cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: lams
form: lamming
form: lammed
form: lammed
form: lamm
Etymology: From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.
Senses: examples: text: 1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102,
An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.
text: They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998, Chapter:
glosses: To beat or thrash.
examples: text: [Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!
ref: 1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4
text: […]and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
glosses: To flee or run away.
lam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: lams
form: lamm
Etymology: From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.
Senses: examples: text: on the lam
glosses: A flight or escape.
Derived terms: belam
lambaste
lam into
lam off
lam out
lamster
on the lam
take it on the lam
Related terms: lame
lam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: lams
Etymology: From Arabic لَام (lām), the name of the letter ل (l).
Senses: glosses: The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
Related terms: lam chau
ad hoc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd ˈhɒk/
ipa: /ˌæd ˈhɑk/
ipa: /ˌæd ˈhɔk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: more ad hoc
form: most ad hoc
form: ad-hoc
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin ad hoc (“to this, for this”).
Senses: glosses: For a particular purpose.
examples: text: Over the past 20 years or so, from South America to the Danube basin, ad hoc coalitions of politicians, activists and conscience-stricken billionaires (whose core activities, such as Povlsen’s clothing business, are often less than environmentally friendly), have rewilded millions of acres of mostly failed agricultural and grazing land.
ref: 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.
examples: text: Contrary to the traditional condoning of ad hoc hypotheses, and in line with Popper's and Grünbaum's approaches, we see, once an ad hoc hypothesis is introduced we are unhappy about it and try to eliminate it.
ref: 2012 December 6, J. Agassi, Science in Flux, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 197:
topics: sciences
glosses: Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.
raw_tags: of a hypothesis
examples: text: An ad hoc network is a group of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without any fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. The applications for ad hoc networks have grown tremendously with the increase in the use of wireless sensor networks.
ref: 2007 April 23, Jagannathan Sarangapani, Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks: Protocols, Performance, and Control, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 233:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points.
Derived terms: ad hocery
ad hocism
ad hocness
adhocracy
adhocrat
adhocratic
ad hoc
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd ˈhɒk/
ipa: /ˌæd ˈhɑk/
ipa: /ˌæd ˈhɔk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: more ad hoc
form: most ad hoc
form: ad-hoc
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin ad hoc (“to this, for this”).
Senses: glosses: On the spur of the moment.
glosses: For a particular purpose.
Synonyms: ad hocly
ad lib
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æd ˈlɪb/
ipa: /ˈæd ˈlɪb/
Forms: form: more ad lib
form: most ad lib
form: ad lib.
form: ad-lib
form: adlib
Etymology: Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum.
Senses: glosses: At pleasure.
glosses: At will.
examples: text: For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib., tea, and plenty of good bread.
ref: 1951, Katherine Mansfield, Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922:
glosses: As much as desired, to one's fill, without restriction.
glosses: Extemporaneously.
Synonyms: a piacere
Derived terms: ad-libber
Mad Lib
ad lib
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æd ˈlɪb/
ipa: /ˈæd ˈlɪb/
Forms: form: more ad lib
form: most ad lib
form: ad lib.
form: ad-lib
form: adlib
Etymology: Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum.
Senses: glosses: Extemporaneous, impromptu.
ad lib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æd ˈlɪb/
ipa: /ˈæd ˈlɪb/
Forms: form: ad libs
form: ad lib.
form: ad-lib
form: adlib
Etymology: Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum.
Senses: topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: An instance of something improvised, especially a line.
topics: dancing
entertainment
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
glosses: Improvised vocals added after the main vocals have been recorded which serve to emphasize the rhythm or fill the lyrical bar line.
ad lib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æd ˈlɪb/
ipa: /ˈæd ˈlɪb/
Forms: form: ad libs
form: ad libbing
form: ad libbed
form: ad libbed
form: ad lib.
form: ad-lib
form: adlib
Etymology: Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum.
Senses: glosses: To perform without a script.
glosses: To perform without preparation.
examples: text: She ad libbed the rest of the scene.
glosses: To perform extemporaneously.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: chiefly hip hop
glosses: To perform ad libs; to improvise lyrics after the main lyrics have been recorded.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: chiefly hip hop
glosses: To perform (lyrics) as ad libs.
ad libitum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad libitum.
Senses: glosses: As much as desired, to one's fill, without restriction.
ad libitum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad libitum.
Senses: examples: text: an ad libitum diet
glosses: As much as desired, to one's fill, without restriction.
adherent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/
ipa: /əd-/
ipa: /ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/
ipa: /əd-/
Forms: form: more adherent
form: most adherent
form: adhærent
Etymology: From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).
Senses: examples: text: Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung
And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.
ref: 1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II:
glosses: Adhesive, sticking to something.
glosses: Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
examples: text: Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.
ref: 2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1217:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Showing adherence to a treatment.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: adhering
Derived terms: adherently
cytoadherent
deadherent
enteroadherent
hyperadherent
inadherent
mucoadherent
nonadherent
preadherent
semiadherent
unadherent
Related terms: adhere
adherence
adhesive
coherent
inherent
adherent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/
ipa: /əd-/
ipa: /ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/
ipa: /əd-/
Forms: form: adherents
form: adhærent
Etymology: From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).
Senses: glosses: A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
admixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈmɪkst͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ædˈmɪkst͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: admixtures
Etymology: From Latin admixtūra, from admixtus, past participle of admisceō (“to mix in”), from misceō (“to mix”). Analyzable as ad- + mixture.
Senses: examples: text: The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor.
text: Gas analysis of blood samples, obtained from different sites in the heart and great vessels, permits demonstration of admixture of oxygenated blood in the venous side or admixture of venous blood in the arterial side of the circulation.
ref: 1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital Heart Disease”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 170:
glosses: An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something.
examples: text: […] the wood still flourished high and dense, all of fir on the land side, but towards the sea with a large admixture of live oaks.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
text: Both were lean, raw-boned specimens; the man tall, sandy, and grey-eyed, and the woman short and rather dark, with a black straightness of hair suggesting a slight Indian admixture.
ref: 1928, H. P. Lovecraft, Zealia Bishop, The Curse of Yig:
glosses: An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something.
A mixing-in of a biologically or genetically differentiated group to an established stock.
glosses: A mixture, in some contexts
examples: Background EEG demonstrates an admixture of theta and delta waves.
glosses: A mixture, in some contexts:
a mixture composed of entities retaining their individual properties.
qualifier: epilepsy
Derived terms: english: back-formation
translation: back-formation
word: admix
aforementioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɔːˌmɛn.ʃənd/
ipa: /ˈæfəˌmɛn.ʃənd/
ipa: /ˈæfɔːˌmɛn.ʃənd/
ipa: /əˈfɔɹˌmɛn.ʃənd/
ipa: /ˈæfəɹˌmɛn.ʃənd/
ipa: /ˈæfɔɹˌmɛn.ʃənd/
Etymology: From afore- + mentioned.
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't until later that we realized that the aforementioned caller and this taciturn man were the same person.
text: The tombs where they lay, rested, and slept to problem solve amongst one another telepathically were secured to the deck by crisscrossing to center heavy stainless-steel chains’ that encapsulated and encased each of the aforementioned Gods, Goddesses, and Princessian High Priestesses.
ref: 2020, Ignaziano Lafluer Garnier, The Pretender One the Intender, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: DeMaio's problem with the resolution is in part related to the section calling out various anti-LBGTQ+ bills, which reads: "The aforementioned anti-LGBTQ+ bills disproportionately target TGI people and include efforts to prohibit access to lifesaving gender-affirming health care, […]
ref: 2025 June 26, Mandy Taheri, “Gay California Lawmaker Blasts 'Inflammatory' Pride resolution”, in Newsweek:
glosses: Previously mentioned.
Synonyms: above-mentioned
abovementioned
aforesaid
mentioned
Related terms: last-mentioned
hereinbefore
heretofore
aforementioned
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɔːˌmɛn.ʃənd/
ipa: /ˈæfəˌmɛn.ʃənd/
ipa: /ˈæfɔːˌmɛn.ʃənd/
ipa: /əˈfɔɹˌmɛn.ʃənd/
ipa: /ˈæfəɹˌmɛn.ʃənd/
ipa: /ˈæfɔɹˌmɛn.ʃənd/
Etymology: From afore- + mentioned.
Senses: examples: text: The judge read a list of prisoners' names. She then indicated that the aforementioned were to be set free.
glosses: The one or ones mentioned previously.
Synonyms: abovementioned
aforesaid
mentioned
against
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɛnst/
ipa: /əˈɡeɪnst/
ipa: /əˈɡɛnst/
ipa: /əˈɡɛnst/
ipa: /əˈɡeɪnst/
ipa: [əˈɡeə̯nst]
ipa: [əˈɡɛːnst]
rhymes: -ɛnst
rhymes: -eɪnst
Forms: form: againest
form: agaynest
form: agaynst
form: ageinest
form: ageinst
form: agenest
form: agenst
form: ageynest
form: ageynst
form: agin
form: 'gainst
form: gainst
Etymology: Formed from Middle English ayenes, agenes, againes (“in opposition to”), a southern variant of agen, or directly from again, either way with adverbial genitive singular ending -es; the parasitic -t was added circa 1350, probably by confusion with the superlative ending -est. By surface analysis, again + -st (excrescent ending).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian juun (“against”), West Frisian tsjin (“against”), Dutch tegen (“against”), German Low German gegen (“against”), German gegen (“against”), Icelandic gegn (“against”).
Senses: examples: text: Thence she them brought into a stately Hall, / Wherein were many tables faire dispred, / And ready dight with drapets festiuall, / Against the viaundes should be ministred.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: He now gave Mrs Deborah positive orders to take the child to her own bed, and to call up a maid-servant to provide it pap, and other things, against it waked.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 6:
glosses: By the time that (something happened); before.
preposition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prĕp-ə-zĭsh'ən
ipa: /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈpɹiːpəˌzɪʃən/
enpr: prĕp-ə-zĭsh'ən
ipa: /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/
Forms: form: prepositions
form: prepositioning
form: prepositioned
form: prepositioned
form: pre-position
Etymology: From pre- + position.
Senses: examples: text: It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.
glosses: Alternative spelling of pre-position.
pam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: pams
Etymology: Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name.
Senses: glosses: The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
glosses: A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.
pam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: pams
Etymology: Probably alteration of panorama.
Senses: examples: text: The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.
ref: 1934, Frank Roy Fraprie, American Photography, volume 28, page 240:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A panorama.
pam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: pams
form: pamming
form: pammed
form: pammed
Etymology: Probably alteration of panorama.
Senses: examples: text: In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees;
ref: 1918, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, Current Opinion - Volume 64, page 331:
text: The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot.
ref: 1918, Rob Wagner, Film Folk:
text: At one time he ordered a panorama effect, in which the cameras “pammed,” swept from one side to the other, giving a succession of faces at close range.
ref: 1921, Arthur Benjamin Reeve, The Film Mystery, page 347:
text: The mechanism for taking the pictures with these markers on the original film and record can not be operated in quite so simple a manner, since the camera must be left free to be “pammed"—that is, moved about on its tripod to change the field of view.
ref: 1925, Bell Laboratories Record - Volumes 1-2:
text: The institution is "pammed" from a nearby hill-top, followed by close-ups of the various buildings.
ref: 1932, Educational Screen - Volumes 11-12, page 141:
text: This equipment has a distance range of 12,000 feet, and a height range of 750 feet and b, one camera is located 1500 feet from the runway and is "pammed" to follow the airplane.
ref: 1947, The SAE Journal - Volume 55, page 46:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.
Related terms: pam off
pam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: Generic use of PAM.
Senses: glosses: Cooking spray.
pam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: pams
Etymology: From Spanish palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and palmo.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palmo (“traditional Spanish and Portuguese units of measure”).
billabong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪləˌbɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɪləˌbɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɪləˌbɑŋ/
Forms: form: billabongs
Etymology: From Wiradjuri bilabang, likely a compound from Wiradjuri bila (“river”) and Wiradjuri bong or Wiradjuri bung (“dead”).
Senses: examples: text: Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,
 Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
 And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling,
 'Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda, with me.'
ref: 1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics):
glosses: An anabranch, backwater or oxbow lake that is temporarily cut off from the main river, especially one that is only filled with water during the rainy season and can sometimes dry up completely.
accused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuzd/
rhymes: -uːzd
Etymology: * (noun): First attested in the 1590's.
* From accuse (“blame”) + -ed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accuse
accused
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuzd/
rhymes: -uːzd
Forms: form: accuseds
form: accused
Etymology: * (noun): First attested in the 1590's.
* From accuse (“blame”) + -ed
Senses: examples: text: The accused arrived at the Baoshan District Court in Shanghai in the morning and a tribunal officer told AFP that a verdict may be issued later on Monday, but it was up to the judge.
ref: 2017 June 26, “Australia's Crown Resorts staff face trial in China”, in France 24, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2017:
topics: law
synonyms: accusee
antonyms: accuser
glosses: The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
Derived terms: coaccused
unaccused
accused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuzd/
rhymes: -uːzd
Forms: form: more accused
form: most accused
Etymology: * (noun): First attested in the 1590's.
* From accuse (“blame”) + -ed
Senses: examples: text: This power chiefly fell to the queen, and she was more accused than ever of too much leaning towards her own country; […]
ref: 1883, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Landmarks of Recent History, 1770-1883, Walter Smith, pages 11–12:
text: Naples had an almost stronger preference for the interposition of Spain, while the great republic of Venice in the eyes of Italy stood accused of aspiring to bring the whole peninsula under its sway, […]
ref: 1891, Charles Grant Robertson, Caesar Borgia: The Stanhope Essay for 1891, B.H. Blackwell, pages 8–9
text: If she felt unimportant, you showed her that she was important to you. If she felt accused, you reassured her. If she felt guilty, you helped her feel better.
ref: 2007, Patricia Love, Steven Stosny, How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking about It: Finding Love Beyond Words, Random House, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: Having been accused; being the target of accusations.
chemical formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical formulas
form: chemical formulae
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of molecular formula.
synonyms: word: molecular formula
glosses: Any other formula used in chemistry.
pain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pān
ipa: /peɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: pane
Forms: form: pains
form: paining
form: pained
form: pained
form: paine
Etymology: From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”), from Proto-Hellenic *kʷoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂ (“payment”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *cěnà (“price”)).
Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore).
Senses: examples: text: The wound pained him.
synonyms: word: afflict
word: hurt
word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
glosses: To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
examples: text: It pains me to say that I must let you go.
synonyms: word: afflict
word: torment
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: plague
word: atray
word: cag
word: distress
word: engrieve
word: grame
word: harass
word: harrow
word: harry
word: torment
word: trouble
word: vex
word: rend
word: wring
glosses: To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
glosses: To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
examples: text: Please help me, I am paining hard.
text: Oh my head is aching, oh Lord Damodara [Visnu], give me "kazhi". The neck is paining, oh Lord Kamadeva give me relief. My chest is paining, oh Lord Madhava, give me relief.
ref: 2001, Sarah Caldwell, quoting C. Choondal, “Waves of Beauty, Rivers of Blood: Constructing the Goddess in Kerala”, in Tracy Pintchman, editor, Seeking Mahādevī: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, page 104:
text: A lady visited the doctor, a general physician and complained of a lot of pain.
The doctor asked her where she experienced pain.
The lady touched her right knee and said, 'It is paining here doctor.'
Then she touched her stomach and said, 'It is paining here too doctor.'
ref: 2009, Nithyananda Paramahamsa, Bliss Is the Goal and the Path, page 124:
synonyms: word: ache
word: suffer
word: ache
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: hurt
word: pain
word: passion
word: suffer
word: thole
word: throe
word: wark
word: wring
glosses: To feel pain; to hurt.
pain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pān
ipa: /peɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: pane
Forms: form: pains
Etymology: From Middle English payn (“a kind of pie with a soft crust”), from Old French pain (“bread”).
Senses: examples: gammon pain; Spanish pain
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
Synonyms: word: misery
word: pain
word: wark
Hypernyms: word: sensation
Hyponyms: word: ache
word: agony
word: anguish
word: pang
word: torment
word: throe
word: smart
word: sting
word: neuropathic pain
word: nociceptive pain
word: phantom pain
word: psychogenic pain
word: back pain
word: backache
word: bellyache
word: earache
word: headache
word: lumbago
word: stomachache
word: toothache
word: hemicrania
word: migraine
word: aerodontalgia
word: arthralgia
word: causalgia
word: cephalalgia
word: chiralgia
word: costalgia
word: fibromyalgia
word: gastralgia
word: glossalgia
word: keratalgia
word: mastalgia
word: meralgia
word: metralgia
word: myalgia
word: nephralgia
word: neuralgia
word: nostalgia
word: odontalgia
word: orchidalgia
word: otalgia
word: photalgia
word: pleuralgia
word: podalgia
word: proctalgia
word: ulalgia
word: sciatica
Related terms: word: -algia
acidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪdɪti/
Forms: form: acidities
Etymology: From French acidité, from Latin aciditātem, accusative singular of aciditās (“sourness, acidity”), from acidus (“sour, acid”). Equivalent to acid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being acid.
examples: text: the acidity of lemon juice
text: Empty stomachs lead to acidity and leave a sour taste in the mouth.
glosses: Sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Excessive acid quality, as in gastric secretions.
examples: text: "What shall we call it?" he asked. "Why should you not take the chance of perpetuating your own name?" said Summerlee, with his usual touch of acidity.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: It was a brave, good speech, a speech from that staunch and strong spirit which lay behind all the acidities and angularities of the old zoologist.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Time of Death”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 60:
glosses: A caustic, sour, biting, or bitter quality.
Derived terms: acidity function
acidity regulator
anacidity
Hammett acidity function
hyperacidity
hypoacidity
nonacidity
subacidity
superacidity
pin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭn
ipa: /pɪn/
ipa: [pʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: pen (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: pins
form: pinning
form: pinned
form: pinned
Etymology: From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”).
Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.
No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).
Senses: glosses: To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
raw_tags: followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on"
topics: board-games
chess
games
qualifier: usually passive voice
glosses: To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
examples: text: He pinned his opponent on the mat.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To pin down (someone).
glosses: To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
examples: text: to pin a folder to the taskbar
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: unpin
glosses: To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
examples: text: When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.
text: […] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it.
ref: 2012, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 5.0, page 244:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
antonyms: unpin
glosses: To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
examples: text: Now I need to pin those needles.
ref: 1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:
synonyms: peg
glosses: To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To inject for performance enhancement.
topics: backgammon
games
glosses: To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.
Derived terms: mispin
pin a rose on your nose
pin back
pin back one's ears
pin down
pin in
pinnable
pinnee
pin on
pin one's ears back
pin one's hopes on
pin the meter
pin the tail on the donkey
pin up
repin
underpin
unpinnable
pin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭn
ipa: /pɪn/
ipa: [pʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: pen (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: pins
form: pinning
form: pinned
form: pinned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peen.
pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭn
ipa: /pɪn/
ipa: [pʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: pen (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: pins
Senses: glosses: A cataract of the eye.
Related terms: pannus
pin and web
web and pin
vocal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəʊ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈvoʊ.kəl/
rhymes: -əʊkəl
Forms: form: vocals
Etymology: Late Middle English vocal, borrowed from Latin vōcālis (“uttering a voice, sounding, speaking”), from vōx (“a voice, sound, tone”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of vowel and vocalis. Compare Old French vocal.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
coordinate_terms: subvocal
nonvocal
glosses: A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
examples: text: Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer).
ref: 1975, Billboard, volume 87, number 24, page 50:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: song
glosses: A part of a piece of music that is sung.
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
music
television
theater
synonyms: song
glosses: A part of a piece of music that is sung.
A musical performance involving singing.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
Derived terms: gang vocal
off vocal
vocalic
vocalese
Related terms: vocable
vocabulary
vocalist
vocalization
vocalize
vocation
voice
vowel
galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæl.ək.si/
Forms: form: galaxies
form: Galaxy
Etymology: From Middle English galaxye, galaxie, from Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας (galaxías, “Milky Way”), shortening of γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kúklos, “milky circle”), from γάλα (gála, “milk”).
Senses: examples: text: So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
ref: 1633, John Donne, Sapho to Philænis:
text: Grecian imagination ascribed to the galaxy or milky way an origin in the teeming breast of the queen of heaven[.]
ref: 1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 5:
glosses: The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.
examples: text: [a] galaxy of science fiction stars.
ref: 1936 December 23, Thrilling Wonder Stories, page 127, column 1:
glosses: An assemblage of things or people seen as luminous or brilliant.
examples: text: Her walls and ceiling were covered with galaxy wallpaper; it was like stepping into space.
ref: 2016, Reyna Young, Hanover Falls, page 42:
text: Her nerdy glasses sat perched on her face, and she wore a May the Force Be With You T-shirt with a black lace skirt, galaxy leggings, and a pair of white Star Wars Vans.
ref: 2017, Rebekah L. Purdy, Incriminating Dating:
text: She hurriedly said that she found an^([sic]) faded galaxy blanket. She loved galaxy patterned things.
ref: 2018, Isabel Scheck, Survival, page 15:
topics: arts
design
fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Any print or pattern reminiscent of a galaxy, generally consisting of blending, semiopaque patches of vibrant color on a dark background.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: G
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: star city
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
english: in Buddhism
translation: in Buddhism
word: trichiliocosm
word: galaxy
word: island universe
Hyponyms: active galaxy
dark galaxy
dwarf galaxy
elliptical galaxy
endless galaxy
green bean galaxy
green pea galaxy
irregular galaxy
jellyfish galaxy
lenticular galaxy
low-surface-brightness galaxy
Markarian galaxy
pea galaxy
radio galaxy
red nugget galaxy
Seyfert galaxy
spiral galaxy
starburst galaxy
submillimeter galaxy
type-cD galaxy
ultra diffuse galaxy
whirlpool galaxy
Meronyms: word: star
word: black hole
Derived terms: antigalaxy
cluster of galaxies
Enceladus Galaxy
filament of galaxies
galaxy-brain
galaxy brain
galaxy-brained
galaxy cluster
galaxy filament
galaxyful
galaxy gas
galaxy group
galaxyless
galaxylike
galaxy nucleus
galaxy sheet
galaxy wall
galaxywide
galaxy-wide
galcon
gastrophysics
hypergalaxy
metagalaxy
Needle Galaxy
N galaxy
protogalaxy
Sausage Galaxy
Sausage Galaxy Population
sheet of galaxies
supergalaxy
wall of galaxies
Related terms: galactic
galacto-
galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæl.ək.si/
Forms: form: galaxies
form: galaxying
form: galaxied
form: galaxied
form: Galaxy
Etymology: From Middle English galaxye, galaxie, from Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας (galaxías, “Milky Way”), shortening of γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kúklos, “milky circle”), from γάλα (gála, “milk”).
Senses: examples: text: […] how he struggled at one time like a desperate man fiercly ^([sic]) grappling with his mortal foe, and at another like a sanguine lover and noble minded youth, as the cliffy rocks impeded his progress, or dimmed the view he had caught of an aperture, through which the galaxied firmament was seen in its purity and holiness glowing with diamonds and saphires; […]
ref: 1836, anonymous author, “The Victim Bride: A Tale of Monadnock”, in The Philadelphia Visiter, volume 1, number 14, page 53:
text: In dazzling light expands the mighty Dome: / Mirror of Heaven,—but Heaven when she doth wear / All galaxied with Stars her flashing hair!
ref: 1838, John Edmund Reade, Italy: a poem, in six parts, page 138:
text: To be dwarfed in a galaxied sky, / doming, arcing, and revolving over / The little space I briefly occupy.
ref: 2018, Adrian G. R. Scott, “A Canticle to Creatureliness”, in A Night Sea Journey:
glosses: To furnish with galaxies.
examples: text: Let all their Vertues then be Galaxied into this one Indiſtinct Luſtre, they vvere Faithful Servants of Chriſt, and Sufferers for their being ſo.
ref: 1702, Cotton Mather, “[Book III (Polybius. […]).] Chapter I. Remains of the First Classis.”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, 4th part (Remains: Or, Shorter Accounts of Sundry Divines, […]), page 213, column 1:
text: The brilliancies on one page of Lalla Roohk ^([sic]) would have sufficed to establish that very reputation which has been in a great measure self-dimned by the galaxied lustre of the entire book.
ref: 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, “Review of New Books”, in Graham’s Magazine, volume 18, number 5, page 249:
text: How dazzling must their brightness be when they are galaxied in a single bosom!
ref: 1844, Horace Smith, Arthur Arundel: A Tale of the English Revolution, volume 1, page 172:
glosses: To gather together into a luminous whole.
festoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛsˈtuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: festoons
Etymology: From French feston.
Senses: glosses: An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
examples: text: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
topics: architecture
glosses: A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
glosses: A raised cable with light globes attached.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
topics: acarology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
glosses: Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
Derived terms: festooner
festoonery
festoon pine
festoony
festoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛsˈtuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: festoons
form: festooning
form: festooned
form: festooned
Etymology: From French feston.
Senses: examples: text: The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.
ref: 1954, William Golding, chapter 3, in Lord of the Flies, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: To decorate as if with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
glosses: To make festoons.
examples: text: He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.
text: A mysterious woman who shows up at a funeral more droopily festooned in black than the widow is making what is known as a fashion statement.
ref: 2005, Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Norton, page 804:
text: Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice.
ref: 2014 September 23, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
text: Most mistletoes are "hemiparasites." This means they don't rely on their hosts for all their needs: Instead, they harvest the sun's energy to make some sugars for themselves. Nonetheless, if you're a tree, you don't want to be festooned with them. Two or three shouldn't be a problem, but dozens of mistletoes can lead to water stress, insect infestation or even death.
ref: 2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, p. 7]”, in The New York Times:
text: The room into which Lieutenant Said led Cora was obviously the debriefing room of a lab complex. Schematics models, handwritten papers, and extra haptic terminals festooned the walls, and the circular table had a built-in holo projector.
ref: 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 10, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179:
text: Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77:
glosses: To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.
race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rās
ipa: /ɹeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: races
Etymology: Mid 16th century. From Middle French raïz, raiz, rais (“root”), from Latin radix (“root”), from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
Senses: examples: text: I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none—that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.
ref: 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act IV, scene III, line 45:
text: They have onions and garlick, and some herbs and small roots for sallads; and in the southernmoft parts, ginger growing almost in every place; the large races whereof are there very excellently well preserved, as we may know by our tasting them in England.
ref: 1777, Edward Terry, A Voyage to East-India, page 62:
text: On the third day after this second boiling, pour all the syrup into a pan, put the races of ginger with it, and boil it up until the syrup adheres to the spoon.
ref: 1842, Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual, page 433:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: rhizome
rootstalk
glosses: A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
Derived terms: race ginger
maid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: made
Forms: form: maids
Etymology: From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of Middle English maiden from Old English mæġden (Old English mǣden). Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“girl, virgin”).
Senses: synonyms: damsel
maiden
glosses: A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
examples: 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:
glosses: A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
examples: text: You are betrothed both to a maid and man.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
Synonyms: sense: female servant
word: ancilla
sense: female servant
word: handmaiden
sense: female servant
word: lady-in-waiting
sense: female servant
word: maiden
sense: female servant
word: maidservant
sense: female servant
word: servingmaid
sense: female servant
word: servingwoman
sense: female servant
word: womanservant
sense: female cleaner
english: in a hotel
translation: in a hotel
word: chambermaid
sense: female cleaner
english: in a house
translation: in a house
word: charlady
sense: female cleaner
english: in a house
translation: in a house
word: charwoman
sense: female cleaner
english: in a house
translation: in a house
word: cleaning lady
sense: female cleaner
english: rare term
translation: rare term
word: cleaneress
Derived terms: bang maid
barmaid
best maid
bondmaid
bridemaid
bride's maid
bridesmaid
chambermaid
cookmaid
dairymaid
doormaid
dwarfmaid
elfmaid
elf-maid
elle-maid
evil maid attack
fairmaid
fair-maid-of-France
fancy maid
French maid
groomsmaid
handmaid
house maid
housemaid
house-maid
kennelmaid
kennel maid
kitchenmaid
lady's maid
laundrymaid
maid cafe
maid café
maid child
maid-child
maidhood
maidie
maid-in-waiting
maidish
maidkin
maidless
maidlike
maidling
maidly
maidmarian
maid-of-all-work
maid of honor
maid of honour
maid of Kent
maidservant
maid-servant
maid's hair
maidy
mermaid
meter maid
milkmaid
nursemaid
nurserymaid
Old Maid
old maid
old-maidish
old-maidism
pantrymaid
parlormaid
parlor maid
parlourmaid
schoolmaid
scullery maid
scullery-maid
seamaid
servingmaid
shield-maid
shieldmaid
shopmaid
submaid
tablemaid
undermaid
waiting maid
wardsmaid
washmaid
braid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪd/
homophone: brayed
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: braids
form: braiding
form: braided
form: braided
form: brayde
form: breyde
form: broid
Etymology: From Middle English braiden, breided, bræiden, from Old English breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine, shimmer”).
Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).
Senses: glosses: To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
glosses: To start into motion.
examples: text: Braid your locks with rosy twine.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
glosses: To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
examples: text: Great King, / Few loue to heare the ſinnes they loue to act, / T'would brayde your ſelfe too neare for me to tell it […]
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To reproach; to upbraid.
Derived terms: abraid
braidable
braider
braille
embraid
French-braid
rebraid
umbraid
unbraid
upbraid
braid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪd/
homophone: brayed
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: more braid
form: most braid
form: brayde
form: breyde
form: broid
Etymology: From Middle English braiden, breided, bræiden, from Old English breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine, shimmer”).
Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).
Senses: examples: text: Since Frenchmen are so braid, / Marry that will, I live and die a maid.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: Crafty, deceitful.