:
qualifier: plural "pitmen"
glosses: One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
glosses: A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill.
Derived terms: pitman arm
plasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæzəm/
rhymes: -æzəm
Forms: form: plasms
Etymology: From Late Latin plasma (“mold”) or Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”), in some cases via German Plasma or French plasme, like English plasma.
Senses: examples: text: "And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?" "Why, surely!" I cried, and gloried in my own audacity.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Protoplasm.
examples: text: A man very rarely has an image of a person with whom he is livingly, vitally connected. He only has dream-images of the persons who, in some way, oppose his life-flow and his soul's freedom, and so become impressed upon his plasm as objects of resistance.
ref: 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Sleep and Dreams”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 104:
glosses: A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
examples: text: 1990, Robert Wall, This Side Up: Spatial Determination in the Early Development of Animals, Cambridge University Press, 2005, paperback, page 96,
The last chapter showed severe limitations in the concept of 'mosaic' development as it applies to spiralian embryos. It did, however, demonstrate differential segregations occurring at cleavage there, and seen for visibly distinct plasms, some macromolecules and determinants inferred from experimental studies.
text: Shortly after fertilization the cytoplasmic components of the ascidian oocyte are redistributed according to a certain pattern and form five distinct territories or plasms (Figure 4.7). During cleavage these plasms become compartmentalized into different blastomeres which in turn give rise to the various cell lines.
ref: 2000, Kay Elder, Brian Dale, In Vitro Fertilization, Cambridge University Press, page 83:
glosses: A membrane or cell layer, especially one in an embryo that later develops into a structure; the constituent cells of such a layer.
Derived terms: alloplasm
chordoplasm
germplasm
germ plasm
heteroplasm
hyaloplasm
karyoplasm
myoplasm
neoplasm
nucleoplasm
plasmolysis
plasome
pole plasm
somatoplasm
teleplasm
xenoplasm
Related terms: cytoplasm
ectoplasm
mictoplasm
-plasm
plasma
plasmodium
protoplasm
platen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ætən
ipa: /ˈplætən/
Forms: form: platens
Etymology: From French platine, from plat (“flat”). See plate, and compare platin.
Senses: examples: text: And the form is inked, the paper is applied, the bed is slid, and the platen is levered down and the proof is printed.
ref: 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 382:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
glosses: The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
glosses: The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool.
glosses: The flat glass surface of a scanner or photocopier on which operators place items to be scanned.
playa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Forms: form: playas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish playa (“beach”). Doublet of plage.
Senses: examples: text: Beyond the valley below lay a playa, a vast dried-white lake bed, its ends reaching farther than they could see.
ref: 2020, Diane Cook, The New Wilderness, Oneworld Publications, page 66:
text: “We are also deploying buses to Gerlach to take people to Reno who might walk off the playa. See our recommendations on when walking is viable or not. This is not likely a 24-hour operation at this time.”
ref: 2023 September 3, Michael Sainato, “Officials investigate death at Burning Man as thousands stranded by floods”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.
Hyponyms: salt flat
salt pan
alkali flat
Derived terms: playa lake
playalike
playa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə
ipa: /ˈpleɪə/
rhymes: -eɪə
ipa: /ˈplaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Forms: form: playas
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation of player
Senses: glosses: A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male).
examples: text: What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:
text: In the end, all the things Grace claimed to like about Marlon—that he was not a ‘playa’, that he was gentle and awkward and not interested in money—were all the reasons she left him.
ref: 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships).
pleura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʊə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈplʊɹ.ə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: pleuras
form: pleurae
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin pleura.
Senses: examples: text: The lungs […] may be said to be inclosed in separate bags, or to have distinct pleuras.
ref: 1856, William Youatt, William Charles Linnaeus Martin, A. Stevens, The Hog (page 120)
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
meronyms: cervical pleura
costal pleura
diaphragmatic pleura
mediastinal pleura
parietal pleura
visceral pleura
glosses: Each of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A lateral part in an animal body or structure.
Derived terms: endopleura
pleural
pleurectomy
pleuretic
pleuritis
pleurosis
pulmonary pleura
Related terms: pleurisy
pleura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʊə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈplʊɹ.ə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of pleuron
plumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭm
ipa: /plʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
homophone: plum
Forms: form: plumbs
Etymology: From Middle English plumbe, plumme, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.
Senses: glosses: A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
examples: text: Customers turned away from rickety chairs, stands of drawers that refused to open, or had no handles, lop-sided wardrobes whose doors were out of plumb or whose mirrors were cracked.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 61:
glosses: The perpendicular direction or position.
Synonyms: topics: construction
manufacturing
business
word: plummet
topics: construction
manufacturing
business
word: plumb bob
topics: construction
manufacturing
business
word: plumb line
Derived terms: off plumb
out of plumb
plumb bob
plumb line
plumb rule
plumb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭm
ipa: /plʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
homophone: plum
Forms: form: more plumb
form: most plumb
Etymology: From Middle English plumbe, plumme, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.
Senses: glosses: Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.
Synonyms: sense: truly vertical
word: perpendicular
Derived terms: plumbness
unplumb
plumb
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭm
ipa: /plʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
homophone: plum
Etymology: From Middle English plumbe, plumme, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.
Senses: examples: text: Plumb down he drops.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
examples: text: It hit him plumb in the middle of his face.
text: Years ago the well plumb dried out, not a drop of water in there since.
text: 'Are you sure of that, M. Hardman?' 'I'm plumb certain.'.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 143:
glosses: Squarely, directly; deeply, completely.
Derived terms: plumb crazy
plumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭm
ipa: /plʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
homophone: plum
Forms: form: plumbs
form: plumbing
form: plumbed
form: plumbed
Etymology: From Middle English plumbe, plumme, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.
Senses: glosses: To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
examples: text: The kitchen sink is now plumbed in / up.
glosses: To attach to a water supply and drain.
examples: text: to plumb the depths of
text: Delving to the core of her heart, his blue-green eyes plumbed her psyche, stripping it of all defenses, all resolve.
ref: 2011, Catherine Lanigan, The Texan:
text: The pressure had been on City, on Guardiola, to deliver the trophy that Sheikh Mansour has craved since his takeover in 2008 but it was an occasion when the manager found a new way to lose, to plumb fresh depths of frustration.
ref: 2021 May 29, David Hytner, “Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of.
glosses: To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
glosses: To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
glosses: To seal something with lead.
synonyms: plumber#Verb
glosses: To work as a plumber.
glosses: To fall or sink like a plummet.
glosses: To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To position vertically above or below.
Derived terms: plumbable
plumbless
replumb
unplumb
plumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭm
ipa: /plʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
homophone: plum
Forms: form: plumbs
Senses: examples: text: Without attending to sub-divisions, all the pears are of one species, as well as all the apples, plumbs, peaches, cherries, lemons, citrons, oranges […]
ref: 1767, Select Essays on Husbandry:
glosses: Obsolete form of plum (“the fruit”).
plushy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌʃi/
rhymes: -ʌʃi
homophone: plushie
Forms: form: plushies
Etymology: From plush + -y.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plushie.
synonyms: word: plushie
plushy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌʃi/
rhymes: -ʌʃi
homophone: plushie
Forms: form: plushier
form: plushiest
Etymology: From plush + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like plush; soft and shaggy.
examples: text: one saw and felt a vanished Broadway, plains covered with cattle and cowboys, jungles and native villages, and a great shining city of hansom-cabs, political intrigue and plushy champagne-suppers, as if one were walking through them oneself in the company of a superb raconteur and inspired liar.
ref: 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 101:
glosses: Plush; sumptuous.
Derived terms: plushily
plushiness
pluton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutons
Etymology: Back-formation from Plutonic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A body of igneous rock formed beneath the surface of the earth by consolidation of magma
plyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plyers
Senses: glosses: A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a Saint Andrew's cross.
glosses: Alternative spelling of plier.
podded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pod + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: edible-podded peas
glosses: having pods (of a particular kind)
Derived terms: unpodded
podded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pod + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pod
poi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian poi.
Senses: examples: text: It was a far cry from the traditional Hawaiian feast, which always included the beloved poi, a purplish paste made from pounded taro root […].
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 104:
glosses: The traditional staple food of Hawaii, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.
glosses: A creamy Samoan dessert of ripe bananas mashed with coconut cream.
poi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: poi
form: pois
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori poi.
Senses: examples: text: Warriors formerly used poi actions to maintain wrist flexibility, but poi have developed as a women's dance. Classic poi dances and songs are reputed to have been those of the people of the Taranaki, Rotorua, and Whanganui tribal areas, but poi are now performed everywhere in Aotearoa.
ref: 2008, Ellen Koskoff, “Haka poi”, in The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Routledge, →ISBN, page 738:
text: A couple of days later Trico announced that, if I were to travel with them, it was imperative that I learn some form of malabares, or circus skill. The available options were poi, staff or juggling. ‘Poi’, the form of malabares that Sandra played, are two balls at the end of chains which are spun in patterns around the body. When the balls are replaced by wicks soaked in gasoline and set alight, the poi ‘spin fire’.
ref: 2013, Catriona Rainsford, The Urban Circus: Travels with Mexico's Malabaristas, Bradt Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: A small ball made of leaves and fibres, attached to a string.
glosses: A traditional dance performed by Maori women involving the rhythmic swinging of such a ball.
poi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poee (“Goan flatbread”).
pois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poi
poiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɔɪzə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: poisers
Etymology: From poise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: To the only rewarder and most just poiser of virtuous merits, the most honourably renowned Nobody, bounteous Maecenas of Poetry and Lord Protector of oppressed innocence, […]
ref: c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: One who poises or balances something.
glosses: The balancer of dipterous insects.
pol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑl/
ipa: /pɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: pols
Etymology: Clipping of politician
Senses: examples: text: Journalists and pols were cozier then. President Kennedy sipped 1945 Lafite-Rothschild at the Alsops' Georgetown home, and the Alsops dined at the White House.
ref: 1993 October 31, Maureen Dowd, “The WASP Descendancy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The knights-errant of politics could "tsk, tsk" all they wanted, but most experienced pols recognized that patronage was the lifeblood of their profession.
ref: 2008, Frank P. Vazzano, Politician Extraordinaire, page 174:
glosses: A politician.
poler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊlə(ɹ)/
homophone: polar
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: polers
Etymology: From pole + -er.
Senses: synonyms: poleman
polesman
glosses: One who propels a boat using a pole.
glosses: A horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle.
poler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊlə(ɹ)/
homophone: polar
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: polers
Etymology: See poller.
Senses: examples: text: the Poler and Exacter of Fees
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 322:
glosses: An extortioner.
poling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pole
poling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polings
Senses: examples: the poling of beans
the poling of a boat
glosses: The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles.
glosses: The operation of dispersing wormcasts over the walks with poles.
glosses: One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.
Derived terms: double poling
poling around
poling boat
poller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pollers
Etymology: From poll + -er.
Senses: glosses: one who polls or lops trees
glosses: one who cuts hair; a barber
glosses: one who votes
glosses: one who registers voters or conducts a poll
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a task or process that periodically checks for a condition being satisfied, such as the availability of new data
pomade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈmeɪd/
ipa: /poʊˈmeɪd/
ipa: /pəˈmɑːd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: pomades
Etymology: From French pommade, from Italian pomata (“ointment, pomade”), from pomo (“apple”) + -ata (“-ade, -ate: forming nouns”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”). Doublet of pomatum, pomate, and pomace. Early pomades tended to be various kinds of fat mixed with apples for a more pleasing scent.
Senses: examples: text: So saying, Lady Mandeville turned to the toilette, and mercilessly tied up in her handkerchief the various brushes, combs, oils, pomade, and rouge, with which the table was profusely covered.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 44:
text: The rain beat my hair, run down my face and into my mouth so that I can taste the coconut oil pomade from my hair.
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 94:
synonyms: brilliantine
hair gel
glosses: A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny.
examples: text: With this excellent Pomade you may Anoint your Face at night, and waſh it off the next day in the morning with Rain-water.
ref: 1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […] , Of Medicines and other Remedies which are appropriated to the Skin, Hair, and Teeth, page 9:
glosses: Synonym of ointment, particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair.
synonyms: word: ointment
word: particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair
glosses: Synonym of cider, a soft or hard drink made from apples.
synonyms: word: cider
extra: a soft or hard drink made from apples
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: pomatum
sense: all senses
word: pomate
Derived terms: pomade divine
pomade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈmeɪd/
ipa: /poʊˈmeɪd/
ipa: /pəˈmɑːd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: pomades
form: pomading
form: pomaded
form: pomaded
Etymology: From French pommade, from Italian pomata (“ointment, pomade”), from pomo (“apple”) + -ata (“-ade, -ate: forming nouns”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”). Doublet of pomatum, pomate, and pomace. Early pomades tended to be various kinds of fat mixed with apples for a more pleasing scent.
Senses: examples: text: He pomaded his hair until it looked like a piece of shiny plastic.
glosses: To apply pomade to style hair.
glosses: Synonym of anoint, to apply ointment.
synonyms: word: anoint
word: to apply ointment
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: pomatum
sense: all senses
word: pomate